Movie Releases by Genre
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The Man Without a Face
August 25, 1993
A boy, struggling to pass the entrance exam to his late father's alma mater and virtually ignored by his mother and two sisters, asks Justin Mcleod, a solitary ex-teacher with a tragic past, to tutor him. As the two apply themselves to the task at hand, they build a friendship with the power to heal the wounds of their past. (Warner Bros.)
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King of the Hill
August 20, 1993
Based on A. E. Hotchner's memoir, this coming-of-age story follows Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford) as he struggles to survive on his own while his traveling salesman father is away and his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis.
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Hard Target
August 20, 1993
A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her father, who has gone missing. They discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance in the process.
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Sex and Zen
August 13, 1993
A recently married scholar goes on a quest for knowledge of other people's wives, based on his philosophical differences with the Sack Monk. He encounters the Flying Thief, who agrees to help him find women, but only if he attains a penis as big as a horse's. The scholar has a surgeon attach said unit, and he's off and running on his mission, only to find that there are obstacles to his new lifestyle, such as jealous husbands and treacherous females.
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Heart and Souls
August 13, 1993
An unhappy businessman finds a new sense of purpose after he's tasked with helping a quartet of ghosts fulfill their last wishes before moving on to the afterlife.
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The Secret Garden
August 13, 1993
A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings -- and its secrets.
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
August 11, 1993
(Also known as "Innocent Moves") A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
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The Fugitive
August 6, 1993
Adapted from the popular 1960s television, this is the story of Dr. Richard Kimble (Ford), who has been falsely accused and convicted of his wife's murder.
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The Wedding Banquet
August 4, 1993
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
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Rising Sun
July 30, 1993
When a party girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles, detectives Web Smith and John Connor act as liaison between the company's executives and the investigating cop Tom Graham.
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Poetic Justice
July 23, 1993
A mismatched pair pushed together on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, Justice (Jackson) and Lucky (Tupac Shakur) have only one thing in common: they can't stand each other. But as their friends Lesha and Chicago (Regina King and Joe Torry) fight and make up in the back of the van, Justice and Lucky find themselves reluctantly drawn together. After a surprising detour toward romance, the two travelers are confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they'd left behind. (Sony Pictures)
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Chantilly Lace
July 18, 1993
Seven women friends—including a nun in crisis, an angry divorcee, and an unfiltered, sexually-charged artist—gather in the Colorado Rockies at the upscale vacation home of Val (Jill Eikenberry), to celebrate the surprise 40th birthday of popular film critic Natalie (JoBeth Williams). When Val's offbeat younger sister (Ally Sheedy) arrives with a newcomer, a maverick photojournalist (Martha Plimpton), tensions rise as secrets of love, loss, and betrayal are revealed. Years of friendship are tested in a pivotal year as the women re-assemble for the engagement of another, and once more to mourn the shocking death of a third. What began as an experiment at Sundance Film Institute explores the landscape of contemporary women's issues with humor and honesty.
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Free Willy
July 16, 1993
Captured at sea and confined in a small tank at an aquatic park, Willy (Keiko the Orca whale) is an unhappy and unpredictable attraction. No one understands Willy - except a scruffy street kid named Jesse who knows what it's like to be without a family. Together these two form a special bond -- one so strong that they're willing to risk it all to find a way home. (Warner Bros.)
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In the Line of Fire
July 9, 1993
Eastwood stars as Frank Horrigan, a veteran Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to protect John F. Kennedy from assassination. Thirty years later, he gets a chance to redeem himself when a brilliant psychopath threatens to kill the current president and take Horrigan with him. [Sony Pictures]
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Son in Law
July 2, 1993
Having gotten a taste of college life, a drastically changed farm girl returns home for Thanksgiving break with her best friend, a flamboyant party animal who is clearly a fish out of water in a small farm town.
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Much Ado About Nothing
July 2, 1993
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
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The Firm
June 30, 1993
John Grisham’s best selling novel comes to the big screen.
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What's Love Got to Do with It
June 25, 1993
The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.
