generation-gap
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    The Magic Christian

    Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless boy, Youngman. Together, they set out...

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    The Fury (1978)

    A psychic girl (Amy Irving) helps a spy (Kirk Douglas) find his psychic son, kidnapped by a renegade...

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    My Father, the Hero (1994)

    While on a tropical vacation with her father (G?rard Depardieu), a teen (Katherine Heigl) passes him...

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    The Barker

    Based on the oft-filmed play by Kenyon Nicholson, The Barker represented the talking-picture debut...

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    The Big Night (1951)

    A teenager comes of age while seeking revenge on the man who beat up his father.

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    Up the Down Staircase (1967)

    The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.

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    Hud (1963)

    A housekeeper (Patricia Neal) sees a Texas cattle rancher (Melvyn Douglas) clash with his son (Paul...

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    Petulia (1968)

    A divorced doctor (George C. Scott) has a hectic affair with a kooky married woman (Julie Christie)...

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    The House of the Spirits (1994)

    A rancher (Jeremy Irons), his clairvoyant wife (Meryl Streep) and their family face turbulent years...

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    The Man Without A Face (1993)

    A disfigured recluse (Mel Gibson) tutors a confused teen (Nick Stahl) for a military-school entrance...

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    Written on the Wind (1956)

    A Texas oilman's (Robert Stack) sister makes him doubt his wife (Lauren Bacall) and best friend...

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    Dead Poets Society (1989)

    A teacher at a New England prep school uses unconventional methods to instill spirit into the lives...

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    Taking Off (1971)

    New Yorkers (Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry) seek their drop-out daughter (Linnea Heacock) and wind up on...

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    A Thousand Clowns

    A woman convinces an unemployed writer to get his job back and marry her so he won't lose custody of...

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    Blueberry Hill (1988)

    A widow's (Carrie Snodgress) daughter (Jennifer Rubin) in 1956 California learns from her piano...

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    Billy Galvin (1986)

    Lenny Von Dohlen plays Billy Galvin, the son of a no-nonsense construction worker (Karl Malden)....

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    Proud Rebel (1958)

    An Illinois widow (Olivia de Havilland) helps a Southern widower (Alan Ladd) traveling with his dog...

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    The Bad News Bears (2005)

    A single mother (Marcia Gay Harden) recruits a former baseball player (Billy Bob Thornton) to coach...

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    The Shanghai Gesture (1942)

    Gambling-den boss Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson) drags her British ex-lover's (Walter Huston)...

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    Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

    The ape man (Johnny Weissmuller) and Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) find an infant, call him Boy (John...

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    A Holy Terror

    In this western, a wealthy eastern returns from a polo match to find that his father has been...

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    The Last Gangster (1937)

    A gangster (Edward G. Robinson) gets out of Alcatraz and finds his son, his ex-wife (Rose Stradner)...

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    Roommates (1995)

    An Ohio heart surgeon (D.B. Sweeney) shares a roof with the meddling grandfather (Peter Falk) who...

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    Where It's At (1969)

    A Las Vegas casino owner (David Janssen) clashes with his Ivy League son (Robert Drivas) while...

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    Blame It on the Night (1984)

    In this standard, slightly maudlin drama developed by Mick Jagger and director Gene Taft, Charles...

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    Madame Sousatzka (1988)

    A cultured Russian (Shirley MacLaine) teaches piano to a gifted Indian teenager (Navin Chowdhry) in...

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    I Never Sang For My Father (1970)

    A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out...

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    Camilla (1994)

    An adman's (Elias Koteas) musician wife (Bridget Fonda) leaves Georgia for Canada with an aged...

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    The Man in the Net

    New Englanders think an adman turned artist (Alan Ladd) has killed his missing wife (Carolyn Jones).

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    Avalon (1990)

    Barry Levinson's saga of a Jewish immigrant family's desire to preserve its heritage while living...