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Studio classic volume 33
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"The story centers on the O'Leary family, piioneer settlers whose eldest boys achieve notoriety and power in bustling Chicago. After Jack gets elected mayor with the help of his popular brother Dion, the two lock horns over the future of Chicago's slums. Using his cabaret singer wife as a pawn in their dispute, Dion accelerates their intense rivalry as the whole town takes sides. It is not until a massive fire wipes out all of old Chicago that the...
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Based on true events, John McNaughton's film follows Henry's senseless killing sprees. Ex-convict Otis invites Henry to share his Chicago apartment and he becomes involved in Henry's killing sprees. Otis' sister comes to visit her brother, and she is fascinated with Henry and thinks his life resembles hers.
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Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids, and chaos ensues.
Cheaper...
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Next of kin : When his brother is murdered by a gangster, Chicago policeman Truman Gates is caught between his devotion to the law and his Appalachian family's desire for revenge.
Point Break : FBI agent Johnny Utah goes undercover to infiltrate a group of Southern California surfers suspected of being bank robbers.
Ghost : After being killed in an alley, a dead man tries to protect his fiancee from his killers who are after her next, using a woman...
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Henry, a psychopathic drifter who has left a trail of bodies in his wake, settles for a while at the dilapidated Chicago apartment of ex-prison mate Otis. Into this toxic environment comes Otis's younger sister Becky, who's fleeing an abusive marriage and looking for a place to stay. Deflecting her brother's incestuous advances, Becky finds herself attracted to Henry and sees him as a potential lover and herself as his possible savior.
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Police academy : The mayor decides to loosen the restrictions at the academy. Soon, the new class is overrun with misfits and losers who are all determined to make good, even though their superiors try to wash their hands of them every chance they can.
Spies like us: Chase and Aykroyd star as U.S. government spies who don't work out exactly as their superiors had hoped.
The outsiders: The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich...
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