David V. Picker
1) Beat Street
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"The story of Kenny, a young hip-hop artist living in the rough slums of the Bronx with his younger brother Lee and their mother Cora. Kenny dreams of making it big as a disk jockey and playing in the most swank of Manhattan nightclubs, The Roxy. Into their lives comes Tracy, a composer and assistant choreographer from New York College who inspires him to try to continue his dream while romance begins to grow between them despite coming from different...
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A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
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Reverend Jonas Nightengale is a slick-as-oil flimflam man who will trade salvation for a donation to his touring ministry. Jonas knows how to work a crowd and a con. When his tour bus breaks down, Jonas pitches his tents in Kansas. While his alluring manager tries to persuade the local sheriff not to close the show, Jonas sets his sights on a beautiful girl named Marva. However, making a believer out of Marva is going to take a real miracle.
5) Royal Flash
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It is 19th-century Europe, and Captain Harry Flashman is a gutless bully who seeks admission into high European society. Seeing a chance to promote their own menacing political schemes, devious Otto von Bismarck and Rudi von Sternberg convince Flashman to disguise himself as a Prussian noble so that he can marry a gorgeous duchess. However, the hoax is discovered, and Flashman flees the continent, experiencing one calamity after another-- as well...
6) The jerk
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A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
7) Casting by
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The film, focusing on casting director Marion Dougherty, is a celebration of the casting profession, highlighting its previously unsung role in film history while also serving as an elegy to the lost era of the New Hollywood, combining interviews, extensive archival footage, animated stills and documents.
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The love story continues. Ryan O'Neal returns as Oliver Barrett IV in Oliver's Story, based on Erich Segal's follow-up novel to Love Story. Candice Bergen (TV's Murphy Brown) brings elegant charm to the role of Marcie Bonwitt, a recently divorced career woman. The two are a perfect match-equally rich and beautiful, equally independent and yet vulnerable from their respective losses, and equally shy about commitment to another person. Through his relationship...