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1) Blank check
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A kid receives a blank check from a mobster who accidentally hits him with his car, and is surprised when he actually cashes it for a million dollars.
2) Richie Rich
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A likable but isolated kid has everything money can buy except friends--until he hits it off big with a group of sandlot kids.
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Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
4) 1981
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When his family moves into their new home, young Ricardo Trogi feels different from his classmates. He creates a new reality to avoid being discovered for what he really is. How long can the truth be denied?
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While on a trip to Hollywood to help a celebrity starlet's depressed Chihuahua, Maya Dolittle gets caught up in the Hollywood glitz. Dropping her dreams of becoming a vet, Maya lands a job hosting an animal talk show with famous heiress Tiffany Monaco. Lucky starts falling in love with a pedigreed pooch and Maya falls out of love with the ideas about how to help animals. Just when Maya thinks she'll be trapped forever in Tinseltown, Lucky, his new...
6) Born rich
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Documentary featuring discussions with young people who are heirs to great fortunes. They discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being born rich.
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An original musical film, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE is a love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s, amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock 'n roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, the killing fields of Vietnam...
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Criterion collection volume 952
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"Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature--the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragedies--harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline in the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead,...
11) Holiday wishes
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Britney, a rich, spoiled child, and Rachel, an orphan, switch bodies after a visit to the mall with Santa Claus. Each girl wakes up as the other, with Britney in the orphanage and Rachel at Britney's family's mansion. With the magical intervention of a professional party planner Rachel teaches Britney's unloving family the true meaning of Christmas, and Britney learns that giving is better than getting.
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Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
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It's Pat: Pat Riley, a busybody of undeterminable sex, meets and falls in love with Chris, a sensitive, caring person also of undeterminable sex. Meanwhile, Pat's neighbor Kyle falls further and further into obsession with Pat, fascinated by Pat's indeterminate sexuality.
Cabin boy: A spoiled rich kid's plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire when he gets lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors that teach him lessons in life.
The wrong guy:...
15) Santa & me
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When a mall Santa tells Rubie, a grade school bully from a wealthy family, that she doesn't know the spirit of Christmas, Rubie accuses him of not being the real Santa. On Christmas Eve, she hears a noise in the house, and discovers Santa coming down the chimney. It's not storybook Santa, but the same Santa from the mall. He gives Rubie a holiday assignment. If she doesn't complete the task, he'll make her as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside....
16) Go back to China
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When spoiled rich girl Sasha Li blows through half of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**.
