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| 1. A Christmas Story (year: 1983) |
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Nine years after the Yuletide slasher flick Black Christmas, Porky's director Bob Clark once again took on the holiday genre, switching from gasps to ...
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| 2. A League of Their Own (year: 1992) |
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The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asi ...
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| 3. A Perfect World (year: 1993) |
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Clint Eastwood, hot off of his Academy Award win for Unforgiven, directed this small character study, appearing in the guise of a cops-and-robbers act ...
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| 4. A River Runs Through It (year: 1992) |
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Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The Mac ...
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| 5. American Graffiti (year: 1973) |
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It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them ...
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| 6. Back to the Future (year: 1985) |
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Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must als ...
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| 7. Bulworth (year: 1998) |
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Warren Beatty directed, co-produced (with Pieter Jan Brugge), co-scripted (with Jeremy Pikser), and stars in this political satire, a comedy-drama abo ...
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| 8. Daltry Calhoun (year: 2005) |
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When seed and sod entrepreneur Daltry Calhoun's (Johnny Knoxville) abandoned ex-girlfriend shows up on his doorstep with the daughter he never knew he ...
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| 9. Dave (year: 1993) |
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The ghost of Frank Capra must have smiled when he saw Dave, an amusing and effective update of one of Capra's favorite themes — the scrupulo ...
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| 10. Doc Hollywood (year: 1991) |
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A big city doctor is stranded in a small rural town, where he finds love, professional challenges, and a pet pig, in this comedy. Fresh out of residen ...
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| 11. Easy Rider (year: 1969) |
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Tossing wristwatches away, two bikers hit the road to find America in Dennis Hopper's anti-establishment classic. After a major cocaine sale to an L.A ...
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| 12. Election (year: 1999) |
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| 13. Fast Food Nation (year: 2006) |
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Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issue ...
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| 14. Forrest Gump (year: 1994) |
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"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of in ...
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| 15. Giant (year: 1956) |
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| 16. Hands on a Hard Body (year: 1997) |
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This humorous documentary captures contestants in a 1995 competition held annually in a Longview, Texas, car dealership parking lot. A brand new Nissa ...
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| 17. My Dog Skip (year: 2000) |
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The popular memoir by Pulitzer prize-winning author Willie Morris became this family comedy-drama about a boy and his dog. Young Willie Morris (Franki ...
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| 18. Pleasantville (year: 1998) |
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Gary Ross, Oscar nominated for his Dave and Big screenplays, made his directorial debut with this comedy. The cheerful '50s TV sitcom "Pleasantvi ...
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| 19. Remember the Titans (year: 2000) |
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A high school football coach finds himself fighting for stakes much higher than the State Championship in this drama based on actual events. In 1971, ...
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| 20. Shotgun Stories (year: 2007) |
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Two families linked by the same father explode into a violent rivalry in this independent Southern gothic drama, the first feature from director Jeff ...
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| 21. Spencer's Mountain (year: 1963) |
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For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons, Spencer's Mountain sure has a lo ...
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| 22. Suburbia (year: 1983) |
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| 23. The Astronaut Farmer (year: 2006) |
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An aspiring astronaut who was forced to forsake his dream of exploring space in order to save the family farm begins building his own personal rocket ...
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| 24. The Best Years of Our Lives (year: 1946) |
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult readjustments of returning World Wa ...
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| 25. The Cider House Rules (year: 1999) |
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John Irving scripted this screen adaptation of his 1985 novel. Set during World War II, The Cider House Rules concerns Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an ...
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| 26. The Final Season (year: 2007) |
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A place where baseball is more than just a game fights to hold on to the national pastime in this drama inspired by a true story. Norway, Iowa is a li ...
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| 27. The Grapes of Wrath (year: 1940) |
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time Oscar-winning director Jo ...
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| 28. The Legend of Bagger Vance (year: 2000) |
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Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journey ...
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| 29. The Majestic (year: 2001) |
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Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey ...
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| 30. The Natural (year: 1984) |
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The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while chang ...
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| 31. The Sandlot (year: 1993) |
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The Sandlot is sparsely narrated by the main character (now an adult) who occasionally drops in on the action to comment on events or help move the st ...
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| 32. Used Cars (year: 1980) |
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Used Cars is one of Robert Zemeckis' pre-Roger Rabbit and pre-Forrest Gump efforts starring Kurt Russell is a devious car salesman who goes to work fo ...
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