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Release: April 21, 2015

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Soldiers of fortune, Max Donigan (Chuck Norris, Code of Silence) and Leo Porter (Gossett, Jr.., An Officer and A Gentleman), are ever the adventurers, with little to show for their exploits. When presented with a treasure map by the mysterious Patricia (Melody Anderson, Flash Gordon), Max and Leo imagine fame and fortune is within their grasp. However, they must contend with the guardian of the treasure in order to secure their bounty in Firewalker which costars John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade) and Will Sampson (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest).

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A son is forced to revisit his painful memories when his dying mother reenters his life.

Release: April 11, 2023

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A fairy tale grounded in poignant reality, Terry Gilliam’s magnificent, Manhattan-set The Fisher King features Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in two of their most brilliant roles. Bridges plays a former radio shock jock reconstructing his life after a scandal, and Williams a homeless man on a quest for the Holy Grail—which he believes to be hidden somewhere on the Upper East Side. Unknowingly linked by their pasts, the two men aid each other on a fanciful journey toward their own humanity. This singular American odyssey features a witty script by Richard LaGravenese, evocative cinematography by Roger Pratt, and superb supporting performances by Amanda Plummer and an Oscar-winning Mercedes Ruehl, all harnessed by Gilliam into a compassionate, funny modern-day myth. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Terry Gilliam, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features Audio commentary featuring Gilliam Interviews with Gilliam, producer Lynda Obst, screenwriter Richard LaGravenese, and actors Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer, and Mercedes Ruehl Interviews with artists Keith Greco and Vincent Jefferds on the creation of the film’s Red Knight Interview from 2006 with actor Robin Williams Video essay featuring Bridges’s on-set photographs Footage from 1991 of Bridges training as a radio personality with acting coach Stephen W. Bridgewater Deleted scenes, with audio commentary by Gilliam Costume tests Trailers English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by critic Bilge Ebiri

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A disgraced radio host forms an unexpected bond with a homeless dreamer on a quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.

Release: December 15, 2020

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The fishermen of Cornwall are signed to Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties.

Release: May 30, 2017

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Fist Fight (Blu-ray) Ice Cube and Charlie Day star as high school teachers prepared to solve their differences the hard way. On the last day of the year, mild-mannered high school English teacher Andy Campbell (Day) is trying his best to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. But things go from bad to worse when he accidentally crosses his much tougher and deeply feared colleague, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), who challenges Campbell to an old-fashioned throwdown after school. News of the fight spreads like wildfire and ends up becoming the very thing this school, and Campbell, needed.

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A happily engaged couple keep postponing their wedding as career changes, family pressures, and distance test their relationship.

Release: October 10, 2017

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It's going to be a summer to remember! Jeffrey Willis is out to set the world on fire... starting with a well-to-do Long Island beach club! Matt Dillon (My Bodyguard) leads an all-star cast, including Richard Crenna (Stone Cold Dead), Hector Elizondo (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), Jessica Walter (Play Misty for Me) and Janet Jones (A Chorus Line), in this poignant, fast-moving and totally engrossing story that is funny, sensitive and beautifully written. Everything was settled for 18-year-old Jeffrey (Dillon), the plumber's son from Brooklyn: one last summer of carefree fun before college. But when he gets a job as a cabana boy at the El Flamingo Beach Club - with its shapely coeds, gin-playing cardsharps and wealthy snobs - Jeffrey is lured into a world distinctly different from his working-class roots... a world that could ultimately draw him away from his education, his background and his family! Wonderfully directed by Hollywood veteran Garry Marshall (Young Doctors in Love, Pretty Woman) with a screenplay by Garry Marshall and Neal Marshall (The Carol Burnett Show). Special Features: -Audio Commentary by Actor/Filmmaker Pat Healy and Film Curator Jim Healy -Reversible Blu-ray Art -Trailer Gallery

Release: April 11, 2023

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Dennis Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland make a screen team that spans generations in Flashback. Infamous '60s radical Huey Walker (Hopper) has been caught by the Feds and is headed for prison under the watchful eye of a yuptight FBI agent (Sutherland). Easy enough, right? But when Huey turns the tables on his escort, the two are in for a ride that's anything but easy. Carol Kane, Paul Dooley, and Cliff De Young also star in this laugh-packed road trip (emphasis on trip)!

