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The Scarlet Letter
MassachusettsWhen intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin, love is the most defiant crime of all. — Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.
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Sabrina
MassachusettsYou are cordially invited to the most surprising merger of the year. — An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
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Blown Away
Massachusetts5. 4. 3. 2. 1......Time's Up. — Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
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The River Wild
MassachusettsThe vacation is over. — While on a family vacation, rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
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Little Women
Massachusetts The 1860sThe story that has lived in our hearts for generations, now comes to the screen for the holidays. — With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.
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The Next Karate Kid
Massachusetts The 1990sIt's ancient wisdom against teenage spunk. 1,000 years of karate tradition is about to get a kick in the pants. — Mr. Miyagi decides to take Julie, a troubled teenager, under his wing after he learns that she blames herself for her parents' demise and struggles to adjust with her grandmother and fellow pupils.
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With Honors
MassachusettsIf you want a degree go to Harvard, If you want an education go to Simon Wilder. — Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
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Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Massachusetts The 1990s The 1860sJames Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theater," a young woman attends a movie theater only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
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The Inkwell
Massachusetts The 1970sSummer's Never Been So Much Fun! — The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
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A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story
Massachusetts The 1920s The 1910sMargaret Mitchell, portrayed as rebellious and spirited as Scarlett O'Hara, grows up in a comfortably middle-class Atlanta home, absorbing her grandmother's stories of the Civil War and the burning of their city by the Yankees. Young Peggy, as she likes to be called, goes to Smith College in Massachusetts and hates it. Back in Atlanta, her mildly scandalous reputation is made more so by her first marriage, to Red Upshaw, a bootlegging rake. Later, her second husband encourages her to expand her writing talents beyond feature articles for The Atlanta Journal. Her first and only novel becomes one of the best-selling books of all time.
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Power and Lovers
MassachusettsReckless Ambition and Dangerous Desire! — Two brothers start to bicker and battle when Nick, an aggressive businessman, finds himself thwarted by a group of scientists, headed by his brother Tony. Seems the scientists stand in the way of big profits for Nick. It's a dramatic duel between two opposite siblings who have more in common than they think -- including the sexy, strong women in their lives.
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Malice
MassachusettsHer doctor wasn't playing God. He thought he was God. — A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
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Hocus Pocus
Massachusetts The 1990s The 17th CenturyIt's just a bunch of Hocus Pocus. — After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
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Amos & Andrew
MassachusettsMisunderstood. Misplaced. Mismatched. — When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
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The Firm
MassachusettsPower can be murder to resist. — Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
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Ethan Frome
MassachusettsA classic tale of forbidden passion — Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, spirited person. She and Ethan fall in love much to the dismay of Zeena.
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Malcolm X
Massachusetts The 1920s The 1930s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960sA tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
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Housesitter
MassachusettsShe's turning his house into a home...hers! — After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife. Gwen's ruse is so effective that by the time Newton learns of his "marriage," the entire town feels like they know him.
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Far and Away
Massachusetts The 1890sWhat they needed was a country big enough for their dreams. — A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her and take her back.
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School Ties
Massachusetts The 1950sJust because you’re accepted doesn’t mean you belong. — When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
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The Babe
Massachusetts The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sThere Was Only One. — A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions.
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The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
MassachusettsJewish Jack-the-lad David seriously fancies smart, rich Anglo-Saxon Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They run into each other again and though she still says she finds him appalling he works on it and they are soon together. His even more reprehensible best mate and her blousy best friend watch bemused as the two fall deeply in love and then apparently as fatally out again
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Sleeping with the Enemy
MassachusettsSelf-Defense is not murder — A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
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Once Around
MassachusettsThe Bellas were one big happy family. Then Renata met Sam... — Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his excessively flamboyant style and irrepressible nature. The very traits she finds romantic, however, lead to repeated conflict with her family, especially her beloved father Joe, leaving Renata trapped in the middle.
