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Orphans (1987)
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Liberty - The American Revolution
:Description:Featuring dramatic readings from letters and diaries of the period plus live-action re-creations, this compelling series traces the events leading up to the war and America's fight for freedom. In 1763, the French have left and America is at peace under British rule. But dissension is mounting, signified by the Boston Tea Party and publication of Tom Paine's book, Common Sense. Follow the course of revolution as George Washington assumes leadership, Benjamin Franklin goes to France seeking support, and ordinary Americans come together in a conflict that will forge a new nation. Titles ...
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Outrageous Fortune
:Description:Lauren (Shelley Long, THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE) is refinement, regimentation, and ballet slippers. Sandy (Bette Midler, THE FIRST WIVES CLUB) is brassy, bossy, and stiletto heels. They meet and it's hate at first sight. But these two opposites are shocked to discover a common bond: They share the same boyfriend -- a handsome schoolteacher (Peter Coyote, RANDOM HEARTS) who mysteriously and conveniently disappears. Mr. Right wronged them ... and when they decide to track the scoundrel down, they're thrown together in a cross-country pursuit for better or worse ... mosty for worse! Brilliantly ...
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The Pelican Brief
: :Another John Grisham legal thriller comes to the screen, pairing Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in a film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who is known for dark-hued suspense pictures such as Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men, and Presumed Innocent. The Pelican Brief isn't up to the level of those films, but it is a perfectly entertaining movie about a law student (Roberts) whose life is endangered when she discovers evidence of a conspiracy behind the killings of two Supreme Court justices. She enlists the help of an investigative reporter ...
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The Client
: essential video:The exceptionally fine cast--Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, J.T. Walsh, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Edwards, William H. Macy, Anthony LaPaglia, Ossie Davis, and Brad Renfro--goes a long way toward making The Client one of the more solidly enjoyable screen adaptations of a John Grisham southern gothic legal thriller. Teen-hearthrob Renfro is a natural, playing a kid whose life is in jeopardy after he witnesses the death of a Mob lawyer. Susan Sarandon is the attorney who decides to look after the boy; nobody can match her when it comes to playing strong ...
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The Silence of the Lambs
:Description:A psychopath nicknamed Buffalo Bill is murdering women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide clues to the killer's actions. That prisoner is psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a brilliant, diabolical cannibal who agrees to help Starling only if she'll feed his morbid curiosity with details of her own complicated life. As their relationship develops, Starling is forced to confront not only her own hidden demons, but also an evil so powerful that she may ...
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Deep Rising
: :Following in the reptilian slime trail of Anaconda, this derivative monster movie from early 1998 plays like a cross between Titanic and Tremors, with parts of Aliens tossed in for good measure. Director Stephen Sommers couldn't recognize an original idea if it swallowed him whole--which, by the way, is exactly what happens to a lot of passengers on a luxury ship that is attacked by a giant serpent-like sea creature with a voracious appetite for human flesh. Treat Williams plays the leader of a mercenary crew whose members discover the ravaged ship and ...
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The Ruby Princess Runs Away
:Description:Every girl wants to be a princess, doesn't she? Not Roxanne (Michelle Horn, Lion King 2, Return to the Secret Garden, Family Law). She'd rather climb trees and run in the meadows than rule the Red Mountains. When Gallivant the Wizard arrives to crown the four Jewel Princesses, that's Roxanne's cue to run. She leaps out of her palace window into a very big adventure. With the help of Twitter (Cork Hubbert, Legend) and Hapgood the Dragon (voice of Harvey Korman, The Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles), Roxanne battles the evil Darklings, foils ...
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Bushwacked
:Description:Every girl wants to be a princess, doesn't she? Not Roxanne (Michelle Horn, Lion King 2, Return to the Secret Garden, Family Law). She'd rather climb trees and run in the meadows than rule the Red Mountains. When Gallivant the Wizard arrives to crown the four Jewel Princesses, that's Roxanne's cue to run. She leaps out of her palace window into a very big adventure. With the help of Twitter (Cork Hubbert, Legend) and Hapgood the Dragon (voice of Harvey Korman, The Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles), Roxanne battles the evil Darklings, foils ...
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Beniker Gang
:Description:Every girl wants to be a princess, doesn't she? Not Roxanne (Michelle Horn, Lion King 2, Return to the Secret Garden, Family Law). She'd rather climb trees and run in the meadows than rule the Red Mountains. When Gallivant the Wizard arrives to crown the four Jewel Princesses, that's Roxanne's cue to run. She leaps out of her palace window into a very big adventure. With the help of Twitter (Cork Hubbert, Legend) and Hapgood the Dragon (voice of Harvey Korman, The Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles), Roxanne battles the evil Darklings, foils ...
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