John Lithgow
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Rebecca Bloomwood is a young woman struggling with her debilitating obsession with shopping and the sudden collapse of her income source. She unintentionally lands a job writing for a Manhattan financial magazine after a drunken letter-mailing mix-up. Ironically, now Rebecca is writing about the very consumer caution of which she herself has not abided. Rebecca's innovative comparisons and unconventional metaphors for economics grants her critical...
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Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered. A lone law student turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government. She writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. With the help of Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, they suspect...
4) Footloose
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City-boy Ren McCormick finds he has been moved into an uptight Midwestern town where the local officials have banned dancing and rock 'n roll music. Ren revolts with his best friend Willard and the minister's daughter. A timeless struggle between innocent teenage pleasures and adults needs for rigid morality.
5) Footloose
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After big-city kid Ren McCormick moves to the sleepy Midwest he finds himself looking for some fun. When he hears the town's minister has banned dancing, Ren decides to take a stand. With his best friend, and the minister's daughter, Ren wages a fight for their right to shake, rattle and roll.
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In 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going back to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer so they can learn what happened and find out the meaning of Bowman's last transmission. This will be a joint American-Soviet expedition set against the backdrop of growing global...
7) Shrek
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Relive every moment of Shrek's daring quest to rescue feisty Princess Fiona, with the help of his lovable loudmouthed Donkey, and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from scheming Lord Farquaad.
8) Leap year
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When Anna's four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of Declan, a handsome and carefree local man, to get her across the country. Along the way, they discover that the...
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This is the story of a master toymaker who discovers a magical kingdom of elves at the North Pole. He is entrusted with special powers to become Santa Claus! He meets Patch, an eager-to-please elf who becomes mixed up with a dastardly toy tycoon's plans to take over Christmas. Special features included.
10) Obsession
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In 1959, affluent businessman Michael Courtland and his wife are celebrating their tenth anniversary when his daughter and wife are kidnapped and held for ransom. The effort to rescue the girl and her mother ends tragically, and Courtland merely exists, his days consumed with guilt. Many years later, still grieving over his loss, he returns to Florence, the city where he first met his wife, and he meets a young woman who bears a remarkable resemblance...
11) Princess Caraboo
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A mysterious, but irresistibly charming young woman dressed in strange clothes and speaking no English is taken for a foreign princess by English high society. Is she a royal treasure or a royal imposter?
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Shrek: "Relive every moment of Shrek's daring quest to rescue feisty Princess Fiona with the help of his lovable loudmouthed Donkey and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from scheming Lord Farquaad"--Container.
Shrek 2: "With the help of his faithful steed Donkey, Shrek takes on a potion-brewing fairy Godmother, the pompous Prince Charming, and the famed ogre killer, Puss In Boots, a ferocious feline foe who's really just a pussycat at heart"--Container.
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13) Rich kids
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A romantic and heart-warming tale of young love set in New York. Despite their upwardly mobile backgrounds, Franny and Jamie find themselves navigating universal issues including family discord, divorce and romance in the Big Apple.