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Strange Brew

Strange Brew

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must confront th...

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Motocrossed

Motocrossed

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Motocrossed! is a 2001 Disney Channel Original Movie (based on the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night), about a girl named Andrea Carson who loves motocross, despite the fact that her father finds her uns...

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Skin

Skin

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Skin is a television serial drama which aired at 9:00 p.m. Monday on Fox in 2003. It followed the tale of two teenagers who came from feuding families on opposite sides of the moral and legal spectrum...

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She's the Man

She's the Man

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Du...

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Tempest

Tempest

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 6.4

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island wher...

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King of Texas

King of Texas

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 6.3

In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his three daughters, is rejected by them.

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China Girl

China Girl

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.

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O

O

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the adoration of all, including the team's coach and the Dean'...

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Coriolanus

Coriolanus

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious mother to seek the position of consul, Coriolanus...

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Private Romeo

Private Romeo

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6

When eight male cadets are left behind at an isolated military high school, the greatest romantic drama ever written seeps out of the classroom and permeates their lives.

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