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| Field of Dreams |
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about following your bliss
& relationships with a man's father Starring: Kevin
Costner, Ray Liotta, et al.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson Rated: PG
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| The Mighty |
*** about boyhood friendships
Starring: Sharon Stone, Kieran
Culkin, et al.
Director: Peter Chelsom Rated: PG-13 |
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| October Sky |
about a young man finding and
following his own calling
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris
Cooper Rated PG
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| Smoke
Signals |
A coming of age
story that focuses on the friendship of two distinctly different young
Native American teenagers with vastly different views about the now
deceased father of one of the boys. Rated:
PG-13
(1998)
Starring: Adam Beach, Evan Adams
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| Ordinary People |
about finding your own identity
Starring: Donald
Sutherland & Mary Tyler Moore Rated
R
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| Simon Birch |
about a unique boy finding his
contribution
Rated: PG
Starring: Ian Michael Smith, Joseph
Mazzello
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| Frequency |
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Man who get in
touch with his son 30 years in the future through a ham and they change
each other lives for the better. Rated: PG-13 |
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The Rookie |
2002 Dennis Quaid A Texas baseball
coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school
team made the playoffs, and finds it's never too late to believe in your
dreams. "It's OK to think about what you like to do, until it is time to do
what you are meant to do." -his father
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| The Straight
Story |
73-year-old Alvin Straight's
(Richard Farnsworth) eyesight is bad and his daughter (Sissy Spacek) is
slightly retarded and unable to drive. After hearing of his brothers
stroke he decides to got to see him, traveling from Laurens, Iowa to Mt.
Zion, Wisconsin on a riding John Deere lawn mower. They haven't spoken in
years, and it's time to make peace. Along the way, he befriends a variety
of folks causing him to reflect on his life, and you have to ask
yourself... Is this really a David Lynch movie? Rated G
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My Dog Skip
(2000)
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It
is based on a true story about a boy who grows up in Yazoo, Mississippi.
Set during the war, the boy has no friends until on his ninth birthday he
receives a puppy from his parents (against his father's wishes). This is a
classic American tale that has all the elements of a great film, the
underdog rises to meet his challenges, baseball, man's best friend, and
overcoming adversity. The movie is clean and fun which makes for a very
much needed change in the movie industry these days. Starring: Frankie
Muniz, Kevin Bacon, et al.
Director: Jay Russell Rated:
PG
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| Finding Forrester |
*** Finding Forrester
featuring a 16-year-old black kid (Rob Brown) as Jamal, a basketball
player and gifted student whose writing talent is nurtured by a famously
reclusive author. William Forrester (Sean Connery) became a literary icon
four decades earlier with a Pulitzer-winning novel, then disappeared (like
J.D. Salinger) into his dark, book-filled apartment, agoraphobic and
withdrawn from publishing, but as passionate as ever about writing. It is
a story the reveals the gift and relationship of a male mentor.. PG-13
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| Get on the Bus |
*** Vibrant, highly
energized film about a busload of black men heading from L. A. to the
Million Man March in Washington, D. C. , in October 1995. the film deals
so well with issues facing all Americans. Kudos to Dutton as the bus
company rep and Davis as the senior member of the brigade. This low-budget
film was financed by fifteen African-American men.
Starring: Ossie Davis, Charles Dutton, et al.
Director: Spike Lee Rated: R
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| The Karate Kid
(1984) |
*** Teenager is beset by
bullies until an unlikely mentor (the Japanese handyman in his apartment
house) teaches him about self-confidence--and karate. Unabashedly
old-fashioned, manipulative movie is a real audience-pleaser; from director
of the original ROCKY. Winning performances by Macchio and Morita. Rated: PG |
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A River Runs Through It (1992)
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The film chronicles two
brothers coming of age in early-20th-century Missoula, Montana, under the
stern tutelage of their minister father, played by Tom Skerritt (Top Gun).
Their father instills in them a love of fly fishing, which for one brother
(Brad Pitt) becomes a lifelong passion even as he sets out to become a
newspaperman and struggles with his addiction to gambling. The other
brother, Norman (Craig Sheffer), dreams of exploring the world outside of
Missoula as he falls in love with a local girl (Emily Lloyd) who also dreams
of broader horizons. Soon one brother must discover the true meaning of
family loyalty when the other finds himself in deeper trouble than ever
before. Rated:
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| Legends of the
Fall (1995) |
A powerful dram
of 3 sons and their father. Tristan--the rebellious middle son of a fiercely
independent Montana rancher and military veteran (Anthony Hopkins)--who is
routinely at odds with his more responsible older brother, Alfred (Aidan
Quinn), and younger brother, Samuel (Henry Thomas). From the battlefields of
World War I to his adventures as an oceangoing sailor, Tristan's life is
full of personal torment, especially when he returns to Montana and finds
himself competing with Alfred over Samuel's beautiful widow (Julia Ormond),
whose passion for Tristan disrupts the already turbulent Ludlow clan.
Rated:
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Braveheart
(1995)
with: Mel Gibson |
"A stupendous historical
saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director
for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish
commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward
the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are
brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. " Rated: R |
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The
Magnificent Seven (1960)
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" The beleaguered denizens
of a Mexican village, weary of attacks by banditos, hire seven gunslingers
to repel the invaders once and for all. The gunmen are cool and capable,
with most of the actors playing them just on the cusp of '60s stardom: Steve
McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn. " Rated: PG-13 |
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Gladiator
(2000)
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"Gladiator's plot is a
whirlwind of faux-Shakespearean machinations of death, betrayal, power
plays, and secret identities. A terrific and spectacular throwback to older
historical epics such as BEN HUR and THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, but here
with new SFX technology recreating Rome as it might have looked in 180 AD in
all its glorious detail, notably in the Coliseum gladiatorial combat scenes!
Truly breathtaking." Rated R |
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Seven
Samurai (1956) - English
subtitles
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Unanimously hailed as one
of the greatest masterpieces in the history of the motion picture, Seven
Samurai has inspired countless films modeled after its basic premise. But
Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 action drama has never been surpassed in terms
of sheer power of emotion, kinetic energy, and dynamic character
development. The story is set in the 1600s, when the residents of a small
Japanese village are seeking protection against repeated attacks by a band
of marauding thieves. Rated: Unrated |
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| Lonesome
Dove (1989) |
Robert Duvall and Tommy
Lee Jones star as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, aging cowboys and former
Texas rangers and who organize a 2,500 mile cattle drive for one last great
adventure in this excellent 1989 miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's
novel. The best friends, who steal the herd from a gang of Mexican cattle
rustlers, drive their herd from Texas to Montana, battling horse thieves,
angry Indian tribes, and a renegade half-breed killer named Blue Duck
(Frederic Forrest) on a mission of revenge.
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| Parenthood |
about being a father
Starring: Steve Martin Rated:
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| The Full Monty |
about men and their vocation
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy
Rated: R |
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| The Kid |
about reconnecting
to your heart & dreams by resolving issues of your past.
Starring: Bruce Willis Rated: PG |
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