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Jim Sturgess |
Kevin Spacey |
Aaron Yoo |
Jacob Pitts |
Laurence Fishburne |
Jack McGee |
Josh Gad |
Sam Golzari |
Jack Gilpin |
Butch Williams |
Jeffrey Ma |
Frank Patton |
Steven Richard Vezina |
Chaska T. Werner |
Kyle Morris |
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.
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Edward Norton |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Barry Pepper |
Rosario Dawson |
Anna Paquin |
Brian Cox |
Tony Siragusa |
Levani Outchaneichvili |
Tony Devon |
Misha Kuznetsov |
Isiah Whitlock Jr. |
Michael Genet |
Patrice O'Neal |
Al Palagonia |
Aaron Stanford |
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Spike Lee |
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The 25th Hour depicts the last day of freedom for a young man before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. Prowling through the city until dawn with his two close male friends and his girlfriend, he is forced to re-examine his life and how he got himself into his predicament, which leads to a shocking, disturbing finale.
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Thriller |
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Clint Eastwood |
Gene Hackman |
Ed Harris |
Laura Linney |
Scott Glenn |
Dennis Haysbert |
Judy Davis |
E.G. Marshall |
Melora Hardin |
Kenneth Welsh |
Penny Johnson |
Richard Jenkins |
Mark Margolis |
Elaine Kagan |
Alison Eastwood |
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Clint Eastwood |
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Luther Whitney is a professional thief, who only works occasionally. He is planning what is suppose to be his last job, and everything is going smoothly until some come in before he can leave. He hides in a secret room and from behind a one-way mirror sees that it's the wife of the owner of the house he is robbing and another man. They are fooling around when the guy decides to liven things up by striking her, she get away but he corners her, she then grabs a letter opener and is about to stab him when he cries out for help when two men come in and shoot her dead. It seems that the man is Alan Richmond, the President of the United States and the two men are the secret service agents assigned to him. Later, a woman, Gloria Russell, who is his Chief of Staff enters and upon learning of what has happened, decides to cover it up and make it appear that she was killed by a burglar. After sanitizing the room, they are about to leave but they forget the letter opener, Whitney comes out of the room and takes it and makes his getaway but when they returned for the letter opener they discover Whitney and chase him but he gets away. The police investigate the murder and there are so many inconsistencies, which makes the investigator, Seth Frank suspect that something is going on. Frank then discovers that Whitney is a possible suspect but the only thing is that he doesn't believe that Whitney is a killer. Whitney tries to leave town but when he learns just how corrupt and amoral Richmond is he decides to play mind games with him and the others. Richmond, at the same time, tells them that Whitney must be silenced permanently.
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Adaptation.
[2002,
USA] from $1.99
Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives t...
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Nicolas Cage |
Meryl Streep |
Chris Cooper |
Cara Seymour |
Tilda Swinton |
Bill Livingston |
Brian Cox |
Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Judy Greer |
Jim Beaver |
Litefoot |
Doug Jones |
Jim Tavaré |
Stephen Tobolowsky |
Roger Willie |
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Spike Jonze |
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Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.
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Action |
Adventure |
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Thriller |
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Ethan Hawke |
Vincent Spano |
Josh Hamilton |
Bruce Ramsay |
John Newton |
David Kriegel |
Kevin Breznahan |
Sam Behrens |
Illeana Douglas |
Jack Noseworthy |
Christian J. Meoli |
Jake Carpenter |
Michael DeLorenzo |
José Zúñiga |
Danny Nucci |
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Frank Marshall |
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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God.
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Thriller |
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Donald Sutherland |
Sissy Spacek |
James D'Arcy |
Rachel Hurd-Wood |
Matthew Marsh |
Thom Fell |
Zoe Thorne |
Gaye Brown |
Sam Alexander |
Miquel Brown |
Vernon Dobtcheff |
Shauna Shim |
Madalina Stan |
Philip Hurdwood |
Vlad Cruceru |
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Courtney Solomon |
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In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe Batts, who has a fame of being a witch. From this moment on, an entity threatens John and her daughter Betsy Bell, attacking the girl during the nights. With the support of Betsy's school teacher Richard Powell, who tries to find rational explanations for the manifestation; her brother John Bell Jr.; and their friend James Johnston, who unsuccessfully tries to exorcize the entity from the house, the family does their best to protect Betsy in the haunted house.
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Amy Irving |
Olivia de Havilland |
Jan Niklas |
Nicolas Surovy |
Susan Lucci |
Elke Sommer |
Edward Fox |
Claire Bloom |
Omar Sharif |
Rex Harrison |
Jennifer Dundas |
Christian Bale |
Andrea Bretterbauer |
Sydney Bromley |
Arnold Diamond |
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Marvin J. Chomsky |
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Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia.
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Animation |
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Michael J. Fox |
Corey Burton |
Claudia Christian |
James Garner |
John Mahoney |
Phil Morris |
Leonard Nimoy |
Don Novello |
Jacqueline Obradors |
Florence Stanley |
David Ogden Stiers |
Natalie Strom |
Cree Summer |
Jim Varney |
Jim Cummings |
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Gary Trousdale |
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Set in 1914, young linguist orphan named Milo Thatch buries himself in books trying to unlock the secret to the destruction of Atlantis. Althouth his theories are ridiculed by his colleagues he is persistent in his dreams of one day discovering the lost isle. His dreams are realized when he is given a spot in an expedition, financed by a friend of his grandfather, to go in search of Atlantis following Milo's guide: The Shepard's Journal. But the Guardians of Atlantis await the explorers putting them in danger at every turn. And the deadly truth about Atlantis's demise puts Milo, the royal family, and all of Atlantis in mortal jeopardy.
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Biography |
Drama |
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Greg Kinnear |
Willem Dafoe |
Rita Wilson |
Maria Bello |
Ron Leibman |
Bruce Solomon |
Michael E. Rodgers |
Kurt Fuller |
Christopher Neiman |
Lyle Kanouse |
Donnamarie Recco |
Ed Begley Jr. |
Michael McKean |
Cheryl Lynn Bowers |
Don McManus |
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Paul Schrader |
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Capitalizing on his fame as the star of "Hogan's Heroes," Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978, which remains officially unsolved to this day.
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Bat*21
[1988,
USA] from $1.99
Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him... And only one man can save him.
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