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The Accidental Husband
2008 / Comedy / 90 minutes

Director: Griffin Dunne

Starring: Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan,
Colin Firth, Sam Shepard, Isabella Rossellini

When talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of
her listeners to break up with her boyfriend, the
jilted ex sets about getting his revenge.

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Assassination of a High School President
(aka The Sophomore)

2008 / Comedy/Crime/Mystery / 93 minutes

Director: Brett Simon

Starring: Mischa Barton, Bruce Willis, Reece
Thompson, Kathryn Morris, Michael Rapaport,
Luke Grimes, Zoe Kravitz

After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a
principal’s office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke
(Reece Thompson) sets out to unmask the thief.
Bobby prints an article fingering Class President
Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth’s
reputation. But as Bobby gets to know Paul’s
girlfriend, Francesca (Mischa Barton), he comes
to realize he was wrong about

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Can’t Stand Losing You
(aka One Train Later)

2012 / Documentary/Concert / 85 minutes

Director: Andy Grieve, Lauren Lazin

Starring: Sting, Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers

Based on the acclaimed memoir by guitarist Andy
Summers, CAN’T STAND LOSING YOU follows
Summers’ journey from the psychedelic 60s
music scene playing with The Animals, to chance
encounters with drummer Stewart Copeland and
vocalist Sting, to the formation of The Police.
During the band’s rise and breakup at the height
of their popularity, Summers captured history
with his candid photographs. Utilizing rare
footage and insights, CAN’T STAND LOSING YOU
is “a unique exploration of the trio’s history”
(National Post) that brings together past and
present as the band members reunite, thirty
years later, for a massive world tour.

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Chumscrubber
2005 / Comedy/Drama / 115 minutes

Director:  Arie Posin

Starring: Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin,
Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Carrie-Anne Moss,
Filliam Fichtner, Rory Culkin

After a friend who sells prescription medication
is killed, Dean (Jamie Bell) is confronted by Billy
(Justin Chatwin), the high-school drug dealer,
who demands he hand over the remaining stash.
Dean refuses, causing Billy and his partner to
plot to kidnap his younger brother, Charlie (Rory
Culkin). However, unaware of what Charlie looks
like, they accidentally abduct another boy. When
neither parents nor law enforcement believes his
story, Dean is forced to go on a rescue mission.

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Crash
2005 / Comedy/Drama / 112 minutes

Director: Paul Haggis

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Don
Cheadle, Thandie Newton, Jennifer Esposito,
Brendan Fraser, Ryan Phillippe

Writer-director Paul Haggis interweaves several
connected stories about race, class, family and
gender in Los Angeles in the aftermath of 9/11.
Characters include a district attorney (Brendan
Fraser) and his casually prejudiced wife (Sandra
Bullock), dating police detectives Graham (Don
Cheadle) and Ria (Jennifer Esposito), a victimized
Middle Eastern store owner and a wealthy
African-American couple (Terrence Dashon
Howard, Thandie Newton) humiliated by a racist
traffic cop (Matt Dillon).

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Employee of the Month
2004 / Comedy / 97 minutes

Director: Mitch Rouse

Starring: Matt Dillon, Christina Applegate, Steve
Zahn, Jenna Fischer, Andrea Bendewald

When David Walsh (Matt Dillon) wakes up, his life
is the picture of perfection: a beautiful fiancee,
Sarah (Christina Applegate), and a dream job as
a manager of a bank - even his best friend Jack
(Steve Zahn), an incompetent con artist, can’t
bring him down. That is, until his entire life dissolves
into chaos.

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Even Money
(aka Jumpshot)

2007 / Crime/Drama / 113 minutes

Director: Mark Rydell

Starring: Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Ray Liotta,
Forest Whitaker, Kelsey Grammer, Tim Roth, Nick
Cannon, Carla Gugino

Gambling destroys the lives of various people
who are either addicted to it or involved in
its promotion. Carol (Kim Basinger) hides her
addiction from her family, who believe she is
writing a novel rather than pulling slots in a
casino. Clyde (Forest Whitaker) convinces his
brother to shave points in his basketball games,
and Murph (Nick Cannon) tries unsuccessfully to
keep his girlfriend (Carla Gugino) from finding out
he works as a bookie.

