Alan J. Pakula
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A relentlessly kooky coed falls in love with a reserved young college student. She actively pursues the shy boyish-man and helps him through the tough first months in school. They both benefit from the relationship; he gains self-confidence and she's now able to come to grips with her unhappy home life.
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Criterion collection volume 1064
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"Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle's Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady...
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Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky to tell him she's pregnant and needs a doctor for an abortion. He finds her a doctor and they work together to raise the money. Can these two strangers find love with one another before it's too late?
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Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect, and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirlpool of lies and secrets.
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Controversial classics volume 2
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The story of the investigation of the Watergate break-in by two Washington Post reporters that drove a U.S. president from office.
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"New York's Calvin Coolidge High begins the new school year. With no chalk. No books. Too many students. Over clanging bells, the P.A. booms, "Please disregard all bells." It might say, "Please disregard all learning." Academy-Award winner Sandy Dennis stars as an idealistic new teacher in this straight-A movie from Bel Kaufman's beloved best seller."--Container.
12) Klute
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Criterion collection volume 987
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"Bree Daniels [is] a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the focal point of a missing-person investigation when detective John Klute turns up at her door ... Klute is a character study thick with dread, capturing the mood of early-1970s New York and the predicament of a woman trying to find her own way on the fringes of society."--
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Daisy Clover is a 15 year old Tomboy who dreams of being a Hollywood star. After auditioning for producer Raymond Swan of Swan Studios she becomes the toast of Hollywood. Daisy must then come to terms with her new found fame and the 1930's Hollywood star treatment. She is considered a has-been by the time she turned seventeen. Daisy's meteoric rise to stardom and even faster fade-out is chronicled in an incisive behind-the-scene tour of vintage Hollywood....
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Bobby Deerfield: Bobby Deerfield is a world-renowned race car driver. When a colleague is killed in an explosive crash, Bobby's world is thrown into chaos, complicated by a beautiful woman who steals his heart.
Baby, the rain must fall: A man is released from prison, but reuniting with his family is difficult due to his violent temper.
The chase: The moral foundation of a small Texas town is torn apart in this explosive drama about power and greed.
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