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Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah was born December 3, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father owned a barge building company and her mother was a schoolteacher. In an interview with the L.A. Times in 2006, Hannah recalled her early childhood by stating, “I had a normal city kid’s life. In the summers, which was...
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The Age of Innocence (1993)
Synopsis In New York City of the 1870s, Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is among the well-heeled attending an Academy of Music performance of the opera Faust. Newland is taken aback by the appearance of the Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), who’s left her husband in Europe and...
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Published 2 days ago

The Remains of the Day (1993)
Synopsis At Darlington Hall, a mansion in the English countryside, American millionaire and former Congressman Jack Lewis (Christopher Reeve) acquires the estate at auction and saves it from being demolished. He inherits aging butler James Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) who nobly presides over a staff...
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Published 5 days ago

A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Synopsis On the 6th of January 1917, five condemned French soldiers are brought to a trench in Somme: a once cheerful carpenter, who accidentally shot himself scattering away rats; a welder so disillusioned by the war that he burns his hand in an attempt to win a discharge; a brave farmer (Clovis...
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Published a week ago

Jackie Brown (1997)
Synopsis In the city of Hermosa Beach, gun smuggler Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) entertains dim-witted prison buddy Louis Gara (Robert DeNiro) with his knowledge of the firearms trade. Ordell’s girlfriend �" an insolent, bong loving beach bunny named Melanie (Bridget Fonda) �" is hardly...
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Published 2 weeks ago

The Blues Brothers (1980)
Synopsis Upon his release from Joliet Correctional Center, “Joliet” Jake Blues (John Belushi) is met by his brother Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) in an old Mt. Prospect police car. Elwood takes Jake directly to St. Helen Blessed Shroud Orphanage to visit The Penguin (Kathleen Freeman), the nun...
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Children of Men (2006)
Synopsis On the 16th of November 2027, London wakes to the following news: “The world was stunned today by the death of Diego Ricardo, the youngest person on the planet.” For eighteen years, the women of the earth have been infertile, and no one has been able to explain why. In the absence of...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Blade Runner (1982)
Synopsis In Los Angeles �" overcrowded and choked in pollution - of the year 2019, the Tyrell Corporation leads the field of robot design with the “Replicant,” a being virtually identical to a human, but superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence. After a mutiny in...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Return To Oz (1985)
Synopsis Dorothy Gale (Fairuza Balk) lies in bed unable to sleep. Aunt Em (Piper Laurie) confides to Uncle Henry (Matt Clark) that it’s been six months since the tornado, and all the girl does is talk about some place that doesn’t exist. On their farm in turn of the century Kansas, Dorothy...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Babe: Pig In The City (1998)
Synopsis Victorious at the National Sheepdog Championship, Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) and Babe the Gallant Pig (voiced by Elizabeth Daily) receive a parade on their way back to the farm. But as The Narrator (Roscoe Lee Browne) warns us, “The first hazard for the returning hero is his fame....
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Published 4 weeks ago