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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: Based on the true story of six MIT students who trained to become experts in card counting in a plot to beat the Las Vegas casinos.
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Cast: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey. Directed by Robert Luketic.
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Categories: Education ∙ Corporations ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 137 min.
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Plot: A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet.
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Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Ian Holm.. Directed by Ridley Scott.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Admiralty ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 154 min.
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Plot: After escaping an encounter with aliens, the only survivor is asked to return to the scene as an adviser for a group of disbelieving Marines.
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Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton. Directed by James Cameron.
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Categories: Action ∙ SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A new father vows to turn over a new leaf, and he and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
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Cast: Paul Brannigan, John Hershaw, Gary Maitland, William Ruane, Jasmin Riggins, Roger Allam, Siobhan Reilly, Charlie MacLean.. Directed by Ken Loach.
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Categories: Business ∙ Corporations ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 162 min.
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Plot: Paraplegic marine is dispatched to the Moon Pandora on a unique mission.
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Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Joel Moer. Directed by James Cameron.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Corporations ∙ Military |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 170 min.
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Plot: The early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career.
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Jude Law. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: The CEO of RJR Nabisco decides that the time is ripe to take over his own company and enlists the help of American Express.
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Cast: James Garner, Jonathan Pyrce, Peter Riegert, Joanna Cassidy. Directed by Glenn Jordan.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Securities ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: Examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans.
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Cast: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wallace Shawn, George W. Bush, Martin Luther King, Jr., Helmut Kohl, Bela Lugosi, Barack Obama. Directed by Michael Moore.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Economics ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.
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Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.
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Categories: International ∙ Drama ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 145 min.
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Plot: Examines the nature, evolution, impact, and possible futures of the modern business corporation.
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Cast: Jane Akre, Ray Anderson, Maude Barlow, Chris Barrett, Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker, Samuel Epstein, Milton Freidman, Naomi Klein, Susan E. Linn, Luke McCabe, Mikela J. Mikael, Robert Monks, Michael Moore, Vandana Shiva, Steve Wilson. Directed by Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Documentary ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 8 hours, 49 min.
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Plot: A sharp law school graduate becomes the protégée of a successful and hard-hitting high stakes litigator.
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Cast: Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Dylan Baker, John Goodman. Directed by Todd A. Kessler, Nick Gomez, Timothy Busfield.
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Categories: Television ∙ Drama ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 9 hours, 41 minutes min.
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Plot: A sharp law school graduate becomes the protégée of a successful and hard-hitting high stakes litigator.
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Cast: Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Tate Donovan, Zachary Booth. Directed by Allen Coulter, Greg Yaitanes, John David Coles.
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Categories: Television ∙ Damages ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 8 hours, 22 min.
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Plot: A sharp law school graduate becomes the protégée of a successful and hard-hitting high stakes litigator.
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Cast: Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Dylan Baker, John Goodman. Directed by Todd A. Kessler, Nick Gomez, Timothy Busfield.
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Categories: Television ∙ Drama ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 8 hours, 24 min.
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Plot: A sharp law school graduate becomes the protégée of a successful and hard-hitting high stakes litigator.
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Cast: Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Tate Donovan, Zachary Booth. Directed by Todd A. Kessler, Jean de Segonzac, Constantine Mak.
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Categories: Television ∙ Damages ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: In a peaceful, future society, a cop is thawed out of suspended animation to subdue an old, ultra-violent enemy.
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Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne. Directed by Marco Brambilla.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: A pair of corporate spies who share a steamy past hook up to pull off the ultimate con job on their respective bosses.
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Cast: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti. Directed by Tony Gilroy.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Romance ∙ Business |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Presents the corrupt business practices that led to the fall of Enron Corporation.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Alex Gibney.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply thereby causing cancer and other illness in the community.
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Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones, Peter Coyote, Scotty Leavenworth. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Categories: Torts ∙ Corporations ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: An ensemble piece examining the health risks involved in the fast food industry and as well as its environmental and social consequences.
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Cast: Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannacale, Paul Dano, Luis Guzman, Ethan Hawke, Greg Kinnear, Wilmer Valderrama, Catalina Sandino Moreno. Directed by Richard Linklater.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Corporations ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 154 min.
