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Dog Day Afternoon

IMDB Rating: 8.10
37611 votes

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Storyline
Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there's actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city's entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees' safety.
Actors
Sonny WortzikAl Pacino
SalJohn Cazale
Det. Sgt. Eugene MorettiCharles Durning

Calendar Girls

IMDB Rating: 7.00
6772 votes

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In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives.
Actors
Chris HarperHelen Mirren
Annie ClarkeJulie Walters
John ClarkeJohn Alderton

What a Girl Wants

IMDB Rating: 5.70
6285 votes

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Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman.
Actors
Daphne ReynoldsAmanda Bynes
Henry DashwoodColin Firth
Libby ReynoldsKelly Preston

Sweet Home Alabama

IMDB Rating: 5.80
11999 votes

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New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past, only to discover that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can never take the South out of the girl.
Actors
Melanie Smooter/CarmichaelReese Witherspoon
Jake PerryJosh Lucas
Andrew HenningsPatrick Dempsey

The Laramie Project

IMDB Rating: 7.20
2485 votes

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Storyline
'Moisés Kaufman' (qv) and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of 'Matthew Shepard (I)' (qv). This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd's visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of "Angels in America" a year after Shephard's death.
Actors
Romaine PattersonChristina Ricci
Doc O'ConnerSteve Buscemi
Sherry JohnsonLaura Linney

Phone Booth

IMDB Rating: 7.20
35486 votes

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Storyline
A slick New York publicist (Farrell) who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Actors
Stu ShepardColin Farrell
The CallerKiefer Sutherland
Captain RameyForest Whitaker