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Damages: Season 2
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis season of the legal thriller finds attorney Ellen Parsons -- once a wide-eyed associate -- hardened into a cynical attorney in her own right. She's out for justice, and she may give her calculating mentor, Patty Hewes, a run for her money.
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The Host
2013 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsWhen an alien race implants a parasite soul named Wanderer into Melanie Stryder's body, she resists the takeover. Soon, Melanie and Wanderer become reluctant allies as they go on a quest to track down the men they love in this sci-fi thriller.
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The Proposition
1998 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsIn 1930s Boston, upper-class couple Arthur and Eleanor Barret becomes involved with a Harvard student and a mysterious priest in their efforts to produce an heir, leading to a torrent of violence that threatens to swallow them all.
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Jane Eyre
1996 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsJane Eyre is an orphan forced to endure life at a harsh boarding school. As Jane grows into an independent, strong-willed woman, she takes a governess job at Thornton Hall and falls in love with the estate's brooding owner, Mr. Rochester.
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Into the Wild
2007 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsA young man gives up everything -- including his trust fund and ties to a seemingly stable family -- to lead a solitary life in the wild. Eschewing convention to trek across Alaska's harsh and unforgiving terrain, he resolves to live off the land.
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Children of a Lesser God
1986 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsA speech teacher uses unconventional methods to reach his hearing-impaired students, but can't make headway with the school's deaf custodian, who thinks it's better to stay in the safety of her voiceless milieu than to contend with a callous world.
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The River Why
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsZach Gilford stars as Gus Orviston, a discontented city-dweller who abandons the urban rat race, moves to the wilderness to devote his time to fly-fishing and begins a quest to pull a prize rainbow trout from the river.
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Neverwas
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter taking a job at the mental institution that once housed his father -- a famous children's author -- wise psychiatrist Zach Riley befriends a schizophrenic who unlocks a string of family secrets.
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Smoke
1995 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsA Brooklyn cigar store anchors the vignettes that make up this lyrical Wayne Wang movie written by famous author Paul Auster. Auggie (Harvey Keitel), the store manager, is surprised by a visit from his ex-wife, who says their daughter is in trouble. Rashid (Harold Perrineau Jr.), a runaway searching for his father (Forest Whittaker), saves Auggie's customer, Paul (William Hurt), from being hit by a car, and changes his life forever.
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The Countess
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBlaming her advancing age for a failed romance with a younger man, 16th-century Hungarian countess Erzebet Báthory begins murdering virgin girls and bathing in their blood, believing that the grim ritual will restore her youthful beauty.
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Changing Lanes
2002 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThe lives of an egocentric attorney and a recovering alcoholic dangerously collide when their cars crash on an expressway. After the accident, the lawyer finds he's left behind a file with the other driver, sparking a vengeful game of one-upmanship.
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Broadcast News
1987 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThree ambitious workaholics -- a handsome but weak-minded anchorman, his driven producer and a neurotic reporter -- are set loose in a network TV newsroom, where their professional and personal lives become hopelessly cross-wired.
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Frankenstein
2004 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThis version of Mary Shelley's classic novel stars Alec Newman as the scientist-gone-mad who fashions the ultimate monster out of body parts harvested from corpses. When the world recoils from the doctor's creation, the creature turns on its maker.
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Frankenstein
2004 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThis small-screen adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel stars Alec Newman as Victor Frankenstein, the scientist-gone-mad who creates the ultimate monster, fashioning a creature out of body parts harvested from corpses. When the world recoils from the doctor's creation because of its repulsive appearance, the creature turns on its maker. William Hurt plays the professor who warns Victor against going down a perilous path.
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Contaminated Man
2000 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsDavid is a hazardous materials expert called to the scene of a chemical company explosion where he discovers his worst fear is real: Someone has been exposed to a super secret biological weapon, and anyone he touches will die within the hour.
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Hellgate
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsFollowing a car accident that leaves him in a coma and his wife and son dead, Jeff awakens to find he is able to see the specters of people who have died horribly, and later learns that these souls are forced to relive their own deaths for eternity.
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Eyewitness
1981 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsSmitten with TV reporter Tony Sokolow, unassuming janitor Daryll Deever intimates that he knows more than he's telling when the journalist shows up at his workplace to cover a murder. Soon they join forces to investigate the killing.
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