The Great Movies Game

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You're Not You (2014) stars: Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel .....


A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

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Z (2019) Stars: Keegan Connor Tracy, Jett Klyne, Sean Rogerson

A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.

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August Rush (2007) Stars: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

An orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift to try to find his birth parents..

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Bound......Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano

Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar..

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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018 based on the 2008 confessional memoir of the same name by Lee Israel.) Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant

Lee Israel is a frustrated, hard-drinking author who can barely afford to pay her rent or bills in 1990's New York. Desperate for money, Israel soon hatches a scheme to forge letters by famous writers and sell them to bookstores and collectors.

Sidebar: Grant won best supporting male actor for his role in the movie....

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Diamond Men stars: Robert Forster, Donnie Wahlberg

Eddie Miller (Forster) has spent his life traversing the roads of Pennsylvania, selling diamonds and jewelry to small shops. After a heart attack makes him an insurance risk, his company informs Eddie that it's time he trains his replacement, Bobby Walker ( Wahlberg), a coarse, brash young man with no sales experience.

IMHO this is a well done movie and often overlooked.......

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Enough Said (2013)stars:Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini


Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a divorced single parent, seems generally happy but dreads her daughter's departure for college. Unexpectedly, Eva begins a romance with Albert (James Gandolfini), a nice man with whom she has much in common.

Sidebar: Yes definitely a chick flick,but if you like these actors you'll like this movie...

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Flawless 2007 (Make sure it's Michael Caine & Demi Moore. There is also another movie with the same exact title (1999) that stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Robert De Niro.


In 1960s London, an elderly janitor convinces a glass-ceiling constrained executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.

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Gia is a 1998 American television biographical HBO film about the life and times of one of America's first supermodels, Gia Marie Carangi. The film stars Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, as Wilhelmina Cooper, Mercedes Ruehl, and Elizabeth Mitchell.

Gia Carangi is a Philadelphia native who moves to New York City to become a fashion model, and immediately catches the attention of powerful agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gia's attitude and beauty help her rise quickly to the forefront of the modeling industry, but her persistent loneliness, especially after the death of Wilhelmina, drives her to experiment with mood-altering drugs such as cocaine and heroin.

She becomes entangled in a passionate affair with Linda, a make-up artist. Their love affair first starts when both pose nude for a photo shoot and make love afterward. Gia tries to get clean and begins taking methadone. However, Gia eventually starts using again, and Linda gives her an ultimatum.

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The Holiday (2006) Kate Winslet Cameron Diaz

The Holiday is an entertaining romp that succeeds on a level of pure escapism. The story follows two strangers Iris and Amanda - as they impulsively decide to swap houses for a couple of weeks, with Iris moving to Los Angeles and Amanda heading for England. Romance ensues after Amanda encounters Iris' smoldering brother Graham (Jude Law) and Iris forms a tentative bond with outgoing composer Miles (Jack Black). Meyers' screenplay hits all of the notes promised by the premise - including, of course, at least one fake break-up - and yet there's no denying the effectiveness of both Meyers' light-hearted touch and the almost uniformly likeable performances.

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The Ides of March...


Clooney's most accomplished directorial effort, The Ides of March details the behind-the-scenes turmoil of a political campaign as viewed through the eyes of a young but experienced strategist (Ryan Gosling's Stephen Meyers) - with the film inevitably exploring the betrayals and backstabbings that are part and parcel with the political world. For much of its first half, The Ides of March comes off as an entertaining yet far-from-engrossing drama that is, predictably, elevated by its performances - as Clooney has elicited stellar work from an impressive cast that includes, among others, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, and Evan Rachel Wood. (And this is to say nothing of Gosling's consistently mesmerizing turn as the movie's affable hero.)

The progressively compelling atmosphere ensures that The Ides of March has, by the time it reaches its memorable conclusion, established itself as one of the most intriguing and flat-out engaging political dramas to come around in quite some time, with the protagonist's unexpectedly perilous journey ensuring that the film is often far more suspenseful than one might have initially anticipated....

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John wick with keenu reeves ☺

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King's Speech......

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Laura...1944 Stars: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb

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Misery...........Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates

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Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)


One of Hitchcock's nastiest and most effective thrillers sees cynical CIA agent Cary Grant essentially prostituting the woman he's falling for (Ingrid Bergman, luminous) so as to net creepy, mother-fixated neo-Nazi Claude Rains in postwar Brazil.

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On Golden Pond (1981).

Starring: Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda …


Movie trivia (found here): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082846/

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Phantom of the opera



As a Broadway play, it is the best (the film, not so much). It’s based on the novel written back in 1910 by Gaston Leroux.

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Queen of the Desert (starring, Nicole Kidman)

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Rain Man (starring, Dustin Hoffman & Tom Cruise 1988)