Taking Chance (2008)Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
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Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming. |
| Biography: Kevin Bacon's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street debut as the strict Chip Diller in "Animal House (1978)" almost seems like an inside joke, but he managed to escape almost unnoticed from that role. "Diner (1982)" became the turning point after a couple of TV-series and a number of less than memorable movie roles. In a cast of soon to be stars he more than held his end up, and ... show all |
Taking Chance (2008)Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
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Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming. |
My One and Only (2009)Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
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A 1950s-set comedy in which the glamorous Anne Deveraux (Zellweger) embarks on a drive down the Eastern Seaboard in a quixotic search for a wealthy man to fund a new life for her and her sons. |
Apollo 13 (1995)Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
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It had been less than a year since man first walked on the Moon, but as far as the American public was concerned, Apollo 13 was just another “routine” space flight—until these words pierced the immense void of space: “Houston, we have a problem.” Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time—and the odds—to bring them home. |
Friday the 13th (2009)Thursday, June 11th, 2009 |
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A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions. |
Frost/Nixon (2008)Thursday, April 9th, 2009 |
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A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. |
Balto (1995)Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 |
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A half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero when an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. He leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get medical supplies. The film is based on a true story which inspired the Iditarod dog sled race. |
Tremors (1990)Friday, October 24th, 2008 |
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Val (’Kevin Bacon’ (qv)) and Earl (’Fred Ward (I)’ (qv)) plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dust bowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground. Soon the whole town is camped out on their roofs as Val and Earl lead them to safety. |
Flatliners (1990)Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 |
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Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to intensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. |
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)Monday, July 7th, 2008 |
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Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus. This film gives high-jinks and fooling around a bad name. P The dean’s plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade to end all parades for all time. |
Rails & Ties (2007)Saturday, June 7th, 2008 |
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A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage. |