Andie MacDowell
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Based on the memoirs of Franz Lidz, Unstrung Heroes is the story of Stephen, a young boy in New York during the 1960s who, in an effort to cope with an emotionally distant father and his mother's illness, goes to live with his three wildly eccentric uncles. By moving into the funny, magical and sometimes painful world of his uncles, Stephen grows up and gains self-confidence. Finally, comforted by his uncles' idiosyncratic love, Stephen is able to...
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A romantic comedy about two people who belong together but just can't seem to tie the knot. Charlie is always the best man but never the groom. Determined to avoid even a hint of commitment, this handsome English gentleman is notoriously late to every wedding. But today he's in for a real surprise because not only did he forget the ring, but he also just caught a glimpse of the girl of his dreams!
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In the spirit of The Blind Side comes this inspiring true story of family, faith, and football. Jon Abbate is a rising football star at Wake Forest University. Lives are suddenly shattered when the family's youngest son, Luke, is killed in a tragic accident. Inspired by Luke's memory, Jon courageously leads the Wake Forest team to a series of last-minute victories - leading to a thrilling climax.
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Judge Olivia Lockhart finds herself in the middle of her small seaside town's drama, relationships and excitement. Now happily back together with Jack, Olivia becomes the stable force who holds him together when his troubled son Eric returns. As Olivia reaches new milestones in her relationship with Jack, she remains a reliable best friend to Grace and a supportive mom to Justine, proving this judge continues to capture the spirit of the small town...
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Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer and a smart-aleck cameraman, TV weatherman Phil Connors is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn't get any worse, they do. Phil wakes the next morning to find it's Groundhog Day all over again-- and again--...
9) Footloose
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Ren MacCormack moves from Boston to the small town of Bomont, where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out. Bomont's councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by invoking ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizes the town, and falls in love with...
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Starring Andie MacDowell, Brendan Gleeson, and Adrien Brody. This is the story of a woman who refuses to bow to fate, a woman who, because she is deeply in love, refuses to be dictated to by destiny. This is the story of a man who holds on to this love for dear life to prevent himself from sinking into despair and disappearing forever into the nothingness of memory. This is the story of those who were there to witness this passion and who tell us...
12) Love After Love
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In the wake of a husband and father's death, the family members left behind find themselves adrift. Mother Suzanne tentatively seeks companionship, but her attempts at dating only drive a wedge between her and older son Nicholas, whose own relationship with his girlfriend is disintegrating. Meanwhile, younger son Chris deals with grief in his own complicated and increasingly worrying way.
13) Good Girl Jane
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Desperate for connection, lonely young Jane meets a group of teen misfits who offer her acceptance and camaraderie. She falls hard for their playful but domineering ringleader, Jamie, and becomes entangled in his amateur drug operation. As her life spirals violently out of control, Jane must choose between Jamie and her own survival.
14) Red right hand
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"Cash is trying to live an honest and quiet life taking care of his recently orphaned niece Savannah in the Appalachian town of Odim County. When the sadistic kingpin Big Cat, who runs the town, forces him back into her services, Cash learns he's capable of anything, even killing, to protect the town and the only family he has left." --container.
15) The beach house
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"Cara Rutledge thought she had left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother, coming just as her own life is spinning out of control, has Cara heading back to the scenic Low country of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide 'turtle lady' and renews old acquaintances long thought lost."...
16) Short cuts
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Criterion collection volume 265
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While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
17) At risk
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Win Garano, rising star of the Massachusetts State Police, is sent to Tennessee by D.A. Monique 'Money' Lamont to investigate a murder that took place more than twenty years before. The calculating Monique thinks she has found the perfect mystery to showcase her new crime initiative and Garano has no choice but to follow her lead. Along with his colleague Sykes, Garano follows the evidence to a killer in Knoxville, and then back to Boston and a crime...
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A family drama following the lives of three generations of women--Kat Landry, her 15-year-old daughter Alice, and Kat's mother Del. As the three generations of women slowly work on finding their footing as a family, they embark on an enlightening--and surprising--journey none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other." --container
19) Daydream nation
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When high school student Caroline Wexler moves to a strange small town with her father, she becomes embroiled in a love triangle between one of her teachers and one of her classmates.
20) The front
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District Attorney Monique Lamont orders Detective Win Garano to reopen the investigation of the brutal, decades-old murder of a young blind woman named Janie Brolin. Janie's boyfriend was the main suspect in the original investigation, but Lamont has another suspect in mind: the Boston Strangler. Garano will work with no-nonsense female detective 'Stump' to uncover the truth about Janie's death and track down a psychopath who is leaving their witnesses...