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- While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.
- This film follows a year in the life of a young African-American girl as she turns 13. Temporarily running away from home to sort out her life, which of course sends her family and friends into a frenzy, she soon returns with new purpose - to buy a car. This sends her into a working frenzy - baby sitting, mowing lawns, washing cars, and pursuing jobs obviously advertised for adults. The film ends with Nina's 14th birthday and promise of her future.
- Horatio Hornblower begins his naval career, but a deadly feud with a despicable mate is causing complications.
- While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion examination, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
- Margaret Ryder has always looked after her deaf parents, Janice and Abel. Long the only contact her folks have had with the speaking world, Margaret struggles with whether she should strike out on her own or not. When Margaret decides to make a change and ends up getting married, her parents interpret the move as a betrayal -- and Margaret is forced to figure out a way to bridge her old life with her new one.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920's are slowly drawn into the coming depression is once again filmed with Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, and John Heard in the leads.
- The lives of three lifelong buddies in a small New England fishing town will never be the same after The Week That Girl Died, a touching romantic comedy about finding Ms. Right-at all the wrong times. Vinnie (Erik Palladino) bumps into the attractive Jessie(Brigitte Bako) at his uncle's wake, and when his aunt mistakes her for his latest girlfriend, she gladly plays the part-leaving out one small detail. Jimmy(Robert Longstreet) sets his sights on the seedy part of town-only to find love (Justina Machado) waiting for him in the least likely of places. And Ralph (Patrick Fischler) woke up a virgin on Friday morning only to have that situation reversed two times over by Saturday night. With an original score by jazz musician Kevin Eubanks (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) "The Week That Girl Died" takes the notion of the romantic comedy and gives it a dose of what real people go through.
- Bill, Brian, John, and Joel Murray provide a comedic look at the game of golf in this documentary travelogue of the foursome playing golf courses while spoofing the whole sport. It should be noted that the brothers are devout players of the game, but their comedic skills simply enter their play. A fifth brother, Ed, also makes an occasional appearance.
- The true story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer, who returned to the spotlight to win the heavyweight championship of the world.
- Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
- Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
- Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
- The nude body of a Brazilian woman is found strangled in the woods, which suggests that a serial killer from nine years before has begun killing again.
- The story of the Indian politician Muhammad Ali Jinnah who successfully campaigned for an independent Pakistan and became its first Governor-General.
- Lt. Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
- An Irishman emigrates to New York during the most heated point of the tensions in Northern Ireland in 1991. However, escaping the conflict in his home country does not free him from the strife. Soon he finds himself in the middle of a gun running operation involving his cousin and two hot-headed friends. And things get further complicated when the Irishman gets involved with the long-suffering wife of one of the gun-runners.
- A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
- When Jim is arrested in the death of a rival private investigator, it is left to Jim to prove his own innocence, with the help of Jess Wilding, an old friend of Rocky's, which Jim never knew about.
- A Black maid discovers that her seemingly friendly employers are in the KKK.
- A Midwesterner, now living in Los Angeles, recounts his romantic misadventures in flashback over the seven years he has lived there. Struggles include an asthma attack, a bout with a woman who later admits to having herpes, the perennial sexual dynamo, and ultimately masturbation. Throughout, our narrator reflects on his misguided attempts to understand the female animal. Also undercut throughout are females contemplating the opposite sex from their own views.
- Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright works as a house painter. One family he paints a house for has a problem he can relate to: Elaine, a woman who hired him, left her husband J.P., also a Vietnam vet, while he was in 'Nam, and J.P. became an alcoholic. Archibald tries to help their daughter Tory to maintain a connection with J.P., but Elaine is strongly against it.
- A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
- During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
- In a cabin on a World War II front, a German mom with a young son mediates a truce between three German and three American soldiers so they can all celebrate Christmas Eve 1944 together.
- Three autobiographical short films made over seven years about a young gay man coming to terms with his Catholic schooling, his homosexuality and guilt, his parents and their deaths, despair and loneliness.
