Richard Dreyfuss
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We've let the meaning of America be reduced to guesswork. It might not be too late.
Our democratic republic is failing, and it shouldn't be a surprise. We can't fly a plane without training; we can't practice medicine without attending medical school. And yet we expect the American people to wield the full power of their citizenship, the product of the most revolutionary governmental thinking in human history, without any education.
We no longer...
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One of America's proudest achievements, our national infrastructure, is now its most dangerous embarrassment. Our bridges, dams, levees and highways are crumbling, toppling, being washed away, and putting American citizens and cities at risk. How could the most powerful nation on the planet let this happen? Narrated by Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss and featuring interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, noted scientists, whistleblowers...
3) Tin Men
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Two rival "Tin Men" (aluminum siding salesmen) attempt to outsmart each other in the name of revenge in Baltimore circa 1963.
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City by city, mile by mile, an embattled married couple embarks across the country to attend their son's wedding. It's a chance to revisit their tumultuous past, to discover what went wrong, and to find new roads toward a better understanding of what it means to fall in and out of love-and maybe back again.
5) Astronaut
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Angus, a lonely widower, has his long-extinguished dream to become an astronaut reignited when a national competition is announced. The prize? One ticket for a trip to space! Way over the age-limit, Angus alters his birthdate so he can enter the competition. Against all odds, but with help coming from his dysfunctional family, he must battle against preconceptions, ill health and time, to win the ticket and take the trip of his dreams.
6) Let It Ride
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Joe Pytka's comedy stars Richard Dreyfuss as Trotter, a cab driver who gets a hot tip on a horse race and soon finds himself on the gambling hot streak of his life.
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James Krippendorf, is an anthropologist and a single dad trying to raise three kids and he's having a tough time of it. For the past two years, he's been living off a proxmire foundation grant to study an "undiscovered" tribe in New Guinea. Word comes that his lecture is due, but he's not ready. There is no tribe. and he's spent all the money rearing his dysfunctional children. As he bluffs his way through his presentation, he's shocked when informed...
8) The Crew
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THE CREW is a riotous caper involving four retired mobsters who lead a quiet life in a decaying residential hotel in Miami. When the hotel's owners try to squeeze them out to attract higher-paying clientele, the four plan a way to save their home.
10) Silver City
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Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
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Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," a satire that follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager, scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager, during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny...
12) Very good girls
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Well Go USA
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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.
13) What about Bob?
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Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, ©1991
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A therapist's stress-free vacation takes a humorous turn when his patient, who is suffering from separation anxiety from him, shows up at his lakeside retreat.
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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[2010]
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After the daring rescue of a spider, a young boy named James gains possession of some magic crocodile tongues. When James spills them in the garden, out sprouts an enormous peach! Climbing inside, he meets an astonishing cast of characters and embarks on a magical odyssey full of thrills and adventure.
15) Book club
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Four friends' lives are turned upside down to hilarious ends when their book club tackles the infamous "Fifty Shades of Grey." From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter.
16) Stand by me
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
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This film about friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up takes place in a small Oregon town as four boys set out on a two-day search for a missing teenager's body, a search that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery.
17) W
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Lionsgate
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Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Olive Stone brings the life of our 43rd President to the big screen as only he can. W. takes viewers through Bush's eventful life-his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush's decision...
18) Starman
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Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
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Starman: An alien, from a distant planet, lands in Wisconsin and arrives at the remote cabin of Jenny Hayden, a distraught young widow. The alien (Starman) convinces her to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he is not picked up by his mothership in three days he will die. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her human feelings for passion.
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2015
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Get ready for the biggest adventure in the smallest of sizes! Join a little lost ladybug as she is thrown between two feuding colonies of ants in this groundbreaking animated masterpiece of insect proportions! The race is on, as her unlikely new friends must transport the ultimate treasure, a stolen picnic basket, back home to their colony. With a fierce army of fire ants standing in their way, the little insects must work together to make the perilous...
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David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action -- where closing a sale can mean a brand new Cadillac...