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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 78% 74% In Theaters: April 20, 2002 (limited) G | Action, Adventure, Drama With stunning aerial cinematography and meticulous recreations, ‘Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West’ dramatizes the legendary early 19th-century expedition that crossed the uncharted North American West. Director: Bruce Neibaur 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 78% 74% In Theaters: April 20, 2002 (limited) G | Action, Adventure, Drama...

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 23, 2012 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 47m | Drama Watch Trailer Hannah is just about to appear in her college theatrical debut when she suddenly collapses on stage. After undergoing several tests, she learns that her health problems stem from her difficult birth—Hannah was adopted after a failed abortion attempt. Desperate for answers, she embarks on a journey with a group of friends to discover the secrets of her dark past....

0 votes and 0 Reviews G | Western Director Monte Hellman and writer-star Jack Nicholson filmed this western simultaneously with The Shooting (1967). Nicholson stars as Wes, cowpuncher pal to Vern (Cameron Mitchell) and Otis (Tom Filer), who have all been hired as hands for a cattle roundup. En route to their new jobs, the men come across the handiwork of a lynch mob. Later, they find hospitality at the home of Blind Dick (Harry Dean Stanton), who graciously provides them with food and shelter....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 19, 1964 (limited) Horror, Thriller In this chilling blood-tale in Psycho style, Robert Bloch modernizes the Lizzy Borden story. A wife (Joan Crawford) literally axes her cheating husband and his lover, witnessed by her three-year-old daughter. Mom is packed off to the insane asylum for 20 years before reuniting with the daughter (Diane Baker). From this point, the axe murders continue along a contrived plot intended to lead the audience astray until the mystery is solved....

192 votes and 64 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: June 15, 2012 R | 1h 55m | Comedy Watch Trailer When a young Donny (Adam Sandler) hooked up with his hot teacher, he never thought he’d wind up becoming the single father to their son, Todd (Andy Samberg). Needless to say, Donny’s parenting skills fell way short and Todd took off on his own as soon as he turned 18....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Though based on a true story, the principal inspiration for The Night Holds Terror was the success of Paramount’s The Desperate Hours. Jack Kelly plays well-to-do businessman Gene Courtier, who makes the mistake of his life when he picks up hitchhiker Victor Gosset (Vincent Edwards). Soon afterward, Gosset and his criminal confederates (John Cassavetes, David Cross) are holding Courtier and his family hostage. Upon learning that Courtier has a lot of money in the bank, the trio kidnap the businessman and hold him for ransom....

36 votes and 12 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 84% In Theaters: July 5, 2013 (limited) July 26, 2013 PG-13 | 1h 43m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer During a vacation in a Northeast beach town, a lonely teenage boy, Duncan (Liam James), comes into his own over the course of a summer through an unlikely friendship with the manager of a local water park (Sam Rockwell)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary After years of practice-filled days, the young competitors came from the far corners of the world seeking gold in North America. However, the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition participants were not Olympic athletes, but rather inspired musicians with dazzling technique and artistry developed well beyond their youth. This film literally brings the viewer backstage during their rigorous three-week competition schedule in May and June 2009, and offers insight into the daily lives of the competitors hailing from 14 countries while they were in Fort Worth, Tex....

