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1) Pretty Bird
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Based on a true story, this comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs set out to invent a rocket belt. The venturesome partnership soon takes an unhealthy toll as their mismatched personalities clash and some unexpected success lead to retaliations and kidnapping in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
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James Krippendorf, is an anthropologist and a single dad trying to raise three kids and he's having a tough time of it. For the past two years, he's been living off a proxmire foundation grant to study an "undiscovered" tribe in New Guinea. Word comes that his lecture is due, but he's not ready. There is no tribe. and he's spent all the money rearing his dysfunctional children. As he bluffs his way through his presentation, he's shocked when informed...
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Kevin Caffery (Martin Lawrence) is a professional thief with taste and style who gets a tip for an easy heist: Billionaire tycoon Max Fairbanks' (Danny DeVito) unoccupied beachfront mansion. But as Kevin is tossing Faberge eggs into his professional pillowcase, he finds himself face to face with the billionaire. Just before the cops drag Kevin away, Max spies Kevin's good-luck ring and decides to claim it as his own. Only one problem...the ring was...
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Frank (Joel Murray) has had enough of the downward spiral of American culture. Divorced, recently fired, and possibly terminally ill, Frank feels he has nothing left to live for. However, instead of taking his own life, he embarks on a killing spree with cohort Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement, and together they launch a nation-wide assault on the country's dumbest, most irritating celebrities.
5) The Dukes
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Once a top-selling group, The Dukes are now barely making ends meet. Desperate to revive their career, the down-and-out singers hatch a plan to steal 35 pounds of gold, but before they can pull of the score of their lives, they need to tune up, get their act together, and learn how to crack a safe.
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Everyone hates Ward's wife and wants her dead. Especially Ward (Donald Faison). But when murderous fantasies accidentally get real, Ward and his pals have all new problems: Disposing of the body. Getting away with murder. Making their 3pm tee time. LET'S KILL WARD'S WIFE, Scott Foley's ("Scandal," "Grey's Anatomy," "The Unit") directorial debut, also stars Foley, Patrick Wilson, Amy Acker, and Nicolette Sheridan in a blackly comic caper about helping...
10) Harlem Nights
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Three generations of comedy legends star in this tale of nightclub owner Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) and his son Quick (Eddie Murphy), who fight to keep a vicious mobster and a corrupt police force from putting them out of business. Written by Eddie Murphy with an all star supporting cast including Redd Foxx, Della Reese, Arsenio Hall, Jasmine Guy, and Danny Aiello, Harlem Nights is an action packed comedy treasure!
11) Where's Marlowe?
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Sam Spade. Philip Marlowe. Joe Boone. You always remember the great detectives. Joe Boone? Well, he aspires to greatness. But right now he's more defective than detective. The time-honored world of the private eye gets a new spin in this quirky and very funny mockumentary. Miguel Ferrer plays Boone, a luckless P.I. prowling the L.A. underworld while young documentary filmmakers A.J. (John Livingston) and Wilton (rap star Mos Def) follow him with...
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All gangster Tommy Spinelli wants to do is board a plane and get to San Diego so that he can deliver his carry-on duffel bag to his boss. Unfortunately, the bag is dumped during boarding and is switched with that of a Mexican-bound medical student...who has no idea that the bag he now carries contains the severed heads of eight Los Angeles gangsters.
13) Hit By Lightning
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The loneliest man in North America finally meets the perfect woman but theres only one catch - she's married and wants him to kill her husband.
14) True Identity
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The world may be a stage, but for Miles Pope, a struggling black actor in New York, life is one discouraging audition after another. Determined to maintain his artistic and racial integrity, Miles is above accepting the stereotypical roles he's invariably offered. Suddenly, it looks like the curtain may come down on his life before it ever goes up on his career -- flying home from another failed acting assignment his plane begins to crash. In...
15) Apple Pie
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A gangster relates the story of how he started his life of crime, beginning when as a child he faked his own kidnapping in order to get money from his parents for the "ransom". However, it turns out that the "gangster" may not be exactly what he seems.
16) Hollywood & Wine
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An aspiring actress impersonates her celebrity look-alike nemesis in order to save her boyfriend from a trigger-happy mobster. It's the performance of her life…with his on the line.
17) The Jerky Boys
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The Jerky Boys popular audio tapes of prank phone calls have created a cult following across the country, and prompted the making of their first motion picture. This movie is based on Brennan's and Kamal's sensational album of hilarious crank phone calls, which quickly became a solid gold record when it was released. their second album, debuted at #12 on billboard's top 200 chart, and went gold in only 13 days. Now, the two previously anonymous phone...
18) Weirdsville
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On a strange night in an even stranger town, three junkies find themselves on the run from a satanic cult, a vengeful drug dealer, and a cabal of knights.
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Uncle Frankie (Danny Trejo) is not the kind of guy you want to meet in a dark alley. Especially when you owe him money and have been giving him the slip for a few years. Such is the fate of Lorenzo Adams (Gary Moore), a top bill collector at Lump Sum Collections. Uncle Frankie has tracked Lorenzo to Norfolk, Virginia and is coming to collect. With his back to the wall, Lorenzo finds no one to help but Pastor Kevin (Ron Kenoly) and desperate down-and-outers...
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