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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.
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Jonathan Pryce |
Robert De Niro |
Katherine Helmond |
Ian Holm |
Bob Hoskins |
Michael Palin |
Ian Richardson |
Peter Vaughan |
Kim Greist |
Jim Broadbent |
Barbara Hicks |
Charles McKeown |
Derrick O'Connor |
Kathryn Pogson |
Bryan Pringle |
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Terry Gilliam |
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Arthur Dent is a British everyman. When he finally meets his perfect woman he balks at her request to go some place and she is then stolen away from him by a man claiming to have his own spaceship arrives at the party. Arthur next finds that his home is to be demolished for a bypass. He thinks it is only his house, but later realizes, with the help of Ford Prefect, that his galactic home, Earth, is going to be destroyed as well. Ford and Arthur then catch a ride on a spaceship and are Arthur finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime. He also finds the woman stolen away from him and the man who pilfered her. If Earth can be restored will Arthur want to ease back into his boring life?
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Mos Def |
Bill Bailey |
Anna Chancellor |
Warwick Davis |
Zooey Deschanel |
Su Elliot |
Martin Freeman |
Stephen Fry |
Richard Griffiths |
Dominique Jackson |
Simon Jones |
Thomas Lennon |
Mark Longhurst |
Kelly Macdonald |
John Malkovich |
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Garth Jennings |
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John Q
Give a father no options and you leave him no choice.
[2002,
USA] from $1.99
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John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Denzel Washington |
Gabriela Oltean |
Robert Duvall |
James Woods |
Ron Annabelle |
Anne Heche |
Eddie Griffin |
Daniel E. Smith |
David Thornton |
Kimberly Elise |
Shawn Hatosy |
Barry G. King |
Heather Wahlquist |
Ray Liotta |
Laura Harring |
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Nick Cassavetes |
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