4 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 57% 50% 2h 40m | Drama AARAKSHAN is the story of Prabhakar Anand (Amitabh Bachchan), the legendary idealistic principal of a college that he has single-handedly turned into the state’s best. It is the story of his loyal disciple, Deepak Kumar (Saif Ali Khan) who will do anything for his Sir. Of Deepak’s love for Prabhakar’s daughter, Poorbi (Deepika Padukone), of his friendship with Sushant (Prateik Babbar)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other Dance lovers, take note: “If you see one live performance this year…Nederlands Dans Theater is the one to see."(New York Times) The Nederlands Dans Theater, “[one] of the most exciting and sleekly glamorous ensembles” (The Independent) comes to the big screen for the first time with Move to Move, an evening of four contemporary dance masterpieces: “Left Right Left Right” (choreography by Alexander Ekman), “Silent Screen” (Sol Léon & Paul Lightfoot), “Secus” (Ohad Naharin), and the world premiere of “Shine A Light,” a new work by Leon and Lightfoot....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 60% In Theaters: March 24, 2014 (limited) Documentary For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South Side on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black Consciousness. Family band practice began at 6 AM. Now grown, as they raise eight brass horns to the sky, they make music that is at once indescribably joyful, unremittingly exciting, and undeniably together....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 75% In Theaters: September 22, 2011 (limited) March 8, 2013 (limited) Action, Adventure, Comedy The story of Dookudu revolves around Mahesh Babu who happens to be a goon in a local area. He roams with a mass kind of gang who kill people for the sake of money. One day Mahesh Babu happens to see a beautiful girl in his area and falls for her....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 78% In Theaters: May 3, 2013 (limited) Drama, Musical Watch Trailer Gypsy tells the story of Adam, a boy who, after his father dies, tries to cross the boundary of his Roma shantytown and to improve the lives of his brothers and sisters. He encounters racial, social and cultural prejudices and comes into conflict with the unwritten laws of his own community....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Family, Musical Bharat Mata (Mother India) was Indian filmmaker Mehboob Khan’s remake of his own 1940 film Aurat (Woman). The intervening years had somewhat altered Mehboob’s attitudes towards his characters and their surroundings. In the original Aurat, an Indian mother (Sardar Akhtar) suffers monumentally on behalf of her two sons, much to the disinterest of the rural community where she lives. In the remake, the mother (now played by Nargis) likewise suffers, but her plight now affects her entire village, even inspiring her neighbors to shed their own selfishness....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama “Phyllis and Harold” is an astoundingly frank journey through a disastrous 59-year-old marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family’s home movies and interviews made over 12 years, filmmaker Cindy Kleine mixes reportage, cinema verite and animation to uncover family secrets and tell a story that could not be shown publicly as long as her father was alive. “Phyllis and Harold” delves into the mystery of time passing, the nature of living a life, and the challenges of losing those we love....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy This is an effective satire directed by Luis Berlanga that pans charity from the head – the cold, calculated or unthinking kind – as versus charity from the heart. The focus is on Placido (Casto Sendra-Cassen), a truckdriver who has little money and so making regular payments on his truck can be difficult, so much so that he gets behind and is in danger of having his vehicle repossessed....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 17, 2010 (limited) Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer Bees are a barometer of the health of the world, and with the current Colony Collapse Disorder, we are in a state of emergency. Once a sacred partnership, the bond between humans and bees has become a profit-driven exploitation. Here, the unsung heroes dedicated to the survival of bees are highlighted: from poets and philosophers to scientists and shamans, from political activists to biodynamic beekeepers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Fulfilling a promise to her father, Vera, a children’s entertainer, drives from Arizona to New Jersey. She hopes to connect with her roots and reassess her life. Anthony, a bank manager, moves to NJ to be with his girlfriend. After five years together, he wonders if he has settled for life. After a brief exchange at his work, Vera and Anthony discover themselves at a similar crossroads....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror When Sir Edward Markham (Alastair Williamson) is horribly disfigured by African natives, he is kept chained and out of sight by his brother Julian (Vincent Price). When Sir Edward escapes, he goes on a killing spree in a desperate attempt to get even with the society that has made him a monstrous outcast. Julian enlists the help of African witch doctor N’Galo (Harry Baird) for medicine to make Sir Edward appear dead so he can be evicted from the house....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama This French sex farce is translated in English as The Trout. Joseph Losey directed and co-wrote the film, which stars Isabelle Huppert as Frederique, a young woman living on her family’s rural trout farm. Frederique is trapped in a dull marriage to a rube. She decides to leave him and the trout farm for the city; she wants to make her living in the financial sector....