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Last updated May 18, 2024
Detachment
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWhen a substitute teacher takes a new assignment at an inner-city school, he finds himself becoming involved in the lives of his colleagues and students. At home, he houses a young prostitute and meditates on what happened to his mother.
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Brian's Song
1971 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsThis Emmy-winning drama focuses on the friendship between Chicago Bears fullback Brian Piccolo and running back Gale Sayers, which becomes a mutually motivating gridiron rivalry and inspiring strength when Piccolo is diagnosed with cancer.
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Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThrough interviews and rare footage, this documentary chronicles Hefner's journey, from the founding of Playboy magazine -- and the launch of the sexual revolution -- to his support for a wide range of progressive causes.
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Bottle Rocket
1996 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn this offbeat comedy, a trio of Texas friends tries to embark on a life of crime. After knocking over a bookstore and going on the lam, they bungle their way into a huge heist engineered by a silver-tongued con artist.
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For the Boys
1991 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsOn the eve of receiving a presidential medal, aging USO performer Dixie Leonard (Bette Midler) reflects on the events of her 50-year career. Plucked from obscurity by Eddie Sparks (James Caan), Dixie agrees to a tentative partnership that takes the duo through many wars, onstage and off. Eddie and Dixie never quite see eye to eye, but they somehow manage to keep the act together -- for the sake of the boys in uniform.
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Mercy
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA womanizing writer who's never known true love struggles to pen a novel that captures the feeling's all-consuming nature. While looking for inspiration, he falls for a pretty literary critic who drastically alters his outlook on life.
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Flesh and Bone
1993 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhen Arlis meets Kay, their attraction is palpable, despite his reserve and her marriage. They fall in love, unaware that they share a tragic past. But evil returns, threatening to bring that dark past to light.
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Redline 7000
1965 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIconic director Howard Hawks masters another genre with this emotional, fast-paced examination of the lives of three ambitious stock-car racers whose overwhelming desire to win puts their lives in constant danger.
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Rollerball
1975 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIn the future, global megacorporations maintain their power by channeling and releasing human hostility through rollerball -- an anything-goes, worldwide sport designed to show the forcibly subdued populace that individualism is futile.
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The Gambler
1974 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsJames Caan stars as Axel Freed, a literature professor with a gambling addiction that's destroying his life. After a bad run at a casino leaves him $44,000 in debt to a mobster, he tries in vain to win the money back.
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Henry's Crime
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsKeanu Reeves stars in this dark comedy as Henry, an affable tollbooth worker in Buffalo, N.Y., who finds himself on the wrong end of justice when he's accused and convicted of a bank robbery that he didn't commit.
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New York, I Love You
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsIn the city that never sleeps, love abounds 24/7. At the café, in the park, on the subway, on the corner, you never know where love will find you. Some of the greatest directors present an all-star cast!
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