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Academy Award winner Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow star in this film based on John Irving's expansive, offbeat best-selling novel. When Jenny Fields (Close) decides to become a mother, she has no intention of finding a husband or of having marital sex, so she gets herself pregnant by a hospitalized solder on his deathbed. And so begins the unusual life of Garp (Williams), who is destined to be anything except what he himself desires...
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"Unemployed Polly Parrish impulsively picks up a baby left at orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the foundling is hers, including Polly's playboy ex-boss, who offers her a job if she'll live up to her maternal duties. A paycheck would be handy, so Polly complies. Then the boss's tycoon dad assumes the infant is his secret grandson, and things really spin out of control"--Container.
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Dancehall girl Julia Packett has not seen her daughter since shortly after her birth, forced to separate from the upper class husband by the snobby clan he calls family. Depending on her beauty, wiles and the kindness of a variety of gentlemen, she is startled to receive a wedding invitation in the post. An invite from the same daughter, Susan, she has not seen in 20 years.
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Selena D'Arcy is accidentally blinded by her prostitute mother, Rose-Ann, at the age of five. For the next 13 years she is confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with her grandfather. One afternoon at the local park, Selena meets Gordon Ralfe, an office worker whose kind treatment of her results in her falling in love with him, unaware that he is black. They continue to meet in the park every afternoon and he teaches her how to...
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Society grande dame Alice Grenville is appalled when her son marries Ann, an El Morocco showgirl. She snubs her unsuitable daughter-in-law until the young woman unloads a shotgun at what she claims is a prowler, but turns out to be her husband. Then Alice and her elite friends come to the rescue, protecting Ann from a murder charge rather than subject their moneyed circle to the unpleasantness of police and publicity.
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"The Palazzo Vecchio. The Uffizi Gallery. Michelangelo's David. Meg Johnson is eager to discover the glories of Italy with her beautiful daughter Clara, who was mentally impaired in a childhood accident. But Clara discovers something more--love--with an ardent Italian who mistakes her limitations for charming naiveté. Clara is so happy and fulfilled. Should Margaret reveal her daughter's secret?"--Container.
13) Bundle of joy
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A salesgirl picks up a foundling, is mistaken for its unwed mother and must keep up the charade, baby and all, to keep her job. A musical remake of one of the great 1930s comedies, "Bachelor Mother", it features a real-life married couple (at the time) in the starring roles.
14) Madame X
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A woman's lover is shot by a jealous competitor. Fearing scandal she begs for her husband's mercy but he throws her out, forbidding her to see her young son ever again. Falling into a sordid life, she finally faces the truth about her past as an unscrupulous gambler tries to extort money from her husband.
15) Listen, darling
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"Young Pinkie Wingate and her pal Buzz will do anything to stop Pinkie's widowed mother from entering into a loveless marriage with the town's fuddy-duddy banker -- including kidnapping! They stow Mom in a travel trailer and hit the road, looking for one good man to say 'I do.' They find two: a carefree amateur photographer and a wealthy businessman"--Container.
16) Madame X
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"Jacqueline leaves her husband for another man, and when she returns to take care of her sick son, her husband flatly rejects her. She leaves without seeing the boy; and beginning her path on the downgrade, she meets and helps a cardsharp named Laroque. When they return to France, her home, Laroque decides that because of her name he can squeeze out a goodly sum from her. At the threat of blackmail, Jacqueline, in a rage, shoots him and is subsequently...
17) Susan Slade
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"This passionate drama contains all the right ingredients, Susan Slade, a pretty and innocent teen, intense young men who love her, money, stunning clothes, gorgeous scenery, secrets, sex and heartbreak. The story begins with Susan's first affair which ends tragically when the boy is killed and Susan, already pursued by two other young men, is left pregnant. Her devoted parents offer to pass the infant off as their own. But can Susan deny her own...
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"Pert and precocious Nancy Barklay is up for the leading role in a Broadway musical set in Brazil, but her seasoned stage-star mother, Frances, thinks she's got the part! A sticky situation becomes impossibly complicated after Nancy follows her mother to Rio -- where they both fall for the same man!"--Container.
19) The secret heart
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"Grief stricken when her husband kills himself, Lee Addams devotes her life to raising her stepchildren, Penny and Chase. Years later, Penny displays evidence of the mental fragility that haunted her father, becoming frighteningly obsessed with her piano studies and with the handsome older man who rekindles his long-ago romance with Lee"--Container.
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New doctors Mary Stevens and Don Andrews launch their practices in the same medical building, where Mary dedicates herself to her patients while facing constant prejudice for being a woman. Despite Mary's love for him, Don falls for Lois Rising, the daughter of a powerful politician, and the two eventually marry, leaving a brokenhearted Mary to move on and focus on her work. As Mary becomes a successful pediatrician, Don's marriage deteriorates, driving...