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Find Me Guilty
2006 / Crime/Comedy / 125 minutes

Director: Sidney Lumet

Starring: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Alex Rocco,
Annabella Sciorra, Ron Silver

In the late 1980s, a low level gangster named
Jackie DiNorscio defends himself in court in what
became the longest criminal trial in American
judicial history.

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First Snow
2006 / Thriller / 121 minutes

Director: Mark Fergus

Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William
Fichtner, J.K. Simmons, Rick Gonzalez

A man’s life spins out of control after psychic tells
him his days are numbered. After his car breaks
down in a desolate town, a slick salesman, Jimmy
Starks (Pearce), visits a fortune teller (Simmons)
to kill some time. But the psychic’s ominous
reading sends Jimmy’s life into a tailspin when
he learns that his life will soon end, but he is safe
at least, until the first snow of the season. Now,
with his ultimate fate looming nearer, Jimmy
becomes obsessed with revisiting his past in
hopes of changing his destiny before it’s too late.

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Gray Matters
2007 / Comedy / 96 minutes

Director: Sue Kramer

Starring: Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan,
Tom Cavanagh, Rachel Shelley, Alan Cumming

They finish each other’s sentences, dance like
Fred and Ginger, and share the same downtown
loft--the perfect couple? Not exactly. Gray and
Sam, are a sister and brother so compatible and
inseparable that people actually assume they
are dating. Mortified, they both agree they must
branch out and start searching for love. He’ll look
for a guy for her and she’ll look for a gal for him.

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Guns, Girls and Gambling
2012 / Crime Drama / 90 minutes

Director: Michael Winnick

Starring: Helena Mattsson, Christian Slater, Gary
Oldman, Dane Cook, Powers Boothe

After a priceless Apache war mask is stolen from
an Indian casino, a host of criminals descends
on the small town in hope of claiming the stolen
treasure first.

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Haven
2006 / Crime/Thriller / 115 minutes

Director: Frank E. Flowers

Starring: Orlando Bloom, Zoe Saldana, Bill Paxton,
Agnes Bruckner, Anthony Mackie

A shady businessman (Bill Paxton) and his
associate flee to the Cayman Islands, setting
off a chain reaction that has enormous and
unforeseeable implications: A Brit’s (Orlando
Bloom) love affair ends badly, and a police
lieutenant (Stephen Dillane) investigates a crime.

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The Hoax
2006 / Comedy/Drama / 116 minutes

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Starring: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Julie Delpy,
Marcia Gay Harde, Hope Davis

In the early 1970s, author Clifford Irving (Richard
Gere), with accomplice Richard Suskind (Alfred
Molina), attempts to pull off one of the greatest
media scams of the century. He writes a fake
biography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes,
claiming that Hughes authorized it, and sells the
book to publishing giant McGraw-Hill.

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Hostage
2005  /  Action/Crime/Drama  /  113 minutes
 
Director:  Florent-Emilio Siri
 
Starring: Bruce Willis, Ben Foster, Michelle Horn, Kevin Pollak, Jonathan Tucker, Rumor Willis
 
After one of his hostage negotiations goes awry, LAPD officer Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) quits the force and relocates his family to the suburbs. As the sheriff in a sleepy town, Jeff thinks he has escaped the hustle and bustle -- until an elaborate local heist puts him back in the center of a hostage situation. When his own family is pulled into the fray, Jeff is forced to decide whether he should try to help the hostages or follow the criminals' hands-off mandate to protect his own family.


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House of D
2004 / Comedy/Drama / 97 minutes

Director: David Duchovny

Starring: Robin Williams, David Duchovny, Anton
Yelchin, Tea Leoni, Frank Langella

In the present, artist Tom Warshaw (David
Duchovny) recalls his traumatic coming of age. As
a 13-year-old (Anton Yelchin) growing up in New
York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass
(Robin Williams), a mentally disabled man. With
Tom’s mother (Téa Leoni) battling depression
after the death of her husband, the young boy
is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a
crush on schoolmate Melissa (Zelda Williams),
Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving
erratically.

