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The Out-of-Towners

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Jack Lemon and Sandy Dennis are perfectly matched as the hapless Kellermans of Twin Oaks, Ohio, in Neil Simon's tumultuous comedy hit. The top candidate for a prestigious promotion at his company's corporate headquarters in New York City, George (Lemmon), accompanied by his wife Gwen (Dennis), is all set to take a bite out of The Big Apple -- only to quickly discover that The Big Apple can bite back! Their dream trip to the big city turns into a nightmare of diverted flights, forfeited reservations, missed trains, sinister strangers, paralyzing strikes, lost luggage... and uproarious laughs for all who experience this hilarious screen classic, directed by Arthur Hiller.

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Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Motion Picture Actor (Lemmon), Best Motion Picture Actress (Dennis), 1971 Golden Globes

Awards – Won:

Best Comedy, 1971 Writers Guild of America

http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/o/out-of-towners.shtml

Review quote:

"A classic screwball comedy in which the mean streets of New York City chew up and spit out backward." -- Arthur Hiller, POPMATTERS

Year:

1970

Length:

97min

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Pet Sematary

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For most families, moving is a new beginning. But for the Creeds, it could be the beginning of the end. Because they've just moved in next door to a place that children built with broken dreams -- the Pet Sematary. It's a tiny patch of land that hides a mysterious Indian burial ground with the powers of resurrection. Master Of The Macabre, Stephen King, will take you and the Creeds to hell and back. (But the Creeds don't have return tickets.) Your tour guide is kindly old Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynn), the neighborhood nice guy who knows the secrets of life, but has seen enough to firmly believe that "sometimes dead is better."

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Format:

Widescreen

Special Collector's Edition

Awards – Nominated:

Best Horror Film, 1991 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

http://themovieboy.com/reviews/p/89_petsematary.htm

Review quote:

"Haunting, sorrowful and reverberatingly eerie." -- Dustin Putman, THE MOVIE BOY

Year:

1989

Length:

102min

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The Firm

maint — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:21:06 +0000

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Three-time Oscar nominee Tom Cruise delivers the most electrifying performance of his career in this riveting film based on the international best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, a brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad. Driven by a fierce desire to bury his working-class past, Mitch joins a small, prosperous Memphis firm that affords Mitch and his wife (Tripplehorn) an affluent lifestyle beyond their wildest dreams. But when FBI agents confront him with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm, Mitch sets out to find the truth in a deadly crossfire between the FBI, the Mob and a force that will stop at nothing to protect its interests.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Supporting Actress (Hunter), Best Music: Original Score, 1994 Academy Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Dramatic Motion Picture, 1994 People's Choice Awards

http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/87591/the-firm.html

Review quote:

"Love's second movie about hooligans marks a quantum leap forward." -- Nigel Floyd, TIME OUT

Year:

1993

Length:

154min

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The Desperate Hours

maint — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:21:03 +0000

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Director William Wyler's suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. And the result is everything you'd expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has everything to lose - his family is held hostage by Bogart. As the desperate hours tick by, the two men square off in a battle of wills and cunning that tightens into an unforgettable, fear-drenched finale.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Won:

Best Motion Picture, 1956 Edgar Allan Poe Awards

Best Director, 1955 National Board of Review

http://www.apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=4198

Review quote:

"They certainly couldn't have picked better actors to pull this movie off in grand fashion." -- Patrick Byrne, APOLLO GUIDE

Year:

1955

Length:

112min

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The Dead Zone

maint — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:21:02 +0000

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Christopher Walken (WEDDING CRASHERS) leads an all-star cast, including Tom Skerritt and Martin Sheen, in a thriller that's ahead of its time. School teacher Johnny Smith (Walken) had a beautiful fiancée, rewarding career and a fortunate life. Until one tragic accident changed everything. After slamming into an 18-wheeler, Johnny is plunged into a five-year coma. When he awakens, he finds his true collision was with destiny -- he now has the remarkable gift (or curse) of seeing into the future. From horror master Stephen King and director David Cronenberg, this supernatural thriller turns an everyday guy into a reluctant hero... saving children in danger, helping the police and capturing serial killers. But Johnny's next vision may be the most terrifying yet, and gives him a once-in-a-lifetime chance to save the world... at what my be the ultimate price.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Director, Best Director, 1984 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

Awards – Won:

Best Horror Film, 1984 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19831026/REVIEWS/31026...

