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About a Boy (Widescreen Edition)About a Boy (Widescreen Edition)
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Hugh Grant lives the life of a rich wastrel from money his late father made after writing one world wide used Christmas tune. A boy whose mother is a potential suicide forces him to get involved in his life. Grant's best film.
Adaptation (Superbit Collection)Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
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Charlie Kauffman's screenplay stars Nicholas Cage as Charlie trying to write a screenplay to fit the book THE ORCHID THIEF. His screenplay become an exposition on creativity plus also intersects with the story of the orchid thief, played by Chris Cooper. Cooper and Kauffman won Oscars.
After HoursAfter Hours
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Martin Scorsese's film stars Griffin Dunne in an absurdist tale about a young man in the computer data world who finds himself in that aspect of New York which is truly the city that never sleeps with the bizarre characters who inhabit its nighttime landscape.
As Good As It GetsAs Good As It Gets
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Jack Nicholson is a very rich writer who suffers from OCD. He is pulled out of his miserable existence by his gay neighbor (Greg Kinnear) and restaurant waitress (Helen Hunt) who has a very sick child.
Crimes and MisdemeanorsCrimes and Misdemeanors
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Woody Allen's film about Martin Landau's getting away not only with murder but with no guilt. On the lighter side of sin, Woody pokes gleeful fun at Alan Alda, as he takes away Woody's girl, in a documentary he's been commissioned to make about Alda. Martin Landau, Woody Allen and Alan Alda share the male leads and are all brilliant in their roles.
Day for NightDay for Night
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Francois Truffaut's Oscar winning film about a character, much like himself, who is a writer-director in the movie business and how the director pulls crisis after crisis together until the movie is made.
Henry FoolHenry Fool by Hal Hartley
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Obnoxious, egomaniac creative free spirit moves in with garbage man with no faith in himself. As a result, the garbage man ends up writing something which is successful. Problems ensue. Very funny film about creative ability and succeeding with it. Hal Hartley directed.
The HospitalThe Hospital
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George C. Scott plays a doctor in a hospital which manages to convincingly bungle everything, including killing a perfectly healthy patient.
The King of ComedyThe King of Comedy
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Martin Scorsese's film stars Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin, a man on a mission to succeed as a stand up comic. His plan: kidnap Jerry Lewis and demand as the ransom that he gets to do his act live on tv. Sandra Bernhard hold Jerry in her apartment while Rupert performs.
Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Sidney Lumet's film stars Oscar winning Peter Finch, as the newsman who loses his mind and is warmly rewarded by the network for doing so with his own show. Oscar winning Faye Dunaway is the network executive who lives by the ratings and feels so should everyone else.
The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)The Player (Special Edition) (New Line Platinum Series)
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Tim Robbins stars as the studio head, a player, who literally gets away with murder in this take-off of the movie industry by Robert Altman.
Smiles Of A Summer Night - Criterion CollectionSmiles Of A Summer Night - Criterion Collection
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A surprisingly light film from Bergman about love and delight in a country house in the summer with two old lovers reunited. Remade in the USA as a musical for stage and screen, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. Also homaged by Woody Allen in A MIDNIGHT SUMMER'S SEX COMEDY.