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61) Footloose
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
The timeless struggle is portrayed between innocent pleasure and rigid morality, when city-boy Ren McCormick finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing, and therefore all youthful joy, has been banned. Ren revolts with best friend Willard and the minister's daughter.
Publisher
Distributed by Christiancinema.com
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A brutal dictator rules Earth. Freedom is just a memory. Two political prisoners meet a mysterious stranger who holds the key to their escape and mankind's survival. They join with the leader of the resistance. If they fail, humanity is marked for death.
64) Mystery, Alaska
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A remote, hockey-obsessed town populated by 633 of the most eccentric characters you'd ever want to meet, Mystery is the kind of place where nothing ever changes. But then life as they know it gets turned completely upside down when a publicity stunt brings the world-famous New York Rangers to Mystery for a game with the local team of weekend warriors and the whole town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime.
66) Bushwhacked
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A bumbling package deliveryman finds himself on the wrong side of the law when a hair-brained get-rich-quick scheme gets him accused of murder. "Mad Max" Grabelski heads for the hills with the cops hot on his trail. When he's mistaken for a world famous Scout leader, Max's escape plan takes an uproarious wrong turn.
68) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.
70) Red planet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Looking starward for a solution to the dying of Earth, something no one expected awaits.
71) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--a tribal initiation into manhood.
72) Runaway bride
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
An unlikely love story developes when a cynical, big-city columnist comes to a small town to cover the story of Maggie Carpenter, a bride who's left men at the altar several times.
73) Fantasia
Series
Fantasia anthology volume 1
Publisher
Disney Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
74) Willow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Willow Ufgood leaves his village to carry a special baby to safety. Aided by a swashbuckling warrior, Willow's quest is plagued by danger as the Powers of Darkness scheme to destroy the child-- a child destined to bring everlasting peace and freedom to the land.
75) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
77) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A film about a cheap, small-time hood working his way up the bottom rungs of the Mafia ladder.
80) The apartment
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
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