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1) Invictus
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Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. Special features included.
"A great entertainment."--Roger Ebert
"It's an exciting sports movie...a fascinating study of political...
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A surgeon trying to make sense of his life stays in a remote inn managed by a woman trying to do the same thing. When a storm forces them to lean on each other for strength, they find more than comfort in each other.
"...unabashedly deals in love, loss and the possibility of second chances."--Variety
"...a tasteful melodrama courtesy of the easy chemistry between its two leads..."--Hollywood Reporter
"A classy tearjerker with butter-cream frosting..."--Rex...
3) Oliver twist
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This gripping tale of Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel while delivering a modern, thrilling, tragic, and occasionally comic edge.
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
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Nicholas Nickleby and his family live a comfortable life, until his father's death leaves them destitute. They are sent to their evil Uncle Ralph and are promptly separated. Nicholas teaches at a boarding school and helps a crippled boy escape.
"The movie is jolly and exciting and brimming with life, and wonderfully well-acted."--Roger Ebert
"The movie is a rambunctious joy."--Boston Globe
"A delightful experience."--Variety
6) Empire falls
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Adapted by author Richard Russo from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Empire Falls is a powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
"Two thumbs up!"--Ebert & Roeper
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A smart, hip look at dating in the nineties and the extremes some guys will go to just to get the girl they want. A retelling of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Includes never-before-seen bonus features including 10 Years Later and a documentary.
"Devilishly entertaining!"--Rolling Stone
"Hilarious and witty!"--CNN
8) Persuasion
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Adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about lost and found love. Anne is persuaded to reject a proposition of marriage from the man she loves due to his lack of fortune. Years later she is made the offer again.
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After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home, getting too many prescriptions and too much bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.
"...a compulsively watchable movie..."--New York Post
"One of the funniest movies I have seen this year."--New York Observer
"...this deadpan celebration of neurosis makes a valiant effort to repress its comedy - which of...
13) Atonement
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When a young girl catches her sister in a passionate embrace with a childhood friend, her jealousy drives her to tell a lie that will irrevocably change the course of all their lives forever.
"Rarely has a book sprung so vividly to life, but also worked so enthrallingly in pure movie terms..."--Variety
"How fitting, somehow, that a novel so devoted to the precision and passionate love of language be captured in a film that is simply too exquisite...
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Frank and April Wheeler are a young couple living in suburban Connecticut in 1955. On the outside their lives appear to be perfect, but they really aren't happy. They decide to break away from the ordinary and move to Paris, but can they do it without breaking their marriage apart? Includes commentary, deleted scenes, and featurette.
"This film is so good it is devastating."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...as gripping and relevant now as it...
15) War horse
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Albert Narracott enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse Joey is sold to the cavalry.
Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young...
17) Christmas carol
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Excellent TV adaptation of the Dickens classic featuring Scrooge, who gets a scary look at his life thanks to a Christmas Eve visit from the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future.
20) The wife
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While traveling to Stockholm with her husband, where he'll be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a woman confronts the sacrifices she's made on his behalf.
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