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It is the 70s and Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) is a young gay child who spends hours upholding his mother Deidre Burroughs (Annette Benning) with emotional support as she attempts to forge her career as a poetess. Augustens father Norman Burroughs (Alec Baldwin) is an alcoholic whose relationship with Deidre has eroded to the point that they spend most of their time aggressively attacking each others values and physically attacking each other as well. Augusten connects with each parent in certain ways but most of his time is spent skipping school, dressing up, and doing things like acting as audience to his self-involved mother. When the parents decide to give Augusten to Deidres psychologist Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), the young child must learn to live with a family of misfits whose primary activity seems to be to express their innermost feelings regardless of how it affects those around them. Augusten discovers his homosexuality with Neil Bookman (Joseph Fiennes) another adopted son of Dr. Finch and also befriends Natalie Finch (Evan Rachel Wood) who has issues of her own. Together Augusten and Natalie develop a way of dealing with the crazy environment until they discover a way out.
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The movie begins with four people dressed in painters’ clothes entering a bank in Manhattan. Once in position, the bank robbers take about 50 customers hostage and head for the vault. NYPD hostage negotiator Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) arrives on the scene and makes contact with the masked man in charge of the heist, Dalton Russell (Clive Owen). Detective Frazier wants to get all the hostages safely released as quickly as possible, in a peaceful manner. However, Russell has other plans; he begins playing a cat-&-mouse game to delay the police, and he outwits and confuses the police at every turn. Madeliene White (Jodie Foster), with the help of the mayor, bargains with Detective Frazier to let her talk to the bank robbers in an attempt to resolve the situation. Madeliene wants to make a deal with the robbers; if they give up and let her get something out of her client’s safe deposit box, they will get a short jail term and $2 million when they get out.
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It is 1898. In the New Mexico wilderness, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) works his silver mine. When he breaks his leg when he finally finds the silver ore, he drags himself to town to sell it. He hires a crew, including a man caring for an infant son. When the silver mine plays out, Plainview discovers oil in the mine. He builds a pump and recreates himself as an oil man. The young father dies in a drilling accident. Planview adopts the young boy as his own and names him H.W. Nine years later, Plainview is a successful if still somewhat minor oil man. He has several productive wells around New Mexico and, with H.W. (Dillon Freasier), travels the state to buy the drilling rights to private property.
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Jeff Reigert (Paul Rudd) presents all of these stories to the audience, while struggling with his own moral dilemma: having to choose between his beautiful wife (Famke Janssen) and his also beautiful but somewhat younger mistress (Jessica Alba).
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself – sometimes to outrageous effect – and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style — on – and off-air – would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.
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The crew of the Icarus II are sent into deep space to reignite the sun, after the failure of the first mission, Icarus I, seven years prior. It takes 16 months for them to reach close proximity to the sun, as mentioned in the introduction voice over by Robert Capa. As the ship nears the sun. solar noise known as “the [communications] dead zone” begins to interfere with radio communications to Earth. As the ship encountered the “Dead Zone” seven days earlier than expected, the crew is now left with just 24 hours to collect all of their individual thoughts and send each of them off to their loved ones in a last message “packet”.
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An aging, sickly author, Leonard Schiller, is writing his last novel. He doesn’t have a lot of time yet and hasn’t written in years. Most of his books are out of print. Meanwhile, a young, attractive grad student named Heather is writing her graduate thesis on him. She convinces him to take precious time away from his writing (which takes several meetings of persuasion) to let her interview him. Heather is inspired by his writing and takes a romantic interest in him. In addition, Leonard’s daughter is grappling with starting a family without a husband while she falls in love again with an old lover where kids was the one place they couldn’t connect.
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In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching “University Challenge,” a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past. He’s smitten, and he carelessly manages to hurt the feelings of Rebecca Epstein, a friend whose politics and wit he admires. The Challenge finale is coming up; maybe Brian can redeem himself and still avoid being a prat.
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Buddy “Aces” Israel, (Jeremy Piven), is a self-indulgent headliner magician at the MGM’s main ballroom who grew up inside the Las Vegas mob, headed by mob boss, Primo Sparazza (Joseph Ruskin). “Aces” is a wannabe gangster who believes he has the brains to start his own gang and become his own mob boss. This move doesn’t sit well with the real mob boss, who places a $1,000,000 contract on “Aces”. When the contract hits the street, it brings out all sorts of psychopathic killers from around the country. “Aces” needs protection, so he is willing to turn state’s evidence against the mob in return for witness protection and not going to prison. In the meantime, “Aces” is having a party with 5 prostitutes in the penthouse suite of the Nomad Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. “Ace’s” location must be an open secret, because all the hit men ascend to Lake Tahoe and converge on the penthouse to cash in on a big payday. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)
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An actor and would-be screenwriter, who at the very moment of his meeting with Fate, comes to discover that life is random and fortune is sightless. He is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream. It’s a surreal and dreamlike tale of one man’s journey.
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