Tom Skerritt
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Based on the best-selling novel by David Guterson When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog back to his boyhood home in Eastern Washington, determined to end his life on his own terms. Ben's journey, though, takes an unexpected turn, and soon becomes an adventure against which he pits himself with characteristic stoicism, wit, and determination.
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Death Valley Days volume 5
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A young Roy Bean rides into 1850s San Diego to visit his brother. Bad blood quickly develops between him and a local man over the affections of a pretty girl, with Roy being jailed for wounding the man.
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Death Valley Days volume 1
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A recruit and his pet mule are the only hope for a besieged cavalry patrol.
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Death Valley Days volume 9
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A young Chinese man uses his ancient book to help a miner win money at roulette. Soon, greed takes over and brings unfortunate consequences for both men.
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Death Valley Days volume 12
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Cal and Sam share a mining claim, but Sam is a better writer than laborer. A set of circumstances prevent the friends from keeping control of their potential millions.
7) Mammoth
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When a meteor smashes into a local museum the fury of a partially frozen, 40,000 year old mammoth is unleashed on a small country town. We hunted it into extinction...now it's hunting us.
8) Fallen
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Aaron Corbett is a high school jock with a promising future. But on his 18th birthday, his life forever changes when his incredible powers emerge, revealing the terrifying truth of his identity. As the Redeemer, a half-angel, half-man who can return fallen angels to Heaven, Aaron holds the entire world's destiny in his young hands. He must battle warrior seraphs and confront the fallen angel who has sparked his nightmares.
11) Poison ivy
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A provocative and erotic thriller centered on two schoolgirls: Ivy, the sexy, streetwise new girl in a posh private school; and Cooper, rich, smart, but misunderstood. When Ivy is invited into Cooper's privileged world, she seizes the opportunity for seduction and sets off a chain reaction.
13) Redwood Highway
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Living in a comfortable retirement community in Southern Oregon, estranged from her family, unsatisfied with her surroundings, and generally not happy about life, Marie (Shirley Knight) decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast of Oregon to revisit the ocean of her past for the first time in 45 years. Once reluctant to attend her granddaughter’s wedding, she now arrives as an unexpected guest. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary cast...
14) Contact
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Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
15) The heist
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"Theres a different kind of race going on at the track in San Diego, but you'd have to be on the inside to know about it. After serving four years, Neal Skinner is out of jail, but he's put his time behind bars to good use - planning his revenge. It was Neal's partner in track security, Ebet Berens, who framed him in an emerald smuggling deal. Ebet took Neal for everything he had - including his woman- and now Neal wants it back! His plan - to holdup...
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Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from "The wizard of Oz" is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show-and-tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause." Sheriff Jimmy Brock has seen it all. Indeed, behind the tidy picket fences of this quirky little town lie all the same problems and prejudices found in the big city, except here everyone...
18) Top gun
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At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground.
19) The other sister
20) Tears of the sun
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Bruce Willis stars as Lt. A.K. Waters, the loyal veteran officer of a Navy S.E.A.L unit. When he’s sent into the heart of Africa, the usually hard-bitten Waters finds himself deeply conflicted at having to choose between following orders and the dictates of his own conscience.