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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: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: After canceling his summer vacation so he can save money for grad school, a young man ends up with a job at a local amusement park.
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Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristin Stewart, Martin Starr, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Margarita Levieva, Ryan Reynolds. Directed by Greg Mottola.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Employment ∙ Education |
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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: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 119 min.
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Plot: San Diego's top rated newsman returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.
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Cast: Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Christina Applegate, Dylan Baker, Meagan Good, Judah Nelson, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, Josh Lawson, Kristen Wiig, Fred Willard, Chris Parnell. Directed by Adam Mckay.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Employment ∙ Media |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Disenchanted with the movie industry, a smooth-talking producer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way.
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Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, Andre 3000, Steven Tyler, The Rock, Danny Devito. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance ∙ Employment |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: A simple minded-gardener gains influence with only the knowledge that he has gleaned from watching TV.
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Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas. Directed by Hal Ashby.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Politics ∙ Drama |
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Big (1988)
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 120 min.
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Plot: When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning to find himself in an adult body.
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Cast: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard. Directed by Penny Marshall.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Employment ∙ Children |
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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A New York marketing exec is a lady's man dedicated to life, liberty and the happiest of pursuit but he soon finds what goes around comes around when he meets a woman who treats men the same way he treats women.
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Cast: Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry, David Alan Grier, Martin Lawrence, Grace Jones. Directed by Reginald Hudlin.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Employment ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A down-on-his-luck television reporter vents at God about the difficulties in his life; God proves he is listening by handing over his powers.
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Cast: Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston. Directed by Tom Shadyac.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Religion ∙ Employment |
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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: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 97 min.
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Plot: Two inveterate slackers flipping burgers at a fast food joint long to break out and do something more with their lives.
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Cast: Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halloran, Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach, Jason Mewes. Directed by Kevin Smith.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Comedy ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: An African prince goes to Queens, New York, to find a wife.
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Cast: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Shari Headley. Directed by John Landis.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Immigration ∙ Employment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 57 min.
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Plot: Tracks three welfare-recipients' involvement in New York's controversial Work Experience Program.
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Cast: Narration by Tamara Tunie. Directed by Kathey Leichter and Jonathan Skurnik.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Employment ∙ Welfare |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: A female executive manipulates her former lover, who counters with a sexual harassment suit.
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Cast: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Caroline Goodall, Dennis Miller. Directed by Barry Levinson.
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Categories: Gender ∙ Sexuality ∙ Employment |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A classical pianist who has given up his life to work in the oil fields, is forced to confront his past when his father falls gravely ill.
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Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Block, Susan Anspach. Directed by Bob Rafelson.
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Categories: Family ∙ Employment ∙ Drama |
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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: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: Two out-of-work suburbanites turn to a life of armed robbery.
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Cast: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins. Directed by Dean Parisot.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Employment ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 100 min.
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Plot: Employees of a New York real estate office are given a strong incentive to succeed in a sales contest; they must either sell or get out.
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Cast: Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin. Directed by James Foley.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Ethics ∙ Drama |
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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 88 min.
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Plot: A man may be the best office temp around, but he is terrible as a permanent employee when he accepts a position as secretary for a top tax attorney who seems like Satan himself.
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Cast: Josh Kornbluth, Warren Keith, Leah Alperin, Jacob Kornbluth. Directed by Jacob Kornbluth and Josh Kornbluth.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Comedy ∙ Tax |
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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: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Jealous colleagues conspire to get a top London cop transferred to a small town and paired with a witless new partner. On the beat, the pair stumble upon a series of suspicious accidents and events.
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Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent. Directed by Edgar Wright.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Employment ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min. B&W
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Plot: A spoiled heiress, on the run from her family, is helped by an out-of-work reporter looking for a story.
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Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas, Alan Hale, Arthur Hoyt, Blanche Friderici, Charles C. Wilson. Directed by Frank Capra.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Romance ∙ Employment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 72 min. B&W
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Plot: A young man nurtures a plant only to discovers that it's a bloodthirsty plant, forcing him to kill to feed it
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Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson. Directed by Roger Corman.
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Categories: Business ∙ Employment ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 142 min.
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Plot: Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are determined to bring the local, Black, and Italian groups together.
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Cast: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham. Directed by John Sayles.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Discrimination ∙ Racism |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A London governess finds herself unfairly dismissed and her attempts to gain employment catapult her into the position of a social secretary for an American actress.
