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Deservedly nominated for five Academy Awards in all, including Best Picture, Film, Director, Lead Actress and Original Script

Retired music teachers Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) have been married for over 60 years. But the frail octogenarians' love for each other remains as strong as the day they met.


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Audiences should have considered themselves warned when Jim Carrey decided to distance himself from Kick-Ass 2, going so far as to apologize to his fans for the splatterflick's shocking "level of violence."


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'Jobs,' 'Kick Ass-2,' 'The Happy Sad,' and more

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Forest Whitaker plays Cecil Gaines a real life White House butler

"Lee Daniels' The Butler" follows the life of Cecil Gaines, an African-American butler who serves in the White House under eight presidencies. Here are 10 set secrets from the cast.


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'That's chaos, that is chaos, that's chaos,' ex-wife sobs about near drowning

ATLANTA (CNN) -- A Georgia judge Friday dismissed an emergency motion filed by the ex-wife of music mogul Usher Raymond seeking temporary custody of their son.


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'Elysium,' 'Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,' 'Planes,' and more

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'What attracted me to the project was the father-son story which I looked at as a love story with the Civil Rights Movement as a backdrop'

Here, he talks about his new picture, "The Butler," a civil rights epic recounting the real-life story of an African-American who served in the White House at the pleasure of eight presidents, from 1952 to 1986.


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Widower Falls for empathetic author in atmospheric romance drama

Michael Farr (Ciaran Hinds) is a recent widower who has resigned himself to raising his 10 and 14 year-old kids alone. The grieving clan lives along Ireland's seacoast in a verdant, fog-enshrouded town whose only claim to fame is hosting an annual literary festival.
Schoolteacher Michael picked a practical profession, putting his dream of becoming a writer on hold in order to be able to provide for his family. However, he still harbors the hope of one day pursuing his true passion. Meanwhile, the only brushes he enjoys with the publishing industry is when he works as a volunteer at the aforementioned festival.


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'2 Guns ,' 'The Smurfs 2,' 'The Canyons,' and more

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The team's star, Adrien, had lost sixty members of his family, including six brothers and everyone on his mother's side of the clan

A few years after the cessation of the civil war, American bike racing legend Jock Boyer was looking for a chance at redemption in the wake of being paroled after serving time in prison for lewd behavior. He found that opportunity he needed upon moving to Rwanda at the suggestion of a friend.


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