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"She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies--good ones! That win contests! But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates--The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!--it's...
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An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Tran Anh Hung's "luxuriant, visually seductive debut" (New York Times) recreates antebellum Vietnam through both the wide eyes of childhood and the deep blush of first love. In 1951 Saigon, 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope...
3) My King
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Acclaimed auteur Maïwenn's magnum opus about the real and metaphysical pain endured by a woman (Emmanuelle Bercot) who struggles to leave a destructive co-dependent relationship with a charming yet extremely self-centered lothario (Vincent Cassel).
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Night huntress volume 2
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Now a Special Agent working to eliminate the rogue undead, half-vampire Cat Crawfield reluctantly teams up with Bones, her vampire former lover and mentor, when she is targeted for assassination by a dangerous adversary.
8) Amira & Sam
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Sam, an army vet, meets Amira, an illegal immigrant, while visiting her uncle, his old unit's Iraqi translator. Their connection burgeons into an unlikely romance until Amira is threatened with deportation and Sam is forced to make a critical decision.
9) I'm A Fool
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Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio home in search of adventure and romance as a horse trainer on the country fair racing circuit. racetrack one day. Ashamed of his occupation, Andy leads Lucy to believe he's wealthy. Soon one deception leads to another…until there is no way to tell Lucy the truth. The irony of the story is that Lucy and Andy have fallen deeply in love. As Andy dejectedly...
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"A broken promise reveals a terrifying legacy in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of When All the Girls Have Gone. A painter of fiery, nightmarish visions throws herself into the sea--but she'll leave some of her secrets behind... Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother....
11) Sucka 4 Luv
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The film is about a young man with an anger management problem who wants to marry his longtime girlfriend. The clever girlfriend knows all too well how much he loves, but she's devised a formula to assist him in getting over his anger problems. She decides to put him on a 30-day anger free boot camp. Will beauty tame his inner beast? The boot camp consists of her putting him in very stressful situations seeing if he will lose his cool. Some of the...
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In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come to life in NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU – a collaboration of storytelling from some of today's most imaginative filmmakers and featuring an all-star cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump the city's heartbeat. Sexy, funny, haunting and revealing encounters unfold beneath the Manhattan skyline. From...
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Paolo, an Italian who drives a Paris tour bus, has just proposed to his true love, the German stewardess, Greta, when the young French beauty, Cecile pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle; and, in short order, Paolo, following some very bad advice from his friend, Derek, finds himself with a German fiancee, a French 'wife', two Australian children who call him 'Papa', and his life upside-down.
15) Frankie & Johnny
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Terrence McNally's stage play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune was a two-character piece, which starred Kathy Bates and F. Murray Abraham on Broadway. Garry Marshall's film version of the McNally play streamlines the title to Frankie and Johnny, expands the dramatis personae to include at least a dozen fascinating characters, and "glamorizes" the decidedly unglamorous Frankie and Johnny in the forms of Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino (their...
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Charley Tate (James Whitmore: two-time Academy Award Nominee, and Tony Award Winner) is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married over fifty years to his ever-patient wife Lucy (Teresa Wright - Academy Award winner), the two of them are on their Golden Honeymoon in Florida. Everything goes perfectly…until Lucy meets her former fiancée who's also vacationing with his wife. Suddenly there's a comic competition between...
17) New York Stories
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A collection of cinematic short stories directed by three of America's premier directors: Woody Allen, Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese. . "Oedipus Wrecks" - Sheldon Mills, a successful but desperate New York attorney, begins an unusual search to discover what became of his mother who mysteriously disappeared. Sheldon is aided by his girlfriend, Lisa and his hard-of-hearing, Aunt Ceil. . "Life Without Zoe" - an irrepressible Manhattan teenager...
18) She Loves Me Not
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The story unfolds in three vignettes, each a different genre and each featuring strong women with their own agendas whom Brady (Cary Elwes) cannot resist.
20) Friction
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Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Holly, ambitious and confident, temporarily occupies the...
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