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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A young man falls for a woman who doesn't believe true love exists.
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Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler, Clark Gregg. Directed by Marc Webb.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: An 100-year-old nursing home resident leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
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Cast: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg, Mia Skäringer. Directed by Felix Herngren.
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Categories: Action ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 134 min.
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Plot: Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery in the antebellum South.
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Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Brad Pitt. Directed by Steve McQueen.
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Categories: Racism ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a witness from police custody to a courthouse.
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Cast: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse. Directed by Richard Donner.
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Categories: Action ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Explores the world of backup singers that live just beyond the spotlight.
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Cast: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill. Directed by Morgan Neville.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.
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Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: 24 hours before he goes to prison, a Manhattan man struggles to redeem himself as he says goodbye to the life he knew.
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Cast: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson,
Anna Paquin. Directed by Spike Lee.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A shy, reclusive girl starts work at a solarium and becomes emotionally attached to her fellow worker whom she appears to swap personalities with after an accident.
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Cast: Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall, Janice Rule. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Women ∙ Medical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: As an Alaskan town begins its annual month of darkness, it is attacked by a blood-thirsty band of vampires.
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Cast: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone Junior. Directed by David Slade.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Law Enforcement |
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300 (2006)
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: An interpretation of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC in which the king of Sparta leads his army against the invading Persians.
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Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West. Directed by Zack Snyder.
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Categories: History ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min. B&W
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Plot: In an attempt to prevent an outlaw gang from breaking their leader out of jail, local authorities hire a guard to escort him to the nearest train station.
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Cast: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicie Farr. Directed by Delmer Daves.
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Categories: Western ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 124 min. B&W/Color
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Plot: A naive orphan travels to NYC to search for her missing sister/Documentary of 1940's horror movie producer Val Lewton
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Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Cromwell, William Franklin, Steve Jones. Directed by Mark Robson/Constantine Nasr.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min. B&W
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Plot: Two railroad baggage clerks find themselves up against classic movie monsters.
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Cast: Budd Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert, Jane Randolph, Frank Ferguson, Charles Bradstreet. Directed by Charles T. Barton.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Horror |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A career thief witnesses a horrific crime involving the U.S. President.
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 111 min. B&W
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Plot: When a man is trapped alive in a mine collapse, a self-interested reporter and the townspeople create a media circus.
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Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Bob Arthur, Porter Hall. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A goofy detective specializing in animals goes in search of a missing dolphin mascot of a football team.
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Cast: Jim Carrey, Sean Young, Courteney Cox, Tone Lōc, Dan Marino. Directed by Tom Shadyac.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Animal |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Ace Ventura sets out on a mission to locate a sacred animal god for a primitive African tribe.
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Cast: Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi, Bob Gunton. Directed by Steve Oedekerk.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Animal |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 106 min.
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Plot: An affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious force.
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Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Michael Kelly, Terence Stamp. Directed by George Nolfi.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Three drag performers are contracted to perform a show in the Australian desert.
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Cast: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter. Directed by Stephan Elliott.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Gender |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 115 min.
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Plot: A former night club singer and a European playboy, both engaged to other people, fall in love on a cruise and agree to meet in six months to decide their future.
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Cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr. Directed by Leo McCarey.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: When the crew of an airplane are struck by some form of virus, the fate of the passengers depends on an ex-pilot who is the only one capable of safely landing the plane.
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Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen. Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, & Jerry Zucker.
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Categories: Aviation ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee.
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Cast: Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Chris Armstrong. Directed by Doug Atchison.
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Categories: Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: Alfie is a confident, charming lothario whose quest for immediate pleasure leaves behind a trail of emotional wreckage.
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Cast: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin. Directed by Lewis Gilbert.
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Categories: Women ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 138 min. B&W
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Plot: A Broadway legend has everything: a successful career, close friends, and a man who loves her; however she also has a young understudy who is attempting to replace her.
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Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Employment |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A dying millionnaire has her soul transferred into a younger woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.
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Cast: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Richard Libertini, Victoria Tennant. Directed by Carl Reiner.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
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Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge. Directed by Robert Rossen.
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Categories: Politics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel.
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Cast: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson, Kathy Baker, Jackie Earle Haley, Anthony Hopkins. Directed by Steven Zaillian.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on a concert tour.
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Cast: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Directed by Cameron Crowe.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Media |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: After being released from prison, a former white supremacist tries to prevent his younger brother from making the same mistakes.
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Cast: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien, Ethan Suplee, Fairuza Balk. Directed by Tony Kaye.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ Racism |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 163 min.
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Plot: A teenage girl joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love.
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Cast: Sasha Lane, Shia LeBeouf, Riley Keough. Directed by Andrea Arnold.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A powerful New York crime family racketeer suddenly starts having anxiety attacks and decides to seek professional help.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow. Directed by Harold Ramis.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Conflict |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
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Cast: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling. Directed by Alan Parker.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: After a misunderstanding aboard an airplane, a timid businessman is court-ordered to undergo anger management therapy with an eccentric specialist.
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Cast: Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Marisa Tomei, Woody Harrelson, John Turturro. Directed by Peter Segal.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Conflict |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A neurotic New York comedian falls in love with a ditzy nightclub singer.
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Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 92 min.
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Plot: On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system, a young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
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Cast: Brit Marling, William Mapother. Directed by Mike Cahill.
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Categories: Drama ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man fights to save his family - and his life - as his en-slavers seek to please the gods through human sacrifices.
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Cast: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernández, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead. Directed by Mel Gibson.
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Categories: Religion ∙ International |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A documentary about the joke every comedian knows but can never tell on stage.
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Cast: Jason Alexander, Lewis Black, David Brenner, Drew Carey, George Carlin, Andy Dick, Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, Bill Maher, Howie Mandel, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, Robin Williams. Directed by Paul Provenza.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min. B&W
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Plot: A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.
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Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern. Directed by John Huston.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A NASA astronaut forced to retire early looks to build his own rocket, despite government threats to stop him.
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Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern, Time Blake Nelson. Directed by Michael Polish.
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Categories: Family ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A fledgling writer irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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Cast: James McAvoy, Keira Knightly, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave. Directed by Joe Wright.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 143 min.
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Plot: Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
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Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Kōji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Mustapha Rachidi. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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Categories: Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 119 min. B&W
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Plot: A deplorable man rises from producing "B" movies to being a Hollywood power by shamelessly using people.
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Cast: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell. Directed by Vincente Minnelli.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A gang of small-time hoods are contracted to pull off a bank heist which turns into more than they bargained for.
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Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner. Directed by Roger Donaldson.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A conservative young lawyer marries a vivacious young woman and their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment.
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Cast: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick. Directed by Gene Saks.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Activists stage riots in Seattle, successfully halting a meeting of the World Trade Organization.
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Cast: Andre Benjamin, Jennifer Carpenter, Isaach De Bankole, Woody Harrelson, Martin Henderson, Joshua Jackson, Ray Liotta, Tzi Ma, Ivana Milicevic, Connie Nielson, Michelle Rodrigurz, Rade Sherbedzija, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron. Directed by Stuart Townsend.
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Categories: Conflict ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
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Cast: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly. Directed by Ron Howard.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: Two strangers meet by chance, spend a night together, and part before sunrise. Nine years later will they get the chance to fall in love all over again?
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Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres. Directed by Richard Linklater.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of actor John Malkovich.
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Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, John Malkovich. Directed by Spike Jonze.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
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Cast: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, Angelina Jolie. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A mockumentary chronicling five dogs and their owners as they compete in a dog show.
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Cast: Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock. Directed by Christopher Guest.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A restaurateur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
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Cast: Dean Chek, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun Fat. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Action ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: The pressures of fame have a superstar singer on the edge, until she meets a young cop who helps her become the artist she was meant to be.
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Cast: Gugu Mbatha-raw, Danny Glover, Minnie Driver, Nate Parker. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A woman becomes convinced that a ten year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband.
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Cast: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Arliss Howard, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine, Anne Heche. Directed by Jonathan Glazer.
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Categories: Marital Relations ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: G Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed.
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Cast: Alan Cumming, Sean Bean, David Thewlis, Jim Carter, Peter Davison, Alun Armstrong, John McEnery, Eleanor Bron, Peter Cook. Directed by Caroline Thompson.
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Categories: Children ∙ Animal |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 146 min.
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Plot: In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. In Dutch with English subtitles.
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Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn. Directed by Paul Verhoeven.
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Categories: International ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: **
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Set in 1940s Los Angeles, two police officers investigate the death of a hollywood starlet.
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Cast: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Fiona Shaw, Patrick Fischler, James Otis. Directed by Brian De Palma.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood abuse, looks everywhere for love without ever quite finding it.
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Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson. Directed by Craig Brewer.
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Categories: Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
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Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern. Directed by Richard Brooks.
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Categories: Education ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer.
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Cast: Suzanne Allee, Jeff Andrews, Kim Ashdown, Ken Balcomb, Samantha Berg, Dawn Brancheau, Diane Brancheau, Kelty Burn, Kelly Clark, Corinne Cowell, John Crowe, Dave Duffus, Daniel Patrick Duke, Howard Garrett, Dean Gomersall. Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animal |
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Rated: NR Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A U.S. Marshall who protects high-profile clients must put his own life on the line after a colleague is injured.
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Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon, Phillip Mackenzie, Kam Heskin, Fred Williamson. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Action ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 63 min.
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Plot: Focuses on the issues facing former NFL Players following their retirement, including their ironic struggle against the NFL Player's Union and the Owners they made rich.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Michael Felix.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A young man discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.
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Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern. Directed by David Lynch.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 72 min.
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Plot: The 1977 London's Rainbow Theatre performance by Bob Marley and the Wailers, also includes a documentary on the singer's life.
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Cast: Bob Marley and the Wailers. Directed by Keef.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A Florida attorney develops a lustful romace with a married woman and the two plot to murder her husband.
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Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Mickey Rourke. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
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Categories: Insurance ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: Story of an injured American veteran returning home from the war Iraq is set against the backdrop of the government's handling of the U.S.-led invasion.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 152 min.
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Plot: An underachiever finds his calling when he gets discovered by a pornography director and is drawn into the lifestyle of the industry in the late 1970's.
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Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzman, Julianne Moore, Philip Baker Hall, Don Cheadle. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: A Kazakh TV talking head is dispatched to the United States to report on "the greatest country in the world," with a documentary crew in tow.
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Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen. Directed by Larry Charles.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A documentary probe of America's predilection for gun violence, including an examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership.
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Cast: Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Constitutional ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A group of childhood friends growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto and the divergent paths they take to have a better life in the future.
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Cast: Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne. Directed by John Singleton.