- Brooklyn Docks, 1957. If you're not a dockworker, mobster, or streetwalker, you don't belong in this neighborhood. Mob small fish George and Dip set up their boss Joey "The Heart" Aorta with Glorice, the new prostitute on the docks. They're ecstatic when the Mob Don falls madly in love with the sexy tart. But they soon discover this gorgeous broad is not at at all what she appears. If their boss finds out her secret, they'll get whacked for sure.
- A chain-smoking trouble-maker enters a poetry contest at a local café, where he faces off against some heavy hitters including a handsome easy-going favorite. In the café, he makes friends with a blonde, who has relationship commitment problems and a political activist, who has another more personal secret. The film stays at the café and relies on its wordsmithing to keep the audience involved.
- A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
- Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.
- The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoelaces, and underwear of their captured opponents, in order to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents' buttons, etc.; sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene, about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them, and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy.
- A drama about a young, neglected white girl in the rural South who, with the help of an unlikely couple, finds the solace and nurturing needed to transform her downtrodden life.
- A blind woman (Della Reese) who collects bells and never leaves the house suddenly finds herself alone when her mother dies. Then a neighbor 12 year old boy (Mason Gamble), who others term as slow, becomes her friend. Together they both make new discoveries, the main one being that the boy suffers from dyslexia - a condition that none of his teachers or parents have discovered. The boy aids the older woman in learning to use a walking cane, so she can become mobile and better take care of herself.
- Inter-racial romance develops over a period of time as two down-on-their luck people, one a 19 year old midwestern man trying to make it as an artist and the other a middle-aged woman trying to take care of her children and her children's children, meet every Saturday night at the local laundromat in LA.
- A dangerous blizzard hits an isolated town and brings along a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing people for his own desires.
- An adaptation of Anne Bronte's novel; a young widow takes her son and moves to Yorkshire.
- The dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
- The story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War.
- This sweeping mini-series profiling the Kennedy family ran three nights. The film chronicles 55 years in the lives of the family opening in 1906 with the marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, to Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of Boston's Mayor. The first night focuses on the marriage's troubled years and Rose's strength in developing a real family. The second night covered the years of 1928 - 1940 and Jospeh's years as working as a movie producer and then an ambassador. The final night follows the Kennedy's tragedies during World War II and follows the post war years political successes of John Kennedy.
- This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy," a woman joins the Navy during the 1950s and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts," a teacher in a 1970s classroom struggles with his closeted gay status. Finally, in "Amos and Andy," a father wrestles with his own emotional acceptance of a present day wedding between his son and another man.
- The story explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast.
- Three strangers meet at the New York funeral of a mutual friend named Henry. The three - Henry's Southern girl friend (Jacqueline McKenzie), his drifting ex-college buddy (Simon Baker), and his businessman childhood friend (Pruitt Taylor-Vince) - join together at Henry's request to drive his ashes to Montana to be scattered. The story follows the pitfalls of strangers on a lengthy cross-country journey.
- Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a transgender woman. Flashback to 1964 and meet Richard Radley, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Seems like the good doctor likes to dress up in women's clothes and visit Manhattan. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and fatherhood, she gives in to transition and becomes Renee for good with a new life in California.
- A rebellious teen threatened with expulsion from school is offered an alternative: an experimental program in which she would counsel troubled children. Initially rebelling from the concept, she finds that her involvement lets her confront her own angers and eventually her family including a loving grandmother. With the help of a new friend, she eventually turns away from her trouble-making boyfriend and makes a new life.
- A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
- An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
- History of Apple and Microsoft.
- A grumpy man must rejoin his community when his godchild gets in trouble and a childhood friend refuses to accept a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II.
- CNN producer Robert Wiener, his colleague and their crew venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.
- A woman tries to reunite the swing band with which she played during World War II.
- A former prisoner tries to save a neighbor youth from following him down the wrong path.