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What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Class of 1989, Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is a star on the high school basketball court with a college scout in the stands and a bright future in his grasp. But instead, he decides to throw it all away to share his life with his girlfriend Scarlet and the baby he just learned they are expecting. Almost 20 years later, Mike's (Matthew Perry) glory days are decidedly behind him. …More

Kubrick's science fiction epic puts mankind in context between ape and space voyager. The film created a stir for its special effects, the computer HAL, and the debate about the film's final sequence. …More

Will Lightman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up. …More

The Addams family live a secluded life in an old mansion and are quite wealthy. Their crooked accountant and his loan shark are plotting to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. …More

The manager of the lowly California Angels puts his faith in a boy who can see an angel. …More

Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert try to come back alive after an explosion aborts the April 1970 moonshot. Directed by Ron Howard. From Lovell's memoir Lost Moon. …More

In the epic action adventure Avatar, James Cameron, the director of Titanic, takes us to a spectacular new world beyond imagination. On the distant moon Pandora, a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. …More

A wishing machine turns a boy into a 35-year-old man with a fun job and girlfriend. Directed by Penny Marshall. …More

A wrestler, a rebel, a brain, a beauty and a shy girl share detention in a Chicago high school. …More

A cool teen plays hooky in Chicago with his girlfriend, his buddy and his buddy's father's classic Ferrari. …More

An inspired Iowa farmer builds a baseball field and sees Shoeless Joe Jackson's ghost, and more. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson. …More

February 2nd keeps repeating for a cynical TV weatherman sent to watch the groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pa. …More

A man is given a last chance to redeem himself when he takes a coaching position for a high school basketball team in a small town in Indiana in the early 1950s. He is challenged with the task of bringing the unknown team to a championship. …More

After a devastating riding accident, a young girl and her beloveed horse are both left with serious physical and emotional scars. Determined to help, the girl's desperate mother puts her busy, big-city life on hold and travels west to seek out the "Horse Whisperer." When she meets this rugged, down-to-earth rancher, she discovers his extraordinary gift with animals also touches the lives of the people around him. …More

A washed-up ball player is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League in 1943, while all the male pros have been drafted in WWII. …More

Raised in the African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron thinks she knows about "survival of the fittest." But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and falls prey to the psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today. …More

Estranged from his wife, an out-of-work actor masquerades as a nanny to be with his children. …More

An 11-year-old meets a boy and grows up at her widowed father's funeral home in the summer of '72. …More

A yachtsman's wife falls overboard, forgets who she is and becomes an Oregon carpenter's mate. Directed by Garry Marshall. …More

Moses Pray, a smooth-talking con man is driving through depression-era Kansas with a carload of deluxe bibles and a list of newly widowed prospects for his line when he meets up with Addie, a cigarette-smoking, nine-year-old orphan who shows Moses a thing or two about cons. …More

A single, suburban dad tries to make ends meet as a security officer at a New Jersey mall. It's a job he takes very seriously, though no one else does. When Santa's helpers at the mall stage a coup, shutting down the megaplex and taking hostages (Paul's daughter and sweetheart among them), Jersey's most formidable mall cop will have to become a real cop to save the day. …More

A boy creates a scheme as a class project. It involves helping three people who must each help three people and so on until everyone is doing something for someone. He puts his plan into action and it actually works, though not in the way the boy anticipated, and not until his own world is forever changed for better and worse. …More

A 1985 housewife passes out and wakes up in 1960, in high school with her husband-to-be. Directed by Francis Coppola. …More

An ad exec and a shower-curtain-ring salesman become co-travelers on the way to Thanksgiving in Chicago. …More

She's a high school girl from the wrong side of town. He's the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure. …More

Based on the novel by William Goldman, Buttercup is a beautiful princess who--after being separated by her true love Westley--is captured by and forced to marry a conspiring prince. As the wedding day approaches her true love, a vengeful Spaniard and a kind giant come to her rescue. …More

In this charming critically acclaimed tale of first love, Lloyd (John Cusack), an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student (Ione Skye). He surprises just about everyone, including himself, when she returns the sentiment. But Diane's over-possessive, divorced Dad (Frasier's John Mahoney) doesn't approve and it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all. …More

After his band fires him, a musician takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at a prestigious school. Not knowing much about teaching, the musician decides to tap into the musical knowledge of his young proteges and create a band. …More

A girl turning 16 likes another girl's guy and feels nobody cares about her birthday. …More

Chicago parents in a pinch have a bachelor uncle baby-sit their teen-age daughter and little ones. …More