Release: May 19, 2015

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When the once highly decorated police officer Walter Koontz (Robert de Niro, Casino) suffers a stroke while attempting to aid a neighbor, an unorthodox form of therapy is prescribed to help him overcome a resulting speech impediment.

Release: September 29, 2020

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This Golden Globe, Emmy and Peabody Award winning comedy series written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge gives a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman as she hurls herself at modern living in London.

Release: September 29, 2020

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This Golden Globe, Emmy and Peabody Award winning comedy series written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge gives a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman as she hurls herself at modern living in London.

Release: May 26, 2026

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Fleischer Cartoons - Greatest Hits, Volume 1 Beautifully restored in 4K, largely from original studio negatives, come 20 cartoons from legendary animation pioneer Max Fleischer in Fleischer Cartoons – Greatest Hits, Volume 1. For over two decades, Fleischer Studios was unsurpassed in the realm of ingenious animated entertainment. Now, Volume 1 presents many of the studio’s best and funniest cartoons with a depth and clarity likely not seen since their original theatrical releases, and showcases their entire ensemble: Koko the Clown™, Bimbo™, Popeye the Sailor Man™, Superman™, and, of course, Miss Betty Boop™. Relive the Fleischers’ art and inventions like never before, from the silent era, to the dawn of sound, to their glorious Technicolor spectacles in this carefully curated collection. Each silent short also has musical accompaniment composed and performed by Ben Model, Kevin MacLeod and Joel Pierson. Surrealism is always on tap with Fleischer, but this is not a dream–these classics are yours to watch forever! INCLUDES: Barnacle Bill (1930) Betty Boop and Grampy (1935) Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions (1933) Betty in Blunderland (1934) Cartoon Factory (1924) Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936) Dinah (1933) Dizzy Dishes (1930) The Fortune Teller (1923) Hot Dog (1930) Ko-Ko at the Circus (1926) Ko-Ko’s Earth Control (1928) Ko-Ko’s Haunted House (1928) A Language All My Own (1935) The Mechanical Monsters (1941) Mysterious Mose (1930) Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves (1937) Small Fry (1939) Somewhere In Dreamland (1936) Swing You Sinners! (1930)" FEATURES: Region: 0 Rating: NR Color/B&W: B/W & Color Theatrical Year: 1923-1941 Runtime: 160 Minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 & 1.37:1 Genre:Animation, Comedy Special Features: Optional audio commentaries by a roundtable of Fleischer experts: Paul Dini, Will Friedwald, Bob Jaques, Charlie Judkins, Mark Kausler, Thad Komorowski, Leonard Maltin, Ray Pointer and Rob Waldman. FLEISCHER CARTOONS: GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1 (BLU-RAY) Top Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews Fleischer Cartoons: Greatest Hits, Volume 1 Fleischer Cartoons: Greatest Hits, Volume 1

Release: March 29, 2022

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The goriest, sexiest and funniest filming ever of the classic chiller stars Udo Kier as the doctor who gleefully goes around dismembering townsfolk for parts for his monsters. Meanwhile, his sex-starved wife and lab assistant have other things on their minds. With Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren; Paul Morrissey directs. AKA: "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein." 96 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English (SDH);Featurettes; radio spots; image gallery;theatrical trailer; more. Three-disc set.

Release: February 11, 2014

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Baron Frankenstein and his bizarre assistant attempt to create a new master race, with disastrous and grotesque results.

Release: March 29, 2022

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A deranged aristocrat experiments with body parts in this lurid, campy, and graphic spin on the Frankenstein myth.

Release: March 29, 2022

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The goriest, sexiest and funniest filming ever of the classic chiller stars Udo Kier as the doctor who gleefully goes around dismembering townsfolk for parts for his monsters. Meanwhile, his sex-starved wife and lab assistant have other things on their minds. With Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren; Paul Morrissey directs. AKA: "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein." 96 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English (SDH);Featurettes; radio spots; image gallery;theatrical trailer; more. Three-disc set.

Release: August 29, 2023

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Los Angeles detectives hunt the operators of a brutal sex-trafficking ring in this grim direct-to-video thriller.

Release: May 7, 2024

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Chevy Chase stars as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, an unorthodox reporter with a penchant for wacky disguises and outrageous aliases (including Ted Nugent and Harry S.

Release: August 28, 2011

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Chevy Chase is at his hilarious best as Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher, a newspaper reporter who changes his identity more often than his underwear.

