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Hamlet (Year: 1996; Director: Kenneth Branagh; Writer: William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh; Stars: Riz Abbasi, Richard Attenborough, David Blair, Brian Blessed, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Michael Bryant, Peter Bygott, Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Charles Daish, Judi Dench, Gérard Depardieu, Reece Dinsdale, Ken Dodd)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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Little Miss Sunshine (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris; Writer: Michael Arndt; Stars: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Marc Turtletaub, Beth Grant, Jill Talley, Brenda Canela)
A dysfunctional family's road trip to a beauty pageant.
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The Rock (Country: US; Year: 1996; Director: Michael Bay; Writer: David Weisberg, Douglas Cook. Mark Rosner; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, John Spencer, John C McGinley, Tony Todd, Claire Forlani, Philip Baker Hall)
FBI boffin Nicolas Cage and grizzled lifer Sean Connery save Alcatraz from wacko army general.
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Sexy Beast (Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Jonathan Glazer; Writer: Louis Mellis, David Scinto; Stars: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, Cavan Kendall, Julianne White, James Fox)
A gangster finds his retirement in Spain cut short when a brutal bloke from the past comes to call.
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Trainspotting (Country: UK; Year: 1996; Director: Danny Boyle; Writer: Irvine Welsh, John Hodge; Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Eileen Nicholas, Susan Vidler, Pauline Lynch)
Black comic drama about the Edinburgh drugs scene. On re-release.
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