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When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
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Jeff Bridges |
John Goodman |
Julianne Moore |
Steve Buscemi |
David Huddleston |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Tara Reid |
Philip Moon |
Mark Pellegrino |
Peter Stormare |
Flea |
Torsten Voges |
Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
Jack Kehler |
John Turturro |
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Joel Coen |
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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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Adventure |
Comedy |
Family |
Fantasy |
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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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In the hilarious comedy Daddy Day Care, two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads open their own day care facility, "Daddy Day Care", and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy's tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) ...who has driven all previous competitors out of business.
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Eddie Murphy |
Jeff Garlin |
Steve Zahn |
Regina King |
Kevin Nealon |
Jonathan Katz |
Siobhan Fallon |
Lisa Edelstein |
Lacey Chabert |
Laura Kightlinger |
Leila Arcieri |
Anjelica Huston |
Khamani Griffin |
Max Burkholder |
Arthur Young |
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Steve Carr |
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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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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.
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Sophie Vavasseur |
Niall Beagan |
Hugh McDonagh |
Pierce Brosnan |
Mairead Devlin |
Frank Kelly |
Claire Mullan |
Alvaro Lucchesi |
Garrett Keogh |
Daithi O'Suilleabhain |
Andrea Irvine |
Marian Quinn |
Karen Ardiff |
Julianna Margulies |
Bosco Hogan |
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Bruce Beresford |
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
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Matt Dillon |
Lili Taylor |
Marisa Tomei |
Fisher Stevens |
Didier Flamand |
Adrienne Shelly |
Karen Young |
Thomas Lyons |
Dean Brewington |
James Cada |
James Michael Detmar |
Kurt Schweickhardt |
Dee Noah |
James Noah |
Michael Egan |
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Bent Hamer |
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Friday
a lot can go down between thursday and saturday...
[1995,
USA] from $1.99
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Having just been canned from his job on his day off, Craig and his best friend Smokey spend the day smoking up in their South Central neighborhood while dealing with a neighborhood bully, relationship troubles, an angry drug dealer, and a lot of other odd characters.
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Ice Cube |
Chris Tucker |
Nia Long |
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister |
John Witherspoon |
Anna Maria Horsford |
Regina King |
Paula Jai Parker |
Faizon Love |
DJ Pooh |
Angela Means |
Vickilyn Reynolds |
Ronn Riser |
Kathleen Bradley |
Tony Cox |
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F. Gary Gray |
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Six unemployed steel workers, inspired by the Chippendale's dancers, form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
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Comedy |
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Robert Carlyle |
Mark Addy |
William Snape |
Steve Huison |
Tom Wilkinson |
Paul Barber |
Hugo Speer |
Lesley Sharp |
Emily Woof |
Deirdre Costello |
Paul Butterworth |
Dave Hill |
Bruce Jones |
Andrew Livingston |
Vinny Dhillon |
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Peter Cattaneo |
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The day before Globodyne's stock tanks, a la Enron, and its pension fund evaporates, the corporation's CEO and CFO set up middle manager Dick Harper to be the public face of the disaster. Jobless, and with no savings, pension, or home equity, Dick and his wife Jane sink slowly into poverty. He looks for work (as do all former Globodyne executives); he even tries day labor with the relatives of their Mexican nanny. A foreclosure notice sends Dick and Jane over the edge into a life of blue-collar crime. Then, as things finally look up, the report of an looming indictment pushes Dick and Jane toward a denouement with the real criminals, the white-collar guys.
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Comedy |
Crime |
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Jim Carrey |
Téa Leoni |
David Herman |
Knox White |
Walter Addison |
Ralph Nader |
Dilva Henry |
Luis Saguar |
Rocael Rueda Sr. |
Peter Breitmayer |
Pete Gardner |
Kym Whitley |
Gavin Grazer |
James St. James |
Mary Gillis |
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Dean Parisot |
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Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Christian Bale |
Armando Cantina |
Freddy Rodríguez |
Eva Longoria |
Kenneth Choi |
Tammy Trull |
Terry Crews |
Robert Dahey |
Samantha Esteban |
Chaka Forman |
César García Gómez |
Noel Gugliemi |
Sonia Iris Lozada |
Adriana Millan |
Michael Monks |
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David Ayer |
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Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.
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Comedy |
Drama |
Romance |
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Cameron Diaz |
Anson Mount |
Toni Collette |
Richard Burgi |
Candice Bergen |
Brooke Smith |
John Mastrangelo Sr. |
Emilio Mignucci |
Mark Feuerstein |
Terrance Christopher Jones |
Nicole Randall Johnson |
Kateri DeMartino |
Brandon Karrer |
Jon Ingrassia |
Jason Peck |
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Curtis Hanson |
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