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SEPTEMBER 01, 2011
Murder, She Wrote: Season 9
1992 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsMystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) continues solving murders in her spare time in the ninth season of the wildly popular television series. She investigates the murder of a famous producer at the Milan Film Festival, looks into a 1963 murder that may be tied to Kennedy's assassination and tries to track down a killer in New Mexico. Guest stars include Cesar Romero, Harvey Fierstein, Graham Greene and Mariette Hartley.
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Ned Kelly
2004 | 14A | 3.5 out of 5 StarsFed up with being mistreated because of his heritage, Ned Kelly (Heath Ledger) and his brother (Laurence Kinlan) -- the sons of an Irish pig thief -- form a group of bandits called the Kelly Gang with two other men (Orlando Bloom and Philip Barantini) who share their ideals. Kelly's mob robs banks, evades the police and earns popular support from the people, much to the annoyance of the head lawman (Geoffrey Rush) trying to rein them in.
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Not Forgotten
2009 | R | 2.9 out of 5 StarsEvery family has its secrets, and it's those secrets that come back to haunt banker Jack Bishop (Simon Baker) when the disappearance of his daughter, Toby (Chloe Moretz), disrupts his picture-perfect life in a Southwest border town. Forced to face his past, Bishop travels to Mexico and back into the thrall of his former faith -- the death-worshipping cult of Santa Muerte -- as he searches for Toby in director Dror Soref's atmospheric thriller.
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Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
2010 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsIn 2005, two audio tapes labeled The Last Testament of George Harrison mysteriously turned up at an office in Hollywood. On them, a voice claiming to be George claimed that fellow Beatle Paul McCartney had died in 1966 and been replaced by a double.
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Phantasm II
1988 | R | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn this 1980s sequel to a '70s cult classic, Mike (James LeGros) -- the teen hero of the earlier film -- has just been released from a mental hospital and is determined to resume his quest to destroy grave-robbing mortician, the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm). Enlisting the aid of his old pal, Reggie (Reggie Bannister), Mike must destroy the silver sphere-wielding menace before he harms the mysterious girl who's been appearing in Mike's dreams.
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Play Misty for Me
1971 | R | 3.5 out of 5 StarsSilver-tongued radio disc jockey Dave (Clint Eastwood) can't help but notice the persistent calls from a female to "play 'Misty' for me." But a chance meeting with infatuated fan Evelyn leads to a brief and steamy love affair. Dave quickly learns he's in for more than a little night music, and that Evelyn will stop at nothing -- even the return of one of Dave's old flames -- to have him all to herself. The film marks Eastwood's directorial debut.
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Private School
1983 | R | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAt the uppity Cherryvale Academy for Women, Christine and Jordan set their sights on the same clueless hunk from the nearby Freemount Academy for Men. Meanwhile, a trio of academy boys will stop at nothing to catch Cherryvale girls in the buff.
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Quantum Leap: Season 1
1989 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSam, a physicist, travels back in time, fixing other people's mistakes in an attempt to return to the present. With the help of his wise-cracking friend Al, Sam leaps into a new life in every episode, always hoping that someday he'll leap back home.
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Quantum Leap: Season 2
1989 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsPhysicist Sam Beckett travels from one era to the next to correct past mistakes by taking over different identities. This season, he visits 1960 to help two newlyweds, 1979 to inspire an actor, 1957 to defend a wrongly accused black woman and more.
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Quantum Leap: Season 3
1990 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsTime-traveling scientist Sam and his sidekick Al continue altering the course of history in Season 3. This year, Sam winds up in his own brother's Navy SEAL squad; inhabits the body of a horror novelist; polices a beauty pageant; and more.
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Quantum Leap: Season 4
1991 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIn this Emmy-winning time-travel series, Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and his holographic touchstone, Al (Dean Stockwell), ping-pong through the past as they search to find a way to bring the scientist home. In the show's fourth season, Sam dons the robe of a Ku Klux Klansman to save the life of a civil rights leader; rescues a small town from drought as a rain-making huckster; and makes music as a member of an all-black girl group.
