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| Life is good for Jack, Carter and Harlan, three inept ne'r-do-wells who help run master dope-grower Malcoms flourishing marijuana plantation somewhere in northern California. But then Malcom is suddenly bumped off by a mysterious assailant, after a moment of panic, the naive trio decide to take over the business themselves. However, their lazy days on the dope farm have ill prepared them for the high-stakes game of finding buyers for millions of dollars of contraband. As they plunge into a shadowy new world of duplicity, double-dealing and danger, they soon find that they have gotten in way, way over their heads. But driven on by increasing greed and paranoia, it's too late to back out. Search keywords
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Categories: 1998, Comedy, Thriller, USA
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| Life is good for Jack, Carter and Harlan, three inept ne'r-do-wells who help run master dope-grower Malcoms flourishing marijuana plantation somewhere in northern California. But then Malcom is suddenly bumped off by a mysterious assailant, after a moment of panic, the naive trio decide to take over the business themselves. However, their lazy days on the dope farm have ill prepared them for the high-stakes game of finding buyers for millions of dollars of contraband. As they plunge into a shadowy new world of duplicity, double-dealing and danger, they soon find that they have gotten in way, way over their heads. But driven on by increasing greed and paranoia, it's too late to back out. Search keywords
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Categories: 1998, Comedy, Thriller, USA
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| 1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Crime, Drama, UK, USA
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| Nick "The Zone" Falzone is an air traffic controller at New York TRACON, where it's busy 24 hours a day. He's acknowledged as the best, until a quiet guy Russell Bell arrives on the scene from the Southwest somewhere. Russell and his wife Mary don't quite fit into the close-knit community of controllers and their wives, and a rivalry soon builds. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Comedy, Drama, Germany, USA
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| A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship. Search keywords
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Categories: 1993, Drama, Romance, USA
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| A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship. Search keywords
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Categories: 1993, Drama, Romance, USA
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| Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank (played by Billy Bob Thornton), who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia (Halle Berry). Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband (Sean Combs). Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Canada, Drama, USA
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Categories: 2003, Drama, USA
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| Odessa, Texas, is a small, town in Texas. Racially divided and economically dying, there is one night that gives the town something to live for: Friday Night. The Permian Panthers have a big winning tradition in Texas high school football, led by QB Mike Winchell and superstar tailback Boobie Miles, but all is not well, as Boobie suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among citizens in Odessa, and for the team, but Coach Gary Gaines, who believes that "Perfection is being able to look your friends in the eye and know you did everything you could not to let them down", is somehow able to help the team rise up from the ashes and make a huge season comeback. Now on their way to state, the Panthers must go out and be perfect, because they may never matter this much for the rest of their lives. Search keywords
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Categories: 2004, Action, Drama, Sport, USA
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Categories: 1997, Drama, Thriller, USA
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Categories: 1997, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| Published in 1995, the collection of loosely connected short stories captures a week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Crime, Drama, Germany, Thriller, USA
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| Roger, a beleaguered New York City meter maid, is plagued by anxiety and low self-esteem. In order to overcome his feelings of inadequacy, Roger enrolls in a top-secret confidence-building class taught by the suavely underhanded Dr. P. Aided by his assistant, Lesher, Dr. P uses unorthodox, often dangerous methods, but he guarantees results: Employ his techniques and you will unleash your inner lion. Surrounded by a band of misfit classmates - Walsh, who's dying to move out of mother's basement; Diego, a punching bag for his hen-pecker of a wife; and Eli, a shy guy just looking for female companionship - Roger's confidence grows and he makes his way to the head of the class, even finding the courage to ask out his longtime crush, Amanda. But Roger quickly discovers that star students have a way of catapulting Dr. P's competitive side into high gear. Soon enough, the teacher sets out to infiltrate and destroy Roger's personal and professional life. Nothing is off limits for Dr. P, not even the object of Roger's affection. In order to show Amanda Dr. P's true colors, Roger must rally his new friends and find a way to beat the master at his own game. Search keywords
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Categories: 2006, Comedy, USA
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| A sheriff (Thornton) begins an inquiry in the death of transsexual one local having heard that high the classification of the politicians can have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his inquiry makes it be rejected by others, by forcing him to search the assistant of people whom he once despised.
