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(0)Scat Man Crothers
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Jack Torrance is a writer who, along with his family, comes to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel. He is the off-season caretaker. Torrance has never been there before, but maybe he has. The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.
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"In this program, Ken Kesey, Kesey scholar John Clark Pratt, psychiatrist and critic Frank Pittman, 'Rolling Stone's' Jann Wenner, 1960's icon Wavy Gravy, and others set 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest'--an indictment of Eisinhower Era conformity--within the context of its times. Together they talk about the novel, the Academy Award-winning movie, and Kesey's role as leader of the Merry Pranksters and the star of the West Coast psychedelic scene....
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"America is the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. [A] courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her extraordinary odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf and a hardened drifter. A brilliant, moving tapestry, woven of courage and perseverance"--Container.
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"In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat, and her three little kittens. Laughs and adventure ensue as the A greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of swingin' jazz cats to save the day.
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In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat. Duchess has three little kittens. A greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of swingin' jazz cats to save the day.
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The Autobots and Decepticons have escalated all the way to Cybertron, which the Decepticons have reclaimed. The Autobots, without Optimus Prime after a conflict on Earth takes his life, must now face a destiny they know nothing of. Megatron and a group of forsaken Decepticons have been reformed by the ultimate transformer, a planet consuming demon known as Unicron into even deadlier warriors. Now Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus must destroy The Autobot...
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Four million years after crash-landing on an unfamiliar planet, sentient robots with the ability to disguise themselves as common vehicles awaken on present-day Earth. Engaged in a crucial race to find a new energy source for their home planet of Cybertron, Optimus Prime and the heroic Autobots must defend the innocent people of Earth against their arch nemeses, Megatron and the power-hungry Decepticons. All 98 episodes from the animated series that...
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Although he has a happy life one a farm, Banjo can't stop getting into trouble! When his dad threatens to punish him for leaping off a roof, Banjo decides to run away, so he hops aboard a fee truck bound for Salt Lake City. But the kitten soon learns that while the city is exciting, it's also dangerous. Cold, hungry and alone, Banjo longs to return home. His only hope for getting back to the farm lies with an alley cat named Crazy Legs.
14) The shootist
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A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
15) Tarzan
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Tarzan and the trappers: Tarzan becomes very angry when animal trappers invade his jungle domain. When he frees his animal friends, it is Tarzan himself who becomes the big game, viciously tracked down by an evil hunter ; Tarzan and the Green goddess: Tarzan retells the story of his adventure from the comfort of his recnetly recouped English manor, in perfect, unbroken English; very strange ; Tarzan of the apes: Tarzan, in actuality, is Lord Greystoke....
16) Two of a kind
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The "Supreme Being" bets a group of angels that it would be impossible for them to get two very selfish people to sacrifice for each other.
17) The shining
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Writer Jack Torrance, a former alcoholic, accepts a job as the winter caretaker for a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, isolating him, his wife and their psychic young son until spring. But when the first blizzard blocks the only road out, the hotel's stored energy from evil past deeds begins to drive Jack insane, and there may be no escape for his family.
18) Working
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Musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book, with songs by James Taylor, Stephen Schwartz and others.
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Dean's powerful drama is about an uprooted black family (mother, daughter, uncle) living in Chicago during the time that civil rights leaders were starting to organize protest marches in the South. The family members essentially accept the old values and cherish what they love, and are uncomfortable by marches and talks of fighting. A blind street singer (Richard Ward, in a bravura performance) intrudes briefly into their lives, with shattering effect....