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22,445 | [
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22,450 | [
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22,452 | [
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22,453 | [
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22,462 | [
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22,464 | [
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22,484 | [
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22,488 | [
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22,491 | [
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22,493 | [
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22,495 | [
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22,496 | [
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22,499 | [
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22,500 | [
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22,502 | [
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22,507 | [
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22,508 | [
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22,509 | [
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22,511 | [
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22,512 | [
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22,514 | [
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22,515 | [
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22,521 | [
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22,522 | [
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22,529 | [
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22,539 | [
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22,540 | [
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22,543 | [
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22,552 | [
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22,559 | [
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22,567 | [
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22,576 | [
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22,579 | [
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22,581 | [
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22,585 | [
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22,586 | [
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22,592 | [
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22,594 | [
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22,601 | [
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22,603 | [
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22,609 | [
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22,611 | [
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22,613 | [
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22,615 | [
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] | 204 | 245 | Don't ask me why I love this movie so much...Maybe it came at a time in my life I desperately wanted to fit in, maybe it is the amazing monster effects, maybe because I enjoyed the novel "Cabal", but It's probably because I LOVE Clive Barker. I think it's fair to warn you the movie and the novel have no true resolve an... | 1 |
22,620 | [
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22,622 | [
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22,625 | [
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22,626 | [
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22,630 | [
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22,631 | [
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22,636 | [
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22,638 | [
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22,641 | [
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22,643 | [
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22,644 | [
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22,645 | [
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22,653 | [
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22,657 | [
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22,659 | [
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22,669 | [
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22,670 | [
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22,671 | [
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22,682 | [
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22,685 | [
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22,686 | [
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22,689 | [
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22,692 | [
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22,693 | [
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22,707 | [
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22,714 | [
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22,722 | [
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22,725 | [
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22,737 | [
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22,741 | [
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22,744 | [
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22,753 | [
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22,756 | [
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22,758 | [
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22,762 | [
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22,766 | [
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22,771 | [
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22,772 | [
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] | 178 | 210 | For those of you who have no idea what Bug Juice is or was, it was a children's reality show about real kids living at summer camp. Bug Juice is the show that inspired me to go to camp. It was full of romance, friendships, fights, overcoming your fears, and dealing with the struggles of living away from home for 2 mont... | 1 |
22,782 | [
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] | 234 | 287 | OK, the other reviewers have pretty much covered the main points of this great little gem, i.e. the story started out in life as material for Buster Keaton's silent classic "7 Chances". Comedy, or acting in any genre for that much, is merely interpreting a scene and lines that someone else has written and performed bef... | 1 |
22,785 | [
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] | 153 | 200 | The Stooges are back and funnier than ever. "Brideless Groom" in my opinion was probably the best Shemp flick.<br /><br />Shemp has the opportunity to inherit $500,000(which was probably more than a million dollars compared to today) from his dead uncle. BUT! There is a catch. He has to marry someone that day by 6 o'cl... | 1 |
22,786 | [
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] | 189 | 240 | This is the very first Three Stooges short with Shemp that I saw, and it is one of my favorites! <br /><br />That is what I really liked about Shemp when he returned after Curly's stroke, he did not try to be like Curly, he was his own character, and that is what I admire! Shemp is my favorite third stooge, I like him ... | 1 |
22,788 | [
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22,791 | [
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22,792 | [
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] | 164 | 217 | The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of the... | 1 |
22,793 | [
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22,805 | [
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] | 205 | 257 | This movie is based on a play, and is the second adaptation of this work. Paul Sorvino plays the basketball coach of a team of players that against all odds took home the championship 20 years ago. They have all met for a reunion. Terry Kinney plays James, a Junior High principal, and will quickly get on your nerves wi... | 1 |
22,806 | [
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22,807 | [
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] | 170 | 246 | On the outside, this film is better because of Vincent D'Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), but this film is equally as good as the 1982 version. In some ways, the 1999 version is better because it's more up to date (a decade as compared to the 27 years. The actors in this film were great, like Terry Kinney (McMan... | 1 |
22,810 | [
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] | 207 | 240 | This is a fabulous film.<br /><br /> The plot is a good yarn, and is imaginatively told in a series of flashbacks and alternative points of view. What was deliberate, and what was coincidence? Who is in love with who?<br /><br /> You get the chance to put yourselves in the shoes of each of the characters in turn (somet... | 1 |
22,818 | [
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] | 230 | 269 | This is a clever story about relationships and a display of three main categories of players in the game of relationships: playboys (Max), manipulative women (Alice) and the fools who may be indeed in love (Lisa, Muriel and Lucien).<br /><br />Max and Alice are very unlikeable and perhaps despicable characters but who ... | 1 |
22,842 | [
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22,849 | [
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22,853 | [
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] | 219 | 275 | ...instead, watch it as a great coming of age tale about African American males in the mid 1960's in the ghettos of Chicago. For all of you out there under the age of 50, "What's Happening" was a light-hearted rather quirky sitcom with very few serious moments that lasted four years (1975-1979) concerning a group of yo... | 1 |
22,855 | [
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] | 223 | 271 | Cooley High was actually a drama with moments of comedy. It was a reflection of high school life back in the day. I attended Coolidge High in Washington, D.C. from 1976 to 1979 and much of what was in Cooley High was an every day thing at Coolidge. As a matter of fact after the movie came out everybody started calling ... | 1 |
22,858 | [
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