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The Addams step out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?
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Anjelica Huston |
Raul Julia |
Christopher Lloyd |
Elizabeth Wilson |
Christina Ricci |
Judith Malina |
Dan Hedaya |
Carel Struycken |
Paul Benedict |
Christopher Hart |
Dana Ivey |
Jimmy Workman |
John Franklin |
Tony Azito |
Douglas Brian Martin |
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Barry Sonnenfeld |
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Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil's and Penny's life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny's neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family's lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey.
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Timothy Spall |
Lesley Manville |
Alison Garland |
James Corden |
Ruth Sheen |
Marion Bailey |
Paul Jesson |
Sam Kelly |
Kathryn Hunter |
Sally Hawkins |
Helen Coker |
Daniel Mays |
Ben Crompton |
Robert Wilfort |
Gary McDonald |
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Mike Leigh |
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Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.
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Kevin Spacey |
Annette Bening |
Thora Birch |
Wes Bentley |
Mena Suvari |
Chris Cooper |
Peter Gallagher |
Allison Janney |
Scott Bakula |
Sam Robards |
Barry Del Sherman |
Ara Celi |
John Cho |
Fort Atkinson |
Sue Casey |
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Sam Mendes |
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.
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Crime |
Drama |
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Denzel Washington |
Russell Crowe |
Chiwetel Ejiofor |
Josh Brolin |
Lymari Nadal |
Ted Levine |
Roger Guenveur Smith |
John Hawkes |
RZA |
Yul Vazquez |
Malcolm Goodwin |
Ruby Dee |
Ruben Santiago-Hudson |
Carla Gugino |
Skyler Fortgang |
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Ridley Scott |
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.
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Biography |
Comedy |
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Chris Ambrose |
Joey Krajcar |
Josh Hutcherson |
Cameron Carter |
Daniel Tay |
Mary Faktor |
Paul Giamatti |
Harvey Pekar |
Larry John Meyers |
Vivienne Benesch |
Barbara Brown |
Earl Billings |
Danny Hoch |
James Urbaniak |
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Shari Springer Berman |
Robert Pulcini |
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While pursuing a suspect one night, Chicago Police officer Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) nearly becomes the victim of a fatal ambush until a mysterious stranger, Catch (Jim Caviezel) intervenes, disarms the assassin and saves Sharon's life. Is it a stroke of luck? A twist of fate? Or just a concerned citizen who happened to pass by at the right time and wasn't afraid to get involved? Maybe, But Sharon and Catch have met once before. As the two fall in love, they discover the truth about each other and are forced to deal with the secrets from their past.
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Drama |
Romance |
Thriller |
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Jennifer Lopez |
James Caviezel |
Jeremy Sisto |
Terrence Howard |
Sonia Braga |
Victor Argo |
Monet Mazur |
Shirley Knight |
Daniel Magder |
Guylaine St-Onge |
Connor McAuley |
Jeremy Ratchford |
Peter MacNeill |
Eldridge Hyndman |
Kari Matchett |
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Luis Mandoki |
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Marty McFly is an aspiring musician, but he is not sure of what the future holds for him; first his band was rejected as the performing band for the school dance, and historically, no McFly has succeeded in anything. The only bright spots in his existence are his girlfriend and Emmett Brown, the town crackpot scientist, who is Marty's good friend. Marty was helping brown with his latest invention a time machine, which is fitted into a Delorean. The time machine needs a tremendous amount of power to work, which he gets from plutonium. Now Brown got the plutonium from some Libyans who want him to build a bomb; they find Brown and shoot him, Marty gets into the Delorean and drives off and when he reaches the speed of 88 mph that activates the time machine, he finds himself in 1955, cause that was the date that Brown entered, which was when he first conceived the time machine. Now having already used up all the power of the plutonium, Marty must find a way to get it working, so he can go back to his own time. Marty looks for Brown but before he does, he runs into his father as a teenager, and accidentally interferes with his father's first meeting of Lorraine, his future mother. Marty then goes to see Brown and convinces him that he is from the future and to help him. But when he learns of the amount of power that is needed to power the machine, he tells Marty that it's hopeless cause the only other thing that can generate that much power is a bolt of lightning and it's impossible to determine when and where they will strike, but Marty has with him an old newspaper cliping that states that the town clock tower will be struck by lightning, so they plan to draw the energy from the lightning so they can power the machine. But before they do, Marty must act as cupid for his parents cause it seems that because they never met they won't fall in love and get married and Marty will not exist.
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Action |
Adventure |
Comedy |
Sci-Fi |
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| Actors: |
Michael J. Fox |
Christopher Lloyd |
Lea Thompson |
Crispin Glover |
Thomas F. Wilson |
Claudia Wells |
Marc McClure |
Wendie Jo Sperber |
George Di Cenzo |
Frances Lee McCain |
James Tolkan |
J.J. Cohen |
Casey Siemaszko |
Billy Zane |
Harry Waters Jr. |
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Robert Zemeckis |
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...
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| Actors: |
Richard Gere |
Juliette Binoche |
Flora Cross |
Max Minghella |
Kate Bosworth |
Corey Fischer |
Sam Zuckerman |
Joan Mankin |
Piers Mackenzie |
Lorri Holt |
Brian Leonard |
Kathy McGraw |
John Evans |
Alisha Mullally |
Olivia Charles |
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Scott McGehee |
David Siegel |
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Barely escaping from nefarious dognappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family — and promptly grows up into 185 pounds of romping, drolling, disaster-prone St. Bernard! Unfortunately, even after proving his canine credentials to mom and the kids, the heroic hound gets nowhere with uptight dad, George (Charles Grodin). But when a beastly veterinarian (Dean Jones) makes Beethoven the target of an unspeakable animal experiment, George becomes the only hope for saving the Newton's furriest family member.
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Comedy |
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Charles Grodin |
Bonnie Hunt |
Dean Jones |
Nicholle Tom |
Christopher Castile |
Sarah Rose Karr |
Oliver Platt |
Stanley Tucci |
David Duchovny |
Patricia Heaton |
Robi Davidson |
Laurel Cronin |
O-Lan Jones |
Nancy Fish |
Craig Pinkard |
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Brian Levant |
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The Deetz's gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family's interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.
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Fantasy |
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Alec Baldwin |
Geena Davis |
Annie McEnroe |
Maurice Page |
Hugo Stanger |
Michael Keaton |
Rachel Mittelman |
Catherine O'Hara |
J. Jay Saunders |
Mark Ettlinger |
Jeffrey Jones |
Winona Ryder |
Glenn Shadix |
Patrice Martinez |
Cindy Daly |
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Tim Burton |
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she'd come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father's brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he'd witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a "new" family. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a daughter and t | | |
