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Awakenings
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Barfi!
An elderly woman reflects on the deaf/mute man she fell in love with and the young autistic girl he cared so much for. |
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Cedar Rapids
Small town Insurance Salesman Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) travels to Cedar Rapids to attend his first annual insurance conference. Hilarity and fun ensues! |
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Cube
The crazy guy turns out to be the key to everyone's escape. Except he's the only one who survives, so it looks like he sucked at his job. |
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Cube 2: Hypercube
Eight strangers wake up in a maze of cubed rooms, but something's amiss when they realize that gravity shifts depending on what door you go through and time loops back on itself. They're trapped in a hypercube and need to find a way out. |
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Dead Man's Shoes
A man returns from the Army and takes vengeance on the men that picked on his mentally handicapped brother in his absence. |
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Dinner for Schmucks
In Tim's corporation, the road to the top is paved with idiots. |
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Dreamcatcher
Duddits saves the day! |
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Exam
He's got the key to it all! |
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Forrest Gump
Self explanatory. Entire movie revolves around this concept. |
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Goon
Doug Glatt gets caught up in fight in the stands at a hockey game and draws the eye of a minor league hockey coach. Doug isn't a hockey player, but the coach recruits him to protect one of his star players who has had bad experiences with enforcers. |
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I Am Sam
Sam will do the imposible to win the battle for his daughter's custody. |
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Jack & Jill
A "comedy" that stars Adam Sandler as both titular characters. Jack is a very successful executive who has it all but when his identical twin sister, Jill, comes over for Thanksgiving, his world is turned upside down. Wacky high jinks and depressing cameos ensue. |
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La Strada
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Mercury Rising
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Mozart and the Whale
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
A film about Christy Brown, A irish poet and a painter, Whose cerebral palsy mean he can only control his left foot |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Many characters fit the stereotype, Billy being perhaps the most memorable. |
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Our Idiot Brother
Our Idiot Brother is a movie centered on an idealist Ned(Paul Rudd), who barges into the lives of his three sisters. |
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Powder
Pure energy has a name. |
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Radio
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Rain Man
Hoffman plays an autistic savant |
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Regarding Henry
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Shine
The life of David Helffgott, in his way to become a famous pianist. |
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Sling Blade
A mentally-challenged man is released back into society where he strikes up a friendship with a young boy and his mother, who suffer abuse at the hands of her violent drunk boyfriend. |
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The Boy Who Could Fly
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The Dinner Game
Francois Pingon manages to solve a lot of Pierre's problems in one night. |
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The Green Mile
John Coffey, literally magical, takes the sickness from several troubled characters in The Green Mile. Only to put in the electric chair over a misconception. |
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The Other Sister
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The Waterboy
A sheltered man uses the anger he feels for pretty much everyone to shine on the football field. |
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The Wizard
A boy breaks his autistic brother out of an institution and discovers he's a video game savant. He then takes him on a cross-country trip to California to compete for the cash prize in a contest. The movie is otherwise a thinly veiled ad for Nintendo products. |
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
DiCaprio plays a mentally challenged boy. |