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Rain Man (1988)

Charlie Babbitt is in the middle of importing four Lamborghinis to Los

Angeles for resale. He needs to deliver the vehicles to impatient

buyers who have already made down payments in order to repay the

loan he took out to buy the cars, but the EPA is holding the cars at the

port due to the cars failing emissions regulations. Charlie directs an

employee to lie to the buyers while he stalls his creditor.

When Charlie learns that his estranged father has died, he and his

girlfriend Susanna travel to Cincinnati, Ohio in order to settle the

estate. He learns he is receiving the 1949 Buick Roadmaster

convertible over which he and his father fought and his father's rose

bushes, but the bulk of the $3 million estate is going to an unnamed

trustee. Through social engineering he learns the money is beingdirected to a mental institution, which he visits and meets his older

brother, Raymond, whose existence he was previously unaware of.

Raymond has autism and adheres to strict routines such as always

watching The People's Court , which he refers to as " Wapner" after the

 judge who presides over the show. He has superb recall but he shows

little emotional expression except when in distress. Charlie spirits

Raymond out of the mental institution and into a hotel for the night.

Susanna becomes upset with the way Charlie treats his brother and

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for Raymond's return, but he refuses. Charlie decides to attempt to

gain custody of his brother in order to get control of the money.

After Raymond refuses to fly to Los Angeles because he remembers

every airline crash and is worried about getting hurt, they set out on a

cross-country road trip together. During the course of the journey,

Charlie learns more about Raymond, including that he is a mental

calculator with the ability to instantly count hundreds of objects at

once, far beyond the normal range for humans. He also learns that, likehim, Raymond loves The Beatles. It is revealed that Raymond actually

lived with the family when Charlie was young and he realizes that the

comforting figure from Charlie's childhood, whom he falsely

remembered as an imaginary friend named "Rain Man", was actually

Raymond, who was sent away because he had severely burned Charlie

by accident as a little boy.

They make slow progress on their trip because Raymond insists on

sticking to his routines, which include watching "Wapner" on

television every day and getting to bed by 11:00 PM. He also objects

to traveling on the interstate after they pass a bad accident.

After the Lamborghinis are seized by his creditor, Charlie finds himself

$80,000 in debt and hatches a plan to return to Las Vegas, which they

passed the night before, and win money at blackjack by counting

cards. Though the casino bosses are skeptical that anyone can count

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Charlie and Raymond to leave--but give Charlie the money. However,

Charlie has made enough to cover his debts and has reconciled with

Susanna who rejoined them in Las Vegas.

Back in Los Angeles, Charlie meets with Dr. Bruner, who offers him

$250,000 to walk away from Raymond forever. Charlie refuses and

says that he is no longer upset about what his father left him, but he

wants to have a relationship with his brother. At a meeting with court-

appointed psychiatrist Dr. Marston (Levinson, in an uncredited cameo),Raymond is shown to be unable to decide for himself what he wants.

Charlie stops the questioning and tells Raymond he is happy to have

him as his brother.

In the final scene, Charlie brings Raymond to the train station where

he boards an Amtrak train with Dr. Bruner to return to the mentalinstitution. Charlie promises Raymond that he will visit in two weeks.

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Raising Arizona (1987)

Convenience store robber Herbert I. "Hi" McDunnough (Nicolas Cage)

and police officer Edwina "Ed" (Holly Hunter) meet after she takes the

mugshots of therecidivist. With continued visits, Hi learns that Ed's

fiancé has left her. Hi proposes to her after his latest release from

prison, and the two get married. They move into a desertmobile home,

and Hi gets a job in a machine shop. They want to have children but Ed

is infertile, and they cannot adopt anyone because of Hi's criminalrecord, despite the fact that Ed is a police officer. The couple learns of

the "Arizona Quints," sons of locally famous furniture magnate Nathan

Arizona (Trey Wilson ); Hi and Ed kidnap one of the five babies, whom

they believe to be Nathan Junior.

Hi and Ed return home and are soon visited by Hi's prison cellmates,Gale and Evelle Snoats ( John Goodman and William Forsythe), who

have just escaped from prison. Under the brothers' influence, Hi is

tempted to return to his felonious ways. Their problems get worse

when Hi's supervisor, Glen (Sam McMurray), proposes wife swapping

and Hi assaults him. That night, Hi decides to steal a package ofdiapers for the baby, but gets carried away and starts to rob the

convenience store. Ed sees this and, furious, drives off without him. Hi

is then forced to flee on foot from the convenience store, chased by two

police officers and two armed cashiers, who attempt to shoot him

down, as well as a pack of guard dogs, but he manages to outrun and

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At the McDunnough residence the next day, Glen approaches Hi to fire

him, and reveals that he has deduced Junior's identity because of the

newspaper article he read about Junior missing, and blackmails Hi,threatening to turn him over to the police unless Glen and Dot get

custody of Junior. Gale and Evelle overhear this conversation and turn

on Hi, tying him up and taking Junior for themselves. Gale and Evelle

leave with plans to rob a "hayseed" bank with Junior in tow. When Ed

comes home, she frees Hi and the two arm themselves and set out

together to retrieve the child. En route, Ed suggests that they should

end their marriage after recovering the boy. Meanwhile, Nathan

Arizona Sr. is approached by the bounty hunter Leonard Smalls

(Randall "Tex" Cobb) who offers to find the child for $50,000. Nathan

Sr. declines the offer, believing that Smalls himself is his son's

kidnapper. Smalls decides to recover the child anyway to sell on theblack market. He begins tracking Gale and Evelle and learns of their

bank robbery plans.

Gale and Evelle rob a bank but leave Junior there as they make their

getaway. One of the bank's anti-theft dye canisters explodes in their

loot sack, blocking the car's windows and incapacitating them. At thebank, Smalls arrives for Junior just ahead of Ed and Hi. Ed grabs the

baby and flees; Hi is able to fend Smalls off for a while, but eventually

finds himself at Smalls' mercy when Smalls punches Hi in the face

several times. As Smalls throws Hi to the ground and prepares to kill

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of the hand grenades on Smalls' vest. Smalls attempts to get rid of the

grenade, but he cannot get it off in time and is blown to pieces when

the grenade explodes and sets off all his weapons.

Hi and Ed sneak Junior back into the Arizona home and are confronted

by Nathan Sr. After Nathan Sr. learns why they took his son, he

understands the couple's predicament and decides not to turn them

over to the police. He counsels them: when Hi and Ed say that they are

splitting up, he advises them to sleep on it. Hi and Ed go to sleep inthe same bed, and Hi has a dream about Gale and Evelle reforming

after returning to prison; Glen gets his due from a Polish-American

police officer after "telling one Polack joke too many"; and Nathan Jr.

gets a football for Christmas from "a kindly couple who wish to remain

unknown", later becoming a football star. The dream ends with an

elderly couple together enjoying a holiday visit from a large family of

children and grandchildren.

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 The Rapture (1991)

Sharon, a young Los Angeles woman, engages in a swinging,

libidinous lifestyle. She comes into contact with aspect that advises her

that the Rapture is imminent.

In time, she comes to accept this belief herself and becomes a born-

again Christian. She begins a new, pious lifestyle, eventually marrying

and having a daughter, Mary. When her husband Randy is killed in asenseless murder, however, she begins to question the benevolence of

God. She believes she must wait with Mary in the desert for the

coming of the Rapture. A police officer named Foster is concerned for

their well-being, but Sharon is persistent that the end is near.

After a period of time Sharon eventually loses patience and at herdaughter's urging, decides to hasten their ascendance to heaven. She

kills Mary with a gunshot but is unable to take her own life afterwards,

afraid she'll becondemned as a suicide. She confesses to what she had

done to Foster and is arrested and placed in the local jail.

After an apparition of Mary (accompanied by two angels) in the night,the Rapture occurs. While Sharon sits in her cell early the next

morning, a loud trumpet blast is heard all over the world, signaling the

start of the Rapture. Later on, Sharon and Foster, after driving out into

the desert, are both raptured to a purgatory-like landscape. Foster, who

had been an atheist his whole life, accepts God and is allowed entrance

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to Heaven, but Sharon refuses to renounce her anger at God for His

cruelty. Mary pleads with her to accept God back into her heart so she

can join her and Randy in Heaven, but Sharon declines, preferring toremain alone in the purgatory-like landscape for eternity.