Review quote:

"THE DEAD ZONE does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Year:

1983

Length:

103min

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The Carpetbaggers

maint — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:21:00 +0000

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Harold Robbins' best-seller about '30s Hollywood comes to the screen in a torrent of frank, controversial and (for the times) sensational scenes that helped break the Production Codes. George Peppard is the ruthless tycoon who (with amazing parallels to Howard Hughes) builds a multi-million dollar empire. Carroll Baker, who performs a razzle-dazzle striptease atop a glittering chandelier, is the Jean Harlow-type star. In addition to its depiction of the wild life in Tinseltown's early days, the film also boasts Alan Ladd's terrific final screen performance as the hero's sidekick, Nevada Smith.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Supporting Actress, 1965 Golden Globes

Awards – Won:

Golden Laurel: Drama, 1965 Laurel Awards

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117789729.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

Review quote:

"Lusty, vulgar and gusty." -- VARIETY

Year:

1964

Length:

150min

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Sabrina

maint — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:20:58 +0000

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Sabrina is charming, humorous and aglow with some of Hollywood's greatest stars. Humphrey Bogart, William Holden and Audrey Hepburn star in a Cinderella story directed by renowned filmmaker Billy Wilder (SUNSET BOULEVARD, SOME LIKE IT HOT). Bogie and Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie's all work, Holden's all playboy. But when Sabrina, daughter of the family's chauffeur, returns from Paris all grown up and glamorous, the stage is set for some family fireworks as the brothers fall under the spell of Hepburn's delightful charms.

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Film details

Format:

Full screen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Hepburn), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, 1955 Academy Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Costume Design, 1955 Academy Awards

Best Screenplay, 1955 Golden Globes

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/27/specials/wilder-sabrina.html

Review quote:

"A commentary as crisp as a screed in a smart magazine." -- Bowsley Crowther, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Year:

1954

Length:

112min

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Ordinary People

maint — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:20:52 +0000

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An extraordinary motion picture, ORDINARY PEOPLE is an intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy. Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper-middle-class couple whose "ordinary" existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident. Timothy Hutton is the younger son, struggling against suicide and guilt left by the drowning. Judd Hirsch is the empathetic psychiatrist who provides his lifeline to survival. Mary Tyler Moore gives a riveting portrayal of the inexplicably aloof mother. Robert Redford's achievement as director after more than twenty years as a superstar in front of the camera, earned him and Oscar®. Superb performances and masterful direction complement the award-winning screenplay, based upon the novel by Judith Guest.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Supporting Actor (Hirsch), Best Actress (Tyler Moore), 1981 Academy Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Hutton), 1981 Academy Awards

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1739E46CBC4152DFBF66838B699ED...

Review quote:

"A moving, intelligent, and funny film about disasters that are commonplace to everyone except the people who experience them." -- Vincent Canby, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Year:

1980

Length:

124min

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Escape From Alcatraz

maint — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:20:50 +0000

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Superstar Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel re-team for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 Years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once - by three men never heard of again.
Eastwood portrays Frank Morris, the cunning bank robber who masterminded the elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. Patrick McGoohan is superb counterpoint as the suspicious warden. Filmed on location in Alcatraz, this gritty and realistic reenactment of the true story has all the power one expects of an Eastwood/Siegel movie.

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Widescreen

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9402E0DD1239E732A25751C2A9609C946890D...

Review quote:

"There is more evident skill and knowledge of movie making in any one frame of it than there are in most other American films around at the moment." -- Vincent Canby, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Year:

1979

Length:

111min

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Domestic Disturbance

maint — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:20:49 +0000

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In this "edge of your seat thriller," John Travolta stars as Frank Morrison, a man who discovers that his son's new stepfather (Vaughn) is not who he pretends to be. Frank's investigation into this man's past explodes into a terrifying mission to rescue his son from the ultimate danger. This chilling, critically acclaimed hit will have your heart pounding from start to finish!

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Performance - Supporting Actor (O'Leary), 2002 Young Artist Awards

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/02/DD49006.DTL

Review quote:

"There are thrills and shocks to be had here." -- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Year:

2001

Length:

89min

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