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After a near-fatal car accident, school teacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) awakes from a coma with psychic abilities. Soon his powers are involved solving crimes and influencing politics through of a future president, Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen).

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Growing up in Porpoise Spit, Australia sucks. Murie (Toni Collette), a hopeless romantic ABBA fan and compulsive liar, moves to Sydney with her new friend Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths).

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Yes, Yellow Submarine is rather thin on plot, but that’s irrelevant. It aims to capture the spirit of the Beatles during a pivotal point in time, the late ’60s, when it seemed the power of the people could actually make a difference, and everyone was trying to escape from the past, while unsure of the destination. Crazy things were going on in art, music, and film, as if their societal influence was undeniable.

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Unemployed and homeless, Miss Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) lands employment as a “social secretary” to triple-timing, flightly aspiring actress Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams), and juggles several complicated upper-crust lives in pre-World War II London.

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Johnny Dangerously (Michael Keaton), a good-hearted criminal, repeatedly tries to “go legit” - especially when his brother becomes district attorney and doesn’t know Johnny is a criminal.

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In the “near future,” game designer Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is nearly assassinated while testing her new game, eXistenZ. She runs for her life with the help of Ted Pikul (Jude Law) a marketing guy who doesn’t play video games.

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1975 documentary of the eccentric Edith Bouvier Beale and her extremely eccentric daughter “Little Edie,” who live in a deteriorating Long Island mansion called “Grey Gardens,” seemingly oblivious to life outside the property. The duo are aunt and first cousin of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy.

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Fairly brilliant is the least I can say about The Bicycle Thief. It begins as an older foreign film usually does, as we meet a working class family in a sunny, far off town, struggling to make ends meet. But as the plot moves forward, its brilliance through careful storytelling and simple cinematic techniques shines through.

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Concert film of Elvis Presley in Hawaii from 1973. See and hear the spectacle of the infamous bell bottoms and sequin-laden jump suit, complete with American eagle cape before the backdrop of humid Hawaii.

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Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) writes the book Mrs. Dalloway, and its repercussions are felt across two generations, a depressed housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) and a stressed out mother Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) whose former lover is dying of AIDS.

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