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Red Corner (1997)

Red Corner tells the story of a wealthy Americanbusinessman named

 Jack Moore (played by Richard Gere) working in China and attempting

to put together a satellite communications deal as part of a joint

venture with the Chinese government. Before the deal goes through,

he is framed for the murder of a powerful Chinese general's daughter,

and the satellite contract is awarded to Moore's competitor, Gerhardt

Hoffman. Moore's court-appointed lawyer Shen Yuelin, (played by BaiLing), initially does not believe his claims of innocence, but the pair

gradually unearth further evidence that not only vindicates Moore but

also implicates powerful figures within the Chinese central

government administration, exposing undeniableconspiracy and

corruption . Shen manages to convince several high-ranking Chinese

officials to release evidence that proves Moore's innocence. Moore is

quickly released from prison while the conspirators that framed him

are arrested. At the airport, Moore asks Shen to leave China with him,

but she decides to stay as there are many more things to change in

China. However, she admits that meeting Moore has changed her life,

and she considers him part of her family now. They both then share aheartfelt hug on the airport runway.

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Red Rock West (1992)

Michael Williams (Nicolas Cage) is a drifter living out of his car after

being discharged from the Marine Corps. A job on an oilfield falls

through due to his unwillingness to conceal a war injury on his job

application, so Michael wanders into rural Red Rock, Wyoming,

looking for other work.

A local bar owner named Wayne ( J. T. Walsh) mistakes him for a hitman, "Lyle from Dallas," whom Wayne has hired to kill his wife. Wayne

offers him a stack of cash--"half now, half later"—and Michael doesn't

correct him, taking the money.

Michael then visits Wayne's wife, Suzanne (Lara Flynn Boyle), and

attempts to warn her that her life is in danger instead of killing her.She offers him more money to kill Wayne. Michael tries to leave town,

but a car accident leads him to encounter the local sheriff, who turns

out to be Wayne. Michael manages to escape from Wayne but runs

into the real Lyle from Dallas (Dennis Hopper). Lyle and Wayne quickly

figure out what has transpired, while Michael desperately tries to warn

Suzanne before Lyle finds her.

The next morning, when Lyle comes to get money from Wayne, he

kidnaps both Suzanne and Michael, who are trying to retrieve hidden

cash from Wayne's office. Wayne and Suzanne are revealed to be

wanted for embezzlement, and Wayne is arrested by his own deputies.

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Lyle returns with Michael and Suzanne hostage and gets Wayne out of

 jail to retrieve their stash of money. At a remote graveyard, Wayne

pulls a gun from the case of money and holds Lyle at gunpoint beforeLyle throws a knife into Wayne's neck. Michael and Lyle fight, with Lyle

ending up being impaled on a grave marker. When Lyle rises to attack

Michael, Suzanne shoots him dead.

Michael and Suzanne escape onto a nearby train, but when Suzanne

tries to betray Michael, he throws the money out of the speeding trainand then throws Suzanne off to be arrested by the arriving Police

alongside a wounded Wayne. Michael's train continues its journey into

a new town.

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Regarding Henry (1991)

Ambitious, callous, narcissistic, and at times unethical, Henry Turner is

a highly successful Manhattan attorney whose obsession with his work

leaves him little time for his prim socialite wife Sarah and troubled

preteen daughter Rachel. He has just won a malpractice suit in which

he defended a hospital against a plaintiff who claims, but is unable to

prove, that he warned the hospital of an existing condition that then

caused a problem.

Running out to buy cigarettes one night, Henry is shot when he

interrupts a convenience store robbery. One bullet hits his right frontal

lobe, which controls some behavior and restraint, while the other

pierces his chest and hits his left subclavian vein, causing excessive

internal bleeding and cardiac arrest. He experiences anoxia, a lack ofoxygen to the brain, resulting in brain damage.

Henry survives but initially he can neither move nor talk and he suffers

retrograde amnesia. He slowly regains movement and speech with the

help of a physical therapist named Bradley. Upon returning to his

luxurious apartment, the almost childlike Henry is impressed by the

surroundings he once barely noticed. As he forges new relationships

with Sarah and Rachel, he realizes he does not like the person he was

before the attack.

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As Sarah thinks it is best for all of them, Rachel is put into an out-of-

town elite school for girls, as had been planned but now that she and

her father are closer than ever, she is not happy to go. At orientation,Henry tells Rachel a fib to encourage her to enjoy the new

surroundings and people. Sarah and Henry become much closer, as

they had been when they first met. Henry also misses Rachel dearly.

His firm allows him to return to work out of deference to his previous

contributions to the firm's success. His wife suggests the familyrelocate to a smaller, less expensive residence. As his firm takes away

his old assignments and large office and essentially assigns him only

busy work, Henry begins to realize he does not want to be a lawyer any

more either. While the couple are at a dinner party, they overhear

several of their 'friends' making derogatory comments about Henry.

He finds letters to Sarah from a former colleague disclosing an affair

they had, becomes angry and upset and leaves home. He is confronted

by Linda, a fellow attorney at his firm, who reveals that they were also

having an affair and that he had told her he would leave Sarah for her,

making him have second thoughts about himself and hisrelationships.

He gives documents from his last case, that were suppressed by his

firm, to the plaintiff who was in the right all along and apologises.

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before but was now so much better, returns to her and they reconcile.

The couple goes to Rachel's school and withdraw her and she is

overjoyed to be with her parents. As the family leaves the building, shetosses her school-uniform hat away.

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Remains of the Day (1993)

The Remains of the Day tells, in first person, the story of Stevens, an

English butler who has dedicated his life to the loyal service of Lord

Darlington (mentioned in increasing detail in flashbacks). The novel

begins with Stevens receiving a letter from a former colleague, Miss

Kenton, describing her married life, which he believes hints at an

unhappy marriage. The letter's receipt coincides with Stevens' having

the opportunity to revisit this once-cherished relationship, if onlyunder the guise of investigating the possibility of re-employment.

Stevens' new employer, a wealthy American named Mr Farraday,

encourages Stevens to borrow his car to take a well-earned break, a

"motoring trip". As he sets out, Stevens has the opportunity to reflect

on his immutable loyalty to Lord Darlington, on the meaning of the

term "dignity", and even on his relationship with his late father.

Ultimately, Stevens is forced to ponder the true nature of his

relationship with Miss Kenton. As the book progresses, increasing

evidence of Miss Kenton's one-time love for Stevens, and of his for her,

is revealed.

Working together during the years leading up to the Second World

War, Stevens and Miss Kenton fail to admit their true feelings towards

each other. All of their recollected conversations show a professional

friendship which, at times, came close to crossing the line into

romance, but never dared to do so.

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Miss Kenton, it later emerges, has been married for over 20 years and

therefore is no longer Miss Kenton but has become Mrs Benn. She

admits to wondering occasionally what a life with Stevens might havebeen like, but she has come to love her husband and is looking

forward to the birth of their first grandchild. Stevens muses over lost

opportunities, both with Miss Kenton and with his long-time employer,

Lord Darlington. At the end of the novel, Stevens instead focuses on

the "remains of [his] day", referring to his future service with Mr

Farraday.

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Remember the Titans (2000)

In 1971, at the desegregated T. C. Williams High School, a

black head coach Herman Boone (Washington) is hired to lead the

school's football team. Boone takes over from the current coach Bill

 Yoast (Patton), nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. As

a show of respect, Boone offers an assistant coordinator coaching

position to Yoast. Yoast at first refuses Boone's offer, but reconsiders

after the white players pledge to boycott the team if he does notparticipate. Dismayed at the prospect of the students losing their

chances at scholarships, Yoast changes his mind and takes up the

position of defensive coordinator.

Black and white football team members frequently clash in

racially motivated conflicts at their football camp, including somebetween captain Gerry Bertier (Hurst), and Julius Campbell (Harris).

But after forceful coaching and rigorous athletic training by Boone,

which includes an early morning run to Gettysburg, and a motivational

speech, the team achieves racial harmony and success. After returning

from football camp, Boone is told by a member of the school boardthat if he loses even a single game, he will be fired. Subsequently, the

Titans go through the season undefeated while battling racial

prejudice, before slowly gaining support from the community.

