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Enough

IMDB Rating: 5.00
8184 votes

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Storyline
An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill him. 'Fred Ward (I)' (qv) has a guest-starring role.
Actors
Slim HillerJennifer Lopez
Mitch HillerBill Campbell
Gracie HillerTessa Allen

Rancid

IMDB Rating: 5.50
418 votes

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Storyline
Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. A personal tragedy has left him dispassionate about the world and his work and he lives his life in limbo. In the midst of this existential crisis he attends a high school reunion and meets three old friends; acquaintances he's tried to forget but who now emerge like ominous shadows from his past. Once again, face to face with the love of his life, Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder. Wanted by the police for a heinous killing, he must choose between succumbing to his darkest desires or the light that will renew his faith in himself and his future.
Actors
James HaysonMatthew Settle
Monica KleinFay Masterson
Crispin KleinCurrie Graham

Saw IV

IMDB Rating: 6.40
10108 votes

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Storyline
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.
Actors
Jigsaw/JohnTobin Bell
HoffmanCostas Mandylor
Agent StrahmScott Patterson

Of Mice and Men

IMDB Rating: 7.50
9092 votes

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Storyline
Based on John Steinbeck's 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. The film follows Steinbeck's novel closely, exploring questions of strength, weakness, usefulness, reality and utopia, bringing Steinbeck's California vividly to life.
Actors
Lennie SmallJohn Malkovich
George MiltonGary Sinise
CandyRay Walston

Karla

IMDB Rating: 5.30
776 votes

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Storyline
Based on real events, Paul Bernardo (Collins) and his wife, Karla Homolka (Prepon), kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
Actors
Karla HomolkaLaura Prepon
Paul BernardoMisha Collins
Dr. ArnoldPatrick Bauchau

Pay It Forward

IMDB Rating: 6.70
15767 votes

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Storyline
A school social studies assignment leads to social changes that spread from city-to-city. Assigned to come up with some idea that will improve mankind, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can "pay it forward" and so forth, positive changes can occur. What appears to initially be a failure, is indeed a success that is not immediately known but is traced backwards by a reporter who is a benefactor. The initial recipients of the boy are a drug addict (James Cavaziel), his badly scarred school teacher (Kevin Spacey), and his alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt). While physically and mentally scarred by past events, the teacher is not the only one bearing scars. The young boy fears his mother's fate, particularly at his brutal, alcoholic father's (Jon Bon Jovi) hands. The mother also bears scars from her childhood with a homeless, alcoholic mother (Angie Dickinson).
Actors
Eugene SimonetKevin Spacey
Arlene McKinneyHelen Hunt
Trevor McKinneyHaley Joel Osment

Final Analysis

IMDB Rating: 5.60
2632 votes

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Storyline
A psychiatrist (Gere) has an affair with his patient's sister (Basinger) who is married to a Greek mobster (Roberts). The mobster is a tyrant over his wife. The psychiatrist wants her to get a divorce, but she is afraid of what her husband would do. She has a medical condition that becomes apparent when she drinks. One night she drinks anyway and attacks her husband. The psychiatrist uses his professional pull to try and help her out of the consequences of her actions, but becomes uncertain if she is telling him the truth.
Actors
Dr. Isaac BarrRichard Gere
Heather EvansKim Basinger
Diana BaylorUma Thurman