Mary Steenburgen
81) The dead girl
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The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seven seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
84) American outrage
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Documents the Dann sisters' heroic fight for their land rights and their human rights after the government sued them for trespassing. Their dispute went to the Supreme Court, and then eventually to the United Nations.
85) Elf
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A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
86) Philadelphia
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Stars Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett, a hotshot lawyer well on his way up the corporate ladder. But even as he wins yet another promotion, Andrew is concealing a terrible secret: he is a gay man, suffering from AIDS. When his bosses discover this, he is summarily fired. Andrew summons the strength to fight his own firm, enlisting the aid of homophobic ambulance-chaser, Joe Miller, the only attorney in town who'll take the case.
87) Dead of winter
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A struggling New York actress journeys to an isolated Victorian mansion for a screen test, but finds she must pay a ghoulish price for the part, in this suspense thriller.
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Odessa Cotter, a quiet and dignified black woman, works as a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama. When Martin Luther King organizes a boycott of the city bus system, Odessa begins walking to and from work. Miriam decides to support her housekeeper, defying both her racist husband and the powerful White Citizen's Council. Soon, the two womean are brought together in a lasting friendship that puts their lives in danger in the...
89) Happiest season
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Meeting your girlfriend's family for the first time can be tough. Planning to propose at her family's annual Christmas dinner - until you realise that they don't even know she's gay - is even harder. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) learns that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she begins to question the girlfriend she thought she knew. Happiest Season is a holiday romantic comedy that hilariously captures the...
90) The brave one
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Erica Bain is a popular New York radio host who watched her fiancé die and nearly lost her own life to a vicious, random attack. Now she is unable to move past the tragedy and discovers a stranger within herself. She prowls the streets, an armed wanderer in the urban night, out for vengeance, looking for the men she hold responsible and at war with her own soul. A determined homicide detective is hot on the trail of the vigilante that is Erica Bain....
91) Life as a house
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Confronted with life-changing news, a middle-aged architect seizes the opportunity to begin living life on his own terms as he builds the house of his dreams, and winds up rebuilding the world around him in the process.
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Odessa Cotter, is a quiet, dignified woman who works as a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson. When Odessa honors the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott by walking an exhausting nine miles to and from work, Miriam offers her a ride. Defying both Miriam's racist husband, and the powerful White Citizen's Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for civil rights.
93) The proposal
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High-powered book editor Maggie is everyone's worst nightmare: ruthless, driven, and tactless. When she finds herself faced with deportation back to Canada, she coerces her much younger assistant into marrying her. However, when the government becomes suspicious, they embark upon a charade in order to make the marriage seem legitimate.
94) Goin' south
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"Henry Moon [is] a third-rate outlaw in this 1860s western. Moon is saved from hanging by the intervention of a lovely young woman who agrees to marry and take charge of him. Julia Tate [is] the headstrong but genteel Southern virgin who weds Moon only to help her work the gold mine she insists is on her property"--Container.
96) Miss Firecracker
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Carnelle, a hellraiser, enters the Miss Firecracker contest in the old-fashioned town where she was raised. Carnelle's not the usual contestant, but her cousin is a famous winner, and Carnelle's determined to equal her, no matter what.
97) Four Christmases
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When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
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Third installment in the Back to the Future trilogy, which immediately proceeds from the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, this1990 science fiction western comedy follows the continuing time travel adventures of Marty McFly as he travels back into the past to rescue Doc Brown who is stranded in 1885 and in danger of meeting an untimely end at the hands of Biff Tannen's great-grandfather Buford.
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The award-winning series starring Emmy and Golden Globe®-nominee Amber Tamblyn as Joan Girardi. Just an average teenager going through the typical trials and tribulations of adolescence, Joan and her family moved to Arcadia, where things get complicated as she struggles to find meaning in her ongoing surprise encounters with one important visitor - God.
100) Elf: Fred Claus
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Elf: A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working....