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Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.
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Jerry Seinfeld |
Renée Zellweger |
Matthew Broderick |
Patrick Warburton |
John Goodman |
Chris Rock |
Kathy Bates |
Barry Levinson |
Larry King |
Ray Liotta |
Sting |
Oprah Winfrey |
Larry Miller |
Megan Mullally |
Rip Torn |
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Steve Hickner |
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An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties' part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity.
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Thriller |
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Ben Affleck |
Samuel L. Jackson |
Kim Staunton |
Toni Collette |
Sydney Pollack |
Tina Sloan |
Richard Jenkins |
Akil Walker |
Cole Hawkins |
Ileen Getz |
Jennifer Dundas |
Matt Malloy |
Amanda Peet |
Myra Lucretia Taylor |
Bruce Altman |
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Roger Michell |
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Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.
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Drama |
Thriller |
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Keanu Reeves |
Al Pacino |
Charlize Theron |
Jeffrey Jones |
Judith Ivey |
Connie Nielsen |
Craig T. Nelson |
Tamara Tunie |
Ruben Santiago-Hudson |
Debra Monk |
Vyto Ruginis |
Laura Harrington |
Pamela Gray |
Heather Matarazzo |
George Wyner |
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Taylor Hackford |
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Erin Brockovich
She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees.
[2000,
USA] from $1.99
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Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her lawfirm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.
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Biography |
Drama |
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Julia Roberts |
David Brisbin |
Dawn Didawick |
Albert Finney |
Valente Rodriguez |
Conchata Ferrell |
George Rocky Sullivan |
Pat Skipper |
Jack Gill |
Irene Olga López |
Emily Marks |
Julie Marks |
Scotty Leavenworth |
Gemmenne de la Peña |
Erin Brockovich-Ellis |
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Steven Soderbergh |
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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
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Drama |
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Jeff Bridges |
Isabella Rossellini |
Rosie Perez |
Tom Hulce |
John Turturro |
Benicio Del Toro |
Deirdre O'Connell |
John de Lancie |
Spencer Vrooman |
Daniel Cerny |
Eve Roberts |
Robin Pearson Rose |
Debra Monk |
Cynthia Mace |
Randle Mell |
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Peter Weir |
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A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.
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Charlize Theron |
Elle Peterson |
Thomas Curtis |
Frances McDormand |
Sean Bean |
Woody Harrelson |
Jeremy Renner |
Richard Jenkins |
Sissy Spacek |
James Cada |
Rusty Schwimmer |
Linda Emond |
Michelle Monaghan |
Brad William Henke |
Jillian Armenante |
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Niki Caro |
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Up-and-coming sports reporter (Hartnett) rescues a homeless man ("Champ", Jackson) only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
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Drama |
Sport |
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Samuel L. Jackson |
Josh Hartnett |
Kathryn Morris |
Dakota Goyo |
Alan Alda |
Rachel Nichols |
Teri Hatcher |
Kristen Shaw |
Nick Sandow |
David Paymer |
Harry J. Lennix |
Peter Coyote |
Ryan McDonald |
Chris Ippolito |
Jameson Trenholm |
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Rod Lurie |
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