Art Linson
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Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the past half-century-Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables, Fight Club-and has worked with some of America's finest actors and directors. In what the Los Angeles Times calls "a breezy anatomy of ritual humiliation," his memoir gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood.
Includes a new interview of Art Linson by...
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The story of larger-than-life mob warlord Al Capone who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago ... and Eliot Ness, the law enforcer, who vowed to bring him down. A classic confrontation between good and evil, and how with the help of a cop named Malone, Ness learns how to beat the mob by shooting fast and shooting first.
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Ben is an overburdened movie producer. He tries to balance his life and has to contend with the never-ending demands of 2 ex-wives, his ice-queen studio head, and a menagerie of various Hollywood prima donnas. Ben manages to take it all in stride. He copes by exuding a smoothly assuring demeanor. The only thing that really seems to upset Ben is when he discovers that his ex-wife sleeps with one of his colleagues.
5) Heist
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An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into hijacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
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Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
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Faith of my fathers: "People know John McCain as a maverick presidential candidate, but before a life in politics, he was an honored naval officer. While other politicians went to law school and dined on black-tie fundraisers, McCain's journey took him on a different course, and this is his story. As a freshman at the Naval Academy, young McCain takes extra razzing because he is the privileged son of a Navy captain. Made tougher by that experience,...
10) Fight club
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A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
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The Godfather: It is the late 1940s in New York and "Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a powerful Mafia "family." His youngest son Michael had defied Vito by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II. Michael has returned with no intention of continuing the family business, but after several assassination attempts on his father's life, Michael wants revenge on the men responsible. He is groomed as the new don, leading the family to a new era...
12) Humbug holiday
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Bad Santa: A mall Santa and his elf have plans for Christmas Eve: they plan on cracking the mall safe and making off with all the money. Their plans get side-tracked when a young boy helps them remember the real meaning of Christmas.
Scrooged: High-spirited high jinks on Christmas Eve put Frank Cross in a ghostly time warp in this hilarious take on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
The ref: An unfortunate cat burglar becomes trapped in a fate...