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Sydney (Philip Baker Hall) is a pro gambler who's a soft touch for hard luck cases. So when he meets John (John C. Reilly), a stranger who's just burned through his savings in Vegas, the veteran decides to teach the rookie the secrets of the game. They have a great run in Reno...

until John hooks up with Clementine (Gwyneth Paltrow), a part-time prostitute and Jimmy (Samuel L. Jackson), a slick casino insider. Now, a bungled ransom scheme threatens to turn all of their lives upside down in this gripping drama filled with devastating secrets, ruthless betrayals and deadly intentions.

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When a free-spirited California surfer visits a peaceful Midwestern farm, it's a comedic collision you'll never forget. The fun begins when squeaky-clean Rebecca Warner comes home to her family's farm with a surprise guest - a wild, weird, totally outrageous college student named Crawl.

He's unlike anything her family has ever seen, but their initial shock at meeting him is nothing compared to what they feel when Rebecca announces that she and Crawl are engaged.

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Fries with gravy, a cherry cola. Friendship, bragging rights...and does Sinatra or Mathis croon the best makeout music? Before there was the counterculture of the '60s, there was the counter culture.

From his Oscar-nominated script, Barry Levinson makes his directing debut with this endearing study of pals in transition. Film-debuting Ellen Barkin plays a neglected wife. Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly and Paul Reiser - chosen from over 600 hopefuls - play the up-all-night buddies who work out the remnants of adolescence during ritual grazings at a busy steel-and-vinyl hangout in 1959 Baltimore. Stars, laughs, interlocking stories: entertainment is the daily special in Diner.

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Dennis Weaver stars as the travelling salesman waging a desperate battle for survival after he is mysteriously singled out for destruction.

Praised for its deft use of relentlessly mounting psychological tension, Duel features one of the most uniquely terrifying "characters" in movie history: a massive, roaring 40-ton truck with more sheer menace than most flesh-and-blood villains. But Steven Spielberg was, literally, just getting started. A few years later, the action of Spielberg's blockbuster hit Jaws would echo Duel's tale of a lone hero in a heart-stopping fight to the finish against a monstrous, inhuman foe.

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When, the employees of a medical supply warehouse accidentally bring a corpse back to life - and then try to "kill" it - they awaken a lot more than its unquenchable hunger for "live brains".

For when they are finally able to dismember and burn the still-moving body, its undead ashes sprinkle down upon a nearby graveyard — inviting a whole party of flesh-eating zombies up from their graves!

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In 1966 Tulsa, teenagers come two ways. If you're a "Soc", you've got money, cars, a future. But if you're a "Greaser", you're an outsider with only your friends...and a dream that someday you'll finally belong. Francis Ford Coppola's powerful film of S.E.

Hinton's classic novel captures how it feels to be caught between childhood's innocence and adulthood's disillusionment.

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Set against the steamy backdrop of one of America's most mysterious cities, an erotic tale of passion, corruption and murder unravels. Lieutenant Remy McSwain (Dennis Quaid) is a streetwise New Orleans Cop, who has his territory under control, or so he thinks.

Following a series of 'Mafia Style' hits, Anne Osbourne (Ellen Barkin), the new assistant District Attorney, is assigned to investigate the corruption within the department. The chemistry between McSwain and Osbourne is instant and electric, but as the two battle on seemingly separate sides they are forced to realise that they will have to sacrifice more than their beliefs in right and wrong, if they are going to put things right, down in 'The Big Easy'.

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The year is 1965 and the place is Brooklyn. Troubled sixteen-year-old Michael has just started his first term at St Basil’s Catholic School For Boys.

Completely daunted by this new environment, Michael soon befriends a group of demented, restless misfits whose enthusiasm for cheap booze, cigarettes, hot chicks and rock’n’roll hilariously and dramatically collides with the school’s repressive traditions.

Dwight Evans is a mysterious outsider whose quiet life on the margins is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

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Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is a troubled juvenile delinquent trying to live up to the legendary reputation of his older brother, Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke). One night, while Rusty James and his friends Smokey (Nicolas Cage), Steve (Vincent Spano), and B.J.

(Christopher Penn) are involved in a rumble, Motorcycle Boy returns home from California after a two-month absence. After Motorcycle Boy reveals some family secrets about their mother, both brothers become determined to escape their lives or die trying.

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Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) is a shy UCLA veterinary student and the reigning champion at 'Gotcha', a campus-wide paintball game. While on vacation in West Germany, he's seduced by an older woman, the sexy and mysterious Sasha (Linda Fiorentino) who turns out to be an international spy.

When he returns home to LA, there's a strange canister of film in his backpack and a team of KGB agents on his back. Suddenly he's in the middle of a real life-or-death game of 'Gotcha' and every turn brings a brand new and often hilarious twist.

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On a peaceful and quiet suburban street during the holiday season, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a 'normal' home invasion. Featuring a superb cast led by Olivia DeJonge, star of M.

Night Shyamalan's smash hit 'The Visit', and Levi Miller, star of Pan, 'Better Watch Out' is a deliriously vicious thrill ride packed with original twists and turns. Chris Peckover directs this sinister holiday horror that is destined to be a Christmas classic.

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Film recounts the adventures of Gustave H., a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars; and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting; a raging battle for an enormous family fortune; a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sleds, and skis; and the sweetest confection of a love affair - all against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

When a mass hysteria of unknown origin causes parents in a quiet suburban town to turn violently on their own children, Carly Ryan (Anne Winters) and brother Josh (Zackary Arthur) have to fight to survive a vicious onslaught from the very people who brought them into this world (Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair).

A murdered girl's defiant mother (Frances McDormand) boldly paints three local billboards, each with a controversial message, igniting a furious battle with a volatile cop (Sam Rockwell) and the town's revered chief of police (Woody Harrelson).