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The Keep
»rank: 3153
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The Soldier
»rank: 361
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
»rank: 11109
: :Sometimes grace and hope come in surprising packages. The title character of Hedwig and the Angry lnch, a would-be glam-rock star from East Germany, undergoes a botched gender-change operation in order to escape from the Soviet bloc, only to watch the Berlin Wall come down on TV after being abandoned in a trailer park in middle America. Hedwig gets involved with Tommy, an adolescent boy who steals her songs and becomes a stadium-filling musical act. Suffering from a broken heart and a lust ...
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Hackers
»rank: 17625
: :As a depiction of the computer-hacker underground, this movie is bogus to the bone. As a thriller, it's cartoonish and conventional. The premise (computer-happy kids hack into the wrong system, and the Forces of Repression come after them) is recycled from John Badham's 1983 WarGames. And the corporate-creep bad guy, played by Fisher Stevens, steeples his fingers and growls mossy villainous clichés. ('By the time they realize the truth, we'll be long gone with all the money.') For all its postmodern trappings the ...
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White of the Eye
»rank: 14277
: :As a depiction of the computer-hacker underground, this movie is bogus to the bone. As a thriller, it's cartoonish and conventional. The premise (computer-happy kids hack into the wrong system, and the Forces of Repression come after them) is recycled from John Badham's 1983 WarGames. And the corporate-creep bad guy, played by Fisher Stevens, steeples his fingers and growls mossy villainous clichés. ('By the time they realize the truth, we'll be long gone with all the money.') For all its postmodern trappings the ...
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Spanking the Monkey (Unrated)
»rank: 11058
: :Jeremy Davies, so weaselly as the interpreter in Saving Private Ryan, got his break in this 1994 dark comedy debut by writer-director David 0. Russell. Davies plays a college student whose entire future seems to implode when his traveling-salesman father forces him to stay home for the summer and take care of his mother, who is recovering from a broken leg. ln anguish, he gives up a prestigious summer internship and moves back to the house where he grew up. There, he distracts ...
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Stone Cold Dead
»rank: 27098
: :Jeremy Davies, so weaselly as the interpreter in Saving Private Ryan, got his break in this 1994 dark comedy debut by writer-director David 0. Russell. Davies plays a college student whose entire future seems to implode when his traveling-salesman father forces him to stay home for the summer and take care of his mother, who is recovering from a broken leg. ln anguish, he gives up a prestigious summer internship and moves back to the house where he grew up. There, he distracts ...
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Seeds of Doubt
»rank: 10237
: :Jeremy Davies, so weaselly as the interpreter in Saving Private Ryan, got his break in this 1994 dark comedy debut by writer-director David 0. Russell. Davies plays a college student whose entire future seems to implode when his traveling-salesman father forces him to stay home for the summer and take care of his mother, who is recovering from a broken leg. ln anguish, he gives up a prestigious summer internship and moves back to the house where he grew up. There, he distracts ...
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Fortune Dane
»rank: 36747
: :Jeremy Davies, so weaselly as the interpreter in Saving Private Ryan, got his break in this 1994 dark comedy debut by writer-director David 0. Russell. Davies plays a college student whose entire future seems to implode when his traveling-salesman father forces him to stay home for the summer and take care of his mother, who is recovering from a broken leg. ln anguish, he gives up a prestigious summer internship and moves back to the house where he grew up. There, he distracts ...
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White of the Eye
»rank: 27287
: :Jeremy Davies, so weaselly as the interpreter in Saving Private Ryan, got his break in this 1994 dark comedy debut by writer-director David 0. Russell. Davies plays a college student whose entire future seems to implode when his traveling-salesman father forces him to stay home for the summer and take care of his mother, who is recovering from a broken leg. ln anguish, he gives up a prestigious summer internship and moves back to the house where he grew up. There, he distracts ...
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