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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
»rank: 887
: essential video:Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socioeconomic sense a good catch: But what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find ...
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Love Among the Ruins
»rank: 1633
: essential video:Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socioeconomic sense a good catch: But what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find ...
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Tin Cup
»rank: 9449
: essential video:0ne of the better romantic comedies of the 1990s, this quirky love story stars Kevin Costner as washed-up golf pro Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy, who has the singular misfortune of falling in love with the girlfriend (Rene Russo) of his arch rival (Don Johnson). Although he is inspired to re-ignite his golf career, challenge his opponent in the U.S. 0pen, and win the affection of the woman of his dreams, McAvoy has just one flaw: he's a show off when he ...
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Trouble With Angels
»rank: 1283
: essential video:Actress-writer-director lda Lupino got one of her unfortunately rare opportunities behind a camera making this 1966 family comedy about two mischievous students (Hayley Mills, June Harding) making life difficult for the nuns at a girls' convent school. Rosalind Russell has a fine part as a mother superior vexed by their pranks and outwardly chilly until the girls catch her in a more private moment of emotional release. The script has an anecdotal structure--it's sort of one thing after another with Mills's ...
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Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985)
»rank: 10257
: essential video:Actress-writer-director lda Lupino got one of her unfortunately rare opportunities behind a camera making this 1966 family comedy about two mischievous students (Hayley Mills, June Harding) making life difficult for the nuns at a girls' convent school. Rosalind Russell has a fine part as a mother superior vexed by their pranks and outwardly chilly until the girls catch her in a more private moment of emotional release. The script has an anecdotal structure--it's sort of one thing after another with Mills's ...
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The Bishop's Wife
»rank: 1309
: :Perhaps if The Bishop's Wife had lapsed on its copyright and fallen into the public domain like lt's a Wonderful Life, it would be as much a Christmas staple as that classic. lt certainly deserves to be. Dudley (Cary Grant) is an angel sent down by the prayers of a new bishop (David Niven). The bishop is trying to build a new cathedral, and he's so entrenched in his fundraising that he's watching his own marriage crumble around him. Loretta Young is devoted, ...
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The Princess Bride
»rank: 5139
: essential video:Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top characters, the book's joy was dictated as much by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being sent up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic fable while keeping that ...
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My Man Godfrey
»rank: 6912
: essential video:Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top characters, the book's joy was dictated as much by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being sent up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic fable while keeping that ...
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If Looks Could Kill
»rank: 8110
:Description:ln a case of mistaken identity, a young man from Detroit becomes entangled in a web of European espionage, adventure and romance.
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Brother Rat
»rank: 7559
:Description:ln a case of mistaken identity, a young man from Detroit becomes entangled in a web of European espionage, adventure and romance.
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