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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Film and Plot Synopsis Small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends grow up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side. Once Upon a Time in America follows them from the 1920s to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding. ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. We open the film with three thugs hunting 1932 New York’s Lower East Side Jewish sector for a marked man in a Chinese wayang theater. Before they could find him, the Chinese owners warn the opium-addicted man, a 30-something gangster named “Noodles”, and help him escape, but not before his girlfriend is gunned down and his friend, Fat Moe, is brutally tortured for Noodles’ whereabouts. Noodles sneaks in and saves Fat Moe by killing one of the gangsters. Shortly after, he finds out his three childhood friends, Patsy, Cockeye, and the char-broiled Max, were all killed in an ill-fated bank robbery. He goes to the local bus station before finding out he …
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Night Shift (1982)
What do you do in the 1980s when you’re bored? Well if you live in New York City, you head down to the local morgue to get laid.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The film begins with a flashback to Sméagol and his cousin Déagol fishing together on Sméagol’s birthday.
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Virtuosity (1995)
In Los Angeles of the future, Lieutenant Parker Barnes and John Donovan are tracking down a serial killer named SID 6.7 in a virtual reality program.
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Tom Horn (1980)
Tom Horn is a legendary frontier scout who helped track and capture the infamous Geronimo.
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Richie Rich (1994)
Richie Rich is the son of the richest man in the world, billionaire businessman Richard Rich.
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Greyhound (2020)
During the Battle of the Atlantic, Commander Ernest Krause captains the USS Keeling under the radio call sign Greyhound.
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National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
Clark Griswold is the ultimate family man who wants to give his family the ultimate vacation experience.
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The Midnight Sky (2020)
The year is 2049. A cataclysmic event has wiped out most of the life on Earth with powerful radiation.
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Dolittle (2020)
Dr. John Dolittle is a Welsh veterinarian in Victorian era Britain. Dolittle possesses the amazing ability to talk to animals.
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TRON (1982)
Film and Plot Synopsis Kevin Flynn is a current arcade owner, but former employee of the software corporation ENCOM. Flynn is attempting to find evidence of the theft of his intellectual property by his former company. When he breaks into the ENCOM building with two other programmers, Flynn is suddenly whisked away into the computer world where he is forced to compete in lethal computer games. To escape the computer world and return to his reality, he will be forced to join rebel programs in an attempt to free the cyberspace of the Master Control Program, an evil oppressive computer program that seeks to control both worlds. ‘TRON’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is a former software engineer for the computer corporation ENCOM. Flynn was fired by the corporation, who subsequently stole all of Flynn’s programs and made a fortune in the video game industry. Flynn has been spending his time since trying to hack into ENCOM’s mainframe system to find proof of his copyright. Additionally, he runs a successful video arcade on the side. ENCOM’s mainframe system is controlled by the Master Control Program (MCP) (David Warner). The MCP has ambitions of taking …
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Tenet (2020)
John David Washington plays the Protagonist, a CIA agent who participates in an undercover operation at a Kyiv opera house.
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