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Quantum Leap: Season 5
1992 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsPhysicist Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) can travel through time, assuming others' identities and correcting past mistakes, but he can't seem to find his way back to his own life -- or even remember it in this Emmy-winning series. In the final season, Sam and his holographic sidekick, Al (Dean Stockwell), continue to look for a way home. Along the way, Sam morphs into Lee Harvey Oswald, Elvis and more. Brooke Shields and Jennifer Aniston guest star.
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Return to Paradise
1998 | 14A | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAmericans Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix), Sheriff (Vince Vaughn) and Tony (David Conrad) spend a carefree summer together on the beaches of Malaysia. Two years later, a lawyer (Anne Heche) tells Sheriff and Tony that Lewis has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking. If both go back to claim their share of the drugs, each will go to prison for three years; if only one goes, he'll be jailed for six years. If both refuse, Lewis will die.
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Ride with the Devil
1999 | R | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen the Civil War begins, lifelong friends Jake and Jack Bull join the Missouri Bushwhackers, a ragtag team of Southern guerrilla fighters. But after the cold realities of conflict set in, the men must decide for themselves what honor means.
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Rize
2005 | PG-13 | 3.4 out of 5 StarsFormer commercial photographer and music video director David LaChapelle delves into the "krumping" culture in South Central Los Angeles, capturing the unbelievable gyrations of dancers with moves so quick that they warrant a special disclaimer.
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Rooster Cogburn
1975 | PG | 3.6 out of 5 StarsJohn Wayne returns, eye patch and all, as the irascible Rooster Cogburn in this entertaining sequel to the Oscar-winning True Grit. This time, Wayne gets saddled with prim and proper Eula Goodnight (Katharine Hepburn), a minister's daughter who's more than a match for the cranky U.S. Marshal. The witty and acerbic Hepburn and classic Wayne are a joy to behold.
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Rudo y Cursi
2008 | 18A | 3.6 out of 5 StarsStuck working on a banana ranch, two super competitive soccer-playing brothers dream of getting off the farm and finding stardom: Beto as a pro goalie and Toto as a singer -- but it might break their bond of brotherhood.
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Same Time, Next Year
1978 | PG | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAlthough they're married to other people, accountant George and housewife Doris engage in a 25-year affair, meeting only once a year for a romantic weekend together. The otherwise mismatched couple's forbidden relationship evolves with the times.
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Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsIn this shaggy-dog comedy, The Van Nuys Times tracks Wiffle ball phenom Ted Witfield's every bat-bending tantrum as he guns for the home run record and copes with the intoxicating effects of success in the summer of 1994.
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SeaQuest DSV: Season 1
1993 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSet in a futuristic world in which humans have colonized the seas, this inventive sci-fi television series follows the members of the peacekeeping organization United Earth Oceans. Leading the efforts to calm the waters are Capt. Nathan Bridger (Roy Scheider) and his first officer, Cmdr. Jonathan Ford (Don Franklin). This collection of all 23 episodes from the show's premiere season sets the stage for years of adventure.
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SeaQuest DSV: Season 2
1994 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsCapt. Nathan Bridger and the crew of the SeaQuest keep the peace on Earth's colonized ocean floor. Join the team as they encounter prehistoric creatures, discover the truth about Atlantis and get drawn into a civil war on an aquatic planet.
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SeaQuest DSV: Season 3
1995 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThe final season of this sci-fi hit finds the SeaQuest and its crew returning to Earth a decade after being abducted to take part in an aquatic planet's civil war, and are now patrolling the seas under the command of Navy Capt. Oliver Hudson.
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Send Me No Flowers
1964 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsGeorge Kimball. George's error leads to a whole sequence of hilarious mix-ups. Doris Day sings the title song in this Hudson-Day comedy classic.
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Serenity
2005 | 14A | 4.0 out of 5 StarsMalcolm Reynolds, captain of the ship Serenity, picks up two fugitives from the powerful coalition ruling the universe. Mal and his mates find themselves at the center of a cosmic conflict, pursued by military forces and space-roaming savages.
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Sex and the U.S.A.
2008 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsIn a conservative California town, 14-year-old Audrey (Shayla Beesley) struggles to reconcile her school's abstinence-only education policy with the sexually charged imagery she sees every day -- and the confusing feelings she has for a pretty classmate (Jaime Perkins). Blending traditional filmmaking with social networking-inspired video clips, director Jan Wellmann paints a portrait of puberty and the hyperconnected lives of modern teens.
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