 Just before the state semi-finals, Yoast is told by a member of

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the Titans lose one game, implying he wants Boone to be fired over his

race. During the game, it becomes apparent that the referees are

biased against the Titans. Yoast warns the head official that he will goto the press and expose the scandal unless it is refereed fairly. The

Titans win, but Yoast is told that his actions have resulted in his loss of

candidacy for induction.

While celebrating the victory, Bertier is in an automobile

accident, after driving through an intersection. Although Bertier couldnot play due to being paralyzed from the waist down, the team goes

on to win the championship. Bertier would remain a paraplegic for the

rest of his life. Ten years later Bertier dies in another automobile

accident being hit by a drunk driver after winning the gold medal in

shot put in theParalympics. His family, coaches and friends reunite to

attend his funeral.

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Rent-A-Kid (1995)

Cliff Haber (Tony Rosato) runs an orphanage, and decides to

go on a vacation. He has his father, Harry Haber (Leslie Nielsen), run

the orphanage while he is away. Harry has a rental store and decides

that it would be a good idea to rent out youngsters to prospective

adoptive parents after he hears his son's testimony on how hard it is

for him to find parents for the youngsters he takes care of. Meanwhile,

as his son is away, he gets a bigger ideas by overhearing a couple at aMexican restaurant, a couple by the name of Russ and Valerie Syracuse

(Matt McCoy andSherry Miller) arguing over the issue of wanting to

have children.

Through enough persuasion from Harry Haber and giving it

thought on their own, they decide to rent all three Ward children, whoare Brandon (Amos Crawley), Kyle (Cody Jones), and Molly (Tabitha

Lupien). A couple, the Lachmans, come to the orphanage wanting to

adopt a girl. They find and choose Molly which they tell Cliff Haber and

he spreads on to his father, and as Harry gives the news to Molly, she is

not happy, because she does not want to leave her brothers, Kyle andBrandon. So, to try and fix the issue, they attempt to set out to behave

as good as they can, so that Russ and Valerie will fall in love with them

enough to want to keep them. But their behavior plan ends up failing

now and again. But even through all the pros and cons that Russ and

Valerie face dealing with them for ten days, at the very last moment,

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trying to find ways to keep his renting out orphan youngsters idea

covered up from his son, knowing how eccentric he considers him to

be for it. But due to a forum that Harry leaves out on the office table bya phone which his son happens to stumble on, when he returns at the

end of the renting period, the attempts fail at the last moment, and he

goes and scolds his dad outside the apartment building that the

Syracuses live in, accusing him of being overly insane, but changes his

mind, when he finds out that his plan worked.

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Return of the Jedi (1983)

Luke Skywalker initiates a plan to rescue Han Solo

from the crime lord  Jabba the Hutt with the help of Princess Leia,

Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2. Leia infiltrates Jabba's

palace onTatooine disguised as a bounty hunter with Chewbacca as her

prisoner. Lando is already there disguised as a guard. Leia releases Han

from his carbonite prison, but she is captured and enslaved. Luke

arrives soon afterward but after a tense standoff, he is captured. AfterLuke survives his battle with Jabba'sRancor, Jabba sentences him and

Han to death by feeding them to the Sarlacc. Luke frees himself and

battles Jabba's guards. During the chaos, Boba Fett, who has remained

at Jabba's palace since delivering Han, attempts to attack Luke, but

Han inadvertently knocks him into the Sarlacc pit. Meanwhile, Leia

strangles Jabba to death, and Luke destroys Jabba's sail barge as the

group escapes. While the others rendezvous with the Rebel Alliance,

Luke returns to Dagobah where he finds that Yoda is dying. Before he

dies, Yoda confirms that Darth Vader, once known as Anakin Skywalker,

is Luke's father, and there is "another Skywalker". The spirit of Obi-Wan

Kenobi confirms that this other Skywalker is Luke's twin sister, Leia.Obi-Wan tells Luke that he must fight Vader again to defeat the

Empire.

The Rebel Alliance learns that the Empire has been constructing a new

Death Star under the supervision of Emperor Palpatine himself. As the

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destroy the shield generator on the forest moon of Endor; doing so

would allow a squadron of starfighters to destroy the Death Star. The

strike team, accompanied by Luke and Leia, travels to Endor in a stolenImperial shuttle. On Endor, Luke and his companions encounter a tribe

of Ewoks and, after an initial conflict, gain their trust. Later, Luke tells

Leia that she is his sister, Vader is their father, and that he must go and

confront him. Surrendering to Imperial troops, Luke is brought to

Vader and unsuccessfully tries to convince him to turn from the dark

side of the Force.

Vader takes Luke to the Death Star to meet the Emperor, intent on

turning him to the dark side. The Emperor reveals that the Death Star is

actually fully operational and the Rebel fleet will fall into a trap. On

Endor, Han's strike team is captured by Imperial forces, but a surprise

counterattack by the Ewoks allows the  

Rebels to battle the Imperials. Meanwhile, Lando, piloting the

Millennium Falcon, leads the Rebel fleet to the Death Star, only to find

that the station's shield is still active and the Imperial fleet is waiting

for them. The Emperor tempts Luke to give in to his anger and join the

dark side of the Force, and Luke engages Vader in a lightsaber duel.Vader senses that Luke has a sister, and threatens to turn her to the

dark side. Enraged, Luke attacks Vader and severs his father's

prosthetic right hand. The Emperor entreats Luke to kill Vader and take

his place, but Luke refuses, declaring himself a  Jedi. On Endor, the

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generator, allowing the Rebel fleet to launch their assault on the Death

Star. At the same time, a furious Palpatine tortures Luke with Force

lightning. Unwilling to let his son die, Vader kills the Emperor, but ishimself mortally wounded in the process. He asks Luke to help remove

his mask before dying in Luke's arms.

As the battle between the Imperial and Alliance fleets continues, Lando

leads a group of Rebel ships into the Death Star's core and destroys the

main reactor. As Luke escapes on a shuttle with his father's body, theFalcon flies out of the Death Star's superstructure as the station

explodes. On Endor, Leia reveals to Han that Luke is her brother, and

they share a kiss. Luke returns to Endor and cremates his father's body

on a funeral pyre. As the Rebels celebrate their victory over the Empire,

Luke smiles as he sees the spirits of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and the redeemed

Anakin watching over them.

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 The Road to Perdition (2002)

Michael Sullivan Sr. (Hanks) is an enforcer for Irish

mob boss John Rooney (Newman) in Rock Island, Illinois during the

Great Depression. Rooney raised the orphan Sullivan and loves him

more than his own biological son, the unstable Connor (Craig). Connor

snaps and kills disgruntled associate Finn McGovern when meeting

him with Sullivan, resulting in Sullivan gunning down McGovern's

men. Sullivan's twelve-year-old son Michael Sullivan, Jr had hidden inhis father's car and witnesses the event. Despite Sullivan swearing his

son to secrecy and Rooney pressuring Connor to apologize for the

reckless action, Connor murders Sullivan's wife Annie and younger son

Peter, mistaking him for Sullivan, Jr. He then sends Sullivan to an

ambush at a speakeasy but Sullivan realizes and escapes to Chicago

with his son to seekAl Capone, for work and to discover the location of

Connor, who has gone into hiding.

Capone's Underboss Frank Nitti (Tucci) rejects Sullivan's proposals,

before informing Rooney of the meeting. Rooney reluctantly allows

Nitti to dispatch assassin Harlen Maguire (Law), who is also a crimescene photographer, to kill Sullivan. Maguire tracks him and his son to

a roadside diner, but fails to kill Sullivan. Realizing Maguire's

intentions, Sullivan punctures Maguire's car tire before escaping.

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teaching Michael to drive their getaway car. Sullivan is impeded when

the mob withdraws its money, so he visits Rooney's accountant

Alexander Rance (Baker) at his hotel. The encounter is a set-up, withRance stalling Sullivan until Maguire enters with a shotgun. In the

ensuing crossfire, Rance is killed by a bullet from Maguire's shotgun,

Maguire is injured by flying glass shards, and Sullivan escapes with

the ledgers. As he flees, Maguire shoots Sullivan in the shoulder.

Michael Jr. drives his father to a farm, where a childless elderly couplehelp him recover. Sullivan bonds with his son and discovers from the

ledgers that Connor has been embezzling from his father for years,

using the names of dead men. As the Sullivans depart, they give the

couple much of the stolen money. Sullivan confronts Rooney with the

information while they attend Mass. Although Rooney already knew

about the embezzlement and that Connor was likely to die by

Sullivan's hand or the mob, he refuses to give up his son. He

encourages Sullivan to leave with his son, while mourning his

departure.