Release: May 7, 2024

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Oft-disguised snoop Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher (Chevy Chase) is back in this uproarious sequel. After inheriting a Louisiana plantation from a late aunt, Fletch finds himself romancing a pretty realtor (Julianne Phillips) while being terrorized by a mysterious bayou Mr. Big who'll stop at nothing to steal the land for himself. Hal Holbrook, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini, Cleavon Little, and Randall "Tex" Cobb also star. 95 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English DTS Lossless stereo; Subtitles: English.

Release: December 26, 2017

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Chevy Chase returns to the screen as the reckless reporter I.M. Fletcher, investigative reporter, in Fletch Lives. This time, the chameleon-like reporter ventures to Belle Isle, a sprawling 80-acre Louisiana plantation which Fletch inherits from his aunt. Trouble begins when a lovely attorney mysteriously turns up dead, a neighborly lawyer (Hal Holbrook) warns him to leave town and a ravishing real estate agent (Julianne Phillips) comes calling with a persistent offer he may not be able to refuse. Fletch must unravel the reason for the mad land scramble with his trademark bag of hilarious disguises in this fast-moving comedy.

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The animated Stone Age family comes to live action as Fred Flintstone’s promotion puts his family and friendships at risk.

Release: June 4, 2019

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Fred Flintstone (Mark Addy) and Barney Rubble (Stephen Baldwin) are two of Bedrock's most confirmed bachelors. Wilma Slaghoople (Kristen Johnston) and Betty O'Shale (Jane Krakowski) are two of the town's hottest single babes. In this prehistoric comedy of boy meets girl, see how it all began as Fred and Barney set out to win the hearts of their favorite gals on a romantic getaway to exciting "Rock Vegas." With meddling from Wilma's socialite mother (Joan Collins), as well as competition from the tycoon Chip Rockefeller, Fred just might need a little help from his friends to beat the odds and win the most important game of all...love.

Release: December 13, 2016

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This true story follows wealthy New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, whose passion for opera far exceeds her talent.

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Gabriel Iglesias blends concert performance and behind-the-scenes material in this energetic extended-edition comedy showcase.

Release: June 4, 2019

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DreamWorks Animation presents Flushed Away, an outrageously inventive adventure that's a flood of fun! A pampered pet "society mouse" Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) thinks he's got it made…until he's literally flushed away to a bustling underground world of ninja frogs, hench-rats and singing slugs. As he tried to adapt to his surroundings and find a way to get out, he meets an enterprising scavenger, Rita (Kate Winslet), and a villainous Toad (Ian McKellen) that take him on an unforgettable journey! Bonus Content: Includes a digital copy of Flushed Away (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) Slug Songs The Music of Flushed Away Meet the Cast Feature Commentary with Directors David Bowers and Same Fell

Release: October 18, 2022

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Aristocratic Jan Stevens (Gwendoline Christie) found a cunning new avenue for her arts patronage-a culinary performance collective (Asa Butterfield, Ariane Labed, Fatma Mohamed) that creates and mixes disturbing cooking noises. The blasé journalist (Makis Papadimitriou) chronicling their creative residency may soon find it all too much to stomach, in director Peter Strickland's unsettling (in many ways) dark satire; Richard Bremner, Leo Bill also star. 111 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.

Release: July 2, 2019

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The airwaves crackle with the delectable sound of smooth rock in FM, a riotous comedy about the heady world of late-70s US radio. Michael Brandon (Four Flies on Grey Velvet) stars as Jeff Dugan, the ultra-cool program director at Q-SKY Radio, LA’s number one rock station. Dugan encourages a free-wheeling culture at work, employing an array of eccentric DJ personalities: Mother (Eileen Brennan, Private Benjamin), a husky, world-weary ex-hippie; Eric Swan (Martin Mull, Clue), a mad-cap romantic looking for love, and The Prince of Darkness (Cleavon Little, Blazing Saddles), a cool cat who keeps the night-time airwaves alive. But when the station’s future is thrown in to jeopardy by corporate bosses looking to cash-in, the Q-SKY troupe are forced to batten down the hatches and turn up the volume – will a fully-fledged rock ‘n’ roll rebellion save the day? Legendary cinematographer John A. Alonzo (Chinatown, Scarface) directs this slickly-produced rock film, which combines hilarious studio hijinks with epic footage of Linda Ronstadt and Jimmy Buffett in concert. FM also boasts an incredible platinum-selling soundtrack featuring a pantheon of AOR greats including Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, Eagles and Tom Petty (who also cameos). Now, High Fidelity meets High Definition as FM debuts on blu-ray with a selection of exciting new extras. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation transferred from original film elements Uncompressed stereo 2.0 PCM audio soundtrack Mono 1.0 music and effects track Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing No Static at All, a newly filmed interview with Michael Brandon, the star of FM Radio Chaos, a newly filmed interview with Ezra Sacks, the writer of FM The Spirit of Radio, a newly filmed video appreciation of the era of FM radio and the FM soundtrack by the film and music critic Glenn Kenny Extensive gallery of original stills, promotional images and soundtrack sleeves Original trailers Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by writer and critic Paul Corupe

