Ellen Barkin
21) Very good girls
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Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. They both fall for the same street artist and find their friendship tested for the first time.
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Criterion collection volume 175
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It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas, accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, to cover a motorcycle race. His cut-and dried assignment quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey.
24) Switch
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A notorious womanizer is shot and killed by three of the women he has hurt. His entry into Heaven is delayed because God wants him to prove himself by finding one woman who truly loves him. The task is complicated by the fact that he is sent back to Earth as a woman.
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In season four, the ruthless Cody crime family is as much of a threat to each other as they are to their targets. Smurf is back on top reminding her boys who's boss no matter whom she hurts in the process. And as always, outsiders move in to threaten the Cody's fragile peace, including a new criminal crew with a surprising connection to the Codys.
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When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty are J's manipulative grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons; adopted right-hand man "Baz"; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive Craig; and troubled "baby, " Deran.
27) This boy's life
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Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro ("GoodFellas," "City by the Sea"), Emmy-winner Ellen Barkin ("Sea of Love," "The Big Easy") and Academy Award-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Departed," "Blood Diamond") star in the film adaptation of author Tobias Wolff's award-winning autobiographical novel. Set in the 1950s, this moving drama tells the story of a young boy and his divorced mother who travel cross country in hopes of a better life. When his mother...
28) Bad company
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CIA agents Oakes and Pope are trying to purchase a suitcase-sized nuclear bomb from a Russian black marketer. Just as the partners discover that another bidder exists, they are ambushed and Pope is killed trying to protect Oakes. Now Oakes needs to recruit Pope's long lost twin brother, Jake, so that the deal can commence in ten days time. Offered a sizable payday, Jake agrees to undergo the vigorous training to impersonate his brother and helps Oakes...
30) Down by law
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Criterion collection volume 166
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A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
31) Wild Bill
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Jeff Bridges portrays Wild Bill Hickok, the hard-drinking, quick-shooting gunslinger.
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When you're this filthy rich, it's hard to get clean. White Mike is a young drug dealer straddling the mean streets of Harlem and the party palaces of upper Manhattan. Mike's double life comes crashing down when a highly addictive new drug called 'twelve' hits the streets, unleashing a shocking wave of passion and violence.
33) This boy's life
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Caroline just wants to settle down in one place, find a decent guy, and provide a better home for her handful of a son, Toby. When she moves to Seattle and meets Dwight, she thinks she's got it made. Toby, however, feels differently after spending time with Dwight while away from Caroline. Dwight seems to want to mold Toby into a better person, but to do so he emotionally, verbally, and physically abuses the kid. The marriage proceeds, and soon Caroline,...
34) Sea of love
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A veteran New York City police detective Frank Keller is a workaholic cop living on the edge. Joining forces with detective Touhey, the two try to track down a bizarre serial killer. They encounter a beautiful suspect, but convinced of her innocence, Keller enters into a passionate affair with the woman, despite hard evidence linking her to the murders.
35) Switch
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A notorious womanizer is shot and killed by three of the women he has hurt. His entry into Heaven is delayed because God wants him to prove himself by finding one woman who truly loves him. The task is complicated by the fact that he is sent back to Earth as a woman.
36) Into the west
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Two young brothers living in the Dublin slums run away with a magical horse, trying to recapture their family's traditional life as tinkers and to find the wild west of their imaginations, while their desperate father and the law search for them.
37) Harry & son
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Harry Keach, a widowed, blue collar, by the- book construction worker whose less-than-ideal relationship with his sensitive, daydreaming son, Howard sets the story in motion. Frustrated by Howard's inability to take life seriously, Harry is soon confronted by his own mortality when an on-the-job accident offers him an opportunity to re-evaluate his life and shortcomings.
39) Tender mercies
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An alcoholic drifter comes into the life of a lonely widow and her young son in the barren flatlands of Texas. But when Mac is revealed to be a once-famous country singer, he must confront a painful past that includes his bitter superstar ex-wife.
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Diner (1982, 110 min.) : Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams ; Liberty Heights (1999, 128 min.) : A Jewish family living in the Liberty Heights area of Baltimore experiences the social changes of 1954.