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Harry Mitchell, an L.A. manufacturer with a fancy car, a nice house, and a wife running for city council, has his life overturned when three hooded blackmailers appear with a video tape of Harry and his young mistress. He's been set up, and they want $100,000. To protect his wife's political ambitions, Harry won't go to the police; instead, he shines them on and then doesn't pay... (imdb)

Mountain Rivera is at the end of his boxing career after a knockout by Cassius Clay in the seventh round... (imdb)

Sydney Bristow is an international spy recruited out of college and trained for espionage and self-defense. (imdb)

The film consists of separate sections: (1) a performance of "Man in the Mirror"; (2) a biographical montage depicting Jackson's career; (3) "Badder," a remake of the "Bad" music video, but with a child cast; (4) "Speed Demon," a claymation film in which Jackson is pursued; (5) "Leave Me Alone," a music video commenting on the media; (6) "Smooth Criminal," in which Jackson struggles with a gangster; (7) Jackson performs "Come Together" then Lady Blacksmith Mambazo performs "The Moon is Walking."

In this biting romantic comedy, Rob Gordon (Cusack) is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl. His needle, however, skips the love groove when his long-time girlfriend, Laura (Hjejle), walks out on him. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood. (Touchstone Pictures)

A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. (imdb)

The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side... (imdb)

Set against the backdrop of a 1930s southern speakeasy, Idlewild explores the lives of Percival (Benjamin), the club's shy piano player, and Rooster (Patton), the club's showy lead performer and manager. Idlewild synthesizes drama, music, cinema and style to bring the tale of struggling singers to life. (Universal)

A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor. (imdb)

The true saga of a working-class Everyman who pursues self-expression without self-censorship -- and finds a grateful audience, critical admiration, and that most remarkable of happy endings, a loving family. (Fine Line Features)