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FANTASIA
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Disney, 1940
| | DIRECTORS |
Joe Grant, Dick Huemer
| | PRODUCER |
Walt Disney
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Disney's groundbreaking union of classical music and
animated images is a visual feast for young and old.
Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice is one of
the film's most indelible images.
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FANTASTIC VOYAGE
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Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien
| | DIRECTOR |
Richard Fleischer
| | PRODUCER |
Saul David
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Harry Kleiner, Otto Klement, Jay Lewis
Bixby
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This science fiction journey follows a group of doctors
who are reduced to a microscopic size, injected into
a human body, and then have one hour to travel through
the bloodstream, find and destroy a blood clot in the
brain.
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FARGO
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Gramercy, 1996
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Frances McDormand, William H. Macy
| | DIRECTOR |
Joel Coen
| | PRODUCER |
Ethan Coen
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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A frigid Minnesota landscape is the setting for a series
of gruesome murders intertwined with a botched kidnapping
job. McDormand is Marge, the pregnant police officer
who reconstructs the crime with a style all her own.
"You betcha."
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FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
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Universal, 1982
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge
Reinhold
| | DIRECTOR |
Amy Heckerling
| | PRODUCER |
Art Linson, Irving Azoff
| | SCREENWRITER |
Cameron Crowe
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Penn leads an ensemble cast of newcomers in this sharp
and painfully funny look at what's on the mind of teenagers
in a southern California high school peer pressure,
sex and the mall. "Hey, Bud, let's party!"
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FATAL ATTRACTION
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Paramount, 1987
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
| | DIRECTOR |
Adrian Lyne
| | PRODUCERS |
Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
| | SCREENWRITER |
James Dearden
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Douglas is a married man who has a brief but torrid
affair with an obsessive woman, played by Close. Her
brutal revenge and ultimate demise had America discussing
adultery and assigning blame.
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FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF
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Paramount, 1986
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
| | DIRECTOR |
John Hughes
| | PRODUCERS |
John Hughes, Tom Jacobson
| | SCREENWRITER |
John Hughes
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Broderick is Ferris Bueller, a teen whose theory about
life is that it "goes by so fast that if you don't
stop and look around, you might miss it." Ferris
and two friends play hooky one day in Chicago and experience
life to its fullest...from the top of the Sears Tower
to a moment when he jumps up on a parade float and
sings "Twist And Shout" to a throng of thousands.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
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United Artists, 1971
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Topol
| | DIRECTOR |
Norman Jewison
| | PRODUCER |
Norman Jewison
| | SCREENWRITER |
Joseph Stein
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A proud Jewish father struggles to hold on to "Tradition!"
as the world around him changes. The film is based
on a Broadway musical and features the songs "If
I Were a Rich Man" and "Sunrise, Sunset."
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FIELD OF DREAMS
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Universal, 1989
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan
| | DIRECTOR |
Phil Alden Robinson
| | PRODUCERS |
Charles Gordon, Lawrence Gordon
| | SCREENWRITER |
Phil Alden Robinson
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Costner is an Iowa corn farmer who hears voices telling
him to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his
farm-sustaining corn field. He does and miracles,
faith and family arrive in the form of "Shoeless"
Joe Jackson and the 1919 White Sox. "If you build
it, they will come."
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FIVE EASY PIECES
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Columbia, 1970
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black
| | DIRECTOR |
Bob Rafelson
| | PRODUCERS |
Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Adrien Joyce, Bob Rafelson
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Nicholson is a gifted pianist who has chosen the life
of an oil field worker and passes the time just hanging
out. He comes to terms with this life choice when he
visits his ailing father, and eventually abandons everyone
he knows and all he owns to hop a truck to Alaska.
The film includes the infamous chicken salad scene.
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FORCE OF EVIL
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M-G-M, 1948
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
| | DIRECTOR |
Abraham Polonsky
| | PRODUCER |
Bob Roberts
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Abraham Polonsky, Ira Wolfert
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The hypnotic story of a lawyer corrupted by greed and
numbers runners is noted for its atmospheric photography,
detailed script and Garfield's wide-ranging performance.
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FORREST GUMP
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Paramount, 1994
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise,
Sally Field
| | DIRECTOR |
Robert Zemeckis
| | PRODUCERS |
Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, Steve Tisch
| | SCREENWRITER |
Eric Roth
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Hanks is Forrest Gump, who despite being mentally challenged,
tries hard, is honest and places his trust in luck.