Later one night, cloaked by darkness and rain, Sullivan dispatchesRooney's entire entourage with his Thompson submachine gun and

walks directly up to Rooney. As Rooney mutters that he is glad his killer

is Sullivan, an emotionally reluctant Sullivan pulls the trigger. Seeing

no further reason to protect Connor, Nitti reveals his location to

Sullivan, after making the latter promise to end the feud. Sullivan goes

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Sullivan drives his son to stay at his Aunt Sara's beach house in

Perdition, a town on the shore of Lake Michigan. However, he is

ambushed and shot by a disfigured Maguire. As Maguire prepares tophotograph the dying Sullivan, Michael Jr. appears and points a gun at

Maguire, but cannot muster the will to fire. Sullivan pulls out his gun

and kills Maguire, before dying in his son's arms. Mourning his

father's death, Michael Jr. returns to the elderly farm couple to live

with them. While growing up, Michael Jr. reflects that his father's only

fear was that his son would become like him. When asked if Sullivan

was a good or bad man, he replies "he was my father."

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RoboCop (1987)

In a dystopian 2029, the city of Detroit, which is now

bankrupt and overrun with crime, gives Omni Consumer Products

(OCP) control of its struggling police force. The company plans to

replace the poor, run-down sections of Old Detroit with the high-end

"Delta City," but must first address the city's high crime rate. As an

alternative to existing law enforcement, OCP senior president Dick

 Jones (Ronny Cox) offers the prototype ED-209 enforcement droid, butit accidentally kills a board member during a demonstration. The OCP

chairman, nicknamed "The Old Man" (Dan O'Herlihy), decides instead

to back Jones' young rival, Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer), and his

experimental cyborg police officer program, "RoboCop."

Meanwhile, police officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is transferred toOld Detroit, where he is teamed with officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen).

On their first patrol, they tail a gang of bank robbers, led by ruthless

crime lord Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), to an abandoned

steel mill. Inside, Lewis is incapacitated; and Murphy, attempting to

make an arrest, is surrounded, brutally maimed by several gunshots,and nearly killed by the gang. After attempts by an ER trauma team to

resuscitate him fail, his body is taken to a lab at OCP and rebuilt as

RoboCop. He is given three primary directives — serve thepublic trust,

protect the innocent, and uphold the law — as well as a fourth, secret

directive.

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RoboCop succeeds in stopping several crimes in the city, earning him

attention from the media. The police are both awed by his skill and

efficiency and concerned that he will eventually replace them.Meanwhile, RoboCop begins to have flashes of his old life as Murphy,

including a dream of his brutal murder. Lewis, who has deduced

RoboCop's real identity by observing his mannerisms, reminds him of

his real name before he departs to locate his killers. He finds a gas

station being robbed by one of Boddicker's gang members, Emil

Antonowsky (Daniel Perry Coffey), who inadvertently reveals his part in

Murphy's murder. RoboCop visits his old house and discovers that his

family has moved. He then has more visions of his former life.

RoboCop learns of Emil's connection to Boddicker, then interrogates

Leon Nash (Ray Wise), another gang member, on Boddicker's

whereabouts.

For his success with the RoboCop project, Morton is promoted to vice

president, angering Jones, who had hoped for a promotion. One night,

while Morton takes cocaine with two models, Boddicker appears,

scares the models into leaving, and shoots Morton in the legs. He then

plays a recording of Jones explaining that he sent Boddicker to killMorton, being envious of Morton's success while ED-209 was regarded

as a failure. Boddicker places a grenade on a table, out of Morton's

reach, and leaves the crippled executive to die in the resulting

explosion.

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RoboCop finds Boddicker at a cocaine factory and, after a massive

shootout, tries to kill him. However, Boddicker reveals his affiliation

with Jones, who effectively runs the police; and RoboCop arrestsBoddicker instead. RoboCop then attempts to arrest Jones at OCP

headquarters, but suddenly short-circuits. Jones reveals that he

planted the hidden Directive 4, which prevents RoboCop from taking

any action against an OCP executive, and confesses to killing Morton.

He sends an ED-209 and the police force to kill RoboCop, but Lewis

helps RoboCop escape and takes him to the steel mill where he was

murdered to recover. RoboCop, now displaying more of his former

personality, learns from Lewis that Murphy's wife and son moved away

after his supposed death.

Fed up with the continuing murders of officers and the increasing

pressure on them from OCP's exploits, the police force goes on strike,

causing a spike in the city's crime level. Jones sends Boddicker and his

gang to finish the job of destroying RoboCop. Using a tracking device

provided by Jones, which was implanted into RoboCop, the gang finds

RoboCop at the steel mill; but RoboCop and Lewis manage to subdue

and kill them. RoboCop then returns to OCP, where he walks in on Jones offering the company board the ED-209 as a replacement for the

striking police department.

After destroying the ED-209, RoboCop, in front of the board, reveals

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fourth directive. Desperate, Jones takes the Old Man hostage and

demands a helicopter for his escape. The Old Man, realizing the nature

of the fourth directive, immediately fires Jones from OCP, nullifyingthe restriction of Directive 4. RoboCop shoots Jones and sends him

flying out a window to his death. The Old Man thanks RoboCop and

asks for his name, to which RoboCop replies, "Murphy."

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Romero (1989)

During the 1977 El Salvadoran presidential elections, amid public

unrest and a guerrilla uprising, the military regime sends death

squads to detain, torture and kill any people who speak out against its

human rights record. The Vatican elevates conservative Oscar Arnulfo

Romero (Raul Julia) to the position of Archbishop of San Salvador,

hoping that he will accept the status quo. Although conservative,

Romero is afraid of the government's increasing hostility. After theassassination of FatherRutilio Grande (Richard Jordan), an outspoken

 Jesuitadvocate for the poor, Romero begins to take a stand against the

government's policies, prompting the death squads to begin targeting

priests.

After failing to rescue a pro-government hostage of the guerrillas in abotched ransom, Romero discovers that his friend Father Osuna

(Alejandro Bracho), a militant critic of the ruling regime, has been

captured and tortured. After securing his release, Romero instigates a

boycott of thepresident elect's inauguration, defying him by taking

Massin a church the military took over as a barracks. He later attemptsto secure the release of a soldier taken hostage by Osuna and the

guerrillas, but is arrested in the process. Osuna is subsequently

tortured to death. Undeterred, Romero rejects the violent methods of

the guerrillas, but is nonetheless assassinated while holding Mass.

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Rope (1948)

Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (Dall) and Phillip Morgan

(Granger), strangle to death a former classmate, David Kentley (Dick

Hogan), in their apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual

exercise; they want to prove their superiority by committing the

"perfect murder".

After hiding the body in a large antique wooden chest, Brandon andPhillip host a dinner party at the apartment, which has a panoramic

view of Manhattan's skyline. The guests, who are unaware of what has

happened, include the victim (David)'s father Mr. Kentley (Cedric

Hardwicke) and aunt Mrs. Atwater ( Constance Collier); his mother is

not able to attend. Also there are his fiancée, Janet Walker ( Joan

Chandler) and her former lover Kenneth Lawrence (Douglas Dick), whowas once David's close friend.

In a subtle move, Brandon uses the chest containing the body as a

buffet table for the food, just before their housekeeper, Mrs. Wilson

(Edith Evanson) arrives to help with the party. "Now the fun begins,"

Brandon says when the first guests arrive.

Brandon and Phillip's idea for the murder was inspired years earlier by

conversations with their prep school housemaster, publisher Rupert

Cadell (Stewart). While at school, Rupert had discussed with them, in

an apparently approving way, the intellectual concepts of Nietzsche's

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Übermensch, and De Quincey's art of murder, as a means of showing

one's superiority over others. He too is among the guests at the party,

since Brandon in particular feels that he would approve of their "workof art".

Brandon's subtle hints about David's absence indirectly lead to a

discussion on the "art of murder". Brandon appears calm and in

control, although when he first speaks to Rupert he is nervously

excited and stammering. Phillip, on the other hand, is visibly upsetand morose. He does not conceal it well and starts to drink too much.

