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12,664 | [
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12,683 | [
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12,761 | [
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12,762 | [
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12,796 | [
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12,817 | [
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12,821 | [
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12,905 | [
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13,275 | [
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13,291 | [
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13,320 | [
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13,405 | [
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13,413 | [
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13,495 | [
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13,499 | [
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13,568 | [
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13,607 | [
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13,613 | [
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13,630 | [
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13,633 | [
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13,703 | [
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13,738 | [
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13,773 | [
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13,779 | [
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13,803 | [
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13,848 | [
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13,928 | [
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13,932 | [
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14,000 | [
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14,065 | [
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14,085 | [
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14,112 | [
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14,122 | [
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14,170 | [
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14,171 | [
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14,176 | [
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14,206 | [
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14,210 | [
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14,246 | [
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14,283 | [
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14,295 | [
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14,331 | [
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14,350 | [
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14,415 | [
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14,481 | [
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14,520 | [
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14,541 | [
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14,668 | [
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14,710 | [
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14,714 | [
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14,717 | [
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] | 526 | 655 | Everything Is Illuminated A young Jewish American searches for the woman that helped his grandfather escape Nazi persecution while embarking on a cross-European tour with some unlikely associates.<br /><br />Liev Schreiber makes his directorial debut with a playful angst usually associated with his acting ethos. When s... | 1 |
14,728 | [
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14,730 | [
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14,771 | [
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14,790 | [
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14,803 | [
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14,812 | [
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14,886 | [
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14,940 | [
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14,965 | [
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15,076 | [
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15,082 | [
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15,087 | [
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15,101 | [
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15,168 | [
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15,269 | [
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15,284 | [
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15,320 | [
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15,347 | [
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15,349 | [
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15,360 | [
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15,401 | [
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15,484 | [
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15,489 | [
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15,631 | [
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15,643 | [
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] | 518 | 688 | By 1950, John Ford had already fully-developed the ideas and motifs that would form the core of his most successful Westerns. Always present, for example, is a strong sense of community, most poignantly captured in the Joad family of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath (1940).' Within these communities, even amid Ford's l... | 1 |
15,681 | [
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] | 508 | 609 | As one other IMDb reviewer puts it, "...imagine 2001: A Space Odyssey in the desert" and you wouldn't be far off from a brief summarisation of what to expect from this piece of cinema (I deeply hesitate to use the word "film"). A lecture on philosophical views on creationism, the mythos surrounding humanities existence... | 1 |
15,705 | [
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] | 472 | 614 | This working girls go to hell soap is a time capsule candidate, courtesy of its immaculate physical production, 50s costuming (look at all those bows and pearls), creamy Johnny Mathis theme song and oh-so daring (for its time) sexual attitudes. Rona Jaffe's novel, on which the film was based, keeps on being republished... | 1 |
15,792 | [
