Meryl Streep
202) Theater of war
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An examination of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and her children", and the political philosophies the play represents. Preparing for The Public Theater's 2006 production of Brecht's anti-war play, Meryl Streep allows a camera crew to document her rehearsal process and interest in the work. Moreover, the life and times of Brecht himself are followed, most notably the playwrites' escape from Nazi Germany, subsequent exile, testimony to the House...
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Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself haunted by terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's fears deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the bizarre memory of what happened begins to return.
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Bride wars: Lifelong best friends Liv and Emma have shared a dream since childhood. Each yearns for the perfect June wedding at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. Both find themselves engaged at the same time and go to a wedding coordinator to set up the perfect wedding. A clerical error puts them both down for nuptials on the same day at the same time. One of them will have to switch the date. More than the bouquet goes flying when these desperate...
207) 4 Film favorites: Family fun collection : Kangaroo Jack ; Ant Bully ; Racing stripes ; Iron giant
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Kangaroo Jack : Charlie and Louis are from Brooklyn. Charlie's stepfather, Sal, is a crime kingpin who has loaned Charlie a lot of money. Sal sends Charlie and Lewis to Australia, where they're to meet and deliver a large amount of cash to a mysterious Mr. Smith. En route to the outback, Charlie and Louis accidentally run over a kangaroo, and they decide to dress the marsupial in sunglasses and Louis' favorite jacket for snapshots. Since the animal...
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A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The deer hunter: Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends, whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam.
The bridges of Madison County: World-traveling "National Geographic" photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down....
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This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
212) Alice at the palace
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An entertaining and shrewdly conceived retelling of the Carroll classics with all of the beloved characters given a unique twist by the witty and charming performances of an accomplished theatrical ensemble.
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Mary Shelley: The story of Mary Shelley and the creation of her immortal monster, Frankenstein. Raised by a renowned philosopher father in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of...
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Good times: A biographical film about singing duo Sonny and Cher. This is the only film in which they appeared together.
Chastity: Cher plays a reckless rebel in this romantic adventure film.
Silkwood: A nuclear power plant is exposed by a free-spirited worker who risks everything.
Moonstruck: A woman unexpectedly falls in love with her fiance's brother.
Mermaids: A flamboyant mom and her two unique daughters learn that even though their personal...
215) Radioman
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The story of Craig Castalso, better known as Radioman for the stereo boombox worn around his neck. This New York film set mascot overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
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The Post: A cover-up pushes Katharine Graham, the first female newspaper publisher of the Washington Post, and the hard-driving editor Ben Bradlee to join the battle between journalist and government.
Bridges of Madison County: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days...
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"Sophie has just one wish to make her wedding perfect: to have her father walk her down the aisle. Now she just has to find out who he is.... ... [A] musical celebration of mothers, daughters and fathers, and true loves lost and new ones found."--
"Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! ... Sophie ... is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna ... she'll need to take risks."--
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The Wizard of Oz: During a tornado in rural Kansas, a young girl is swept away to a magical land and embarks on a journey to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
Avatar: Jake Sully is a former Marine who uses a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's...