James Gandolfini
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This is a deeply moving portrait of Maurice Sendak, a seminal talent who is conflicted with his success, and whose lifelong obsession with death has subtly and ironically influenced his work. Now 81, Sendak is best known for his first book, Where the wild things are, which he wrote after spending ten years as an illustrator. Through his own words, firsthand photos, and illustrations, Sendak offers a rare, intimate, and unexpected look at his exceptional...
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In Training day, Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris.
In Fallen, detective John Hobbes is searching for a criminal he's already met, already caught and already killed.
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For Tony, there's no such thing as business as usual. Balancing the demands of his immediate family with the demands of his other family -- Paulie Walnuts, Silvio Dante and Big Pussy Bonpensiero -- means walking a tightrope no self-respecting mobster should have to walk. With his mother and uncle plotting against him, his older sister Janice wreaking her own special kind of havoc, and the very real threat that one of his closest allies is wired by...
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Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
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Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
87) Nicky Deuce
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Nicholas Borelli II is an over-protected teen who has the adventure of a lifetime when his plans to attend math camp go awry. He spends the summer in Brooklyn, NY with family he never knew he had; his Italian grandmother Tutti and Uncle Frankie. Nicholas leans on the local kids to help him fit in and winds up mistakenly into his new persona, Nicky Deuce. Nicky uncovers family secrets.
88) A civil action
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A high-priced personal injury attorney represents eight families whose children died of leukemia after large corporations let toxic waste leak into the water supply in the Boston area. He puts his career, reputation and all that he owns on the line for the rights of his clients.
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His service to his country made him a hero. But one mistake made him a prisoner. For General Eugene Irwin, it's just a matter of serving out his sentence until he makes the shocking discovery that his fellow inmates are being murdered. Now, Irwin is taking command one last time and unifying the inmates in a desperate battle to overcome a brutally corrupt system and show the world the truth.
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The devil's own: after seeing British soldiers gun down his father as a child, Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) joins the Irish Republican Army, determined to avenge his father's death, and sails to America to buy weapons from an underground arms dealer. Going by the alias of Rory Devaney, Frankie moves into the home of cop Tom O'Meara (Harrison Ford), who, when he learns of Rory's agenda, must choose between his sympathy for a troubled man and his desire...
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Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
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New York Metropolitan Transit Authority train dispatcher Walter Garber's day is turned upside down when he must face-off against Ryder, the criminal mind that has hijacked the passengers of subway train, Pelham 1-2-3. Ryder is the leader of a highly-armed gang of four, including a henchman who used to work for the MTA. NYPD Hostage Negotiator Detective Camonetti initially takes charge of the situation, but quickly realizes that Ryder will only deal...
93) True romance
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Two lovers skip town after an accidental murder and hit the road to L.A. with the mob in pursuit.
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Trading places: A bet between two millionaires leads a successful Wall Street businessman and a con artist to trade lives. Last holiday: When doctors tell her she has less than a month to live, a New Orleans sales clerk decides to live her life to the fullest in the time she has left. Surviving Christmas: Longing for Christmas traditions he never had, a rich executive rents an all-American family for the holidays. All I want for Christmas: Two siblings...