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Movies produced in 1996
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Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thorton) was born and raised in a fanatically religious family. At the age of twelve, he caught his mother having sex with her lover. He considered their actions appalling and killed them with a sling blade. Twenty-five years later, the partially handicapped Karl is deemed harmless to society and released from a mental asylum. When he returns to his Arkansas hometown, he takes a job at a repair shop and lives in the backroom. He develops a warm friendship with a young boy named Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black) and is soon invited by his widowed mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday), to move into their garage. However, when he meets Linda's aggressive and abusive boyfriend who maltreats Frank and Linda and mocks at Karl's disabilities, Karl is faced with an agonizing moral dilemma. |
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Four boys growing up in Hell's Kitchen play a prank that leads to an old man getting hurt. Sentenced to no less than one year in the Wilkenson Center in upstate New York, the four friends are changed by the beating, humiliation and sexual abuse by the guards sworn to protect them. Thirteen years later and a chance meeting lead to a chance for revenge against the Wilkenson Center and the guards. |
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The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses. |
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Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a car salesman who has big financial problems, hires two thugs, Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare), to kidnap his wife, Jean (Kristin Rudrüd). He desperately hopes to get the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law, Wade Gustafson (Harve Presnell), and pay off his debts. But the kidnapping plan goes horribly awry because of Jerry's extreme stupidity, greed and the complete haplessness of the kidnappers. The seemingly non-violent affair entails a series of gory incidents. |
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The ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind. |
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Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified. The murders that have happened since Jack arrived in Los Angeles just don't sit right with him. When the killer, known as the "Family Man", kills Ellen DunLeavy, who happens to be Jack's ex wife and the mother of his two kids, and Ellen's husband Andrew DunLeavy, it becomes personal - especially when Jack's prints are found on Ellen's body. Jack meets with his military mentor Smith, not knowing that Smith is in cahoots with local crime boss Frank Deverell. |
| Eraser
[1996,
USA]
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| He will erase your past to protect your future. |
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John Kruger works for a branch of the Justice Department call Witness Security or Witsec, that's responsible for relocatibng and protecting witnesses. John's latest assignment is Lee Cullen, who works for a company that's a Defense Contractor, who is selling weapons to enemies of the U.S. When she agrees to get the evidence that the Feds need to take them down, she goes in and does it but was not told by the Feds that she was going to have a bullseye on her for the rest of her life. After refusing to be placed in Kruger's custody, some men attack her home but Kruger arrives just in time to save her and relocate. Later when several witnesses under Witsec are killed, Kruger accompanies another Witsec agent Deguerin to save a potential victim, when they get there, Deguerin shoots the killer but also kills the witness, and then plants a photo of Lee in the shooter's pocket. When Kruger sees the photo, Deguerin asks where she is, Kruger intially gives him a false location but while on the plane, Kruger sensing something's not right, calls her, which means that she is suppose to meet him somewhere. Kruger's drugged and when he awakens he discovers that Deguerin is not only working with the people who are trying to sell the weapons but has just framed him for killing another agent. Kruger escapes and gets to Lee in time but unfortunately, he is still a fugitive, so he must try and prove his innocence while trying to protect Lee. |
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Son of a successful businessman was kidnapped and forcedly held for ransom. The father (Mel Gibson) unexpectedly spoils the game of kidnappers by appearing on TV-screen and offering money for the head of their leader (Gary Sinise). This turn changes the whole story radically, forcing bandits to change their plans.
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Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. |
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An intelligent, wickedly ironical serial slayer, fond of scary movies, has begun to terrorize a small quiet town of Woodsboro. The inventive murderer uses everything he knows about the horror movie genre to play with his young victims – highschool kids. He's wearing a Halloween mask, he never fails to outwit the police and continues his thrilling game. Can the main character Sidney (Neve Campbell) still believe her classmates? Her boyfriend? The dreadful nightmare from A Nightmare On Elm Street is back in Scream. |
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