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| x Twilight |
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Twilight is a 2008 romantic-fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. It focuses on the development of a personal relationship between human teenager Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and...
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| x Bolt |
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Bolt tells the story of a dog who is convinced that his role as a super dog is reality. When he is ripped from his world of fantasy, and action by his own doing. His own obsession with his owner and keeping her protected from the green eyed man of...
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| x Let the Right One In |
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Let the Right One In is a 2008 film directed by Tomas Alfredson.
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| x Ballast |
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Ballast is a 2008 film directed by Lance Hammer. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography. The film received 6 nominations in the 2009 Film...
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| x How Stella Got Her Groove Back |
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back is a 1998 romance film, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. The film stars Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg and Regina King. This film is an adaptation of Terry McMillan's bestselling novel by the same title....
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| x Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is a film adaptation of the Tomb Raider video game series. Directed by Simon West and starring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, it was released in U.S. theaters on June 15, 2001.
A sequel, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of...
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| x Idlewild |
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Idlewild is an American musical film, released August 25, 2006, written and directed by Bryan Barber. The film stars André Benjamin and Antwan A. Patton. Benjamin and Patton are best known under their respective stage names André 3000 and Big Boi of...
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| x Deep Impact |
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Deep Impact is a 1998 sci-fi-drama disaster film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. The film was directed by Mimi Leder, and stars Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, and Robert Duvall. The plot...
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| x Monster-in-Law |
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Monster-in-Law is a 2005 romantic comedy film, directed by Robert Luketic. It marks a return to cinema for Jane Fonda, being her first film in 15 years. The screenplay is written by Anya Kochoff. The original music score is composed by David Newman....
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| x An Ideal Husband |
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An Ideal Husband is a 1999 feature film based on the play by Oscar Wilde. The film stars Jeremy Northam, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Minnie Driver and Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett. It was directed by Oliver Parker.
It was selected as the...
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| x What a Girl Wants |
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What a Girl Wants is a 2003 film starring Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston and Oliver James. It was directed by Dennie Gordon.
The film is a remake of the 1958 film, The Reluctant Debutante which had a screenplay by William Douglas-Home,...
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| x Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery |
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is a 2008 American comedy-drama film directed by Patricia Rozema. The screenplay by Valerie Tripp focuses on the American Girl character Kit Kittredge, who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio during the Great Depression. The...
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| x A History of Violence |
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A History of Violence is a 2005 American crime/thriller film directed by David Cronenberg, and written by Josh Olson, based on the graphic novel of the same name by John Wagner and Vince Locke. The film features Viggo Mortensen as the owner of a...
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| x The Black Dahlia |
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The Black Dahlia is a 2006 crime film directed by Brian De Palma, director of Scarface and The Untouchables. It is based on the novel of the same name by James Ellroy, writer of L.A. Confidential. The story is based on the murder of Elizabeth Short....
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| x North Country |
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North Country is a 2005 American drama film directed by Niki Caro. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and...
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| x Snow Dogs |
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Snow Dogs is a 2002 live-action movie, released in the USA on January 18, 2002 by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Brian Levant. It stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. Snow Dogs was suggested by the book "Winterdance - The fine madness of running the...
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| x Lucky Number Slevin |
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Lucky Number Slevin, renamed for DVD as Lucky # Slevin (also known as The Wrong Man), is a 2006 crime thriller cult film written by Jason Smilovic, directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tucci, Lucy Liu, Josh...
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| x I'll Sleep When I'm Dead |
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is a 2004 British crime film directed by Mike Hodges, from a screenplay by Trevor Preston. The film bears many striking similarities to Hodges' directorial debut, the classic 1971 crime drama Get Carter. Both films feature...
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| x Christmas with the Kranks |
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Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Joe Roth. The screenplay by Chris Columbus is based on the 2001 novel Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.
After Luther and Nora Krank see their daughter depart for a Peace Corps...
