Last updated September 22, 2023
When Kevin, who has a rare physical disorder, meets learning-disabled but very large and strong Max, they bond over a fantasy world of knights and sorcery, and the two outcasts combine their strengths at home and school to overcome their weaknesses.
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A young mother, disillusioned with Christmas, finds its approach one more pressure to an already stress-filled existence. But her spirit of hope and Christmas is rekindled through a miraculous yuletide experience.
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Packed with interviews and rare footage culled from every phase of Bukowski's past, this intimate portrait of writer Charles Bukowski reveals a tortured man who survived years of abuse to produce some of the most influential prose of his generation.
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When a group of teenagers witnesses Soviet and Cuban paratroopers descending on their small town and systematically setting off World War III, they take food and whatever weapons they can find and hightail it to the hills to wait things out.
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Johnny Depp lends his voice to the title character, an adventurous family pet who leaves home to learn more about himself in this comic animated tale also featuring the vocal talents of Abigail Breslin, Harry Dean Stanton and Ned Beatty.
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Working-class misfit Andie thinks her dreams have come true when rich, popular Blane asks her to prom in this coming-of-age classic from John Hughes. Meanwhile, Andie's best friend Duckie pines for her.
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Armed with new knowledge that his estranged Jewish father suffered mercilessly at the hands of a sadistic SS officer in the 1940s, a now-retired rock star travels to America, where the ex-Nazi war criminal remains alive.
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Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel comes to life in director Martin Scorsese's moving, spiritual and highly controversial film that challenges the Christian notion that Jesus (Willem Dafoe) was both a man and a divine being. With an all-star cast that includes Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton and David Bowie, the film portrays Jesus as unmistakably human, susceptible to the desires, doubts and temptations that all men face.
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When the dysfunctional Cleveland clan -- led by eccentric soda tycoon Eugene -- is forced to wait out a twister on the patriarch's estate in rural Kansas, the family mansion may be too small for this group of colorful oddballs.
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Christina Ricci stars as Suzie, a Russian Jew adrift in the world after her father leaves the family to make a fresh start in America in 1927. After emigrating to England, Suzie flowers into a no-nonsense showgirl who eventually ends up in Paris. There, she becomes involved with Cesar (Johnny Depp), the head of a band of gypsies, but their happiness -- and Suzie's quest to track down her father -- is challenged by the rising Nazi influence in Europe.
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Notorious bank robber John Dillinger has turned into a folk hero among Depression-era Americans, capturing their fancy with the adventures of his criminal gang. But the clock could be running out on Dillinger and crew: G-man Melvin Purvis has the gang in his crosshairs, and he won't rest till they're all in the slammer or six feet under.
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This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.
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When the Italian Mafia assassinates an FBI informant, Agent Matt Benson (Harvey Keitel) is sent to the islands off Sicily to interview the only survivor of the car bombing -- the informant's 11-year-old son Ettore (Mattia De Martino). But Benson must get to the boy before the ruthless gangsters are able to silence him for good. Andie MacDowell, Harry Dean Stanton, Asia Argento also star in this crime drama directed by Manuel Pradal.
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Eddie (Sean Penn) and Maureen (Robin Wright Penn) are crazy about each other. When a neighbor attacks Maureen, Eddie snaps -- a move that ends up costing him 10 years of his life. When he returns from prison, he discovers that his wife has gotten remarried to Joey (John Travolta). Now Maureen is caught in the middle, between the past and the present, between an inexplicable passion and an abiding love.
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In 1719, the Mainwaring family inherits an island off the Carolina coast and establishes a homestead there. Thomas (Brendan Dillon) and his wife, Devon (Kate Manx), may own the land, but a brutish fisherman named Gates (Rip Torn) and his crew don't intend to leave. The escalating feud results in bloodshed, but the tides turn when a mysterious man (James Mason) washes ashore and takes the family's side in this period drama.
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In this musical drama, Hank and Frannie go to Las Vegas to celebrate their fifth anniversary, but they end up fighting and breaking up. A piano player courts Frannie and Hank meets a beautiful woman, but are things over for good?
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Michael Madsen's played a lot of unsavory characters on screen, but could he possibly be a murderer in real life? That's the starting point for this "meta" mockumentary, in which a paparazzi starts the vicious rumor.
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It's a chopper-chick romp with 1960s screen babe Diane McBain as tough biker Shayne, whose chrome-plated ego takes a beating when boyfriend Jeff Logan (Ross Hagen) changes gears to marry the town plain Jane. The rejected bad girl goes on a revved-up reign of revenge against the newly married couple. A parade of character actors co-stars, including Harry Dean Stanton (Repo Man), Jeremy Slate ("The Aquanauts") and Patricia McCormack (The Bad Seed).
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Roddy, a journalist, has a device implanted in his brain that turns him into a camera. His employers instruct him to follow a dying woman 24 hours a day so her final hours will be broadcast live on the TV show "Death Watch."
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