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21) The dogfather
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Sonny, a mobster's bulldog, swallow's the master's precious ring and runs away. With two bird-brain henchmen on his tail, Sonny finds a new home in the suburbs with the Franks family. Twelve-year-old Josh and his mom thinks Sonny is super cool and super smart, but his stressed-out dad Brian, wants to get rid of him. Brian has a change of heart when Sonny is dog napped and he realizes how much Sonny means to his heartbroken family.
22) The nanny
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Accused of drowning his little sister in the bath, 10-year old Joey is sent away to an institution for therapy even though he claims the nanny is responsible. When he returns home, suspicion is quickly aroused again as his mother is poisoned.
23) Parenthood
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The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
24) Spy kids
25) The thing
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A team of scientists find a space creature in the Antarctic that has the ability to take the shape of anything it touches. Based on the short story Who Goes There by John W. Campbell, Jr.
28) The jerk
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A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
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Internationally reknown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
31) The shootist
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An aging and ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is enmeshed in one last valiant battle and dies with honor.
32) The verdict
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An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
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In this comic romp bursting with wry one-liners and inspired sight gags, a bored Manhattan housewife becomes convinced her next-door neighbor has committed a murder. When her husband Larry rejects the idea, she turns to a flirtatious friend to help her search for clues. Spurred by jealousy, Larry reluctantly joins the chase, only to learn that much more than his marriage is at stake.
34) Mulholland Dr
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A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
35) Beloved
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
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A wife and mother is faced with rebuilding her life, and her family, after they have been shockingly torn apart. When their son disappears, the pain of a lost child ravages the Cappadora family for nearly a decade. But when he suddenly returns the whole family must come to a painful reunion.
37) Manhattan
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Allen portrays a comedy writer whose wife leaves him and is now writing a book about their failed marriage. He consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old until he gets involved with his best friend's mistress.
39) Erin Brockovich
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Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
40) The wolfman
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Lawrence Talbot is lured back to his family estate to investigate the savage murder of his brother by a bloodthirsty beast. There, Talbot must confront his childhood demons, his estranged father, his brother's grieving fiancee, and a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector. When Talbot is bitten by the creature, he becomes eternally cursed and soon discovers a fate far worse than death.
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