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Eagle Eye
Illinois The 2000sDon't walk. Run. — Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.
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The Promotion
IllinoisTwo guys. One job. No rules. — Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
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Sex Drive
IllinoisHe's leaving virgin territory — A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.
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The Longshots
IllinoisThe true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
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Cadillac Records
Illinois The 1950sThe story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
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Witless Protection
IllinoisProtecting America's assets. — The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago but are later found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her
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Meet the Browns
IllinoisCheck your baggage at the door. — A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street.But when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met.Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral. But nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed...and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.The story is adapted by Tyler Perry from his stage play "Meet the Browns." Perry will portray Madea and Uncle Joe in the film.
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The Merry Gentleman
IllinoisA man with a secret. A woman with a past. — A woman who leaves an abusive relationship to begin a new life in a new city, where she forms an unlikely and ironic relationship with a suicidal hit man (unbeknownst to her). Enter a worn, alcoholic detective to form the third party in a very unusual triangle as this story begins to unfold.
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A Raisin in the Sun
Illinois The 1950sDreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
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Diminished Capacity
IllinoisA Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
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Who Do You Love
Illinois The 1950sWho Do You Love is the life story of legendary record producer Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records in Chicago, IL, the label that helped popularize blues music during the 1950s and ’60s.
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The Long Green Line
IllinoisCoach Joe Newton has used the sport of Cross Country Running to teach simple but important lessons to high school boys for the last 50 years. "Always do your best", "be on time" and "it's nice to be great but far greater to be nice" are mantras, which have turned the Boys Cross Country team at the public York High School in Elmhurst Illinois into the most winning high school team in any sport in America. Along with mastery of their sport, Newton turns boys into men, who carry his teaching and his love for each of them throughout their lives. The Long Green Line documents the York Duke's 2005 Cross Country season as the runners seek their record 25th state title in 50 years.
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Halloween
Illinois The 1990s The 1970s The 2000sEvil has a destiny. — After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger
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License to Wed
Illinois The 2000sFirst came love... then came Reverend Frank. — Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.
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August Rush
Illinois The 1990s The 2000sAn incredible journey moving at the speed of sound — An orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
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Rendition
IllinoisWhat if someone you love... just disappeared? — When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
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Fred Claus
IllinoisEverybody has that one relative who can't help but cause problems over the holidays. Even Santa. — Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and threatens to shut Santa down, Fred must help his brother to save Christmas.
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Hannah Takes the Stairs
IllinoisWhen you don't know what you want, how can you know who you want? — Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of their friendship?
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Grace Is Gone
IllinoisA story about one fathers love and courage — Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and place to tell them about their mother's fate.
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Butterfly on a Wheel
IllinoisLives will be broken — A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck
Illinois The 1960sA thriller film based on a real-life mass murder that took place in 1966. Richard Franklin Speck was a mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.
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Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming
IllinoisA soldier returns home from the Iraq war only to be haunted by visions of the dead.
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April Fools
IllinoisA year ago, DeAnna a young hottie, seduces Melvin the class nerd, only to set him up for a cruel April Fools' joke that inadvertently ended in murder. Now, DeAnna, her boyfriend and her friends are being stalked by a hooded figure. Is Melvin still alive, or is someone avenging his death? It's up to one of the teens' police detective father and his partner to stop the killer before he strikes again.
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Dreamgirls
Illinois The 1970s The 1960sOne Dream Will Change Everything — Three young women dream of becoming pop stars—and get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
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Stranger Than Fiction
Illinois The 2000sHarold Crick isn't ready to go. Period. — Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
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The Grudge 2
Illinois The 2000sWhat Was Once Trapped, Will Now Be Unleashed — A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo, a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong, and strange things begin happening in a Chicago apartment building.
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The Lake House
Illinois The 2000sHow do you hold on to someone you've never met? — A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
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Flags of Our Fathers
Illinois The 1990s The 1950s The 1940sThey fight for their country but they die for their friends. — There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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Little Man
IllinoisBig things come in small packages — After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards's house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.
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The Break-Up
Illinois…pick a side. — Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest 'why can't you do this one little thing for me?' argument, Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. What follows is a hilarious series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and undermining tricks – all encouraged by the former couple's friends and confidantes …and the occasional total stranger! When neither ex is willing to move out of their shared apartment, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until one of them reaches breaking point.
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Save the Last Dance 2
IllinoisThe best move... is following your heart. — Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerina of the school. She befriends her roommates, Zoe and Miles, who teach hip-hop classes. She has ballet classes with the rigid and famous Monique Delacroix that she idolizes - Monique requires full commitment, discipline and hard work from her students. When Miles, who is a composer, invites Sara to help him compose the music for the dance choreography Sara's passion for hip-hop is sparked and she also falls in love with Miles. When she is assigned to perform Giselle in an important event, she feels divided between the technique of the ballet and the creative work offered by Miles.
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I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
IllinoisSometimes love is just a big bowl of wrong. — Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles that make him sad. Someone's remaking his favorite movie, "Marty," a role he'd love, but he doesn't even get an audition.
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The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold
Illinois The 2000sThey're about to break the ice. — Two ice skaters develop a love-hate relationship while dreaming of Olympic glory.
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Relative Strangers
IllinoisYou can't pick your parents. — An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
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Everyone's Hero
Illinois The 1930sNo matter where life takes you, always keep swingin' — A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.
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The Architect
IllinoisAn architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.
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Death of a President
Illinois The 2000sA fictional investigative documentary looks back on the "assassination" of George W. Bush and attempts to answer the question of who committed the murder. Perhaps less morbid and disturbing to watch now than during Bush's presidency, the film doesn't address Bush's policies at all, instead focusing on the way a nation assigns blame in a time of crisis.
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Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
Illinois The 1940sThe world is at war and one girl's hope and courage are put to the test. — Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape the bombings. They slowly become good friends.
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Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
Illinois The 2000sThe affable, towheaded comic demonstrates his hysterical brand of self-effacing comedy and deadpan delivery at two sold-out shows at Chicago's Vic Theater. It's OK to laugh at this pale white guy...'cause nobody's laughing at Jim Gaffigan harder than Jim Gaffigan!
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The Weather Man
IllinoisDave Spritz is about to take his best shot . . . at life — A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
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Derailed
IllinoisHe never saw it coming. — When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
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Proof
IllinoisThe biggest risk in life is not taking one. — Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father’s mental illness along with his mathematical genius. When Robert’s work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.
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A Sound of Thunder
Illinois The 2050sSome Rules Should Never Be Broken. — When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
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Tamara
IllinoisRevenge has a killer body. — Tamara, an unattractive girl who is picked on by her peers, returns after her death as a sexy seductress to enact revenge.
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Roll Bounce
Illinois The 1970sIn the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.
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American Gun
IllinoisSeemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
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Category 7: The End of the World
IllinoisThe Ultimate Superstorm is Back - And This Time It's Deadlier... — It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy Tornado, and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.
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I, Robot
Illinois The 2030sLaws are made to be broken. — In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
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Shall We Dance?
IllinoisStep out of the ordinary. — Upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, a bored and overworked estate lawyer signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.
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Super Size Me
Illinois The 2000sThe first ever reality-based movie ... everything begins and ends in 30 days! — Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.
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