When David's aunt, Mrs. Atwater, who fancies herself as a fortune-

teller, tells him that his hands will bring him great fame, she is

referring to his skill at the piano, but he appears to think this refers to

the notoriety of being a strangler.

Much of the conversation, however, focuses on David and his strange

absence, which worries the guests. A suspicious Rupert quizzes a

fidgety Phillip about this and about some of the inconsistencies that

have been raised in conversation. For example, Phillip had vehemently

denied ever strangling a chicken at the Shaws' farm, but Rupert haspersonally seen Phillip strangle several. Phillip later complains to

Brandon about having had a "rotten evening", not because of David's

murder, but over Rupert's questioning.

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playing matchmaker between Janet and Kenneth. Mrs. Kentley calls,

overwrought because she has not heard from David, and Mr. Kentley

decides to leave. He takes with him some books Brandon has givenhim, tied together with the rope Brandon and Phillip used to strangle

his son.

When Rupert goes to leave, Mrs. Wilson accidentally hands him

David's monogrammed hat, further arousing his suspicion. Rupert

returns to the apartment a short while after everyone else hasdeparted, pretending that he has left his cigarette case behind. He

hides the case, asks for a drink and then stays to theorize about the

disappearance of David. He is encouraged by Brandon, who seems

eager to have Rupert discover the crime. A drunk Phillip is unable to

take it any more; he throws a glass and says, "Cat and mouse, cat and

mouse. But which is the cat and which is the mouse?"

Rupert lifts the lid of the chest and finds the body inside. He is

horrified but also deeply ashamed, realizing that Brandon and Phillip

used his own rhetoric to rationalize murder. Rupert disavows all his

previous talk of superiority and inferiority, realizing that there is noway to objectively define these concepts, then seizes Brandon's gun

and fires several shots out the window in order to attract attention. As

approaching police sirens get louder, Rupert pulls up a chair next to

the chest and the film's end credits appear on the screen.

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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

On the morning of June 6, 1944, the beginning of the

Normandy Invasion, American soldiers prepare to land on Omaha

Beach. They suffer heavily from their struggle against German infantry,

machine gun nests, and artillery fire. Captain John H. Miller, a

company commander of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, survives the initial

landing and assembles a group of his Rangers to penetrate the

German defenses, leading to a breakout from the beach. InWashington, D.C, at the U.S. War Department, General George Marshall

is informed that three of the four brothers of the Ryan family were

killed in action and that their mother is to receive all three telegrams

in the same day. He learns that the fourth son, Private First Class James

Francis Ryan, is a paratrooper and is missing in action somewhere in

Normandy. Marshall, after reading Abraham Lincoln's Bixby letter,

orders that Ryan be found and sent home immediately.

Three days after D-Day, Miller receives orders to find Ryan and

bring him back from the front. He assembles seven men from his

company— TSgt. Mike Horvath, Privates Richard Reiben, StanleyMellish, Adrian Caparzo, Danny Jackson, medic Irwin Wade—and T/5

Timothy Upham, a cartographer who speaks French and German,

loaned from the 29th Infantry Division. Miller and his men move out to

Neuville; there, they meet a platoon from the 101st Airborne Division,

and Caparzo dies after being shot by a sniper. Eventually, they locate a

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member of Ryan's regiment who informs them that his drop zone was

at Vierville and that his and Ryan's companies had the same rally

point. Once they reach it, Miller meets a friend of Ryan's, who revealsthat Ryan is defending a strategically important bridge over the

Merderet River in the town of Ramelle. On the way to Ramelle, Miller

decides to neutralize a German machine gun position, despite the

misgivings of his men. Wade is fatally wounded in the ensuing

skirmish, but Miller, at Upham's urging, declines to execute a

surviving German and sets him free on condition that he gives himself

up. No longer confident in Miller's leadership, Reiben declares his

intention to desert the squad and the mission, prompting a

confrontation with Horvath. The argument heats up until Miller

defuses the situation by revealing his origins, upon which the squad

had earlier set up a betting pool. Reiben then reluctantly decides tostay.

Upon arrival at Ramelle, Miller and the squad come upon a small

group of paratroopers commanded by Corporal Henderson, one of

whom is Ryan. Ryan is told of his brothers' deaths, the mission to bring

him home, and that two men had been lost in the quest to find him.He is distressed at the loss of his brothers, but does not feel it is fair to

go home, asking Miller to tell his mother that he intends to stay "with

the only brothers [he has] left." Miller decides to take command and

defend the bridge with what little manpower and

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resources are available. Elements of the 2nd SS Panzer Division arrive

with infantry and armor. In the ensuing battle, while inflicting heavy

German casualties, most of the Americans—including Jackson, Mellishand Horvath—are killed. A terrified Upham spends the entire battle

hiding, unable to act even when Mellish's life is in peril. While

attempting to blow the bridge, Miller is shot and mortally wounded by

the German prisoner set free earlier, who has returned to battle

alongside the SS. Just before a Tiger tank reaches the bridge, an

American P-51 Mustang flies over and destroys the tank, followed by

American reinforcements who rout the remaining Germans. Upham,

furious at the German prisoner, shoots him, and lets the rest flee in

panic.

Reiben and Ryan are with Miller as he dies and says his last words,

"James ... earn this. Earn it." In the present day, an elderly Ryan and

his family visit the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Ryan

stands at Miller's grave and asks his wife to confirm that he has led a

good life, that he is a "good man" and thus worthy of the sacrifice of

Miller and the others. His wife replies, "You are." At this point, Ryan

stands at attention and delivers a salute towards Miller's grave.

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Schindler's List (1993)

In Kraków during World War II, the Germans had

forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar

Schindler, an ethnic German, arrives in the city hoping to make his

fortune. A member of the Nazi Party, Schindler lavishes bribes on

Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and SS officials and acquires a

factory to produce enamelware. To help him run the business,

Schindler enlists the aid of Itzhak Stern, a local Jewish official who hascontacts with black marketeers and the Jewish business community.

Stern helps Schindler arrange loans to finance the factory. Schindler

maintains friendly relations with the Nazis and enjoys wealth and

status as "Herr Direktor", and Stern handles administration. Schindler

hires Jewish workers because they cost less, while Stern ensures that

as many people as possible are deemed essential to the German war

effort, which saves them from being transported to concentration

camps or killed.

SS-Untersturmführer (second lieutenant) Amon Goeth arrives in

Kraków to oversee construction of P!aszów concentration camp. When

the camp is completed, he orders the ghetto liquidated. Many people

are shot and killed in the process of emptying the ghetto. Schindler

witnesses the massacre and is profoundly affected. He particularly

notices a tiny girl in a red coat – one of the few splashes of color in the

black-and-white film – as she hides from the Nazis, and later sees her

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taken away to be burned. Schindler is careful to maintain his

friendship with Goeth and, through bribery and lavish gifts, continues

to enjoy SS support. Goeth brutally mistreats his maid and randomlyshoots people from the balcony of his villa, and the prisoners are in

constant daily fear for their lives. As time passes, Schindler's focus

shifts from making money to trying to save as many lives as possible.

He bribes Goeth into allowing him to build a sub-camp for his workers

so that he can better protect them.

As the Germans begin to lose the war, Goeth is ordered to ship the

remaining Jews at P!aszów toAuschwitz concentration camp. Schindler

asks Goeth to allow him to move his workers to a new munitions

factory he plans to build in his home town of Zwittau-Brinnlitz. Goeth

agrees, but charges a huge bribe. Schindler and Stern create

"Schindler's List" – a list of people to be transferred to Brinnlitz and

thus saved from transport to Auschwitz.

The train carrying women and children is accidentally redirected to

Auschwitz-Birkenau; Schindler bribes Rudolf Höss, the commandant of

Auschwitz with a bag of diamonds to win their release. At the newfactory, Schindler forbids the SS guards to enter the production rooms

and encourages the Jews to observe the Jewish Sabbath. To keep his

workers alive, he spends much of his fortune bribing Nazi officials and

buying shell casings from other companies; his factory does not

produce any usable armaments during its seven months of operation.

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Schindler runs out of money in 1945, just as Germany surrenders,

ending the war in Europe.

As a Nazi Party member and war profiteer, Schindler must flee the

advancing Red Army to avoid capture. The SS guards have been

ordered to kill the Jews, but Schindler persuades them not to so they

can "return to their families as men, not murderers." He bids farewell

to his workers and prepares to head west, hoping to surrender to the

Americans. The workers give Schindler a signed statement attesting tohis role saving Jewish lives, together with a ring engraved with a

Talmudic quotation: "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire."

