Bill Pullman
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Travels across culture, history and geography to show how intertwined people are with the fruits they eat. The ranks of the fruit-obsessed include adventurers, scientists, fruit detectives and even movie star Bill Pullman, fruit hunters dedicating themselves to searching for and saving rare and exotic fruit, and to creating a Garden of Eden in a world increasingly dominated by industrialized monoculture.
3) Innocent
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Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Torchwood) plays Rusty Sabich, a judge charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During this latest trial, a secret affair from Rusty's recent past threatens to hamper his defense and fracture his relationship with his son. Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock, Damages) plays Rusty's wife, while Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2, Law & Order:...
4) Going Under
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Batten down the hatches and blow the ballast! The U.S. Sub Standard-the least seaworthy vessel to ever enter the water-plunges into misadventure at the helm of the navy's most inept captain. Assembled by a corrupt contractor that's siphoning funds and sending kickbacks to the navy brass, the submarine is sent on a one-way mission... but it's crew doesn't know they aren't supposed to return in this comic farce.
5) Surveillance
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Two FBI agents are sent to investigate a series of murders and interrogate three witnesses with very different stories. As the agents begin to expose the hidden truths each witness is trying to conceal, they soon discover the truth may come at a very high cost.
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In 1995 two best mates set out to fool the world . . . On a trip to Ohio to look for Elvis memorabilia, Ray and Gary run afoul of a mobster. Now, the only possible way out for them is to re-create a home movie of an alien autopsy. With the help of their friends--a mannequin maker, an undertaker, a butcher and a kebab shop owner--they manage to fool the gangster, but word gets out and the international press gets hold of the story. Ray and Gary's saga...
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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of 'old money' privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like Young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.
9) LBJ
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In the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Johnson faces off against enemies from within his own party and his own White House as he frantically struggles to secure the legitimacy of his presidency before it slips through his fingers forever.
10) Lucky Numbers
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John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow make a "high-energy comedy team" in this side-splittingly funny comedy inspired by a real-life scam to win the Pennsylvania lottery. Travolta "is truly irresistible" as Russ Richards, a weatherman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Russ is a local celebrity, but when an unusually mild winter causes his snowmobile dealership to take a plunge, Russ needs a get-rich scheme - and fast. With his greedy girlfriend (Lisa Kudrow) -...
11) Brother Nature
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Roger, a straight-laced go-getter hopes to propose to his dream girl during a weekend getaway at her family's lake house. Little does he know, his eager-to-be best bud's potential brother-in law might accidentally wreck his plans.
