Kerry Washington
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In this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir, the award-winning actor and activist provides an intimate view into both her public and private worlds as she chronicles her life's journey thus far, sharing how she discovered her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging.
2) Cars 3
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Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing's biggest stage!
"No matter how slack the...
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John and Jane Smith are a married couple who are beginning to get bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they are both assassins, secretly traveling around the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when the discover they are each other's next target.
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Academy Award® winners Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman along with Gary Sinise and Ed Harris star in this provocative mystery. Coleman Silk (Hopkins) has a secret. A terrible fifty-year-old secret that the esteemed college professor has kept hidden from everyone including his wife, his children and his down-and-out young lover (Kidman)and it's about to ruin his entire life.
6) The Details
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After ten years of marriage, Jeff and Nealy Lang have an idyllic suburban home, and a relationship on the skids. But, when a family of hungry raccoons ransacks their perfectly manicured backyard, Jeff becomes obsessed with eradicating the pests by any means necessary. Soon the relentless rodents aren't merely uprooting the lawn, but also overturning the Langs' entire bourgeois existence, as the man-versus-beast battle leads into an absurd mess of...
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Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
8) Ray
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Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. 'Ray' follows as he overcomes drug addiction while becoming one of the country's most beloved performers.
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A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The good, the bad & the ugly: The inimitable "Man With No Name" teams up with two gunslingers to pursue a fortune in stolen gold, but they soon discover their greatest challenge is to stay alive.
Django unchained: Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie,...
11) Night Catches Us
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In 1976, complex political and emotional forces are set in motion when a young man returns to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement.
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Stoute has helped identify and activate a new generation of consumers. He traces how the 'tanning' phenomenon raised a generation of black, Hispanic, white, and Asian consumers who have the same 'mental complexion', one based on shared experiences and values rather than the increasingly irrelevant demographic boxes. Stoute presents an insider's view of how the transcendent power of popular culture is helping reinvigorate and revitalize the American...
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Before #1 New York Times mega-bestselling author Spencer Johnson wrote" Who Moved My Cheese and Peaks and Valleys," he created ValueTales, a series of storybooks that encouraged children to grasp important lessons told through the lives of famous figures. Most importantly, he did it in a way that children found irresistible. He's even coined a new term to describe them to describe them, Imaginographies! The people are real, the events are real, but...
14) In the Sun
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In the Sun is a poignant and inspiring documentary that lets viewers in on the personal skin health journeys of seven families facing extraordinary circumstances as they uncover the long-term effects of living in the sun.
15) Littleman
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In the hilarious comedy Little Man, Shawn Wayans plays a man so anxious to become a father that he mistakes a short-statured, baby-faced criminal on the run, played by Marlon Wayans, for his newly adopted son.
16) A Thousand Words
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Fast-talking agent Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy) has set his sights set on New Age guru Dr. Sinja. But after a mysterious Bodhi tree appears in his backyard, Jack realizes he better mend his ways before the last leaf falls from the tree or he's a goner.
17) The People Speak
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The People Speak is a beautiful and moving documentary film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States-one of the best-selling history books in the United States-and Voices of a People's History of the United States, the primary-source companion to A People's History of the United States, edited with Anthony Arnove. The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestos) of rebels, dissenters,...
18) Girl Rising
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This special edition of Girl Rising commemorates the stories of nine incredible girls–striving beyond circumstance, pushing past limits. Their dreams, their voices, their remarkable stories–captured in an unforgettable film about the power of education.
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Jackie Kallen isn't fighting for glory. She's fighting for respect. Inspired by a true story, Against The Ropes stars Meg Ryan as Kallen, a sassy, brassy boxing manager-in-the-making determined to change "Lethal" Luther Shaw (Omar Epps) from a mere street punk into a world-class prizefighter. To help Shaw rise to the rank of number-one contender, Jackie coaxes veteran trainer Felix Reynolds (Charles S. Dutton) out of retirement. But before they can...