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Sleepless in Seattle
June 25, 1993
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in Nora Ephron's wonderfully romantic comedy about two people drawn together by destiny. (Sony Pictures)
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Orlando
June 9, 1993
Orlando is the story of a journey through time, of someone who lives for four hundred years, first as a man, then as a woman. As a young nobleman, Orlando is granted favors and property by Queen Elizabeth I. After her death, he falls passionately in love with a visiting Russian princess on the glittering ice of the frozen river Thames. The princess leaves Orlando, however, and, after a disastrous brush with poetry, he takes up his "manly" destiny as an Ambassador in the deserts of central Asia. There, in the midst of war, unwilling to kill or be killed, he changes sex. As a woman, Orlando returns to the formal salons of 18th century London, where she faces a choice: marry and have heirs or lose everything. In this age of wildness and repression, she meets the man of her dreams, but chooses to forsake both love and her inheritance. Finally, Orlando emerges into a twentieth century filled with speed and noise as an ordinary individual, who, in losing
everything, has found herself. [Sony Pictures Classics]
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The Long Day Closes
May 28, 1993
Growing up in the wreckage of post-war Liverpool should be a grim experience for sensitive eleven-year-old Bud. He lives in rain-drenched, lice-ridden impoverishment with his mother and hordes of siblings. The secondary school he's just started attending is a breeding ground for bigots and bullies and Bud's the punch-bag. Yet Davies' film is an ode to childhood bliss. It evokes the confused thrill of sexual awakening, the addictive buzz of a favourite pop tune, the warmth of a doting mother's embrace, the happiness of a family sing-song. And, most effectively, the wide-eyed wonder inspired by cinema itself as Bud bunks off church to worship Hollywood's idols at his local picture house. [Channel Four Films]
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Sankofa
May 28, 1993
Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano) is a Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Cape Coast, Ghana. Through Mr. Gerima’s imaginative storytelling, she undergoes a journey back in time to a plantation in North America. There she becomes Shola, an enslaved African woman who labors in the master’s house and experiences the horrors of slavery firsthand. In becoming Shola, Mona recovers and confronts her ancestral identity and experience. While enduring monstrous trauma at the hands of white men who owned people for profit, Shola’s interactions with her fellow enslaved Africans are rich with humanity, respect and dignity for one another. Most notably, she connects with Shango (Mutabaruka), a rebellious African man who toils in the fields, and Nunu (Alexandra Duah), one of the few of the enslaved to remember her life in Africa before being stolen and terrorized by European traders. [Array]
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Like Water for Chocolate
May 28, 1993
When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
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Menace II Society
May 26, 1993
A Watts teenager becomes so immersed in his violent world, he can't get out. (New Line Cinema)
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Sliver
May 21, 1993
A woman (Sharon Stone) moves into an exclusive New York City apartment building, which she soon discovers houses tenants with a myriad of shocking secrets.
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Map of the Human Heart
May 14, 1993
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
May 7, 1993
From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Bruce Lee (Jason Scott Lee) realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer (Robert Wagner) and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one of the most charismatic action heroes in motion picture history.
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Tokyo Decadence
April 30, 1993
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
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Blood In, Blood Out
April 30, 1993
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.
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Indian Summer
April 23, 1993
Seven friends reunite for a week-long reunion at a summer camp in Ontario they used to attend as kids which is now threatened with being closed down.
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Benny & Joon
April 23, 1993
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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Boiling Point
April 16, 1993
A pair of sociopath killers take on the police and the mob in order to make one last big score.
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This Boy's Life
April 9, 1993
The dynamic teaming of Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin and Leonardo DiCaprio sparks this funny, touching slice-of-life drama that pits rebellious teen Toby (DiCaprio) against his tyrannical new stepfather Dwight (DeNiro). (Warner Bros.)
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The Sandlot
April 7, 1993
In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many adventures.
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Indecent Proposal
April 7, 1993
Indecent Proposal is a sizzling, controversial exploration of modern love and morality. [Paramount Pictures]
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The Crush
April 2, 1993
A journalist (Cary Elwes) becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl (Alicia Silverstone), who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her sexual advances.
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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
March 19, 1993
With hopes of becoming a doctor and not a product of her environment, a Brooklyn teenager is faced with numerous challenges that threaten her dreams.
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Point of No Return
March 19, 1993
A government fakes the death of a criminal to turn this young woman into a killer on its service. (The American version of "La Femme Nikita," the 1991 French thriller by Luc Besson.)
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Fire in the Sky
March 12, 1993
An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975.
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Mad Dog and Glory
March 5, 1993
When shy, soft-spoken Chicago detective Wayne "Mad Dog" Dobie inadvertently saves the life of local gangster Frank Milo, he's the reluctant recipient of an unusual one week "thank-you" gift - a beautiful bartender named Glory! Before the week is out, the two have fallen madly in love, making for a murderous showdown with Milo. Now Dobie must live up to his ironic nickname or it will be "no guts, no Glory" in this comedy. (Universal Studio)
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Swing Kids
March 5, 1993
In 1939, Nazi Germany declares war on freedom and demands conformity from its youth. But a group calling themselves Swing Kids rebel with their "swing music" from America. (Hollywood Pictures)
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Falling Down
February 26, 1993
A day in the life of a laid-off defense worker, estranged from hiswife and young daughter, and driven beyond frustration in an endless traffic jam. After he abandons his car in the middle of the freeway, he crosses the city on foot, leaving behind him an escalating wake of destruction as his sanity crumbles in the face of contemporary urbanreality. (Warner Bros.)