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Categories: Family ∙ Poverty |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD (Blu-ray 2 disc set) 93 min.
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Plot: A Princess makes a decision which defies custom and brings chaos to her kingdom.
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Cast: Voices of Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Kelly MacDonald. Directed by Mrk Andrews and Brenda Chapman.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 143 min.
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Plot: A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
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Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A FBI upstart enters into a power game with his boss, an agent who is ultimately convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
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Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Caroline Dhavernas. Directed by Bill Ray.
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Categories: National Security ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Two Latina sisters, working as cleaners in a downtown L.A. office building, team up with a labor organizer to fight for their right to unionize.
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Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas, Frankie Davila
Lillian Hurst. Directed by Ken Loach.
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Categories: Labor ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: In a bid to keep their luxurious condo from their significant other, a couple's break-up proceeds to get uglier and nastier by the moment.
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Cast: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston, Joey Lauren Adams, Ann-Margret. Directed by Peyton Reed.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Property |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Five high school students meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out and discover they have a lot more in common than they thought.
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Cast: Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy. Directed by John Hughes.
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Categories: Education ∙ Children |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Four friends challenge the local college boys in the annual bike race in an attempt to separate themselves from their small town reputation.
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Cast: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley. Directed by Peter Yates.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
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Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss, Matt O'Leary. Directed by Rian Johnson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 161 min.
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Plot: When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to see that it's destroyed. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne. Directed by David Lean.
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Categories: War ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the US military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans.
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Cast: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Action ∙ Politics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A staunch bachelor receives an anonymous letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.
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Cast: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy. Directed by Jim Jarmusch.
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Categories: Family ∙ Comedy |
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Bug (2006)
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.
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Cast: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins, Brian F. O'Byrne, Harry Connick Jr.. Directed by William Friedkin.
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Categories: Domestic Relations ∙ Horror |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: A notorious mobster and Las Vegas visionary had it all until he fell for a woman who wanted more.
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Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna. Directed by Barry Levinson.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min. B&W
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Plot: An undercover cop infiltrates the mob in an attempt to bring down their illicit rackets.
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Cast: Joan Blondell, Edward Robinson, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh. Directed by William Keighley.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
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Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou. Directed by Michael Haneke.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 76 min.
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Plot: Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." In Italian with English subtitles.
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Cast: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca. Directed by Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviano.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
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Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard Grant, Dolly Wells. Directed by Marielle Heller.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: Six hopeful American women anxiously wait to adopt local children in South America.
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Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden, Susan Lynch, Rita Moreno, Mary Steenburgen, Lili Taylor, Pedro Armendariz, Bruno Bichir. Directed by John Sayles.
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Categories: Drama ∙ International |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife until a reunion with his dying father jogs a host of memories.
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Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carlson, Judith Anderson. Directed by Richard Brooks.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 142 min.
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Plot: A mother's prayer for her kidnapped son to return home is answered, though it doesn't take long for her to suspect the boy who comes back is not hers.
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Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Family ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: A spider with a flair for promotion saves a young pig from the dinner table and teaches the rest of the barnyard some life lessons along the way.
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Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Agnes Moorehead. Directed by Charles A. Nichols & Iwao Takamoto.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 75 min.
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Plot: A documentary made with multi-year, time-lapse cameras documenting evidence of Earth's changing glaciers.
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Cast: James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter. Directed by Jeff Orlowski.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
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Cast: Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, Johnny Depp. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Business |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: The story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison.
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Cast: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field, Dan Wyllie. Directed by Andrew Dominik.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A miserly old businessman is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner who foretells that he will be visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve, who will attempt to show the error of his ways.
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Cast: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey. Directed by David Jones.
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Categories: Family ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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Cast: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margaret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Joan Blondell, Rip Torn, Jack Weston, Cab Calloway. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min. B&W
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Plot: A truck driver turns pro boxer to fund his brother's education, until he must come to terms with being blinded in the ring.
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Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias. Directed by Anatole Litvak.
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Categories: Family ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A day in the lives of two convenience clerks as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.
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Cast: Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Jason Mewes, Lisa Spoonauer. Directed by Kevin Smith.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Four strangers and their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals.
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Cast: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen. Directed by Mike Nichols.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: A group of five New Yorkers record a monster attacking the city.
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Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman. Directed by Matt Reeves.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A London bank clerk's hobby, collecting butterflies, takes on a sinister twist when he kidnaps a most unusual "specimen," a beautiful woman.
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Cast: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar. Directed by William Wyler.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Horror |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man with a paralyzing combat injury.
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Cast: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern. Directed by Hal Ashby.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 286 min.
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Plot: George Harrison's friends, family, and band mates unite for a tribute concert on the one-year anniversary of his death.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Dhani Harrison
. Directed by David Leland.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 112 min.
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Plot: Based on true events paranormal investigators work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.
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Cast: Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson. Directed by James Wan.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Biography |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A hard-nosed Chicago journalist gets stuck in the Rocky Mountains with a radical ornithologist.
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Cast: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Goorwitz. Directed by Michael Apted.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Freddy Heflin is a small town sheriff who is investigating corruption amongst the NYPD officers who live there.
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Cast: Sylvester Stalone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro. Directed by James Mangold.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: An adventurous girl discovers another world with sinister secrets.
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Cast: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Ian McShane. Directed by Henry Selick.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 81 min. B&W
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Plot: A successful attorney takes on cases involving scandal, crime, and crisis until a political opponent digs up a past indiscretion and attempts to have him disbarred.
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Cast: John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Melvyn Douglas, Isabel Jewell, Thelma Todd. Directed by William Wyler.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Burt Pugach went to jail for having acid thrown in the face of Linda Riss. Sixteen years later, they were married.
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Cast: Jimmy Breslin, Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach. Directed by Dan Klores.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 130 min.
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Plot: 2005 Cream concert at Royal Albert Hall, London, England.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce. Directed by Martyn Atkins.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 150 min. B&W
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Plot: A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cell mate seeks him out for shelter/When a gang leader is fatally shot, she recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer.
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Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Jean Gillie, Edward Norris. Directed by Andre De Toth and Jack Bernhard.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **** 1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to ruin his life, while a documentary filmmaker is forced to use his despicable brother-in-law as a subject.
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Cast: Caroline Aaron, Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom, Mia Farrow, Joanna Gleason, Anjelica Huston, Martin Landau, Jenny Nichols, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 150 min.
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Plot: This is a video from Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, held in June 2004. Planned extras include in-depth artist interviews, a mini-documentary, photo gallery, alternate angle, and more.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, J. J. Cale, B. B. King, James Taylor, Jeff Beck, Rocky Frisco, Pat Methany, Carlos Santana, ZZ Top. Directed by Ron de Moraes.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 240 min.
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Plot: Over 20 of the world's greatest guitarists play sidemen to each other, on one stage, for one day, to support one cause; Crossroads Centre rehab facility in Antigua.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Doyle Bramhall II, Robert Cray, Cheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, B. B. King, John Mayer, Willie Nelson. Directed by Martyn Atkins.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 4 hours, 49 min.
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Plot: Two nights at Madison Square Garden offers a variety of legendary guitarists performing a mix of sultry blues, classic rock and country jams.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, Allman Brothers, Buddy Guy, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck. Directed by Martin Atkins.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 240 min.
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Plot: A day-long concert featuring legendary musicians on June 26th, 2010 to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua.
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Cast: Various performers. Directed by Martyn Atkins.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: An unscrupulous student gets more than he anticipated when he attempts to deflower the Headmaster's daughter.
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Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipp, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair. Directed by Roger Kumble.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: Inside the walls of the Forbidden City the royal family is divided against itself.
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Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou. Directed by Zhang Yimou.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A man has 24 hours to figure out who poisoned him.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Daniel Stern. Directed by Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min. B&W
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Plot: A commercial artist who is involved with a married lawyer agrees to marry an army sergeant, just as her lawyer gets a divorce.
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Cast: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda. Directed by Otto Preminger.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 76 min. B&W
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Plot: A young bride is set to begin her honeymoon aboard a luxury liner when she determines that her husband has disappeared and his name has mysteriously dropped from the passenger list.
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Cast: Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Casey Adams, Carl Betz. Directed by Joseph M. Newman.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Maritime |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: * 1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 103 min.
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Plot: A lawyer blinded by toxic waste acquires enhanced senses which help him fight crime as an acrobatic martial arts superhero.
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Cast: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau, Joe Pantoliano. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson.
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Categories: Action ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A man struggles with memories of his past in a nightmarish world with no daytime.
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Cast: Rufus Sewell, Keifer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson. Directed by Alex Proyas.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (4 disc set) 128 min.
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Plot: Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
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Cast: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross. Directed by George A. Romero.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Horror |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min. B&W
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Plot: A vet posing as a doctor, a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit racehorse.
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Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan. Directed by Sam Wood.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square.
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Cast: Luisa Williams, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi. Directed by Julia Loktev.
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Categories: Drama ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
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Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz. Directed by Terrence Malick.
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Categories: Estates ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons, doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe t
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Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Wayne Knight, Hanna Schygulla, Campbell Scott, Emma Thompson, Jo Anderson, Christine Ebersole, Lois Hall, Richard Easton. Directed by Kenneth Branagh.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: An simple accountant in the Old West unwittingly finds himself transformed into a killer and wanted man.
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Cast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henrikson, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, Mili Avital, Crispin Glover, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thorton, Jared Harris, Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Alfred Molina, Robert Mitchum. Directed by Jim Jarmusch.
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Categories: Accounting ∙ Western |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: On a tour of Britain, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
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Cast: Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan. Directed by Gilian Armstrong.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Follows the Soviet dictator's last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death.
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Cast: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor. Directed by Armondo Iannucci.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 113 min.
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Plot: A stuntman who has a habit of stalking young women tangles with the wrong group.
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Cast: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Portier. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Categories: Action ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: An accountant is introduced to a mysterious club and in this new world, he quickly becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
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Cast: Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams. Directed by Marcel Langenegger.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: When Harry writes a bestseller about his best friends, his best friends become his worst enemies.
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Cast: Caroline Aaron, Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Billy Crystal, Amy Irving, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Robin Williams. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 182 min.
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Plot: An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken. Directed by Michael Cimino.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: An ATF agent travels back in time to save a woman from being murdered, falling in love with her during the process.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Paula Patton, Bruce Greenwood, Adam Goldberg, Jim Caviezel. Directed by Tont Scott.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 152 min.
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Plot: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime.
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.
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Cast: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause, Patricia Hastie. Directed by Alexander Payne.
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: When a wealthy heiress' husband begins to suspect he is losing her affection, he also begins to fear he will lose her wealth.
