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Birds of America
(M)
2009
Morrie, who gave up most of his youth raising his younger siblings, now lives in the family home with his wife, Betty. He's a college professor desperately seeking tenure, but must earn it from a seemingly "perfect" fellow professor who happens to live next door. After Morrie's unstable brother, Jay, suffers a near death experience, both he and his equally unstable sister return to live with Morrie and Betty. As the conditions around his work and home life heat up, Morrie learns that living in denial has a way of catching up with you.
2009
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Amelia (Blu-ray)
(PG)
2009
After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light," known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own, outspoken woman never changed. She was an inspiration to people everywhere, from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Cherry Jones) to the men closest to her heart: her husband, promoter and publishing magnate George P Putnam (Golden Globe-winner Richard Gere), and her long time friend and lover, pilot Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). In the summer of 1937, Amelia set off on her most daunting mission...

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Amelia
(PG)
2009
After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light," known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own, outspoken woman never changed. She was an inspiration to people everywhere, from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Cherry Jones) to the men closest to her heart: her husband, promoter and publishing magnate George P Putnam (Golden Globe-winner Richard Gere), and her long time friend and lover, pilot Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). In the summer of 1937, Amelia set off on her most daunting mission...

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11:14
(MA15+)
2003
11:14 tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14 PM The story starts at 11:14 pm one evening with a young man named Jack who is driving down the freeway, on his way to a rendezvous with his girlfriend. His car hits a body at that moment. Thinking he killed him, Jack tries to hide the body. From there, we backtrack to follow the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge and become party to Jack's hitting the body at 11:14 pm.

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2003
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PS I Love You
(M)
2007
Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly (Hilary Swank) and Gerry (Gerard Butler). Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other. Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed "PS, I love you". As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than...

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Freedom Writers
(M)
2007
Freedom Writers is an inspirational tale and testimony to courage, hope and the human spirits triumph over intolerance. Hilary Swank portrays a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what theyve always needed a voice. She inspires her students to overcome the gangs that divided them and the education system that forgot them.

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The Reaping
(M)
2007
Hilary Swank plays Katherine Winter, a former Christian missionary who lost her faith after her family was tragically killed and has since become a world-renowned expert in disproving religious phenomena. But when she investigates a small Louisiana town that is suffering from what appears to be the Biblical plagues, she realises that science cannot explain what is happening and she must regain her faith to combat the dark forces threatening the community.

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The Black Dahlia
(MA15+)
2006
In 1940s Los Angeles, two cops - Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and his partner Lee Blanchard - investigate the death of Elizabeth Short, a young woman found brutally murdered. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department. Based on the novel by James Ellroy.

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Iron Jawed Angels
(MA15+)
2004
Lead, follow or get out of the way. Oscar-winner Hilary Swank stars in a fresh and contemporary look at a pivotal event in American history, telling the true story of how a pair of defiant and brilliant young activists took the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

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Red Dust
(M)
2004
Let the truth set you free Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank heads up this intense thriller set during South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation hearings and its decisive struggle to heal the wounds of apartheid atrocities. The film's thrilling narrative follows African National Congress Member of Parliament Alex Mpondo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and human rights lawyer Sarah Barcant (Swank) who find their lives changed forever by a hearing in the small town of Smitsriver.
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2004
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Eastwood plays boxing trainer, Frankie Dunn, a man who has become emotionally locked up and unable to allow himself to get close to anyone since a painful estrangement from his daughter. Frankie runs an LA gym with ex-boxer, Eddie Scrap-Iron (Morgan Freeman) who narrates the story. Into Frankie’s life walks Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), a young woman whose life has been a constant struggle but who is determined to be a boxer – with Frankie as her trainer. Frankie tells her she is too old and that he does not train girls – but by sheer force of will, she wins him over and he takes her on. Their relationship is both confrontational and inspiring for both as they head...

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Academy Award® Winner Hilary Swank gives a compelling performance as The Next Karate Kid - the final instalment in the Karate Kid saga. This time Mr Miyagi’s ( Morita ) newest student is the recently orphaned and troubled granddaughter of an old war buddy. Through karate he must teach her to control her anger and learn the value of courage and self-respect. If you’re a fan of the Karate Kid , you’ll love this latest chapter in the series.

