Warner Bros
1) Nuts
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The pending case: the People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she’s shocking. Outspoken. Explosive. Defiant. But is she “nuts?” Barbra Streisand is Claudia and Richard Dreyfuss is her public defender in the blistering courtroom thriller NUTS and their first-time pairing results in “the dramatic performances of their careers” (Pat Collins, WWOR-TV New York). The sterling...
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Beneath a land of wealth and beauty hides a secret that could kill millions. Steven Seagal stars as Federal Environmental Protection Agency Marshal Jack Taggart, who struggles to avenge a colleague's death and prevent an ecological catastrophe in this action thriller set in a tiny Appalachian hamlet where deserted mining shafts harbor a deadly threat--and in which townspeople remain bound by a code of silence.
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It's fun and sexy, unscripted and uncensored, but more than anything, it's THE REAL CANCUN. Each year, over 40,000 college students travel to Cancun, Mexico, for spring break. But this year, for the first time, sixteen people will come together for eight days in a beachfront Cancun villa for the ultimate spring break vacation. Bonds will be forged, romances sparked, friendships tested and hearts broken, all amidst a backdrop of non-stop partying....
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Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
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An extraordinary journey to the top of the world, the documentary adventure "TO THE ARCTIC" reveals a compelling tale of survival. Narrated by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep, the film takes audiences into the lives of a mother polar bear and her twin seven-month-old cubs as never before captured on film, as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home. Captivating and intimate IMAX® footage brings moviegoers up-close and personal with...
6) Sybil
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SYBIL is a 2007 American made-for-television drama film directed by Joseph Sargent and written by John Pielmeier based on the 1973 book of the same name by Flora Rheta Schreiber which fictionalized the story of Shirley Ardell Mason, who was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder (more commonly then as "split personality", now called dissociative identity disorder). This is the second adaptation of the book, following an Emmy Award-winning 1976...
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Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon stars with Matthew Broderick in Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's A LIFE IN THE THEATRE. In this sometimes funny, sometimes heartwarming portrait of art and angst, of what is possible and what is past, an aging veteran actor and a young neophyte share a dressing room during a season at a repertory theatre company.
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They have the passion. They have the motivation. But do they really have the cure? Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick star in this tart romantic comedy about a mellow young man who just wants his ex-girlfriend back ... and a malevolent young woman seeking revenge on her former boyfriend. When their ex-lovers start to date, the jilted twosome unite, scheming shamelessly to destroy the new relationship. But they might as well face it, they're ADDICTED TO...
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In one tragic moment, two lives are destroyed in this riveting, true exploration of a dark moment in the British legal system--Let Him Have It. With those words uttered by a friend, a mentally handicapped young man shoots a policeman. But did the friend mean for him to hand over the gun or commit murder? This drama reveals the controversial postwar London murder trial that sent a mentally handicapped young man to the gallows for a murder he did not...
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Acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa tells a vivid story of life, loss and renewal through a series of eight dreams—from a young boy's dream of a wedding procession of fox spirits, through dreams of himself as an artist to dreams of a nuclear-poisoned future to a final dream of an old man at peace in a beautiful village.
11) In Country
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Bruce Willis stars as a Vietnam War veteran and uncle of a 19-year-old Kentucky girl trying to learn about her father, who was killed in the war before she was born, in this gentle, but probing story of overcoming loss, grief and the horror of war.
12) Outland
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Sean Connery stars as Federal District Marshal William T. O'Niel, assigned to a mining outpost on the Jovian moon Io. The highly productive titanium mine seems to be the backwater of the universe, but the miners are killing each other in strangely psychotic ways. Now, hired assassins are trying to kill O'Niel to bury the secret his investigation has revealed ... and there's no one he can call for help in this far end of the solar system.
13) Around the Bend
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The skeletons in the family closet just came out to play. Jason Lair is a simple man with a simple wish: a normal life. But when his wife leaves him with his son to paint in Nepal; his father gets paroled from prison, and his grandfather explores alternative rituals for his coming funeral, Jason may just lose his tenuous grasp on his sanity … and go AROUND THE BEND. Brought together by chance and forced to uncover the truth about their past, the...
14) Hey Good Lookin'
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Brooklyn, New York City, 1953. Four regular guys, the Stompers, try to grow up in a loony, impulsive, yearning, yacking world. Car cruises, the search for easy girls, street brawls, rock 'n' roll, steamy beach nights ... the growing into love. But their world is suddenly menaced by a big gang fight--the Stompers vs. the Black Chaplains--in this part animated/part live action slice of 1950s life.
15) Vera Drake
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VERA DRAKE is a devoted, working-class mother in 1950s London who is both beloved and admired by everyone who surrounds her. Yet she bares a secret that few people know about, she induces miscarriages for women who do not wish to bare children. To her, it is a mission of kindness, of charity, of love. But when a miscarriage goes horribly wrong, Vera has to face the authorities, sending her life into tragedy. From acclaimed director Mike Leigh, VERA...
16) Ushpizin
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You see a lemon ...they see a Miracle! Moshe and Malli are the picture perfect models of a happy, loving, devoted, married Jewish couple. One problem, they are dead broke! Diving deep into their Orthodox faith, they pray for help. But instead of a miracle, they are sent two devious escaped convicts. Seeing this as a test, Moshe and Malli make it their task to turn these strangers from unwelcome visitors into honored guests. "Gentle and affecting,...
17) Fearless
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San Francisco architect Max Klein can see clearly now. He's been transformed ever since he stared death in the face—and discovered he was unafraid. Peter Weir (Witness) directs Fearless, the vivid story of how a near-death experience impacts the lives of three people. Jeff Bridges plays Max, more wildly alive and taking more risks than ever since surviving a plane crash. Isabella Rossellini is Laura, struggling to find in Max the man she married....
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Academy Award winners Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine star in this taut drama of a World War II veteran whose return to his Indiana hometown catalyzes change among people whose failures and frustrations have built up the point of explosion in SOME CAME RUNNING. Dave Hirsh (Sinatra--From Here to Eternity) has faced the horror of war and endured the disillusionment of trying to make a living as a writer. When he returns to Parktown, Indiana, Hirsh...
19) Native Son
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In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
20) Criminal
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Ever get the feeling you're being played? After a veteran hustler steps in to rescue a small-time grifter who's been caught red-handed, the pair teams up for a series of lucrative cons. But their big break comes when an aging swindler asks the pair to broker the sale of a forged stamp—the Nine Queens—to a desperate millionaire about to be deported. Now, as the scent of money attracts thieves, mobsters and murderers, has the pair really stumbled...