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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far
Rated: PG
Directed by Richard Attenborough, this BAFTA-winning wartime drama details a pivotal day in 1944 when an Allied task force tried -- and failed -- to win World War II by seizing control of key bridges in Holland. The film boasts a cast of thousands (including Sean Connery, Robert Redford, James Caan, Anthony Hopkins and Laurence Olivier) and some of the most intense battle sequences ever captured on camera.
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A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale
121 minutes, Rated: R
In this evocative slice-of-life film, a Bronx boy (Lillo Brancato) grows to adulthood worshipping disparate heroes: his hardworking father (Robert De Niro), who drives a city bus, and the neighborhood mob boss (Chazz Palminteri), who becomes a kind of surrogate dad. Joe Pesci co-stars in De Niro's debut as a feature film director, adapted from Palminteri's funny and touching play of the same name.
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A Brother's Kiss
A Brother's Kiss
92 minutes, Rated: R
Raised by their trampy, alcoholic mother (Cathy Moriarty), two brothers grow up in Harlem on divergent paths after a grim event sends one of them to reform school. With his dream of a pro basketball career in ruins, the unemployed Lex (Nick Chinlund) turns to selling drugs. Meanwhile, his shy brother, Mick (Michael Raynor), becomes a high-strung, sexually dysfunctional cop. Mick is losing respect for his brother, but will he lose him completely?
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A Bucket Of Blood
A Bucket Of Blood
66 minutes, Rated: Not Rated
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A Christmas Carol (1938)
A Christmas Carol
70 minutes, Rated: NR
Briskly helmed by Edwin L. Marin, this adaptation of Charles Dickens's yuletide classic stars Reginald Owen as miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who gets a last chance to redeem himself on Christmas Eve through the intercession of three spirits. The film boasts a fine MGM supporting cast that includes Leo G. Carroll, Barry Mackay, Ann Rutherford, Terry Kilburn and June Lockhart, who makes her big-screen debut as one of the cheery Cratchit children.
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A Christmas Carol (1951)
A Christmas Carol
86 minutes, Rated: NR
Considered by many to be the classic adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, this 1951 version stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, the callous miser visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. Michael Hordern plays the spirit who successfully haunts the old man. Co-starring in this seamless sketch of Dickens' England are Hermione Baddeley, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison and a young Patrick Macnee.
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A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
94 minutes, Rated: PG
Humorist Jean Shepard's nostalgic view of Christmastime in Indiana during the 1940s is a holiday classic. Nine-year-old Ralphie desperately wants a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas and wages an all-out campaign to convince his reluctant parents (Darren McGavin and Melinda Dillon) that the toy is safe. Meanwhile, as Ralphie prepares for the big day, his brother has a strange relationship with food, and his dad fights the never-ending furnace battle.
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A Cinderella Story
A Cinderella Story
95 minutes, Rated: PG
In this modern take on the classic fairy tale, Hilary Duff plays the Cinderella character, a California high school student named Sam who scrubs floors at her stepmother's (Jennifer Coolidge) diner while dreaming of attending Princeton. But when Sam's anonymous email crush (Chad Michael Murray) confesses he's the quarterback of the school's football team, Sam panics, certain she's not cool enough to date him.
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A Civil Action
A Civil Action
Rated: PG-13
In this drama based on a true story, John Travolta stars as a personal-injury lawyer who sues a major corporation when the drinking water in Woburn, Mass., is found to contain high levels of industrial solvents. Believing the contamination is responsible for the large number of leukemia deaths among the town's children, the citizens -- lead by a woman (Kathleen Quinlan) whose child has died -- hire a lawyer to take on the corporate polluters.
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A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
136 minutes, Rated: R
In this Stanley Kubrick classic based on Anthony Burgess's novel, teenage miscreant Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) wanders aimlessly amid a bleak, futuristic urban landscape, drinking drugged milk and listening to Beethoven with his fellow "droogs." But he also spends his time stealing, raping and beating innocent people in nihilistic orgies of violence, all in an attempt to get his nightly kicks.
