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\ nRobin Williams play s Adrian Cronauer\, an Armed Forces DJ in Saigon in 1965. His superiors fr own on his &ldquo\;irreverent tendency\,&rdquo\; but GIs love it. Director Barry Levinson has said that most of Williams&rsquo\; broadcasts in the f ilm were his own inventions. Williams won the Golden Globe for Best Actor and he was also nominated for an Oscar.
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\nThink 30 or 40 years ago. Rob (John Cusack) owns a used record store in a trend y neighborhood of Chicago. Rob&rsquo\;s a hangdog list-maker currently lay ing down his top 5 romantic breakups right into the camera from the store& rsquo\;s front stoop\, while his employee Barry (Jack Black) exhibits teet h-rattling entrepreunerial zeal inside the store. Cusack leads a wonderful ensemble cast while spinning a great soundtrack.
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\nWhen Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo Di Caprio) was a teen\, his family fell apart because of his dad&rsquo\;s criminal activit ies. To make some money\, Abagnale Jr. decided to use cons he&rsquo\;d lea rned by watching his father. He impersonated several highly trained profes sionals and forged checks\, which made him millions. Soon he&rsquo\;s bein g tracked by an FBI Agent (Tom Hanks)\, who offers him a deal. From a book of the same title by Frank Abagnale Jr.
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A former cat burglar\, John Robie (Cary Grant) claims to be retired\, but ne w burglaries occur that use his methods. Robie decides to catch the impost or in order to clear his own name. Not coincidentally\, Robie begins to pu rsue the jewel-heavy daughter (Grace Kelly) of a nouveau riche American wi dow. Their molten affair begins in front of a fireworks display off the co ast of Cannes. Happy Fourth of July.
\n\nA group of English and American ladies\, known as the Scorpio ni\, have tea every afternoon\, and cooperatively raise an orphaned Italia n lad named Luca in 1935 Florence as Fascist Benito Mussolini considers hi s options. This is a lighthearted semi-autobiographical film by director F ranco Zeffirelli\, who is portrayed as young Luca in the film. It has an e xtraordinary cast including Maggie Smith\, Cher\, Judi Dench\, Joan Plowri ght\, and Lily Tomlin.
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\nA dark comedy about a hitman (Jo hn Cusack) who returns to his wealthy hometown of Grosse Pointe\, Michigan \, for his high school reunion. Also with Minnie Driver as the hitman&rsqu o\;s abandoned girlfriend\, Alan Arkin as his psychiatrist and Dan Aykroyd as another hitman who is stalking him. Several reviews call the film&rsqu o\;s writing &ldquo\;smart.&rdquo\;
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\nA black comedy in whi ch Katie (Tilda Swinton)\, the wife of former CIA analyst Osborne Cox (Joh n Malkovich)\, directs her divorce lawyer&rsquo\;s assistant to put Cox&rs quo\;s financial records on a disc\, but the assistant unwittingly include s a draft of his autobiography detailing CIA activities. Lost at the assis tant&rsquo\;s gym\, the disc is found by 2 ditzy gym employees (Frances Mc Dormand &\; Brad Pitt)\, who try to cash in by selling the disc. Also s tarring George Clooney as a paranoid U.S. Marshall involved with Katie. Wr itten and directed by Ethan and Joel Coen.
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\nBased on a novel by Bernard Malamud\, this film is not what you&rsquo\;d expect. It has a spi ritual dimension that challenges audiences. As a boy\, Roy Hobbs learns ev erything about baseball from his dad. As a teen\, he is an exceptionally g ood baseball player\, but his desire to make a name for himself is deraile d when he has a health crisis. With Robert Redford\, Glenn Close and Rober t Duvall.
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