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Run
MassachusettsPursued by the mob, Hunted by the police...Luck was his only weapon, And she his only hope. — While conveying a Porsche from Boston to Atlantic City, student Charlie has to make a stop due to engine trouble. Mistaken as rich, he's invited to a big poker game -- and wins big time. However Denny Halloran, son of a mighty mobster, is a bad loser and starts a fight. But he's also a bad fighter: he falls on his head and is dead. Now Charlie's in trouble; after he flees Halloran's father puts a reward on his head. Even the police won't help him against the mighty man... so Charlie has to run for his life.
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Mermaids
Massachusetts The 1960sMom is many things... normal isn't one of them. — Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
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Bride of Re-Animator
MassachusettsDate. Mate. Re-animate. — Herbert West once again revives the dead. This time, he brings Dan's ex-girlfriend's heart back inside a 'perfect' body. Dr. Hill returns as the evil nemesis who lost his head.
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Field of Dreams
Massachusetts The 1980sIf you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true. — Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
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Glory
Massachusetts The 1860sTheir innocence. Their heritage. Their lives. — Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Warlock
Massachusetts The 1980s The 17th CenturySatan also has one son — In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into the future, the warlock winds up in the 1980s and plans to bring about the end of the world. Redferne follows the enchanter into the modern era and continues his mission, but runs into trouble in such unfamiliar surroundings. With the help of a young woman, can Redferne finally defeat the warlock?
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Little Monsters
MassachusettsSome friends can be REAL MONSTERS. And some monsters can be REAL FRIENDS. — A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.
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Physical Evidence
MassachusettsIf he's innocent, the truth could save him. If he's guilty, the lies could kill her. — A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.
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Second Sight
MassachusettsJohn Larroquette is the head of a detective agency that is hired to find a missing person, probably kidnapped. They employ the help of a mystic/psychic to help find the missing girl.
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The Last Aristocrats
Massachusetts The 1940sIn 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shanghai.
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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
MassachusettsWhen her great aunt dies, famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight new England town of Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house, a witch's cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream queen's ample assets, all hell busts out & breaks loose.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Massachusetts The 1980s The 1970sDon't bury me... I'm not dead! — A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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Splash, Too
MassachusettsSplash, Too. A romantic tail. — A sequel to the popular romantic mermaid drama, in which Allen and Madison return to New York - one to save his business, the other to save a Dolphin in captivity. You can guess which does which.
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I'll Be Home for Christmas
Massachusetts The 1940sThe Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War II.
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Jaws: The Revenge
Massachusetts The 1980sThis time, it’s personal. — After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
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The Witches of Eastwick
Massachusetts The 1980sThree Beautiful Women. One Lucky Devil. — Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
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Tough Guys Don't Dance
MassachusettsA love story shadowed by murder. A comedy laced with horror. — Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.
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Soul Man
Massachusetts The 1980sA comedy with heart and soul — A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.
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One Crazy Summer
Massachusetts The 1980sThey're out of school, out on Nantucket, and out of their minds. With this crowd, anything can happen! — An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
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A Case of Deadly Force
Massachusetts The 1970sFact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision. Written by John Sacksteder
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Where Are the Children?
MassachusettsThriller about the kidnapping of two children and the investigation that follows, based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark.
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Re-Animator
MassachusettsHerbert West has a good head on his shoulders... and another on his desk. — A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
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Splash
Massachusetts The 1980s The 1960sAllen Bauer Thought He'd Never Find The Right Woman... He Was Only Half Wrong! — A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
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The Bostonians
MassachusettsAn intimate and exquisite probe of the feminist heart. — A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.
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The Devonsville Terror
MassachusettsDr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the witch, who proceeds to exact revenge on the town males. Written by Joe Arthur
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First Affair
MassachusettsA young girl attending Harvard on a scholarship finds herself falling for the husband of her English professor.
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