Schindler is touched but is also deeply ashamed, as he feels he should

have done even more. As the Schindlerjuden (Schindler Jews) wake up

the next morning, a Soviet soldier announces that they have been

liberated. The Jews leave the factory and walk to a nearby town.

After scenes depicting Goeth's execution after the war and a summary

of Schindler's later life, the black-and-white frame changes to a color

shot of actual Schindlerjuden at Schindler's grave in  Jerusalem.

Accompanied by the actors who portrayed them, the Schindlerjudenplace stones on the grave. In the final scene, Neeson places a pair of

roses on the grave.

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Saving Grace(1986)

A year after his election, a youthful Pope (Conti) longs

to be involved in ordinary people’s lives again, as he was when he was

a priest.

During an audience, the Pope communicates with a

deaf mute young girl whose village has no priest. Accidentally locked

out of the Vatican, the Pope travels to the small impoverished anddemoralized village, his identity concealed by his beard growth. He

realizes that the people need to rebuild a dilapidated aqueduct but,

more importantly, that they must regain their community spirit and

self-sufficiency. Without expertise and, initially, only the help of some

street-wise orphans, he starts construction. All this is watched

skeptically by a mysterious neighbour played by Giannini and opposedby local thugs led by Ciolino (Olmos) whose ill-gotten gains depend on

the village remaining overly dependent on outsiders.

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 The Searchers (1956)

It is 1868. Ethan Edwards (Wayne) returns

after an eight-year absence to the home of his brother Aaron ( Walter

Coy) in the wilderness of West Texas. Ethan fought in the Civil War on

the side of theConfederacy, and in the three years since that war ended

he apparently fought in the Mexican revolutionary war as well. He has

a large quantity of gold coins of uncertain origin in his possession, and

a medal from the Mexican campaign that he gives to his eight-year-oldniece, Debbie (played as a child by Lana Wood). As a former

Confederate soldier, he is asked to take an oath of allegiance to the

Texas Rangers; he refuses. As Rev. Captain Samuel Clayton (Ward

Bond) remarks, Ethan "fits a lot of descriptions".

Shortly after Ethan's arrival, cattle belonging to his neighbor Lars Jorgensen ( John Qualen) are stolen, and when Captain Clayton leads

Ethan and a group of Rangers to recover them, they discover that the

theft was a Comanche ploy to draw the men away from their families.

When they return they find the Edwards homestead in flames. Aaron,

his wife Martha (Dorothy Jordan), and their son Ben (Robert Lyden) aredead, and Debbie and her older sister Lucy (Pippa Scott) have been

abducted.

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burial ground of Comanches who were killed during the raid. Ethan

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Ethan recommends a frontal attack, but Clayton insists on a stealth

approach to avoid killing the hostages. The camp is deserted, and

further along the trail the men ride into an ambush. Though they fendoff the attack,the Rangers are left with too few men to fight the Indians

effectively. They return home, leaving Ethan to continue his search for

the girls with only Lucy's fiancé, Brad Jorgensen (Harry Carey, Jr.) and

Debbie's adopted brother, Martin Pawley ( Jeffrey Hunter). Ethan finds

Lucy brutally murdered and presumably raped in a canyon near the

Comanche camp. In a blind rage, Brad rides directly into the Indian

camp and is killed.

When winter arrives Ethan and Martin lose the trail and return to the

 Jorgensen ranch. Martin is enthusiastically welcomed by the

 Jorgensens' daughter Laurie (Vera Miles), and Ethan finds a letter

waiting for him from a trader named Futterman (Peter Mamakos), who

claims to have information about Debbie. Ethan, who would rather

travel alone, leaves without Martin the next morning, but Laurie

provides Martin with a horse to catch up. At Futterman's trading post,

Ethan and Martin learn that Debbie has been taken by Scar (Henry

Brandon), the chief of the Nawyeckaband of Comanches. A year ormore later, Laurie receives a letter from Martin describing the ongoing

search. In reading the letter aloud, Laurie narrates the next few scenes,

in which Ethan kills Futterman for trying to steal his money, Martin

accidentally buys a Comanche wife (Beulah Archuletta), and the two

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homestead as he arrived—alone—clutching his arm, the cabin door

slowly shutting on his receding image.

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 The Secret Garden (1993)

The recently orphaned Mary Lennox travels from her home in India to

her uncle Archibald Craven's mansion, Misselthwaite Manor, in

 Yorkshire, England. Materially spoiled but emotionally neglected by

her late parents, who had just been killed in an earthquake, she is

rather unpleasant and unhappy in her new surroundings. Head

housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock, informs Mary she will not be spoiled as

she was in India and will have to learn to take care of herself. She alsoorders her not to leave her room, but strange noises cause her to

explore the mansion on her own. Mrs. Medlock eventually allows her

to play outside to keep her from poking about the house. She

discovers her aunt's garden, which was been locked and neglected

since her death ten years prior.

Martha Sowerby, a maid, and her brother, Dickon, a boy who can "talk"

to animals, befriend Mary and help her heal and grow, and she

gradually becomes more friendly. Mary enlists Dickon to help her

bring the garden back to life. She eventually meets her uncle, who

takes a liking to her and gives her permission to plant seeds"anywhere" before leaving town until the winter as he does not like

spring, flowers or anything that reminds him of his late wife's death

from falling off the swing in her garden.

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into a demanding, short tempered, helpless boy who has never left his

room or learned to walk. Mary eventually discovers Colin and learns

the strange noises she has been hearing is him crying. She is takenaback by his difficult nature, but reaches out to him anyway. She shows

him that he's not sick and that the outside world is not as dangerous as

Mrs. Medlock, who is in charge of caring for him, claims, so he decides

to go outside for the first time.

Soon Colin, Mary, and Dickon spend all of their time in the garden,where Colin learns to walk. Anxious to show Colin's new-found life to

his father, they perform "magic" in hopes to bring him back home. It

appears to work, as Lord Craven awakens suddenly from a dream and

decides he must return home immediately. He discovers Colin walking

and playing upon his return, which brings joy back to him. Mary

initially fears that she will be neglected again, but her uncle assures

her that she is part of the family and thanks her for bringing the house

back to life.

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Shadowlands (1993)

In the 1950s, the reserved, middle-aged bachelor C. S. Lewis is an

Oxford University academic at Magdalen College and author of The

Chronicles of Narnia series of children's books. He meets the married

American poet Joy Gresham and her young son Douglas on their visit

to England, not yet knowing the circumstances of Gresham's troubled

marriage.

What begins as a formal meeting of two very different minds slowly

develops into a feeling of connection and love. Lewis finds his quiet

life with his brother Warnie disrupted by the outspoken, feisty

Gresham, whose uninhibited behaviour offers a sharp contrast to the

rigid sensibilities of the male-dominated university. Each provides the

other with new ways of viewing the world.

Initially their marriage is one of convenience, a platonic union

designed to allow Gresham to remain in England. But when she is

diagnosed with cancer, deeper feelings surface, and Lewis' faith is

tested as his wife tries to prepare him for her imminent death.

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Shadrach (1998) 

Before the Civil War, the Dabney family of Virginia

sold their slave, Shadrach (John Franklin Sawyer), to plantation owners

in Alabama, separating him from his family. In 1935, during the Great

Depression, Shadrach—at the age of 99—walks the 600 miles from his

home in Alabama to the Dabney farm in Virginia. His one request is to

be buried in the soil of the farm where he was born into slavery.

The farm is owned by the descendants of the Dabney family, consisting

of Vernon (Keitel), Trixie (McDowell) and their seven children. But to

bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law, so the

family

goes through the arduous task of figuring out how to grant hisrequest. Along the way they form a touching

bond with the former slave and sharecropper, who has outlived both

his former wives and some 35 children.

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 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

In 1947 Portland, Maine, banker

Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and

sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the fictional Shawshank

State Penitentiary in rural Maine. Andy befriends prison contraband

smuggler, Ellis "Red" Redding, an inmate serving a life sentence. Red

procures a rock hammer and later a large poster of Rita Hayworth for

Andy. Working in the prison laundry, Andy is regularly assaulted by the"bull queer" gang "the Sisters" and their leader, Bogs.

