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Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIconic and influential director-writer-comedian Woody Allen granted unprecedented access for this in-depth profile of his award-winning career and controversial personal life. Highlights include interviews with collaborators and noted film critics.
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIconic and influential director-writer-comedian Woody Allen granted unprecedented access for this in-depth profile of his award-winning career and controversial personal life. Highlights include interviews with collaborators and noted film critics.
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Bukowski: Born into This
2003 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsPacked 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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Colors
1988 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsVeteran cop Bob Hodges has nothing but contempt for his new partner, fiery rookie Danny McGavin. But he gradually comes to appreciate Danny as they patrol the streets of East Los Angeles, where a gang war between the Crips and Bloods is escalating.
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Bad Boys
1983 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsOn the mean streets of Chicago, Mick O'Brien (Sean Penn) plays by the rules -- the wrong rules. The only saving grace in his life of crime is his relationship with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy). But when a heist ends in tragedy, O'Brien lands in jail with his worst enemy (Esai Morales). Both are bent on vengeance ... and the score must be settled in blood. Rick Rosenthal directs this thrilling crime drama depicting violence in juvenile prison.
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21 Grams
2003 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsA tragic car accident brings together three strangers -- a teacher with a weak heart, a former drug addict turned housewife and an ex-con who's found Christ -- forcing them to face their darkest fears, reevaluate their lives and seek redemption.
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The Falcon and the Snowman
1985 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAs a CIA employee in charge of guarding top secret documents, all-American Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) becomes disillusioned with his country and decides to make a deal with the Soviet Union. Boyce drags his childhood friend Daulton Lee (Sean Penn) into the arrangement, but the drug-addicted Lee's reasons for committing espionage are strictly monetary. John Schlesinger directs this provocative and sometimes humorous account.
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This Must Be the Place
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsArmed 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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Racing with the Moon
1984 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsOn the brink of adulthood in small-town California, teens Henry and Nicky try to have a last hurrah before going off to fight in World War II. But when Henry falls in love and Nicky lands in trouble, the youngsters face a grown-up world all too soon.
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Up at the Villa
2000 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsDanger is the ultimate aphrodisiac in this romance set in pre-World War II Italy. Kristin Scott Thomas is a beautiful, penniless English widow forced by circumstances to consider the proposal of an aging diplomat. When she's seated at a dinner party next to a brash young American (Sean Penn), a chain of events unfolds leaving her with a murder to cover up and a passionate night to remember.
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She's So Lovely
1997 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsEddie (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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Crackers
1984 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsIn this numbskulls-plan-a-heist comedy, three shiftless friends of San Francisco pawnshop owner Lou Garvey decide to rob the store while Garvey's out of town -- and each finds a way to mess up the plan.
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What Just Happened?
2008 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsA harried film producer juggles a lunatic director, a temperamental actor and an out-of-control production while courting a studio head and dealing with his ex in director Barry Levinson's witty and poignant exploration of the movie business.
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Deflating the Elephant
2008 | NR | 2.1 out of 5 StarsSean Penn teams with author George Lakoff in this thought-provoking examination of how language frames the nature of political discourse in America. The film explores how terms like "war on terror" and "tax relief" are used to shape policy debates.
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Shanghai Surprise
1986 | NR | 1.8 out of 5 StarsIt's 1937, and a missionary nurse is searching for opium to administer to her patients. A bounty hunter goes with her to track down a wayward shipment of the medicine, but they find much more than the drugs -- including loads of intrigue and love.
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