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15,803 | [
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15,805 | [
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15,810 | [
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15,811 | [
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15,815 | [
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15,819 | [
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15,820 | [
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15,823 | [
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15,826 | [
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15,828 | [
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15,838 | [
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15,839 | [
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15,844 | [
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15,848 | [
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15,849 | [
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15,850 | [
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15,853 | [
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15,856 | [
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15,859 | [
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15,860 | [
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15,867 | [
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15,878 | [
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15,880 | [
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15,882 | [
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15,886 | [
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15,887 | [
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15,891 | [
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15,894 | [
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15,896 | [
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15,900 | [
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15,911 | [
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15,916 | [
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15,917 | [
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15,918 | [
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15,925 | [
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15,932 | [
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15,937 | [
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15,943 | [
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15,953 | [
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15,966 | [
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15,969 | [
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15,970 | [
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Finally, a true Colombian film crosses the border(s) to shows how Bogotá and Colombia really are! I am an American of Colombian and French heritage sick and tired of seeing Colombia so perversely and ignorantly portrayed by Hollywood and others.<br /><br />How many of you are aware that Colombia is the ... | 1 |
15,973 | [
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] | 203 | 250 | Leonard Maltin gave this film a dreaded BOMB rating in his 1995 Movie and Video Guide. What film was he looking at? Kid Vengeance or God's Gun are bombs. This film is a delight. It is fantastic. It is literate. It is well mounted. It is beautiful photographed, making a brilliant use of colors. Right from the opening sc... | 1 |
15,984 | [
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15,985 | [
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15,987 | [
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15,988 | [
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15,990 | [
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15,993 | [
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15,995 | [
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15,999 | [
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16,004 | [
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16,005 | [
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16,010 | [
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16,011 | [
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16,014 | [
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16,015 | [
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16,019 | [
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16,020 | [
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16,022 | [
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16,026 | [
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16,039 | [
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16,043 | [
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16,046 | [
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16,047 | [
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16,054 | [
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16,058 | [
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16,062 | [
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16,063 | [
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16,066 | [
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16,067 | [
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16,068 | [
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16,071 | [
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16,075 | [
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16,086 | [
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16,092 | [
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16,100 | [
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16,102 | [
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16,105 | [
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16,110 | [
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] | 188 | 224 | Unconditional Love is one of the best movies I've seen in a while. It's an emotional roller-coaster. One of my favorite scenes is the pub scene. When Dirk tells Grace that he didn't want to go to the pub because the villagers don't like him, you expect the worst. When the old woman holds her glass up and says 'To the M... | 1 |
16,113 | [
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16,122 | [
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] | 174 | 211 | I absolutely adore this movie! I had never heard of it when I saw it at the video store. I saw Kathy Bates was in it, so I figured it had to have some worth, you know? I watched it the first time just shaking my head . . . huh? Then it was the last scene and I found myself aching from smiling so hard. I clicked "play m... | 1 |