Release: June 2, 2015

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A veteran con artist takes a gifted newcomer under his wing, but romance and betrayal threaten both their careers.

Release: January 27, 2026

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Flicker Alley and San Francisco Film Preserve proudly announce the release of Focus on Louise Brooks, a Blu-ray Disc compilation of the iconic star’s early performances, including her debut in Herbert Brenon's The Street of Forgotten Men. This 1925 melodrama has been fully restored and is being made available for the very first time, joined by extant materials from three additional early Brooks features: The American Venus (1926), Just Another Blonde (1926), and Now We’re in the Air (1927). The Street of Forgotten Men stars Mary Brian as Mary Vanhern, a woman who successfully escapes her difficult upbringing on the streets of New York’s Bowery district only to have her past return to threaten her future happiness. Although only onscreen for a brief, uncredited scene, one need only glimpse Brooks to be reminded of the charisma that immediately makes her a screen icon. Restored from a 35mm nitrate negative preserved at the Library of Congress, the film’s missing second reel has been reconstructed using film stills as well as text and dialogue based on a copy of the original script, preserved by the New York Public Library. It features a musical score by Stephen Horne. Although most of Paramount Pictures’ beauty contest comedy The American Venus no longer survives, all extant material (including trailers, test footage, and a Technicolor fragment) have been gathered. Brooks’ first substantial role places her opposite Ford Sterling, Lawrence Gray, real 1925 Miss America Fay Lanphier and, in one of his earlier performances, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Brooks plays against type in director Alfred Santell’s Coney Island rom-com Just Another Blonde, starring as bookish Diana O'Sullivan opposite Dorothy Mackaill in the title role. The surviving footage includes segments from five of the original six reels as well as the film's original trailer. Finally, director Frank R. Strayer’s high flying World War I comedy Now We’re in the Air delivers a double dose of Lulu, setting her as twin sisters Griselle and Grisette opposite hapless aviators played by Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. Sadly, only Grisette’s role still exists today in the film’s surviving 22 minute sequence. Focus on Louise Brooks represents the first entry in a new Flicker Fusion series that will explore newly restored films, some lost and/or fragmentary, ripe for rediscovery, and featuring some of early cinema’s biggest names. This deluxe Blu-ray edition is made possible thanks to the generous underwriting and funding from the Sunrise Foundation for Education & the Arts. BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDE: Restoration Demo - A look at the painstaking process that went into preserving the films included in this set Audio Commentaries - Informative audio tracks are included with film scholars Pamela Hutchinson on The Street of Forgotten Men, with author and film historians Thomas Gladysz and Kathy Rose O’Regan on Just Another Blonde, and with Gladysz and Robert Byrne on The American Venus and Now We’re in the Air. Looking at Lulu - Explore the fascinating behind the scenes life of Louise Brooks with an extended featurette hosted by historian Pamela Hutchinson Image Galleries - Featuring production stills and promotional material Booklet Insert - With an essay by film historian Thomas Gladysz and restoration notes by Robert Byrne English closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing, as well as subtitle tracks in English, Spanish, French, and German Blu-ray Authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion All Region Encoding (A,B,C)

Release: July 11, 2017

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The worlds of stand-up comedy and indie rock collide in the Tribeca Film Festival breakout hit Pitchfork calls “a joy to join.” Struggling comedian Paul Scott (Girls’ Alex Karpovsky) is invited to open for his successful rocker buddy, Jason Black (22 Jump Street's Wyatt Russell), on his solo acoustic tour from Boston to Atlanta. Jason hopes the trip will help Paul get his 'mojo back' after being dumped by his fiance. The misadventures begin as the pair set off on the road, picking up a new act, Bryn (Search Party’s Meredith Hagner) along the way. But their long standing friendship is tested when Jason reveals an ulterior motive behind the tour. Joined by David Cross (Arrested Development), Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer), Hannah Simone (New Girl), Melanie Lynskey (Up In The Air) and Heather Morris (Glee), Folk Hero & Funny Guy is a music-infused spin on the road-trip buddy comedy.