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Boys Don't Cry
(R18+)
1999
Based on a true story, this drama was adapted from the life of Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, a woman who chose to live her life as a man and suffered tragic consequences as a result. In 1993, 20-year-old Brandon (Hilary Swank) leaves Lincoln, Nebraska for the nearby community of Falls City, where she sports a crew cut, favors jeans and boots, and is regarded as a man by most of the people in town. While Brandon's friend Lonny (Matt McGrath) warns her that sexual outsiders aren't looked upon kindly in Falls City, she develops a reputation for being something of a ladies' man, and is soon living with a single mother named Candace (Alicia Goranson). But when Brandon meets...

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The Core
(M)
2003
The Earth's inner core has stopped spinning, and scientist Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) must discover the cause before the world literally falls apart. He and a group of brilliant researchers burrow deep into the Earth's center in a subterranean vessel piloted by Major Beck Childs (Hilary Swank) and Col. Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood). There, they'll detonate a device that they hope will get the world to turn again ... before it's too late.

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Kounterfeit
(MA15+)
1996
Hopscotch (Andrew Hawkes "Backdraft"), a small time hood, is about to make the "score" of his lifetime. He is going to exchange three million in counterfeit dollars for a million of the real thing. Frankie (Bruce Payne "Passenger 57"), who is retired from his own life of crime, is brought in on the deal. When the exchange goes bad in a hail of gunfire, three men are dead, including DANNY (Mark-Paul Gosselaar TV's "Saved By The Bell") who is discovered to be an undercover agent. Much to the delight of Hopscotch and Frankie , the two friends find themselves in possession of both the counterfeit and real bills. Ecstatic to have come into all this unexpected...

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Insomnia
(M)
2002
Academy Award winners Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank lead an astounding cast and turn in powerful performances for the rivetting psychological thriller from the acclaimed director of Memento . When two LAPD detectives are sent to a remote Alaskan town to aid in the investigation of an alarming teen murder, they find themselves under the glare of the region's perpetual daylight. While closing in on the murderer, veteran officer Will Dormer's (Pacino) partner is killed, and the jaded cop is compromised by the calculated mind games of the primary suspect - a reclusive writer, Walter Finch (Williams). Sleep-deprived and guilt-ridden over his role in his partner's death, Dormer...

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Jeanne de la Motte-Valois knows what she wants. She also knows how to get it — by conniving, deceiving and betraying. And by doing it so scandalously that it helps send Queen Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Wealth and desire. Politics and corruption. Celebrity and sexuality. Jeanne combines them all in a scheme to acquire a diamond necklace that will enable her to buy back the royal status taken from her. Boys Don't Cry Academy Award winner Hilary Swank (as Jeanne), Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Walken and others form the witty and wicked gallery of characters torn from history's pages yet embellished with modern imagination. And Charles Shyer directs this fact-based...

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Blonde, bouncy Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is your typical high school cheerleader - her goal is to "marry Christian Slater and die" and nothing gets in her way when it's time to shop. But all that changes when a strange man (Donald Sutherland) informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires. With the help of a romantic rebel (Luke Perry), Buffy is soon spending school nights protecting L.A. from Lothos, the Vampire King (Rutger Hauer), his sidekick, Lefty (Paul Reubens), and their determined gang of bloodsuckers. It's everything you'd expect from a teen queen in the Valley.

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The Gift
(MA15+)
2000
In her latest Hollywood starring role, Academy Award nominee CATE BLANCHETT delivers a riveting performance as Annie Wilson, a small-town single mother who makes a living by using her clairvoyant talents to help her neighbours with personal and marital problems. But when a sexy young socialite goes missing, her fiancée and the local sheriff turn to Annie for help. Using her 'gift', Annie is able to lead them to the body and to the murderer...but she will discover that this supernatural odyssey is far from over when she faces the repercussions of her power and the depths of a gruesome murder mystery. From acclaimed director Sam Raimi ( A Simple Plan ) and a screenplay by Billy Bob...
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2000

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