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Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Picking up right after the events of the first Back To The Future, Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown has returned to October 26, 1985 from the future.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Frodo Baggins wakes from a nightmare where he sees Gandalf fighting the Balroq in Moria.
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The Equalizer (2014)
Robert McCall is a former Marine and DIA operative who lives a quiet life in Boston.
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Splash (1984)
Film and Plot Synopsis A young eight-year-old Alan Bauer nearly drowns as a child until he is saved by a mysterious mermaid girl. Years later, as an adult, Allen believes his childhood incident was a hallucination, but the incident has affected all his romantic relationships since. When Allen has a second encounter with same mermaid, who eventually goes by the name of Madison, his life is turned upside down. Allen and Madison are soulmates who are meant for each other, but can their love survive Madison’s revelation of her mermaid heritage let alone the pursuit of the scientists who wish to capture and study Madison, even if it kills her? ‘Splash’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. In 1964, young Allen Bauer (David Kreps) is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. The family takes a sight-seeing tour on a tourist boat, and while Allen’s parents are busy wrangling Allen’s brother Freddie, Allen jumps into the ocean after seeing something below the surface. Allen cannot swim, but a young mermaid girl (Shayla Mackarvich) saves him and assists him with breathing underwater. However, Allen is yanked back to the surface by people on the boat and reunited with his family. …
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Soul (2020)
Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) is a middle school music teacher who is trying desperately to inspire his students to the wonders of music.
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Film and Plot Synopsis In this second installment to the Wonder Woman film series, Diana lives amongst the population of the world in 1984. Now an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., Diane encounters an ancient artifact that has the power to grant the most desired wish of anyone who touches it. She also becomes friends with the timid and insecure Barbara Ann Minerva. When Diana touches the artifact and restores her one true love, Steve Trevor, to life, she also discovers that the wish also comes at a cost…Diana’s strength and power. However, will Diana choose to have a life with Steve or to continue to be Wonder Woman? ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. The film begins with a flashback to when Diana Prince (Lilly Aspell) is a young girl on Themyscira Island. Diana is competing in a multi-stage athletic competition against much older Amazons and holding her own. Diana takes a short cut during one of the competitions and is subsequently disqualified. Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), Diana’s mother, and Antiope (Robin Wright), Diana’s aunt, lecture her on the importance of truth. The film then flashes forward to 1984, sixty-six years after …
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial begins in a forested area on the outskirts of Suburbia, USA.
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Last Christmas (2019)
The film begins with a young Katarina “Kate” Andrich singing magnificently in church while her proud parents, Ivan and Petra Andrich watch proudly from the audience with their other daughter Marta.
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Black Christmas (1974)
Black Christmas begins from the perspective of an unknown man climbing up a trellis of Pi Kappa Sigma's sorority house as the girls throw a Christmas party in the college town of Bedford.
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A Christmas Carol (1938)
In one of the first adaptations of the classic Charlies Dickens’ tale, Reginald Owen plays the story’s central character of Ebenezer Scrooge.
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A Christmas Tale (2008)
Film and Plot Synopsis The Vuillard family gathers for Christmas time just after the family matriarch, Junon, is diagnosed with leukemia. Each member of the family submits to a bone marrow test to see if they are a compatible match for Junon. The black sheep of the family, Henri, is invited to celebrate with the family for the first time in six years. When Henri reveals that he is a positive match for Junon, he kicks off a holiday of family members revealing long held secrets and grudges against each other. ‘A Christmas Tale’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. The Vuillard family is a family that seems to be in constant conflict. The iron-willed matriarch of the family is Junon (Catherine Deneuve) who has been diagnosed just before Christmas with leukemia that will eventually kill her if she does not get a bone marrow transplant. Junon is married to Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon), an obese factory owner who is the stabilizing influence for the family. Junon and Abel have three living children and parented a fourth, Joseph, who died of leukemia at the age of six after they could not find a compatible donor for their child. Junon got …
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A Family Man (2000)
Young couple Jack Campbell and Kate Reynolds are at JFK Airport in New York just as Jack is about to leave to take up a twelve-month internship with Barclays in London.
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