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El mariachi
February 26, 1993
In this action adventure film a lone Mariachi musician enters a small town at the same time as a hitman. They both wear black and carry similar guitar cases, except the Mariachi's contains his beloved guitar and the hitman's is full of weapons--as a result the Mariachi finds himself ushered into a violent underworld of crime. (Sony)
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Strictly Ballroom
February 12, 1993
Strictly Ballroom is the magical story of a championship ballroom dancer who's breaking all the rules, and his ugly duckling dancing partner. (BV Entertainment)
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Untamed Heart
February 12, 1993
A waitress hardly notices a shy busboy who secretly loves her; until one night she's attacked and he comes to her rescue. From there a relationship sparks but one secret could mean disaster for these fated lovers.
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Sommersby
February 5, 1993
A farmer returns home from the Civil War, but his wife begins to suspect that the man is an impostor.
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The Vanishing
February 5, 1993
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
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Damage
January 22, 1993
A member of Parliament (Jeremy Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée despite the dangers of discovery.
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Aspen Extreme
January 22, 1993
An autoworker and his buddy exit Detroit, move to Colorado and become popular ski instructors.
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Alive
January 15, 1993
A Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash.
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Nowhere to Run
January 15, 1993
Sam, an escaped convict, lands up on a farmland owned by a widow. When he learns that a ruthless contractor is trying to take over her land, he helps her to fight against the injustice.
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Man Bites Dog
January 15, 1993
A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.
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Body of Evidence
January 15, 1993
A lawyer defends a woman accused of killing her older lover by having sex with him.
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Chaplin
January 8, 1993
A film about the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker Charles Chaplin.
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Lorenzo's Oil
December 30, 1992
A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.
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Hoffa
December 25, 1992
A look at Jimmy Hoffa's (Nicholson) life as leader of the Teamsters to his mysterious disappearance in 1975.
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Scent of a Woman
December 23, 1992
Al Pacino won his first Best Actor Oscar for his brilliant portrayal of an overbearing, blind retired Lieutenant Colonel who hires a young guardian (O'Donnell), to assist him. It's a heart-wrenching and heartwarming tale of opposites attracting when they embark on a wild weekend trip that will change the lives of both men forever. (Universal)
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Toys
December 18, 1992
When a military general inherits a toy making company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
December 11, 1992
The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.
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A Few Good Men
December 11, 1992
One man is dead. Two are accused of murder. The entire Marine Corps is on trial. Hollywood heavyweights Cruise, Nicholson and Moore ignite the screen in Rob Reiner's acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one's conscience. (Columbia TriStar)
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The Bodyguard
November 25, 1992
A former Secret Service agent named Frank Farmer (Costner) hires himself out on short-term assignments guarding VIPs. He typically avoids taking on celebrities, but he is talked into protecting Rachel Marron
Houston), a sing-turned-actress who has been receiving threatening
letters.
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Bad Lieutenant
November 20, 1992
A New York cop (Keitel) is hopelessy addicted to drugs, gambling, and sex, in this intense, hallucinatory portrait of sin and redemption. The film follows the lieutenant as he makes his way to various crime scenes, concerned only with taking bets from his fellow cops on the outcome of the ongoing National League playoffs. An investigation into the rape of a nun leads to his spiritual breakdown at the church crime scene, where he sees Jesus and the road to his salvation.
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Malcolm X
November 18, 1992
Often misunderstood, Malcolm X was one of the leading forces of the United States' Civil Rights Movement. He inspired many--and frightened many--but is destined to be remembered as one of the greatest men of his era. This riveting biography directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington in an Academy Award-nominated performance reveals the man at the center of a storm of change. [Warner Bros.]
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
November 13, 1992
In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, he creates a modern masterpiece. Gary Oldman's metamorphosis as Dracula who grows from old to young, from man to beast is nothing short of amazing. Opulent, dazzling and utterly irresistible, this is Dracula as you've never seen him. And once you've seen Bram Stoker's Dracula, you'll never forget it. [Sony Pictures]
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Jennifer 8
November 6, 1992
John Berlin, a big-city cop from Los Angeles, moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues John meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it.
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Intervista
November 6, 1992
Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.
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The Lover
October 30, 1992
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
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Dr. Giggles
October 23, 1992
A madman who believes he's a doctor comes to the town where his crazy father was killed, and soon begins murdering people and becoming infatuated with a teenage girl who has a heart condition.
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Night and the City
October 23, 1992
Cheating and incompetent lawyer Harry Fabian (Robert DeNiro) suddenly gets obsessed with becoming a boxing promoter.
