Bruce Greenwood
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Veteran photojournalist Anne Marie Kerr suspects that her brother Alan's death in a remote town is not the accident that it seems to be, and she decides to find out what really happened. Assuming a fake identity, she goes to work for the powerful Hollister family who control the town and may have a hand in Alan's death. At the same time, she falls for the oldest son, Jason.
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An eminent psychiatrist vanishes from his office; the last person to see him is a troubled patient named Michael. The hospital director, Dr. Greene, is called in to interview Michael. Miss Peterson, the head nurse, understands all too well the devastating loss that still haunts Dr. Greene and warns him to steer clear of this particular patient – to no avail. Michael prattles on about elephants and opera (with the occasional hint of murder and foul...
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Tom is a charismatic late-night radio talk show host whose unconventional upbringing has made him a little too quick to fall in love. Fay is an academic whose expectations are impossibly high as a result of the living perfection that is her parents' marriage. The characters connect in a maze of malls, condos and family homes, underpinning the idea that 'geography is destiny' and that each of us has our own 'republic', where lives intersect.
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When the Clark family moves from Chicago to Cradle Bay, Steve (James Marsden) is cautioned by Gavin Strick (Nick Stahl) about the separating factions at the local high school, where the Blue Ribbons, a club of robotic perfect students, rule. When Gavin turns into a perfect himself, Steve and Rachel Wagner (Katie Holmes) investigate.
7) Adrift
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Katie and Guy take a sea cruise in their sailboat and discover a couple on a wrecked boat, victims of a brutal attack by their crew. They take Eliza and Nick on board. The new boarders appear nervous about returning to Honolulu, and when the boat's engines die and other little incidents occur, Katie and Guy start wondering whether the shipwrecked couple are what they appear to be.
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Veteran photojournalist Anne Marie Kerr suspects that her brother Alan's death in a remote town is not the accident that it seems to be, and she decides to find out what really happened. Assuming a fake identity, she goes to work for the powerful Hollister family who control the town and may have a hand in Alan's death. At the same time, she falls for the oldest son, Jason.
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Summit volume 2
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When Columbian union leader Maria Puerto witnesses the slow death of her teenage son, she and a leading bio-terrorism expert vow to unravel a deadly conspiracy, which begins with an international pharmaceutical company based in London. Where it leads is an international summit. Where it ends is with an unleashed biological weapon that could threaten the future of the western world.
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Summit volume 1
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When Columbian union leader Maria Puerto witnesses the slow death of her teenage son, she and a leading bio-terrorism expert vow to unravel a deadly conspiracy, which begins with an international pharmaceutical company based in London. Where it leads is an international summit. Where it ends is with an unleashed biological weapon that could threaten the future of the western world.
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First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) -- this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse...
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Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney is weeks away from trading in his badge for a rancher's hat, when six murders are committed at a remote campground in New Mexico. Most of the evidence points to the work of a spree killer, but peculiarities at one crime scene suggest another grisly possibility: that five random people have been shot to death to cover the premeditated murder of the sixth, Vernon Langsford, a retired judge and wealthy businessman....
13) Donovan's Echo
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Troubled by increasingly vivid moments of déjà vu and the plight of a young girl, physicist Donovan Matheson (Danny Glover) returns to the home he abandoned after the death of his family in this time-bending thriller.
15) Meek's Cutoff
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A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When they encounter a Native American, they must choose...
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[2018]
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Down in the darkest alleys, there is a killer on the loose. Preying on the city's women, this killer is as precise as he is cruel. As Police Commissioner James Gordon tries to calm the fears of Gotham's citizens over the butcher named Jack the Ripper, the masked vigilante Batman does some detective work of his own, with the help of the sultry and surefooted Selina Kyle.
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From Academy Award® nominees, director Bruce Beresford (TENDER MERCIES, DRIVING MISS DAISY), comes the remarkable true story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin. Based on the best selling autobiography, MAO'S LAST DANCER is the epic story of a young poverty stricken boy from China and his inspirational journey to international stardom as a world-class dancer. The story begins when a young Li is taken from his peasant home by the Chinese government and chosen...
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