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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
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Leonardo DiCaprio |
Lorraine Bracco |
Marilyn Sokol |
James Madio |
Patrick McGaw |
Mark Wahlberg |
Roy Cooper |
Bruno Kirby |
Jimmy Papiris |
Nick Gaetani |
Alexander Chaplin |
Ben Jorgensen |
Josh Mostel |
Juliette Lewis |
Michael Imperioli |
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Scott Kalvert |
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When five high school students, Andrew, John, Allison, Brian, and Claire, meet in detention one day. The principal wants them to write an essay, and they think they are in for a boring 8 hours of doing nothing. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some marijuana, they pour their hearts out to each other, and tell about their fears, secrets, and their deepest emotions, and problems.
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Emilio Estevez |
Anthony Michael Hall |
Judd Nelson |
Paul Gleason |
John Kapelos |
Ron Dean |
Tim Gamble |
Perry Crawford |
John Hughes |
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Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn't work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ?
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Paul Newman |
George Kennedy |
J.D. Cannon |
Lou Antonio |
Robert Drivas |
Strother Martin |
Clifton James |
Morgan Woodward |
Luke Askew |
Marc Cavell |
Richard Davalos |
Robert Donner |
Warren Finnerty |
Dennis Hopper |
John McLiam |
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The Deep End of The Ocean is a film about a family's reaction when Ben, the youngest son is kidnapped and then found ten years later, living in the same town.
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Michelle Pfeiffer |
Treat Williams |
Whoopi Goldberg |
Jonathan Jackson |
Cory Buck |
Ryan Merriman |
Alexa Vega |
Michael McGrady |
Brenda Strong |
Michael McElroy |
Tony Musante |
Rose Gregorio |
John Kapelos |
Lucinda Jenney |
John Roselius |
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Ulu Grosbard |
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Miranda Priestley, of "Runway" magazine tears up the landscape as a demanding fashion editor. She is a terror to everyone who is around her as is quickly depicted in the opening scenes of the movie. Her first assistant strives to please her and tries to emulate her, but one can sense that she is not quite as hard as she tries to put on. Into this mix comes a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, has never read the magazine, and doesn't know who Miranda Priestley is. She only sees this as a stepping stone to another journalism position. Showing no fashion sense and immediately scorned by everyone, Miranda nonetheless hires her as the second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, you can sense that she is trying to force her to quit, but it makes the young woman dig in to please her boss. With the help of one of the magazine's fashion editors, she gets a complete makeover and a new security. However, with her new appearance and the demands placed on her, she starts to lose her friends, family and her live-in boy friend. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamor that could be hers, including a flashy if not artificial freelance journalist, she is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.
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Meryl Streep |
Anne Hathaway |
Emily Blunt |
Stanley Tucci |
Simon Baker |
Adrian Grenier |
Tracie Thoms |
Rich Sommer |
Daniel Sunjata |
David Marshall Grant |
James Naughton |
Tibor Feldman |
Rebecca Mader |
Jimena Hoyos |
Gisele Bündchen |
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David Frankel |
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With his company about to merge, a happily married and successful computer expert is expecting a promotion. Instead the job goes to a woman from another plant with whom he had an affair in his bachelor days. His new boss, not only dangerously sexy but equally dangerously ambitious, tries to pick up where they left off but he just about manages to resist. As his position at work comes under increasing pressure he decides to file charges of sexual harassment. This is the last thing the company needs.
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Thriller |
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David Baker |
Michael Douglas |
Demi Moore |
Donald Sutherland |
Caroline Goodall |
Roma Maffia |
Dylan Baker |
Rosemary Forsyth |
Dennis Miller |
Suzie Plakson |
Nicholas Sadler |
Jacqueline Kim |
Joe Urla |
Michael Chieffo |
Joseph Attanasio |
Faryn Einhorn |
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Barry Levinson |
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You're young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there's nothing wrong with you until they're hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Edward Norton |
Brad Pitt |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Meat Loaf |
Zach Grenier |
Richmond Arquette |
David Andrews |
George Maguire |
Eugenie Bondurant |
Christina Cabot |
Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston |
Rachel Singer |
Christie Cronenweth |
Tim De Zarn |
Ezra Buzzington |
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David Fincher |
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?
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Christian Slater |
John Gulager |
Jamison Jones |
Michael DeLuise |
K.C. Ramsey |
David Wells |
Randolph Mantooth |
Sewell Whitney |
William H. Macy |
Greg Baker |
Brian Lohmann |
Paul D. Roberts |
Bobby Hardy |
Bill Rothbard |
Stanley C. Hall |
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Hunters and their prey—Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor—'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'—as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending....
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Action |
Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Al Pacino |
Robert De Niro |
Val Kilmer |
Jon Voight |
Tom Sizemore |
Diane Venora |
Amy Brenneman |
Ashley Judd |
Mykelti Williamson |
Wes Studi |
Ted Levine |
Dennis Haysbert |
William Fichtner |
Natalie Portman |
Tom Noonan |
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Michael Mann |
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After kidnapping and butchering two teenagers, a gang of rapists and murderers unknowingly seeks refuge with the parents of one of the victims.
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Crime |
Drama |
Horror |
Thriller |
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David Hess |
Fred J. Lincoln |
Marc Sheffler |
Richard Towers |
Marshall Anker |
Martin Kove |
Ray Edwards |
Jonathan Craven |
Anthony J. Forcelli |
Steve Miner |
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Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman, along with his role on "Taxi," was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again, Jerry Lawler (who plays himself in the movie), a professional wrestler, got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In most of the matches the two had, Lawler prevailed with the piledriver, which is a move by spiking a guy head-first into the mat. In one of the most famous moments in this feud was in the early 80s when Kaufman threw coffee on Lawler on "The Late Show with David Letterman," got into fisticuffs with Lawler, and proceeded to sue NBC.
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Jim Carrey |
Gerry Becker |
Greyson Erik Pendry |
Brittany Colonna |
Leslie Lyles |
Bobby Boriello |
George Shapiro |
Danny DeVito |
Budd Friedman |
Tom Dreesen |
Thomas Armbruster |
Pamela Abdy |
Wendy Polland |
Gerry Robert Byrne |
Cash Oshman |
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Milos Forman |
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