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Cast: Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Ray Milland, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Patrick Allen, George Leigh. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: A New York cop gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.
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Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan RIckman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia. Directed by John McTiernan.
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Categories: Action ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 105 min.
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Plot: Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, a young woman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor.
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Cast: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes. Directed by Emile Ardolino.
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Categories: Family ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: (2 disc set) 123 min.
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Plot: Three films follow a young couple from different perspectives, as they struggle to understand each other in the wake of tragedy.
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Cast: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis, Katherine Waterston, Archie Panjabi, Bill Hader, Ryan Eggold, Ciarán Hinds, Nina Arianda, William Hurt . Directed by Ned Benson.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A coffin-dragging gunslinger enters a town caught between two feuding factions.
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Cast: Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvare, Eduardo Fajardo. Directed by Sergio Corbucci.
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Categories: Western |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
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Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancario Esposito, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Spike Lee.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: When a woman is indicted for her elderly employer's murder, her daughter returns home from New York and uncovers difficult truths about their family's domestic strife.
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Cast: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn, Eric Bogosian. Directed by Taylor Hackford.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: The daughter of an actor turns away from her career as a model to become a bounty hunter.
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Cast: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Mena Suvari, Lucy Lui, Christopher Walken. Directed by Tony Scott.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 107 min. B&W
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Plot: Three down on their luck men end up in a Louisiana prison and plot their escape.
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Cast: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Robert Benigni. Directed by Jim Jarmusch.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min. B&W
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Plot: The vampire takes over the mind of an English clerk and uses him to travel to England and wreak havoc.
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Cast: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan. Directed by Tod Browning.
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Categories: Horror ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: NC-17 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A group of students fall in love and sleep around against the backdrop of the 1968 student riots in Paris.
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Cast: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sexuality |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A bartender and his employer find themselves caught in a robbery gone bad and on the hook for a debt they can't repay.
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Cast: Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, Noomi Rapace. Directed by Michael Roskam.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A big-city private detective travels to the deep south to help out an old girlfriend who is being blackmailed.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa, Linda Haynes, Melanie Griffith. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A heroin-addicted couple resort to robbing a drugstore to support their habit.
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Cast: Matt Dillon, James Le Gros, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, James Remar, William Burroughs. Directed by Gus Van Sant.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min. B&W
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Plot: After breaking a story about city corruption, a reporter is jailed for manslaughter and broken down by the penitentiary system.
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Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Maxie Rosenbloom. Directed by William Keighley.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Politics |
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Rated: G Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc) 175 min.
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Plot: Live concert in Melbourne, Australia.
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Cast: Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy Schmidt, Glenn Frey. Directed by Carol Dodds.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: Two bikers travel across country at the height of counter-culture America.
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Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson. Directed by Dennis Hopper.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed worst movie director of all time.
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Cast: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray. Directed by Tim Burton.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
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Cast: Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse, Nurgül Yeşilçay, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Hanna Schygulla. Directed by Fatih Akin.
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Categories: International ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A teenager who has fallen into a life of gangs and crime realizes he must rise above it when he is released from prison.
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Cast: Rony Clayton, Don Gordon, Joyce Walker, Paul Benjamin, Thomas Hicks. Directed by Michael Campus.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A coming of age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London.
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Cast: Carey Mulligan, Olivia Williams, Alfred Molina, Peter Sarsgaard, Rosamund Pike. Directed by Lone Scherfig.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home. In German with English subtitles.
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Cast: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaussner. Directed by Hans Weingartner.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: An obnoxious overachiever running for student body president is opposed by an unlikely candidate egged on by a vindictive teacher.
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Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Loren Nelson, Chris Klein. Directed by Alexander Payne.
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Categories: Education ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 145 min.
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Plot: A salesman teams up with an evangelist to sell religion to America in the 1920's.
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Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones. Directed by Richard Brooks.
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Categories: Religion ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 89 min. B&W
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Plot: In a post-apocalyptic society, a factory worker's girlfriend delivers a mutant baby and leaves him to care for the newborn child.
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Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates. Directed by David Lynch.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Children |
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Rated: NC-17 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: A look at the life and work of guitarist Eric Clapton told by those who have known him best.
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Cast: Eric Clapton, Pattie Boyd, George Harrison. Directed by Lili Fini Zanuck.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A group of inmates attempt a daring escape from the notorious Alcatraz prison island, where no one has ever escaped.
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan. Directed by Don Siegel.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: As a woman lays dying, she conveys to her daughters the defining moments in her life.
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Cast: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Meryl Streep. Directed by Lajos Koltai.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben
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Cast: Woody Allen, John Carradine, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Sexuality |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 159 min.
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Plot: A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Stanley Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Sherbedgia. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Categories: Marital Relations ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A thirtysomething slacker suspects his parents of setting him up with his dream girl so he'll finally vacate their home.
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Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Bartha, Bradley Cooper, Terry Bradshaw, Kathy Bates. Directed by Tom Dey.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A group of astronauts gain superpowers after a cosmic radiation exposure and must use them to oppose the plans of their enemy, Doctor Victor Von Doom.
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Cast: Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington. Directed by Tim Story.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: The lives of a group of high school students in southern California.
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Cast: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cats. Directed by Amy Heckerling.
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Categories: Education ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A happily married New York lawyer has an affair with his business partner but her attraction soon proves deadly.
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Cast: Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, Ann Archer. Directed by Adrian Lyne.
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 119 min.
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Plot: An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychadelic escapades.
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Cast: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: VHS 119 min.
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Plot: A high-powered attorney goes through a psychological meltdown as she navigates bisexual relationships, a nomination for a judgeship and the shoplifting arrest of her rebellious sister.
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Cast: Tilda Swenton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas. Directed by Susan Streitfield.
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Categories: Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer, the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
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Cast: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Brenda Fricker, Tom Berenger, Frances Tomelty. Directed by Jim Sheridan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham. Directed by Mike Rich.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Art |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 100 min.
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Plot: A young clownfish is taken from his home on the coral reefs and his timid father must journey to Sydney to rescue him.
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Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe. Directed by Andrew Stanton.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Although the first female appointed to the Supreme Court, a staunch conservative, never agrees with the high court's resident liberal on issues before the Court, they develop respect and affection for one another after several comedic encounters.
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Cast: Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh. Directed by Ronald Neame.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Supreme Court |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: Priest of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.
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Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer. Directed by Paul Schrader.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Religion |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 149 min.
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Plot: Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane.
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Cast: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Categories: Aviation ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A lighthearted comedy about the adventures of a con man and a lonely G.I. in the rural South.
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Cast: George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Michael Sarrazin, Harry Morgan, Alice Ghostley . Directed by Van Kershner.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 189 min.
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Plot: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
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Cast: Vincent Price, David Hedison, Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis. Directed by Kurt Neumann and David Cronenberg.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Horror |
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Rated: PG Stars: *1/2
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: A group hunting on a remote island are attacked by giant insects and in their search for help find more enormous, blood-thirsty animals.
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Cast: Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher. Directed by Bert I. Gordon.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Horror |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: In an effort to forget is ex-girlfriend, a musician takes a trip to Hawaii only to discover that she is staying at the same resort with her new boyfriend.
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Cast: Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand. Directed by Nicholas Stoller.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 276 min min.
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Plot: The evocative saga of love, power and betrayal continues into the next generation in this story of first love blighted by old family hatreds.
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Cast: Damien Lewis, Rupert Graves, Gina McKee, Emma Malin, Lee Williams. Directed by Andy Wilson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min. B&W
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Plot: When a man is injured at a football game, his brother-in-law sees his misfortune as an opportunity to make some lawsuit money.
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Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 79 min.
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Plot: A new marshall arrives in town to take on a tougher-than-nails cattle queen and her posse of hired guns.
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Cast: Barbara Stanwyk, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry. Directed by Samuel Fuller.
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Categories: Western ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min. B&W
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Plot: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite pressure in all aspects of his life to conform to popular standards.
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Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, Robert Douglas. Directed by Henry Blanke.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Employment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 86 min. B&W
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Plot: A New York woman apprentices for a dance company and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles.
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Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Michael Esper, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Charlotte d'Amboise, Grace Gummer. Directed by Noah Baumbach.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 71 min. B&W
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Plot: An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
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Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clark, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Von Sloan. Directed by James Whale.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Medical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
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Cast: Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Demsey. Directed by Richard Lagravenese.
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Categories: Education ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Two homies smoke a dealer's weed and try to figure a way to pay the money they owe the dealer.
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Cast: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A Polish rabbi sets out to lead a synagogue in California and must make it through the Wild West to get there
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Cast: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Western |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: An apprentice wins a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is apparently guilty of murder.
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Cast: Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Ray Walston. Directed by Bob Clark.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: The purportedly true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
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Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray. Directed by Ryan Coogler.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.
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Cast: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min. B&W
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Plot: In the early days of the FBI the unarmed law enforcement officers set out to stop a crime spree that is spanning the country.
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Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong. Directed by WIlliam Keighley.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 166 min.
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Plot: In 1863, a man returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against his father's killer.
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Immigration ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: A young plantation owner comes to the defense of a group of black men who are taking responsibility for the shooting of a local white farmer.
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Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter. Directed by Volker Schlondorff.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
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Cast: Ethan Hawke, Uma thurman, Alan Arkin, Jude Law, Loren Dean. Directed by Andrew Niccol.
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Categories: Privacy ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.
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Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson. Directed by Simon West.
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Categories: Military ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who threw his own funeral party.
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Cast: Bill Cobbs, Gerald McRaney, Lucas Black, Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek. Directed by Aaron Schneider.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A stunt motorcyclist gives up his soul to become the devil's bounty hunter and ends up fighting against power hungry Blackheart, the devil's son.
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Cast: Nicolas Cage, Peter Fonda, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
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Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Kriten Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Charles Dance, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chris Helmsworth. Directed by Paul Feig.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: A bright young lawyer becomes obsessed with a client who is being stalked by her deranged father, plunging him into a world of deadly deceit.
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Cast: Kenneth Branagh, embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr., Daryl Hannah, Tom Berenger, Robert Duvall. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 163 min. B&W
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Plot: Embezzler S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets crafty but simple brothers who steal all his money/The Phelps Department Store's current manager tries to cover up irregularities in the books when the owners try to sell the store.
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Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis, Tony Martin. Directed by Edward Buzzell and Charles Riesner.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 4 hours, 5 min.
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Plot: The rise and fall of an organized crime family, from its roots in pre-war Italy, attempted expansion into Las Vegas, and eventual attempts to legitimize their business.
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Cast: Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 96 min. B&W
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Plot: Includes the remastered version of Gojira and the re-edited "Americanized" version, Godzilla, King of the Monsters.