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] | 543 | 673 | Don't watch this movie expecting the Jane Austen wit, crisp dialog or clever social commentary. This time around, the premise of Northanger Abbey has been updated in a very sensual way! <br /><br />In this version,Catherine's erotic daydreams are not just silly fantasies, but a connection to the world of adult sexualit... | 1 |
15,841 | [
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] | 484 | 633 | In 1984, Edgar Reitz surprised film-lovers all over the world with his epic opus Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany. Eight years later, he came up with a sequel, The Second Heimat: Chronicle of a Youth, which is even more astounding than its predecessor.<br /><br />Actually, it's not really a sequel. It's more of a "midque... | 1 |
15,870 | [
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] | 530 | 656 | Of all the seasons and episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, after seeing all the great, mind boggling, thought provoking stories, this one stands on top. That's right. This story, this one entitled THE HUNT tops the large number of the finest scripts in Television History.<br /><br />True, there are no interplanetary space f... | 1 |
15,927 | [
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] | 551 | 686 | When I was engaged, my fiance and I would frequent the adult bookstores. He would look for his favorite mags, and on occasion a video that caught the eye. As much as I enjoyed the one-on-one with him that the media caused, there was never a video that I really enjoyed. I had seen only one other movie way back when ther... | 1 |
15,936 | [
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] | 531 | 655 | I remember seeing this movie for the first time with a friend while on vacation in Anaheim, California in October, 1976. While driving the tourist laden city streets , we saw a movie marquee advertising "ALICE IN WONDERLAND XXX." So before even checking out Disneyland's version of the Lewis Carroll classic a half mile ... | 1 |
16,009 | [
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] | 519 | 675 | 29 Sept 1990 marked a small but important milestone in my appreciation of horror flicks. This was the date that BBC1 broadcast (for the only time I'm aware of) Jeff Lieberman's super-creepy 1981 shocker Just Before Dawn, and it made a huge impression on me. Nearly twenty years later, I'm delighted to report that I've f... | 1 |
16,064 | [
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] | 504 | 619 | Inside I'm Dancing (Rory O'Shea Was Here)is the story of two handicapped young men, Rory O'Shea, who is almost completely immobilized and confined to wheelchair, and Michael Connelly who is debilitated by MS and also confined to a wheelchair.<br /><br />Set in Ireland, the film opens with Rory arriving at a assisted li... | 1 |
16,221 | [
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] | 511 | 632 | I didn't realize just how much of this episode was taken from The Enemy Below until I finally saw the movie (it has since become my fave war flick). There were a couple of elements lifted from Run Silent Run Deep as well. Nothing wrong with stealing ideas, as long as you do something cool with them. And boy did Roddenb... | 1 |
16,249 | [
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] | 579 | 692 | This has got to be one of the most magnificent things I've ever seen on film. I don't know if it's as serious as it seems to try to be, but that hardly matters. This film is extreme, absolutely wild and surreal. The packaging and the marketing only make it more so because you *know* that ever so often some mother has t... | 1 |
16,287 | [
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] | 506 | 626 | Some said that this was a nose candy glorification flick, but short of the original Dr. Hyde's concoction, no drug has yet been developed that can provide THIS effect. If Viagra was the slime mold stage, that white sparkling powder is the Stephen Hawking evolutionary rung (or at least the pharmacist idiot savant branch... | 1 |
16,340 | [
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] | 488 | 600 | Diora Baird is absolutely hot as hell in this movie. But really all the characters are amazingly fun to watch.<br /><br />(MINOR SPOILERS) As per usual, the main character, B, is the sane one of the bunch. B has this crazy idea to make up his own college when he's rejected from all colleges he applies to. He's known fo... | 1 |
16,418 | [
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] | 541 | 698 | Any movie that offers Bonnie Hunt, Sarah Silverman and Amy Sedaris in the supporting cast has to be well worth watching, and comic actor Jeff Garlin takes advantage of the terrific talent he recruited for his 2007 directorial debut, a sad-sack comedy about an overweight man who feels out of step with the world around h... | 1 |
16,447 | [
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] | 548 | 689 | The first Disney animated film without the strong involvement of Disney himself, this film suffers from the fact that the story is not particularly original or interesting (this is, I believe, the only animated Disney film since the 1940's which is NOT based on an earlier book or other work, but is rather an original s... | 1 |
16,464 | [
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] | 486 | 614 | After seeing The Aristocats: Special Edition in a two pack with The Fox in the Hound, I decided to buy it since both of these films were childhood favourites.<br /><br />The Aristocats is a classic, definitely. It might not be a five-star classic, but it is a fun film and makes a good evening's entertainment. It is som... | 1 |
16,531 | [
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] | 526 | 643 | For all those people who believe the dialog is worth something, and who appreciate a farce that is clever enough for you to take it seriously, this movie will surprise you. It is not a 'whodunit' for people who can't aren't able to follow the verbal exchange of our hero, Professor Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid).<br /><b... | 1 |
16,544 | [
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] | 485 | 625 | Like the first film in this series (SLAUGHTER, 1972), I think it would be a mistake to just label this a "blaxsploitation film". Sure, Slaughter is a tough, gun-toting, Black man but it's more of an action picture regardless of the color of the leading man or the bad guys--and a very good action picture at that.<br /><... | 1 |
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