Patrick Swayze
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In vivid detail, the thirty-year veteran of stage and screen describes his Texas upbringing, his personal struggles, his rise to fame with "North and South", his commercial breakthroughs in "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," and the soul mate who's stood by his side through it all: his wife, writer and director Lisa Niemi.
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En route from New York City to Hollywood for a drag queen beauty pageant, Noxeema, Vida and Chi Chi are stranded in a tiny Midwestern town when their 1967 Cadillac breaks down. When their glitz and glamour wake up the sleepy local citizens, the stage is set for an outrageously funny weekend.
4) Ghost
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Sam, recently departed from the living world, is desperate to reconnect with the love of his life, Molly. He discovers his death wasn’t just a random robbery gone bad. To solve his own murder, he enlists the talents of a skeptical psychic, who doesn’t even believe her own abilities. Featuring a memorable Maurice Jarre score and a heartbreaking, yet often funny script by Bruce Joel Rubin, GHOST is a truly unique genre-defying film that will cross...
5) Point break
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FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) goes undercover in this action-packed thriller, infiltrating a group of surfers led by the charismatic Bodhi (Patrick Swayze), who are suspected of being behind a series of daring bank robberies. As Johnny grows closer to the group, he becomes torn between his duty as a lawman and his growing admiration for Bodhi’s free-spirited philosophy. With time running out, Johnny must decide where his true loyalties lie....
6) Father hood
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Jack Charles is a lovable small-time crook with big-time dreams. Jack's latest scheme of hitting it big is interrupted when two strangers, his kids, suddenly appear on his doorstep to reclaim him as their dad. Before long, Jack and the kids are racing towards the biggest heist of his career, pursued by cops and the FBI on a hair-raising, action-packed, cross-country chase!
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In the summer of 1963, innocent 17-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at a Catskills resort. One evening, she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
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A feature documentary film exploring the 1980s most recognizable leading man, who challenged Hollywood's very notions of masculinity and redefined what it meant to be the Sexiest Man Alive. Featuring never-before-seen home videos, photographs and original interviews with those who knew Patrick best, including the illustrious costars of his biggest films, this documentary dives beyond his status as a sex symbol to reveal the complexities of an often...
10) Red dawn
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When Communist paratroopers descend on a high school football field in Colorado, a group of the school's students wages an all-out guerrilla war to save their town and their country.
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Two families, the Hazards and the Mains, are geographically and ideologically separated by the U.S. Civil War. The hatred, prejudice, and greed that tear at the fabric of a nation also threaten to destroy the threads that have woven the lives of these two families together.
Book one: One is from a Northern industrial family, one from a Southern plantation family. They're West Point graduates whose tried-and-true loyalty helps them survive the Mexican-American...
12) Black dog
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A 40-ton truck is a lethal weapon and veteran driver Jack Crews knows how to use it. Desperate for cash, he's got one last delivery to make. The trip's barely begun when he and partner Earl discover they've been set up and are being chased by Red, a relentless fanatic who's as deadly as he is greedy. Now, with his family, his life, and his freedom on the line, Jack's going to buckle up, put the pedal down, and show Red and the Feds a thing or two...