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Cast: Raymond Burr, Takarada Akira, Takashi Shimura, Kawauchi Momoko. Directed by Shiro Honda.
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Categories: Drama ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 137 min.
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Plot: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families. In Italian with English subtitles.
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Cast: Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale, Salvatore cantalupo. Directed by Matteo Garrone.
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Categories: International ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: A janitor at MIT has a gift for mathematics which is discovered by a psychologist who then tries to help him with his gift and the rest of his life.
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Cast: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgard, Minnie Driver. Directed by Gus Van Sant.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Education |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: The adventures of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel.
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Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe. Directed by Wes Anderson.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Art |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: After a tow-truck driver saves a lawyer's life, a deep friendship develops that impacts the lives of their families and friends.
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Cast: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell, Mary-Louise Parker, Alfre Woodard. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney. Directed by Alfonso Cauron.
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Categories: Drama ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A wholesome good girl and greaser renegade fall in love over the summer, and are surprised to find out that they are attending the same high school.
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Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing. Directed by Randal Kleiser.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Education |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant and unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career.
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Cast: John Mlkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, Ricky Jay, Steve Zahn, Tom Hanks. Directed by Sean McGinly.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Employment |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A modern version of Charles Dicken's timeless tale.
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Cast: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min. B&W
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Plot: A Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin.
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Cast: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan. Directed by Elliott Nugent.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 143 min.
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Plot: A war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor.
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Cast: Leonardo Dicaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke. Directed by Baz Luhrmann.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A roughneck group of oil drillers is forced to find a way back to civilization after their plane crashes in remote Alaskan wilderness.
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Cast: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, James Badge Dale. Directed by Joe Carnahan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Safety |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A small-time con man has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both whom are con artists with their own angles to play.
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Cast: John Cusack, Anjelica Houston, Annette Bening. Directed by Stephen Frears.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where a legendary rescue swimmer teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
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Cast: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward, Melissa Sagemiller, Clancy Brown. Directed by Andrew Davis.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: Brothers team up to rid Tombstone, Arizona of a murderous gang.
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Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland. Directed by John Sturges.
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Categories: Western ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A gunfighter seeks to avenge the innocent victims of a jealous outlaw.
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Cast: Chris Lybert, Lou Schwiebert, Clu Gulager. Directed by Christopher Coppola.
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Categories: Western ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
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Cast: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie. Directed by Ryan Fleck.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Education |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A hard-living superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife of the public relations professional who's trying to repair his image.
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Cast: Will Smith, Jason Bateman, Charlize Theron, Eddie Marsan. Directed by Peter Berg.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: As the eldest of three daughters, Hannah is the one that holds the family together, that is until her sisters begin relationships with her current and former husbands.
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Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Lloyd Nolan, Max Von Sydow, Carrie Fisher. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Family ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent, when she falls for David, an American pilot.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen, Richard Masur, Michael Sacks, Patsy Kensit, Max Wall, Shane Rimmer. Directed by Peter Hyams.
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Categories: War ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing.
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Cast: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman. Directed by George Miller.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A cheery and colorful North London schoolteacher's optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
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Cast: Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sylvestra Le Touzel. Directed by Mike Leigh.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Education |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 247 min.
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Plot: A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.
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Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 87 min.
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Plot: A lively, good-natured spoof of "Beatlemania" portraying a frantic 36 hours in the lives of the rock group.
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Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell. Directed by Richard Lester.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her father, who has gone missing.
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Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford Brimley. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Action ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter.
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Cast: Peter Boyle, Season Hubley. Directed by Paul Schrader.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Children |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill. Directed by Jack Smight.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 154 min.
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Plot: Birdman (Arlen Papazian) is out of the superhero business, in a suit, late for court, and constantly in contempt.
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Cast: Gary Cole, Stephen Colbert, John Michael Higgins, Steve Landesberg, Maurice LaMarche, Thomas Allen. Directed by Michael Ouweleen, Erik Richter.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: An unknown local politician from down-and-out Washington D.C. is unexpectedly selected to run as a presidential candidate.
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Cast: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Dylan Baker, Nick Searcy, Robin Givens, Lynn Whitfield, Tamala Jones, James Rebhorn. Directed by Chris Rock.
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Categories: Politics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A newlywed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon.
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Cast: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, Malin Akerman, Carlos Mencia. Directed by Bobby Farrelly.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Santa Claus' evil son Damien does away with the Christian patriarch and launches a campaign to eradicate Hannukah.
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Cast: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Mario Van Peebles, Nora Dunn, Peter Coyote, Richard Whalen, Tony Cox, Andy Dick. Directed by Jonathan Kesselman.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.
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Cast: Dale Dickey, Ben Foster, Chris Pine. Directed by David MacKenzie.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 90 min.
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Plot: Ringo finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult and the band must try to protect him from it.
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Cast: Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison. Directed by Richard Lester.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min. B&W
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Plot: A lawman stands alone to protect a town against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals.
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Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado. Directed by Fred Zinnemann.
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Categories: Western ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min. B&W
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Plot: During WWII, in a British disciplinary camp in the Libyan desert, prisoners are forced to repeatedly climb an artificial hill in the middle of the camp and ally themselves against their keepers.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch, Ossie Davis. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: An unruly class of gifted boys pursue admittance into England's most prestigious universities with the guidance of two opposite-minded teachers.
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Cast: Richard Griffiths, Francise De La Tour, Stephen Campbell Moore, Clive Merrison. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.
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Categories: Education ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: From the dawn of man to the distant future, mankind's evolution (or lack thereof) is traced.
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Cast: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, Ron Carey. Directed by Mel Brooks.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A bloody self defense incident involving a mild mannered man brings his hidden past back to haunt him and his family.
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Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ed Harris. Directed by David Cronenberg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 2 hours, 49 min.
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Plot: A peaceful hobbit joins a group of dwarves in their quest to retake their home from the dangerous dragon Smaug.
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Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt. Directed by Peter Jackson.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 161 min.
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Plot: The dwarves, along with Bilbo and Gandalf, continue their quest to reclaim their homeland from Smaug.
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Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch. Directed by Peter Jackson.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, TV's Superman.
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Cast: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins. Directed by Allen Coulter.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 171 min.
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Plot: The lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
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Cast: Arthur Agee, William Gates. Directed by Steve James.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A tale of two jewel theives out to score the biggest heist of their lives.
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Cast: Robert Redford, George Segal, Zero Mostel. Directed by Peter Yates.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A young viking befriends a dragon and together they fight to save both of their worlds.
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Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera. Directed by Dean DeBlois.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 119 min.
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Plot: When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his walking home.
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Cast: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Categories: Animation ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Hud (1963)
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min. B&W
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Plot: The son of a respectable rancher is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde. Directed by Martin Ritt.
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Categories: Western ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their marriage.
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Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, Sydney Pollack, Blythe Danner, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson. Directed by Wood Allen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 134 min. B&W
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Plot: An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George Scott, Jackie Gleason. Directed by Robert Rossen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min. B&W
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Plot: A wrongly convicted man serves in intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
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Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Justice |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A friendless man goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding, and when he does find a new BFF, it puts a strain on his relationship with his fiancee.
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Cast: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones. Directed by John Hamburg.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 112 min.
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Plot: A pupil leads a revolution at an old established private school in England.
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Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Rupert Webster. Directed by Lindsay Anderson.
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Categories: Education ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 54 min.
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Plot: Explores the shadowy world of illicit trade.
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Cast: . Directed by Helen Fitzwilliam.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A middle-aged ad executive is faced with a new boss who's nearly half his age and who also happens to be dating his daughter.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Paul Weitz.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: Based on the true story of a Belfast youth who, along with family members and friends, was wrongly convicted of bombing two pubs outside of London.
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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite. Directed by Jim Sheridan.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: An art forger who paints a fake Rembrandt, falls for the art expert his clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
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Cast: Jason Patric, Irene Jacob, Ian Richardson, Rod Steiger. Directed by John Badham.
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Categories: Fraud ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with two convicted murderers on death row.
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Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lee Pace, Daniel Craig, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Panes, Hope Davis, Sandra Bullock, Isabella Rossellini, John Benjamin Hickey, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels. Directed by Douglas McGrath.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: To cover up their own mistake, two crooked cops frame an innocent man as a drug dealer.
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Cast: Tom Sellek, F. Murray Abraham. Directed by Peter Yates.
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Categories: Sentencing ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
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Cast: Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens. Directed by Jack Clayton.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 157 min.
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Plot: A scientist with a major tobacco company reveals potentionally damaging, top-secret industry information to a "60 Minutes" producer, only to have his career and life threatened.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Rip Torn. Directed by Michael Mann.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A brilliant detective with a tarnished past attempts to cover up a fatal error during his investigation of the murder of a beautiful young woman. (Subtitled in English.)
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Cast: Maria Mathiesen, Stellan Skarsgaerd, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Gisken Armand. Directed by Erik Skjoldbjaerg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: When a noted anthropologist who left society to live in the jungle is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychologist to get through to him.
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Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney. Directed by Jon Turteltaub.
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Categories: Mental Health ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Three emotionally distant daughters must come to terms with their disintigrating family when their father abandons their mother.
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Cast: Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, Sam Waterston. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick. Directed by Rob Marshall.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Musical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
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Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Billy Bob Thornton. Directed by Joel Coen.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is in a utopian facility.
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Cast: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michale Clarke Duncan, Steve Buscemi. Directed by Michael Bay.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians.
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Cast: Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 192 min.
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Plot: The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find some treasure.
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Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney. Directed by Stanley Kramer.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Action |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: To steal $4 million in gold, a team of thieves must bring the traffic in Turin, Italy to a screeching halt.
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Cast: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi, Maggie Blye. Directed by Peter Collinson.
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Categories: Action ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: After being betrayed by one of their own, a band of professional thieves plots to steal back their loot.
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Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Croker, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, Seth Green. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Partnership |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 155 min.
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Plot: Live performance in SoHo London.
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Cast: Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Joss Stone, Harvey Goldsmith. Directed by Stuart Watts.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: Four men on their annual fishing trip discover the body of a girl in the river, and to their wives' dismay do not report it immediately to the police.
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Cast: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard. Directed by Ray Lawrence.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Live 2015 performance of celebrated blues rock master delivering a musical tribute at the legendary Greek Theatre.
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Cast: Joe Bonamassa. Directed by Joe Bonamassa.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
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Cast: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki. Directed by Chad Stahelski.
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Categories: Action ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 30 min.
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Plot: A woman is jailed after her husband is found murdered in his sleep.
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Cast: Diane de Lorian, Dorothy Lancaster, Sheila Hinchliffe, Mark Margolis. Directed by Sally Heckel.
