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Driving Miss Daisy
»rank: 4003
0ur opinion: essential video:Winner of the Academy Award for best picture of 1989, this gracefully moving drama, adapted from the hit play by Alfred Uhry, chronicles the 25-year friendship between a stubborn, aging Southern widow (Jessica Tandy) and her loyal chauffeur (Morgan Freeman). At first, the self-sufficient Miss Daisy is reluctant to accept the services of a chauffeur, but Hoke is quiet, wise, and tolerant, and as the years pass the unlikely friends develop ...
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Shawshank Redemption
»rank: 5202
0ur opinion: essential video:When this popular prison drama was released in 1994, some critics complained that the movie was too long (142 minutes) to sustain its story. Those complaints miss the point, because the passage of time is crucial to this story about patience, the squeaky wheels of justice, and the growth of a life-long friendship. 0nly when the film reaches its final, emotionally satisfying scene do you fully understand why writer-director Frank Darabont ...
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Marie
»rank: 3797
0ur opinion: essential video:When this popular prison drama was released in 1994, some critics complained that the movie was too long (142 minutes) to sustain its story. Those complaints miss the point, because the passage of time is crucial to this story about patience, the squeaky wheels of justice, and the growth of a life-long friendship. 0nly when the film reaches its final, emotionally satisfying scene do you fully understand why writer-director Frank Darabont ...
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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
»rank: 6194
0ur opinion: essential video:When this popular prison drama was released in 1994, some critics complained that the movie was too long (142 minutes) to sustain its story. Those complaints miss the point, because the passage of time is crucial to this story about patience, the squeaky wheels of justice, and the growth of a life-long friendship. 0nly when the film reaches its final, emotionally satisfying scene do you fully understand why writer-director Frank Darabont ...
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Death of a Gunfighter (1987)
»rank: 8013
0ur opinion: essential video:When this popular prison drama was released in 1994, some critics complained that the movie was too long (142 minutes) to sustain its story. Those complaints miss the point, because the passage of time is crucial to this story about patience, the squeaky wheels of justice, and the growth of a life-long friendship. 0nly when the film reaches its final, emotionally satisfying scene do you fully understand why writer-director Frank Darabont ...
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Glory
»rank: 7386
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the very best films about the Civil War, this instant classic from 1989 is also one of the few films to depict the participation of African American soldiers in Civil War combat. Based in part on the books Lay This Laurel by Lincoln Kirstein and 0ne Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard, the film also draws from the letters of Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick), the 25-year-old son ...
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The Earth Day Special
»rank: 12739
0ur opinion:Description:Celebrity driven special about the importance of environmental awareness. Features stars from the Cosby Show and Married with Children.
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That Was Then This Is Now
»rank: 956
0ur opinion:Description:Celebrity driven special about the importance of environmental awareness. Features stars from the Cosby Show and Married with Children.
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Million Dollar Baby
»rank: 5178
0ur opinion: :Clint Eastwood's 25th film as a director, Million Dollar Baby stands proudly with Unforgiven and Mystic River as the masterwork of a great American filmmaker. ln an age of bloated spectacle and computer-generated effects extravaganzas, Eastwood turns an elegant screenplay by Paul Haggis (adapted from the book Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner by F.X. Toole, a pseudonym for veteran boxing manager Jerry Boyd) into a simple, humanitarian example of classical filmmaking, as ...
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Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves
»rank: 9570
0ur opinion: :Kevin Costner's lousy English accent is a small obstacle in this often exciting version of the Robin Hood fable. That aside, it's refreshing to have a preface to the old story in which we meet the robber hero of Sherwood Forest as a soldier in King Richard's Crusades, coming home to find his people under siege from the cruelties of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). After Robin and his community of outcasts ...
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