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Eat Pray Love (2010) #376
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Directed by Ryan Murphy. With Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis. A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself". |
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First Night (2010) #413
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Directed by Christopher Menaul. With Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman, Mía Maestro, Julian Ovenden. Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help ... |
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City Island (2009) #23
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Directed by Raymond De Felitta. With Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer. The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought home by Vince (Garcia), the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private. |
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My Last Five Girlfriends (2009) #32
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Directed by Julian Kemp. With Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris, Kelly Adams, Cécile Cassel. Duncan navigates the unsteady world of romance and relationships, going through five girlfriends in four years. Unfortunately, none of them turn out well. |
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Duplicity (2009) #207
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Directed by Tony Gilroy. With Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti. Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one. |
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Julie & Julia (2009) #290
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Directed by Nora Ephron. With Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci. Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. |
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Little New York (2009) #299
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Directed by James DeMonaco. With Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel, Julianne Nicholson. The lives of three residents of New York's Staten Island intersect as they struggle to get ahead. aka Staten Island |
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Julia (2008) #166
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Directed by Erick Zonca. With Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould. A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait. |
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Hamlet 2 (2008) #173
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Directed by Andrew Fleming. With Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, Joseph Julian Soria. In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) #209
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Directed by David Fincher. With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond. Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. |
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Surveillance (2008) #467
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Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch. With Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Caroline Aaron. Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell. |
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) #1111
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Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison. A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. |
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Snakes on a Plane (2006) #56
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Directed by David R. Ellis. With Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard. An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. |
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The Omen (2006) #64
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Directed by John Moore. With Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, David Thewlis. A remake of the horror classic The Omen (1976), an American official realizes that his young son may literally be the devil incarnate. |
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Children of Men (2006) #464
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Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. |
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Downfall (2004) #249
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Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler. Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. |
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) #139
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Directed by George Clooney. With Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman. |
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Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (2002) #608
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Julia Fischer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Filmed at the National Botanic Garden of Wales featuring the futuristic glass dome by Norman Foster. The sensational young violinist Julia Fischer brings a fresh and sparkling interpretation of this popular work. |
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Magnolia (1999) #59
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Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman. An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. |
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A Bug's Life (1998) #445
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Directed by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton. With Kevin Spacey, Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere. A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. Disney |