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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: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland.
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Cast: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Janet McTeer, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Discrimination ∙ Gender |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A single African-American mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.
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Cast: Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake, Nelson Patton, Michael O'Keefe, Xzibit. Directed by Tim Disney.
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Categories: Gender ∙ Racism ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A grumbling, alcoholic former pitcher gets roped into coaching a team of Little League misfits.
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Cast: Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Ben Piazza, Vic Morrow, Erin Blunt, Jackie Earle Haley, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Joyce Van Patten, Jaime Escobedo, Scott Firestone, George Gonzales, Alfred Lutter III, Brett Marx, David Pollock. Directed by Michael Ritchie.
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Categories: Children ∙ Gender ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancee's right-wing parents.
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Cast: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne West. Directed by Mike Nichols.
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Categories: Family ∙ Gender ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min. B&W
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Plot: A twist on the Snow White fairy tale filmed as a 1920s silent picture, set in Spain and featuring a female bullfighter.
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Cast: Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina, Pere Ponce, Macarena García, Sofía Oria, Josep Maria Pou, Inma Cuesta, Ramón Barea, Emilio Gavira, Sergio Dorado. Directed by Pablo Berger.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Gender ∙ Women |
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Rated: NC-17 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 179 min.
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Plot: Adele's life is changed when she meets a young woman who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Mona Walravens. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Foreign ∙ Gender |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.
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Cast: Joel Edgerton, Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman. Directed by Joel Edgerton.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Gender |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married.
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Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Remi Laurent. Directed by Edouard Molinaro.
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Categories: Family ∙ Gender ∙ Comedy |
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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: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 61 min.
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Plot: After 42 years, feisty and delightful lesbian couple Edie and Thea are finally getting married.
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Cast: Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer. Directed by Susan Muska.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Gender |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray 104 min.
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Plot: A transgender woman's life is turned upside-down by the death of her older boyfriend. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim . Directed by Sebastián Lelio.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Drama ∙ Gender |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 139 min.
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Plot: An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.
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Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Aday, Jared Leto. Directed by David Fincher.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Gender ∙ Insurance |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A fearless girl must find her sister, whose icy powers have trapped their kingdom in eternal winter.
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Cast: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Williams, Stephen J. Anderson, Maia Wilson, Edie McClurg. Directed by Chris Buck, and Jennifer Lee.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Family ∙ Gender |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD (4 disc set) 12 hours min.
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Plot: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
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Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Amanda Brugel, Joseph Fiennes, Madeline Brewer, O-T Fagbenle, Ann Dowd, Samira Wiley, Alexis Bledel. Directed by Mike Barker, Kari Skogland, and others.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Television ∙ Gender |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A comedic surprise with poignant emotional truth about a couple in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship.
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Cast: Annette Bening, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Family ∙ Gender |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 114 min. B&W
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Plot: A mysterious young woman weaves a magical spell that affects the behavior of those around her.
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Cast: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Gene Hackman. Directed by Robert Rossen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mental Health ∙ Gender |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A look at modern-day life in China's capital involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
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Cast: Tony Leung Ka Fai, Fan Bingbing, Tong Da Wei, Elaine Jin. Directed by Li Yu.
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Categories: Gender ∙ Foreign ∙ Custody |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: After a same-sex marriage, one partner is fired from his job, forcing a domestic strain on all involved.
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Cast: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Darren Burrows. Directed by Ira Sachs.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Gender ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 145 min.
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Plot: An impoverished girl becomes a renowned geisha, trained in all the artistic and social skills she must master in order to survive in her society.
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Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Kaori Momoi, Gong Li. Directed by Rob Marshall.
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Categories: Women ∙ Gender ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A group of Iranian girls who attempts to enter Tehran's Azadi Stadium dressed as boys in order to watch a big football match. In Farsi with English subtitles.
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Cast: Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, M. Kheyrabadi, Ida Sadeghi, Golnaz Farmani. Directed by Jafar Panahi.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Gender ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg brings a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals.
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Cast: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates. Directed by Mimi Leder.
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Categories: Gender ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 147 min.
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Plot: After four years' absence, a social dropout reappears in L.A. to claim his abandoned son and then heads to Texas to reunite the boy with his mother.
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Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson. Directed by Wim Wenders.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Gender |
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Rated: NC-17 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure goes up against a sleazy couple who make a passionate attempt to seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive."
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Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole. Directed by John Waters.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Gender ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (14 disc set) 23 hours, 34 min.
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Plot: In this acclaimed series, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison investigates murder cases, while battling the boys' club of London's homicide squad.
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Cast: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, John Benfield, Colin Salmon, Peter Capaldi, Beatie Edney, John McArdle, Oleg Menshikov. Directed by Christopher Menaul, John Stickland, various.
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Categories: Television ∙ Gender ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, struggles with Britain's demand for public mourning after the death of Princess Diana.
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Cast: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell. Directed by Stephen Frears.
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Categories: Government ∙ Gender ∙ Privacy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: An all-girl rock band comes of age in the mid-1970s.
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Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Stella Maeve, Scout Taylor-Compton, Alia Shawkat, Riley Keough, Johnny Lewis, Tatum O'Neal. Directed by Floria Sigismondi.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Gender ∙ Biography |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: The story of a wise cracking cowboy in small-town Georgia who transitioned into living as a man after the birth of two sons.
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Cast: Robert Eads, Lola Cola, Maxwell Scott Anderson, Cas Piotrowski, Corissa Anderson, Stephanie Piotrowski. Directed by Kate Davis.
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Categories: Gender ∙ Family ∙ Biography |
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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: PG-13 Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A wildly successful president of a TV Network who suffered a nervous breakdown discovers that all the housewives in Stepford are strangely blissful.
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Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, Faith Hill, Glenn Close. Directed by Frank Oz.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Human Rights ∙ Gender |
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Rated: NR Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A successful New York lawyer returns to rural Louisiana to investigate the lynching death of his childhood friend.
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Cast: Kent Faulcon, Berlinda Tolbert, David Raibon, Robn Bottitta, Christopher May, Leon Morenzie, Sam Jones. Directed by Kyle Schickner.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Discrimination ∙ Gender |
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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: PG Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 98 min.
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Plot: An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for a recitation competition as a way to raise funds for a bicycle. In Arabic with English subtitles.
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Cast: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Ahd, Abdullrahman Al Gohani. Directed by Hifaa Al-Mansour.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Gender ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: An unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms.
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Cast: Tom Cullen, Chris New, Jonathan Race. Directed by Andrew Haigh.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Romance ∙ Gender |
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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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