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Amadeus

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The story begins in 1823 as the elderly Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) attempts suicide by slitting his throat while loudly begging forgiveness for having killed Mozart (Tom Hulce) in 1791. Placed in a lunatic asylum for the act, Salieri is visited by Father Vogler (Richard Frank), a young priest who seeks to take his […]

Waiting To Exhale

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Four African-American women, Bernie (Angela Bassett), Savannah (Whitney Houston), Robin (Lela Rochon), and Gloria (Loretta Devine), go through different stages of love and life. The four friends get together to provide support, listen to each other vent about life and love, and have fun, as they go through life’s trials and tribulations. Bernadine abandons her […]

Accidental Tourist

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Lawrence Kasdan adapted Anne Tyler’s novel into this comedy in which William Hurt plays a depressed travel writer struggling to come to terms with his son’s death. He buys a dog for companionship, then hires an eccentric dog trainer (Geena Davis) to teach it to behave. She, in turn, teaches him to reconnect to life. […]

Coal Miner’s Daughter

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Loretta Lynn (Sissy Spacek) is one of eight children born to Ted Webb (Levon Helm), a coal miner raising a family despite grinding poverty in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky (pronounced by locals as “Butcher Holler”). She marries Oliver Vanetta (Doolittle) “Mooney” Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones) when she is 15 years old. A mother of four by […]