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Categories: Women ∙ Justice |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: For a fun loving party animal, the last thing he ever expected was for his one night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant.
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Cast: Seth Rigen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann. Directed by Judd Apatow.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Children |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A team of scientists explore an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden.
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Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A father must learn to be a single parent to his son while fighting his wife for custody of their child.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, JoBeth Williams. Directed by Robert Benton.
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Categories: Family ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 90 min.
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Plot: Friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon.
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Cast: Voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A selfish 16-year old girl is given 13 hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King.
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Cast: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly. Directed by Jim Henson.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A Southern professor puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino, a task that is more difficult than it seems.
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Cast: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A film account of the final concert of The Band.
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Cast: Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 159 min. B&W
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Plot: Includes five classic films from Hal Roach studios: Sons of the Desert, The Music Box, Another Fine Mess, Busy Bodies, and County Hospital. The Music Box won the Oscar for Best Comedy Short in 1932.
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Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. Directed by William A. Seiter, James Parrott, Lloyd French, .
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Partnership |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Amidst a sea of litigation, two top-notch divorce attorneys find each other.
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Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, Michael Sheen, Nora Dunn, Frances Fisher. Directed by Peter Howitt.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc) 320 min.
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Plot: Live performance at the Knebworth Festival in England.
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Cast: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham. Directed by Jimmy Page.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A dastardly, distant relative plots to steal the fortune left to three unlucky orphans.
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Cast: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Timothy Spall, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connelly, Cedric the Entertainer, Luis Guzman, Jennifer Coolidge, Meryl Streep. Directed by Brad Silberling.
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Categories: Family ∙ Estates |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min. B&W
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Plot: The life of Lenny Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological humor.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck. Directed by Bob Fosse.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Censorship |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***#1/2
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: When a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar's son blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish: that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours.
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Cast: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Cary Elwes. Directed by Tom Shadyac.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Live concert at the Grugahalle in Essen, England.
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Cast: Lowell George, Bill Payne, Richie Hayward, Paul Barrere . Directed by Terry Shand.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min. B&W
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Plot: In the post-Civil War south, a wealthy family will do everything within their power to ensure that their money is kept in the family.
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Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson. Directed by William Wyler.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: Blu-ray 90 min.
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Plot: In the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns.
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Cast: Alison Brie, DAve Franco, Kate Micucci. Directed by Jeff Baena.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.
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Cast: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A detective tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
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Cast: Elliot Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A suspected barn-burner drifts into a town and is recruited to work for, and possibly marry the daughter of, the biggest land owner in the town.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Landsbury. Directed by Martin Ritt.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Conflict |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down by a tragic accident tries to maintain a normal life by taking a job as a janitor at a bank, however he ultimately finds himself caught up in a heist.
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Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino. Directed by Scott Frank.
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Categories: Banking ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: Shipwrecked on an island, a group of castaway boys eventually revert to savagery despite attempts to prevent it.
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Cast: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman. Directed by Peter Brook.
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Categories: Children ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected newlywed meet up as strangers in Tokyo and form an unlikely bond.
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Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Fumihiro Hayashi. Directed by Sofia Coppola.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ International |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min. B&W
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Plot: An unsuccessful writer, who has been sober for 10 days, falls off the wagon into a three day drinking binge due to his dissatisfaction with his life.
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Cast: Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: Health ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A male widower who doesn't like anything modern goes to the movies and falls in love with the male film star.
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Cast: John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi. Directed by Richard Kwietniowski.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: Rejected by a beautiful woman at a young age, a man is unable to find happiness in his adult life until a second chance presents itself.
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Cast: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno. Directed by Mike Newell.
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Categories: Romance ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin in the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's rival crime bosses.
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Cast: Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci, Bruce Willis. Directed by Paul McGuigan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A young mother shares a time-line with her 7 year old daughter to help her adjust to the fact that she is dying but will never leave her.
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Cast: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Patrick Dempsey, Brad Rowe. Directed by Harry Winer.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason. Directed by John Huston.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: Spoiled animals from New York Central Zoo escape and find themselves in Madagascar.
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Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Cedric the Entertainer, Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights . Directed by Eric Darnell.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: As King George III of England's slides into insanity, political and royal back stabbing ensue as a result of his incapacitation.
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Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.
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Categories: Government ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min. B&W
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Plot: A portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes, who sat on the Supreme Court for 30 years.
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Cast: Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz. Directed by John Sturges.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: The host of a late-night political talk show decides to run for president.
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Cast: Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Jeff Goldblum, Lewis Black. Directed by Barry Levinson.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 139 min.
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Plot: A visitor from a dying planet becomes a reclusive multi-millionaire, only to lose himself in an earthbound abyss of decadence, self-destruction and alienation.
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Cast: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry. Directed by Nicolas Roeg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min. B&W
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Plot: A barber decides to blackmail his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
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Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, James Gandolfini. Directed by Joel Coen.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: Two ex-soldiers in India head off to Kafiristan in order to become kings in their own right.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer. Directed by John Huston.
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Categories: Government ∙ Military |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: An uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
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Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williamsb, Kyle Chandler. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 127 min. B&W
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Plot: A platoon of Korean War G.I.s returns home with mysterious gaps in their memories, which seem to point toward a diabolic political plot.
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Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory. Directed by John Frankenheimer.
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Categories: Military ∙ Politics |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: The annual journey of Emperor penguins as they march to their traditional breeding ground.
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Cast: Narrated by Morgan Freeman. Directed by Luc Jacquet.
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Categories: Documentary |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette
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Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Marianne Faithfull, Steve Coogan, Judy Davis, Jason Schwartzman. Directed by Sofia Coppola.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (6 disc set) 6 hours, 45 min. B&W
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Plot: Collection of Marx Brothers comedies including "The Cocoanuts," "Animal Crackers," "Monkey Business," "Horse Feathers," and "Duck Soup."
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Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont, Thelma Todd, Rockcliffe Fellows, Florine McKinney, David Landau, Louis Calhern, Edgar Kennedy. Directed by various.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A globetrotting hitman and a crestfallen businessman meet in a hotel bar in Mexico City in an encounter that draws them together in a way neither expected.
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Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis. Directed by Richard Shepard.
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Categories: Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for a woman who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
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Cast: Brian Cox, Matthew Goode, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: When a teen is bullied, his brother and friends lure the bully into the woods to seek vengeance.
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Cast: Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck, Carly Schroeder. Directed by Jacob Aaron Estes.
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Categories: Juvenile ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 180 min.
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Plot: A media mogul acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form of a young man to learn about life on Earth and in the process, fall in love with his guide's daughter.
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Cast: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeffrey Tambor. Directed by Martin Brest.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A male nurse is going to propose to his girlfriend during a visit with her parents, until her father takes an instant dislike to him.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner. Directed by Jay Roach.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A veteran assassin is starting to develop Alzheimer's as he refuses to kill a 12-year old. In Dutch with English subtitles.
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Cast: Koen Du Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir. Directed by Erik Van Looy.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 141 min.
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Plot: An intensely intimate look at one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands of all time.
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Cast: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo. Directed by Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: An attorney comes across the biggest case of his career that could produce disastrous results for those involved.
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Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack. Directed by Tony Gilroy.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A veteran DCI and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer.
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Cast: John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Laura Howard, Daniel Casey. Directed by Jeremy Silberston.
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Categories: Television ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: An advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.
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Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro. Directed by Ethan Coen.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Constitutional |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 145 min.
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Plot: In the future, police catch murderers before the crimes have even been committed, until one of the officers sees himself implicated in a future killing.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Steve Harris, Samantha Morton, Max Von Sydow. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min. B&W
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Plot: A love quadrangle develops around a disilliusioned divorcee and a trio of down-on-their luck cowboys intent on rounding up a herd of Mustangs.
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Cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach. Directed by John Huston.
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Categories: Western ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: The story of the children's book author Beatrix Potter and her struggle for love, happiness, and success.
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Cast: Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paterson, Emily Watson. Directed by Chris Noonan.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: A woman forms an uneasy alliance with her distant father to search for her kidnapped daughter.
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Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart. Directed by Ron Howard.
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Categories: Family ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole-up in a supermarket fight for their lives.
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Cast: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden. Directed by Frank Darabont.
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Categories: Horror ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s college girls to question their traditional societal roles.
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Cast: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin, Dominic West, Juliet Stevenson, Marcia Gay Harden, John Slattery
. Directed by Mike Newell.
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Categories: Education ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 89 min.
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Plot: King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.
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Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 93 min.
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Plot: Born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door, Brian spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
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Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. Directed by Terry Jones.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Religion |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.
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Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Lequizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh. Directed by Baz Luhrmann.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Employment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose.
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Cast: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg. Directed by Jack Arnold.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ War |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend more time with his children.
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Cast: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, Robert Prosky. Directed by Chris Columbus.
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Categories: Family ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A documentary celebrating Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
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Cast: Gregg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Jimmy Cliff, Aretha Franklin, Donna Jean Godcheaux, Rick Hall, Mick Jagger, Alicia Keys, Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Steve Winwood. Directed by Greg .
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Categories: Musical ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 88 min. B&W
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Plot: Ellen Arden returns seven years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick on his honeymoon.
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Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick. Directed by Garson Kanin.
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Categories: Family ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A washed up movie star is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.
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Cast: Peter O'Toole, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Mark Linn-Baker. Directed by Richard Benjamin.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: Two former presidents become reluctant allies when they are framed in a scandal by the current President.
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Cast: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Ackroyd, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Lauren Bacall. Directed by Peter Segal.
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Categories: Government ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A 17-year-old girl has a troubled relationship with a 49-year-old man.
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Cast: Albert Brooks, Leelee Sobieski, Desmond Harrington, Carol Kane. Directed by Christine Lahti.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A group of travelers find solace and friendship after being thrown together by tragedy.
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Cast: Maggie Smith, Chris Cooper, Giancarlo Giannini, Ronnie Barker, Emmy Clarke, Benno Fürmann. Directed by Richard Loncraine.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy and learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb, his left foot.
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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker. Directed by Jim Sheridan.
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Categories: Disability ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 104 min.
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Plot: Two male hustlers set off on a quest to find the mother that abandoned one of them.
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Cast: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert. Directed by Gus Van Sant.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A suspended narcotics officer is recruited to investigate the murder of a rookie cop killed under mysterious circumstances.
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Cast: Jason Patric, Ray Liotta, Busta Rhymes, Chi McBride. Directed by Joe Carnahan.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success.
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Cast: . Directed by Paul Schwarz.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: Documentary on folk rock musician Neil Young.
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Cast: Neil Young. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 103 min.
