Robert Duvall
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Une histoire politique qui se lit d'un trait,
et qui pourrait bien être vraie.
Voilà six ans que Denis Moreau occupe la fonction de maire de Granby. On peut dire que sous son règne, la dette et les taxes ont baissé de façon substantielle, ce qui le rend très populaire au sein de la population et du conseil municipal, qu'il contrle complètement. Il prétend être le défenseur du petit contribuable, mais est-ce vraiment le cas?
Maxime Lalonde,...
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-Papa, je veux aller à la taverne!
Connaissez-vous beaucoup d'enfants de six ou sept ans qui interpellent leur père tous les dimanches de cette façon? Toute mon enfance, j'ai été fasciné par ce lieu mystérieux. Plus tard, au début de ma vie adulte, j'ai connu les différents acteurs qui fréquentaient ces lieux: les travailleurs, les récipiendaires d'aide sociale, les ivrognes, les artisans, les artistes et les nombreux immigrants. Suivez-moi...
3) Wild Horses
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A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing person's case, and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered, and that a local rancher was involved.
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Forced to give up his land and home, Texas rancher Red Bovie is not about to retire quietly in a trailer park. Instead he jumps in his Cadillac and hits the road with his estranged grandson for one last wild adventure filled with guns, women and booze. It's just another night in Old Mexico.
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In 1960, agents from the new nation of Israel stage a daring commando raid inside Argentina to arrest the principle architect of the Nazi genocide of millions of European Jews in this riveting, true story.Based upon the book Eichmann In My Hands by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein.
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Lonesome Dove volume 2
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English
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ON THE TRAIL: A deadly pursuit on the plains pits Gus (Robert Duvall) against a sadistic renegade named Blue Duck (Frederic Forrest).
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Lonesome Dove volume 3
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THE PLAINS: Off the trail, Jake (Robert Urich) falls in with bad company, while Gus (Robert Duvall) shares a bittersweet reunion with an old flame (Anjelica Huston).
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Lonesome Dove volume 1
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LEAVING: Larry McMurtry's saga opens with two former Texas Rangers (Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones) beginning a cattle drive to Montana.
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Lonesome Dove volume 4
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RETURN: A tragedy in the Montana Territory exacts a painful promise from Call (Tommy Lee Jones) that takes him on a haunting mission back to Texas.
11) Four Christmases
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When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
12) Crazy heart
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The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
13) A civil action
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A high-priced personal injury attorney takes on a case that becomes an epic legal battle...one that may cost him his career, reputation and all that he owns.
14) Get low
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Some thematic material, and brief violent content.
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin' he plans his very own rollicking funeral party.
15) Wild horses
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Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a fifteen-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott's estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death; even putting her own life...
17) Lucky you
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"Pro gambler Huck Cheever scrambles to raise the $10,000 entry fee to the poker world's most prestigious contest, even though the tournament may pit him against his estranged father. Along the way he meets irresistible Billie Offer and learns that in order to truly succeed, he must first learn to live life the way he plays cards, trusting his heart instead of his head"--Container.
18) Open range
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Four men who are trying to escape their pasts drive cattle and live off the land on the open range. When a ruthless rancher tries to run them out of town, they must fight for their very existence, justice and a dissappearing way of life.
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"Bull Meecham is a hard case, a fighter pilot so skilled that he's called The Great Santini. But now it's peacetime 1962. And more at home playing 'top gun' in the cockpit than father in his living room, he's become that most useless figure: a warrior without a war"--Container.