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(0)Albert Finney
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Albert Finney, Yvette Mimieux, and Marty Ingels star in this drama based on a Ray Bradbury story. Enchanted by the works of Pablo Picasso, a vacationing couple treks through the length and breadth of Europe to meet the great artist himself. Their odyssey concludes on a melancholy note. Engaging animated sequences bring Picasso's paintings to life.
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Albert Finney stars as a stern father unable to express his love for his only son. Through tremendous loss and wrenching humiliation, the boy becomes a man, learns how to make his own decisions and finally reconciles with his father in this heartwarming Irish tale. Based on the novel by Shane Connaughton.
3) Scrooge
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The spirit of Christmas becomes a musical celebration of life in this rousing Oscar nominated adaptation of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
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The Emperor’s Club. Dead Poets Society. Stand And Deliver. Film fans fondly recall them as tales of a teacher who inspires his students. The Browning Version the memorable story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. Albert Finney, Matthew Modine and Greta Scacchi star in this richly layered work of truth, tears and triumph. In a widely acclaimed performance, Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics...
6) A good year
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
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Max Skinner is a highly successful investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his estranged uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in France where he grew up. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but after spending unexpected time at the vineyar, he discovers a part of himself that he thought he had lost and experiences romance and a blossoming new love affir with a beautiful French woman...
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Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
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Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
8) Annie
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
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The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
9) Scrooge
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CBS/Fox Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1970
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A Christmas Carol, by Dickens is transformed into a singing and dancing spectacular.
10) Corpse Bride
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
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Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods,and while practicing. He finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded...
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Paramount
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[2004], c1974
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Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
12) Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet needs no introduction. Younger readders with be suitably introduced to one the greatest love stories ever to be written. Romeo and Juliet is the tragic love story of the "star-crossed lovers," Romeo and Juliet. Set in the city of Verona, Italy, the play revolves around the feud between two affluent families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Despite the enmity, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall passionately in love and wed in secret....
13) Simpatico
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As youths in Azusa, Vinnie (Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Nick Nolte - "Tropic Thunder," "Cape Fear"), Carter (Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominee Jeff Bridges - "The Big Lebowski," "Iron Man"), and Rosie (Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Sharon Stone - "Casino," "Basic Instinct"), pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set...
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Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a debt-ridden broker, needs some quick cash. He ropes his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a scheme to commit the perfect crime: to rob their parents' (Albert Finney, Rosemary Harris) jewelry store. The scheme goes horribly awry, and the family patriarch takes justice into his own hands, unaware that the criminals he is hunting are his own sons.
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Catherine Sloper (Jennifer Jason Leigh), favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, is a wallflower of another age. the daughter of a wealthy and distinguished physician (Albert Finney), she has forever been the victim of her father's callous remarks that she possesses none of her deceased mother's loveliness, charm or finesse. Under her father's oppression, Catherine is a shy and awkward young woman tottering into spinsterhood - until she is suddenly...