Bruce Greenwood
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National treasure: Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a decendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he had to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental...
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Racing stripes. Horse breeder Nolan Walsh rescues a baby zebra accidentally left behind by a traveling circus and takes him home to his young daughter Channing. "Stripes" is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he's hooked. He knows that...
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Just north of the border, in the tired coastal town of Imperial Beach, CA, live three generations of Yosts: surfing royalty turned society misfits. The Yosts' reign and reputation, once defined in the curl of a perfect wave, has been eroded by years of bad luck, addiction and hubris. But just as things are looking like they can't get worse, a stranger named John arrives-- and the Yosts' banal existence is lifted into something profound, miraculous...
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Batman, Gotham knight: Six anime-style chapters chronicling Batman's transformation from the novice crimefighter to the Dark Knight. Batman, under the red hood: The Dark Knight faces another vigilante cleaning up Gotham's streets as well as the Joker. Batman, year one: Bruce Wayne returns home after years abroad to become a crimefighter, just as honest cop James Gordon moves to Gotham and vows to fight the corruption destroying the city from within....
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Everyone's hero: 10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and the true meaning of friendship.
Firehouse...
87) Doctor Sleep
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Dan Torrance remains traumatized by the sinister events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when he was a child, and spends his days self-medicating away the "shine" with alcohol. His hope for a peaceful existence soon becomes shattered when he meets Abra, a teen who shares his extrasensory gift. Together, they form an unlikely alliance to battle the True Knot, a cult whose members try to feed off the shine of innocents to become immortal.
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The Post: A cover-up pushes Katharine Graham, the first female newspaper publisher of the Washington Post, and the hard-driving editor Ben Bradlee to join the battle between journalist and government.
Bridges of Madison County: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days...
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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...