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"Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, IA, in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration. Persuading the town that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted, Hill convinces them that their need to organization a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." There's only one problem: the professor doesn't...
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"Donald 'Doc' Holiday is a con man with a knack for trouble. But before he can inherit his uncle's fortune, he must convince Harriet Pendergast, the estate's straight-laced executor, that he has given up his lowlife ways to become the perfect family man, complete with a wife, kids, and even a dog. [A] comedy that proves once and for all families are lost, and found, in the heart"--Container.
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Sinbad is Kevin Franklin, a get-rich-quick con man who escapes the mob by impersonating the long-lost friend of an uptight businessman - and moving in with his family! Soon this wily con artist is struggling to find out who he's pretending to be ... a wine expert, a golfer, or even a dentist! But when the family starts to see through his act, and the mob catches on to his scam, Kevin finds his escapade as a "houseguest" suddenly much more than he...
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"[It] follows the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Mountie as he struggles to outwit the evil Snidely Whiplash. Snidely has devised the scam of the century setting off the biggest gold rush since the Klondike. Prospector Kim J. Darling is an unsuspecting oaf who joins the millionaire wannabes streaming into the town that has since been renamed Whiplash City. It's up to the usually sweet ad naive Dudley to lead the charge, defeat...
8) Up and away
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"Hodja is a boy from Pjort, who borrows a flying carpet to see the world. In return he has to find and return "Diamond" to her grandfather. The all-eating Sultan wants to get his hands on Hodjas flying carpet."--IMDB.com
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Missouri traveler: "A young runaway learns the ways of the world from a hard-nosed farmer."--Container.
Long road home: "On a rural Utah ranch, a12-year-old boy and his hardened grandfather must team up to protect the livestock from a rogue grizzly bear."--Container.
Huckleberry Finn: "Capturing all the heart and soul of Mark Twain's timeless novel, Ron Howrad stars as Huckleberry Finn in this raging river adventure"--Container.
Underdog: "In the...
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