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Hoffa
1992 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsJack Nicholson stars as infamous Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa in this biopic that traces Hoffa's rise through labor's ranks to create the most powerful union in the country and posits a guess as to what happened to him when he vanished without a trace.
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Chicago Overcoat
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsLongtime hit man Lou Marazano (Frank Vincent) often dreams about his glory days -- when respect and protocol ruled the Chicago mob. When kingpin Stefan D'Agostino (Armand Assante) needs some witness eliminated, Lou volunteers for one last big job so that he can retire. The task becomes complicated, however, when younger thugs resent Lou's interference, and an old enemy, Det. Ralph Maloney (Danny Goldring), hopes to even their overdue score.
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsPoised to benefit from wealth gained after the establishment of trade routes and colonies in far-flung lands, Spain's Queen Isabel (Sigourney Weaver) funds navigator Christopher Columbus's (Gérard Depardieu) historical voyage to the "New World." After traversing the sea with the &NFi;Santa María&NFi_;, &NFi;La Niña &NFi_;and &NFi;La Pinta&NFi_;, Columbus initiates contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Ridley Scott directs this sumptuously filmed adventure.
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The Third Wish
2004 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA bookshop clerk goes from the proverbial rags to riches when she's granted three wishes after finding a rare first-edition copy of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. But will her luck hold out after she makes that all-important third wish?
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Last Run
2001 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsThe Cold War is over, but Frank must rehash it every day because of his top secret work with defecting Soviet spies. Now, Frank's being called in to protect an ex-KGB official on the run from both the Russian Mafia and the CIA.
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Paradise Alley
1978 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsThree down-and-out brothers struggle to find a way out of New York's seedy Hell's Kitchen just after World War II. Cosmo (Sylvester Stallone) is a hustler who tries to "manage" his younger, bigger brother Victor (Lee Canalito) as a ham-and-egg fighter in the ring. Armand Assante, Anne Archer, Kevin Conway, Tom Waits and Frank McRae co-star. Stallone makes his directorial debut and even sings the theme song.
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California Dreamin'
2007 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen a NATO train on a mission is stalled by a village functionary (Razvan Vasilescu), the Marines escorting the train (Armand Assante and Jamie Elman) are besieged by the mayor, love-struck local women and striking factory workers, all trying to use the delay to their own advantage. Based on an actual incident, this is the final film by acclaimed Romanian director Cristian Nemescu, who died a few weeks after its completion.
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Smile
2009 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhat seems like a lucky find turns out to be a bloody harbinger of death foretold when students vacationing in Morocco stumble upon an antique instant camera. The fun of capturing images quickly diminishes when the subjects start turning up dead.
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The Chaos Experiment
2009 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsHell-bent on proving his theory that global warming will steer human beings toward utter chaos, a former professor (Val Kilmer) holds six people hostage in a Turkish bathhouse and turns up the heat in this tightly wound thriller. But the ransom he demands has nothing to do with money -- he simply wants to make sure that his hypothesis makes front-page news. Armand Assante co-stars as the detective determined to bring down the madman.
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