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1) Happy feet
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A young penguin named Mumbles cannot sing like the other penguins but can he can tap dance and he learns that being different can be good.
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In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love.
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Fox and the hound : The Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound tells the story of a friendship between traditional enemies. Tod is a fox whose parents have died. His best friend is a hunting dog named Copper. As Copper grows up, he learns that it is his job to hunt foxes. Tod's caretaker Widow Tweed takes Tod to live in a game preserve where he falls madly in love with Vixey. Copper and his owner eventually enter the preserve to hunt Tod, and...
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With Neo trapped between the Matrix and the Source, there seems to be only one hope for humans and machines. One final battle must ensue, and the future of both races is at stake.
"This conclusion will satisfy devoted fans of the franchise..."--Jam! Movies
"And so the story ends...as expected, with a bang."--Movie Parables
"Sensational action."--Ebert & Roeper
6) Clueless
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15-year-old Cher, the matchmaking Beverly Hills High schooler, has shopping and boys on her mind. She leads a hectic lifestyle but keeps it all together until she starts to fall in love and finds she's 'clueless'. A loose adaptation of Jane Austen's 19th-century comedy of manners Emma.
Special features: Class of '95: a look at the cast, then and now -- Creative writing: Writer/Director Amy Heckerling talks about creating the world of "Clueless"...
7) Elf
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A human child raised by elves at the North Pole, learns of his human family and goes to live with them in New York City.
9) Deep impact
10) Winged migration
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Documentary on the migratory habits of birds across the seven continents.
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Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
13) Shackleton
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True story of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic adventures. Bound for Antartica in 1914, Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Ten months later, the ship sank, stranding Shackleton and his crew of 27. Based on the diaries and first person accounts of expedition members, the film tells of their ordeal and their 800-mile journey in an open boat across the world's worst seas that made their rescue possible.
14) Annie Hall
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Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
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In a secret world hidden beneath the floorboards, little people called Borrowers live quietly among us. But when tenacious and tiny Arrietty is discovered by Shawn, a human boy, their secret and forbidden friendship blossoms into an extraordinary adventure.
"As lovingly written as it is beautifully rendered."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"The lyrical animation, with its meditative attention to nature, bears the unique stamp of Japan's Studio Ghibli, cofounded...
18) The gilded age
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THE GILDED AGE presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
19) The prestige
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A bitter rivalry between two magicians turns deadly as one tries to find the secret to the other's most powerful trick. Bonus features include commentary, a photo gallery, and more.
"Two thumbs up!"--Roeper and A.O. Scott
"***1/2...you want to see it again the second it's over."--Rolling Stone
"A visually stunning, startlingly clever sleight of hand that will have audiences pondering well after the lights go up."--USA Today
20) Chicken Little
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Chicken Little has a difficult time convincing the town people of Oakley Oaks that the sky is really falling due to an earlier claim that turned out to be a false alarm.
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