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Her new life is over. For six years Annie Goodwin (Kate Capshaw) was an ordinary housewife and schoolteacher. But a dreaded phone call from her former employer is drawing Anne back to her hidden past - as a CIA operative in Cuba.

Another agent known as Dancer, the man who risked his life to help her escape, is now jailed on the island. But after returning to Cuba, it doesn't take long to discover that Dancer is a double agent and that Annie is his pawn. Dancer plans to sell Malarin to the Soviets and Anne has led them to his capture. Now she must act on her own and outmanoeuvre the agents of two superpowers to save the life of the man she really loves.

Armed with razor-sharp instincts and a licence to kill. James Bond battles diabolical arms merchants bent on world domination in this thrilling, lightning-paced adventure. Timothy Dalton brings energy, humour and ruthless cunning to his debut performance as Agent 007.

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The world's tallest building is skyscraping testimony to ingenuity and innovation. In the hands of "Master of Disaster", film producer Irwin Allen, it's also the world's tallest matchstick.

An all-star cast gathers for this tall story of lofty dimensions: eight Academy Award nominations and three Oscars. On the night of the building's dedication, fire erupts, trapping people on the upper floors...and igniting multiple tales of heroism and loss involving a firefighter, an architect and others caught in the steel-and-glass inferno. With starpower, pyrotechnics and suspense in abundance, The Towering Inferno sizzled at box offices worldwide.

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At the chaotic law firm of Crane Poole and Schmidt, there's no such thing as temporary insanity-it's more of a permanent condition!.

Amid torrid interoffice love affairs, and under the watchful eye of new senior partner Carl Sack, the firm's brilliant but volatile attorneys take on such burning social issues as grays in the military, mortgage foreclosures, obesity and cockfighting. Alan Shore faces the supreme court, Shirley Schmidt rekindles an old flame and Denny Crane is arrested for soliciting sex........again! John Larroquette joins fellow James Spader, William Shatner and Candice Bergen in Boston Legal's most outrageous season yet!

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Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife (Katie Holmes) and kids, dreads one event each year: the holiday visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler).

Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness drive Jack crazy and turn his normally tranquil life upside down. Things spin even more out of control for Jack when Jill decides to extend her visit, and he starts panicking that she'll never leave!

Life on the assembly line stinks. Glue the windshield...One car a minute. 55 an hour. 220,000 a year. The pay is lousy. The union is crooked. Life is an endless list of unpaid bills. And now, three workers are plotting the ultimate heist to set themselves free.

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Imagine if you could make anyone love you, look more beautiful, or punish your enemies just by casting a spell...Sarah (Robin Tunney) is a a 17-year-old with a troubled past. Uprooted by her parents and moved to L.A. where she begins the final year at St.

Benedict's Academy, Sarah is a lonely stranger - until she meets a brigade of black lipstick and nails: Nancy (Fairuza Balk), Bonnie (Neve Campbell) and Rochelle (Rachel True). These girls may never be in with the in-crowd - they're barely in with each other, but recently they have been dabbling in the strange world of witchcraft and the occult. With the addition of Sarah, their union is finally powerful enough to make their wishes come true...and dangerous enough to make their enemies very sorry!

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James Bond turns renegade to hunt down a master criminal in this pulse-pounding thrill-ride that's packed with awesome stunts, subtle humour and explosive confrontations.

Timothy Dalton brings urgency, charm and deadly determination to his portrayal of the super-agent, who leaves the British Secret Service arid begins a fierce vendetta after his friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison) is brutally attacked by drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi).

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Partly based on his own memoirs (Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War), Che: Part One follows Ernesto Che Guevara's transformation from humble physician to military leader during the Cuban Revolution, depicting his eventual overthrowing of the repressive Batista regime.

Meticulously researched and containing intense and realistic depictions of guerrilla warfare, this is a captivating portrait of one of the most controversial figures of the Twentieth Century. An astounding and moving story of one man's belief and the events that would eventually shape him into becoming a legendary symbol of rebellion and hope.

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When a young actress (Kristy McNichol) adopts a stray white Alsatian she hit with her car, she soon discovers that the dog has been conditioned to attack any black person on sight.

Its only chance is Keys (Paul Winfield), an animal trainer focused on breaking the dog's behaviour and finding a way to eradicate its vicious instincts.

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A renegade electronics wiz (Eric Bogosian) has seized the sleek Grand Continental passenger train, transforming it into a rolling command unit for an awesome weapons satellite. But the one passenger who eludes capture is Ryback (Steven Seagal).

The train is now a battleground, the satellite is locked onto its target and an oncoming freight train hauling gasoline is headed toward the Grand Continental. Can Ryback thwart the siege in time? All aboard!

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Charlton Heston is in the cockpit for this incredible adventure sequel as the only man who can save the 747 and its passengers when it's hit in mid-air by a private plane. Myrna Loy, Helen Reddy, Linda Blair, Dana Andrews, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

, Gloria Swanson, Sid Caesar and George Kennedy, recreating this acclaimed Airport role, are also aboard trying to survive the deadly skies of this high flying thriller.

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Three unlikely comrades embark on a cross country mission in a stolen yellow Mini. Their objective is to get to Invercargill in one piece but they can't help breaking the law as they go.

Named the 'Blondini Gang' by the police they are pursued every inch of the way and must improvise if they and their car are going to make it in one piece.

Desperate to be a star, struggling stand-up comedian Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) enlists the aid of his fanatical friend Masha (Sandra Bernhard) to kidnap talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis). The ransom? A guest spot for Pupkin. The results? Outrageous!

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When the USS Missouri welcomes aboard entertainers for the battleship's last voyage, the visitors throw a party. A war party. Led by a rogue CIA operative (Tommy Lee Jones) and a turncoat officer (Gary Busey), they're killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship's nuclear arsenal.

They overpower the crew, except one man. "I'm just a cook", that man says. But he's a cook with a recipe for action. He's ex-Navy Seal and decorated combat operative Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal). All hands on deck, action fans!