Scott Glenn
1) The hill
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"An inspiring true story of baseball phenomenon Rickey Hill. The son of a small-town traveling pastor, Rickey shows an extraordinary talent for baseball despite being burdened by leg braces from a degenerative spinal disease. Driven by his faith and love of the sport, he continues to play against his father's wishes. But when a scout for the major leagues arrives, he must overcome his worsening condition and the division it causes in his family in...
2) Backdraft
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Stephen McCaffrey and his younger brother Brian are two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire department. Stephen is so relentless that he drives Brian out of firefighting and into arson investigation. Assisting arson investigator Donald Rimgale, Brian becomes involved in a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled...
3) Silverado
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A fast-riding adventure story of four strangers drawn together on the Western frontier.
5) Greenland
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A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison, and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities around the world being leveled by the comet's fragments, the Garrity's experience the panic and lawlessness surrounding them. As the countdown to global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culinates in a...
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Adrienne Willis is a woman with her life in chaos. She retreats to the small coastal town in the Outer Banks. She hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs. She has a wayward husband who has asked to come home and a teen-aged daughter who resents her every decision. Upon arrival, a major storm is forecast and a guest named Dr. Paul Flanner arrives. Paul is the only guest at the inn. He is facing his own crisis of conscience. With the...
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A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captian Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
9) Secretariat
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Behind every legend lies an impossible dream. Witness the spectacular journey of an incredible horse named Secretariat and the moving story of his unlikely owner, a housewife who risked everything to make him a champion. Special features include Heart of a Champion; Choreographing the Races; A Director's Inspiration; audio commentary, and more.
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FBI trainee Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman and save her from 'Buffalo Bill,' a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal' Lecter, as he used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent-in-charge Jack Crawford believes that the mind manipulator Lecter may have the answers to their...
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Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...
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"When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it."--container.
14) Freedom Writers
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A true story about a teacher, in a racially divided school, who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell, bubbling over with naive optimism, comes to a southern California high school. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives. This...
15) Urban cowboy
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Bud Davis, a Texas oil refinery worker, meets and falls in love with Sissy at Gilley's, a popular country-western nightclub in Houston. However, their relationship becomes endangered when a mechanical bull-riding ex-convict schemes to steal Sissy's heart.
16) Training day
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Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins...
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Captain Karen Walden is the pilot of a rescue helicopter who dies shortly before her crew is rescued after it crashed in Desert Storm. At first it appears that she made a spectacular rescue of a downed helicopter crew, then held her own crew together to fight off the Iraqis after her helicopter crashed. Lt. Colonel Serling is struggling with his own demons from Desert Storm, is assigned to investigate and award her the Medal of Honor. But some conflicting...
18) W
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A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.
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The equalizer: McCall is a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by; he has to help her.
The magnificent seven: The town of Rose Creek is under the deadly control of Bartholomew Bogue, and the townspeople are desperate for protection. They find protection in seven...