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Heralded as one of the all-time great theatrical releases, "12 Angry Men" focuses on a jury's deliberations in a capital murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old Latino accused in the stabbing death of his father, where a guilty verdict means an automatic death sentence. The case appears to be open-and-shut: The defendant has a weak alibi; a knife he claimed to have lost is found at the murder scene; and several witnesses either heard screaming, saw the killing or the boy fleeing the scene. Eleven of the jurors immediately vote guilty; only Juror No. 8 (Mr. Davis, played by Henry Fonda) casts a not guilty vote. At first Mr. Davis' bases his vote moreso for the sake of discussion after all, the jurors must believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty. As the deliberations unfold, the story quickly becomes a study of the jurors' complex personalities (which range from wise, bright and empathetic to arrogant, prejudiced and merciless), preconceptions, backgrounds and interactions. That provides the backdrop to Mr. Davis' attempts in convincing the other jurors that a "not guilty" verdict might be appropriate.
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Martin Balsam |
John Fiedler |
Lee J. Cobb |
E.G. Marshall |
Jack Klugman |
Ed Binns |
Jack Warden |
Henry Fonda |
Joseph Sweeney |
Ed Begley |
George Voskovec |
Robert Webber |
Rudy Bond |
James Kelly |
Billy Nelson |
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Sidney Lumet |
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Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.
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Tom Hanks |
Bruce Willis |
Melanie Griffith |
Kim Cattrall |
Saul Rubinek |
Morgan Freeman |
John Hancock |
Kevin Dunn |
Clifton James |
Louis Giambalvo |
Barton Heyman |
Norman Parker |
Donald Moffat |
Alan King |
Beth Broderick |
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Brian De Palma |
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'Moisés Kaufman' (qv) and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of 'Matthew Shepard (I)' (qv). This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd's visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of "Angels in America" a year after Shephard's death.
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Drama |
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Christina Ricci |
Steve Buscemi |
Laura Linney |
Summer Phoenix |
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Moisés Kaufman |
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John Lyshitski is a car stealing slacker, with a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows it's entire population of both staff and cons by their fast names. Cursed with the old ill luck of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's been deemed a lost cause repeat offender in the eyes of everyone else. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides to ruin the man's legacy by having the judge's only offspring, Nelson Biederman IV, thrown in the slammer along with him. Here, the world-class selfish jerk learns a certain old lesson the hard way: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But has John somewhat gone too far in the payback department?
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Dax Shepard |
Will Arnett |
Chi McBride |
David Koechner |
Dylan Baker |
Michael Shannon |
Miguel Nino |
Jay Whittaker |
Amy Hill |
David Darlow |
Joseph Marcus |
Nick Phalen |
A.J. Balance |
Jerry Minor |
Mary Seibel |
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Bob Odenkirk |
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A dark tale based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America's first female serial killers. Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute—servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. The tale focuses on the nine month period between 1989 and 1990, during which Wuornos had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby. And during that very same time, she also began murdering her clientele in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomena of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers—instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer.
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Biography |
Crime |
Drama |
Romance |
Thriller |
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Charlize Theron |
Christina Ricci |
Bruce Dern |
Lee Tergesen |
Pruitt Taylor Vince |
Annie Corley |
Marco St. John |
Marc Macaulay |
Scott Wilson |
Rus Blackwell |
Tim Ware |
Stephan Jones |
Brett Rice |
Kaitlin Riley |
Cree Ivey |
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Patty Jenkins |
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When a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces returns to his small hometown in rural Washington State hoping to realise a childhood dream of working in the local lumber mill, he discovers that much has changed, as the normally tranquil town is now besieged by drugs, outbreaks of violence and a general feeling of malaise and terror, with many pointing a finger at the influence of a crooked casino where his ex-girlfriend now works as a dancer. Seeking to wreak vengeance, with a four-foot-long 4-by-4 in his hand, and righteousness in his heart, the highly-trained soldier, now the county's sheriff, and his deputy, realizes it's time to bust some heads with a very hard piece of wood.
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Thriller |
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The Rock |
Johnny Knoxville |
Neal McDonough |
Kristen Wilson |
Ashley Scott |
Khleo Thomas |
John Beasley |
Barbara Tarbuck |
Michael Bowen |
Kevin Durand |
Andrew Tarbet |
Patrick Gallagher |
John Stewart |
Eric Breker |
Ryan Robbins |
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Kevin Bray |
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