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Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days of a patient's stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated to find out that not only has she seemingly forgotten him, Fiona has transferred her affections to another man. The other man is Aubrey, a wheelchair bound mute patient at the nursing home. As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness.
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Julie Christie |
Gordon Pinsent |
Olympia Dukakis |
Kristen Thomson |
Michael Murphy |
Wendy Crewson |
Alberta Watson |
Grace Lynn Kung |
Stacey LaBerge |
Lili Francks |
Andrew Moodie |
Deanna Dezmari |
Judy Sinclair |
Tom Harvey |
Carolyn Heatherington |
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Sarah Polley |
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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within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam.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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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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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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Beginning in the 1930's, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.
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Ralph Fiennes |
Juliette Binoche |
Willem Dafoe |
Kristin Scott Thomas |
Naveen Andrews |
Colin Firth |
Julian Wadham |
Jürgen Prochnow |
Kevin Whately |
Clive Merrison |
Nino Castelnuovo |
Hichem Rostom |
Peter Rühring |
Geordie Johnson |
Torri Higginson |
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Anthony Minghella |
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word "dysfunctional". The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?
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Abigail Breslin |
Greg Kinnear |
Paul Dano |
Alan Arkin |
Toni Collette |
Steve Carell |
Marc Turtletaub |
Jill Talley |
Brenda Canela |
Julio Oscar Mechoso |
Chuck Loring |
Justin Shilton |
Gordon Thomson |
Steven Christopher Parker |
Bryan Cranston |
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Jonathan Dayton |
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book's secrets and his place in the story.
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Aaron Eckhart |
Ian McKellen |
Nick Nolte |
William Hurt |
Bill Bellamy |
Alan Cumming |
Michael Moriarty |
Ken Roberts |
Tim Henry |
Joe Macaluso |
Andrew Airlie |
Ryan Drescher |
Jim Eckhart |
Richard Hendery |
Mark Tisdale |
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The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who dissaprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah's 200-year-old home that he restored for her, "to see if he's okay". It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.
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Tim Ivey |
Gena Rowlands |
Starletta DuPois |
James Garner |
Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas |
Ed Grady |
Renée Amber |
Jennifer Echols |
Geoffrey Knight |
Kevin Connolly |
Ryan Gosling |
Heather Wahlquist |
Rachel McAdams |
Andrew Schaff |
Matt Shelly |
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Nick Cassavetes |
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On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.
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Drama |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Jim Carrey |
Virginia Madsen |
Logan Lerman |
Danny Huston |
Lynn Collins |
Rhona Mitra |
Michelle Arthur |
Mark Pellegrino |
Paul Butcher |
David Stifel |
Corey Stoll |
Ed Lauter |
Troy Kotsur |
Walter Soo Hoo |
Patricia Belcher |
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Joel Schumacher |
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"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
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Benjamin Bratt |
Giancarlo Esposito |
Talisa Soto |
Nelson Vasquez |
Michael Irby |
Michael Wright |
Rita Moreno |
Jaime Sánchez |
Rome Neal |
Mandy Patinkin |
Oscar A. Colon |
Miriam Cruz |
Luis Caballero |
Al D. Rodriguez |
Sophia Domoulin |
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Leon Ichaso |
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters'fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit "fixed us, every one of us."
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History |
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David McCullough |
Jeff Bridges |
Paul Vincent O'Connor |
Chris Cooper |
Michael Ensign |
James Keane |
Valerie Mahaffey |
David Doty |
Carl M. Craig |
Michael O'Neill |
Annie Corley |
Michael Angarano |
Cameron Bowen |
Noah Luke |
Mariah Bess |
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Gary Ross |
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Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.
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Jeremy Davies |
Maggie Gyllenhaal |
James Spader |
Lesley Ann Warren |
Patrick Bauchau |
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Steven Shainberg |
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