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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

IMDB Rating: 5.60
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Based on the book by the famous Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Who's, an almost mutated sort of munchkinlike people. All the Who's love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos which he equally abhors. Yet a small child, Cindy Lou Who, decides to try befriend the Grinch.
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GrinchJim Carrey
Cindy Lou WhoTaylor Momsen
Mayor Augustus MaywhoJeffrey Tambor

Rated X

IMDB Rating: 5.70
1330 votes

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Based on the true story of Jim and Artie Mitchell, two brothers who entered the porn industry in the early 60's. After creating such legendary porn films as "Behind the Green Door" and "Inside Marily Chambers", they later became addicted to drugs and began a downward spiral leading to bankruptcy and murder.
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Artie MitchellCharlie Sheen
Jim MitchellEmilio Estevez
Michael KennedyGeoffrey Blake

Thirteen Days

IMDB Rating: 7.30
15148 votes

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In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Kennedy and his advisors must come up with a plan of action against the Soviets. Kennedy is determined to show that he is strong enough to stand up to the threat, and the Pentagon advises U.S. military strikes against Cuba—which could lead the way to another U.S. invasion of the island. However, Kennedy is reluctant to follow through, because a U.S. invasion could cause the Soviets to retaliate in Europe. A nuclear showdown appears to be almost inevitable. Can it be prevented?
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Kenny O'Donnell, Special Assistant to the PresidentKevin Costner
President John F. KennedyBruce Greenwood
Atty. Gen. Robert F. KennedySteven Culp

The Perfect Storm

IMDB Rating: 6.10
27843 votes

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Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait.
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Capt. Billy TyneGeorge Clooney
Bobby ShatfordMark Wahlberg
Dale 'Murph' MurphyJohn C. Reilly

Pay It Forward

IMDB Rating: 6.70
15767 votes

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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).
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Eugene SimonetKevin Spacey
Arlene McKinneyHelen Hunt
Trevor McKinneyHaley Joel Osment

The Deep End of the Ocean

IMDB Rating: 5.80
3979 votes

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The Deep End of The Ocean is a film about a family's reaction when Ben, the youngest son is kidnapped and then found ten years later, living in the same town.
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Beth CappadoraMichelle Pfeiffer
Pat CappadoraTreat Williams
Candy BlissWhoopi Goldberg

The Iron Giant

IMDB Rating: 7.80
22088 votes

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"Iron Giant" is based upon the 1968 story,'Iron Man,' by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 1958, only to find a friend named, Hogarth, that ultimately finds its humanity and saving the towns people of their fears and prejudices.
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Annie HughesJennifer Aniston
Dean McCoppinHarry Connick Jr.
The Iron GiantVin Diesel

Stuart Little

IMDB Rating: 5.90
12413 votes

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The adventures of a heroic and debonair stalwart mouse named Stuart Little with human qualities, who faces some comic misadventures while searching for his lost bird friend and living with a human family as their child.
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Stuart LittleMichael J. Fox
Mrs. Eleanor LittleGeena Davis
Mr. Fredrick LittleHugh Laurie

The Bone Collector

IMDB Rating: 6.20
26916 votes

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Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer.
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Lincoln 'Linc' RhymeDenzel Washington
Amelia DonaghyAngelina Jolie
ThelmaQueen Latifah