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Apr. 21, 2024

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In the original, directed by Chris Columbus, Robin Williams played an estranged father who poses as a Scottish nanny, Euphegenia Doubtfire, in order to get access to his children and successfully bypass his ex-wife (Sally Field). The film grossed $219 million domestically.

Drama Comedy

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This is an updated, big-screen version of the '60s and '70s TV series, featuring Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams as the heads of Hawaii Five-O, a specialty unit of the Hawaii State Police that answers only to the governor and focuses on organized crime.

Drama Action

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A veteran NFL quarterback winds up on a semi-pro team in Italy after blowing his last chance to lead a team to the Super Bowl.

Drama Adaptation

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Travis McGee, a free-living bachelor and reluctant hero who lives on a houseboat in Florida, works as a "salvage consultant," recovering property and money for clients and taking half the fee in return. McGee takes on tracking down a treasure that a solider escaped with and hid after World War II.

Drama Crime

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Born in London as Mary O'Brien in 1939, Springfield became the finest white soul singer of her era, scoring such hits as "I Only Want to Be With You" and "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself." In 1969, Springfield released what is widely considered her masterpiece, "Dusty in Memphis," an album that yielded the classic "Son of a Preacher Man" but was a commercial failure. The singer battled substance abuse and a decline in artistic fortunes that ended only when she dueted with the Pet Shop Boys for 1990's "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" She died in 1999 at age 59 after a long battle with cancer.

Drama Biography

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Set in the near future, the U.S. exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and private enterprise and the mafia controls everything. A computer virus is manifested as a drug called Snow Crash that is transmitted visually from computer screens to unsuspecting users, frying their brains. Hiro Protagonist, a computer hacker/samurai swordsman/pizza delivery driver, investigates and tries to stop the takeover of postmodern civilization.

Drama Thriller

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7%

Lestat, depressed and lonely after centuries as a vampire, decides to transfer souls for a day with a psychic, who after the transfer reveals that he has no intention of switching back. Lestat, now in a human body and with the help of some friends, must track the man down and get his body back.

Drama Supernatural

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14%

Marvel Comics' Luke Cage (the company's first black superhero) is a former gang member who is nabbed by the cops after being framed. In jail, he signs up to participate in medical tests, and when things go wrong, he develops superhuman strength and impenetrable skin, which help him bust out of prison. He then becomes an evil-vanquishing mercenary.

Drama Action

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7%

Three generations of a highly dysfunctional Midwestern family meet at the family home for what will be the last Christmas gathering there.

Drama

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A detective with the Royal Thai Police Force tracks the murderers of his partner and also a U.S. Marine. The trail leads through Bangkok's drug and sex trade, and corrupt colleagues.

Drama Mystery

97%

3%

Set in medieval times, a brotherhood of mice are sworn to protect the common folk. Or rodent, as it were.

Drama Action

91%

9%

Set at the end of WWII, an Army nurse takes a second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband and finds herself transported back to a time when the clans ruled the Highlands and her husband's English ancestors are the enemy.

Drama Romance

98%

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The story centers on the life of Rush Limbaugh.

Drama Biography

4%

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The story of a metallic being who travels through space on a board.

Drama Action

94%

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Singer Frank Sinatra parlays his golden voice into a trip from New Jersey to Hollywood. He has the world on a string as he romances the most beautiful women in town, cuts a swath with his Rat Pack pals and makes films, including The Manchurian Candidate, From Here To Eternity and Pal Joey.

Drama Biography

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A shy California high school student finds seven cassette tapes recorded by Hanna Baker, the classmate he had a crush on. Before she committed suicide, Hannah sent the tapes with instructions to pass them on to a list of students like a chain letter. The tapes explain to 13 people how they played a role in her death.

Drama

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A dark comedy about 14 year-old Jesse Urchin, an ambitious yet overweight ballerina with an overbearing mother (Kristen Bell) who will stop at nothing to become a star. The girl enters a "Mean Girls"-type environment when she has to prove her worth in class.

Drama Comedy

83%

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