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1. (1995) Angela has their disc and it must contain something pretty important because they'll do anything to get it back. They've stolen her identity, her house and her job, and killed her friend for good measure. Her only hope is to expose them before they get a chance to kill her too.
2. (2001) Past the thirty mark and still single, this British woman obsesses about how much she weighs, smokes and drinks, as she searches for the perfect mate. A brief affair with her boss doesn't turn out the way she'd hoped, but she does manage to find someone who likes her 'just as she is'.
3. (1995) Glenn never really wanted to be a music teacher, he just took the job for a couple of years while he wrote his music. He was surprised at how good he was at teaching, and even more surprised when he realized how much he loved it. So much so that when the music program at his high school was cut due to funding, he found himself fighting to keep it alive. But he lost that fight, and it was only then that he learned just how many lives he had touched.
4. (1994) Tom is sitting on the brink of real success. He's up for a big promotion, and the company that he works for is in the process of a really important merger. Only he doesn't get the promotion, instead it goes to Meredith, an old girlfriend of his, and that's just the beginning of his troubles. Before he knows it she's slapped a sexual harassment charge on him, even though she was the one who harassed him. He manages to win that case only to find that he's really being set up to take the fall for something a whole lot more important.
5. (1988) In this extremely funny movie it's Dr. Watson, played by Ben Kingsley, who is the real brains behind the famous duo. Holmes, played by Michael Caine, is merely a second rate actor with a drinking problem, who Watson hired to make Holmes come to life. Fed up with 'Holmes' bumbling, Watson tries to unload him and go it alone. He soon finds that he has to bring Holmes back because no one will take him seriously.
6. (1999) Paul Edgecomb is in charge of 'Death Row' in this drama set in the Depression. He's very content with his job until he has to oversee the execution of John Coffey, a man he not only knows is innocent, but also believes to be one of God's miracles.
7. (1954) Laid up with a broken leg, L.B. Jeffrie spends a lot of time watching the comings and goings of his neighbours, in this classic by Hitchcock. He becomes positive that one of his neighbours has killed his wife, and carted her out piece by piece. Now all he has to do is convince the police.
8. (1946) Driven to the point of despair, George is given the rare opportunity to see what life would have been like if he had never been born in this Christmas classic. He also helps Clarence finally get his wings.
9. (1995) All Woody wants to do is be Andy's best friend. But Buzz enters the scene at a birthday party, and for the first time Woody feels threatened. Can Woody and Buzz work it out? You bet they can, after all this is Disney!
10. (1939) Scarlett was pampered and privileged before the war, but she wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty afterwards. In fact she did whatever she had to, to make sure that she would 'never go hungry again'.
11. (1996) Draco is the last of his kind. Bowen has dedicated his life to cleansing the earth of Draco's kind, until he actually meets Draco. Together they form an unlikely alliance, at first for purely selfish gains, but then they band together to rid the country of a great evil in the person of King Eiron.
12. (1979) Sherlock Holmes takes on the task of identifying and stopping Jack the Ripper in this movie directed by Bob Clark and starring Christopher Plummer as Holmes and James Mason as Watson.
13. (1993) Chuck Norstadt lives with his older sister, his mother, and her unending stream of husbands. He's desperate to get away and go to military school, but he can't seem to pass the entrance exam. That is, until he convinces Justin McLeod, a former teacher who has suffered horrible facial scarring in a car accident, to tutor him. But Chuck learns a lot more about life than just what he needs to pass the exam.
14. (2000) He's green, he's mean and he HATES Christmas. Be careful or he'll slither down your chimney and ruin your Christmas.
15. (1940) Tracy Lord, a very proper socialite heiress, is getting married...again. But just before her wedding her first husband shows up accompanied by two reporters from a tabloid type newspaper. During the ensuing antics Tracy becomes human and learns humility and the wedding proceeds as planned, only the groom is different from the one originally intended.
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