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Lonesome Dove
1989 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn this Emmy-winning made-for-television movie based on the Larry McMurtry bestseller, two former Texas Rangers leave Texas to settle land in Montana. Their plans are thwarted and helped along by a cast of characters that could only live out West.
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Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Marvel's superhero slugfest, Steve Rogers volunteers for a secret experiment during WWII after being deemed unfit for duty. Transformed into super soldier Captain America, he takes on his Nazi-created counterpart, Red Skull, and the evil Hydra.
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Lonesome Dove
1989 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsLarry McMurtry's novel comes to life in this Emmy-winning made-for-television movie that centers on kindly Gus McCrae (Robert Duvall) and gruff Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones), two former Texas Rangers who leave Lonesome Dove in the Lone Star State to settle land in Montana. Along for the journey are ex-scout Joshua (Danny Glover) and Call's bastard son, Newt (Rick Schroder). Diane Lane plays California-dreaming prostitute Lorena Wood.
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Men in Black
1997 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn director Barry Sonnenfeld's hip sci-fi romp, a streetwise New York City cop is enlisted to work with a seasoned government agent on a top-secret team that monitors space aliens living on planet Earth, unbeknownst to the general public.
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Double Jeopardy
1999 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsLibby Parsons is arrested for the murder of her husband. While in prison, she finds out that she's been framed. Now, the law of "double jeopardy" -- and the desire to kill her "late" husband for good -- is all she has left.
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The Missing
2003 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen Maggie Gilkeson's oldest daughter is abducted by a witch doctor turned bandit, Maggie enlists her estranged father's help to find her. But they soon discover that other girls have gone missing -- and that time's running out.
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The Company Men
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWritten, directed and produced by John Wells, this indie drama stars Ben Affleck as a successful businessman who comes face-to-face with America's downsizing epidemic when he loses his job and is forced to take a construction gig.
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Small Soldiers
1998 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThe Commando Elite are toy action figures programmed to annihilate another toy group, the Gorgonites. But before the Elite have been tested, the son of a toy store owner opens them, causing the Elite to attack the children playing with them.
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The Hunted
2003 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTommy Lee Jones stars as L.T. Bonham, a retired special ops agent enlisted to track down an assassin with a strange proclivity -- he makes a sport of murdering deer hunters. Bonham gets his man, but the killer escapes while being transported.
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Man of the House
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTexas Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones) finds himself college bound when he's tapped to protect a boisterous group of University of Texas cheerleaders -- who happen to be the only witnesses to a federal snitch's murder. To keep an eye on them, Sharp goes undercover as their assistant coach, a job that requires him to live with them and master the art of choreography ... with hilarious results. Anne Archer co-stars as Sharp's love interest.
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The Executioner's Song
1982 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAcademy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones took home an Emmy for his starring turn in this made-for-television movie, adapted by acclaimed author-journalist Norman Mailer from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Based on a true story, the compelling drama follows the troubled last days of Gary Gilmore, a career criminal on death row who became the first prisoner executed in the United States after the government's death penalty reinstatement in 1976.
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Love Story
1970 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsPrivileged Harvard jock Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O'Neal) sparks the anger of his steely, demanding father (Ray Milland) by falling in love with and marrying plebeian Radcliffe student Jennifer Cavalleri (Ali MacGraw), prompting his disapproving family to cut off his inheritance. After graduation, Oliver lands a job with a prominent law firm, and the blissful couple has the world by the tail -- until tragedy intervenes.
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Rolling Thunder
1977 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen former Vietnam POW Charles Rane returns home, he has trouble adjusting to his old life. Things only worsen when a gang of thugs murders his wife and son. Wild with grief and rage, Charles teams up with an old war buddy to seek revenge.
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In the Electric Mist
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsDetective Dave Robicheaux finds himself swimming in a murky sea of corruption, deception and lies when he probes the connection between a rash of murders and a notorious New Orleans mobster -- and discovers secrets that were better left untold.
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April Morning
1988 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBased on the penetrating novel by Howard Fast, this coming-of-age tale recounts the adventures of Adam Cooper (Chad Lowe), a teen caught up in the fight between American revolutionary forces and British Redcoats in the crucial Battle of Lexington and Concord. In the midst of the chaos caused by disgruntled colonists, Adam comes to terms with his demanding father, Moses (Tommy Lee Jones), and begins a romance with Ruth (Meredith Salenger).
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Blown Away
1994 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBent on settling a 20-year-old score, lifer Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones) breaks out of an Irish prison, making a beeline for Boston and the object of his retribution: retired bomb-squad ace Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges). Jimmy was once Ryan's protégé in the Irish Republican Army but betrayed his mentor after learning Ryan planned to target civilians. Now that he's loose, nobody in Beantown is safe ... especially Jimmy's family.
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Black Moon Rising
1986 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsHired by the FBI to pilfer top-secret data from a company, expert burglar Sam follows through on his latest assignment -- but leaves the data behind in an experimental supercar. When the vehicle is stolen, Sam's life depends on getting it back.
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