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Jessica Lange and Halle Berry give performances of uncommon poignancy and depth. Lange plays an adoptive mother who gives an abandoned child a new chance at life. Berry, in a remarkable portrayal heralded as her dramatic breakthrough, is the birth mother who cleans up her life and sets out to reclaim the child. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) portrays her firebrand attorney.
5) Scrooged
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Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
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Paul Hogan stars in the hilarious, endearing box-office comedy smash as Michael J. Crocodile Dundee, a free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table. But he's about to face the ultimate torture test--a trip to New York City. Beautiful and tenacious reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) gets more than just a story as the wonder from Down Under rocks the...
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It's love at first fright when Gomez and Morticia welcome a new addition to the Addams household: Pubert, their soft, cuddly, mustachioed baby boy. As Fester falls hard for voluptuous nanny Debbie Jilnsky, Wednesday and Pugsley discover she's a black-widow murderess who plans to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands. The family's future grows even bleaker when the no-good nanny marries Fester and has the kids shipped off to summer camp. But...
10) Blue Hawaii
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Though his mother (Angela Lansbury) expects him to climb the corporate ladder, Elvis would rather wear an aloha shirt than a white collar. Defying his mother's wishes, Elvis goes to work as a tour guide where he entertains a car full of cuties. This rockabilly romp is sure to make any lover of the king of rock and roll smile! Nominated for Best Written American Musical by the **Writer's Guild of America**.
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Bright-eyed, naive Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking Laverne DeFazio are back, working in the Milwaukee brewery and getting into all sorts of hilarious situations. This season finds our feisty female roommates taking on everything from musical auditions to industrial espionage to amnesia, and there are also plenty of rollicking romantic foibles in store, too.
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Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers… and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.
16) True grit
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In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an...
17) Grease
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Go back to high school with good-girl Sandy (Olivia Newton-John), leader of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny (John Travolta), and a rockin' and rollin' all-star cast in this classic 70s musical. Nominated for Best Original Song at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for five Awards, including Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical, at the **Golden Globes.** *"...terrific fun... a larger, funnier, wittier and more imaginative-than-Hollywood movie with a life...
19) Chinatown
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A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....
20) Clueless
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Cher's (Alicia Silverstone) world unravels with the sudden appearance of two hunks: a sexy new classmate, and her square but cute ex-stepbrother (Paul Rudd). Now she's learning that when it comes to love, she's Clueless. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **Writers Guild of America Awards**. *"A fresh, disarmingly bright and at times explosively funny comedy well worth a trip to the mall..." - Brian Lowry, **Variety***