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American Beauty
(1999)
Lester and Carolyn Burnham are, on the outside, a perfect husband and wife in a perfect house in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression....
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Parasite
(2019)
Jobless, penniless, and, above all, hopeless, the unmotivated patriarch, Ki-taek, and his equally unambitious family--his supportive wife, Chung-sook; his cynical twenty-something daughter,...
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Man On The Moon
(1999)
A biopic based on the life of Andy Kaufman, an eccentric comedian who went onto enjoy a career as lovable foreign car mechanic Latka Gravas on TV's Taxi, and later gained infamy as an inter-gender...
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About Schmidt
(2002)
Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebraska for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time, he is forced to take a hard look at...
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Young Adult
(2011)
Mavis Gary, once the high school 'It Girl', now an alcoholic divorcée who writes a soon-to-be-canceled young-adult fiction series, makes the decision to return to her childhood home in Minnesota....
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The Weather Man
(2005)
Dave Spritz has a decent career as a weatherman in Chicago. He is loved and hated by people. However, his personal life is a mess, his father is dying, his ex-kids are not the brightest kids in the...
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Life
(1999)
In the mid-1990s, two inmates bury the burned bodies of two lifers at Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm; a third old-timer relates their story. They'd served 65 years for a murder they didn't...
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The Hunting Party
(2007)
A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no. 1 war criminal in Bosnia; they find themselves in serious jeopardy...
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Running With Scissors
(2006)
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and...
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Margot At The Wedding
(2007)
A slice of family life: sisters, husbands, children, history, secrets, jealousies. Margot and her teen son, Claude, travel from Manhattan to her family's Long Island home, occupied by sister...
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Hungarian Beauty
(2003)
As was the case in Sam Mendes' film American Beauty, this "Beauty" features a disintegrating family. Andras is a food technician who has tired of his wife, Margo, and is looking for a bit of...
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Metalheads: The Good, The Bad, The Evil
(2008)
Fed up with Bill, her jobless, penniless, good-for-nothing boyfriend who doesn't even own a car, shallow and materialistic Elaine decides to break up with him. As cruel and heartless Elaine...
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