Dave Grusin
1) Selena
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English
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Tells the story of the Grammy Award-winning South Texas singer Selena, whose life tragically ended just as she was taking Tejano music into mainstream America.
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English
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Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidently goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions.
3) The graduate
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English
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A shy, aimless college graduate, without any idea of responsibility or ambition, wanders from a liaison with a married woman to pursuit of her engaged daughter. Includes commentaries, featurettes, documentaries, and a Simon and Garfunkel CD.
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English
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When deaf-mute John Singer moves to a sleepy Southern town to be near his hospitalized friend, a brain-damaged man-child, Singer's silent kindness draws to him others broken in body and spirit.
"John Singer, who is deaf . . . moves from a small town in order to be close to his institutionalized friend Antonapoulos, who is deaf and mentally impaired. Singer rents a room with a family whose father, Mr. Kelly, is unable to earn a living due to a serious...
6) Tootsie
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English
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Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money - eight thousand dollars to be exact - and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime.
7) The front
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English
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Howard Price, a restaurant cashier, poses as a writer so that blacklisted authors can submit their work through him, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand when he is forced to testify at an investigative congressional committee hearing.
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English
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Norman Thayer, a prickly retired professor visits his Maine summer home with his loving wife Ethel. Soon after they are joined by their daughter Chelsea, her fiancée Bill, and his son Billy. The cantankerous Norman's unlikely bond with young Billy provides the framework for an emotional summer in which the Thayers' strained familial relationships are finally allowed to heal and take wing.