In 1949, Andy overhears the brutal captain of the guards,

Byron Hadley, complaining about being taxed on an inheritance, and

offers to help him legally shelter the money. After a vicious assault by

the Sisters nearly kills Andy, Hadley beats Bogs severely. Bogs is sentto another prison and Andy is never attacked again. Warden Samuel

Norton meets Andy and reassigns him to the prison library to assist

elderly inmate Brooks Hatlen. Andy's new job is a pretext for him to

begin managing financial matters for the prison employees. As time

passes, the Warden begins using Andy to handle matters for a varietyof people including guards from other prisons and the warden himself.

Andy begins writing weekly letters to the state government for funds

to improve the decaying library.

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library donation that includes a recording of The Marriage of Figaro. He

plays an excerpt over the public address system, resulting in him

receiving solitary confinement. After his release from solitary Andyexplains that hope is what gets him through his time, a concept that

Red dismisses. In 1963, Norton begins exploiting prison labor for

public works, profiting by undercutting skilled labor costs and

receiving kickbacks. He has Andy launder the money using the alias

Randall Stephens.

In 1965, Tommy Williams is incarcerated for burglary.

He joins Andy's and Red's circle of friends, and Andy helps him pass

his G.E.D. exam. In 1966, Tommy reveals to Red and Andy that an

inmate at another prison claimed responsibility for the murders Andy

was convicted of, implying Andy's innocence. Andy approaches Norton

with this information, but the warden refuses to listen and sends Andy

back to solitary when he mentions the money laundering. Norton then

has Hadley murder Tommy under the guise of an escape attempt. Andy

refuses to continue the money laundering, but relents after Norton

threatens to burn the library, remove Andy's protection from the

guards, and move him out of his cell into worse conditions. Andy isreleased from solitary confinement after two months and tells Red of

his dream of living in Zihuatanejo, a Mexican coastal town. Red feels

Andy is being unrealistic, but promises Andy that if he is ever released

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of mind, especially when he learns Andy asked another inmate to

supply him with six feet of rope.

The next day at roll call the guards find Andy's cell

empty. An irate Norton throws a rock at the poster of Raquel Welch

hanging on the wall, and the rock tears through the poster. Removing

the poster, the warden discovers a tunnel that Andy dug with his rock

hammer over the last seventeen years, hidden by posters of starlets

Andy acquired from Red over the years. The previous night, Andyescaped through the tunnel and used the prison's sewage pipe to

reach freedom, bringing with him Norton's suit, shoes, and the ledger

containing details of the money laundering. While guards search for

him the following morning, Andy poses as Randall Stephens and visits

several banks to withdraw the laundered money. Finally, he mails the

ledger and evidence of the corruption and murders at Shawshank to a

local newspaper. The police arrive at Shawshank and take Hadley into

custody, while Norton commits suicide to avoid arrest.

After serving forty years, Red is finally paroled. He

struggles to adapt to life outside prison and fears he never will.Remembering his promise to Andy, he visits Buxton and finds a cache

containing money and a letter asking him to come to Zihuatanejo. Red

violates his parole and travels to Fort Hancock, Texas to cross the border

to Mexico, admitting he finally feels hope. On a beach in Zihuatanejo,

he finds Andy, and the two friends are happily reunited.

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She's Having a Baby(1988)

This film is a look at the lives of Jefferson (Jake) and

Kristy Briggs, from their wedding day until the birth of their first child.

Beginning on their wedding day, it follows both their lives, but more

so Jake's, with his voice over commentaries and several imaginary

scenes, based on actual or feared future events.

After their wedding, Jake and Kristy head off for New Mexico, where Jake works towards gaining a master's degree, but leaves before

finishing, describing it as "high school with ashtrays". They return to

Chicago where Jake, by "setting new records for lying in the job

market", impresses his potential employers so much that they give

him work as an advertising copywriter. Kristy also gains work as a

research analyst, and they are able to buy a "three-bedroom mortgage"in the suburbs.

 Jake and Kristy then continue to adjust to their new life until Kristy

unilaterally decides to cease taking contraceptives, without telling

 Jake, until, after several months, she informs him that he has been

unable to impregnate her. They then begin a program to assist their

efforts to become pregnant, which eventually succeed. The movie

culminates with a traumatic yet eventually successful labour and

 Jake's realisation that his lack of satisfaction and sense of detachment

are not due to external factors but his own selfishness and immaturity.

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The last scene of the film reveals that Jake's voice over was the new

father reading his novel entitledShe's Having a Baby to his wife and

son.

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 The Shining (1980)

 Jack Torrance arrives at the Overlook Hotel in

Sidewinder, Colorado, interviewing for the position of winter caretaker,

planning to use the hotel's solitude to write. The hotel, built on the site

of a Native American burial ground, becomes snowed-in during the

winter; it is closed from October to May. Manager Stuart Ullman warns

 Jack that a previous caretaker, Charles Grady, developed cabin fever

and killed his family and himself. In Boulder, Jack's son, Danny, has aterrifying premonition about the hotel, viewing a cascade of blood

emerging from an elevator door. Jack's wife, Wendy, tells a doctor that

Danny has an imaginary friend named Tony, and that Jack has given up

drinking because he hurt Danny's arm following a binge.

The family arrives at the hotel on closing day and is given a tour. Thechef, Dick Hallorann, surprises Danny by telepathically offering him ice

cream. To Danny, Dick explains that he and his grandmother shared

this telepathic ability, which he calls "shining". Danny asks if there is

anything to be afraid of in the hotel, particularly room 237. Hallorann

tells Danny that the hotel has a "shine" to it along with manymemories, not all of which are good. He also tells Danny to stay out of

room 237.

A month passes; while Jack's writing goes nowhere, Danny and Wendy

explore the hotel's hedge maze. Wendy becomes concerned about the

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frightening visions. Jack, increasingly frustrated, starts acting strangely

and becomes prone to violent outbursts.

Danny's curiosity about room 237 overcomes him

when he sees the room's door open. Later, Wendy finds Jack, asleep at

his typewriter, screaming in his sleep. After she awakens him, Jack says

he dreamed that he killed her and Danny. Danny arrives with a bruise

on his neck and traumatized, causing Wendy to accuse Jack of abusing

him. Jack wanders into the hotel's Gold Room and meets a ghostlybartender named Lloyd. Lloyd serves him bourbon while Jack

complains about his marriage.

Wendy later tells Jack that Danny told her a "crazy woman in one of the

rooms" tried strangling him. Jack investigates room 237, encountering

the ghost of a dead woman, but tells Wendy he saw nothing. Wendyand Jack argue over whether Danny should be removed from the hotel

and a furious Jack returns to the Gold Room, filled with ghosts

attending a ball. He meets the ghost of Grady who tells Jack that he

must "correct" his wife and child and that Danny has reached out to

Hallorann using his "talent". In Florida, Hallorann has a premonitionthat something is wrong at the hotel and flies back to Colorado. Danny

starts calling out "redrum" and goes into a trance, referring to himself

as "Tony".

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She is confronted by Jack, who threatens her before she knocks him

unconscious with a baseball bat. She drags him into the kitchen and

locks him in the pantry, but she and Danny are trapped at the hotel; Jack has sabotaged the hotel's two-way radio and snowcat. Later, Jack

converses through the pantry door with Grady, who unlocks the door.

Danny writes "REDRUM" on the outside of the

bathroom door in the family's quarters. When Wendy sees this in the

bedroom mirror, the letters spell out "MURDER". Jack begins hackingthrough the quarters' main door with a firefighter's axe. Wendy sends

Danny through the bathroom window, but it will not open sufficiently

for her to pass. Jack breaks through the bathroom door as Wendy

screams in horror. He leers through the hole he made, shouting

"Here's Johnny!", but backs off after Wendy slashes his hand with a

butcher's knife.

Hearing the engine of the snowcat Hallorann borrowed to reach the

hotel, Jack leaves the room. He kills Hallorann with the axe, and

pursues Danny into the hedge maze. Wendy runs through the hotel

looking for Danny, encountering ghosts and the cascade of bloodDanny envisioned in Boulder. Danny lays a false trail to mislead Jack,

who is following his footprints. Wendy and Danny escape in

Hallorann's snowcat, while Jack freezes to death in the maze.

