Suzy Amis
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A gruesome scene adorns a pier in San Pedro, south of Los Angeles. Twenty-seven dead bodies. A burned-out ship smoldering in the harbor. An FBI agent assesses the carnage and learns of two survivors: one in the hospital, the other a cripple from New York being held in the DA's office. He heads to the hospital in search of answers.
3) Fandango
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Five college pals, graduating in 1971, have one last fling before moving on to face life.
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Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible identification...
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Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to...
6) Titanic
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This is a story of Jack and Rose, two people from different worlds who find each other and fall in love on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. When the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic, their passionate love affair becomes a race for survival.
7) Fandango
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"There's nothing wrong with going nowhere. It's a privilege of youth."FANDANGO: (fan-dang-go) 1. A lively Spanish dance. 2. The music for this. 3. A foolish act. Academy Award winner Kevin Costner stars as one of five young men about to graduate from college on the summer of 1971, who take one last, wild trip across West Texas before facing their lives as adults--which will include marriage, careers and service in the war in Vietnam--in this heartfelt...
8) Twister
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A tornado writhes across the sprawling family estate of soda pop and miniature golf magnate, Eugene Cleveland, but the family inside is oblivious to the weather because they are caught up in their own private whirlwind of off-beat opulence.