Matt Dillon
61) Native son
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English
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Bigger Thomas, the black chauffeur for the wealthy Dalton family, is accused of the murder of the Daltons' daughter Mary. The search for Mary's missing body and Thomas' trial shake the family and the city of Chicago, exposing the fears and prejudices of the late 1940's.
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What happens in Vegas (widescreen, 2008, 99 min.): A man and a woman are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
In her shoes (widescreen, 2005, 130 min.): Strait-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister...
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English
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An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. She is credited with starting the 'girl groups' movement. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry and a bad marriage, to her final triumph.
65) Rumble fish
Series
Criterion collection volume 869
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English
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"In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions. The director's "art film for teenagers" was his second adaptation of young-adult novelist S. E. Hinton's work in a single year, after the more classically styled The Outsiders. Graced with a remarkable cast headed by Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke,...
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English
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An authentic account of the Vietnam War from the actual letters of the men and women who served there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships made and lost - these letters home tell it all, with newsreel and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves. These are the authentic voices of war, some who survived, many who never made it home.
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Fear (1 hr 37 min.): Nicole Walker's perfect boyfriend is not all he seems to be, his sweet facade masking a savage, dark side. This is a riveting suspense-thriller about a passionate romance that soon becomes a deadly obsession.
Watcher (1 hr 37 min.): After years of pursuing psychotic killers in Los Angeles, FBI agent Joel Campbell wants out. Now his nemesis, serial killer David Allen Griffin, has tracked him all the way to Chicago just to torment...
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English
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Empire records: The manager of a struggling record store is desperately trying to avoid a corporate takeover by the mega-chain Music City, while handling the problems of his teenage workers.
Singles: This tale of Seattle twenty somethings searching for-- and running from-- love centers around a romantically aloof rocker and his lovestruck neighbor who hopes to get him to change his tune.
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In her shoes: Free-wheeling, irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother,...
70) The outsiders
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English
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In 1966 Tulsa, there are two kinds of teenagers, the "socs," who have money, cars, and a future, and the "greasers," who are outsiders with only their friends and a dream of someday belonging.
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Hurt locker (2008 ; 130 min.): "War is a drug. Nobody knows that better than Sergeant James, head of an elite squad of soldiers tasked with disarming bombs in the heat of combat"--Container.
Crash (2004 ; 135 min.): "[A] dive into the diverse melting pot that is L.A. and tracks the volatile intersections of a multi-ethnic cast of characters as they careen in and out of one another's lives and struggle to overcome their fears"--Container.
No country...
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The goonies: A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Batman: There's a new breed of criminals in Gotham City, led by the infamous joker. Their random attacks via acid-based make-up are just the beginning.
Beetlejuice: After Barbara and Adam Maitland...
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English
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Police academy : The mayor decides to loosen the restrictions at the academy. Soon, the new class is overrun with misfits and losers who are all determined to make good, even though their superiors try to wash their hands of them every chance they can.
Spies like us: Chase and Aykroyd star as U.S. government spies who don't work out exactly as their superiors had hoped.
The outsiders: The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich...