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22) Brush with fate
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Chronicles the 300-year history of a lost painting said to have been created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Framed by the present day narrative of a teacher who has the inside track on the number of lives profoundly altered by the elusive painting. The teacher's tale interconnects individual stories of tragedy, romance, success, failure and even the Holocaust.
23) The inheritance
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Beautiful orphan Edith Adelton came to the United States as a child to be a companion and tutor to the Hamilton family's young daughter Amy. Though Edith's parentage is a mystery, she has found great happiness with the Hamiltons. When the family's cousin Ida comes to visit, Mrs. Hamilton enlists Edith in a matchmaking plan involving two suitors for Ida. But both men fall for the lovely Edith. As Ida sees her chances fade, she schemes to discredit...
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In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.
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Now that it's clear to their families that Dharma Finkelstein and Greg Montgomery are truly soul mates, the couple can settle into their marriage, for better or for weird. While Gregs career as a federal prosecutor is going full steam ahead, Dharmas contributions to the work force are hilariously off track, especially when she decides to enter politics, in the witty, funny, romantic second season of Dharma and Greg.
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Freewheeling to 1970's San Francisco, Mary Ann Singleton quickly realizes just how far from Cleveland she really is. Moving into a funky house at 28 Barbary Lane where her landlord welcomes her with a joint, Mary Ann befriends the other residents and finds a good-natured home amid the drugs, drama, and debauchery. Based on Armistead Maupin₂s beloved novel, the Peabody Award-winning PBS miniseries deftly chronicles the quest for love and connection...
27) Axis
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English
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While driving through Los Angeles over a tense afternoon in real time, an Irish movie star with a rocky past confronts a series of devastating events that threaten his newfound sobriety, his loved ones, and potentially, his life.
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Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 57
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English
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Vicki Miller (Marcia Gay Harden) is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bobby (Taylor Handley) shows up unannounced on her doorstep. He looks tired and depressed, and when Vicki realizes that he's run away, she takes him in. From that point on, Vicki is bound to Bobby. This story tells the tale of two people trying to find themselves and make their way...
31) Come away home
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Annie is left in the care of her elderly and out-of-date grandfather and is sure her summer is doomed. When her attempt at escape goes awry, she meets new friends who help her connect with her grandfather and bring the power of forgiveness into her family.
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Criterion collection volume 326, 485, 807
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English
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Over the course of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman made a trilogy of films about the acid tongues and broken hearts of some haplessly erudite young Americans in New York and abroad. Set in the eighties, these films trace the arc of that decade, led by Stillman's Oscar-nominated debut, Metropolitan, which introduced moviegoers to a strange, endangered species of privileged New Yorker, the “urban haute bourgeoisie.” Chronologically, the...
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Eighty years. Gotham City has been a haven to the world's most notorious criminals, and only one man has defeated them at every turn: Batman. The Joker, Penguin, Harley Quinn, and a host of other vile villains have all been thwarted by the Dark Knight. Join Robin, Catwoman, Jim Gordon, and more as DC celebrates 80 years of the Caped Crusader with this 18-film collection.
Batman : Gotham Knight: (76 min.) Six spellbinding chapters chronicling Batman's...