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1) Home alone 3
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"A band of international crooks has hidden a military computer chip inside a toy car, but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt who's home alone with the chicken pox in a quiet Chicago suburb. When the criminals zero in on Alex's house with their high-tech gadgetry, madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends himself against the bumbling bad guys - armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and...
2) Badlands
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Criterion collection volume 651
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Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
5) The goonies
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The film follows a group of misfit kids as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
6) The shootist
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A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
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Kevin McCallister accidentally boards the wrong plane and ends up in New York City instead of Florida, where the rest of his family has gone. He has plenty of cash and credit cards to enjoy a nice stay at a posh hotel and turns the Big Apple into a big playground. There he meets up with the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, who are still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin. They are in New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready...
8) Gator
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A convicted moonshiner is blackmailed into becoming an undercover government agent in a criminal organization.
9) The shootist
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A legendary gunslinger is determined to die in peace as he passes his last days succumbing to cancer. However, two gunmen, vowing revenge, won't let him. Based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout.
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Ernest goes to camp: Ernest P. Worrell, handyman at Kamp Kikakee, achieves his greatest ambition and becomes a camp counselor--to a gang of juvenile delinquents from the Midstate Boys Detention Center.
Ernest goes to jail: Only a bumbling bank janitor like know-it-all Ernest P. Worrell could serve on a jury and end up serving time in jail in place of the criminal.
Ernest scared stupid: Ernest accidentally unleashes an evil demon from its sacred...
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Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee, while Ernest undergoes Nash's sentence to the electric chair. But instead of killing him, the electrocution gives Ernest superhuman powers, enabling him to escape from jail and foil Nash's attempt to rob the bank.
12) Showdown
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Buddies since childhood, two long-time friends find themselves on opposite sides of the law. One becomes the town's hard-working, honest sheriff and the other drifts into a life of crime. When a train is robbed and the other must hunt down and arrest his former friend, a classic Old West confrontation is set into motion.
13) Gator
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Meet the Bayou's baddest good ol' boy! Screen icon Burt Reynolds returns as Gator McKlusky, the moonshine-running king of the Bayou, in this high-octane sequel to the smash hit, White Lightning. Gator is a fast and furious ride you won't want to miss. The Feds want Gator, not for moonshining, but to go undercover to expose Bama McCall, Gator's boyhood pal who is now a local crime boss. Gator is reluctant at first, but once he discovers Bama is involved...
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Life with Mikey: Mikey, a former child star, is having a little trouble with his new role as a kids' talent agent. He's desperate to find a way to keep his third-rate talent agency from going under, when he meets Angie, a young con artist. With her street-wise smarts and irresistible charm, she's a natural for TV commercials and could be their ticket to the big time-- if they don't drive each other crazy first!
Swing vote: Bud Johnson is an ordinary...
15) Almost an angel
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"Career criminal Terry Dean [is] hit by a car while saving the life of a little girl. When Terry regains consciousness, he awakens to a place strangely like heaven with a God who looks strangely like Charlton Heston! Terry emerges from this vision believing he's an angel -- a belief that propels him and those he encounters into humorous and heartfelt predicaments"--Container.
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"The shootist," an aging and ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is enmeshed in one last valiant battle and dies with honor.
"The man who shot Liberty Valance," is the story of a man who becomes a legend and an important political figure by falsely claiming he shot a ruthless gunman (Liberty Valance).