Geena Davis
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English
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Join the fun when the Little family adopts an adorably spunky boy named Stuart who looks a lot like a mouse. Mr. and Mrs. Little fall in love with Stuart right away, but their older son, George, isn't so sure. As Stuart tries to win over his new brother with hilarious feats of courage and daring, the family's cat, Snowball, gets involved with a gang of shady felines who devise a dastardly plan to get Stuart out of the house, permanently!
4) Beetlejuice
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz's away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a people-exorcizing ghost, for help.
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Stuart Little is back for more action-packed adventure. This time around Stuart and the reluctant Snowbell embark on a dangerous mission to rescue Stuart's new friend Margalo from a villainous falcon. But the journey proves more difficult than he ever imagines, and Stuart has to decide if he's up to the task.
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.
7) Tootsie
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English
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
8) Angie
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Born and raised in the tightly-knit neighborbood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, bright and irreverent Angie has matured into a young woman with dreams and ambitions that are different from those of her friends and neighbors. Increasingly restless with the routine of her life, Angie's growing need for personal fulfillment begins to express itself in ways that her family and best friend Tina can't understand. When Angie becomes pregnant by her long-time...
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Oscar nominee* Geena Davis stars as Gloria Conway, the sharp-tongued mom in this darkly comic story of a family strangely cursed with a streak of bad luck. But as life takes unexpected detours, Gloria manages to tear apart her pain to find the humor in even the toughest things that happen to her. When her teenage son Billy uncharacteristically lets off some steam in a series of scandalous pranks, the tragic results are something no one could have...
11) Thelma & Louise
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Two women friends leave their partners for a short trip, but an unexpected incident turns them into fugitives from the law.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion surrounded by marshes, and the mysterious young girl, Marnie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique connection and friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the days go by, a nearly magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh house again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding...
13) Beetlejuice
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English
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When a couple dies, they haunt their house...except they don't know how. When their attempts to get rid of a family of modern art lovers fails, they seek the aid of a poltergeist named Beetlejuice, and their situation gets worse.
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Sent to the seaside to stay with relatives for the summer, Anna strikes up a friendship with Marnie, who lives there in an old mansion surrounded by marshes. As their friendship grows, so does Anna's curiosity about the truth surrounding her new friend.
16) Cutthroat Island
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
17) Beetlejuice
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English
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Description
Based on Tim Burton's blockbuster film of the same name, this animated spin-off features Beetlejuice, the wild "Ghost with the most" from the "Neitherworld" and his mortal best friend Lydia Deetz, a young, perky goth girl attending a private school in a sleepy little Connecticut town. Upon befriending Lydia, Beetlejuice promptly whisks her off from her ordinary life into wacky adventures in the land of the dead, or Neitherworld, which is filled with...
19) Hero
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Davis is ace reporter Gale Gayley, who literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on an airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness, she's saved by a rude, foul-mouthed "hero", who promptly disappears into the night ... leaving only his shoe behind.
20) Marjorie Prime
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the near future where artificial intelligence has brought about holographic reconstructions of loved ones, 86-year old Marjorie gains a holographic companion in the form of her late husband, but will she take advantage of this opportunity to recreate their life as she wished to have lived it?
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