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Lance Clayton once dreamed of a career as a rich and famous writer. He has only managed to be a single dad and high school poetry teacher. His son is a jerk who won't give him the time of day, and his girlfriend won't acknowledge publicly that they are dating. A freak accident provides Lance his worst tragedy, and greatest opportunity at fame, fortune, and popularity. But can he live with the knowledge of how he got there?
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The day has finally come-Debra's daughter Jenna is getting married! And she couldn't be any happier. Jenna has grown into a beautiful woman, and her fiancé Chris is her soul mate. And while Debra might not be Jenna's birth mother, she and her husband Carl have raised Jenna since birth as their own. All Jenna wants is a marriage just like her parents' and the same simple family wedding they had years ago. But all that changes when Jenna decides...
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Steve Thompson, a lovable anti-hero, is the youngest son in the gloriously flawed Thompson family. In a bid to save himself from financial ruin, Steve does the unthinkable and agrees to marry Ana, a Russian woman seeking residency in exchange for a huge sum of cash. Behind closed doors the deal is done, a secret wedding is arranged & in no time life will be back to normal, or so Steve thinks... Until a nosy family friend gets wind of the wedding plans...
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A comedy about a Chinese Yuppie living in New York who decides that a marriage of convenience is the perfect way to prevent his parents back in Taiwan from discovering he is gay. But his plan backfires hilariously when his parents insist on coming to New York for the wedding.
7) Passed Away
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Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving Scanlan clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats. As the eldest son, Johnny is tactlessly reminded that he's probably the next to go; daughter Terry is the black sheep who hasn't told anyone that the marriage they all warned her against has broken up; thick-headed but nice looking younger son Frank...
8) Awful Nice
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Thrust together to fix and flip their childhood lake house in Branson, a pair of belligerent brothers find that home repair isn't so easy when you are drunk on tropical beverages and reigniting sibling rivalry. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong as a series of hilarious mishaps with local cops, friendly prostitutes and the Russian mob keep their house - and their relationship - in a state of disrepair. Hilariously irreverent, Awful Nice...
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What happens when a high-powered attorney accidently discovers that her husband is having an affair and planning to leave her for his younger mistress? She knocks him out and duct tapes him to the toilet! Then when their home is invaded by drunken burglars, the night really gets complicated.
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It's early morning in the Hollywood Hills; it's Nick and Deborah Fifer's 16th wedding anniversary; it's goodbye to their two kids off on a holiday ski weekend -- and hello to a passionate ride on the emotional roller coaster of married life. Deborah (Bette Midler), a successful psychologist who's recently written a best-selling book on marriage, and Nick (Woody Allen), a high-powered sports lawyer, are the quintessential 90's couple with their twin...
12) Chutney Popcorn
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When Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her infertile sister and brother-in-law, it helps to mend the relationship with her mother but her girlfriend Lisa dumps her.
13) Smother
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When Noah Cooper is fired from his job as a therapist, he thinks his day can't possibly get worse, but arriving home- he discovers his overbearing mother Marilyn has moved in with her five dogs in tow! Hilarity ensues as Noah learns to deal with the pressures of finding a job, a wife who desperately wants a baby, and worst of all a mother who won't quit smothering! Featuring an all star cast- Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler, Smother is a heartwarming...
15) Nothing Special
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A dark and funny tale of an ambitious young woman at a crucial turning point in her career and her relationship with her bi-polar mother. Louise (Julia Garcia Combs) is an insurance underwriter living in Los Angeles with her mother, May (Karen Black), who has recently been evicted from her Section 8 apartment after the building was condemned. Throw into the mix a budding romance between Louise and the local bartender, and we find ourselves in the...
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After being jilted by her fiancé, Margaret manages her loneliness by obsessively and compulsively organizing her already perfect home. But when her older sister, Josephine, and ten-year-old niece, Hannah, arrive unexpectedly for what seems an indefinite visit, Margaret's carefully structured life is thrown into disarray, forcing her to adapt to the duo's free-spirited lifestyle and to confront the years of estrangement. Weighed down by guilt for...
18) Closing Escrow
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A bidding war tests the boundaries of marriage and the sanity of the real estate agents, when three different families all try to buy the same house.
19) Roommates
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Inspired by a true story, Rocky Holeczek is a uniquely vibrant man, who at the age of 107, is the oldest employed baker in Pittsburgh. His roommate is his grandson Michael, a 35-year-old surgeon whom he has raised since childhood -- and continues to guide into manhood. Their saga spans over 30 years, beginning when Rocky is 75 years old. During the course of their life together, Michael's world expands to include a wife, children, an overly attentive...
20) Unstrung Heroes
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Based on the memoirs of Franz Lidz, Unstrung Heroes is the story of Stephen, a young boy in New York during the 1960s who, in an effort to cope with an emotionally distant father and his mother's illness, goes to live with his three wildly eccentric uncles. By moving into the funny, magical and sometimes painful world of his uncles, Stephen grows up and gains self-confidence. Finally, comforted by his uncles' idiosyncratic love, Stephen is able to...
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