Touchstone Pictures
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DeGeneres plays a thirty-something neurotic Los Angeles bookstore owner who manages to get through her daily follies with the help of her loyal friends. While confronting contemporary social issues, Ellen serves up laughs and offbeat goofiness. Season four includes the famous two-part episode in which Ellen comes out.
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In the mid-1780s, widower Thomas Jefferson replaces Benjamin Franklin as the U.S. representative to French regents Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He tries to resist the beautiful Mrs. Cosway. Also in Paris is Jefferson's daughter Patsy; when another daughter dies back in Virginia, Jefferson sends for his youngest, who brings along her slave, Sally Hemings, then 15, whom he also finds irresistible.
9) Phenomenon
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A simple, small town garage mechanic who suddenly develops amazing mental abilities must face governmental investigation, scientific scrutiny, and ostracism by even his closest friends. But with the love and support of a young single mother, he is finally able to accept his lot in life.
10) Unbreakable
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After David Dunn emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor, and without a single scratch on him, he meets a mysterious stranger. An unsettling stranger who believes comic book heroes walk the earth. A haunting stranger, whose obsession with David will change David's life forever.
12) Mumford
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When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford comes to the idyllic town of the same name, and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch.
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Rebecca Bloomwood is a young woman struggling with her debilitating obsession with shopping and the sudden collapse of her income source. She unintentionally lands a job writing for a Manhattan financial magazine after a drunken letter-mailing mix-up. Ironically, now Rebecca is writing about the very consumer caution of which she herself has not abided. Rebecca's innovative comparisons and unconventional metaphors for economics grants her critical...
14) Surrogates
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People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates - sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
15) Heartbreak hotel
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Heartbreak Hotel takes place in a small town in the year 1972, and tells the story of a young man who borrows his mom's pink Cadillac, kidnaps Elvis Presley and progresses through a series of outrageous events!
16) When in Rome
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An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter, and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?
17) Déjà vu
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A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families is blown up in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the recovery of evidence from the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit. The unit uses technology to directly look back in time a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head: would it be possible...
18) Open range
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Four men who are trying to escape their pasts drive cattle and live off the land on the open range. When a ruthless rancher tries to run them out of town, they must fight for their very existence, justice and a dissappearing way of life.
19) Sister act
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"A sassy low-rent lounge singer is forced to hide out from the mob in the last place anyone would look for her -- a convent. While she's there, her irreverent behavior attracts a flock of faithful followers and turns the nuns' tone-deaf choir into a soulful chorus of swingin', singin' sisters. But when the group earns rave reviews, her sudden celebrity jeopardizes her hidden identity"--Container.
20) Beloved
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Baruch video volume DVD 1777
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Beloved: On a journey to find freedom, Sethe is confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from out of her past reenters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope.
Their eyes were watching God: A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the mores...