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Treasure Planet
2002 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWhen space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms. But soon, Jim realizes Silver is a pirate intent on mutiny!
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In the Name of the Father
1993 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsNominated for seven Oscars in 1993, this biopic features the dramatic prowess of Daniel Day-Lewis as the Irishman Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for an IRA terrorist attack that killed four people. As if a forced confession weren't enough injustice, the police work to implicate Conlon's father (Pete Postlethwaite) in the same crime. Emma Thompson plays the lawyer who worked for years to uncover the truth.
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Love Actually
2003 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsWriter-director Richard Curtis's charming treatise on romance and relationships is an all-star ensemble comedy that tells 10 separate (but intertwining) London love stories, leading up to a spirited climax on Christmas Eve.
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Dead Again
1991 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsLos Angeles gumshoe Mike Church takes the case of a woman beset with amnesia and soon makes the startling discovery that he and his client are connected -- via reincarnation -- to a lurid 40-year-old murder.
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Imagining Argentina
2003 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBuenos Aires in the 1970s was a hotbed of dictatorial political unrest marked by a rash of disappearances (read: abductions and murders). Theatre director Carlos Rueda (Antonio Banderas) and his wife, Cecilia (Emma Thompson), get caught up in the flux when she writes an inflammatory editorial. When Cecilia's jailed, Carlos develops the supernatural ability to see the future -- a future where he imagines his wife dying during an escape attempt.
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Impromptu
1991 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsIn this critically acclaimed drama set amid the romance of 19th-century Europe, feminist author George Sand falls for Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, but a number of obstacles stand in their way -- including rivals, former lovers and duels.
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Carrington
1995 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsIn this absorbingly nuanced character study, talented young painter Dora Carrington forges a deep, complex bond with shy homosexual writer Lytton Strachey across the backdrop of the bohemian scene of London's Bloomsbury group.
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Maybe Baby
2000 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsSam Bell (Hugh Laurie) and his wife, Lucy (Joely Richardson), are the perfect couple, complete with perfect careers and perfect lives. But one thing is missing: The Bells want a baby -- and they can't seem to conceive one despite their best efforts. Doctors advise in-vitro; a friend advises creativity; and the couple soon finds their love put to the toughest of tests. Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson make cameo appearances.
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