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| x Brotherhood of the Wolf |
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Brotherhood of the Wolf, also known by its French title Le Pacte des loups (literally "The Pact of the Wolves"), is a 2001 French movie directed by Christophe Gans, starring Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Émilie Dequenne and Mark...
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| x The Red Violin |
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The Red Violin (French: Le Violon rouge, German: Die Rote Violine, Italian: Il Violino Rosso, traditional Chinese: 紅提琴), is a 1998 Canadian drama film. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a violin and its many owners...
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| x Party Monster |
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Party Monster is a 2003 American/Dutch crime/drama film that details the rise and fall of infamous New York party promoter Michael Alig. The movie stars Macaulay Culkin as the drug-addled "King of the Club Kids." Also in the film are Seth Green as...
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| x In Bruges |
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In Bruges is a 2008 black comedy film, directed and written by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss. The film takes place within the Belgian city of Bruges....
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| x Spider-Man |
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Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The first installment in the Spider-Man series, the film, directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp, stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst,...
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| x The Quiet Room |
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| x Speed Racer |
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Speed Racer is a 2008 American live action film adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime series of the same name. The film is written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers. The film had been in development since 1992, changing writers and directors...
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| x Road to Perdition |
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Road to Perdition is a 2002 period drama directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Tyler Hoechlin and Daniel Craig...
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| x Detroit Rock City |
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Detroit Rock City is a 1999 cult film about four teenagers in a Kiss cover band who try to see their idols in Detroit in 1978. It takes its title from the Kiss song of the same name. The movie bombed at the box office, grossing fewer than five...
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| x Palindromes |
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Palindromes is a 2004 comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz. In the same year it was released, Palindromes was nominated for a Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival.
The protagonist, a 13-year-old girl named Aviva, is played...
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| x The Kid Stays in the Picture |
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The Kid Stays in the Picture is the name of a 1994 autobiography by film producer Robert Evans. It is also the name of a 2002 motion picture adaptation of the same book directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen and released by Focus Features and...
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| x Albino Alligator |
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Albino Alligator is a 1996 film directed by Kevin Spacey in his directorial debut. It stars Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise and William Fichtner as three small-time criminals who take hostages when they are cornered by the police. The title of the film...
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| x Sex and Lucia |
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Sex and Lucia (Spanish: Lucía y el sexo; lit. Lucía and the Sex) is an award winning 2001 Spanish drama film, written and directed by Julio Medem, and starring Paz Vega and Tristán Ulloa.
The film begins with Lucía (Paz Vega) at work as a waitress,...
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| x Transamerica |
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Transamerica is a 2005 independent dramedy produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. The film tells the story of Bree, a transsexual woman (Felicity Huffman), who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son Toby (Kevin Zegers).
The movie is...
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| x Mystic River |
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Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian...
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| x Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star |
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star is a 2003 American comedy film directed by Sam Weisman and starring David Spade and Mary McCormack.
Dickie Roberts is a former child star who shot to fame on an eponymous TV sitcom with his catchphrase "This is...
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| x There's Something About Mary |
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There's Something About Mary is a 1998 romantic comedy film, directed by the Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter. Starring Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller, it is a combination of romantic comedy and gross-out film.
This sleeper hit was the...
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| x 101 Dalmatians |
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101 Dalmatians is a 1996 live-action film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a remake of the 1961 animated film of the same name (which was based on Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians). It stars Glenn Close as the...
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| x Our Song |
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Our Song is a drama film released in 2000.
Our Song follows three high school girls over one summer in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The girls, Lanisha (Kerry Washington), Maria (Melissa Martinez), and Joycelyn (Anna Simpson) are best friends and...
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| x Sin City |
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Sin City (full title: Frank Miller's Sin City) is an ensemble cast 2005 American action/crime/thriller film written, produced, and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is a film noir based on Miller's graphic novel series of the same...
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| x Veronica Guerin |
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Veronica Guerin is a 2003 American/Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her...
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| x Panic |
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Panic is a 2000 movie, starring William H. Macy, Neve Campbell, Donald Sutherland and John Ritter.