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A Cool Dry Place
A Cool Dry Place
97 minutes, Rated: PG-13
It's Kramer vs. Kramer for a new generation when struggling lawyer Russell (Vince Vaughn) gets dumped by his wife, Kate (Monica Potter). Russell promptly packs it up (his baggage includes a 4-year-old son) and hikes it to Kansas, where he soon falls in love with a corn-fed "natural girl," Beth (Joey Lauren Adams). But things get stickier than a hayfield in August when Kate turns up wanting custody of her son.
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A Cry in the Dark
A Cry in the Dark
120 minutes, Rated: PG-13
In this wrenching drama based on a true story, Meryl Streep plays Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who finds herself under suspicion of murder after her infant daughter is carried off by a dingo during a family camping trip. Lindy insists that the animal killed her baby, but police note inconsistencies in her story and charge her with the crime. Meanwhile, the media proceeds to hound the distraught family at every turn. Sam Neill co-stars.
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A Dirty Shame
A Dirty Shame
89 minutes, Rated: NC-17
Acclaimed filmmaker John Waters returns to his favorite city, Baltimore, for this side-splitting film starring Tracey Ullman as Sylvia Stickles, a convenience-store worker who becomes a raging sexaholic after a minor accident. But her newfound lust is more a hassle than a gift, igniting class warfare on her street, Harford Road. Johnny Knoxville, Chris Isaak and Selma Blair co-star. Waters's muse, Patty Hearst, makes her usual cameo.
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A Dog's Breakfast
A Dog's Breakfast
88 minutes, Rated: NR
In this black comedy, Hollywood makeup artist Marilyn (Kate Hewlett) is thrilled when she gets engaged to TV star Ryan (Paul McGillion), but the situation goes to the dogs when her overprotective brother Patrick (David Hewlett) learns that Marilyn's fiancé is plotting her murder. Things get out of hand when Patrick tries to save his little sister from her killer hubby-to-be, pushing the siblings' tight-knit family to the brink of insanity.
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A Family Affair
A Family Affair
Rated: NR
Dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker Rachel (Helen Lesnick) moves to San Diego, where her parents now live, in search of a new life and a new love. When her mother, who's adapted quite well to the laid-back California scene, wants to set Rachel up with a woman named Christine, Rachel refuses at first. But after relenting and meeting Christine, she finds herself in a real romance … and that's when Rachel's old flame, Reggie, pops up unexpectedly.
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
152 minutes, Rated: NR
Adapted from Ernest Hemingway's World War I novel, this drama centers on American soldier Lt. Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson). While serving in the Italian Army, Henry has an affair with nurse Catherine Barkley (Jennifer Jones), and she becomes pregnant. The two lose touch, and Catherine is certain Henry's moved on to greener pastures. But he manages to track her down in Switzerland and arrives at her hospital bedside to find her clinging to life.
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A Few Good Men
A Few Good Men
138 minutes, Rated: R
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore), are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep (Jack Nicholson). Director Rob Reiner's probing drama earned four Oscar nominations, and Nicholson's line, "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" became a 1990s catchphrase.
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A Fish Without a Bicycle
A Fish Without a Bicycle
95 minutes, Rated: R
Landing the lead role in a local play should satisfy Jules (Jenna Mattison), but her high spirits are quickly deflated when she realizes she's fallen for the overbearing director (Bryan Callen). She thought she was in love with her fiancé and roommate, Danny (Brad Rowe), but now isn't sure, so she moves in with Vicki (Jennifer Blanc) to sort things out. To complicate matters, Jules's co-star, Ben (Brian Austin Green), won't leave her alone.
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A Fistful of Dollars
A Fistful of Dollars
99 minutes
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A Friend Of Mine
A Friend Of Mine
80 minutes, Rated: PG-13
Karl and Hans couldn't be more different. Karl is a young mathematician with a promising career; for Hans, friendship means sharing everything -- even Stelle, the queen of his heart.
