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The Absent Minded Professor. (1961) Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Ed Wynn. Directed by Robert Stevenson. An eccentric college professor so wrapped up in his work that he forgets his own wedding day tries to re-kindle his romance, complete his work on his gravity defying formula and save Medfield College from financial ruin. Who can forget the classic scene when Fred MacMurray applies flubber to the shoes of the college basketball team?
Genres: Comedy, Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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ChucksConnection Rating: 
MPAA Rating: [G]
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Across the Sea of Time. (1996) Peter Reznik. Directed by Stephen Low. Armed with only some letters and ancient photos, an 11 year old Russian boy stows away on a freighter going to New York to fufill a dream of reuniting with his family that emigrated nearly 100 years earlier. (Adapted from IMAX)
Genres: Drama, Family.
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MPAA Rating: [G]
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Across the Tracks. (1991) Rick Schroeder, Brad Pitt, Carrie Snodgress, David Anthony Marshall. Directed by Sandy Tung. Two brothers, one recently released from reform school and the other a track star trying to qualify for a scholarship to Stanford University, conflict with each other over life styles and eventually on the running track.
Genres: Drama, Teenagers, Sports, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Adventures in Dinosaur City. (1992) Marc Martorana, Tony Doyle, R. A. Mihailoff, Don Barnes, Omri Katz, Shawn Hoffman. Directed by Brett Thompson. This improbable comedy involves three "ultra-modern" teenagers who accidentally get transported back in time to a world of animated dinosaurs.
Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Adventures in Spying. (1992) Bernie Coulson, Jill Schoelen, G. Gordon Liddy, Seymour Cassel, Corey Gunnestad, Michael Emil, Matthew Brooks. Directed by Hil Covington. A Rockwater, Washington teenager seeks a $50,000 reward and becomes involved with trying to stop a drug syndicate when he accidentally discovers that a major drug dealer, presumed dead in an explosion, is actually hiding out in his town at the house of a local chemistry professor.
Genres: Crime and Mystery, Teenagers, Adventure.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London. (2004) Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck, Anna Chancellor, Keith Allen. Directed by Kevin Allen. Nonstop action and international intrigue await Secret Agent Cody Banks when he is sent to London uncover as a virtuoso clarinet player in a youth orchestra to stop a madman from using a stolen mind control device to take over the world.
Genres: Comedy, Family, Action/Adventure.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: PG
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Alabama Moon. (2009) Jimmy Bennett, Gabriel Basso, Uriah Shelton, Clint Howard, John Goodman, J. D. Evermore. Directed by Tim McCanlies. After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven-year-old boy who has spent most of his life living isolated in the forest must learn to deal with the modern world.
Genres: Drama, Family, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Alien from L.A. (1988) Kathy Ireland, William R. Moses, Linda Kerridge, Richard Haines, Don Michael Paul, Thom Matthews, Janet Du Plessis. Directed by Albert Pyum. A nerdish teenager goes looking for missing archaeoligist father, and stumbles into a strange underground civilization.
Genres: Fantasy/Science Fiction.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Alien Raiders. (2008) Carlos Bernard, Matthew st. Patrick, Rockmond Dunbar, Courtney Ford, Jeffrey Licon, Samantha Streets, Derek Basco. Directed by Ben Rock. A group of masked and armed-to-the-teeth militants invades family grocery store in Arizona, immediately killing several of the employees and shoppers and holding the rest hostage. Though the hostage-takers at first appear to be robbers or terrorists, they reveal themselves to be a cadre of rogue scientists that has discovered and tracked an alien infestation to this store, and they are determined to find out which of the survivors are extraterrestrials and end the invasion at any cost.
Genres: Fantasy/Science Fiction, Horror.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Aliens in the Attic. (2009) Kevin Nealon, Robert Hoffman, Doris Roberts, Tim Meadows, Ashley Tisdale, Ashley Boettcher, Austin Butler, Carter Jenkins. Directed by John Schultz. The Pearson family kids take on a group of aliens who plan to conquer the Earth.
Genres: Fantasy/Science Fiction, Comedy.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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All I Want. (2002) Elijah Wood, Franka Potente, Mandy Moore, Chris Martin, Deborah Harry, Elizabeeth Perkins, Aaron Pearl. Directed by Jeffrey Porter. A shy, aspiring seventeen-year old writer drops out of college and rents a room at a boarding house where the quirky tenants teach him all about life and love.
Genres: Comedy, Romance.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Ambushed. (1998) Courtney Vance, Jeremy Lelliott, Virginia Madsen, William Forsythe, David Keith. Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. When a klan leader in a small southern town is murdered, his young son, an accidental witness to the crime, and the only black cop in the county sheriff's office, who is being framed for the murder, become unlikely and often antagonistic allies when the murderers want them both dead.
