Dabney Coleman
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Sarah Nolan is divorced, demoralize and dateless until her sister posts her profile on perfectmatch.com. Now she has a lot of dates, mainly with weirdos, weepers, lechers and jocks. Then she meets Jake, a soulful boat builder whose idea of true love comes straight from the movies. Jake is attractive, smart and maybe a bit too intense for Sarah, so she passes him by. But in passing him up, she may be passing up a real chance for love.
A romance in...
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Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction puts their religious convictions to the test, and also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship...
4) Tootsie
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Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
5) WarGames
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Young electronics wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation.
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Atlantic City, 1921. In a city whose fortunes have soared in the wake of Prohibition, Nucky Thompson is paying a steep price for wielding ultimate power in 'the world's playground'. Though the 1920 election is over, Nucky finds himself the target of a federal investigation for vote tampering, and an insurrection by those he counted among his closest allies.
10) Amos & Andrew
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When a successful African-American author buys a house on an exclusive New England resort island, local law enforcement mistakes him for a thief and nearly kills him in a hilariously bungled attempt to protect the estate. But things go from loony to just plain wacky when the town's Police Chief attempts to cover up the embarrassing details of the event by planting a convicted criminal in the house to take the rap!
12) Nine to five
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Three female office workers combine forces to take revenge on their deceitful, egotistical, and thoroughly chauvinistic boss.
13) Dragnet
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A comedy that pays homage to the famed original police drama of the '50s and '60s. The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew (Aykroyd) of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner (Hanks) to rescue the City of Angels from the machinations of a power-mad reverend (Plummer) and a corrupt police commissioner.
14) 9 to 5
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Three secretaries live every female worker's dream after discovering they share the same resentment towards their sexist boss.
15) On Golden Pond
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Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
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Based on a true story, hard-luck milkman Melvin Dummar picks up a bum in the Nevada desert. The old man claims to be Howard Hughes and eight years later, Dummar finds himself a beneficiary in the Hughes will. Dummar becomes an instant celebrity while trying to cash in on the fortune.
17) Tootsie
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Criterion collection volume 738
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English
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Follows the increasingly elaborate deception of a down-on-his-luck New York actor who disguises himself as a woman to get a coveted soap opera gig; while his female persona skyrockets to fame, he finds himself learning to be a better man.
18) Cloak & Dagger
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11-year-old Davey has retreated into a world of video games and an imaginary hero-pal. When an FBI agent about to be murdered slips him a video cartridge containing top-secret data, Davey is plunged into the intrigue and danger of real-life espionage.
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"Based on an actual incident reported in 'Time' magazine, Sydney Pollack's feature film directorial debut deals with a woman [who] takes an overdose of prescription pills and calls a crisis clinic for help. [A] college volunteer tries to keep the suicidal woman on the line while asking the police to trace the call"--Container.
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You've got mail: Cinematic love letter in which superstore book chain magnate Hanks and cozy children's bookshop owner Ryan are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware they are combative business rivals. Includes two delightful new featurettes: Delivering You've Got Mail and You've Got Chemistry; an interview with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan; A Conversation With Nora Ephron; and more.
The shop around the corner: "Two employees...