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When a Man Falls |
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When a lonely housewife (Sharon Stone) faces the reality of her dying marriage to Gary (Timothy Hutton), she seeks comfort in unlawful and forbidden activities.
While Gary takes to drinking away his troubles, he doesn't realize that things are falling apart around him -- until it's too late.
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The Last Mimzy |
Two children discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys. As the children play with these "toys," they begin to display higher and higher intelligence levels. Their teacher tells their parents that they seem to have grown beyond genius.
Their parents, too, realize something extraordinary is happening. Emma, the younger of the two, tells her confused mother that one of the toys, a beat-up stuffed toy rabbit, is named Mimzy and that "she teaches me...
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Two children discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys. As the children play with these "toys," they begin to display higher and higher intelligence levels. Their teacher tells their parents that they seem to have grown beyond genius.
Their parents, too, realize something extraordinary is happening. Emma, the younger of the two, tells her confused mother that one of the toys, a beat-up stuffed toy rabbit, is named Mimzy and that "she teaches me things." As Emma's mom becomes increasingly concerned, a blackout shuts down the city and the government traces the source of the power surge to Emma's family's house.
Things quickly spin wildly out of their control. The children are focused on these strange objects, Mimzy, and the important mission on which they seem to have been sent. When the little girl says that Mimzy contains a most serious message from the future, a scientific scan shows that Mimzy is part extremely high level electronic, and part organic!
Everyone realizes that they are involved in something incredible... but exactly what?
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Off the Black |
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A coming-of-age story of teenager Dave Tibbel who copes with his own distant father by forming an unlikely friendship with a disheveled, irascible high school umpire, Ray Cooke.
As they grow more dependent on each other, Ray asks Dave to go to his 40th high school reunion and pretend to be his son, a benevolent act of deception that winds up opening unexpected dimensions in the two men.
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Avenger |
You can run, but he will catch you. You can hide, but he will find you. Former Special Forces war hero Cal Dexter is a secret gun for hire. Driven by the tragic deaths of his wife and daughter, he makes it his mission to hunt down the thugs and war criminals governments refuse to bring to justice.
But his current quest could interfere with a CIA sting, and that puts a target on Dexter's back. He is both hunter and hunted. Sam Elliott stars as Dexter in this suspense thriller based on the...
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You can run, but he will catch you. You can hide, but he will find you. Former Special Forces war hero Cal Dexter is a secret gun for hire. Driven by the tragic deaths of his wife and daughter, he makes it his mission to hunt down the thugs and war criminals governments refuse to bring to justice.
But his current quest could interfere with a CIA sting, and that puts a target on Dexter's back. He is both hunter and hunted. Sam Elliott stars as Dexter in this suspense thriller based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) and executive-produced by Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, Poseidon). Timothy Hutton portrays the CIA handler ordered to make Dexter disappear. And Panama, Washington DC, Bosnia-Herzgovina and South Africa provide the settings for a gripping tale of justice with a vengeance.
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Last Holiday |
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After being diagnosed with a fatal disease, a shy sales clerk goes on a European vacation to live out the rest of her life.
With nothing to lose her behavior becomes more irreverent and outrageous each day, only to find out later she was misdiagnosed.
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Kinsey |
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The true story of an Indiana University researcher who blew open the bedroom doors on the sex lives of Americans in the 1940s. The controversial figure confronted the purist and repressed ideals of the time by asking intimate questions of the sex lives of thousands of people.
The landmark research and subsequent book started a cultural revolution that allowed Americans to express their sexual wants and desires openly.
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Secret Window |
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A writer coming off a bitter divorce retreats to his remote lake cabin to throw himself into his work. Things start to go wrong when a psychotic stranger stalks the writer claiming that he stole the idea of his latest book from him.
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Sunshine State |
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Two women return to their hometown to try and reconcile with their families. But upon their return, they see the town is changing due to business and real estate development, something else they must accept and come to terms with.
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Deliberate Intent |
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A grisly triple homicide rocks Maryland. An amateur, as it turns out, masterfully executed the crime. His number one accomplice - "Hit Man," a learner's guide to murder, in twenty-two easy to follow steps. Convinced, that the book incited its reader to kill, attorney for the family of the deceased, Howard Siegal, unites with law scholar, Rod Smolla, to bring the publisher of the book to justice. Based on a true story.
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Financial Crisis Hits Movies