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Plot: A two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
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Cast: Neil young, Emmylou Harris, Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham, Rick Rosas, karl Himmel, Chad Cromwell, Pegi Young. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min. B&W
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Plot: In post-war Casablanca, Ronald Kornblow is hired to run a hotel whose previous managers have all wound up being murdered.
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Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Charles Drake, Lois Collier, Lisette Verea, Sig Ruman, Dan Seymour, Lewis Russell. Directed by Archie Mayo.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min. B&W
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Plot: A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real fathery hid money he'd stolen in a robbery.
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Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish. Directed by Charles Laughton.
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Categories: Children ∙ Religion |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min. B&W
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Plot: A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.
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Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman. Directed by George Romero.
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Categories: Horror ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 191 min.
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Plot: Controversial, fragmented portrait of the U.S. politician and president, presented as a driven man beset by deep-rooted insecurities.
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Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins. Directed by Oliver Stone.
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Categories: Politics ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 136 min.
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Plot: An advertising executive is mistaken for a spy and is pursued across the America while he looks for a way to survive.
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Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray 123 min.
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Plot: Set in the early 1960s, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.
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Cast: Dianna Agron, Julianne Nicholson, Margaret Qualley. Directed by Margaret Betts.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Religion |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: Three stumblebum convicts escape to go on a quest for treasure and meet various characters while learning where their real fortune lies.
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Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter. Directed by Ethan & Joel Coen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: An ex-con rounds up a group of associates to stage a heist of three major Las Vegas casinos.
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Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould, Bernie Mac. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
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Cast: George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence. Directed by Carl Reiner.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Religion |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 76 min.
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Plot: Two old friends reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
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Cast: Will Oldham, Daniel London. Directed by Kelly Reichardt.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A doctor survives an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons and must defend himself against the monsters it spawned.
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Cast: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash. Directed by Boris Sagal.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Three sailors on a day of shore leave in New York City look for fun and romance before their twenty-four hours are up.
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Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller. Directed by Gene Kelly.
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Categories: Military ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 229 min.
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Plot: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams. Directed by Sergio Leone.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 134 min.
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Plot: A man sent to a mental hospital finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the other patients. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher. Directed by Milos Forman.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Medical |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 139 min.
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Plot: A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
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Cast: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter. Directed by Kevin Costner.
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Categories: Western ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A recovering drug addict takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo. in Norwegian with English subtitles.
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Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava, Øystein Røger, Tone Beate Mostraum, Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal, Johanne Kjellevik Ledang, Petter Width Kristiansen, Renate Reinsve, Anders Borchgrevink. Directed by Joachim Trier.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Sentencing |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A ruthless corporate raider tries to take over a successful company, so the company's patriarch enlists his daughter, a lawyer, to protect the business.
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Cast: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie, Dean Jones. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A career bank robber breaks out of jail and shares a moment of mutual attraction with the US Marshall he has kidnapped.
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Cast: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Categories: Action ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerilla unit and winds up on the run from Union soldiers.
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Western ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 119 min.
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Plot: In Spain in 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
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Cast: Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro.
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Categories: Family ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A first-year Harvard law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his stern professor.
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Cast: Timothy Bottoms, John Houseman, Lindsay Wagner. Directed by James Bridges.
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Categories: Education ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 150 min.
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Plot: A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
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Cast: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, Jessie Miskelly, Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols. Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.
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Categories: Juvenile ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.
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Cast: Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Dan Liu, Lauren McKinney, Scott Green. Directed by Gus Van Saint.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A boy must use his special powers to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
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Cast: Voices of John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Directed by Chris Butler & Sam Fell.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: The true story of Michael Alig, a party organizer whose life was sent spiraling downward when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate.
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Cast: Seth Green, Macaulay Culkin, Diana Scarwid, Dillon Woolley, Marilyn Manson, Dylan McDermott, Mia Kirshner. Directed by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: A reporter arrives at a desert hotel, in a North African country, to report on the guerrilla freedom-fighters there.
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Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Categories: Drama ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: The final hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from the Last Supper to his trial and condemnation to death.
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Cast: Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern, Sergio Rubini. Directed by Mel Gibson.
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Categories: Religion ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: An examination of the current state of political polarization in the United States of the America.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Brian Malone.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min. B&W
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Plot: The operator of a pawn shop, who is also a concentration camp survivor, faces a horrid internal conflict.
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Cast: Rod Steiger, Brock Peters, Jaime Sanchez. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Carved from over 1,200 hours of rarely seen and never before seen footage spanning the band's career.
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Cast: Pearl Jam. Directed by Cameron Crow.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A restaurant owner witnesses a mob killing and thereafter is harassed by the U.S. attorney and the mob.
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Cast: Brian Dennehy, Stockard Channing, Aidan Quonn, Laura Harrington. Directed by Robert Mandel.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 147 min.
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Plot: A French peasant born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume, but takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.
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Cast: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman. Directed by Tom Tykwer.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: After breaking off her engagement to a naval officer because he lacks money and rank, a young woman regrets her decision when he returns with both.
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Cast: Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones, Alice Krige, Julia Davis, Amanda Hale. Directed by Adrian Shergold.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Maritime |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Documents the life of one of the greatest American singer/songwriters of the last century.
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Cast: Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines. Directed by Jim Brown.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min. B&W
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Plot: A waitress, a hobo, and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.
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Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Humphrey Bogart. Directed by Archie L. Mayo.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 150 min.
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Plot: In 1950's London, a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young woman who becomes his muse and lover.
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Cast: Vicky Krieps, Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min. B&W
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Plot: When a rich woman's ex-husband and a reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart. Directed by George Cukor.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A mute woman along with her young daughter are sent to New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner.
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Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill. Directed by Jane Campion.
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Categories: Marital Relations ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
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Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford. Directed by Albert Lewin.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 145 min.
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Plot: Highly rated TV broadcast of 1994 London concert.
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Cast: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Guy Pratt, Dick Parry. Directed by David Mallet.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: Bumbling and conceited French police inspector Clouseau tries to catch The Phantom, a daring jewel thief whose identity and features are unknown - and is acting right under his nose.
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Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine. Directed by Blake Edwards.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A documentary of the men who made the technology world what it is today.
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Cast: Noah Wyle, Anthony Michael Hall, Joey Slotnick, John DiMaggio, Josh Hopkins. Directed by Martyn Burke.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Trademark |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 122 min. B&W
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Plot: When a man is introduced to high society and a sophisticated woman, he forgets about the assembly line worker he was having an affair with.
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Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Keefe Brasselle, Raymond Burr, Anne Revere. Directed by George Stevens.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (5 disc set) 700 min.
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Plot: A look into the diversity of the planet. 11 episodes.
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Cast: Narrated by David Attenborough. Directed by Alastair Fothergill.
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Categories: Documentary |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A studio executive is being blackmailed by a writer whose script he rejected.
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Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
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Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro. Directed by Sean Penn.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Hector Elizondo. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
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Categories: Western ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A group of good-hearted but incompotent misfits enter the police academy.
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Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Kim cattrall, Bubba Smith, George Gaynes. Directed by Hugh Wilson.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A 5-year-old boy and a goldfish princess embark on an adventure.
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Cast: Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, Betty White. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Children |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 300 min.
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Plot: A strong-willed yet sensible young woman is exposed to the realities of the 19th-century English class system when she and her sisters attempt to marry proper gentlemen.
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Cast: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, David Bamber, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Anna Chancellor, Susannah Harker. Directed by Simon Langton.
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Categories: Family ∙ Television |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 140 min.
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Plot: A virtually unknown Southern governor goes on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ambitious wife.
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Cast: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Adrian Lester, Kathy Bates, Larry Hagman. Directed by Mike Nichols.
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Categories: Politics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: The token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge of the company.
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Cast: Arnold Johnson, Mel Brooks, Antonio Fargas, Allen Garfield. Directed by Robert Downey, Sr.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc) 300 min.
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Plot: Live concert.
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Cast: Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Brian May, Roger Taylor, Spike Edney. Directed by Garvin Taylor.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 52 min.
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Plot: Discusses a prison simulation experiment conducted in 1971 with students at Stanford University and considers the causes and effects that make prisons such an emotional issue.
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Cast: Narrated by Philip G. Zimbardo. Directed by Ken Musen.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed.
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Cast: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, Christopher McDonald, Johann Carlo, Elizabeth Wilson, Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson. Directed by Robert Redford.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
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Cast: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Family ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: A murder happens during a Paris fashion show and no one can escape the scrutiny of the police.
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Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Kim Basinger, Stephen Rea, Lauren Bacall, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Entertainment |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A man shipwrecked on a deserted island encounters a red turtle, which changes his life.
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Cast: Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson, Baptiste Goy. Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit.
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Categories: Animation ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US.
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Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Gavin Hood.
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Categories: International ∙ National Security |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 135 min.
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Plot: Bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggle with life, love, AIDS, and the impacts they have on America.
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Cast: Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Tracie Thoms. Directed by Chris Columbus.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control.
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Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.
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Cast: Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington. Directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastion Junger.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: After an eight-year absence, a man returns to his French village. He convinces everyone that he is indeed who he claims to be, until he seeks the profits from his land. This request results in a court battle. Subtitled in English.
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Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Roger Planchon. Directed by Daniel Vigne.
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Categories: Estates ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 172 min.
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Plot: A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
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Cast: William Macy, Tom Selleck, Monica Potter, Felicity Huffman, James Rebhorn, Shemar Moore, Glenn Plummer, Ron Canada. Directed by Mike Robe.
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Categories: Death Penalty ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray 104 min.
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Plot: The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.
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Cast: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey, Jr., Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith . Directed by Richard Loncraine.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: After a tragic riding accident, a young cowboy searches for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
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Cast: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lily Jandreau. Directed by Chloe Zhao.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Western |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A high school slacker kills his girlfriend and shows off her dead body to their friends. The friends' reactions are almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.
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Cast: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Jone Skye Leitch, Roxana Zal, Daniel Roebuck, Joshua Miller, Dennis Hopper. Directed by Tim Hunter.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 139 min.
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Plot: In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, a man tries to lead his small town to a better future by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to the market.
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Cast: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones.
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Categories: History ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: Thirty years after the ring of the first bell, Rocky comes out of retirement and dons his gloves for his final fight.
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Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver, Milo Ventimiglia. Directed by Sylvester Stallone.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: This documentary shows a Flint, Michigan native and his efforts to meet with the president of General Motors to show him the economic effect caused by the closing of a GM plant there.
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Cast: Michael Moore, James Bond, Pat Boone, Rhonda Britton, Anita Bryant. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: The Rebel Alliance makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow.