He tells his life story to anyone who sits next to
him at a bus stop, and the flashbacks follow Forrest
and his good heart through some of the highlights of
modern American history. Through the use of digital
imagery, Forrest appears to interact in scenes with
John F. Kennedy, John Lennon and George Wallace. "Life
is like a box of chocolates."
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42ND STREET
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Warner Bros., 1933
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ruby Keeler
| | DIRECTOR |
Lloyd Bacon
| | PRODUCER |
Hal B. Wallis, Darryl F. Zanuck
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Rian James, James Seymour
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This quintessential backstage musical stars Keeler as
the girl whose career begins when she stands in for
the leading lady. It was the first film to feature
choreographer Busby Berkeley's dizzying overhead shots
of dancers moving in kaleidoscopic patterns.
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THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
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Metro, 1921
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Rudolph Valentino
| | DIRECTOR |
Rex Ingram
| | SCREENWRITER |
June Mathis
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Valentino's spectacular success in this film propelled
him to become one of the
most popular stars of the 1920s. His version of the
Argentine tango soon became a national obsession.
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FRANKENSTEIN
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Universal, 1931
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive
| | DIRECTOR |
James Whale
| | PRODUCER |
Carl Laemmle, Jr.
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Garrett Fort, Francis Edward Faragoh
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Whale ushered in a new era of horror films, and Karloff
was never quite able
to shake his image as the frightening, yet often sympathetic
"monster" of Dr. Frankenstein.
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FREAKS
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M-G-M, 1932
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
| | DIRECTOR |
Tod Browning
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan
Woolf,
Al Boasberg
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Banned in some countries and generally ignored in the
United States until it was shown at the 1962 Cannes
Film Festival, this picture sympathetically portrays
sideshow freaks who ultimately mutilate one of the
"normal" people.
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION
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Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider
| | DIRECTOR |
William Friedkin
| | PRODUCER |
Philip D'Antoni
| | SCREENWRITER |
Ernest Tidyman
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Hackman stars as "Popeye" Doyle, a brash New
York City detective who uncovers a heroin-smuggling
operation. The car chase under the elevated train tracks
is movie legend.
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FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
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Columbia, 1953
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah
Kerr,
Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
| | DIRECTOR |
Fred Zinnemann
| | PRODUCER |
Buddy Adler
| | SCREENWRITER |
Daniel Taradash
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The image of waves crashing over the passionately embracing
Kerr and Lancaster is one of the most sensual ever
filmed in this story of Army life in Honolulu on the
eve of World War II. The bombing of Pearl Harbor interrupts
the two love affairs in the film.
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
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United Artists, 1963
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
| | DIRECTOR |
Terence Young
| | PRODUCERS |
Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman
| | SCREENWRITER |
Richard Maibaum
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Agent 007's second appearance features Connery as the
dashing James Bond, this time pitted against villains
Shaw and Lenya. The film is particularly renowned for
the fight between Connery and Shaw aboard the train.
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THE FUGITIVE
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Warner Bros., 1993
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones
| | DIRECTOR |
Andrew Davis
| | PRODUCER |
Arnold Kopelson
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Jeb Stuart, David Twohy
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Ford is Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man accused
of murdering his wife. After surviving a spectacular
train crash, he escapes from custody in order to find
a one-armed man and prove his innocence. Jones' hard-bitten
U.S. Marshal doggedly pursues him.
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FUNNY GIRL
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Columbia, 1968
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
| | DIRECTOR |
William Wyler
| | PRODUCER |
Ray Stark
| | SCREENWRITER |
Isobel Lennart
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Streisand is Fanny Brice, the vaudeville comedienne
whose career blossoms as her personal life falls apart,
in this musical adaptation of the Broadway show. The
film's songs include "Don't Rain on My Parade,"
"Second Hand Rose," and "My Man."
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FURY
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M-G-M, 1936
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy
| | DIRECTOR |
Fritz Lang
| | PRODUCER |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Bartlett Cormack, Norman Krasna, Fritz
Lang
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The psychology of mob violence and the plight of the
individual are explored in this dark, expressionistic
film about a wrongfully accused man's secret quest
for vengeance after he becomes the victim of mob violence.
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