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Mother Lode
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Cat Ballou
: :Long before Unforgiven deconstructed the Western, or Blazing Saddles lampooned it, Cat Ballou poked the genre in the eye. An altogether enjoyable comedy, the film is full of small surprises, big laughs, and wonderful character turns. Catherine Ballou (Jane Fonda) is a schoolteacher until a hired thug kills her daddy. To protect what she loves, she collects two petty criminals, a wisecracking hired hand, and a hired killer, Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin). Unfortunately, Shelleen is a raging drunk who ...
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Trojan War
:Description:How can a best friend become a guy's best girl? That's the problem facing Leah (Jennifer Love Hewitt of I Know What You Did Last Summer and TV's Party of Five), a sweet-natured teen with a major crush on her good pal Brad (Will Friedle of TV's Boy Meets World). Brad has a problem of his own. He's just discovered Brooke (Marley Shelton), his very beautiful high-school study mate, is also very willing. Once catch, though: no condom. So ...
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The Car
:Description:How can a best friend become a guy's best girl? That's the problem facing Leah (Jennifer Love Hewitt of I Know What You Did Last Summer and TV's Party of Five), a sweet-natured teen with a major crush on her good pal Brad (Will Friedle of TV's Boy Meets World). Brad has a problem of his own. He's just discovered Brooke (Marley Shelton), his very beautiful high-school study mate, is also very willing. Once catch, though: no condom. So ...
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Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Amazon.com Exclusive)
:Description:The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
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Love Story
: :Strife-torn America wanted a meat-and-potatoes romance in the late '60s, and the country embraced Erich Segal's slim, generic-sounding novel in a big way. It did so again for the film adaptation in 1970, starring Ryan O'Neal as a law student who defies his rich and powerful father (Ray Milland) on every issue, including the former's love for a music student (Ali MacGraw). The two marry, start life together...and then the Grim Reaper turns up at the door. Directed by ...
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Never Been Kissed
: :Let's get this straight: Drew Barrymore started a production company to develop original scripts outside of Hollywood and the first project she chose to produce was this, a romantic comedy written by USC grads Abby Kohn and Mark Silverstein about a nerdy, virginal woman who returns to high school as an undercover reporter, finally gets to be popular, and falls in love. And Barrymore decided, as producer, that the perfect actress to play this virtuous, clean-cut, and downright annoying ...
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Bubble Boy
: :Innocuous, innocent, and somewhat idiotic, Disney's bubbleheaded road-movie comedy plays as a farcical remake of the 1976 cult TV-movie melodrama The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Jake Gyllenhaal is the goodhearted innocent raised in a sort of human Habitrail of plastic rooms and rubber tunnels. To win back the girl of his dreams (Marley Shelton), he steps out of his indoor greenhouse and into a homemade Ziplock bubble suit. It's the usual story: naive innocent bounces down the highway ...
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I Want to Live (1958)
: :Susan Hayward won an Academy Award® for her performance in the compelling 1958 classic I Want to Live! Hayward plays Barbara Graham, a 'good-time girl' with a heart of gold and absolutely no instincts about when to drop a bad association. After bouncing in and out of the prison system for a series of petty crimes, Graham suddenly finds herself framed for murder and facing the death penalty. Hayward is simply marvelous, giving a wrenching, complex performance without ever ...
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Relative Values
: :Susan Hayward won an Academy Award® for her performance in the compelling 1958 classic I Want to Live! Hayward plays Barbara Graham, a 'good-time girl' with a heart of gold and absolutely no instincts about when to drop a bad association. After bouncing in and out of the prison system for a series of petty crimes, Graham suddenly finds herself framed for murder and facing the death penalty. Hayward is simply marvelous, giving a wrenching, complex performance without ever ...
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