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Cast: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk. Directed by Gareth Edwards.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A career-spanning documentary on the Rolling Stones.
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Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Christina Aguilera, Buddy Guy, Jack White. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A woman assembles a team of professional killers from all over the world to retrieve a briefcase with mysterious contents. Complications arise as many people and organizations aspire to possess this briefcase.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone. Directed by John Frankenheimer.
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Categories: Action ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A law student loses his tuition money in a high stakes poker game, so he vows to quit playing.
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Cast: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Malkovich, Gretchen Mol. Directed by John Dahl.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 109 min.
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Plot: When the patriarch of an estranged family of former child prodigies announces he has terminal illness, a dysfunctional reunion ensues.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Danny Glover, Bill Murray. Directed by Wes Anderson.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 65 min.
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Plot: An introduction to Horace Rumpole, a career trial lawyer who digs deeper into what should be an open-and-shut case and mounts a full defense.
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Cast: Leo McKeren, Joyce Heron, David Yelland, Vernon Dobtcheff, Olga Lowe. Directed by John Gorrie.
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Categories: International ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 81 min.
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Plot: A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.
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Cast: Franka Potente, Herbert Knaup. Directed by Tom Tykwer.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: The son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother is handed off to his mother's therapist and spends his adolescent years as a member of the doctor's bizarre extended family.
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Cast: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow. Directed by Ryan Murphy.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Put in charge of his young son, a man moves to live with his sister and her husband. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure. Directed by Jacques Audiard.
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Categories: Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: A sausage strives to discover the truth about his existence.
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Cast: Voices of Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill. Directed by Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 170 min.
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Plot: A determined Cuban immigrant succumbs to greed while building a criminal empire.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon, F. Murray Abraham. Directed by Brian De Palma.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Immigration |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career - and the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation.
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Cast: Philip Baker Hall. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Politics ∙ Biography |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A young girl, haunted by the memory of her mother and her angry father, runs away with her caregiver to discover the secret of her mother's past.
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Cast: Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Paul Bettany. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.
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Categories: Family ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 207 min. B&W
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Plot: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. In Japanese with English subtitles.
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Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki. Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Categories: Justice ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 145 min.
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Plot: After moving in together, Carrie and Mr. Big make a rather arbitrary decision to get married.
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Cast: Sarah Jessica parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis,Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Hudson, Candice Bergen, Chris Noth. Directed by Michael Patrick King.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min. B&W
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Plot: A man is pursued by detectives who suspect him of being an evil strangler wanted in connection with the deaths of several rich East coast widows.
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Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Documentary of Richard Hambleton, a founder of the street art movement in New York City.
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Cast: Richard Hambleton, Paul DeRienzo . Directed by Oren Jacoby .
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A New York City police detective, nephew of the original 1970s detective, goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.
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Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa L. Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Busta Rhymes, Dan Hedaya. Directed by John Singleton.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.
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Cast: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor. Directed by Danny Boyle.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering conflict between the family and a wealthy cattleman forces him to act.
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Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin. Directed by George Stevens.
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Categories: Western ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A perfect family's dynamic is ruined by a kidnapper's brutally efficient plot.
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Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello, Gerard Butler, Claudette Mink. Directed by Mike Barker.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A cavalry officer in his final week of service on the frontier vows to make his last mission one of peace.
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Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. Directed by John Ford.
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Categories: Western ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: The story of a woman and her three lovers.
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Cast: Tracy Camila Jones, Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee, Raye Dowell. Directed by Spike Lee.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Biography |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.
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Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris. Directed by Guy Ritchie.
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Categories: Action ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 142 min.
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Plot: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
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Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A man delivers and saves a baby during a shootout and enters into a cat-and-mouse game with the thugs that killed the child's mother.
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Cast: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci. Directed by Michael Davis.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A fifteen year marraige dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them.
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Cast: Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller. Directed by Alan Parker.
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Categories: Family ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: When an experimental robot is electrocuted, it takes on human-like emotions.
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Cast: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey. Directed by John Badham.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 187 min.
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Plot: The everyday lives of a number of Los Angeles residents are the subject of this loosely-knitted collection of short stories.
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Cast: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Zane Cassidy, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.
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Cast: Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: An FBI cadet is assigned to interview an imprisoned, cannibalistic psychopath in the hopes of getting his help in capturing a crazed serial killer. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Tracey Walter, Charles Napier, Roger Corman. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: An Oklahoman nuclear-plant worker was murdered, possibly to prevent her blowing the whistle on dangerous practices at the plant to a New York Times reporter.
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Sudie Bond. Directed by Mike Nichols.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Employment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Live reunion of pop duo.
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Cast: Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, David Brown, Pete Carr. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: When three men find $4.4 million inside a crashed plane in a nature preserve, they quickly come up with a plan to keep the money safe until the plane has been found by others and the dust has settled.
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Cast: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton. Directed by Sam Raimi.
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Categories: Ethics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Michael Moore's 60-city tour of college campuses and other venues to showcase what the filmmaker calls "the birth of a new political generation."
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Cast: Michael Moore. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Politics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A punk rocker in Salt Lake City must make a decision between his current lifestyle and going to law school.
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Cast: Matthew Lillard, Michael Goorjian, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Lien, Christopher McDonald. Directed by James Merendino.
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Categories: Education ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 147 min.
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Plot: Ten years after being abused by authorities, four men have a chance for revenge.
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Cast: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt. Directed by Barry Levinson.
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Categories: Juvenile ∙ Sentencing |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
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Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min. B&W
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Plot: A bootlegger goes legit with the end of Prohibition, brewing bad-tasting beer that no one will buy.
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Cast: Edward C. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Willard Parker. Directed by Llyod Bacon.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: One little secret causes a big commotion in a boisterous Irish family.
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Cast: Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe. Directed by Stephen Frears.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A lawyer from Washington, D.C. is sent to investigate the murder of a sergeant at a Louisiana Army base.
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Cast: Howard Rollins, Jr., Adolph Ceasar. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Military ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: Four Chinese-American teens reveal a heartbreaking sense of self-awareness as they attempt to answer the uniquely human question, 'Who am I?'
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Family |
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Rated: Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Centered around the modern day life of a native man and his life on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Cast: Irene Bedard, Dakota Brown, Cat Clifford. Directed by Chloe Zhao.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A loving and strong family of sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933 face a serious family crisis when the father is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp.
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Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks. Directed by Martin Ritt.
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Categories: Family ∙ Juvenile |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: An employee designs a lucrative secret process for his company, but is tempted to sell it when he isn't compensated for his efforts.
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Cast: Ben Gazzara, Felicity Huffman, Ricky Jay, Steve Martin. Directed by David Mamet.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 196 min.
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Plot: The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire.
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Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Categories: Action ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 115 min.
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Plot: A young cop must save the passengers of a bus that has a bomb set to explode if the bus slows down.
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Cast: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels. Directed by Jan DeBont.
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Categories: Action ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 125 min.
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Plot: In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters.
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Cast: Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, English language voices: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Jason Marsden. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Categories: Animation ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A Group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood.
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Cast: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham. Directed by Joel Schumacher.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min. B&W
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Plot: Nine disparate travelers are thrust together on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.
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Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt, George Bancroft, Donald Meek, Berto Churchill, Tim Holt. Directed by John Ford.
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Categories: Western ∙ Transportation |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD ( 2 disc set) 116 min.
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Plot: The story of the Funk Brothers, the group of musicians that played on every single hit Motown record from the label's beginnings to 1972.
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Cast: Various artists.. Directed by Paul Justman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: Twenty-four male students were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison.
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Cast: Olivia Thirlby, Ezra Miller, Billy Crudup. Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mental Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 132 min.
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Plot: The crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, which leads a manhunt into a war-zone world.
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Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoë Saldana, Karl Urban. Directed by J.J. Abrams.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ War |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red-and-white Ford Torino with the help of their snitch.
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Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Snoop Dogg. Directed by Todd Phillips.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career.
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Cast: Frank Langella, Lili Taylor, Lauren Ambrose, Adrian Lester. Directed by Andrew Wagner.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Education |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 121 min.
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Plot: Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
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Cast: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton, Richard Roxburgh. Directed by Rob Cohen.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Military |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A family new to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
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Cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise. Directed by Bryan Forbes.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Gender |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 63 min.
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Plot: Live performance of a small set list in a nightclub.
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Cast: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon,. Directed by Dennis Saunders.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men seek revenge by pulling off "the big con" on this crime lord.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan. Directed by George Roy Hill.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: Concert film of rock group The Talking Heads.
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Cast: Bernie Worell, Alex Weir, Steven Scales, Lyna Mabry, Ednah Holt. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Musical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 89 min. B&W
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Plot: A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise, and unwelcome, visit by his pretty sixteen-year-old Hungarian cousin.
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Cast: John Lurie, Estzer Balint, Richard Edson. Directed by Jim Jarmusch.
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Categories: Immigration ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.
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Cast: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Alex Fisher, Peter Clayton-Luce, . Directed by Bryan Bertino.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George. Directed by Sam Peckinpah.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (s disc set) 122 min. B&W
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Plot: A young married couple from very different backgrounds is settling down to have their first child when the bride's older sister arrives on their doorstep and turns everything on its end.
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Cast: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando. Directed by Elia Kazan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 141 min.
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Plot: A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
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Cast: Jane Alexander, Angela Bassett, Gordon Clapp, Edie Falco, Miguel Ferrer. Directed by John Sayles.
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Categories: Property ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
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Cast: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogan, Bill Hader. Directed by Greg Mottola.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: An overworked public defender is assigned to represent a deaf-mute and destitute Vietnam veteran accused of murder.
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Cast: Cher, Dennis Quaid, Joe Mantegna, Liam Neeson, Philip Bosco, John Mahoney, Fred Melamed, Katherine Kerr, Lisbeth Bartlett. Directed by Peter Yeates.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children.
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Cast: Maury Chaykin, Peter Donaldson, Bruce Greenwood. Directed by Atom Egoyan.
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Categories: Liability ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A former rodeo star, with a small time life, unknowingly starts a rapport with a young man who is responsible for the violence that has suddenly gripped his small town.
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Cast: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogene Poots. Directed by Jamie M. Dagg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min. B&W
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Plot: Rock Spectacular featuring some of the greatest pop performers of the 60s.
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Cast: Chuck Berry, The Pacemakers, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, James Brown, The Rolling Stones. Directed by Steve Binder.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: An FBI profiler is called in to catch a serial killer who assumes the identities of the victims.
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Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Martinez, Tcheky Karyo, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Gena Rowlands. Directed by D.J. Caruso.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 139 min.
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Plot: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
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Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett. Directed by Anthony Minghella.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 353 min.