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Consenting Adults
October 16, 1992
During a joint dinner at the restaurant, the neighbors offer to exchange wives for one night. It was a joke, but only at first.
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
October 9, 1992
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
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A River Runs Through It
October 9, 1992
An adaptation of Norman Maclean's classic memoir. Growing up, Norman (Sheffer) and his brother Paul (Pitt) rebel against their stern minister father. While Norman channels his rebellion into writing, Paul descends a slippery path to self-destruction. (Columbia Pictures)
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Romper Stomper
October 8, 1992
A group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing.
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The Mighty Ducks
October 2, 1992
A self-centered Minnesota lawyer is sentenced to community service coaching a rag tag youth hockey team.
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Hero
October 2, 1992
A not-so-nice man rescues passengers from a crashed airliner, only to see someone else take credit.
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Of Mice and Men
October 2, 1992
A nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression.
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Reservoir Dogs
October 1, 1992
Quentin Tarantino's debut cult classic chronicles a jewelry heist gone wrong. (Miramax Films)
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Glengarry Glen Ross
September 29, 1992
A group of real estate salesmen in Chicago compete for the best "leads" at a small firm selling property in "resort" areas, such as Florida and Arizona. When a hotshot executive from the head office arrives and proposes a vicious sales contest, competition gets stiff, and salesmen who have worked a lifetime for the company find their jobs in jeopardy. [Artisan]
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School Ties
September 18, 1992
Set in the 1950s, a star-quarterback is given an opportunity to attend an elite preparatory school but must conceal the fact that he is Jewish.
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Husbands and Wives
September 18, 1992
When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.
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South Central
September 18, 1992
A former gangster fresh out of prison wants to change his life for the better and must save his 10 year old son who has already chosen a gang life.
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Singles
September 18, 1992
A group of twenty-something friends most of whom live in the same apartment complex search for love and success in grunge-era Seattle.
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Wind
September 11, 1992
Will Parker, played by Matthew Modine, loses the Americas Cup, the worlds biggest sailing prize, to the Australians and decides to form his own syndicate to win it back.
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Sneakers
September 11, 1992
A security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.
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Where the Day Takes You
September 11, 1992
King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The leader of a group of runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids such as gay hustler Little J and junkie Greg.
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Bob Roberts
September 4, 1992
A conservative folk singer turns his hand to politics, running for the US Senate. He is not above dirty tricks and smear campaigns to gain an advantage over his opponent.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
August 28, 1992
David Lynch takes us back to the town of damned good cups of coffee and cherry pies in this film prequel to the television series where we actually meet Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) for the first time. Brought in to investigate the mysterious death of nightshift waitress Teresa Banks, special agent Chester Desmond (Chris Isaak) and later Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) unravel the bizarre clues, mysterious disappearances, and strange happenings that lead to the last seven days of Laura Palmer's troubled life...and ultimately the killer. [New Line]
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The Living End
August 21, 1992
Luke is a gay hustler. Jon is a movie critic. Both are HIV positive. They go on a hedonistic, dangerous journey, their motto "F*ck the world".
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Single White Female
August 14, 1992
A woman advertising for a new roommate finds that something very strange is going on with the tenant who decides to move in.
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Raising Cain
August 7, 1992
The oncologist wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child, unaware of what - or who - is really going on inside his head.
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Unforgiven
August 7, 1992
In this Academy Award winning western, Eastwood and Freeman are down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time in order to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of remote Big Whiskey, Wyoming.
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Enchanted April
July 31, 1992
This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has its own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking a little mini-trip to Italy, a gorgeously filmed enchantment.
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Mistress
July 24, 1992
A comedy about a screenwriter (Robert Wuhl), whose old movie script is read by a producer (Martin Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro, and Eli Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers, until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
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Gas Food Lodging
July 10, 1992
A waitress lives with her two teen daughters in a trailer park in New Mexico. They all want a boyfriend.
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Universal Soldier
July 10, 1992
Deveraux and Scott were killed in Vietnam, but the army has a secret project for reanimating their dead as near-perfect soldiers.
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The Best Intentions
July 10, 1992
In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.
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A League of Their Own
July 1, 1992
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
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Unlawful Entry
June 26, 1992
A burglar holds a knife to Karen's throat while her husband does nothing. The couple ends befriending the cop that comes. The friendship ends when the cop beats up the culprit. Karen isn't ready to end it. Things get ugly with the cop.
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Far and Away
May 22, 1992
In 1892, Joseph Donelly (Cruise), a poor tenant farmer, is determined to bring justice to an oppressive landlord. Instead, he finds himself accompanying the landlord's daughter, Shannon (Kidman), to America in a quest for land. (Universal Pictures)
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Europa
May 22, 1992
Just after W.W.II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
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