Alex (Macy), a sad-eyed mournful man, goes into psychotherapy: he discloses he's a hit man. He also tells the doctor (Ritter), after a few sessions,...
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| x Shopgirl |
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Shopgirl is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Anand Tucker. The screenplay by Steve Martin is based on his bestselling 2000 novella of the same name.
Mirabelle Buttersfield, a transplanted Vermonter, is an aspiring artist and...
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| x John Q |
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John Q is a 2002 film by Nick Cassavetes; starring Denzel Washington as John Quincy Archibald, a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover...
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| x The Perfect Crime |
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El Crimen Perfecto is a 2004 movie directed by Álex de la Iglesia.
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| x Redbelt |
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Redbelt is a martial arts film written and directed by David Mamet and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film opened in wide release in the United States and Canada on May 9, 2008.
Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a jiu-jitsu practitioner and self...
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| x Must Love Dogs |
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Must Love Dogs is a 2005 romantic comedy film based on the book written by Claire Cook. It is the third film directed and written by Gary David Goldberg. The film, starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, was produced on a budget of $30 million. The...
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| x My Flesh and Blood |
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My Flesh and Blood is a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Karsh chronicling a year in the life of the Tom family. The Tom family is notable as the mother, Susan, adopted eleven children, most of whom had serious disabilities or diseases. The film...
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| x Citizen Ruth |
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Citizen Ruth is a 1996 film that tells a story of a poor, irresponsible and pregnant woman who unexpectedly attracts attention from those involved in the debate about the morality and legality of abortion. The film stars Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz,...
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| x The Cat's Meow |
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The Cat's Meow is a drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The screenplay by Steven Peros is based on his play of the same title, which was inspired by the mysterious death of film mogul Thomas H. Ince.
It is November 15, 1924, and among those...
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| x Intimate Strangers |
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Intimate Strangers (French: Confidences trop intimes) is a 2004 French film directed by Patrice Leconte. It was shown in Competition at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.
Paramount Classics acquired the United States distribution rights of this film and...
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| x Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a work by John Berendt. The book was Berendt's first, and became a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut.
The book was subsequently made into a 1997 movie directed by Clint...
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| x Very Bad Things |
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Very Bad Things is a 1998 black comedy, directed by Peter Berg. It stars Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater and Jeremy Piven, with co-stars Daniel Stern, and Leland Orser. It shares major plot elements with the 1997 movie Stag.
Kyle Fisher ...
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Blow is a 2001 drama/biopic film about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme (his final film). David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the...
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| x My Son the Fanatic |
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My Son the Fanatic is a 1997 British drama film directed by Udayan Prasad. It was written by Hanif Kureishi after his short story My Son the Fanatic.
One of the most revealing insights into Britain’s recent social history comes early in “My Son the...
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| x Windtalkers |
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Windtalkers is a 2002 action war film directed by John Woo, director of Face/Off. Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater star as two US Marine sergeants assigned to protect Navajo code talkers in Saipan during World War II.
The film begins with then...
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| x My Favorite Martian |
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My Favorite Martian is a 1999 comedy feature starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name. It was directed by Donald Petrie and written...
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| x Les Misérables |
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Les Misérables is a 1998 film adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name, directed by Bille August. It stars Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes.
As in the original novel, the story line follows the adult life of...
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| x S.W.A.T. |
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S.W.A.T. is a 2003 action crime film and is based on the 1975 television series of the same name. It was directed by Clark Johnson and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on...
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| x A Mighty Heart |
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A Mighty Heart is a 2007 film directed by Michael Winterbottom; It is an adaptation of Mariane Pearl's memoir, A Mighty Heart. Although initially a financial failure, A Mighty Heart was met with relatively positive reviews from both critics and...
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| x Jack Frost |
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Jack Frost is a 1998 Christmas film, starring Michael Keaton and Kelly Preston. Keaton stars as the title character, a father who dies in a car accident and comes back to life as a snowman. Three of Frank Zappa's four children: Dweezil Zappa, Ahmet...
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