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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

A poor boy (Freddie Highmore) and four spoiled children win a tour through the incredible factory of...

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American Dreamz (2006)

A conniving singer (Mandy Moore) and a sleeper-cell terrorist become finalists on America's hottest...

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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

The owner (Vince Vaughn) of a gym and an overbearing entrepreneur (Ben Stiller) form dodgeball teams...

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Urban Cowboy (1980)

A Texas farmer (John Travolta) moves to the city, immerses himself in honky-tonk and falls for a...

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Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

A '50s-era housewife (Julianne Moore) uses her wit and winnings from commercial jingle contests to...

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How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)

Bravado lands an 11-year-old boy (Luke Benward) in a predicament at a new school when he accepts the...

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Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)

Showman P.T. Barnum (Burl Ives) plans with a balloonist (Troy Donahue) and a German inventor (Gert...

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The Beauty Jungle (1966)

The Beauty Jungle can hardly be considered an expose of the beauty-contest business, since most of...

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You Got Served (2004)

Street dancers (Marques Houston, Omari Grandberry, Jarell Houston) work together to win a...

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The Quick and the Dead (1995)

A cowgirl (Sharon Stone) enters a quick-draw contest to get revenge on an outlaw (Gene Hackman) in a...

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Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

An Iowa songwriter (Dick Van Dyke) sees his big chance when rock 'n' roll idol Conrad Birdie comes...

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Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004)

Secretly in love with his friend (Kate Bosworth), a supermarket manager (Topher Grace) becomes...

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Strike up the Band (1940)

A drummer (Mickey Rooney) and his singer girlfriend (Judy Garland) form a high-school swing band for...

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Fame (2009)

An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of...

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Quiz Show (1994)

A scandal rocks 1950s America when a former game-show champion admits he was given the answers....

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Dancehall Queen (1997)

A single street vendor disguises herself for a dance contest, and pits her enemies against each...

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Cold Turkey (1971)

An Iowa minister (Dick Van Dyke) accepts a tobacco tycoon's offer of $25 million to a town that...

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The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

The Bradys (Shelley Long, Gary Cole) and their TV-series clan refuse to sell their home to a shady...

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Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of...

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Ride the Wild Surf (1964)

California beach boys (Fabian, Tab Hunter, Peter Brown) come to Hawaii to meet beach girls and surf...

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Saturday Night Fever (1977)

A Brooklyn paint-store clerk (John Travolta) dons a white suit and becomes king of the dance floor...

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Cover Girl (1944)

A Brooklyn chorus girl (Rita Hayworth) wins a contest, leaves her boyfriend (Gene Kelly) and joins a...

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Best in Show (2000)

Pampered pooches and their quirky owners (Michael Hitchcock, Parker Posey, Eugene Levy) converge on...

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The Sundowners (1960)

Irish sheepherders (Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum) roam with their son and helper (Peter Ustinov),...

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Night Song (1947)

A socialite (Merle Oberon) pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist (Dana...

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Taxi! (1932)

Independent cab drivers struggling against a taxi company consortium find a leader in Matt Nolan.

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Julie Armstrong

Julie Armstrong appeared in the TV show No Contest.

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Bridget Griggs

Bridget Griggs appeared in the TV show No Contest.

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Seymour Blicker

Seymour Blicker appeared in the TV show No Contest.

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Olympic Contestants

Olympic Contestants appeared in the movie Olympia.

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Patrick Peterson

Patrick Peterson appeared in TV shows such as Best Kept Secrets, The Contest Kid, and The Contest...

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Mona Burns

Mona Burns appeared in the TV show The Contest Kid.

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American Dreamer (1984)

An Ohio housewife/mystery writer (JoBeth Williams) wins a trip to Paris, where a bump on the head...

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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1970)

An electrical accident feeds a college student's (Kurt Russell) brain the data from a computer once...

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The Saddest Music in the World (2004)

During the Great Depression, a beer baroness (Isabella Rossellini) holds a competition to find the...

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Shock Treatment (1981)

Square Brad (Cliff De Young) and Janet (Jessica Harper) are forced to be contestants on a TV game...

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Genghis Blues (1999)

San Francisco bluesman and composer, Paul Peña makes a musical pilgrimage to the land of Tuva.

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Thank God It's Friday

The Zoo is the hottest disco in town, and on the night of the big dance contest, a wild assortment...

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Delivery Boys

In one of the last breakdancing movies of the mid-'80s, two competing breakdancing teams have their...

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Up From the Depths (1979)

A giant shark-like creature preys on a Hawaiian tourist community.

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Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)

Two playboys (David Naughton, Patrick Houser) take the edge off the Austrians in freestyle skiing at...

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Eddie Presley

An Elvis impersonator with a wounded psyche, unflinching in his quest to keep the King's spirit...

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Bedtime Story (1964)

The story of two gigolos who vie to see which is the best at their profession.

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Fist of Fear, Touch of Death

Film clips of Bruce Lee supplement the action of a 1978 martial-arts tournament in Madison Square...

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Blow Dry (2001)

Ex-spouses (Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson) and rival beauticians pool their resources to win a...

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Blue Car (2003)

A teacher (David Strathairn) encourages a troubled student (Agnes Bruckner) from a dysfunctional...

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Bikini Summer 2

Two homeless people trigger a series of comic catastrophes at their host's $1 million Malibu beach...

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Starstruck (1982)

A Sydney teen (Jo Kennedy) tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old...

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Hot T-Shirts

In order to avoid the closure a bar the owner and some friends organize a wet-T-shirt competition....