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1) Oklahoma!
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A young prairie woman faces a dilemma of choosing between two suitors -- Curly, a good-natured cowboy and Jud the violent hired hand who works on her aunt's farm while a traveling salesman woos her friend, Ado Annie.
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This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the table with the great American family plays."--"Time"One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent Broadway history, "August: Osage County" is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest--and absolute worst. In December 2013, the play became a motion picture from The Weinstein Company, starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney,...
3) Twister
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Scientist Jo Harding and her crack team of tornado chasers are pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years. TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms has other plans. Jo's team is planning to launch revolutionary electronic sensors into the...
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"The setting is a small Oklahoma town in the early 1920s and the home of the Flood family: Rubin, a traveling salesman for a harness firm; Cora his sensitive and lovely wife; Sonny, their little boy; and Reenie their teen-age daughter. The plot consists of a series of short stories -- the fight between husband and wife; the fear of an overly shy young girl on going to a dance; the problems of an introverted little boy who feels that the whole world...
5) Bug
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Agnes has finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, who has recently been released from state prison. Agnes is a lonely waitress with a tragic past who moves into a sleazy, run-down Oklahoma motel room with her lesbian co-worker R.C. She, in turn, introduces Agnes to Gulf War veteran, Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things don't always seem as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic...
7) Oklahoma!
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Laurie, an Oklahoma farm gal is courted by boisterous cowboy Curley and by menacing, obsessive farm hand Jud Frye. Fearing that Jud will do something terrible to Curley, Laurie accepts Jud's invitation to the box social. But Curley rescues Laurie from Jud's unwanted advances, and wins her hand. On the eve of their wedding, Laurie and Curley are menaced by Jud. During a fight with Curley, Jud falls on his own knife and is killed. The local deputy insists...
8) Tex
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Tex is the realistic account of an adolescent's maturation, relationships and taking of responsibility. The story shows the struggles and conflicts of two teenage brothers growing up in the Southwest without parental guidance.
9) Twister
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"The house rips apart piece by piece. A bellowing cow spins through the air. Tractors fall like rain. A 15,000-pound gasoline tanker becomes an airborne bomb. A mile-wide, 300 miles-per-hour force of total devastation is coming at you. Scientists pursue the most destructive weather front to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in fifty years. By launching electronic sensors into the funnel, the storm chasers hope to obtain enough data to create...
10) Oklahoma!
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In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
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"Quinto is a sack full of rattlesnakes, an Oklahoma Territory-panhandle town outside U.S. jurisdiction. Here, the James Gang, the Daltons, Belle Starr and other desperados take refuge from the law. Then along comes the last person any criminal wants to see: Sheriff Mark Rowley, who's searching for his missing brother."--Container.
13) To the wonder
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Neil is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina. After visiting Mont Saint-Michel, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Marina meets a priest and fellow exile, who is struggling with his vocation, while Neil renews his ties with a childhood friend, Jane.
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In an effort to escape her past and build a better future, Olive, an attractive European con artist, and her 10-year old American-born son Bobby find themselves living in Oklahoma. But as Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one comical adventure to another, Olive's criminal past finally catches up with her, forcing her to make the toughest judgment of all.
17) You know my name
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Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp, confronts a new era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are as likely to tote a tommy gun as a six-gun.
18) Oklahoma!
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A cowboy and a country girl's relationship is strained by another suitor.
19) Oklahoma!
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Cowboy Curly McClain tries to win the heart of a girl in a singing and dancing extravaganza.
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Scientist Jo Harding and her crack team of tornado chasers are pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years. TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms has other plans. Jo's team is planning to launch revolutionary electronic sensors into the...