Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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Year:1987
Director:John Hughes
Written by:John Hughes (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
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44 Inch Chest

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Year:2009
Director:Malcolm Venville
Written by:Louis Mellis (Screenplay), David Scinto (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
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Hunger

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Year:2008
Director:Steve McQueen
Written by:Enda Walsh (Writer), Steve McQueen (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
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Michael Clayton

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Year:2007
Director:Tony Gilroy
Written by:Tony Gilroy (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
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Mr. Destiny

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Year:1990
Director:James Orr
Written by:James Orr (Screenplay), Jim Cruickshank (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks..
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Denise Calls Up

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Year:1995
Director:Hal Salwen
Written by:Hal Salwen (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax. They are all too busy to meet face to face. Gale plays matchmaker, by phone, to Jerry and Barbara who, in turn, hit it off beautifully – via phone and fax. Martin gets a telephone call from someone he's never met. It's Denise, with some extraordinary news. Tapping away at his computer all the while, he develops a sort of friendship with Denise – via phone. And so it goes as the friends, tap, tap, tapping away, share news, hopes, and dreams – via phone and fax. Finally Gale has an unfortunate encounter with a phone, Denise has some more news for Martin, and Frank plans a gala New Year's Eve party, but will he answer the door?
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The Great Outdoors

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Year:1988
Director:Howard Deutch
Written by:John Hughes (Writer)

Script Synopsis:It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.
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For Colored Girls

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Year:2010
Director:Tyler Perry
Written by:Tyler Perry (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
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Idiocracy

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Year:2006
Director:Mike Judge
Written by:Mike Judge (Author), Mike Judge (Screenplay), Etan Cohen (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
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Matewan

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Year:1987
Director:John Sayles
Written by:John Sayles (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
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