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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
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.

- Metascore80
- 2019
Dark Desire
A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire.

- 2012
The Paperboy
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.

- Metascore45
- 2012
A Walk Among the Tombstones
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.

- Metascore57
- 2014
Stranger Than Fiction
Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is your average I.R.S. Agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside of his head narrating his life. The narrator it is extraordinarily accurate, and Harold recognizes the voice as an esteemed author he saw on television. But when the narration reveals that he is going to die, Harold must find the author of the story, and ultimately his life, to convince her to change the ending of the story before it is too late.

- Metascore67
- 2006
Hot Dog... The Movie
Naive corn-pone skiing wunderkind picks up beautiful hitchhiking bimbo on way to ski competition.

- Metascore39
- 1984
Fred: The Movie
Lovestruck, awkward teen Fred Figglehorn makes desperate attempts to make Judy fall in love with him - while also dodging the mischievous Kevin.

- 2010
Mary Higgins Clark's: We'll Meet Again
Based on the novel from award winning, best selling author Mary Higgins Clark. Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to prove her innocence. Together they uncover a conspiracy of silence at the Lasch Medical Center and a shocking secret that could cost both women their lives.

- 2002
A Good Woman
A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.

- Metascore53
- 2004
Mommy, I Didn't Do It
In this follow-up to "The Wrong Woman", Ellen Plainview has finally finished law school, is practicing law, and is looking forward to spending some much-needed time with her 17-year-old daughter Julie.

- 2017
Just Before I Go
Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.

- Metascore24
- 2014
Weird Science
Two high school nerds have their Frankenstein-inspired experiment unexpectedly taken to the next level when they create the perfect woman. The pair’s out of this world creation then guides the duo through the pleasures and pitfalls of adolescence.

- Metascore46
- 1985
Genius
A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.

- Metascore56
- 2016
The Promise
The film tells the story of Michael (Oscar Isaac), a young Armenian who dreams of studying medicine. When he travels to Constantinople to study, he meets Armenian Ana (Charlotte Le Bon) and falls in love with her, although she dates the American photographer Chris (Christian Bale), sent to Turkey to record the first genocide of the 20th century when the Turks exterminated the Armenian minority. A love triangle settles amidst the horrors of war.

- Metascore49
- 2016
Bone Tomahawk
After an outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap several settlers, including the wife of a local rancher. Despite his injured leg the rancher joins a small rescue party with the sheriff, his aging deputy and a strong-willed gunslinger. What follows is a journey into hell on earth as the posse comes to realize it is up against a foe whose savagery knows no bounds. The film takes place at the turn of the century around the border of what is now Texas and New Mexico.

- Metascore72
- 2015
Cold Brook
COLD BROOK is the story of Ted & Hilde, two ordinary guys in a small town who embark on an extraordinary adventure and risk everything for a stranger in need. It's a story about coming home; something everyone, everywhere has an innate desire to do.

- Metascore46
- 2018
Diggstown
Highlighted by suspenseful boxing sequences, this witty film casts James Woods, Bruce Dern and Louis Gossett, Jr. as offbeat characters who live for sparring, betting and swindling.

- 1992
The Short History of the Long Road
For teenage Nola, home is the open road with her self-reliant father and their trusty van, two nomads against the world. When Nola’s rootless existence is turned upside-down, she realizes that life as an outsider might not be her only choice.

- Metascore60
- 2019
Judy
Thirty years after starring in The Wizard of Oz (1939), beloved actress and singer Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger) arrives in London, England to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While there, she reminisces with friends and fans and begins a whirlwind romance with musician Mickey Deans (Finn Wittrock), her soon-to-be fifth husband.

- Metascore66
- 2019
The Last Descent
In 2009 John Jones climbed down into the Nutty Putty cave. In a passage 18 inches high and 10 inches wide, 150 feet below the surface, he got stuck. But his story doesn't begin or end in that cave.

- 2016
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Mavis surprises Dracula with a family voyage on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship so he can take a vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. The rest of Drac's Pack cannot resist going along. But once they leave port, romance arises when Dracula meets the mysterious ship Captain, Ericka. Now it's Mavis' turn to play the overprotective parent.

- Metascore54
- 2018
Shock and Awe
The film is based on the true events of Knight Ridder journalists who were the only ones who “got it right” in the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War when they questioned the true nature of the Bush White House’s justification for the conflict.

- Metascore47
- 2017
All for Love
When romance novelist who's never traveled and still nursing a broken heart is teamed with a Navy man as research for her latest book, she is taken aback by his boisterous personality and egotistical nature. However, as her research brings them closer together, she discovers there's more to him than meets the eye. Will she heal the heart broken by the man she thought she loved and take a chance on the real-life embodiment of her fictional hero?

- 2016
Hello, My Name Is Doris
After a lifetime of being overlooked and ignored, a woman of a certain age finds her world turned upside down by a handsome new co-worker and a self-help seminar that inspires her to take a chance on love in Hello, My Name is Doris, a witty and compassionate late-life coming-of-age-story.

- Metascore63
- 2015