16,123 | [
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] | 180 | 213 | My partner and I had never heard of this movie and decided to give it a shot picking the title from a list of movies on cable without knowing a single thing about it. As it opened and revealed the cast, we thought, well how bad can it be? -- Kathy Bates, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Lynn Redgrave, Dan Akroyd and mor... | 1 |
16,124 | [
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] | 228 | 293 | This little film is hysterical, full of stereotypes about gays, straights, dwarfs, British tea and pubs, American gun culture, divorce and marriage; yet, it manages to be sensitive to the issues surrounding each. Kathy Bates is "Amazing" Grace Beasley, and as a character actor of staggering range, she brings her consid... | 1 |
16,125 | [
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] | 202 | 248 | Yes, at times "Unconditional Love" overwhelms as it bounces -- no, as it ricochets -- from one story element to another in the most unconventional use of thematic elements and characters. In fact, it wasn't until I watched the film for the second time that I began to understand what I think P.J. Hogan might have been a... | 1 |
16,128 | [
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] | 202 | 259 | Too bad somebody did not have the smarts to release this movie to theaters. I had never heard of it when it appeared on cable. After the first shock of realizing this is not like any other movie you have seen since Bringing Up Baby you have to let it sweep you along and run with it. Not until it's over do you realize i... | 1 |
16,133 | [
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] | 203 | 252 | "Hari om" is an Indian greeting and the compelling title character of the film bearing this same name(played by the wedding planner from Monsoon Wedding) greets you and takes you on a journey through the heart of southern India. There's no "Bend it like Beckham" backdrops and stereotypes, and only slight salutes to the... | 1 |
16,134 | [
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] | 165 | 202 | Was very fortunate to see the movie Hari Om at The Bermuda International Film Festival. It was the opening night and was such a delightful movie. It was shot beautifully around India and I want to go there now. The main actor..Vijay was absolutely incredible. He was the highlight of the movie. Apparently he was also in... | 1 |
16,135 | [
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] | 174 | 205 | I was so happy to learn that Hari Om will finally be theatrically released in 2007. I saw this film three years ago at the Vancouver International film Festival and have been waiting for it's release ever since so I could send everyone I know to see it. It's like taking a trip to India....colorful, magical, thought pro... | 1 |
16,138 | [
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] | 202 | 255 | Hari Om is about an impossible love between a French tourist and the auto-rickshaw driver who agrees to take her to a rendezvous with her indifferent boyfriend. A sort of third-world road movie, that careens from lush reverie to madcap comedy, it is distinguished by the stellar performance of Vijay Raaz, who has become... | 1 |
16,140 | [
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] | 194 | 233 | On one level, Hari Om is a film using a familiar genre - the road movie - to tell a familiar story: curious Westerner explores the mysterious East. But at its heart, the film is about two people, a young French beauty (Isa) bent on experiencing life to the fullest and a motorized rickshaw driver (Hari Om) with Bollywoo... | 1 |
16,147 | [
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] | 159 | 201 | People who say that some of what the Looney Tunes cartoons show is inappropriate for children have apparently forgotten something: they weren't originally intended for children. They were produced for the cinema, to be shown before feature films, and so they could show anything that they wanted. "Tweety's S.O.S." has t... | 1 |
16,155 | [
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16,161 | [
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] | 181 | 218 | I rented this movie, but I wasn't too sure what to expect of it. I was very glad to find that it's about the best Brazilian movie I've ever seen. The story is rather odd and simple, and above all, extremely original. We have Antonio, who is a young man living in Nordestina, a town in the middle of nowhere in the north ... | 1 |
16,163 | [
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] | 164 | 201 | Very touching film, a great surprise to come up from Brazil, a country that usually exports features about social themes, violence, sex... Magical realism is a very hard task, and I believe João Falcão has made it wonderfully. It seems that he really didn't intend to make a realistic film, far from that. Although many ... | 1 |
16,165 | [
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] | 177 | 242 | The Duke is a very silly film--a dog becoming a duke! But it's a very fun movie. It has some of those corny pranks that many kids movies have, but (thankfully!) no bodily function jokes, as so many animal movies feel compelled to have! Mostly, it's just dogs being dogs and people being. . . well, people. The 'good guys... | 1 |
16,170 | [
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] | 212 | 288 | If you've never experienced the thing that is Zasu Pitts, here is a Zasu zinger! In 1933 Mae Questel caricatured Pitt's voice for the character Olive Oyl for the Fleischer Studios animated cartoon version of the comic strip Popeye. Zasu (pronounced Zay-Sue) does her best "Olive Oyl" impersonation walking around whining... | 1 |
16,175 | [
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] | 204 | 293 | Obviously made on the cheap to capitalize on the notorious "Mandingo," this crassly pandering hunk of blithely rancid Italian sexploitation junk really pours on the sordid stuff with a commendable lack of taste and restraint: The evil arrogant white family who own and operate a lavish slave plantation spend a majority ... | 1 |
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