David S. Ward
2) Major league
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She's beautiful and smart. She has just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami, and a losing season is her only ticket to Florida. She signs the wildest bunch of screwballs to play on the team. Her catcher is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her pitcher is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. Her third baseman is more concerned about fielding endorsements than grounders. Throw...
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1930s Chicago. After a friend is killed by the mob, two con men try to get even by attempting to pull off the ultimate "sting." No one is to be trusted as the twists unfold, leading up to the one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history.
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Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share penetrating insights and hilarious anecdotes in Peter Hanson’s Tales from the Script, the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants...
5) Cannery row
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In a rundown California town where the inhabitants struggle to survive and better themselves, a romance develops between a quiet marine biologist and a runaway supporting herself through prostitution.
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Sam Baldwin is a widowed father who, thanks to the wiles of his worried son, becomes a reluctant guest on a radio call-in show. He's an instant hit with thousands of female listeners who deluge his Seattle home with letters of comfort. Meanwhile, inspired in equal parts Sam's story and by classic Hollywood romance, writer Annie Reed becomes convinced it's her destiny to meet Sam.
7) Flyboys
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A story of the young Americans who volunteered to be part of the French military prior to the United States involvement in WWI, also known as Lafayette Escadrille, and how they became the country's first fighter pilots.
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She's beautiful, smart, goal-oriented, and she just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami, and a losing season is her only ticket to Florida. So she signs the wildest gang of screwballs that ever spit tobacco. They're handsome, but they're hopeless! Her catcher is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her ace pitcher is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. And her third baseman...
9) King Ralph
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A freak accident wipes out the entire royal family, and a good-natured, down-to-earth Las Vegas lounge singer, Ralph Jones, is the distant heir who inherits the throne. His unconventional behavior delights the public, but fuels a plot to overthrow the new king.
10) The Program
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"An inside look at the gritty action-packed world of Top 10 college football that follows the lives of a group of young athletes who come together from different worlds to pursue a dream. The ultimate story of what they must do to fight the pressure, face the pain and survive intercollegiate football. Talent unites them, competition divides them and their demanding coach stands by them, even when they fall"--Container.
12) Major league
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A beautiful, smart, goal-oriented woman has just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami. A losing season is her only ticket to Florida. She decides to sign the wildest gang of screwballs that ever played baseball. Her catcher is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her pitcher is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. Her third baseman is more concerned with fielding endorsements...
13) Down periscope
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A diesel-powered WWII sub with a misfit crew must take on the U.S. Navy's best in a crucial war game.
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Angles in the outfield: The California Angels are a struggling baseball team praying to win a pennant. Their luck changes as their biggest fan, 11-year-old Roger, begins giving the coach tips from a real live angel. The team not only climbs back into the pennant race, but learns to believe in themselves.
Field of dreams: A Iowa farmer hears a voice that instructs him to plow down his crops and construct a baseball field. After doing so, the field...
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Down Periscope: A diesel-powered WWII sub with a misfit crew must take on the U.S. Navy's best in a crucial war game.
Pushing tin: Two air traffic controllers have an intense rivalry and penchant for one-upmanship, causing hilarious havoc with their careers, marriages and planes in their airspace.
17) Major league II
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The diehard Cleveland Indians who went from worst to first in a wacky season now cope with fame and its perks as the team tries to hit, hustle and joke its way back to the top.
18) Major league II
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"They're back and better than ever. The diehard Cleveland Indians who went from worst to first now cope with fame and its perks as the team tries to hit, hustle and joke its way back to the top"--Container.
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48 hrs. (1982) (96 min.) (R) Renegade cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) pulls bank robber Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) from a federal prison on a 48-hour leave to help him capture Hammond's old partner. Having escaped from a prison work crew, Ganz is on a killing spree around San Francisco, on the trail of half a million dollars that went missing after one of his robberies. The cocky Reggie knows where the money is, but spars with the hotheaded Jack as...