Release: July 7, 2015

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A quirky drifter clan settles on Florida land and clashes with bureaucrats, gamblers, and mobsters in this sunny Elvis comedy.

Release: July 18, 2023

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A satirical comedy about a down-on-his-luck publicist (Jeong) who discovers a recently released mental health patient (Day) who looks just like a misbehaving movie star.

Release: July 16, 2019

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Footlight Parade is sheer cinematic joy. In this Depression-era romp, a timid stenographer (Ruby Keeler) removes her glasses and wow! she's a star. A gee-whiz tenor (Dick Powell) asserts his independence. Plucky chorines tap, greedy hangers-on get their comeuppances, and an indefatigable producer/dancer (James Cagney) and his Girl Friday (Joan Blondell) work showbiz miracles to stage live prologues for talkie houses to keep their company afloat during hard times. Honeymoon Hotel, By a Waterfall and Shanghai Lil are the shows, directed by Busby Berkeley and filled with imagination-bending sets, startling camera angles, kaleidoscopic pageantry and a 20,000-gallon-per-minute waterfall. Curtain up!

Release: February 14, 2012

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A city teen moves to a small town where dancing is banned and challenges the community's strict rules.

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Two women who can barely stand each other become roommates and launch a phone-sex business to pay the bills.

Release: December 17, 2024

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Square-jawed screen icon Kirk Douglas (Gunfight at the O.K.

Release: October 26, 2021

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From Barry Sonnenfeld, the acclaimed director of The Addams Family, Get Shorty, Men in Black and Big Trouble, comes this sparkling romantic comedy starring Michael J. Fox (Secret of My Success) and Gabrielle Anwar (Scent of a Woman). Douglas Ireland (Fox) is in one heck of a bind. While he caters to the whims of the super-rich, he dreams of building his own luxury hotel and hopes that a wealthy but unscrupulous investor (Anthony Higgins, Young Sherlock Holmes) will help. There’s one condition: Ireland must “baby-sit” the investor’s beautiful young mistress (Anwar). But soon, he must decide whether the love of his life is worth more than the dream of his life. In the grand tradition of classic comedies, this sophisticated and witty film puts a delightful spin on love, laughter and romance. The wonderful supporting cast includes Bob Balaban (A Mighty Wind), Michael Tucker (TV’s L.A. Law), Udo Kier (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective), Dan Hedaya (A Night at the Roxbury), Simon Jones (TV’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Fyvush Finkel (TV’s Picket Fences) and fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi!

Release: June 7, 2022

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Two vaudeville performers chase success and romance against the backdrop of World War I.

Release: April 6, 2004

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A wealthy couple hide out in Amish country after becoming entangled in a financial scandal.

Release: September 7, 2021

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Singing sensation Deanna Durbin stars along with Edmond O'Brien, Don Taylor and Ray Collins in the screwball comedy, For the Love of Mary. When Mary Peppertree (Durbin), a White House telephone operator, breaks her engagement to marry an attorney (Jeffrey Lynn) for the Justice Department, it causes a stir and encourages two new admirers, David (Taylor) and Tom (O'Brien), to pursue her. Mary's romantic entanglements soon become the talk of the White House and even the President of the United States and four Supreme Court justices try to play Cupid for her. Noteworthy as Deanna Durbin's last film (at the age of 27), this engaging, energetic classic also features such songs as "Moonlight Bay", "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and "Big, Wide, Wonderful World.'

Release: March 20, 2007

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Oscar buzz sends the cast of a tiny indie film into a frenzy of vanity, insecurity, and industry absurdity.

Release: May 15, 2014

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A young Austin couple's carefree romance begins to fracture as adulthood, distance, and uncertainty test their bond.

