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1) Poltergeist
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The Freeling family is a typical middle class family living in the peaceful Cuesta Verde Estates. Steve, his wife Diane, 16-year-old daughter Dana, 8-year-old Robbie, and 5-year-old Carol Ann live in a tract house. Soon strange things begin to happen around the house; the pet canary dies, mysterious storms occur, and Carol Ann is summoned to the TV set, where a strange shaft of green light hits her and causes the room to shake. As the curious events...
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A memoir by Benjamin Mee, tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.
3) Poltergeist
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A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.
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Back to the future: It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
Back to the future, part II: Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen steals...
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A self-centered college student has one thing on his mind--get home for Christmas. Just days before his deadline he wakes up in the California desert--stranded and penniless, wearing a Santa suit and a white beard glued to his face! The closer Jake gets to home, the closer he gets to the true meaning of Christmas and Family in this nonstop comedy of errors.
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Annie and Izzy are Elle Woods' young, blong cousins who have moved from England to California. They thought their pink clothes, small dogs, and street smarts would make them instantly fit in. They find they are miles away from the uniform fashions and money-focused power structure of their new prep school. When the school's reigning forces turn on the girls and try to frame them for a crime, Izzy and Annie must use their cleverness and charm to clear...
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Back to the Future: It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
Back to the Future Part II: Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen steals...
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This time, the legendary Zorro fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and she soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe...
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Little big league: An inspiring family comedy adventure about a boy's determination to put the fun back into baseball after inheriting the Minnesota Twins.
Little Giants: A tale of brotherly love on trial and fatherly love in action, as the brother of an ex-football star coaches a team of misfits that includes his daughter.
Hometown legend: Athens is a small town on its last legs. The town's high school is about to be closed down and their once...
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Mr. Earnshaw, father of Cate and Hendrix, lives in a reconverted lighthouse which he has christened Wuthering Heights. One day, Earnshaw brings home an abandoned child named Heath, whom he semi-adopts, much to the dismay of Hendrix, but to the delight of Cate. Upon reaching adulthood, Heath declares his love for Cate, but they are kept separated by the envious Hendrix and by the covetous Cate's intention to opt for wealth and security by wedding preppy...
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Frankie and Annette are heading to California to visit their daughter, Sandi. They are appalled to learn that Sandi is "living in sin" with Michael. Frankie and Annette set about to make the beach for fun lovers everywhere by driving out Michael's unsavory pals. Along the way, Frankie nearly messes up his marriage by dallying with Connie.
13) My girl 2
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The inimitable Vada is off to California to visit her uncle, his girlfriend and her street-smart son, who guides Vada in her search for clues to her late mother's history.
14) Rumor has it
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Sarah has finally agreed to marry her boyfriend Jeff, but isn't sure if marriage is what she wants. Now she's on her way home to attend her sister's wedding, which means spending a lot of time with the tennis-obsessed Pasadena family that she's never felt quite a part of. It isn't until Sarah stumbles into a well-kept family secret that she starts to question her roots and sets off in search of the man who may have answers the she has been looking...
15) Surf ninjas
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Brothers Johnny and Adam, laid back California surf-teens, discover they are the long-lost princes of a South Sea island paradise now ruled by Colonel Chi, a demented despot who is half man, half machine. The boys are transformed into ninja super-dudes in order to bring freedom and justice to their homeland, with the help of some ancient magic and an assortment of odd-ball allies!
16) Lifeguard
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A man approaching middle-age who works as a lifeguard can't seem to decide whether to keep his job or to try to find a more substantial career for himself.
17) Fat city
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Set in Stockton, a story of two boxers, one who is at the end of his career and the other who is just beginning to learn to fight.
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When filmy spores fall from space and take root in San Francisco, the city is beautifully transformed by spectacular and exotic flowers. But these lovely extraterrestrial blossoms have gruesome plans for their earthly admirers. These blossoms are going to slowly clone human bodies and then dispose of the originals.
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Frank Morris, the cunning bank robber who masterminded the only successful escape from Alcatraz's infamous maximum security prison. In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once; by three men who were never heard from again. Based on the true story.
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An inspiring true story of courage and friendship the whole family will love. When 15-year-old Jay Moriarty discovers that the mythical Mavericks surf break is real, he reaches out to local surfing legend Frosty Hesson to train him to ride it. What begins as a mentorship turns into an extraordinary bond that transforms both their lives, as Jay and Frosty learn valuable lessons about conquering fear in pursuit of your dreams.