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The True Meaning of Christmas Specials |
The True Meaning of Christmas Specials is a Canadian TV special hosted by Dave Foley. |
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The Immigrant |
Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America. |
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Fun on a Weekend |
Penniless strangers team up to fleece the rich. |
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Raising Cain |
When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more children disappear, she fears for her own child's safety. |
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Orphan |
A young woman who moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. The grown-up at last, an accomplished woman, who thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine. |
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Side Out |
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball. |
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Are You Here |
When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ill-equipped duo must battle Ben's formidable sister and deal with his father's gorgeous 25-year old widow. |
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Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed |
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy shot to national fame with his hilarious stand-up routine, "You Know You're a Redneck If ..." Part outrageous humor, part social commentary, Foxworthy's redneck routines are spot-on send-ups of American Southern culture. In "Totally Committed," originally aired as an HBO special, the comedian gamely tackles the subjects of baldness, marriage, commemorative plates and more. |
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Miracle |
In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team's coach, Herb Brooks, put a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning for a distraction from world events. With the world watching, the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels' now famous question to the millions viewing at home: "Do you believe in miracles?" Yes! |
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Mr Hublot |
Mr Hublot is a withdrawn, idiosyncratic character with OCD, scared of change and the outside world. Robot Pet's arrival turns his life upside down: he has to share his home with this very invasive companion... |
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Hell in the Pacific |
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft... |
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Secret Agent |
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences. |
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Forever Amber |
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams. |
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Seven |
A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them. |
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The King's Whore |
Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes. |
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