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The Last of the Mohicans
1992 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsWhen rugged frontiersman Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) saves the Munro sisters -- two newly arrived English settlers -- from a Huron ambush, he ends up in the midst of the battle between the British and the French for control of the American colonies. Director Michael Mann's first-rate production also stars Madeleine Stowe as the Munro sister who wins Hawkeye's heart, and Wes Studi as the Huron warrior who has a score to settle with her father.
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In the Name of the Father
1993 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsNominated for seven Oscars in 1993, this biopic features the dramatic prowess of Daniel Day-Lewis as the Irishman Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for an IRA terrorist attack that killed four people. As if a forced confession weren't enough injustice, the police work to implicate Conlon's father (Pete Postlethwaite) in the same crime. Emma Thompson plays the lawyer who worked for years to uncover the truth.
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Solomon Kane
2009 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsA once-murderous sea captain -- Solomon Kane -- is holed up in a monastery in retreat from the devil, whom he fears is coming for his soul. Kane soon learns, however, that the path to redemption lies in defending those who are weak.
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James and the Giant Peach
1996 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen young orphan James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he soon finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands. But that's not half as odd as the oversize talking insects he finds living inside the peach.
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The Age of Stupid
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn the desolate future of 2055, an archivist combs through a vast collection of videos to learn what went wrong with the planet. His research points to the first decade of the century, when humans blithely ignored the warning signs of climate change.
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Brassed Off
1996 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsA big energy company threatens to move in and close the coal mine in the town of Grimley, but the miners' brass band conductor refuses to hang up his baton. With one last chance to shine, Danny (Pete Postlethwaite) perfects his band for a national competition. Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) tries to perform flawless flugelhorn as she wrestles resentment for her part in the mine's closure and falls for Andy (Ewan McGregor).
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The Shipping News
2001 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsDistraught after the disappearance of his estranged wife, Quoyle and his daughter move into their ancestral home with his long-lost aunt in Newfoundland, where life is rough and secrets are buried deep.
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Aeon Flux
2005 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAiming to hasten an uprising, the leader of an underground rebellion (Frances McDormand) dispatches acrobatic assassin Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron) to eliminate the government's top leader in this futuristic thriller based on the popular animated MTV show. It's the 25th century, and a rampaging virus has forced the remnants of humanity into seclusion. But political conflict swirls within, and the climate is ripe for revolution.
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Killing Bono
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsDublin schoolboy Neil McCormick is determined to be one of the great rock stars of the 1980s, and is so confident he'll succeed that he prevents his brother from joining a band being formed by a classmate -- a band called U2.
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The Serpent's Kiss
1997 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsA renowned landscape architect is commissioned by British aristocrat Thomas Smithers to design a lavish garden for his country estate. Instructions for its creation, however, come from a man whose true aim is to ruin Smithers and steal his wife.
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Rat
2000 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsIt's an unlikely cross between Stuart Little and Franz Kafka. An ordinary, working-class Dublin family sees their lives turned upside down when their father (Pete Postlethwaite) comes home from a night of Guinness-swilling and transforms into a rat! The family's reactions vary from annoyance to opportunism in this unlikely comic fantasy from the director of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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