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In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.
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Sean Penn |
Jude Law |
Anthony Hopkins |
Kate Winslet |
Mark Ruffalo |
Patricia Clarkson |
James Gandolfini |
Jackie Earle Haley |
Kathy Baker |
Talia Balsam |
Travis Champagne |
Frederic Forrest |
Paul Desmond |
Kevin Dunn |
Kevin McCarthy |
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Steven Zaillian |
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When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact that the game, as well as post-modern life may be passing him by. Adding to the pressure on D'Amato to win at any cost is the aggressive young President/Co-owner of the team, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), now coming into her own after her father's death. Christina's driving desire to prove herself in a male dominated world is intensified by her focus on the marketing and business of football, in which all coaches and players are merely properties.
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Al Pacino |
Cameron Diaz |
Dennis Quaid |
James Woods |
Jamie Foxx |
LL Cool J |
Matthew Modine |
Jim Brown |
Lawrence Taylor |
Bill Bellamy |
Andrew Bryniarski |
Lela Rochon |
Lauren Holly |
Ann-Margret |
Aaron Eckhart |
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Oliver Stone |
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Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel; the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan - it's post-9/11, after all. His wife is angry when she finds out their bank is initiating foreclosure. Charlie fears failure and decides, precipitously, to launch. Are twenty-first century American dreams just a sign of insanity? Are those who believe in dreamers only fools?
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Billy Bob Thornton |
Virginia Madsen |
Max Thieriot |
Jasper Polish |
Logan Polish |
Bruce Dern |
Mark Polish |
Jon Gries |
Tim Blake Nelson |
Sal Lopez |
J.K. Simmons |
Kiersten Warren |
Rick Overton |
Richard Edson |
Elise Eberle |
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Michael Polish |
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The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.
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Ewan McGregor |
Albert Finney |
Billy Crudup |
Jessica Lange |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Alison Lohman |
Robert Guillaume |
Marion Cotillard |
Matthew McGrory |
David Denman |
Missi Pyle |
Loudon Wainwright III |
Ada Tai |
Arlene Tai |
Steve Buscemi |
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Tim Burton |
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Bobby
He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried t...
[2006,
USA] from $1.99
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.
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Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.
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Drama |
Thriller |
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Keanu Reeves |
Al Pacino |
Charlize Theron |
Jeffrey Jones |
Judith Ivey |
Connie Nielsen |
Craig T. Nelson |
Tamara Tunie |
Ruben Santiago-Hudson |
Debra Monk |
Vyto Ruginis |
Laura Harrington |
Pamela Gray |
Heather Matarazzo |
George Wyner |
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Taylor Hackford |
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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Anthony Hopkins |
Ryan Gosling |
David Strathairn |
Rosamund Pike |
Embeth Davidtz |
Billy Burke |
Cliff Curtis |
Fiona Shaw |
Bob Gunton |
Josh Stamberg |
Xander Berkeley |
Zoe Kazan |
Judith Scott |
Gary Cervantes |
Petrea Burchard |
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Gregory Hoblit |
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Gattaca Corp. is an aerospace firm in the future. During this time society analyzes your DNA and determines where you belong in life. Ethan Hawke's character was born with a congenital heart condition which would cast him out of getting a chance to travel in space. So in turn he assumes the identity of an athlete who has genes that would allow him to achieve his dream of space travel.
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Drama |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Ethan Hawke |
Uma Thurman |
Gore Vidal |
Xander Berkeley |
Jayne Brook |
Elias Koteas |
Maya Rudolph |
Una Damon |
Elizabeth Dennehy |
Blair Underwood |
Mason Gamble |
Vincent Nielson |
Chad Christ |
William Lee Scott |
Clarence Graham |
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Andrew Niccol |
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Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels to California to play his music. Swept up by the excitement, he meets a woman who shares his dream. He grows apart from his family, and becomes confused about what he should ultimately do with his life.
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Neil Diamond |
Laurence Olivier |
Lucie Arnaz |
Catlin Adams |
Franklyn Ajaye |
Paul Nicholas |
Sully Boyar |
Mike Kellin |
James Booth |
Luther Waters |
Oren Waters |
Rod Gist |
Walter Janovitz |
Janet Brandt |
John Witherspoon |
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Richard Fleischer |
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4 Harlem teens, Q, Bishop, Raheem and Steel, are out skipping school one day when they find out an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar. After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, or juice. To get some, they rob a corner grocery store, but the lunatic Bishop intentionally shoots the clerk for no apparent reason. They run into an alley where Raheem tells Bishop to give him the gun, they fight, and Raheem gets shot. Only the other 3 know what happened, and Bishop wants to get rid of them too.
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Drama |
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Omar Epps |
Tupac Shakur |
Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins |
Khalil Kain |
Cindy Herron |
Vincent Laresca |
Samuel L. Jackson |
George Gore II |
Grace Garland |
Queen Latifah |
Bruklin Harris |
Victor Campos |
Eric Payne |
Sharon Cook |
Darien Berry |
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Ernest R. Dickerson |
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Chris Gardner has big dreams for him and his family but it doesn't seem to come together for him. Chris has an opportunity to be a stock broker but first he has to go through a grueling internship which means no pay. Chris decides to do it but when his wife leaves and he is evicted, he has to take care of his son on his own. So they find themselves sometimes living on the street and struggling to get by. But Chris is determined to make it.
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| Actors: |
Will Smith |
Jaden Smith |
Thandie Newton |
Brian Howe |
James Karen |
Dan Castellaneta |
Kurt Fuller |
Takayo Fischer |
Kevin West |
George Cheung |
David Michael Silverman |
Domenic Bove |
Geoff Callan |
Joyful Raven |
Scott Klace |
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Gabriele Muccino |
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