Release: April 28, 2026

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Kinuyo Tanaka was already one of Japan’s greatest actors—celebrated for her collaborations with auteurs such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio Naruse—when she took a brave leap by embarking on a directing career in a studio system that actively discouraged female filmmakers. The six features she made over the course of a decade center on women characters who refuse to conform to restrictive roles as they seek independence. With compassion and insight, Tanaka critiques the social conditions and forces that shape her heroines’ struggles: sex work and social shaming, the expectation of passively entering arranged marriages, taboos surrounding illness and the female body, imperialism, and religious persecution and forbidden love. INCLUDES The films: Love Letter, The Moon Has Risen, Forever a Woman, The Wandering Princess, Girls of the Night, and Love Under the Crucifix PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith LOVE LETTER Released a year after the American occupation of Japan ended, Kinuyo Tanaka’s directorial debut explores the professional and personal conflicts of Reikichi (Masayuki Mori), a repatriated veteran who searches for his lost love (Yoshiko Kuga) while translating romantic letters from Japanese women to American GIs. Adapted from a novel by Fumio Niwa, Love Letter depicts with incisive complexity Japanese soldiers struggling to adapt to a changed society, as well as the moral condemnation of Japanese women who became involved with the enemy. THE MOON HAS RISEN For her second film, Kinuyo Tanaka directed a script by legendary filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, one of her mentors. Though informed by Ozu’s singular take on familial relationships, The Moon Has Risen also possesses Tanaka’s lively and elegant comic sensibility in its portrait of a widower (Chishu Ryu) who lives with his three daughters (Hisako Yamane, Yoko Sugi, and Mie Kitahara). Kitahara shines as the spirited youngest sister, whose matchmaking schemes force the family to confront—with amusing bewilderment—Japanese society’s rapidly evolving mores. FOREVER A WOMAN Generally regarded as Kinuyo Tanaka’s masterpiece, as well as her first personal film, Forever a Woman tells the story of a recent divorcée (Yumeji Tsukioka) who is diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. In adapting the real-life story of poet Fumiko Nakajo, Tanaka and screenwriter Sumie Tanaka (a longtime collaborator of Mikio Naruse’s, though of no familial relation to Kinuyo) investigate issues of mortality, sexuality, and female independence with a frankness and audacity unprecedented in postwar Japanese cinema. THE WANDERING PRINCESS Kinuyo Tanaka’s first film in both color and CinemaScope is an epic about a woman caught in the torrents of history. Based on the memoirs of Hiro Saga, The Wandering Princess tells the story of Ryuko (Machiko Kyo), an aristocrat who, at the outset of World War II, enters an arranged marriage with Futetsu (Eiji Funakoshi), the younger brother of a soon-to-be-deposed monarch. With the story of Ryuko’s enmeshment in the Japanese colonization of Manchuria, Tanaka realizes with startling depth her ambition to relate a historical saga from a critical female perspective. GIRLS OF THE NIGHT With Girls of the Night, Kinuyo Tanaka reunited with screenwriter Sumie Tanaka to explore Japan’s attempted reformation of former sex workers. The film follows Kuniko (Chisako Hara), who enters a rehabilitation center after the Prostitution Prevention Law prohibits her line of work. But creating a new life proves treacherous—wherever Kuniko goes, the past catches up with her. In once again taking on challenging subject matter, Kinuyo Tanaka paints an empathetic portrait of a fragile community of outcasts. LOVE UNDER THE CRUCIFIX Kinuyo Tanaka’s final work as a director is a large-scale, sixteenth-century-set costume drama in the style of the golden age of Japanese cinema. Produced by the independent production company Ninjin Kurabu, Love Under the Crucifix centers on the forbidden romance between Ogin (Ineko Arima), daughter of a famous tea master, and Ukon (Tatsuya Nakadai), a married samurai. The ruling power’s prohibition of Ukon’s Christian faith forces the lovers to fight against the prejudices of an oppressive society while finding their way to mutual devotion.

Release: July 28, 2015

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An aging Broadway star desperately clings to youth as a new generation of actresses threatens her career.

Release: June 4, 2013

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Peter (Jason Segel) is a struggling musician who finds his world turned upside down when his TV celebrity girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), dumps him for a tragically hip rock star.

Release: May 7, 2019

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Winner of six Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Actor, Robert Zemeckis' modern-day "Candide" stars Tom Hanks as the simple-minded but good-hearted Forrest, whose life is a series of accidental encounters with the memorable people and pivotal events of the '50s, '60s, and '70s.

Release: September 30, 2014

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Through decades of American history, kindhearted Forrest Gump unwittingly influences major events while longing for Jenny.

Release: November 15, 2016

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Fort Tilden: New York City s secluded seaside nirvana where, like flies to honey, Brooklyn s hip millennial set flocks on sweltering weekend afternoons for unbridled summertime indulgence.