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Damages: Season 2
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis season of the legal thriller finds attorney Ellen Parsons -- once a wide-eyed associate -- hardened into a cynical attorney in her own right. She's out for justice, and she may give her calculating mentor, Patty Hewes, a run for her money.
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Jane Eyre
1996 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsJane Eyre is an orphan forced to endure life at a harsh boarding school. As Jane grows into an independent, strong-willed woman, she takes a governess job at Thornton Hall and falls in love with the estate's brooding owner, Mr. Rochester.
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Mr. Brooks
2007 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsKevin Costner plays against type, starring as a man caught in a deadly downward spiral -- and at war with his own alter ego (William Hurt) -- in this psychological thriller from writer-director team Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon (Stand by Me). Demi Moore co-stars as a sharp-witted police detective whose passion for her job attracts the attention -- and respect -- of the very serial killer she's tracking.
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A History of Violence
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAs operators of a small-town diner, Tom Stall and his wife are the picture of normality. But when Tom foils a robbery and becomes a hero in the media, he attracts the wrong kind of attention from mobsters who think he's someone else.
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Broadcast News
1987 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThree ambitious workaholics -- a handsome but weak-minded anchorman, his driven producer and a neurotic reporter -- are set loose in a network TV newsroom, where their professional and personal lives become hopelessly cross-wired.
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Changing Lanes
2002 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBen Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star in this intense drama about an egocentric attorney and a recovering alcoholic salesman whose lives dangerously collide when their cars crash on a New York expressway. After the accident, corrupt lawyer Gavin Banek (Affleck) discovers he's left behind an important file with the other driver, Doyle Gibson (Jackson). But soon anger erupts, and a vengeful game of one-upmanship threatens to ruin them both.
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The Countess
2008 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBlaming her advancing age for a failed romance with a younger man, 16th-century Hungarian countess Erzebet Báthory begins murdering virgin girls and bathing in their blood, believing that the grim ritual will restore her youthful beauty.
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Hellgate
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsFollowing a car accident that leaves him in a coma and his wife and son dead, Jeff awakens to find he is able to see the specters of people who have died horribly, and later learns that these souls are forced to relive their own deaths for eternity.
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Eyewitness
1981 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsSmitten with TV reporter Tony Sokolow, unassuming janitor Daryll Deever intimates that he knows more than he's telling when the journalist shows up at his workplace to cover a murder. Soon they join forces to investigate the killing.
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Late Bloomers
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter 30 years together, a married couple confronts the unpalatable realities of getting older and concludes that emotional absence is the easiest way to cope. But at what point does distance become divorce?
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