Genres: Drama, Action/Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Amelie. (2001) Audrey Tantou, Matthew Kassovitz, Serge Merlin, Clair Maurier, Isabelle Nanty, Marc Amyot, Rufus, Jamel Debboouze. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amerlie, a shy young waitress in Paris, decides to help people around her, and along the way discovers love. One of the clever mysteries of this film: who is the stranger wearing red high top chucks?
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sexually Explicit.
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MPAA Rating: R
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American Pie. (1999) Jason Biggs, Jennifer Coolidge, Shannon Elizabeth, Natasha Lyon, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eddie Kaye Thomas. Directed by Paul Weitz. This raunchy comedy involves four high school friends who make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night, and the often hilarious results of their attempts to score with the opposite sex.
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: R
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The Amityville Horror. (2005) Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Chloe Moretz, Rachel Nichols. Directed by Andrew Douglas. A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
Genres: Horror, Crime and Mystery.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Amityville 1992: It's About Time. (1992) Stephen Macht, Shwan Weatherly, Megan Ward, Damon Martin, Jonathan Penner, Nita Talbot. Directed by Tony Randel. When architect Jake Sterling brings home an antique clock found in the rubble of an Amityville construction project, he doesn't realize that the clock contains an evil spirit which soon begins to wreck havoc on his family and the local neighborhood.
Genres: Horror.
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MPAA Rating: R
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The Amy Fisher Story. (1993) Drew Barrymore, Anthony John Denison, Harley Jane Kozak, Tom Mason, Laurie Paton, Ken Pogue, Linda Darlow, Gabe Khouth, Garry Davey. Directed by Andy Tennant. The story of the Long Island teen who shoots and wounds the wife of a man she called her lover.
Genres: Drama, Crime and Mystery..
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MPAA Rating: R
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Currently unavailable on Region 1 DVD.
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Anaconda. (1997) Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stolz. Directed by Luis Llosa. This action/adventure pits a documentary film crew against snake hunter Paul Sarone, campily played by Jon Voight, and of course the Amazon River's giant anacondas.
Genres: Drama, Action/Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird! (1991) Marcia Strassman, Joshua John Miller, Edan Gross, John Quade, Sam Behrens, Alan Thicke, Susan Gikbney. Directed by Tony Cookson. Max and Josh Carson follow in their late fathers footsteps by inventing a series of robotic gadgets that win them the attention of unscrupulous adults who are interested in acquiring their inventions. This might be okay until after a Halloween party they discover that the spirit of their father has ended up in their latest invention, a robot called Newman.
Genres: Comedy, Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Andy and the Airwave Rangers. (1988) aka Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure. Randy Josselyn, Jessica Puscas, Dianne Kay, Chuck Kovacic, Vince Edwards. Directed by Deborah Brock. Andy Colby is asked to babysit his younger sister, but becomes involved in a series of adventures when she is pulled into the TV set by the evil Lord Chroma while watching an interactive video and he pursues to get her back. Pair this with Adventures in Dinosaur City for an evening of "reality tv".
Genres: Fantasy, Family, Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Angels in the Outfield. (1994) Danny Glover, Brenda Fricker, Tony Danza, Christopher Lloyd, Ben Johnson, Jay O. Sanders, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Milton Davis Jr.. Directed by William Dear. When a boy prays for a chance to have a family if the California Angels win the pennant, angels are assigned to make that possible.
Genre: Drama, Family, Sports.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Animal House. (1978) John Belushi, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst, Tim Matheson, Verna Bloom, Donald Sutherland, John Vernon, Douglas Kenney. Directed by Jon Landis. Probably the best fraternity comedy ever made with a classic comedy performance by John Belushi. It's too bad that the sexual subplot between college professor Donald Sutherland and student Karen Allen gives the film an "R" rating.
Genre: Comedy, Sexually Explicit.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Anne B. Real. (2003) Janice Richardson, Carlos Leon, Sherri Saum, Lady Mav, Ephraim Benton, Jackie Quinnones, Ernie Hudson. Directed by Lisa France. A young female rapper tries to make it in a male dominated genre, where she is exploited by her own half-brother and her own insecurity. She finds inspiration from a copy of the Diary of Anne Frank, left to her by her deceased father.
Genres: Drama, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: R
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The Applegates. (1991) Ed Begley, Jr. Stockard Channing, Dabney Colman, Bobby Jacoby, Carni Cooper. Directed by Michael Lehman. Man-eating Brazilian beetles take on human form and come to a suburaban American town so they can study and capture their prey, but fall victim to the foibles of suburbia.
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Are You Scared. (2006) Alethea Kutscher, Carlee Avers Erin Consalvi, Brad Ashten, Soren Bowie, Amy Lyndon, Kariem Markbury. Directed by Andy Hurst. After waking up in an abandoned factory, six kidnapped teens realize they are contestantson a reality show called "Are You Scared?"
Genre: Horror.
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MPAA Rating: R
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