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Klute (1971)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jane Fonda | Donald Sutherland | Charles Cioffi | Roy Scheider | Dorothy Tristan | Rita Gam | Nathan George | Vivian Nathan | Morris Strassberg | Barry Snider | Betty Murray | Jane White | Shirley Stoler | Robert Milli | Anthony Holland
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
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After a businessman disappears the FBI draw a blank except for some unpleasant letters he wrote to a call-girl. His small-town friend John Klute travels to the big city to seek her out. At first their relationship is wary, and she sees him as just another guy to manipulate. But someone may already be stalking her, and as Klute’s activities add to the danger a bond of sorts starts to grow.

Leatherheads (2008)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: George Clooney | John Krasinski | Jonathan Pryce | Stephen Root | Wayne Duvall | Keith Loneker | Malcolm Goodwin | Matt Bushell | Tommy Hinkley | Tim Griffin | Robert Baker | Nick Paonessa | Nicholas Bourdages | Jack Thompson | Jason Drago
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A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America’s nascent pro-football league in 1925. Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero, is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country’s attention. Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford, America’s favorite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton aims to prove that’s the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter’s war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her fickle affections. As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams. Finding that love and football have a surprisingly similar playbook, however, he has one maneuver he will save just for the fourth quarter…

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Mary-Louise Parker | Brooklynn Proulx | Dustin Bollinger | Casey Affleck | Sam Rockwell | Jeremy Renner | Sam Shepard | Garret Dillahunt | Paul Schneider | Joel McNichol | James Defelice | J.C. Roberts | Darrell Orydzuk | Jonathan Erich Drachenberg
Directors: Andrew Dominik
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Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Tim Robbins | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Paul Newman | Charles Durning | John Mahoney | Jim True-Frost | Bill Cobbs | Bruce Campbell | Harry Bugin | John Seitz | Joe Grifasi | Roy Brocksmith | John Wylie | I.M. Hobson | Gary Allen
Directors: Joel Coen | Ethan Coen
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.