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Doubt |
Set in 1964 at St. Nicholas Church in the Bronx, Fr. Brendan Flynn's (Philip Seymour Hoffman) progressive views and charismatic presence have won him the respect and admiration of the congregation. At the parish school, principal Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) keeps her students in line with old-fashioned fear and intimidation. When young Sister James (Amy Adams) shares with Sister Aloysius her concern that that Father Flynn has "taken an interest" in twelve-year-old Donald Miller...
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Set in 1964 at St. Nicholas Church in the Bronx, Fr. Brendan Flynn's (Philip Seymour Hoffman) progressive views and charismatic presence have won him the respect and admiration of the congregation. At the parish school, principal Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) keeps her students in line with old-fashioned fear and intimidation. When young Sister James (Amy Adams) shares with Sister Aloysius her concern that that Father Flynn has "taken an interest" in twelve-year-old Donald Miller (Joseph Foster), the school's "first Negro student," the older nun launches her own investigation.
Determined to protect every one of her charges, Sister Aloysius attempts to use the evidence she discovers to have Flynn removed from the school. John Patrick Shanley's finely shaded script takes audiences through a spectrum of truth, emotion and belief, and asks if any decision is ever free from doubt.
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The Savages |
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back on their undeniably dysfunctional family legacy. Wendy (Academy Award nominee Laura Linney) is a self medicating struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants and stealing office supplies, dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman) is an obsessive compulsive college professor writing obscure books on even more obscure subjects in Buffalo who...
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The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back on their undeniably dysfunctional family legacy. Wendy (Academy Award nominee Laura Linney) is a self medicating struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants and stealing office supplies, dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman) is an obsessive compulsive college professor writing obscure books on even more obscure subjects in Buffalo who still can't commit to his girlfriend after four years even though her cooking brings him tears of joy. Then, out of the blue, comes the call that changes everything the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Tony Award winner Philip Bosco), has lost his marbles. And there is no one to help him but his kids. Now, as they put the middle of their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, soon rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and the ultimate sibling rivalry battle over how to handle their father's final days, they are forced to face the past and finally start to realize what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.
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Charlie Wilson's War |
The true story of how a playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Their efforts contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, with consequences that reverberate throughout the world today.
Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) was a bachelor congressman from Texas who had a habit of showing up in hot tubs with strippers and cocaine. His "Good Time Charlie"...
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The true story of how a playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Their efforts contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, with consequences that reverberate throughout the world today.
Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) was a bachelor congressman from Texas who had a habit of showing up in hot tubs with strippers and cocaine. His "Good Time Charlie" exterior, however, masked an extraordinary mind, a deep sense of patriotism and a passion for the underdog, and in the early 1980s the underdog was Afghanistan--which had just been brutally invaded by the Russians.
Charlie's longtime friend and patron and sometime lover was Joanne Herring (Julia Roberts), one of the wealthiest women in Texas and a virulent anti-communist. Believing the American response to the Russian invasion was anemic at best, she prods Charlie into doing more for the Mujahideen (Afghan freedom fighters).
Charlie's partner in this uphill endeavour is CIA Agent Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a blue-collar operative in a company of Ivy League blue bloods. Together, the three of them--Charlie, Joanne and Gust--travel the world to form unlikely alliances among the Pakistanis, Israelis, Egyptians, arms dealers, law makers and a belly dancer.
Their success was remarkable. Funding for covert operations against the Soviets went from $5 million to $1 billion annually. The Red Army retreated out of Afghanistan. When asked how a group of peasants was able to deliver such a decisive blow to the army of a superpower, Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq responded simply, "Charlie did it."
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Strangers with Candy |
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Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) is a forty-seven year old ex-con who decides to return to her childhood home after thirty-two years working the streets and in prison. Upon her arrival, she discovers her father is in a self-induced coma. Hoping to wake him, Jerri decides to turn her life around by picking it up exactly where she left off – as a high school freshman. But for a former boozer, user and loser, hanging with the ‘in’ crowd is going to be harder than turning tricks!
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Mission: Impossible III |
Special Agent Ethan Hunt returns but this time he has withdrawn from active duty to focus on his personal life. Still involved with IMF as an instructor, Ethan is drawn back into the field when one of his former students is captured.
When the extraction doesn't go as smoothly as planned, Ethan becomes the target of an investigation when it becomes clear that a mole is working deep within IMF. On the run and cut off from his agency, Ethan and rag tag group of IMF agents must get to the...
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Special Agent Ethan Hunt returns but this time he has withdrawn from active duty to focus on his personal life. Still involved with IMF as an instructor, Ethan is drawn back into the field when one of his former students is captured.
When the extraction doesn't go as smoothly as planned, Ethan becomes the target of an investigation when it becomes clear that a mole is working deep within IMF. On the run and cut off from his agency, Ethan and rag tag group of IMF agents must get to the bottom of the conspiracy before a new technology codenamed "Rabbit's Foot" falls into the wrong hands.
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Capote |
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While researching his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.
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The Party's Over |
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The Party's Over follows Philip Seymour Hoffman as a concerned citizen on an uncensored journey of the state of democracy in America. The film examines how the American political process addresses, and often fails to address, the country's most pressing issues. As we countdown to the pivotal 2004 election, the film answers the question, is there a difference between Republicans and Democrats? In the film Philip Seymour Hoffman interviews Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Jackson, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Moore, and Bill Maher.
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Owning Mahowny |
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The true story about a mild-mannered bank manager with mounting debt and a serious gambling problem, who plays with the bank's money in an attempt to beat the odds and stay in the game.
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Punch Drunk Love |
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After growing up with seven sisters, falling in love seems impossible for Barry Egan (Sandler). Barry, a small business owner with a few peculiarities and prone to fits of rage, is content with being alone until a mysterious woman (Watson) enters his life, then his romantic journey begins.
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Love Liza |
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After the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, Wilson Joel (Hoffman) becomes a gas-fumes addict trying to deal with her death. He's inevitably confronted by his mother-in-law (Bates) as well, one meeting he wants to avoid.
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25th Hour |
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A handsome, young white man from Manhattan goes to jail tomorrow for seven years after being convicted on drug charges. He sees the world though completely different eyes when faced with prison walls for years to come.
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Red Dragon |
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Before the Silence of the Lambs comes the first and most thrilling chapter of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. FBI agent Will Graham has been called out of an early retirement to catch a serial killer, known by authorities as "The Tooth Fairy".
He asks for the help of his arch-nemesis, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, so that he can catch "The Tooth Fairy" and bring him to justice. The only problem is that "The Tooth Fairy" is getting inside
information about Graham and his family from none other than Dr. Lecter.
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G Force Movie Review
