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Oddball
An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their s...
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Moondance Alexander
The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has j...
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Strange Voices
A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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Heartburn
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a d...
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Up Close & Personal
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, vete...
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Without Consent
After being sent to an abusive psychiatric facility by her well-meaning parents, a rebellious teenager must fight for her release.
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Caught in Time
A detective tracks down a gang of criminals ten years after they initially evaded arrest.
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Plastic
Sam and Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist t...
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For My Daughter's Honor
Fourteen-year-old high school student, Amy Dustin, becomes an object of romantic affection to the school's biology teacher and football coach, Pete Nash. They take a sudden interest in each other, sen...
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Angus Buchan's Ordinary People
The plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's messa...
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