Un shérif (Thornton) commence une enquête dans la mort d'un transsexuel local après avoir entendu dire que haut le classement des politiciens peut avoir été impliqué. Bien qu'il soit homophobic, son enquête le fait être rejeté par d'autres, en le forçant à chercher l'aide des gens qu'il a méprisés une fois. Search keywords
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Categories: 2002, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, USA
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| Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), a worker of retirement of alcoholic parasite and ancient player of professional baseball (during a very little time), is recruited to train and to train a team of baseball that fails of 12 years that it is on the point of being thrown of the league. Although the team does not gain the first place in the following championship, this really obtains a big reappearance.
Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), un trabajador de retiro de parásito alcohólico y antiguo jugador de béisbol profesional (durante un muy poco tiempo), es reclutado para entrenar y entrenar un equipo de béisbol que falla de 12 años que está a punto de ser lanzado de la liga. Aunque el equipo no gane el primer lugar en el siguiente campeonato, esto realmente consigue una gran reaparición. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Comedy, Sport, USA
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| Taken aback by the wedding announcement of his mother, a young man comes back at home in an effort to give it up getting married to his old teacher of physical education of high school, a man who made the Hell of high school for the generations of students.
Interloqué par l'annonce de mariage de sa mère, un jeune homme revient à la maison dans un effort de l'arrêter de se marier avec son vieil enseignant de gym de lycée, un homme qui a fait l'enfer de lycée pour les générations d'étudiants. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller, USA
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| The film on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and her Bi racial cousin Miklo concentrates being based upon the true experiences of life of writer's Jimmy Santiago Baca. It opens in 1972 because three members of the east L are. A. Gang famously as the Vatos "locomotives", and the history concentrates as a forcible crime and the influence of narcotic change her lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent San Quentin where he makes a house for himself. Cruz becomes an unusual artist, but a heroin inclination overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a policeman and an enemy his "carnal", Miklo.
Beruhend auf die wahren Lebenserfahrungen des Dichters Jimmy Santiago Baca konzentriert sich der Film auf Halbbrüder Paco und Cruz, und ihren bi-racial Vetter Miklo. Es öffnet sich 1972, weil die drei Mitglieder eines Ostens L sind. A. Bande bekannt als die Vatos "Loks", und die Geschichte konzentriert sich, wie ein gewaltsames Verbrechen und der Einfluss von Rauschgift ihre Leben verändern. Miklo wird eingekerkert und San Quentin gesandt, wo er ein Haus für sich selbst macht. Cruz wird ein außergewöhnlicher Künstler, aber eine Heroinneigung überwindet ihn mit tragischen Ergebnissen. Paco wird ein Polizist und ein Feind zu seinem "fleischlichen", Miklo. Search keywords
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Categories: 1993, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| Partly the man of called disabled person Karl is liberated from a psychiatric hospital, several years having assassinated his mother and another person. Karl is often questioned if he will ever kill once again and he shrugs shoulders in answer saying that there is no reason in. Now of the psychiatric hospital, Karl becomes established in his old, small home town, by taking care by fixing engines. Having met a young boy called Franc which helps him, Karl is invited to stay at home of Franc with his mother Linda - who sees Karl as a strange but nice and generous man. However, the rude boyfriend Doyle de Linda, sees things differently in way that rules must be run - the homosexual friend Vaughan de Linda normally insulting as well as Karl's infirmity and the fact of credit of the wild parties with his friends. As Karl's relation with Franc grows, it is attentive if cruel actions of Doyle.
