Ron Silver
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Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series.
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter,...
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter,...
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An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk.
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Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and beloved silent-film star, the exquisite Eve Frame (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll into...
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2002.
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Widescreen version.
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Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor, who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.
6) Ali
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[2002]
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[Widescreen version].
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English
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Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight champion title thus stripped from him entirely for political...
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1998, 1996.
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In the Arrival, radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky follows an extra-terrestrial radio signal and discovers a plot of alien invasion. In Arrival II, an investigative reporter and reluctant computer programmer must convince the government that a sinister alien conspiracy could wipe out the human species.
9) Timecop
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1998.
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English
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In the year 2004, time travel is not only a reality, it's an opportunity-- for criminals of the future to alter the past for profit and power. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this sci-fi action-thriller as embittered timecop Max Walker-- toughest member of the elite "Time Enforcement Commission" which was created to enforce one simple rule: no one goes back. But Walker may have met his match in the person of Senator McComb, a corrupt ruthless politician...
10) The Entity
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2005
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Widescreen.
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The Entity has come for Carla. She doesn't know what it is or why it has chosen her, but she is its victim. The Entity won't kill Carla because it has other things in mind for her.
12) The arrival
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©1997, ©1996.
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Radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky (Sheen) believes he's picked up a cosmic noise that signals extraterrestrial intelligence. But after turning over the tape to his boss Phil Gordian (Silver), Zane's fired, his girlfriend (Polo) gets transferred and his partner is found dead from a supposed suicide. Zane's desperate search for answers leads him to Mexico and a mysterious power plant, generating more than electricity and run by people who are not what...
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2001.
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Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow attempt to murder his wife Sunny at their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? The tabloids of the day certainly had their opinions. "You have one thing in your favor, " defense attorney Alan Dershowitz told von Bulow, "Everybody hates you." Reversal of Fortune is the acclaimed movie version of events that had all America talking. Jeremy Irons plays von Bulow in an Academy Award winning performance of icy brittleness...
15) Garbo talks
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2010.
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A woman whose days are numbered has one request--to meet Greta Garbo. This comedy relates her son's often hilarious search for the elusive screen legend.
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[2003]
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Widescreen version.
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Journey into the world of high-stakes espionage with the gripping true-life tale of Robert Hanssen, the respected FBI agent who betrayed his family, his religion, and his country. He is the daring traitor who sells America's nuclear secrets to the KGB, and enters into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that could cost him his life.
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