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21) Must love dogs
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Sarah Nolan is divorced, demoralize and dateless until her sister posts her profile on perfectmatch.com. Now she has a lot of dates, mainly with weirdos, weepers, lechers and jocks. Then she meets Jake, a soulful boat builder whose idea of true love comes straight from the movies. Jake is attractive, smart and maybe a bit too intense for Sarah, so she passes him by. But in passing him up, she may be passing up a real chance for love.
A romance in...
22) Bewitched
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A feature film adaptation based on the long-running ABC television series. It tells the story of Samantha, a pretty modern day witch who tries to abandon her supernatural powers for the sake of her mortal husband Darren, but temptation gets in the way.
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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.
24) City of angels
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City of angels: Pragmatic heart surgeon Maggie doesn't believe in angels-- until she meets one. That angel is Seth, who can remain a spiritual being and live forever, or he can forsake his immortality on the chance that Maggie might love him.
Michael: Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert, " are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live angel...
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"Russ Richards [is] a weatherman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Russ is a local celebrity, but when an unusually mild winter causes his snowmobile dealership to take a plunge, Russ needs a get-rich scheme -- and fast. With his greedy girlfriend, the TV station's lotto-ball girl, and a criminally minded buddy, Russ hatches a plan to fix the lottery. Russ' numbers come up right, but then everything goes completely wrong, throwing Russ and his co-conspirators...
26) My blue heaven
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The Witness Protection Program is turned upside down by a mob informant and an FBI agent.
27) Mixed nuts
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A wild and wacky comedy about oddball characters in Los Angeles at Christmastime, centered around a suicide hotline service.
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You've got mail: Cinematic love letter in which superstore book chain magnate Hanks and cozy children's bookshop owner Ryan are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware they are combative business rivals. Includes two delightful new featurettes: Delivering You've Got Mail and You've Got Chemistry; an interview with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan; A Conversation With Nora Ephron; and more.
The shop around the corner: "Two employees...
29) Silkwood
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Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.
30) Silkwood
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The Oklahoma nuclear plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.
31) Heartburn
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"Rachel [is] a successful food writer who puts love and motherhood ahead of her career. Mark [is] a woman-chasing newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. She lives in New York. He lives in Washington, D. C. And if all those complications won't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will"--Container.
33) Heartburn (DVD)
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Rachel is a successful food writer who puts love and motherhood ahead of her career. Mark is a woman-chasing newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. She lives in New York, he lives in Washington, D.C., and if all those complications don't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will!
34) This is my life
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A salesgirl goes from Macy's cosmetics counter to stand-up comic, only to find her daughters unhappy with a famous mom who stays away longer than she promised and turns their personal lives into comedy material.
35) Lucky numbers
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Russ Richards, a weatherman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a local celebrity, but when an unusually mild winter causes his snowmobile dealership to take a plunge, Russ needs a get-rich scheme, and fast. With his greedy girlfriend, the TV's station's lotto-ball girl, and a criminally minded buddy, Russ hatches a plan to fix the lottery. Russ's numbers come upright, but then everything goes completely wrong, throwing Russ and his co-conspirators into...
36) Lucky Numbers
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John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow make a "high-energy comedy team" in this side-splittingly funny comedy inspired by a real-life scam to win the Pennsylvania lottery. Travolta "is truly irresistible" as Russ Richards, a weatherman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Russ is a local celebrity, but when an unusually mild winter causes his snowmobile dealership to take a plunge, Russ needs a get-rich scheme - and fast. With his greedy girlfriend (Lisa Kudrow) -...
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The Hours: In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is...
38) Michael
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Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert", are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live archangel named Michael.
39) Cookie
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Dino Capisco has just finished thirteen years in prison. Dino wants to get out of jail, settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter, Cookie. Dino decides that the best way to get to know Cookie is to hire her as his chauffeur. With her ears attuned to the conspiracies floating around Dino, she quickly discovers that her father's old crony has been swindling him and that Dino's life is in jeopardy.
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The notebook: A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences. Dirty dancing: Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle. How to lose a guy in 10 days: Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign,...