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Plot: An 11 part television series that is a satire of media-age politics in America.
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Cast: Michael Murphy, Pamela Reed, Daniel Jenkins, Cynthia Nixon. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Politics ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Cybil Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Marionette superheroes fight to end terrorism and put tired celebrities out of their misery.
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Cast: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller, Masasa. Directed by Trey Parker.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner meets up with a local slacker and they form the rock band Tenacious D.
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Cast: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Jason Reed, Troy Gentile, Paul F. Tompkins, David Groh. Directed by Liam Lynch.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A French lawyer, taken hostage by the Nazis during WWII, makes a deal with another man willing to swap his life for the lawyer's fortune.
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Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi. Directed by Jack Gold.
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Categories: War ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird.
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Cast: Susan Saradon, Geena Davis, Brad Pitt. Directed by Ridley Scott.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars:
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A bank robber is sent to jail after stashing his loot away. He now must come up with an escape plan so he can recover his riches.
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Cast: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Western |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.
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Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter. Directed by John Carpenter.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Horror |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 147 min.
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Plot: The film is set during the two-week Cuban missile crisis in October of 1962, and it centers on how President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and others handled the explosive situation.
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Cast: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood. Directed by Roger Donaldson.
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Categories: International ∙ Politics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A railroad official comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the town's main source of income, its railway, and unexpectedly finds love.
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Cast: Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Natalie Woods. Directed by Sydney Pollack.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Commercial |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 114 min.
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Plot: The mighty God of Thunder is banished to Earth, where he must fight to regain his powers.
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Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Anthony Hopkins. Directed by Kenneth Branagh.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Action |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: Worlds collide when a powerful ancient enemy threatens to plunge the cosmos into eternal darkness.
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Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins. Directed by Alan Taylor.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A Ranch hand looks to fulfill a promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
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Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cesar Cedillo. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones.
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Categories: Western ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 180 min.
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Plot: Three sisters who were accused of witchcraft in the "witch hysteria" of 1692, two of whom were executed. Several year later the youngest tries to clear her sister's names.
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Cast: Kim Hunter, Vanessa Redgrave, Phyllis Thaxter. Directed by Philip Leacock.
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Categories: History ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: An FBI man with a Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.
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Cast: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward, Fred Dalton Thompson. Directed by Michael Apted.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Drama |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 99 min. B&W
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Plot: A black humor balance of political satire, romance, slapstick, and wartime suspense.
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Cast: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ War |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Three drag queens traveling cross-country are stranded in a small town after their car breaks down.
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Cast: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner. Directed by Beeban Kidron.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Gender |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A longtime thief plans a way out of a life of crime, while dodging an FBI agent looking to take him and his crew down.
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Cast: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper. Directed by Ben Affleck.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: G Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 81 min.
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Plot: A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
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Cast: Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Don Rickles, Jim Varney. Directed by John Lasseter.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Family |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 92 min.
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Plot: When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, his friends vow to rescue him. However, they first have to convince him that he doesn't want immortality in a museum.
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Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney. Directed by John Lasseter.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Custody |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A prep school teacher is at his wits end and in therapy with a maniacal psychiatrist when he meets an enigmatic and beautiful widow.
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Cast: Chris Eigeman, Ian Holm, Famke Janssen. Directed by Oren Rudavsky.
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Categories: Mental Health ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 192 min.
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Plot: Postulates what would have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald had lived to stand trial for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Cast: Lorne Greene, Ben Gazzara, John Pleshette. Directed by David Green.
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Categories: History ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min. B&W
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Plot: A young man is mysteriously arrested for an unspecified crime and is put on trial. Based on the novel by Franz Kafka.
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Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Elsa Martinelli, Akim Tamiroff. Directed by Orson Welles.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Trouble erupts in a small, quiet New England town when a man's body is found in the woods and almost everyone in town thinks that they had something to do with his death.
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Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 163 min.
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Plot: An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.
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Cast: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen.
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Categories: Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A reporter tries to save a convicted murderer from being put to death.
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Denis Leary, Bernard Hill, Diane Venora, Michael McKean. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Two friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies.
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Cast: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Jesse Moss, Katrina Bowden. Directed by Eli Craig.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Racism |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 171 min.
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Plot: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy just as the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.
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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint. Directed by Philip Kaufman.
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Categories: Romance ∙ War |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder when he discovers he is actually the prime suspect.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. Directed by Stephen Hopkins.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A mysterious woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland.
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Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Adam Pearson, Kryštof Hádek. Directed by Jonathan Glazer.
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Categories: Drama ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Cast: Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, Polly Adams, Cheyenne Jackson, Opal Alladin, Gary Commock, Nancy McDoniel, David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert. Directed by Paul Greengrass.
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Categories: Drama ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: When a seemingly ordinary 15-year-old is sentenced to a juvenille hall for a stunning crime, a teacher and aspiring writer dream of making his story into a book.
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Cast: Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Kevin Spacey, Michelle Willliams. Directed by Matthew Ryan Hodge.
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Categories: Juvenile ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society.
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Cast: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, John Hurt. Directed by James McTeigue.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the victims of the movies they're watching.
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Cast: Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry. Directed by Nimrod Antal.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 77 min.
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Plot: A tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films
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Cast: Narrated by Martin Scorsese. Directed by Kent Jones.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A porter and a top-model have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO's marriage. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry. Directed by Francis Veber.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 73 min. B&W
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Plot: A young traveler arrives in a remote castle and starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights. In German with English subtitles.
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Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 192 min.
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Plot: An Indian Air Force pilot languishes in prison without speaking, 22 years after rescuing a stranded Pakistani girl. In Hindi with English subtitles.
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Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Manoj Bajpai, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini. Directed by Yash Chopra.
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Categories: Sentencing ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 55 min.
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Plot: Inter splices random chatter captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Errol Morris.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: A San Francisco detective with a paralyzing fear of heights becomes entangled in a mystery surrounding a beautiful woman.
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Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A prominent lawyer goes after a blackmailer who threatens gay men with exposure.
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Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Peter McEnery. Directed by Basil Dearden.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sexuality |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.
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Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna. Directed by Terence Young.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 84 min.
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Plot: A small town in Missouri puts on a pageant, despite a lack of theatrical ability obvious to everyone but themselves
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Cast: Lewis Arquette, Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, Matt Keeslar. Directed by Christopher Guest.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
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Cast: Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh. Directed by Keith Gordon.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Politics |
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Rated: G Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
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Cast: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, . Directed by Andrew Stanton.
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Categories: Animation ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.
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Cast: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Terrence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common, Angelina Jolie. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov.
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Categories: Action ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: Told from the lawyer's perspective, this dark comedy follows a divorcing couple's battle over their house.
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Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sagebrecht, Sean Astin, G.D. Spradlin, Peter Donat. Directed by Danny DeVito.
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Categories: Mediation ∙ Property |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Covers a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival.
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Cast: Narrator for various performers is Richard Pryor. Directed by Mel Stuart.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Musical |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
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Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara. Directed by McG.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A guy about to marry the perfect woman can't stop thinking about his very flawed first love.
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Cast: Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Frances O'Connor. Directed by Amanda Jane.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: A series of unfortunate happening triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.
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Cast: Michelle Williams, Lucy, David Koppell. Directed by Kelly Reichardt.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Economics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 152 min.
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Plot: The leader of an NYC gang falls in love with the sister of the leader of his rival gang.
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Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris. Directed by Robert Wise.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A tough, straight-shooting cowboy encounters the colorful and dangerously unpredicable judge.
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Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Dana Andrews. Directed by William Wyier.
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Categories: Western ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.
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Cast: Yul Brenner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin. Directed by Michael Crichton.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: After an accident, a chauvenistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are thinking.
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Cast: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda. Directed by Nancy Meyers.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 131 min. B&W
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Plot: A bitter aging couple use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
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Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, RIchard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis. Directed by Mike Nichols.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: A police sergeant is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed.
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Cast: Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Christopher Lee. Directed by Robin Hardy.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Religion |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 145 min.
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Plot: An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the traditional American West disappears around them.
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Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmund O'Brien, Warren Oates. Directed by Paul Seydor.
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Categories: Western ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A detective and slick attorney trail a guidance counselor accused of raping two scheming high school vixens.
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Cast: Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Theresa Russell, Denise Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega. Directed by John McNaughton.
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Categories: Juvenile ∙ Women |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: VHS 118 min. B&W
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Plot: A popular lawyer defends a naval cadet wrongly accused of stealing.
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Cast: Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Frank Lawton, Wilifrid Hyde-White, Neil North. Directed by Anthony Asquith.
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Categories: Maritime ∙ Education |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: In early 20th century England, a youngman is expelled from the royal naval academy and a legal battle to have him reinstated begins.
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Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones. Directed by David Mamet.
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Categories: Maritime ∙ Education |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 77 min. B&W
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Plot: After a father was falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery his son sets out to find the truth of the crime.
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Cast: Burgess Meredith, Margo, John Carradine, Paul guilfoyle, Edward Ellis, Eduardo Cianelli, Mischa Auer. Directed by Alfred Santell.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 116 min. B&W
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Plot: This Agatha Christie mystery features a London barrister who returns from a long convalescence to defend a man accused of murdering a wealthy widow.
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Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lancaster, John Williams. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.
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Cast: Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines. Directed by Michael Wadleigh.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A TV actress wakes up to find her lover has left her, and she must contact his crazy ex-wife, son, a lawyer, and the son's fiance in order to track him down. in Spanish, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Fernando Guillén, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampeáve, María Barranco. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: On September 11, 2001, two Port Authority police officers become trapped in the rubble of the collapsing World Trade Center.
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Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff, Jay Hernandez, Michael Shannon. Directed by Oliver Stone.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
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Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike. Directed by Edgar Wright.
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Categories: Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.
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Cast: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham. Directed by Goran Dukic.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
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Cast: Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, Tom McCarthy, Josh Pais, John C. Reilly, Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Mike White.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies.
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Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison. Directed by George Dunning.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
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Cast: Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Jon Tenney. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: An Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
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Cast: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swanson, Lanie Kazan, Rob Schneider. Directed by Dennis Dugan.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois.
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Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek, Richard Cromwell, Eddie Quillan, Milburn Stone, Ward Bond, Arlene Whelan. Directed by John Ford.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 101 min.
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Plot: Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together.
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Cast: Seth Rogan, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Jason Mewes, Traci Lords, Jeff Anderson, Katie Morgan, Ricky Mabe. Directed by Kevin Smith.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: A private investigator and his front man start work on a case involving the blackmail of a shady tycoon.
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Cast: Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens, Angela Featherstone, Ryan O'Neal. Directed by Jake Kasdan.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Business |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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