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Absent Minded Professor (1961)

SCIENCE FICTION COMEDY: 1961, NR. Professor Fred Bainnard (brain-nerd, get it?) is so wrapped up in the chemistry experiments he performs in his garage that he misses his own wedding . . . for the third time. He invents flying rubber – he dubs

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12 Angry Men (1957)

DRAMA: (1957, NR, B&W.) Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a young man accused of first-degree murder. A first, most of the jurors take the case lightly despite the fact they are deciding a death penalty case. They begin with eleven voting gu

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Faeries (2000)

ANIMATED ADVENTURE: (2000, NR.) Brother and sister, George and Nellie, holiday on an English farm where they meet Brigid, the farm helper. While exploring the forest, George slips into fairyland. Nellie meets Broom, a hobgoblin, who helps her find Ge

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

DRAMA: (1999, R.) Wealthy physician Bill Hartford has an argument with is wife Alice about the nature of love and jealousy. Misinterpreting her reactions to his declarations of love and fidelity, and her confessions of bold sexual fantasies, he sets

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Farenheit 451 (1966)

SCIENCE FICTION: (1966-PG.) In a future civilization where the reading of printed material is banned, the role of firemen is to burn books. Fireman Montag meets his rebellious neighbor, Clarisse, a schoolteacher. His wife Linda, as most people, is co

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Education of Little Tree (1997)

DRAMA: (1997, PG.) (Paramount Pictures) (1 hr, 52 min) In 1935, after the death of his parents, 8-year-old half-Cherokee Little Tree leaves his Tennessee mining town to go live in the wilderness of the Great Smokey Mountains with his Native American

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Edward Scissorhands (1991)

FANTASY ADVENTURE: 1990, PG-13. In the ultimate color-coordinated, middle-class housing tract, Peggy is an inept Avon sales lady. Frustrated, she pays a visit to the local “haunted” castle where she finds Edward. An inventor who died before compl

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Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

ANIMATED FANTASY: 1966, G. The Grinch objects to all the ways the Whos of Whoville celebrate and enjoy Christmas. He impersonates Santa Claus, but instead of giving presents, he steals them. He ruins the Christmas decorations, steals the food and eve

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Cider House Rules (2000)

DRAMA: (2000, PG-13.) Dr. Wilbur Larch is the kindly but autocratic director of an orphanage full of unwanted babies in 1930s Maine. Homer Wells, an orphan twice rejected, has grown up under the tutelage of Dr. Larch. With informal medical training,

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1980)

COMEDY: 1989, PG. Hopelessly inept and air-headed teenagers Bill & Ted are flunking their high school history class. People from the future send a mysterious time machine to help them with their history report. They time travel in a phone booth

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Billy Elliott (2000)

DRAMA: (2000, R.) Eleven-year-old Billy lives in a working class town of Durham in Northeastern England where his miner father Jackie and brother Tony are out on strike. Helping him to “learn to be a man,” Jackie buys boxing lessons for him ̵

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Beauty & The Beast (1991)

ANIMATED FAIRY TALE: 1991, G. Disney’s retelling of the classic tale about a teenage prince, unkind and selfish, who is cursed to remain beastly until he learns to love. If he can find someone to love him before his 21st birthday, we will be redeem

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5th Musketeer (1979)

HISTORICAL ADVENTURE: (1979, PG.) (Columbia Pictures) (1 hr, 43 min) In 17th Century France, D’Artagnan and the other Musketeers, the weak and foppish King Louis’s private guards, now disbanded, raise young Philip anonymously. Ambassador Colbert,

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Coyote Ugly (2000)

ROMANTIC COMEDY: (2000, PG-13.) Violet, a working-class girl with dreams of being a songwriter, moves from South Amboy, NJ to a cheap apartment in New York’s Chinatown where she is promptly robbed and rejected by the music industry. She lands a job

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Dark Crystal (1982)

PUPPET ADVENTURE: 1982, PG. A mythical, ancient land is devastated because a piece of a magic crystal is missing. The cruel, vulture-like Skeksis and the gentle Mystics occupy the land. To save the land, the Mystics summon a Gelfling (an elf/fairy),

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