Partiellement l'homme de handicapé appelé Karl est libéré d'un hôpital psychiatrique, plusieurs années après avoir assassiné sa mère et une autre personne. Karl est souvent questionné s'il tuera jamais de nouveau et il hausse les épaules en réponse disant qu'il n'y a aucune raison à. Maintenant de l'hôpital psychiatrique, Karl s'installe dans sa vieille, petite ville natale, en s'occupant en fixant des moteurs. Après avoir rencontré un jeune garçon a appelé Franc qui l'aide, Karl est invité à rester à la maison de Franc avec sa mère Linda - qui voit Karl comme un homme étrange mais gentil et généreux. Cependant, le petit ami grossier Doyle de Linda, voit des choses différemment dans la façon que les règles doivent être dirigées - l'ami homosexuel Vaughan de Linda normalement insultant aussi bien que les infirmités de Karl et le fait d'avoir des partis sauvages avec ses amis. Comme la relation de Karl avec Franc grandit, il est attentif si des actions cruelles de Doyle. Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Drama, USA
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| Miles Massey, a lawyer of divorce of eminent Los Angeles has everything— and in certain cases, two of everything. In spite of its impressive client's list, a record of tremendous victory, the respect for his peers and an unfailing called contract Massey pre-nup) as it, it attained a crossroad in his life. Sated on success, trouble happened and it searches new challenges. Everything that changes when Miles meet his match in Marylin destructive Rexroth. Marylin is the former spouse soon future of her client Rex Rexroth, a promoter of real estates rich and a habitual philanderer. To load hard the deprived investigateur guy Petch, she makes nail the Crown and waits impatiently for the financial independence which a successful divorce will bring. But thanks to considerable knowledge of Miles, she ends up becoming with nothing. Not to be surpassed, the plans of Marylin to arrive even and as part of his plan, quickly gets married to the magnate of oil Howard Doyle. Miles and his unruffled associate, Wrigley, bury involuntarily deeper and deeper as they go head to head with Marylin. Sly tactics, deceit and incontestable attraction deteriorate as Marylin and Miles square off in this classical battle of sexes.
Les Miles Massey, un avocat de divorce de Los Angeles proéminent a everything— et dans certains cas, deux de tout. En dépit de sa liste de client impressionnante, un record de victoire formidable, le respect de ses pairs et un contrat à toute épreuve (le Massey pre-nup) appelé comme lui, il a atteint un carrefour dans sa vie. Sated sur le succès, l'ennui est survenu et il cherche de nouveaux défis. Tout qui change quand les Miles rencontre son match dans Marylin ravageur Rexroth. Marylin est l'ex-femme bientôt future de son client Rex Rexroth, un promoteur de biens immobiliers riche et un flirteur habituel. Avec l'aide de dur charger l'investigateur privé Gus Petch, elle fait clouer la Couronne et attend impatiemment l'indépendance financière qu'un divorce réussi apportera. Mais grâce aux connaissances considérables de Miles, elle ne finit par devenir avec rien. Ne pas être surpassé, les plans de Marylin d'arriver même et dans le cadre de son plan, se marie vite avec le magnat de pétrole Howard Doyle. Les miles et son associé imperturbable, Wrigley, s'enterrent involontairement plus profond et plus profond comme ils vont tête à tête avec Marylin. La tactique sournoise, les tromperies et une attraction incontestable s'aggravent comme Marylin et les Miles équarrissent dans cette bataille classique des sexes. Search keywords
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Categories: 2003, Comedy, Crime, Romance, USA
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| Texan Charles Farmer left Aviation as a young man to save the ranch of family when his daddy died. As most American owners of ranch, he owes to his bank. In difference most, he is an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he constructed and wants to take in the space. It is his dream. The federal Detective police forces put him under surveillance when he tries to buy the fuel of rocket; FAA embeds him when he classifies a flight plan - it is post-9 / 11, finally. His wife is furious when she learns that their bank throws seizure. Charlie fears failure and decides, hurriedly, to launch. Are American's dreams of the twenty-first century just a sign of madness? Those are who believe dupe in the dreamers only?.
Charles Farmer texan a quitté l'Aviation comme un jeune homme pour sauver le ranch de famille quand son papa est mort. Comme la plupart des propriétaires de ranch américains, il doit à sa banque. À la différence le plus, il est un astrophysicien avec une fusée dans sa grange - un il est construit et veut prendre dans l'espace. C'est son rêve. La Police judiciaire fédérale le met sous la surveillance quand il essaie d'acheter le combustible de fusée; le FAA le cale quand il classe un plan de vol - c'est post-9/11, enfin. Sa femme est furieuse quand elle apprend que leur banque lance la saisie. Charlie craint l'échec et décide, précipitamment, de se lancer. Est-ce que les rêves d'Américain du vingt et unième siècle sont-ils juste un signe de folie ? Sont ceux qui croient dans les rêveurs dupe seulement ?. Search keywords
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Categories: 2006, Adventure, Drama, USA
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