Elliott Gould
3) Switchmas
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A Christmas obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, WA.
5) Frog
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When Arlo, a young scientist and reptilian fanatic, introduces Suzie to his reptile world in preparation for their high school's science fair, she learns that trusting only what you can see will not take you as far as following your heart.
6) Red cat
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John March novels volume 3
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This riveting mystery finds Private Investigator John March descending into Manhattan’s dark and scandalous underworld to help a member of his own family. David March, John’s brother, has been having affairs with anonymous women he meets on the internet. Now one of these women is stalking him. David knows her only as Wren. She, however, knows everything about David—and she's threatening to tell his wife and colleagues, ruining his...
9) Humor Me
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With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community. But a chance encounter with the local community theatre group may help turn his life around … or signal the end of his once promising career for good.
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Eight times a week, from 1960 to 2002, the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village played midwife to a musical theater ritual that attracted theater-goers from across the globe. That show was the legendary and beloved Fantasticks, and for 42 years and 17,162 performances, a legion of performers—including future luminaries such as F. Murray Abraham, Ricardo Montalban, Elliott Gould, Liza Minnelli, Glenn Close, Richard Chamberlain...
11) The Automat
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Featuring an original new song written and performed by Mel Brooks, THE AUTOMAT, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, tells the 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers entertainer Mel Brooks, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Secretary of State Colin...
12) The deal
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A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
13) M*A*S*H
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Three Korean War Army surgeons adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospsital.
15) Capricorn One
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When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An investigative reporter gets wind that something is amiss...
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Poirot investigates the murder of an American heiress on the Blue Train. A young heiress is set to inherit her husband's considerable fortune until his family investigates further. Cora Abernathy calls on Poirot to investigate her brother's death, but his work is interrupted when Cora herself is murdered. Mr. Shaitana, a wealthy but mysterious Londoner, invites Poirot and others to an evening of dinner and bridge, but the affair turns deadly when...
18) Open window
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Living a happy life in Los Angeles, Izzy's life is forever changed when a brutal crime shatters her world. As Izzy battles the nightmares left behind, she finds an inner strength that transforms her and experiences the amazing power of love and forgiveness in surviving the unimaginable.
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In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
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The characters of Catch-22 are now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End.