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The Illusionist
2006 / Drama/Mystery/Romance / 110 minutes

Director: Neil Burger

Starring: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul
Giamatti, Rufus Sewell, Aaron Taylor-Johnson,
Eddie Marsan, Eleanor Tomlinson

A master magician named Eisenheim (Edward
Norton) vies with Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus
Sewell) of Vienna for the hand of noblewoman
Sophie (Jessica Biel), the girl he once loved.
He brings his considerable powers to bear on
the prince, as she is about to be named royal
fiancee. However, a police inspector named Uhl
(Paul Giamatti) tries to warn Eisenheim that he is
playing a very dangerous game.

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Love Song for Bobby Long
2004 / Drama / 119 minutes

Director: Shainee Gabel

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, John Travolta,
Gabriel Macht, Deborah Kara Unger

Bobby Long (John Travolta), a former professor
turned full-time drunkard, and Lawson Pines
(Gabriel Macht), Long’s former teaching assistant,
spend their days drinking and swapping literary
quotations in a New Orleans house owned by
a deceased lounge singer. When the singer’s
daughter, Pursy (Scarlett Johansson), shows up
to reclaim her mother’s property, Bobby and
Lawson try to grift their way into keeping the
home while attempting to convince the highschool
dropout to pursue an education.

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The Maiden Heist
(aka Lonely Maiden)
2009 / Comedy/Crime / 90 minutes

Director: Peter Hewitt

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken,
William H. Macy, Marcia Gay Harden

After learning that a whole exhibit has been sold
to a foreign institution, three museum guards
(Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William
H. Macy) hatch a bold plan to steal their favorite
works of art.

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The Matador
2005 / Comedy/Crime/Drama / 97 minutes

Director: Richard Shepard

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinner, Hope
Davis, Adam Scott, Philip Baker, Portia Dawson,
Dylan Baker

Salesman Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear) is working
through his shaky marriage and the untimely
death of his child when he bumps into the
similarly dispirited Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan)
in a Mexican dive bar. After they develop an
unusual but meaningful bond, the brash Julian
reveals that he is a contract killer, which doesn’t
bother Danny. Months later, a desperate Julian
shows up at Danny’s home and asks for a lifechanging
favor that truly puts their friendship to
the test.

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Nothing But the Truth
2008 / Thriller/Mystery/Drama / 108 minutes

Director: Rod Lurie

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Vera Farmiga, Matt
Dillon, Alan Alda, David Schwimmer, Angela
Bassett, Noah Wyle

When reporter Rachel Armstrong (Kate
Beckinsale) writes a story that reveals the identity
of a covert CIA operative, the government
demands that Rachel reveal her source. She
defies the special prosecutor (Matt Dillon) and is
thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert
Burnside (Alan Alda) argues her case all the way
to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Painted Veil
2006 / Romance/Drama / 128 minutes

Director: John Curran

Starring: Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Live Schreiber,
Toby Jones, Diana Rigg

Caught in an affair with another man (Liev Schreiber), a
scientist's callow wife (Naomi Watts) accompanies her
husband (Edward Norton) to mainland China in the 1920s
to fight a cholera epidemic. There, she embarks on a
journey of self-discovery that leads to an unexpected
chance at redemption.


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Papa Hemingway in Cuba
2015 / Drama/Biography / 110 minutes

Director: Bob Yari

Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Minka Kelly, Adrian
Sparks, Joely Richardson

In 1959, a young Miami journalist (Giovanni
Ribisi) travels to Havana to meet writer Ernest
Hemingway (Adrian Sparks) during the Cuban
Revolution.

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The Perfect Holiday
2007 / Comedy/Romance/Family / 96 minutes

Director: Lance Rivera

Starring: Gabrielle Union, Morris Chestnut,
Queen Latifah, Charlie Murphy, Terrence Howard

Nancy (Gabrielle Union), a divorced mother of
three, feels especially lonely during the holidays.
Sensing her sadness, Nancy’s youngest daughter,
Emily (Khail Bryant), has a plan to make her
mom happy again. She asks Benjamin (Morris
Chestnut), a department-store Santa Claus, to
pay Nancy a compliment. And Benjamin, who is
also a struggling songwriter, knows exactly the
right words to say.

