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DisneyNature: Wings of Life
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsFull of intrigue, drama and beauty, this mesmerizing documentary looks at bats, butterflies, hummingbirds and bees -- increasingly endangered little creatures that a third of the world's food supply depends on. Meryl Streep narrates.
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Manhattan
1979 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIn the thick of a midlife crisis, television writer Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) finds himself torn between the sweet but far too young Tracy (Mariel Hemingway, who received an Oscar nod for the role) and his best friend's mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton). Shot in black and white and in wide-screen format -- both firsts for director Allen -- this film is as much a paean to the city he calls home as it is a tale of Davis's romantic foibles.
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The House of the Spirits
1993 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsEsteban vows to marry Rosa, a rich man's daughter. But when Rosa dies before he can save enough money to do so, he instead marries her younger sister. Years later, when their daughter falls for a revolutionary, the family is thrown into turmoil.
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Scholastic: One-Of-A-Kind Critters
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThe stars of these stories may be little, but they have big personalities and huge adventures! Includes: Chrysanthemum; Duck on a Bike; Harry the Dirty Dog; Scaredy Squirrel; and The Dot.
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Scholastic: One-of-a-Kind Critters
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThe stars of these stories may be little, but they have big personalities and huge adventures! Includes: Chrysanthemum; Duck on a Bike; Harry the Dirty Dog; Scaredy Squirrel; and The Dot.
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Music of the Heart
1999 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn director Wes Craven's inspiring Oscar-nominated drama -- which is based on a true story -- a violinist and single mother struggles to convince the administration at an East Harlem high school to let her establish a music program.
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Theater of War
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsGo behind the scenes of the Public Theater's 2006 production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, starring the legendary Meryl Streep and translated by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner. In addition to offering a rare window into Streep's process, the documentary also examines how Brecht's own tumultuous life experiences informed his remarkable play. Other interviewees include Streep's co-star Kevin Kline.
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Marvin's Room
1996 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this adaptation of Scott McPherson's play, the tables are turned when straight-laced Bessie -- who devotes her life to caring for her chronically ill father -- suffers a health catastrophe of her own and must ask her estranged sibling for help.
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Death Becomes Her
1992 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsGoldie Hawn and Meryl Streep run wild in this black comedy that mixes rapier wit with cutting-edge special effects. Insufferably vain, the two "frenemies" discover the secret of eternal youth -- and find that it has a few unadvertised drawbacks.
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She-Devil
1989 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen her two-timing husband deserts her for a toffee-nosed romance novelist, dowdy housewife Ruth Patchett goes berserk and -- aided by her mother -- sets out to methodically ruin his life in this dark comedy.
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The Hours
2002 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThis gripping drama follows the parallel lives of three 20th-century women: incomparable writer Virginia Woolf, an unsatisfied 1950s housewife and a modern-day book editor who's losing her former lover to AIDS.
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The Iron Lady
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsMeryl Streep provides a subtle and nuanced portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of Britain, whose political career and determination changed the rules that had limited women's opportunities for leadership.
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Heartburn
1986 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsNew York writer Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep) falls in love with political columnist Mark Forman (Jack Nicholson), and the two marry despite her reservations. The wedded bliss comes to an end when, among other things, Mark's infidelity becomes a problem they cannot overcome. With no other recourse, the marriage comes to a screeching halt, culminating in a nasty divorce. Loosely based on the real-life woes of screenwriter Nora Ephron.
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Evening
2007 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWith her daughters by her bedside, a terminally ill matriarch recounts a passionate and all-consuming romance that took place 50 years in the past yet steered the course and defined the rest of her life.
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