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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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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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Charlie Bucket comes from a poor family, and spends most of his time dreaming about the chocolate that he loves but usually can't afford. Things change when Willy Wonka, head of the very popular Wonka Chocolate empire, announces a contest in which five gold tickets have been hidden in chocolate bars and sent throughout the country. The kids who find the tickets will be taken on a tour of Wonka's chocolate factory and get a special glimpse of the wonders within. Charlie miraculously finds a ticket, along with four other children much naughtier than him. The tour of the factory will hold more than a few surprises for this bunch...
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Johnny Depp |
Freddie Highmore |
David Patrick Kelly |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Noah Taylor |
Missi Pyle |
James Fox |
Deep Roy |
Christopher Lee |
Adam Godley |
Franziska Troegner |
AnnaSophia Robb |
Julia Winter |
Jordan Fry |
Philip Wiegratz |
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Tim Burton |
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Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Sam Martin is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.
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Hilary Duff |
Jennifer Coolidge |
Chad Michael Murray |
Dan Byrd |
Regina King |
Julie Gonzalo |
Lin Shaye |
Madeline Zima |
Andrea Avery |
Mary Pat Gleason |
Paul Rodriguez |
Whip Hubley |
Kevin Kilner |
Erica Hubbard |
Simon Helberg |
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Mark Rosman |
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.
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Brandon Lee |
Rochelle Davis |
Ernie Hudson |
Michael Wincott |
Ling Bai |
Sofia Shinas |
Anna Levine |
David Patrick Kelly |
Angel David |
Laurence Mason |
Michael Massee |
Tony Todd |
Jon Polito |
Bill Raymond |
Marco Rodríguez |
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Alex Proyas |
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.
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Drew Barrymore |
Jena Malone |
Jake Gyllenhaal |
Holmes Osborne |
Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Daveigh Chase |
Mary McDonnell |
James Duval |
Arthur Taxier |
Patrick Swayze |
Mark Hoffman |
David St. James |
Tom Tangen |
Jazzie Mahannah |
Jolene Purdy |
Stuart Stone |
Gary Lundy |
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Richard Kelly |
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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family's garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot's brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth's first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there's no alien spaceship in sight.
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Henry Thomas |
Dee Wallace-Stone |
Robert MacNaughton |
Drew Barrymore |
Peter Coyote |
K.C. Martel |
Sean Frye |
C. Thomas Howell |
David M. O'Dell |
Richard Swingler |
Frank Toth |
Robert Barton |
Michael Darrell |
David Berkson |
David Carlberg |
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Steven Spielberg |
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The life of Edward D. Wood,Jr, hailed as the worst director (of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space', 'Glen or Glenda?' and 'Bride of the Monster') of all time.
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Johnny Depp |
Martin Landau |
Sarah Jessica Parker |
Patricia Arquette |
Jeffrey Jones |
G.D. Spradlin |
Vincent D'Onofrio |
Bill Murray |
Mike Starr |
Max Casella |
Brent Hinkley |
Lisa Marie |
George 'The Animal' Steele |
Juliet Landau |
Clive Rosengren |
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Tim Burton |
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The nineteen years old Catholic college girl Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) dies a couple of days after being submitted to an exorcism carried out by her parish priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson). Emily believed she was possessed by six demons, and although authorized by Emily and he parents, Father Moore is accused of negligent homicide, since he had suggested Emily to interrupt the use of medications for epilepsy. In order to avoid a scandal, the Archdiocese hires the successful, ambitious and agnostic lawyer Erin Bruner (Laura Linney), and the prosecution assigns the religious prosecutor Ethan Thomas (Campbell Scott). Along the days, there is a battle between science and religion in the court.
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Horror |
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Thriller |
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Laura Linney |
Tom Wilkinson |
Campbell Scott |
Jennifer Carpenter |
Colm Feore |
Joshua Close |
Kenneth Welsh |
Duncan Fraser |
JR Bourne |
Mary Beth Hurt |
Henry Czerny |
Shohreh Aghdashloo |
Steve Archer |
Arlene Belcastro |
David Berner |
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Scott Derrickson |
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Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to intensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure.
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Thriller |
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Julia Roberts |
Kevin Bacon |
Kiefer Sutherland |
Oliver Platt |
William Baldwin |
Kimberly Scott |
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Joel Schumacher |
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After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a 21-year-old man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 6 year old) and immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.
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Malcolm McDowell |
Brad Dourif |
Daeg Faerch |
Tyler Mane |
Scout Taylor-Compton |
Sheri Moon |
William Forsythe |
Danielle Harris |
Kristina Klebe |
Udo Kier |
Danny Trejo |
Lew Temple |
Skyler Gisondo |
Jenny Gregg Stewart |
Hanna Hall |
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Rob Zombie |
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Plot Summary:
On Halloween 1963, the small town of Haddonfield is shocked when six-year-old Michael Myers returns from trick-or-treating and for some unknown reason stabs his older sister to death with a big kitchen knife and is found by his parents staring into space with the bloody knife in his hand. Sent to a mental institution, Michael spends the next 15 years just sitting, still staring into space despite the best efforts of his Doctor, Dr. Samuel Loomis. Now, on October 30th 1978, something triggers Michael off and during a storm manages to steal a car from Dr. Loomis and Nurse Marion (who was coming to take Michael to a court to keep him locked up) and goes back to Haddonfield where he steals a white mask. There, Laurie Stode, Micheal's younger sister, finds that Michael is stalking her during the day (at school, at her home etc - but she doesn't know who he is.) As Dr. Loomis arrives and with the Sheriff frantically looks for Michael he doesn't know that Laurie is baby-sitting Lindsey and Tommy and that Laurie's friends Annie, Lynda and Bob are disappearing one by one...
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Donald Pleasence |
Jamie Lee Curtis |
P.J. Soles |
Charles Cyphers |
Kyle Richards |
Brian Andrews |
John Michael Graham |
Nancy Kyes |
Arthur Malet |
Mickey Yablans |
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