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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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Disconnected
ConnecticutIs anybody there? — Lovely young Alicia starts receiving bizarre and disturbing phone calls after breaking up with her boyfriend Mike who she suspects is cheating on her with her twin sister Barbara Ann. Alicia meets and befriends amiable, but awkward film nerd Franklin, who alas turns out to be a total psycho with a penchant for carving up nubile ladies. But is Franklin the nutter responsible for those distressing phone calls?
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In Heaven There Is No Beer?
Connecticut The 1960s The 1980sA joyous romp through the dance, food, music, friendship, and even religion of the Polka. The explosive energy and high spirits of the polka subculture are rendered with warmth and dedication to scholarship in this journey through Polish-American celebrations. Polka stars like Jimmy Sturr, Eddie Blazonzyck and Walt Solek are featured.
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Cujo
MaineNow there's a new name for terror... — A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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The Dead Zone
MaineIn his mind, he has the power to see the future. In his hands, he has the power to change it. — Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
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The Survivors
VermontOnce they declare war on each other, watch out. You could die laughing. — Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.
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Reuben, Reuben
ConnecticutBased on a novel by Peter De Vries. Story of an alcoholic, lecherous Scottish poet on a tour of New England Universities, where he goes from one bed and bottle to another.
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Curtains
New HampshireSix beautiful girls, trying to get ahead... when the curtains fall, five will be dead. — Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
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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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After experiencing several stressful situations within a short time --including the failure of the family business and the loss of her mother-- Janet Broderick becomes ill. Falling into a deep sleep, she dreams of returning to her hometown, taking her children with her to meet her deceased loved ones. Perhaps, during a Christmas reunion with her beloved family, she will find the answer to coping with her troubles.
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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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The World According to Garp
New Hampshire The 1940sRobin Williams is Garp. He's got a funny way of looking at life. — Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
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The Verdict
Massachusetts New England The 1980sThe doctors want to settle, the Church wants to settle, their lawyers want to settle, and even his own clients are desperate to settle. But Galvin is determined to defy them all. He will try the case. — Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
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Hanky Panky
Maine Massachusetts The 1980sWhen you're wanted for a murder you didn't commit, chased for secrets you didn't steal, and running from people who want to kill you, the worst mistake you can make is falling in love... — The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
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Pieces
Massachusetts The 1980s The 1940sIt's exactly what you think it is! — A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
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Ben's Mill
Vermont The 1980s1982 documentary film directed by Michel Chalufour and John Karol. The film portrays how the energy from the river is used to drive the multitudes of leather belts used to drive the various machines. The film focuses on the steps one man, Ben, uses to make one of his white pine watering tanks.
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Miracle on Ice
Massachusetts The 1970s The 1980sHockey coach Herb Brooks leads Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig and team to a gold medal in the 1980 Olympics.
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The Cannonball Run
ConnecticutYou'll root for them all...but you'll never guess who wins. — A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. "Cannonball" Baker, who in the roaring 20's rode his motorcycle across the country. Many of the characters are based on ruses developed by real Cannonball racers over the several years that the event was run.
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On Golden Pond
New HampshireWhen life is at its finest... when love is at its fullest... — For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
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Dead & Buried
New EnglandIt will take your breath away. All of it. — After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
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The Four Seasons
ConnecticutHere's to our friends... and the strength to put up with them. — Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
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The House by the Cemetery
Massachusetts The 1980sRead the fine print. You may have just mortgaged your life. — After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his research and moves his family from New York City to the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.
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The Last Chase
Massachusetts The 2010sThe oil finally ran out... and somewhere in the future, the chase has begun. — Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
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Happy Birthday to Me
MassachusettsIt'll be a killer party! — Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on...
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Night School
MassachusettsA is for Apple B is for Bed C is for Co-ed D is for Dead F is for Failing to keep your Head! — A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.
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Dirty Tricks
MassachusettsEveryone here is crazy...everyone else is cracking up...in the hilarious comedy that casts off in total insanity! — A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).
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Flash Gordon
VermontFight or Survival? — A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
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Altered States
Massachusetts The 1970sWhen he heard his cry for help it wasn't human — A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
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Return of the Secaucus Seven
New HampshireSeven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
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A Small Circle of Friends
Massachusetts The 1960sThe story of three people and the era that shaped them. — In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica (Karen Allen), Leo (Brad Davis) and Nick (Jameson Parker) grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by romantic feelings both men develop for Jessica.
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Revenge of the Stepford Wives
ConnecticutThe Stepford Wives Return With a Vengeance... — A TV reporter arrives in the quiet town of Stepford to launch an investigation into why the town has the lowest divorce and crime rates in America. However, she begins to notice some bizarre behavior in the women of the town, discovering that Stepford is not as clean cut as it seems.
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The Long Days of Summer
Connecticut The 1930sA Season of Innocence Shattered by Hatred — A sequel to praised T.V. movie 'When Every Day Is The Fourth Of July': A Jewish attorney and his son battle anti-Semitism in pre-war New England. Generally well done.
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Prophecy
MaineShe lives. Don't move. Don't breathe. There's nowhere to run. She will find you. — When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the strangely mutated wildlife roaming the woods. Robert captures a bear cub for testing and soon finds himself the target of an angry mutant grizzly.
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An American Christmas Carol
New Hampshire The 1930sCharles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film — In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
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Starting Over
MassachusettsHe wants to straighten out his life.... one way or another — After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
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The Promise
MassachusettsTHE PROMISE... to love each other forever but the next time he won't even know who she is. — A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Massachusetts The 17th CenturyIn 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future.
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Jaws 2
MassachusettsJust when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... — Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
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Coma
MassachusettsImagine your life hangs by a thread. Imagine your body hangs by a wire. Imagine you're not imagining. — A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
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The Brink's Job
Massachusetts The 1950sThe robbery nobody thought could happen by the guys nobody thought could pull it off. — In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino (Peter Falk), a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis (Peter Boyle), who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...
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The Time Machine
Massachusetts The 1970s The 1850s The 1870s The 17th CenturyA scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
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A Death in Canaan
ConnecticutWhen a teenager is accused of his mother's murder, the community of Canaan rallies to his defense.
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When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
Connecticut The 1930sA little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
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Pete's Dragon
Maine The 1900sBrazzle Dazzle Brilliance! — Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.
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Opening Night
ConnecticutActress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic actress who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
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Between the Lines
Massachusetts The 1970sFun, Adventure, Romance on $75 a Week — The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.
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The Last Hurrah
MassachusettsThe longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.
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Carrie
Maine The 1970sIf you've got a taste for terror… take Carrie to the prom. — Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
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Ask her no questions, she'll tell you no lies. Ask her too many and somebody dies. — Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.
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The Gumball Rally
Massachusetts ConnecticutIt's a hilarious coast-to-coast, 180 mile-an-hour, go-for-broke, outrageous road race with the world's most expensive cars. And it's all just for glory and a gumball machine. — A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
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