Sam Bottoms
1) Shopgirl
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Ray Porter is a button-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away into a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
3) East of Eden
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Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
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With fresh memories of his family's slaughter by Red Leg soldier Terrill, Confederate Josey Wales refuses to join his captain Fletcher and the rest of his comrades in surrender to a U.S. Army regiment. Deemed a dangerous outlaw after a bloody one-man battle with that regiment, Josey is pursued by U.S. Cavalry soldiers led by the unwilling Fletcher and the murderous Terrill, as well as by bounty hunters who eventually learn how coolly lethal Wales...
6) Sherrybaby
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A young woman with a history of drug abuse returns home after a 3-year prison sentence, to reconnect with her 5-year-old daughter while trying to adjust to the outside world once again.
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This classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, who is sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American Colonel named Kurtz, who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost.
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After avenging his family's brutal murder by Union Forces in the Civil War, Missouri farmer Josey Wales is on the lam, pursued by a pack of killers. He travels westward alone, but a ragtag group of outcasts is drawn to him, and Wales can't leave his motley surrogate family unprotected.
12) The unsaid
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A seemingly-untroubled adolescent carries disturbing secrets that compel a psychiatrist to risk everything in a race against time to unearth the patient's secrets from a gruesome past.
13) Bronco Billy
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Bronco Billy McCoy is the proud owner of a down-on-its-luck traveling Wild West show. Along the way he picks up a snooty, rich young woman who was left in the desert by her fiancé without any money. He likes her spirit and hires her as his assistant.
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There is no greater power than the power of God. When the unbelieving ignore his word and refuse his guidance, there's only one way to right their wrongs. In the story of the Tower of Bable, god proves there is only one true path to heaven. Abraham struggles to find righteous men in the corrupt cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Jacob's challenge, Jacob struggles with his brother for leadership of their people, and only God's mercy can show the path...
15) Apocalypse now
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A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
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Michael, is a mentally deranged patient who believes he's Adolf Hitler in this outrageous, sharply satirical black comedy. Dr Cohen is the misguided Jewish psychiatrist who attempts a radical new cure by encouraging Michael to pretend he is the dictator. Cohen hilariously enlists Michael's fellow patients as major figures in Hitler's life, including Eva Braun, Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels. Adding to the craziness are the other patients who've...