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Possession
(aka Addicted)

2008 / Thriller / 86 minutes

Director: Joel Bergvall & Simon Sandquist

Starring: Lee Pace, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michael
Landes, Tuva Novotny, William Davis

Jess (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Ryan (Michael Landes) seem to have a perfect life, marred only by the presence of Ryan's thuggish brother, Roman (Lee Pace). After the two brothers are involved in a terrible car crash, Roman awakes from his coma first and claims to be Ryan. Though she is skeptical at first, Jess begins to believe that her husband really is trapped in his brother's body.

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Resurrecting the Champ
2007 / Sports/Drama / 112 minutes

Director: Rod Lurie

Starring: Josh Hartnett, Samuel L. Jackson,
Kathryn Morris, Dakota Goyo, Teri Hatcher,
Rachel Nichols, Alan Alda, David Paymer, Peter
Coyote

Things are not going well for Erik Kernan (Josh
Hartnett). Erik, a sports reporter, is stuck covering
the bush leagues because his editor (Alan Alda)
thinks he cannot cut it as writer. On top of that,
his marriage is disintegrating. One night, he
rescues a homeless man (Samuel L. Jackson) and
discovers the guy is Battling Bob Satterfield, a
former boxer rumored to be dead. Erik sees a
chance to give his career a much-needed boost
by writing the athlete’s story.

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Shortcut to Happiness
2003 / Comedy/Fantasy/Drama / 105 minutes

Director: Alec Baldwin

Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alec Baldwin,
Anthony Hopkins, Kim Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd,
Jason Patrick, John Savage, Amy Poehler

Bez Stone (Alec Baldwin) is in the midst of the
worst day of his life: His manuscript has been
rejected by Daniel Webster (Anthony Hopkins)
; he has lost his job, and he’s broke. After
accidentally killing an elderly woman with his
typewriter, Bez makes a desperate bargain with
a sexy devil (Jennifer Love Hewitt) for 10 years of
success. Then things really go to hell.

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Thumbsucker
2005 / Comedy/Drama / 96 minutes

Director: Mike Mills

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda
Swinton, Kelli Garner, Vincent D’Onofrio, Vince
Vaughn, Benjamin Bratt

In the strange land known as suburbia,
introverted adolescent Justin (Lou Pucci) spends
the majority of his life pining after his attractive
classmate Rebecca (Kelli Garner) and nervously
sucking his thumb when he’s alone. Oddly,
after receiving some New Age advice from his
spacey orthodontist, Perry (Keanu Reeves) --
and a helpful dose of prescription pills -- Justin
becomes the outspoken star of his school’s
debate club. His extroverted persona, however,
causes an all-new set of problems.

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What Doesn’t Kill You
2008 / Action/Crime/Drama / 100 minutes

Director: Brian Goodman

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Brian
Goodman, Amanda Peet, Donnie Wahlberg

Friends since childhood, Brian (Mark Ruffalo)
and Paulie (Ethan Hawke) do whatever it takes
to survive in their hardscrabble South Boston
neighborhood. Crime has always been part of
their lives, and now they find themselves on
the payroll of a hoodlum named Pat Kelly (Brian
Goodman). While Brian sinks deeper into the
criminal cesspool, Paulie plans one last heist, one
that he hopes can pull them both out of their
dead-end lives.

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Where the Red Fern Grows
2003 / Drama/Family / 86 minutes

Director: Lyman Dayton, Sam Pillsbury

Starring: Dave Matthews, Joseph Ashton, Ned
Beatty, Dabney Coleman, Kris Kristofferson, Mac
Davis

After saving for two years, a 12-year-old boy
(Joseph Ashton) buys two puppies and trains
them to be hunting dogs.

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Winter Passing
2005 / Comedy/Drama / 98 minutes

Director: Adam Rapp

Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Ed Harris,
Amelia Warner, Amy Madigan

Tired of struggling to be an actress, Reese Holden
(Zooey Deschanel) leaves New York and returns
to her Michigan home. She has a cash advance
from a book editor who wants to publish the love
letters of Reese’s parents. Reese has a strained
relationship with her dad, a washed-up novelist,
but she enters the household he shares with an
ex-student and a shy friend who takes care of
domestic matters.
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