Holly Hunter
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Mayor Neil Bremer serves the great city of Los Angeles in "Mr. Mayor," the hit workplace comedy from executive producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Inside city hall, Mayor Bremer has his work cut out for him as he tries to do right by the city that elected him and be a good father to his teenage daughter Orly. Luckily for Neil, he has a dedicated team of civil servants to keep him on track, including Deputy Mayor Arpi Meskimen, Chief of Staff Mikaela...
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A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family, a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children, and sole biological child, and a Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
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Bob was one of the world's greatest superheroes fifteen years ago; now he's an insurance adjuster, living in the suburbs. Wanting to get back into action, he gets his chance when a mysterious call summons him to an island for a top-secret assignment. Bonus features include the Incredibles Revisited: Filmmaker's Roundtable; Paths to Pixar; Studio Stories; and Ending With a Bang!: Making the End Credits.
4) Paradise
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After a nearly fatal accident, 21-year-old Lamb Mannerheim is beginning to realize that the world is much bigger than her small, God-fearing Montana town. Armed with a big, fat insurance payout and a checklist of untried sins, Las Vegas is the only place for her first taste of temptation. And, with the help of a few new friends, Lamb embarks on an oddball odyssey of lost souls, broken faith, and cheap cocktails.
5) Manglehorn
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Al Pacino and Holly Hunter give moving performances as a cat loving locksmith and a lovelorn bank teller who are both transformed by a new romance in this magical love story.
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Darcy Baylor is an academic administrator at a Mississippi college. But another round of budget cuts puts her job in limbo. Her son Walker committed suicide seven years ago, and the only constants in Darcy's life since then have been her gardening and her best friend, Byrd. Shortly after her worrying workplace news, Darcy learns that Walker's old college pal Mark is now the owner of a successful restaurant chain, whose concept was stolen from her...
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Inspired by actual events, single mother Jamie Fitzpatrick, frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school.
10) Broadcast news
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Criterion collection volume 552
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A caustic inside look at the Washington news media, stars Holly Hunter in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter. James L. Brooks' witty, gently prophetic entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing.
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Fearing the actions of Superman are left unchecked, Batman takes on Superman, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs. With Batman and Superman fighting each other, a new threat, Doomsday, is created by Lex Luthor. It's up to Superman and Batman to set aside their differences along with Wonder Woman to stop Lex Luthor and Doomsday from destroying Metropolis.
12) The piano
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With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds...
13) Raising Arizona
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Once he decides to give up crime, a small-time robber proposes to a pretty cop. But when the newlyweds learn they can't conceive a baby, they decide to steal one from a couple who seem to have one to spare, since they just had quintuplets! Bonus features included.
14) Broadcast news
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Tom Grunick is the perfect modern anchorman, with charm and good looks but no background for the job. Jane Craig, the brilliant producer, has the job of trying to make Tom look like a newsman. Then there is Aaron Altman, a dedicated reporter, utterly devoid of on-camera charisma, and jealous of Tom's success - with the public and Jane.
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Grace Hanadarko is a hard-living Oklahoma City detective whose life is careening out of control. Grace is given a second chance in the unlikely form of a gruff, tobacco-chewing angel named Earl. But turning her life around won't be easy. As dark secrets are revealed, Grace must come to grips with her explosive past and she's going to need her last-chance-angel more than ever.
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Stacy is an associate producer for a daytime talk show who is confounded by her boyfriend Derek's unwillingness to talk about his previous relationships. Egged on by her co-worker Barb, Stacy sneaks a look at Derek's Palm Pilot and checks out the scores of names and numbers of his ex-girlfriends. Stacy sets up interviews with them, under the false pretense that it has to do with the show, in order to get closer to her man. Her plan starts to unravel,...
20) Once around
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The oldest daughter of a close-knit Italian-American family falls in love with an abrasive, obnoxious but forcefully charming businessman. He almost demolishes her family while winning her heart, but they all learn how to balance her happiness with the family's survival.