Cloris Leachman
2) The comedian
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English
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A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.
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English
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Doug Harris is a lovable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best...
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...shows a rather different side of Moses, the Stone Age and the Roman Empire - in which Brooks is a stand-up philosopher playing Caesar's Palace. Next, the truth is finally told about the Spanish Inquisition in a splashy production number featuring song-and-dance monks and swimming nuns...It's history as you've never known it - completely irreverent and positively hilarious. -- Container.
7) Dillinger
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Through all their outrageous escapades, the Dillinger gang maintained a certain mystique in the eyes of the American public. To a citizenry in the depths of the depression, the gang seemed almost like heroes, who enlivened their days with fabulous feats of crime. This glimpse of the lives of those involved in the most interesting crime saga in American history.
8) Texasville
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English
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Sequel to the Last picture show, now it's 1984 in Anarene Texas, the sleepy town where women flirt and the men can't say no.
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English
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First comes love, then comes marriage, then come loads of laughs. As Mike and Susan prepare to walk down the aisle, the groom gets a case of cold feet. Turning to friends and family for support can send the couple running for matrimonial cover: Susan's father is fooling around with her mother₂s best friend; Mike's brother is divorcing his high school sweetheart; his parents are living a loveless lie. The rocky road to happily-ever-after has never...
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English
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In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come together as they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump the city's heartbeat. Sexy, funny, haunting and revealing encounters unfold beneath the Manhattan skyline. From Tribeca to Central Park to Brooklyn, the story weaves a tale of love as diverse as the very fabric of New York itself. A collection of 10 different...
11) The Bronx bull
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English
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Based on the tumultuous real-life experiences of legendary boxing champion Jake LaMotta, it is a dramatic and stylized biopic with an outstanding ensemble cast. Chronicling LaMotta's violent childhood, to his rise as a world-class boxer, through his life after leaving the ring, it offers an unflinchingly honest look into the heart of a champion.