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Julie & Julia (2009) #290 Remove Directed by Nora Ephron. With Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci. Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. |
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Magnolia (1999) #59 Remove Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman. An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. |
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) #54 Remove Directed by George Clooney. With David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels. Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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The White Ribbon (2009) #306 Remove Directed by Michael Haneke. With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur. Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible? |
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The Conspirator (2010) #351 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson, Kevin Kline. Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life. |
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The Greatest Showman (2017) #1153 Remove Directed by Michael Gracey. With Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya. Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. |
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An Unfinished Life (2005) #403 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Jennifer Lopez, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Josh Lucas. Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds. |
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) #16 Remove Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer. Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake must find and train Merlin's descendant to defeat dark sorceress Morgana la Fée. |
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The Blind Side (2009) #32 Remove Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Jae Head. The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. |
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How to Train Your Dragon (2010) #22 Remove Directed by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders. With Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson. A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. |
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Mamma Mia! (2008) #140 Remove Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA. |
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Lawn Dogs (1997) #10 Remove Directed by John Duigan. With Sam Rockwell, Kathleen Quinlan, Mischa Barton, Christopher McDonald. Newly arrived in an up-market housing development, quiet ten-year-old Devon doesn't quite fit in. Ignoring the urgings of her social-climbing father, Devon chooses the company of Trent, who mows the estate's lawns, rather than of the girls her own age. Their friendship grows during her visits to his trailer home, but although it is completely innocent it is obvious that it would be unacceptable ... |
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Date Night (2010) #31 Remove Directed by Shawn Levy. With Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson. In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous. |
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The Great Gatsby (2013) #271 Remove Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire. A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby. |
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For a Good Time, Call... (2012) #426 Remove Directed by Jamie Travis. With Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, Justin Long, James Wolk. Former college frenemies Lauren and Katie move into a fabulous Gramercy Park apartment, and in order to make ends meet, the unlikely pair start a phone sex line together. |
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A Close Shave (1995) #1190 Remove Directed by Nick Park. With Peter Sallis, Anne Reid, Justin Fletcher, Peter Hawkins. Wallace's whirlwind romance with the owner of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin; Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot. |
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A Bunch of Amateurs (2008) #158 Remove Directed by Andy Cadiff. With Burt Reynolds, Alexandra Weaver, Elesia Marie, Sarah Goldberg. A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England. |
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Mrs Brown (1997) #156 Remove Directed by John Madden. With Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher. Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband, disappearing from public. Her servant Brown, who adores her, through caress and admiration brings her back to life, but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely to lead to monarchy crisis. |
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022) #1456 Remove 32mins. BBC. Follows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy's search for home. |
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) #214 Remove Directed by Shawn Levy. With Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria. Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake. |
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Carmen (2011) #639 Remove Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Trevor Scheunemann, Barbara Frittoli, Roberto Alagna, Keith Miller. It's a familiar story: Act 1, boy meets girl, goes to jail for her. Act 2, boy is out of jail, girl rewards him with special favors. Act 3, girl is bored already, moving on. Act 4, boy kills girl for ruining his life. We've all been there. Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
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Decoding Annie Parker (2013) #250 Remove Directed by Steven Bernstein. With Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones. Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer. |
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Now Is Good (2012) #423 Remove Directed by Ol Parker. With Dakota Fanning, Josef Altin, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine. A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity. |
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The Meaning of Life (1983) #18 Remove Directed by Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam. With John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way. |
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Year One (2009) #135 Remove Directed by Harold Ramis. With Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde, Oliver Platt. After being banished from their tribe, two hunter-gatherers encounter Biblical characters and eventually wind up in the city of Sodom. |
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A Night to Remember (1958) #1178 Remove Directed by Roy Ward Baker. With Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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Now Is Good (2012) #423 Remove Directed by Ol Parker. With Dakota Fanning, Josef Altin, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine. A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity. |
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Colette (2018) #1358 Remove Directed by Wash Westmoreland. With Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh. Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms. |
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The Secret of the Grain (2007) #544 Remove Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. With Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche. At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his ... aka Cous Cous |
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The Calling (2014) #485 Remove Directed by Jason Stone. With Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn, Topher Grace. Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling. |
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Frankenweenie (2012) #418 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau. Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences. |
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Maria by Callas (2017) #1353 Remove Directed by Tom Volf. With Fanny Ardant, Joyce DiDonato, Maria Callas, David Frost. An intimate look at the life and work of Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, as told in her own words. |
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Fantastic Planet (1973) #289 Remove Directed by René Laloux. With Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart. This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine-like leaders. |
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) #1367 Remove Directed by John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin. A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. |