In a photograph in the hotel hallway dated July 4, 1921, Jack Torrance

smiles amid a crowd of party revelers.  

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 The Shipping News (2001)

The film opens with Quoyle's father tossing him into

water, expecting him to naturally swim. The image of Quoyle

struggling to swim is reprised several times in later crises.

Flash forward to an adult Quoyle (Kevin Spacey), whose emotionally

distant and promiscuous cheating wife runs off with a lover, only to

soon die in a car accident, leaving him with their pre-teen daughter(which she had sold off for six-thousand dollars.) Quoyle's Aunt Agnis

(Judi Dench) happens to be visiting when the news arrives; she is

moving to the ancestral family home in Newfoundland. Realising he's

at a total loss through grief, she offers to stay a few more days and help

him through the crisis, then persuades Quoyle to move with her to

Newfoundland when he's at a loss of what to do next.

Quoyle meets local resident Wavey Prowse (Julianne Moore), a widow

with a pre-teen boy. The two children become friends and the two

adults become friends and then more. Wavey has dark secrets in her

past; but so does the Quoyle family.

The story climaxes with a storm which destroys the Quoyle home, and

the Gammy Bird's editor Jack Buggit, caught in the rope of a lobster

pot while fishing, is believed drowned. His body is recovered, appears

to be dead, but is actually in a deep state of shock resulting from

hypothermia. During his wake, at his home in front of mourners, he

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regains consciousness - (central to the theme of rebirth in the

optimistic ending of the story.)

The film, while broadly following the plot of the book,

makes several changes, notably: Quoyle was obese and had two

daughters in the novel, but only one in the film. He's only a timid ink

setter in the film and he does not begin writing as a brave reporter

until after arriving in Newfoundland. Another difference is that several

characters, such as the younger Buggit family, were deleted or merged.

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Signs (2002)

The Hess family lives on an isolated farm in

Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) is

a former priest whose wife, Colleen, died in a horrific traffic accident

caused by a town local, Ray Reddy (Shyamalan). No longer practicing

religiously, Graham lives with his asthmatic son, Morgan (Rory Culkin),

daughter Bo (Abigail Breslin), who leaves water glasses all over the

house claiming that the water tastes funny, and Graham's youngerbrother, Merrill ( Joaquin Phoenix), a former minor league baseball star

who never made it to the major leagues because he swung too hard

and struck out too often. Graham discovers a huge crop circle in his

field, reports of violent animal behavior have spread across town, and

one of the Hess' dogs tries to attack Bo and Morgan.

Graham discovers that the farm is being watched at night, and he and

Merrill chase a tall, dark figure from the roof of the barn and into the

crops, where it quickly disappears. Meanwhile, crop circles similar to

the one in Graham's field appear around the world. Morgan hears a

strange noise on a baby monitor, but it stops before he can investigatefurther. That evening, Graham goes to the crop circle, and hears the

sound again. After spotting a green leg sticking out of the cornrows, he

flees to the house. A news report reveals that strange lights in the sky

have been spotted over Mexico City.

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That night, Graham reveals to Merrill that he lost his faith after the

death of his wife. A flashback shows Graham approaching the scene of

an accident. He sees his wife pinned to a tree by a truck, and the officertells him that his wife won't live.

The following morning, Graham visits Ray Reddy's

house, whom he finds bleeding. Ray apologizes for the accident, and

tells Graham that he is fleeing to a nearby lake as he believes "they

don't like water." Graham sadly and kindly accepts his apology, andRay leaves. Meanwhile, Merril watches the news, and sees a video

taken at a child's birthday party in Brazil. The footage shows an alien

crouching behind bushes, then slowly walking from out the bushes

and across a small alley where it disappears. Merril is shocked as the

footage is shown. Back at Ray's house Graham goes into the kitchen,

where Ray has an alien locked in his pantry. Graham uses the blade of

a kitchen knife to try to see the alien's reflection under the door.

When the alien attempts to grab at him through the

crack at the floor, Graham reacts by cutting off some of the alien's

fingers, causing the creature to scream in pain. Back at the Hess farm,Merril resorts to joining Morgan and Bo with their tin foil hats. Graham

returns home and the family decides between going to the lake or

staying at the farm, opting to board up all the doors and windows and

remain in the house. While Graham and Merrill do this, Morgan and

Bo watch a news report on the growing number of sightings around

the world. The baby monitor again starts emitting the alien noises, and86

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the television loses its signal. They finish boarding up the windows,

and all move into the living room. One of the dogs, called Isobel, left

tied up outside, barks loudly and is silenced, and an alien is heardclimbing up the house and onto the roof, where it breaks into the attic.

The family moves to the basement and props the door closed with a

pick axe. Graham and Merrill ward off an alien that attacks Morgan,

who then has an asthma attack. The news channel declares that the

aliens have seemingly left earth.

The next morning, Graham decides to leave the basement and find

Morgan's medicine. The family follows, and to their horror, find an

alien still inside the house. It is revealed that it is the same alien from

the pantry whose fingers Graham had cut off. The unconscious Morgan

is again attacked by the alien and taken hostage. The alien acts as a

predator and attempts to poison Morgan by releasing a toxin from its

body, but because he is having an asthma attack (which prevents him

fully from breathing), the poison doesn't get into his lungs. Graham

remembers his wife's dying words, which were "Tell Merrill to swing

away". He tells Merrill to "swing away" and Merrill attacks the alien

with a baseball bat, and it releases Morgan. They discover that waterreacts like acid with the alien's skin, and Merrill smashes all the water

glasses Bo had left all over the house. Finally, Merrill hits the alien into

furniture and water splashes on its face, killing it. Graham administers

Morgan's medication, and the boy recovers.

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Some time later, the Hess family has recovered from the incident and

they appear to be doing much better than before. In the final scene,

Graham is shown returning to his priestly duties, apparently havingregained his faith.

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Sister Act (1992)

The film opens in 1968 at St. Anne's Academy, a

CaliforniaRoman Catholic school, where a young girl named Deloris

Wilson is scolded by Sister Immaculata (Lois de Banzie) for

wisecracking and disobedience. The setting then changes to the

present day, where Deloris Van Cartier is a lounge singer in a 1960s-

themed act called The Ronelles (a parody of The Ronettes), who sing at

The Moonlite Lounge of the Nevada Club in Reno, Nevada, run by herboyfriend, the mobster Vince LaRocca. After Deloris walks in on Vince

having his chauffeur Ernie executed for betrayal, Vince orders his two

henchmen Joey and Willy to kill her as well. Deloris flees Vince's

casino to the local police station where Lieutenant Eddie Souther

suggests she testify against Vince if he can be arrested and tried, but

for now, she should go into witness protection until the time comes.

Deloris is taken to St. Katherine's Parish in a seedy, run-down

neighborhood of San Francisco, where Souther suggests she take

refuge in the attached convent. Both Deloris and Reverend Mother

object, but are convinced by Souther and Monsignor O'Hara to goahead with it. Deloris 'becomes' a nun – habit and all – under the hand

of Reverend Mother, who gives her the religious name 'Sister Mary

Clarence' to complete the disguise. Mary Clarence objects to following

the strictures and simple life of the convent, but comes to befriend

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Mary Lazarus. After sneaking into a nearby bar, Mary Clarence is

chastised by Reverend Mother and put into the choir, which she has

seen to be dreadful. The choir nuns, learning that Mary Clarence has abackground in music, elect her to take over as choir director, which she

accepts, and she rearranges them to make them better singers. At Mass

one Sunday, the choir sings the " Hail Holy Queen" in the traditional

manner beautifully before shifting into a gospel and rock-and-roll-

infused performance of the hymn.

Reverend Mother is infuriated with Mary Clarence about the

performance, and orders that Mary Lazarus 

once again become the leader the choir, but Monsignor O'Hara is

thrilled with the performance as the unorthodox music brought

people, including teenagers, in off the streets. Deloris convinces

Monsignor O'Hara that the nuns should be going out to clean up the

neighborhood. This they do, and the choir wows church visitors with

their music, with Souther eventually attending a performance of "My

Guy" (appropriately rewritten as "My God"). Eventually, O'Hara

announces to the choir that Pope John Paul II is to visit the church to

see the choir himself. Reverend Mother decides to hand in herresignation since her authority has been unintentionally undermined,

but Mary Clarence offers to leave in her stead, to which the Reverend

Mother disagrees.

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