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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
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Peter Sellers |
Shirley MacLaine |
Melvyn Douglas |
Jack Warden |
Richard Dysart |
Richard Basehart |
Ruth Attaway |
David Clennon |
Fran Brill |
Denise DuBarry |
Oteil Burbridge |
Ravenell Keller III |
Brian Corrigan |
Alfredine P. Brown |
Donald Jacob |
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Hal Ashby |
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Martin Lawrence returns as FBI agent Malcolm Turner, a master of disguise who again goes deep undercover as the sassy septuagenarian "Big Momma." The FBI has learned that a computer software developer named Tom Fuller has created a computer virus that allows access to classified US government files, Fuller is planning to sell the virus to terrorist organizations all over the world. Upon hearing this, the FBI's best lead is Fuller's wife. So Malcolm goes undercover again as Big Momma in order to pose as Mrs. Fuller's nanny. and as always, Big Momma once again turns the house upside down.
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Martin Lawrence |
Elton LeBlanc |
Nia Long |
Michelle Parylak |
Sarah Brown |
Mark Joy |
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John Whitesell |
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A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond—by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
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Heath Ledger |
Jake Gyllenhaal |
Randy Quaid |
Anne Hathaway |
Michelle Williams |
Valerie Planche |
Graham Beckel |
David Harbour |
Kate Mara |
Roberta Maxwell |
Peter McRobbie |
Anna Faris |
Linda Cardellini |
Scott Michael Campbell |
David Trimble |
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Ang Lee |
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Based on the classic novel by 'CS Lewis' (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor's country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.
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Georgie Henley |
Skandar Keynes |
William Moseley |
Anna Popplewell |
Tilda Swinton |
James McAvoy |
Jim Broadbent |
Kiran Shah |
James Cosmo |
Judy McIntosh |
Elizabeth Hawthorne |
Patrick Kake |
Shane Rangi |
Brandon Cook |
Cassie Cook |
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Andrew Adamson |
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An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.
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Morgan Freeman |
Jessica Tandy |
Dan Aykroyd |
Patti LuPone |
Esther Rolle |
Joann Havrilla |
William Hall Jr. |
Alvin M. Sugarman |
Clarice F. Geigerman |
Muriel Moore |
Sylvia Kaler |
Carolyn Gold |
Crystal R. Fox |
Bob Hannah |
Ray McKinnon |
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Bruce Beresford |
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'It' is a Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), an ancient, ugly and irritable sand fairy the children find one day on a secret beach at their uncle's mansion. It grants them one wish per day, lasting until sunset. But they soon learn it is very hard to think of really sensible wishes, and each one gets them into unexpected difficulties. Magic, the children find, can be as awkward as it is enticing.
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Tara Fitzgerald |
Freddie Highmore |
Alex Jennings |
Jonathan Bailey |
Jessica Claridge |
Poppy Rogers |
Alec Muggleton |
Zak Muggleton |
Zoë Wanamaker |
Kenneth Branagh |
Alexander Pownall |
Eddie Izzard |
Georgio Serafini |
John Sessions |
Kim Fenton |
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John Stephenson |
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A drama about three married women, their husbands, and their lone single friend.
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Catherine Keener |
Jason Isaacs |
Timm Sharp |
Joan Cusack |
Greg Germann |
Hailey Noelle Johnson |
Simon McBurney |
Frances McDormand |
Jake Cherry |
Jennifer Aniston |
Bob Stephenson |
Marin Hinkle |
Scott Caan |
Troy Ruptash |
Elizabeth Keener |
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Nicole Holofcener |
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After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?
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Freddie Highmore |
Albert Finney |
Russell Crowe |
Rafe Spall |
Archie Panjabi |
Richard Coyle |
Ben Righton |
Patrick Kennedy |
Ali Rhodes |
Daniel Mays |
Nila Aalia |
Stephen Hudson |
Giannina Facio |
Tom Hollander |
Lionel Briand |
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Ridley Scott |
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Set in the 1930's the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. The story centers around the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on and secrets are revealed, it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it...?
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Crime |
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Maggie Smith |
Michael Gambon |
Kristin Scott Thomas |
Camilla Rutherford |
Charles Dance |
Geraldine Somerville |
Tom Hollander |
Natasha Wightman |
Jeremy Northam |
Bob Balaban |
James Wilby |
Claudie Blakley |
Laurence Fox |
Trent Ford |
Ryan Phillippe |
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Robert Altman |
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In a gloomy mansion in the west of Scotland the seven members of the Good Comrades Club are dining. One of them receives a curious death threat, an envelope containing seven orange pips. He dies the next night in a car crash. At his funeral another member receives an envelope with six pips, and ten days later his body is recovered from the sea. Sherlock Holmes is called in.
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Horror |
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Basil Rathbone |
Nigel Bruce |
Aubrey Mather |
Dennis Hoey |
Paul Cavanagh |
Holmes Herbert |
Harry Cording |
Sally Shepherd |
Gavin Muir |
Florette Hillier |
David Clyde |
Richard Alexander |
Wilson Benge |
Hobart Cavanaugh |
Alec Craig |
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Roy William Neill |
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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.
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Comedy |
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Julie Andrews |
Dick Van Dyke |
David Tomlinson |
Glynis Johns |
Hermione Baddeley |
Reta Shaw |
Karen Dotrice |
Matthew Garber |
Elsa Lanchester |
Arthur Treacher |
Reginald Owen |
Ed Wynn |
Jane Darwell |
Arthur Malet |
Robert Banas |
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Robert Stevenson |
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