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Somebody Killed Her Husband is a powerful suspense-murder mystery-comedy in which Farrah Fawcett (in her first film following her breakout success in TV's Charlie's Angels) and her madly infatuated lover Jeff Bridges (The Last Picture Show) desperately and hilariously try to discover who stabbed her husband in order to prove their own innocence. Their nightmare search for the killer culminates in a spine-chilling chase through a toy department where...
3) White Squall
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A poignant coming of age tale, White Squall is a high adventure story that focuses on a troubled group of teenage boys who spend eight months sailing around the Caribbean on a schooner school ship. When Chuck Geig attends the memorial service of Capt. Richard Sheldrake we flash back to 1961 and see him at 16 years old getting on the Albatross with seven other male classmates. By using a tough love approach, Captain Sheldrake helps the boys through...
5) Cutter's Way
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Suspected of murdering a teenage girl, Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges), a laidback Santa Barbara boat salesman and gigolo, turns to his best friend, Alex Cutter (John Heard), a disabled Vietnam veteran, for help in finding the real killer. But Bone gets more than he bargained for when, instead of contacting the police, Cutter tries to blackmail their suspect, and their suspect violently turns the tables on them, beginning a cunning game of cat-and-mouse...
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"Richly textured and visually compelling" (The Hollywood Reporter), "Heaven's Gate" is a lavish, epic western that retells the true story of Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War - a brutal, late 19th century conflict during which wealthy cattlemen, backed by the U.S. government, hired mercenaries to murder 125 immigrant settlers. Written and directed by Michael Cimino and starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges,...
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In this heartwarming comedy, minor leaguer Carlton Garret (Justin Timberlake of FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS, THE SOCIAL NETWORK) takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garret (Jeff Bridges of TRUE GRIT, TRON: LEGACY) when Carlton's mother (Mary Steenburgen of THE HELP) becomes sick. Knowing his charming yet painfully immature dad's likelihood to disappoint, Carlton enlists his on-again-off-again...
9) Bad Company
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This tale of friendship and survival set during the days of the 1860's focuses on a roguish group of runaways living by their wits and natural instincts. Two of them in particular are complementary opposites: Drew is a good boy from God-fearing stock in Ohio, out West to evade the draft. Jake is a scruffy scoundrel - a saddle tramp not above a little larceny here and there. Along the trail they encounter a variety of varmints and renegades. And eventually,...
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Ask any father, or any daughter--the relationship between dads and daughters is special, and vitally important.
To a whole generation of filmgoers, Jeff Bridges is "the Dude," but to a more important group of people he is "Dad." The actor-musician-artist and one of his real-life daughters have teamed up to produce a book to inspire fathers and daughters--and whole families--to find the joy and closeness in their relationships.
When Belle announces...
13) Hot Money
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Confused by the economy, derivatives, cost of energy, and taxes? You are not alone. Untangle the realities of the global financial system and its relationship to government, politics and climate change with all the humor of a New Yorker cartoon
15) Seabiscuit
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True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of the nation as well.
17) The Contender
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Senator Laine Hanson is a contender to be the U.S. Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threaten to derail her confirmation.
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After his first marriage breaks up, New York psychiatrist Larry Livingston (Jeff Bridges) is about to try something even scarier: marriage #2. Alan J. Pakula wrote as well as directed this engaging slice of modern romance, using his own remarriage as an inspiration. Larry's second marriage carries lots of baggage from the past. He's still vulnerable to his ex (Farrah Fawcett), his new wife (Alice Krige) is temporarily overseas and all hell breaks...