Escape From New York

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Year:1981
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:Nick Castle (Screenplay), John Carpenter (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash lands on the island, the authorities turn to a former soldier and current convict to rescue him.
*4858

The Beaver

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Year:2011
Director:Jodie Foster
Written by:Kyle Killen (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his parents to get a divorce. Jodie Foster directs and co-stars as Walter's wife in this dark comedy that also features Riley Thomas Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence.
*4857

How to Train Your Dragon

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Year:2010
Director:Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Written by:Cressida Cowell (Novel), Will Davies (Screenplay), Dean DeBlois (Screenplay), Chris Sanders (Screenplay), Stephan Franck (Storyboard)

Script Synopsis:As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father
*4856

Captain America

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Year:1990
Director:Albert Pyun
Written by:Stephen Tolkin (Screenplay), Joe Simon (Characters), Jack Kirby (Characters)

Script Synopsis:During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America." Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie "Red Skull", Captain America winds up frozen until the 1990s. He reawakens to find that the Red Skull has changed identities and is now planning to kidnap the President of the United States.
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Get Low

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Year:2009
Director:Aaron Schneider
Written by:Chris Provenzano (Screenplay), C. Gaby Mitchell (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
*4854

Super

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Year:2010
Director:James Gunn
Written by:James Gunn (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
*4853

The Bang Bang Club

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Year:2011
Director:Steven Silver
Written by:Steven Silver (Screenplay), Greg Marinovich (Novel), João Silva (Novel)

Script Synopsis:In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.
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Bad Santa

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Year:2003
Director:Terry Zwigoff
Written by:Glenn Ficarra (Screenplay), John Requa (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.
*4851

Bad News Bears

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Year:2005
Director:Richard Linklater
Written by:Bill Lancaster (Screenplay), Glenn Ficarra (Screenplay), John Requa (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
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Regarding Henry

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Year:1991
Director:Mike Nichols
Written by:J.J. Abrams (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.
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