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Gregory Ulas Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Lee "Youngblood" Smith, a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a pair of cops for broken brake lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops, and Smith, as always, reluctantly goes along with Powell's crazy scheme. The group drives out to a deserted onion field in Bakersfield, California, and one officer is shot while the other escapes. The remainder of the film explores the nature of the American justice system, as well as the devastating psychological effects of this event, and the trial on the surviving officer.

Sally Field makes her film debut in this sumptuous epic tale of the brave men and women who left the comfort of the East for the promise of free land in the untamed West. Also stars Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Lola Albright.

Jessica has been married to her controlling husband Gary for years. She began dating him at the age of fifteen and has two kids, Maggie and Pete. After some career trouble Gary moves the family out to a New York suburb. Anyway, at first Gary seems like a sweet and loving husband, but after getting mad at some hippie neighbors he begins slapping Jessica and having fits of rage. The abuse only gets worse when she gets a job at a bakery and makes two really caring friends: her co-worker and neighbor Lee, and her boss Walter. Walter becomes more than just her boss; he notices bruises on Jessica's neck and advises her to leave Gary, but she can't; she's too afraid. Soon she starts dating Walter, and when Gary punches Pete repeatedly she realizes she has to be the voice for her two kids; she takes them to stay with Walter. Things only get worse as Gary makes a decision that could send her life crashing down.

Irene, a thirty-something housewife with a successful husband and a young son, has her life thrown in a spin when she becomes attracted to Billy, a member of a landscape crew outside her house. When Irene's husband and son leave for a weekend fishing trip, Irene wanting to see Billy, gets locked in the back of his trailer and ends up at remote Lake Consequence with Billy and his girlfriend Grace where they take Irene on a trip into the nearby town to a Chinese New Year Festival, and through a series of adventures they bring out the repressed sexual needs Irene has been holding inside for a long time.

The Mamiya household in suburban Kamakura, a bedroom community of Tokyo, is tri-generational: Shukichi and Shige, the family patriarch and matriarch, two of their adult offspring, Koichi and Noriko (the third, Soiji, whose whereabouts are unknown due to the war or if he is even still alive), physician Koichi's housewife Fumiko, and their two precocious young sons. Twenty-eight year old Noriko is happy with her single life, working as a secretary in a Tokyo office, and hanging out with a group of female friends during their free time, they often split in life views by each's own marital status, each side advocating for their own. It's not that she doesn't ever want to get married, but she just doesn't think about it much, that is until now when, partly prompted by her aging maternal uncle's visit, many people in her midst seemingly think she should get married in getting along in years. It becomes known within this circle that Noriko's boss has given her a photograph of a forty year old friend, Manabe, who he thinks would be a good husband for her. Without even asking her what she wants, everyone has an opinion on whether Manabe would make a good match for her, those in the pro camp already having her married off. So when Noriko makes a decision on her own about what she plans for her imminent future without asking anyone for advice, they all react in how that decision affects them personally without considering her own happiness.

The town of State College, Pennsylvania the home of Penn State University, has long been known as Happy Valley, and its iconic figure for more than 40 years was Joe Paterno, the head coach of the school's storied football team. His program was lauded not only for its success on the field but also its students' achievements in the classroom, and Paterno took on mythic national stature as "Saint Joe." But in November 2011, everything came crashing down: longtime Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with 40 counts of child sex-abuse, setting off a firestorm of accusations about who failed to protect the children of Happy Valley. Was Sandusky's abuse an "open secret" in the town? Did Coach Paterno and the Penn State administration value their football program more than the lives of Sandusky's victims? Filmed over the course of the year after Sandusky's arrest as key players in the scandal agreed to share their stories, "Happy Valley" deconstructs the story we think we know to uncover a much more complicated and tragic tale.

When Mark Easterbrook is accused of murdering a priest, he sets out to prove his innocence. In the process, he discovers a series of deaths, seemingly from natural causes, that may also be involved.

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

The Happy Soap Company is owned and managed by the Fraleigh family. Although he is more of a company figurehead than an active participant in the company's day-to-day business, anything that family patriarch Tom Fraleigh wants for the company he usually gets. What he wants is Beverly Boyer--the wife of his daughter-in-law's obstetrician, Dr. Gerald Boyer--to appear as the company spokesperson when Beverly, whom he meets at a small dinner party, mentions a personal true story about how Happy Soap "saved her life". She is to appear in a live commercial spot during a Happy Soap-sponsored television show telling her story just as she told Tom. Despite Beverly's performance going poorly in her own mind, Tom loves how refreshing and honest Beverly came across to the viewer. So Tom signs her to a one-year $80,000 contract to continue doing so. Happy Soap's own managers and advertising company question this, but Gerald questions it even more, believing that her place is at home taking care of their two little ones. As Beverly continues to do the commercials, her fame rises and her professional commitments increase, adding more strain to their marriage. Only a natural act by Mrs. Fraleigh Jr. might save the Boyers' marriage.