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Cast: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Ciaran Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Mark Strong. Directed by Bharat Nalluri.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Employment ∙ Comedy |
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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: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A Miami businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a tiny Minnesota town.
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Cast: Renee Zellweger, Henry Connick Jr. Siobhan Fallon, J.K. Simmons, Mike O'Brien. Directed by Jonas Elmer.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Business ∙ Employment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min. B&W
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Plot: An ambitious carnie scams the crowds to become the darling of society.
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Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Henry Walker. Directed by Edmund Goulding.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Employment ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: NR Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 2006 min.
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Plot: An all-American tale about an all-American garment produced in the bowels of the Los Angeles garment industry. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Amie Williams.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Economics ∙ Employment |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her Southern textile mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
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Cast: Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Beau Bridges, Barbara Baxley. Directed by Martin Ritt.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 126 min.
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Plot: As women began to inflitrate the ranks of the Minnesota iron mines, they endured abuse from the male miners.
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Cast: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson, Sean Bean. Directed by Niki Caro.
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Categories: Women ∙ Employment ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min. B&W
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Plot: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger. Directed by Elia Kazan.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Employment ∙ Drama |
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Rated: G Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A couple's dream trip to New York City turns into a nightmare of mishaps.
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Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron. Directed by Arthur Miller.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Aviation ∙ Employment |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: An unambitious family ingratiates themselves into the lives of a wealthy family.
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Cast: Song Kang Ho, Lee Sun Kyun, Cho Yeo Jeong, Choi Woo Shik, Park So Dam, Lee Jung Eun, Chang Hyae Jin. Directed by Bong Joon Ho.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Employment ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: When an AIDS victim and attorney is fired from his law firm, he hires a local attorney to represent him against his former employer.
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Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Joanne Woodard. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Discrimination ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A CCTV operator sees a man on camera she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again.
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Cast: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Nathalie Press, Andrew Armour. Directed by Andrea Arnold.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Employment ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: An unemployed Texan shows up in a Wyoming bar and is mistaken for the hitman that the owner called.
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Cast: Nicolas cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, Timothy Carhart. Directed by John Dahl.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Employment ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: The story of a construction worker and his girlfriend serves to show the living conditions of the British poor class.
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Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Richard Belgrave, Jimmy Coleman. Directed by Ken Loach.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Economics ∙ Employment |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to discover the truth.
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Cast: Andrea Lowe, Geoff Bell, Najwa Nimri, Stephen Lord, Mark Womack. Directed by Ken Loach.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War ∙ Employment |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Shakespeare's Macbeth is moved to an early 1970s hamburger joint.
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Cast: John Cariani, James LeGros, Maura Tierney, Christopher Walken, Kevin Corrigan, Andy Dick. Directed by Billy Morrissette.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Employment ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship takes a sadomasochistic turn.
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Cast: James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren, Stephen McHattie. Directed by Steven Shainberg.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Drama ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A Midwestern professor watches his life unravel.
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Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Ellen Chendweth, Rachel Tenner. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
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Categories: Religion ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Employment |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Shaun tries to turn his life around, unfortunately, during a zombie apocalypse.
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Cast: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis. Directed by Edgar Wright.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family ∙ Employment |
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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: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: A family of fiercely-independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin. Directed by Paul Newman.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Employment |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Two rebellious scientists secretly continue groundbreaking DNA work.
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Cast: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphone Chaneac, Brandon McGibbon. Directed by Vincenzo Natali.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Employment ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A not-very-confident comedian-actor and his buddy, a would-be producer, are out of work and trying to live the high life.
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Cast: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Patrick Von Horn. Directed by Doug Liman.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Employment ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning. Directed by Sydney Pollack.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Entertainment ∙ Employment |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: A man deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
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Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee, Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle. Directed by Danny Boyle.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Employment ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein, Heather Burns. Directed by Marc Lawrence.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Women ∙ Comedy |
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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: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 148 min. B&W
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Plot: In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent explosives shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. In French, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter van Eyck. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: Highlight the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit.
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Cast: Narration by Vik Muniz. Directed by Lucy Walker and Karen Harley.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Art ∙ Employment |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: Two down-on-their-luck actors find solace in drink and other substances and seek respite from their uneventful lives by escaping to an uncle's stone cottage.
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Cast: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths. Directed by Bruce Robinson.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Employment ∙ Foreign |
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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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