Ron Howard
1) Willow
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A timeless fantasy tale where heroes come in all sizes. While Willow Ufgood finds an abandoned baby girl, he learns she is destined to end the reign of wicked Queen Bavmorda. Willow teams up with a rogue swordsman to protect the child against the darkness. Filled with magic and danger, this is the ultimate story of good versus evil.
2) Apollo 13
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It had been less than a year since man first walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another 'routine' space flight. That is until these words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director...
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Discover the true meaning of the holiday with the live action adaptation of the beloved classic, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Starring Jim Carrey as the Grinch, director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer reimagine one of the most enduring holiday stories of all time. Why is the Grinch (Carrey) such a grouch? No one seems to know, until little Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen) takes matters into her own hands and turns both Whoville and...
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The Grinch was rejected by the Who's as a child and has been living in spiteful seculsion for most of his life. He has always hated the citizens of Whoville. That especially goes for Christmas with the Who's noise, phony sentiment and wasteful materialism. When little Cindy Lou Who attempts to transcend the festivities' empty commercialism by inviting the Grinch ends with his public humiliation, the Grinch hatches upon on his supreme scheme to ruin...
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In the year 1963 in Yokohama, an innocent romance blossoms between two high school students, Umi and Shun. As Japan recovers from World War II and prepares to host the 1964 Olympics, the mood contains both optimism and conflict as the younger generation struggles to escape the shackles of the past. While trying to save a dilapidated Meiji-era club house from demolition, the relationship flourishes. But a buried secret from their past emerges to cast...
7) Apollo 13
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It had been less than a year since the first man walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight. That is until the words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded in a crippled spacecraft 205,000 miles from Earth, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director...
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Cat in the Hat: "Two bored children have their lives turned upside down when a talking cat comes to visit them."--IMDb.com.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas: "On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch (Jim Carrey), who plans on ruining Christmas for all of the citizens of the town."--IMDb.com.
9) Apollo 13
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NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
10) Splash
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Allen Bauer (Hanks) is a successful New York businessman, knocked unconscious in a boating accident. His beautiful rescuer (Hannah) is the girl of his dreams. There's only one complication-- Allen's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
11) Osmosis Jones
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He's a new strain of hero and he's one cell of a guy. He's Osmosis Jones. In the "real" world, Frank ingests a villainous virus named Thrax. Now, deep inside the animated inner realm of the "City of Frank", its up to a maverick white blood cell cop, Jones, and his reluctant sidekick, cold-capsule Drix to thwart Thrax's epidemic of evil.
12) The shootist
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A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
13) Willow
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When young Willow Ufgood finds an abandoned baby girl, he learns she is destined to end the reign of the wicked Queen Bavmorda. In order to protect the child, Willow must team up with a rogue swordsman and overcome the forces of darkness in the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
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John Wayne returns with the following three western movies: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (a senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed); The Sons of Katie Elder (four sons who reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral); and The Shootist (A dying gunfighter who spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and...
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Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. He then attends his own funeral.
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The shootist: A dying gunman returns to his friend for medical care in his last days, but becomes involved with a window and her son. El Dorado: an alcoholic sheriff and his gunfighter friend battle cattle barons and businessmen in the Old West; The sons of Katie Elder: The four sons of Katie Elder return home to Texas for her funeral and then set out to avenge both her death and their father's murder.
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A cavalry dispatch rider protects a widow and her young son from an Apache attack; two men share the task of ridding a town of a gunman; a girl hires the drunken, one-eyed, overweight marshal to find and kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family's money; a dying gunman becomes involved with a widow and her son; a wealthy cattle baron has trouble controlling his wife and daughter; the four sons of Katie Elder set out to avenge both...
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Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. He then attends his own funeral.
Where the red fern grows : A boy growing up in the Ozarks of Oklahoma scrimps and saves to make his dream of...