Featuring Lloyd Webber's iconic music and a world-class cast of dancers under the guidance of Tony-winning choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton, In the Heights), the film reimagines the musical for a new generation with spectacular production design, state-of-the-art technology, and dance styles ranging from classical ballet to contemporary, hip-hop to jazz, street dance to tap.

Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called "The Skulls", in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the club's trapping of power and wealth, a series of disturbing incidents, such as his best friends suicide, leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization and the truth behind his friends supposed suicide. He starts realizing that his future and possibly his life is in danger.

Health fanatic Melanie (Karissa Lee Staples) has backed out of not one but three weddings; the last one saw her flee from the church at the very last second. She has decided to ignore men for a while and focus on her business with her sister. Damon (Peter Mooney) is a committed bachelor who mocks all his friends who have settled down and had children but is confident that he could seal the deal whenever he wants. He takes a bet from his boss at the marketing company he works for that he can't meet a woman and get her to say yes within 30 days of meeting her. But when he meets Melanie, getting her to fall for him is harder than he thought; he complicates things by realizing that he has genuine feelings for her--and then one of her exes discovers that Damon is only dating her as a bet.

In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it's the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.

Tom Hanks portrays Fred Rogers in a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between him and journalist Lloyd Vogel. After a jaded magazine writer (Matthew Rhys) is assigned to do a profile of Fred, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America's most beloved neighbor.

A pair of stoners embark on a pot-fueled adventure through Atlanta to find their missing weed.

A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. Deep undercover, and with his life in danger, he strives to prove these athletes are the architects of the mind-boggling crimes that are devastating the world's financial markets.

A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire.

From director Andrew Dominik, and based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, 'Blonde' boldly reimagines the life of one of Hollywood's most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe. From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, 'Blonde' blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

A group of college nerds secretly record a washed up celebrity having sex and post the tape on the internet. When the publicity revives the actress's career, every B-list celebrity, reality show reject, and celebutante in Hollywood want to star in the guys next "production."

Based on Pete Dexter's critically acclaimed novel, THE PAPERBOY is the enthralling story of two brothers (Matthew McConaughey and Zac Efron) investigating a case involving a death row inmate (John Cusack). Convinced by a mysterious woman (Nicole Kidman) that the inmate is innocent, the brothers embark on a journey that is filled with betrayal.

Former cop Matt Scudder is now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was killed. Scudder takes the job. He does some research and thinks the men he is looking for have done this more than once and that everyone they grabbed is connected to a drug dealer. He is about to give up when they grab another girl and Scudder tries make sure she's returned alive.

Michael McCann is a man who feels totally betrayed by the world, after his wife revealed to him that their child was not his. A few years after his break-up we find him living alone in a small town. But, everything in his miserable life changes when he adopts a little girl whose mother died outside his house. After several years, the real father returns to claim the girl from Michael, thinking that she will be an advantage for his political career.

Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.

Eight mildly-connected stories of or around a group of well-endowed naval lieutenants are told: (1) Mike (Henson) awakens, decides to skip school and knot one off before heading out. (2) A sore-assed paperboy recounts his vigorous sexual manhandling by a overly well-endowed customer. (3) John (Davenport) gives his civilian buddy (Chris) a shooting lesson in firearms; but, aroused by the power at their fingertips, both head back to John's apartment to fire their "other" guns. (4) MIke and John D stop at a motel where Mike bets he can nail the lad swimming in the pool. Taking along a video transmitter to prove it, Mike, claiming he's the hotel masseur responding to a paid-for order, pays a call on the kid while his parents are away. The naive kid nervously lets Mike in and receives his first massage (and first all-male sexual experience) as John watches everthing on his military issue monitor. (5) With a new credit card in hand, Mike picks up two friends from the base (Mike Ryan, Jeff Boote) for a Palm Springs trip. Staying over in a nice hotel suite, Jeff espies Mike's "Fundies" (two-person underwear purchased to share with his girlfriend). A dare is made and horseplay ensues (wrestling and tickling), winding down into some 3-man sexual explorations. (6) At a bar, Lieutenants Henson and Davenport discover that the kid Mike seduced at the motel is none other than the admiral's son. Lieutenant Armano reminds Mike about tomorrow's survival game. (7) Lieutenant Quinn, after seeing Lieutenant Rocklin rejected by a bar pick-up, decides to give his buddy a well-needed introduction to erogenous zones, but his lesson soon turns into a full-on erotic seduction. (8) Lieutenants Mike (Henson), Jeff (Quinn) and Rocky play a survivor paintball game, agreeing that whoever loses gets stripped and strung up for the night. Since Rocky is the admiral's arrogant favorite, Mike and Jeff form an alliance to guarantee that it's he who'll get hung for the night like a smokehouse ham.