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Greed (2019) #1343 Remove Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Caroline Flack, Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher. Satire about the world of the super-rich. Thought (by me at least) to be about Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) - the British businessman who is the chairman of Arcadia Group, a retail company that includes Topshop, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Outfit. The defunct BHS chain was also part of the group. |
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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005) #180 Remove Directed by Randall Miller. With Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, John Goodman. A widowed man's life turns upside down when he embarks on a journey to find a dying man's long lost love. |
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Heat (1995) #162 Remove Directed by Michael Mann. With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight. A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist. |
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Strength and Honour (2007) #228 Remove Directed by Mark Mahon. With Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain. A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death. |
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Solomon Kane (2009) #295 Remove Directed by Michael J. Bassett. With James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite. A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil. |
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Manchester by the Sea (2016) #1164 Remove Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. With Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges. A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies. |
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Catch-22 (1970) #211 Remove Directed by Mike Nichols. With Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel. A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions. |
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Humans S2 (2016) #985 Remove With Katherine Parkinson, Lucy Carless, Gemma Chan, Tom Goodman-Hill. In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live. 8x50 min episodes. C4. |
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Philomena (2013) #518 Remove Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham. A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent. |
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984) #36 Remove Directed by Sergio Leone. With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci. A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. |
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Macbeth (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Rupert Goold. With Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch, Suzanne Burden. Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production. |
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Life Is Beautiful (1997) #219 Remove Directed by Roberto Benigni. With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano. When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp. |
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The Concert in Central Park (1982) #1389 Remove The Concert in Central Park: Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, David Brown, Pete Carr. The long-awaited reunion concert of the renowned pop music duo, more than a decade after their separation as musical performers |
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) #104 Remove Directed by John Madden. With Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson. British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways. |
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Frozen River (2008) #19 Remove Directed by Courtney Hunt. With Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe. Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women - one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances - are drawn into the world of border ... |
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Twilight (2008) #191 Remove Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke. A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire. |
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How Green Was My Valley (1941) #132 Remove Directed by John Ford. With Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp. At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. |
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) #477 Remove Directed by John Schlesinger. With Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp. Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men. |
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How Green Was My Valley (1941) #132 Remove Directed by John Ford. With Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp. At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. |
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) #48 Remove Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes. Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman." |
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Dread (2009) #27 Remove Directed by Anthony DiBlasi. With Jackson Rathbone, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly, Jonathan Readwin. Three college students set out to document what other people dread most. |
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District 9 (2009) #221 Remove Directed by Neill Blomkamp. With Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt. An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology. |
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Any Day Now (2012) #254 Remove Directed by Travis Fine. With Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher. In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof. |
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My Week with Marilyn (2011) #97 Remove Directed by Simon Curtis. With Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond. Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) #164 Remove Directed by Brad Silberling. With Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken. When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, who is secretly plotting to steal their parents' vast fortune. |
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Poseidon (2006) #54 Remove Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. With Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas. On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship. |
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The Conspirator (2010) #351 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson, Kevin Kline. Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life. |
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The Secret of the Grain (2007) #544 Remove Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. With Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche. At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his ... aka Cous Cous |
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Now Is Good (2012) #423 Remove Directed by Ol Parker. With Dakota Fanning, Josef Altin, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine. A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity. |
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Ghost Town (2008) #189 Remove Directed by David Koepp. With Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni, Jordan Carlos. Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. |
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United 93 (2006) #185 Remove Directed by Paul Greengrass. With David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas, J.J. Johnson. A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot. |
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Oliver Stone. With Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin. Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire. |
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Grease (1978) #37 Remove Directed by Randal Kleiser. With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway. Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? |
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Away We Go (2009) #318 Remove Directed by Sam Mendes. With John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, Carmen Ejogo. A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time. |
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Solaris (2002) #334 Remove Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis. A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet. |