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Maury Chaykin full length movies
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| Rating: 7.8 |
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Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man's ways. |
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| Rating: 7.2 |
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While traveling down south, two college kids Bill Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and Stanley Rothenstein (Mitchell Whitfield) find themselves mistakenly arrested for murdering a convenience store clerk in Alabama. Thinking that they are accused of shoplifting, the buddies sign the avowal of their guilt. With no money and no one to turn to for help, Bill decides to call his lawyer cousin, Vincent Laguardia Gambini (Joe Pesci). The brash Vinny, who has never tried a criminal case, has secret weapon – he can outtalk anyone. With his glib-talking, sexy girlfriend Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei) in tow, Vinny heads to the small Southern town to get the hapless pair out of trouble. |
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| Rating: 7.0 |
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Based on the true story of a Toronto bank manager, Dan Mahowny is addicted to gambling. Horses and sports are only a few of his interests. Eventually, he creates dummy accounts at his bank and uses that money to fly to Atlantic City to gamble. He seems to get little joy from winning and his addiction is such that he is unable to stop in any event. Even if he wins huge amounts - which he does - he simply continues to play until he has lost it all. It's a frighteningly lonely experience that cannot include friends or anyone else around him. In the end, his hours and hours at the tables give him nothing and as his embezzlement catches up to him, he is arrested and sent to jail. |
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| Rating: 6.8 |
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In early 19th century California the masked swordsman hero Zorro was a champion of the people against the tyranny of Spanish rule, represented by the ruthless Governor Montero. Unfortunately, on the eve of his greatest triumph, the liberation of California, Montero learns of Zorro's secret identity as Don Diego de la Vega and attacks the rebel in his home leaving him imprisoned, his wife dead and his daughter abducted to be claimed as the child of Montero. Twenty years pass, and Montero returns to California intent on a foul plan to bring it under his total control. Upon learning of his return, Don Diego escapes from his long imprisonment and prepares for his revenge. Part of it involves the training of an orphan who helped him as a boy to become his successor. Together, the two must prepare to do battle with Montero and his American henchman to save California and reunite with Diego's lost daughter. So once again, the enemies of freedom and justice in California must fear of the man who leaves the mark of the Z. |
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| Rating: 6.8 |
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For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy. |
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| Rating: 6.6 |
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In the 1950s, the comedy duo of Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) are at the height of their popularity. Their performance at America's night clubs is a stunning success; they have hordes of fervent devotees, money, and fame. Their patron looks after the golden boys so that they can have anything they care to ask for. Their round-the-clock telethon continues until a mysterious incident leads to the break-up of their partnership. Fifteen years later, young journalist Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) decides to lift the veil of mystery and get to know the whole truth from Morris and Collins' own lips. But she unexpectedly becomes swept into a swirling vortex of passion, lust, deception and betrayal... |
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| Rating: 6.5 |
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It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque "who-done-it" with an African-American theme. |
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| Rating: 6.3 |
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Robert (Ewan McGregor) works (until he gets fired and replaced by a robot) at a huge corporation as a cleaning man, while his dream is something less ordinary. Robert's boss daughter, beautiful and capricious Celine (Cameron Diaz) has everything one can possibly dream about, and she is bored. It seems utterly impossible for these two people to have a conversation, much less fall in love... But up there in the sky two angels O'Reilly (Holly Hunter) and Jackson (Delroy Lindo) have to make their paths cross. In a pretty stange way actually, but who cares if we speak of Destiny. |
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| Rating: 6.3 |
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When Mystery, Alaska's amateur hockey team accepts a challenge to play against the New York Rangers, the entire population must put their petty differences aside and pull together as their small town becomes the center of a nationally televised event. |
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| Rating: 6.0 |
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An aging but strong distinguished-looking man, Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery), is known as the world's greatest art thief who has never been caught in flagrante. After the theft of an invaluable Rembrandt painting from a New York skyscraper, Mac meets another talented thief, Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones). The charming woman is in fact an ingenious insurance investigator who hopes to win Robert's confidence and entrap him. They start collaborating and their first team task of stealing an ancient Chinese gold mask is done skillfully. Inspired by this success, they come up with a new, even more daring scheme for an eight billion dollar heist from the world's largest bank that is supposed to be done during the last ten minutes before the new millennium. As usual, a love affair takes place between a man and a woman, so Mac and Gin are fated to fall victim to Cupid's arrows. |
| Twins
[1988,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| Only their mother can tell them apart. |
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| Rating: 5.9 |
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Many years ago an experiment was conducted to produce a perfect human being. Unfortunately there was a problem. The zygote split unevenly leaving two children - one with strength, brains, personality and love and the other one with what else was left! Both children were raised seperately at different locations until one day the two unite and help one another find their long lost mother. |
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| Rating: 5.9 |
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Two brothers, Ernie and Lars Smuntz (Nathan Lane, Lee Evans), inherit a string factory from the very old father, and an out-of-town, running-down mansion. The mansion was built by a very famous architector and many people want to buy it but the brothers have promised not to sell the building. When the auction is being held, it gets wrecked by a common... mouse! Later the mouse turns out to be not as common as it seems and brothers begin an all-out war against the advanced rodent. They invite the tough anti-pest specialist (Walken), but he gets ruined by the victorious mouse as well! Who will win this fight?
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| Rating: 5.9 |
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Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks.. |
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| Rating: 5.5 |
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Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on. |
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| Rating: 5.5 |
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When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash. |
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| Rating: 5.1 |
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Pirates, treasures, Jamaica. The daughter (Geena Davis) of a dying pirate gets a peace of the secret map, which can lead her to the Spanish treasure, which is buried on some mysterious island. Her father was killed by her uncle, and she desperately wants to take a revenge upon the fratricidal pirate named "Dawg" (Frank Langella). She realizes that the second peace of the map is in the hands of her bloody enemy, and begins to recruit the ship crew at Port Royal. Then it turns out to be that one of the men she recruited, William Shaw (Matthew Modine), has the last (third) part of the map. But the bloodthirsty unkle Dawg still has its second part. Thus... let the battle begin!
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| Rating: 5.0 |
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Samantha Sherwood has worked with the well-known director Jonathan Stryker on all his major films. She naturally assumes she has been given the title role in his latest venture, "Audra". He tells her that she nn needs to do some background research on the part, so arranges to have her committed to an asylum (as Audra is a former psychiatric patient). She goes along with this, not realising that he intends to leave her there indefinitely and audition six young women of various professions for the part instead. She finally manages to escape, and returns to the spooky old mansion where the auditions are taking place. But who is causing the disappearances of the young hopefuls?? Is it Samantha? Stryker? Or is one of the actresses willing to kill for the coveted part?? Just who is the killer behind the old-hag mask??? |
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| Rating: 4.2 |
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Beethoven is back, and this time, he's bringing the kids! It's the further adventures of the Newton family and their lovable, lumbering pal, Beethoven. In this second "symphony" of the Beethoven saga, our hero meets Missy, the lady Saint Bernard of his dreams. Unfortunately, they are soon separated by Regina, Missy's hateful owner who is using her as a bargaining chip in an ugly divorce. But love finds a way, and the result is four adorable, roly-poly puppies. The prospect of four valuable, purebred pups appeals to Regina's greed, but the Newton kids come to the rescue and bring home the cuddly canines. Now if they can just convince Dad to adopt the huge, messy bundles of joy . . . Mission accomplished! But Missy is still in Regina's evil clutches. Will Missy, Beethoven and their puppies ever be reunited? And will Regina finally get what she deserves? |
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