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Fried Green Tomatoes

IMDB Rating: 7.40
19225 votes

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Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.
Actors
Evelyn CouchKathy Bates
Idgie ThreadgoodeMary Stuart Masterson
Ruth JamisonMary-Louise Parker

The Color Purple

IMDB Rating: 7.60
21677 votes

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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
Actors
AlbertDanny Glover
Celie JohnsonWhoopi Goldberg
Shug AveryMargaret Avery

My Girl 2

IMDB Rating: 4.70
4377 votes

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Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother. Once in LA, she finds herself under the protection of Nick, the son of Phil's girlfriend, who at first is very annoyed at losing his holidays to escort a hick *girl* around town. However, he soon becomes more involved in the difficult search.
Actors
Harry SultenfussDan Aykroyd
Shelly DeVoto SultenfussJamie Lee Curtis
Vada Margaret SultenfussAnna Chlumsky

Snow Cake

IMDB Rating: 7.70
2778 votes

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Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manages to bum a ride with him. Just as he begins to warm to this eccentric girl, Alex's vehicle is in a serious automobile accident that kills Vivienne. After his meeting with the police, Alex decides to speak with Vivienne's mother. Upon arrival at her home, Alex discovers that the mother, Linda, is a barely functional autistic who convinces him to stay long to take out the garbage the day after the funeral he agrees to arrange. In those few days, Alex discovers new friends and learns more about the uniqueness of Linda even as he struggles to come to terms with his own grief.
Actors
Alex HughesAlan Rickman
Linda FreemanSigourney Weaver
MaggieCarrie-Anne Moss

Untamed Heart

IMDB Rating: 6.50
4679 votes

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All of Caroline's boyfriends seem to leave her or cheat on her. On her way home from work two men try to rape Caroline. An introverted man from her work, Adam, rescues her. Adam is an orphan and he is told that he's got a baboon's heart. Adam opens up to Caroline and together they make sense. Adam and Caroline are very happy together but the rapists try to get back at Adam and not everyone accepts an outcast like Adam.
Actors
AdamChristian Slater
CarolineMarisa Tomei
CindyRosie Perez

My Favorite Year

IMDB Rating: 7.20
3234 votes

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It's 1950's New York and the age of live television. Benjy Stone is a young writer on a major comedy-variety show. He is assigned to chaperon that week's guest Alan Swann, a faded movie-star and renowned womanizer and drinker. Benjy's job is to try and keep Swann sober and above all else, make sure he shows up for the live broadcast on Saturday evening. Benjy and Swann have a number of adventures throughout the week, including dinner with Benjy's somewhat eccentric family. In the end, both learn lessons in life from the other.
Actors
Alan SwannPeter O'Toole
Benjy StoneMark Linn-Baker
K. C. DowningJessica Harper

Five Easy Pieces

IMDB Rating: 7.50
8340 votes

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Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) comes from a well-bred family of musicians, and once showed great promise as a concert pianist. By nature a restless, angry individual, Bobby left his family and his music when he could no longer endure the dull, cloistered routine of daily practice. He took to the road, wanting to "see the world," and hopefully find something or someone to quell his inner turmoil. He has settled in a small town as an oil rigger, where his life consists of going to work, arguing with his dimwitted but loving girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black), and bowling every night with his friend Elton (Billy "Green" Bush). Not surprisingly, this routine begins to disgust Bobby and, fed up, he decides to travel to Puget Sound, Washington to pay his family a visit. Leaving Rayette at a nearby motel, Bobby goes home and is reunited with his family.
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Robert Eroica DupeaJack Nicholson
Rayette DipestoKaren Black
EltonBilly Green Bush

A Good Year

IMDB Rating: 6.70
12127 votes

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After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?
Actors
Young Max SkinnerFreddie Highmore
Uncle Henry SkinnerAlbert Finney
Max SkinnerRussell Crowe

Brokeback Mountain

IMDB Rating: 7.80
66254 votes

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A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond—by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
Actors
Ennis Del MarHeath Ledger
Jack TwistJake Gyllenhaal
Joe AguirreRandy Quaid
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