Jodie Foster
1) Flightplan
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Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mothers worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berline to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
4) Bugsy Malone
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A pint-sized cast with giant talents illuminates this musical that is unlike any other ever made. Set in 1929 New York City, BUGSY MALONE captures a flashy world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls, and dreamers - all played by child actors! As Tallulah, the sassy girlfriend of the owner of Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy, future superstar Jodie Foster dances and sings her way into our hearts. Award-winning pop composer Paul Williams wrote the words and...
5) Maverick
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Comedy about a handsome gambler, a charming lady scam artist and a lawman, all headed for a poker tournament held on a river boat with a $500,000 pot for the winner.
6) The Beaver
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A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.
Summary
Freaky Friday (1976): A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.
Freaky Friday (2003): An overworked mother and her daughter do not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other's life for one freaky Friday.
Freaky Friday (Made-for TV movie): A musical about what happens when a mom and daughter argue, get their bodies magically switched, and have to...
10) Be Natural
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An energetic documentary about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché that is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation. Nominated for two awards at the **Cannes Film Festival.** "*By the end of "Be Natural," you won't only have a clear idea of who this remarkable woman was; you may well have acquired a new taste in old movies. Critic's Pick.*"...
11) Freaky Friday
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A conservative, refined mother magically changes place with her thirteen-year old daughter for one day.
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Meet Josephine, Reena, Marie, Jeanette, Lou, and Terry. These intelligent and articulate women once had secure, active and fulfilling lives. That is until one day when everything unraveled. Now living out of their cars or in cheap hotels, they exist entirely under the radar, too proud to go to shelter or to even receive public assistance.
13) Love, Antosha
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A portrait of late actor Anton Yelchin, LOVE, ANTOSHA explores his successes and struggles through his journals, photography, original music, and interviews with his colleagues, including Chris Pine, Kristen Stewart, and Jennifer Lawrence. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
14) The Accused
Series
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A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assualt.
15) Panic room
Series
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Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg and her daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
16) Candleshoe
Series
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Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
17) Money monster
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In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
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Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the...
19) Hotel Artemis
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In the midst of a riot-torn Los Angeles, a mysterious woman named the Nurse runs a secret emergency room and hospital for criminals. Her life has kept her entirely indoors ever since a tragedy, but her past intersects with her haven on exactly the wrong night.
