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'Rudy' and 14 Other Movies That Make Men Cry
This week's 20th anniversary of the release of "Rudy" (which hit theaters on October 13, 1993) is a fitting excuse for an honest look at a genre we'd like to pretend doesn't exist: Movies That Make...
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Box Office: Why Did 'The Fifth Estate' Flop?
Guess Julian Assange got all worked up over nothing. The controversial WikiLeaks founder famously fretted that "The Fifth Estate," the unauthorized thriller about him, starring Benedict Cumberbatch,...
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'Mystic Pizza' Cast: Where Are They Now?
"I have a feeling that 'Mystic Pizza' may someday become known for the movie stars it showcased back before they became stars." So wrote Roger Ebert when he reviewed the modest coming-of-age drama...
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'Gravity' Shifts the 2014 Oscar Race
With just 10 weeks left in the year, box office matters a lot more than it should in an Oscar race supposedly based on merit. That's especially true with movies that are on the fence. As most of the...
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Box Office: Is the Ratings System Helping or Hurting Movie Ticket Sales?
Three of the films that opened this weekend provide interesting case studies for whether the ratings system is actually doing its job -- that is, protecting kids from seeing content that's too mature...
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'American History X': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Controversial...
It's been 15 years since the release of "American History X" (on October 30, 1998), and to this day, the movie stands as a riveting and brutal drama about the persistence of white-supremacist racism...
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Box Office: Who Are the Weekend's Actual Winners and Losers?
The numbers don't tell the whole story. Sure, it looks like "Ender's Game" handily won the week, topping the North American box office chart with an estimated $28.0 million. But the galactic war saga...
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'Love Actually' Cast: Where Are They Now?
Having climbed to the top of the romantic comedy heap with his scripts for such beloved films as "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Notting Hill," Richard Curtis decided to make the rom-com to end all...
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Box Office: How Long Can Marvel's 'Avengers' Boost Ticket Sales?
It's almost unheard of in Hollywood for a sequel (or a three-quel) to earn twice as much at the box office as its predecessor. But that's the sort of thing we're seeing with Disney's recent Marvel...
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How 'A Christmas Story' Went From Cult Movie to Holiday Classic in 30 Years
There's a menswear store on a quaint cobblestone street in my suburban New Jersey town whose Christmas window display each year includes a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a fishnet stocking. That no...
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Box Office: How Did 'The Best Man Holiday' Open So Big?
No one expected "The Best Man Holiday" to enjoy such a huge debut -- an estimated $30.6 million, only about $8 million behind the second-week earnings of chart-topper "Thor: The Dark World." Even its...
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JFK and the Movies: 50 Years of Mythmaking
Like most Americans living today, I was born after November 22, 1963, so I don't remember John F. Kennedy and can't tell you where I was when news broke of his assassination. So here's what I know...
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The 'Twilight' Cast: Where Are They Now?
Hard to believe, but there was a time before "The Twilight Saga." Five long years ago, Stephenie Meyer's books were best-sellers, but most people didn't know about her sparkly romantic vampires....
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'Scrooged' Cast: Where Are They Now? (PHOTOS)
Every age gets the version of Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" that it deserves, and the crass, tacky 1980s got "Scrooged," a loud, overstuffed, manic comedy version that turned Dickens crotchety miser...
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Box Office: Did 'Delivery Man' Have a Chance Against 'Catching Fire'?
Was "Delivery Man" just a sacrificial lamb, opening opposite "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"? It didn't have to be. Sure, there was no way in Panem that "Catching Fire" would fail to debut at No. 1...
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11 Disastrous Thanksgiving Movies That Will Make You Very Thankful for Your...
Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" is a movie that features not just one but three Thanksgiving celebrations, all hosted by Mia Farrow's earth-mother Hannah character over three consecutive...
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Box Office: Did 'Oldboy' Even Have a Chance?
On paper, "Oldboy" could have been a hit -- a remake of a celebrated South Korean thriller by one of America's most talented filmmakers, Spike Lee, and starring an actor who specializes in brooding,...
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Oscar Race 2014: Let the Campaigning Begin
Don't look now, but while you were cooking your turkey or watching "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," the 2014 Oscar race kicked into high gear. Two events in November had all the hopefuls stepping up...
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Box Office: Will 'Frozen' & 'Catching Fire' Awaken Hollywood to the...
It was a good weekend at the box office for movies about women. The top two movies, "Frozen" (a Disney animated feature about not one but two princesses) and "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" (about a...
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'Scarface': 25 Things You Didn't Know About Al Pacino's Classic Crime Drama
"Scarface" co-star Steven Bauer recalled a decade ago that, during the 1983 premiere for the over-the-top epic of the rise and fall of a violent, foul-mouthed, cocaine kingpin, Martin Scorsese turned...
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