Rip Torn
2) Beach red
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Focuses on the efforts of an American Marine unit to capture a small Japanese-held island during World War II.
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The spectacular but unforgiving terrain of 1927 Vermont sets the stage for this collision between high-stakes progress and a frontier way of life. Legendary Yankee log-driver, Noel Lord defies power company boss, Clayton Farnsworth who orders Lord and his feisty American Indian mate off their soon-to-be flooded land. Farnsworth never met a man he couldn't buy... but then, he'd never met Noel Lord.
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Daniel Miller was tooling along a Los Angeles boulevard listening to Barbra Streisand sing "Something's Coming" when something came - a bus. One head-on crash later, Daniel wakes up deceased. And his troubles are just beginning ... Meryl Streep joins writer/director/star Brooks ... for a witty peek at the afterlife where you can eat all you want and not gain an ounce. But there's a catch: you're saddled with Defending Your Life. If you can't make...
6) Wonder boys
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During a single weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control. An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet and a failing marriage are just a few of the crises piling up.
8) Heartland
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"In 1910 Elinore Randall, a widow, and her seven-year-old daughter travel by train to face two great unknowns-- a strange land and life with a man they have never met. Elinore has contracted by mail to keep house for Clyde Stewart, a rancher living in the remote frontier near Burntfork, Wyoming. Captivated by the vast landscape, Elinore acts quickly on her secret passion: to homestead a piece of land of her own. But fulfilling her year's contract...
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Ethan, an eccentric, agoraphobic drug addict, faces eviction unless he can win the cash prize in the local Garden of the Year contest. Challenged by his bizarre neighbors, Ethan hilariously tries to grow the perfect 'American Cowslip,' a rare flower that will smoke the competition.
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Larry Sanders is a neurotic late-night talk show host flanked by Artie his caustic, foul mouthed producer and 'Hey Now' Hank Kingsley his hopelessly insecure, ethically inept side-kick. Off-air it is all train-wrecks and egos, but when the lights go down, and the theme music kicks in, it is nothing but late-night at its finest. Includes seventeen original episodes, personal visits with Alec Baldwin and Jerry Seinfeld, deleted scenes, outtakes, and...
12) Cross Creek
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In 1928, frustrated newspaper reporter Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings leaves her husband and career and moves to an isolated orange grove in the Florida bayou to concentrate on writing fiction.
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The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
15) April morning
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Drama about the bloody confrontation at Lexington, Mass. which precipitated the American Revolution, as seen through the experiences of one family.
16) The golden boys
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Set in 1905 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Zebulon 'Zeb' Hedge, Perez Ryder, and Jeremiah 'Jerry' Burgess are three retired sea captains have been keeping house together as a way to moderate the loneliness of their retirements. Chaos reigns in the house where dirty dishes, dust and disorder have become their bane. Together they hatch a plan to solve their problem. They'll flip coins and the loser must get married and take the other two in as boarders....
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Peter LaFleur is a charismatic underachiever and the proprietor of a rundown gym called Average Joe's. The facility has an ecclectic and eccentric clientele. Peter's humble gym catches the eye of White Goodman, the power-mullet-sporting, egomaniacal owner of Globo Gym. Globo is a gleaming monolith of fitness. White intends to take over Average Joe's, and Peter's non-existent bookkeeping is making it all too easy for him. A foreclosing bank has stationed...
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An ambitious but charming young man returns to his home town after a prolonged stay in Hollywood. He brings with him a once beautiful but now faded movie queen with the intention of capitalizing upon her fame for his own ends. But when he rekindles an affair with a former flame, he brings down the wrath of her father, a local political boss who swears revenge.
19) Happy tears
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Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle; their father Joe. Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne refuses to believe that their father's condition is serious. Joe still sings and plays the blues on his prized guitar, and the lively widower even...
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Criterion collection volume 304
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An alien, on mission a mission to obtain water, becomes a head of a large corporation. Ultimately, he is overwhelmed by American capitalism and a relationship with a women. Includes director Roeg's full uncut version.