Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field's debut film.
Pool Adversary
Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field's debut film.
1915-09-19
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Two romantic rivals play a game of pool
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
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After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbours figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit—suburban style.
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