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    The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

    Siblings (Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger) learn that magical creatures are behind the strange...

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    RV (2006)

    Calamities strike when a family patriarch (Robin Williams) rents an enormous motor-home and takes...

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    Undertow (2004)

    In possession of gold coins, a teenager (Jamie Bell) and his sickly brother (Devon Alan) flee from...

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    Little Odessa (1995)

    A job returns a Russian-Jewish hit man (Tim Roth) to his family (Edward Furlong) and the Mafia in...

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    When Do We Eat? (2006)

    A dysfunctional Jewish family struggles to get through their first Seder in three years.

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    Eulogy (2004)

    A porn actor (Hank Azaria), a college student (Zooey Deschanel) and other members of a dysfunctional...

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    Tideland (2006)

    After her parents die from drug overdoses, a girl (Jodelle Ferland) copes by inventing a fantasy...

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    Halloween (2007)

    A psychiatrist follows an escaped psychopath's blood-soaked trail back to his hometown.

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    Greedy (1994)

    Rival heirs send a nephew (Michael J. Fox) to save their claim to the scrap-metal fortune of an...

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    A Wedding (1978)

    Friends and family of the bride (Amy Stryker) and groom (Desi Arnaz Jr.) carry on at a mansion...

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    The Anniversary (1968)

    A wealthy widow (Bette Davis) annually gathers her sons to commemorate the death of her husband,...

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    Postcards From the Edge (1990)

    A drug-detoxed Hollywood actress (Meryl Streep) moves in with her boozing actress mother (Shirley...

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    The Family Jewels (1965)

    An orphan heiress (Donna Butterworth) goes with her chauffeur (Jerry Lewis) to pick a guardian from...

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    Pecker (1998)

    A blue-collar Baltimore teen (Edward Furlong) becomes a New York celebrity when a dealer discovers...

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    King of the Gypsies (1978)

    Not surprisingly, this fascinating dissection of Gypsy life in America was vilified by several...

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    Four Christmases (2008)

    A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.

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    The Run of the Country (1995)

    Following the death of his mother, 18-year-old Danny is lost and bereft. Danny runs away from his...

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    A Room for Romeo Brass (2000)

    A weirdo (Paddy Considine) threatens the friendship of two suburban boys (Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall)...

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    Marine Life

    A twice-divorced lounge singer (Cybill Shepherd) and her much-younger lover (Peter Outerbridge) add...

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    Geminis

    An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family....

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    Wszyscy Jestesmy Chrystusami

    Adam, the son of a recovering alcoholic, confesses to his father, Sylvester, that while his dad was...

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    A Very Brady Sequel (1996)

    Mike (Gary Cole), Carol (Shelley Long) and the TV-series Bradys embrace a criminal (Tim Matheson)...

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    Engel & Joe

    A love story about a 17 year old punk-rocker and a 15 year old runaway girl

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    Nothing But Trouble (1991)

    Four trendy New Yorkers face a crazed judge (Dan Aykroyd) and other horrors in the village of...

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    Betsy's Wedding (1990)

    A Long Island contractor (Alan Alda) wants an ethnic bash for his daughter (Molly Ringwald), but the...

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    Spanking the Monkey (1994)

    A college student (Jeremy Davies) has to spend his summer playing nurse to his bossy bedridden...

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    Our Mother's House (1967)

    Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father (Dirk...

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    Ulee's Gold (1997)

    A Florida beekeeper (Peter Fonda) looks for the missing wife of his jailed son but finds thugs...

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    The Squid and the Whale (2005)

    A teenager (Jesse Eisenberg) and his younger brother cope with the fallout from their parents' (Jeff...

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    Twister (1989)

    A retired soft-drink tycoon (Harry Dean Stanton) lives in a Kansas mansion with his son (Crispin...

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    Eve's Bayou (1997)

    Tragedy strikes a prosperous Louisiana family in 1962 after a girl (Jurnee Smollett) catches her...

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    The Glass Menagerie (1987)

    A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future...

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    Little Boy Blue (1998)

    A young man (Ryan Phillippe) tries to shield his siblings and mother (Nastassja Kinski) from their...

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    I-See-You.Com

    A 17-year-old boy buys mini-cameras and displays the footage online at I-see-you.com. The cash rolls...

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    The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)

    Grown siblings spend an uneasy Thanksgiving weekend at their parents' home in Maine.

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    American Hollow (1999)

    This film tells the tale of a close-knit Appalachian family that has changed little in the last 100...

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    Orange County (2002)

    A high schooler (Colin Hanks) tries to fix a mistake after his guidance counselor sends the wrong...

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    Manic (2003)

    A violent teenager (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) befriends two other troubled patients (Michael Bacall,...

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    Diamond Head (1962)

    The head (Charlton Heston) of a Hawaiian pineapple dynasty refuses to let his sister (Yvette...

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    Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992)

    Their mixed-up family follows when an unhappy teen (Hillary Wolf) and her stepbrother flee into the...

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    Palookaville (1996)

    Lack of employment turns three Jersey City pals (William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo, Adam Trese) into...

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    The Quiet Room (1997)

    In a blue-walled bedroom, a seven-year-old girl watches her goldfish, plays with her dolls, draws...

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    Sweetie (1990)

    A young woman's life is torn apart by the sudden intrusion of her mentally disturbed sister.

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    The Ref (1994)

    Bickering spouses (Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey) annoy the cat burglar (Denis Leary) who takes them...

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    A Reflection of Fear (1973)

    In A Reflection of Fear a young woman, Marguerite (Sondra Locke), cloistered in a...

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    Affliction (1998)

    A small-town sheriff (Nick Nolte) becomes unhinged, thanks in part to his abusive, alcoholic father...

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    Harmful Insect

    Sachiko, a 12-year-old girl in junior high school, has a complicated life. When she was still an...

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    Events Leading Up To My Death

    A dysfunctional family traces its problems to the father's inability to express himself.

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    Wind From Wyoming

    In a milieu of punch-drunk boxers and their handlers, Lea is in love with up-and-comer Reo. But he...

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    Thirty Five Aside

    A black comedy depicting the travails of a young schoolboy outcast and his hilarious, dysfunctional...