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Plot: After being recruited by an exclusive Memphis law firm, a lawyer learns the firm is a front for the mob.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn. Directed by Sydney Pollack.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Ethics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: One man's fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity comes at a heavy price.
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Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermont Mulroney. Directed by Marc Abraham.
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Categories: Patent ∙ Corporations ∙ Biography |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
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Cast: Interviewees include Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Gary Hirshberg, Joel Salatin. Directed by Robert Kenner.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 152 min.
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Plot: In 1966, Americans battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari.
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Cast: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Berntha, Caitriona Balfe, Josh Lucas. Directed by James Mangold.
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Categories: Automobile ∙ Drama ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: The coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973.
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Cast: Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks. Directed by Barbara Kopple.
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Categories: Employment ∙ History ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: When the head of the hugely successful Hudsucker Industries commits suicide, his board of directors comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money by appointing a moron to run the company.
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Cast: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, John Mahoney, Charles Durning, Jim True, Bill Cobbs. Directed by Joel Coen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Drama ∙ Corporations |
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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: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 148 min.
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Plot: A team of corporate spies invade the dreams of their clients' competition.
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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cottillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Corporations ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 130 min. B&W
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Plot: A beleaguered businessman at the end of his rope is given a chance to see what the world would be like if he had never been born.
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Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi, Gloria Grahame,. Directed by Frank Capra.
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Categories: Banking ∙ Bankruptcy ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A representative from an American oil company finds himself set upon by local eccentrics when he is sent to Scotland to buy up an entire village.
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Cast: Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Burt Lancaster. Directed by Bill Forsyth.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Corporations ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A gambler and bordello madam set up a tavern in a small mining town in the Pacific Northwest and business flourishes until a large corporation attempts to buy out the entire town.
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Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auber Jonois. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Business ∙ Western |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Franny Armstrong and Ken Loach.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Trial ∙ Corporations |
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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: 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-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist, after a casino owner double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff.
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Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Contracts ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Thanks to a hypnotic suggestion Peter Gibbons decides not to go to work and is quickly promoted to upper management while his two friends are laid off.
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Cast: Ron Livingston, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu. Directed by Mike Judge.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Corporations ∙ Fraud |
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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: ***
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased.
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Cast: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman. Directed by John Woo.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Corporations ∙ Copyright |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: Backstage at the final performance of America's most celebrated radio broadcast.
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Cast: Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Marylouise Burke, L.Q. Jones, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Tom Keith. Directed by Robert Altman.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Corporations ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 124 min.
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Plot: Explorers discover a clue that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
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Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba. Directed by Ridley Scott.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Corporations ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 103 min.
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Plot: A fatally-wounded police officer returns to defend a dystopic Detroit as a superhuman cyborg.
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Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer. Directed by Paul Verhoven.
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Categories: Action ∙ Sales ∙ Corporations |
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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 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 100 min.
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Plot: Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and subjecting himself to a "McDonald's only" diet.
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Cast: Morgan Spurlock, Bridget Bennett, Dr. Lisa Ganjhu, Don Gorske. Directed by Morgan Spurlock.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Health |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A spokesman for Big Tobacco has the difficult job of fighting for America's right to smoke while remaining a role model to his son.
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Cast: Aaron Eickhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Sam Elliot, Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, Robert Duvall. Directed by Jason Reitman.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Government ∙ Corporations |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A contractor who travels around the country firing employees at other companies discovers there might be more to life than living out of a suitcase.
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Cast: George Clooney, Sam Elliott, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman. Directed by Jason Reitman.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Romance ∙ Employment |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: A successful publisher's life takes a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jealous lover leaves him disfigured.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee. Directed by Cameron Crowe.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Corporations ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: An ambitious young Wall Street broker is lured into the illegal but lucrative world of corporate espionage and insider trading.
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Cast: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Hal Holbrook. Directed by Oliver Stone.
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Categories: Corporations ∙ Drama ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Anti-corporate activists travel from conference to conference, impersonating members of the World Trade Organization.
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Cast: Phil Bayly, Andreas Bichlbauer, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno,
Michael Moore. Directed by Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, and Sarah Price.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Corporations ∙ Ethics |
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