Charles Durning
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Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet memoir, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the deep south in the 1940s. After the death of his parents, Collin Fenwick, played by Edward Furlong ("American History X," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"), finds himself living in a small town with his two aunts, Dolly, played by Academy Award-nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Piper Laurie ("Carrie," TV's...
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Joyce Carol Oates' hilarious take-off on a classic Southern play begins when liberated Hedda arrives home to visit the family estate, ruled by the family's tyrannical patriarch, “Tiny” Culligan. Tiny doesn't know what to make of Hedda's intellectual boyfriend, Saul. But then, Saul doesn't know what to make of Hedda's sister, the slinky Maggie, who finds Jewish professors very sexy indeed. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Charles...
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The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Leonid Gayev, the bizarre and uninspired brother of Madame Ranevskaya. It has since become one of twentieth century theater's most important-and most frequently staged-dramatic works.
After five years of living in...
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Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall stars in this stylishly updated version of a classic comedy. High-strung social-climber, Millicent Jordan and her husband plan an elaborate dinner party. Their celebrity guest list includes a romance novelist, a ruthless tycoon and his brassy young wife, and a Hollywood has-been. But a rash of cancellations and unexpected events turn the Jordans' elegant soirée into a first-rate disaster.
8) Die Laughing
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Robby Benson stars as a young San Francisco cab driver with dreams ofbecoming a rock star. Instead he's the prime suspect in the murder of abrilliant scientist, chased by the police and the KGB and the unwillingbaby-sitter to a chimpanzee that carries the formula for globalthermonuclear destruction. It certainly isn't shaping up do be a boringday, and he'll have stories to tell his grandchildren if he doesn't DieLaughing.
9) Tough Guys
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Set free after 30 years in prison, a pair of train robbers adjusts to life on the outside. But when the real world proves more than they bargained for, they start planning their biggest heist ever!
10) Mrs. Santa Claus
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A musical adventure in which Mrs. Claus leaves the North Pole and finds herself in 1890s New York. She explores this new world by getting a job in a sweat shop and befriending a young suffragette, only to become empowered by urban life.
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Woman of Independent Means volume 3
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Frustrated with her marriage, Bess accompanies her children on a Queen Mary cruise, where she experiences romance with an older man. After her father's death, Bess and Sam reconcile.
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Woman of Independent Means volume 2
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Following her husband's death, Bess moves into a modest house and works to save his company from bankruptcy. When it's saved by a loan from Arthur Fineman, he ends up proposing to Bess.
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Woman of Independent Means volume 1
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After marrying her childhood sweetheart, Bess Alcott begins a life in the high society of Dallas, Texas. As time goes by, she faces many personal triumphs as well as losses.
14) Spy Hard
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Agent WD-40 is sent on his hardest mission ever...to stop the evil General Rancor before he destroys the world!
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Bonnie and Clyde are reinvented in SCAVENGER KILLERS, where a charming judge and a hot criminal defense attorney go on a maniacal killing rampage. With bizarre (yet somehow believable) FBI agents in the hunt, the deranged duo amp up their rampage, never murdering with the same method but always with untamed ferocity.
16) Jerry and Tom
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An edgy, offbeat story about two used car salesmen moonlighting as hit men for the mob. A quiet family man by day, Tom teaches his new partner Jerry all he knows about his other job, that of professional killer! But even if he's shocked at first, the brash young Jerry soon acquires such a taste for his new profession that it scares everyone around him...even those who scare people for a living!
17) Deal
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As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protg is his toughest competition.
18) iMurders
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From the producers of the cult hit, Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth, comes a horror thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end. When the members of an online social networking website are brutally murdered in succession, one person's past holds the key to the gruesome mystery. As the number of survivors decreases, they begin to believe that the killer might be one of the group. iMurders features an all-star cast including...
20) Starting Over
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Burt Reynolds plays Phil Potter, a low-key, contented magazine writer who tries to put his life back together after his wife (Candice Bergen) opts for independence as a singer-songwriter. Jill Clayburgh, a wacky nursery school teacher, tries to help him surmount the emotional hurdles, but it's rough going in this delightful contemporary tale; he's still hung up on his ex-wife. Starting Over is sprinkled with comedy, from Bergen's cacophonous singing...