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A Good Day to Be Black...
A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy
92 minutes
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A Good Year
A Good Year
118 minutes, Rated: PG-13
Oscar winner Ridley Scott directs this adaptation of Peter Mayle's best-selling novel, following the romantic misadventures of an Englishman who inherits a vineyard from his uncle in Provence, France. When failed banker Max Skinner (Russell Crowe) moves abroad to accept what his late uncle (Albert Finney) left him, he meets a beautiful French woman (Marion Cotillard), along with an American (Abbie Cornish) who claims to be his long-lost cousin.
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A Great Day in Harlem
A Great Day in Harlem
60 minutes, Rated: NR
On a summer day in 1958, Esquire photographer Art Kane gathered 57 of the greatest jazz musicians in the world for a group photo in front of a Harlem brownstone. The picture forms the glue that holds Jean Bach's Oscar-nominated documentary together. While the film is nominally about the famous snapshot, Bach takes great care to capture the vibrant spirit of Harlem at the time through anecdotes from those who were there that day.
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A Guide to Recognizing...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
98 minutes, Rated: R
Robert Downey Jr. stars in director Dito Montiel's autobiographical coming-of-age drama set in blue-collar Queens, N.Y. While his young friends all seem to end up as junkies, inmates or corpses, Dito (Downey) miraculously escapes the same fate. He attributes that to divine intervention from a group of "saints," who are the same friends whose path he tries so hard to avoid. Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri, Shia LaBeouf and Rosario Dawson co-star.
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A History of Violence
A History of Violence
96 minutes, Rated: R
As operators of a small-town diner, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife (Maria Bello) are the picture of normalcy. But when Tom prevents a robbery and enjoys hero status in the local media, he attracts the wrong kind of attention from mobsters (Ed Harris and William Hurt) who think he's someone else. David Cronenberg (The Fly) directs this taut suspense-thriller based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke.
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A Hole in the Head
A Hole in the Head
120 minutes, Rated: NR
Tony (Frank Sinatra) is trying to keep his failing Miami hotel afloat while raising his 12-year-old son (Eddie Hodges). As a last resort, he's forced to ask his harried brother, Mario (Edward G. Robinson), for help, but he'll only bail Tony out if he marries a sensible woman. The trouble is, Tony isn't the sensible type -- until he meets Eloise (Eleanor Parker). This classic comedy from Frank Capra features the Oscar-winning song "High Hopes."
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A Home of Our Own
A Home of Our Own
104 minutes, Rated: PG
When a mother of six (Kathy Bates) finds herself widowed, poor and wanting to trade the dangers of 1960s Los Angeles for a more simple life in the country, she packs up the kids and all their belongings, and heads to rural Idaho. Here, she finds a place for her brood to live in exchange for work in this touching, bittersweet family drama about the importance of cooperation and overcoming hardship.
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A Jihad for Love
A Jihad for Love
Rated: NR
Documenting the quandary of gay Muslims via the perspective of subjects from countries such as India, Iran and Turkey, director Parvez Sharma chronicles their struggles to square their sexual orientation with their faith, which forbids homosexuality. Relating their compelling tales to the camera, the subjects (most expatriates) cling to their Islamic ideals in the face of a sharia interpretation that imposes the death penalty for homosexual acts.
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A Killing Affair
A Killing Affair
101 minutes
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A Knight's Tale
A Knight's Tale
132 minutes, Rated: PG-13
Rock 'n' roll meets The Canterbury Tales when a youthful squire (Heath Ledger) befriends an aspiring writer and persuades him to forge illegal documents that will pass the squire off as a bona fide knight of noble birth. With his new "history" in hand, the erstwhile squire finds romance with a beautiful lady (Shannyn Sossamon) and enters jousting competitions far and wide -- all set to the infectious beat of contemporary pop tunes.
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