Tom Skerritt
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Based on the best-selling novel by David Guterson When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog back to his boyhood home in Eastern Washington, determined to end his life on his own terms. Ben's journey, though, takes an unexpected turn, and soon becomes an adventure against which he pits himself with characteristic stoicism, wit, and determination.
6) Contact
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Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
7) Alien
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A routine stop on a barren planetoid infests a spaceship with an alien creature which kills off the crew one by one.
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"Parent trap": Susan and Sharon are identical twins that are separated by birth. Once they realize who they are, they make a plan to switch place with the high hopes of getting their parents back together again. "Parent trap II": Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.
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Based on the true story of two brothers, Norman and Paul Maclean, growing up in Montana. While Paul rebels against the stern nature of the boys' father Rev. Maclean, Norman pursues his dream of becoming a writer. However, despite the brothers' differences they are ultimately bonded by their mutual love of fly-fishing.
10) Top gun
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At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground.
11) Redwood highway
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Living in a comfortable retirement community in Southern Oregon, estranged from her family and generally not happy about life, Marie decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast and revisit the ocean of her past for the first time in 45 years. Once reluctant to attend her granddaughter's wedding, she now arrives as an unexpected guest. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary cast of characters and discovers that she's never too old to learn...
13) At Middleton
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Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers meet on their children's campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever.
14) Lucky
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The spiritual journey of a ninety year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town.
16) Two for Texas
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The tiny mission fortress at San Antonio has fallen after fierce, heroic resistance. Now it seems nothing can stop General Santa Anna and his army from blowing across Texas like a gale-force wind. But the ragtag troops of Sam Houston's Texas Volunteer Army are biding their time. They'll bring the battle to Santa Anna when he least expects it, and bring the cause of independence with them.
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Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from "The wizard of Oz" is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show-and-tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause." Sheriff Jimmy Brock has seen it all. Indeed, behind the tidy picket fences of this quirky little town lie all the same problems and prejudices found in the big city, except here everyone...
18) Whiteout
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U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko is the only law-enforcement officer assigned to Antarctica. Carrie is on the verge of shipping out before the really bad weather hits, when she is confronted with a mysterious murder that sounds like a riddle: how'd a lone corpse find its way to the middle of an ice field, as though dropped from a great height? And what does this have to do with the prologue about a Soviet fighter jet crashing some decades earlier? Along...
20) Alien
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Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discover a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.