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In 1930s England, orphaned Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale) shacks up with her dark and brooding relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Not one to let her environment bring her down, she affects the lives of all the farm’s inhabitants.

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Steven (Matthew McConaughey) is hiding something from his girlfriend Carol (Kate Beckinsale) - his parents and twin brother (Gary Oldman) are dwarves.

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Biopic of Howard Hughes, the reclusive airline tycoon, who moves from early failure to success while morphing into an obsessive-compulsive, paranoid recluse.

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I’m not an Adam Sandler fan, but do find some of his movies entertaining (50 First Dates, The Wedding Singer). Click, however, I didn’t care for. Sandler plays suburban everyman Michael Newman who’s given a magic remote that can control reality. I have a remote control for my DVD player, and I probably should taken a cue from the film and watched Click at 2x speed and with mute on. That would have saved an hour - and the film would have been just as understandable.

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