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Leonard Maltin's 151 best movies you've never seen / Leonard Maltin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : HarperStudio, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 323 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0061732346 (pbk.)
  • 9780061732348 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Leonard Maltin's one hundred fifty-one best movies you have never seen
  • One hundred fifty-one best movies you have never seen
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Contents:
American dreams -- The animal factory -- Aurora borealis -- Baadasssss! -- The ballad of Little Jo -- Better than sex -- The big hit -- Blood and wine -- Brick -- Brothers -- Bubba Ho-Tep -- Career girls -- Casanova -- Chop shop -- Citizen Ruth -- Connie and Carla -- C.R.A.Z.Y. -- Criminal -- Crush -- Dark days -- The dead girl -- The devil's backbone -- Diamond men -- Dick -- The dinner game -- Dinner rush -- The dish -- Disney's teacher's pet -- The door in the floor -- Driving lessons -- Duck season -- East is east -- Everything put together -- Fast, cheap & out of control -- 15 minutes -- Find me guilty -- Firelight -- Following -- Gilles' wife -- Gloomy Sunday -- Go tigers -- Going in style -- The great Buck Howard -- The greatest game ever played -- The hard word -- The harmonists -- Hedwig and the angry inch -- Hidalgo -- A home at the end of the world -- The house of sand -- How to lose friends & alienate people -- I served the king of England -- Idiocracy -- In the shadow of the moon -- Indigenes (Days of glory) -- Innocent blood -- Intermission -- Island in the sky -- Julia -- Keeping mum -- Kill me later -- King of California -- The king of masks -- King of the hill -- Kontroll -- La ciudad / The city -- La petite Lili -- La promesse -- Lady for a day -- The last shot -- Lawless heart -- Levity -- Look both ways -- The lookout -- Love and death on Long Island -- Mad money -- The Maltese falcon -- The man from Elysian Fields -- Man push cart -- Marvin's room -- The matador -- Matchstick me -- Matewan -- Maybe baby -- The merry gentleman -- Metroland -- A midnight clear -- The mighty -- Millions -- Mirrormask -- Moonlighting -- Mountains of the moon -- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont -- My first mister -- The mystery of Picasso -- Nine lives -- Nothing but the truth -- October sky -- Off the map -- Once were warriors -- One fine day -- Owning Mahowny -- The painted veil -- Paradise now -- Peter's friends -- Phoebe in wonderland -- The pledge -- Pr
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What 151 movies have you never seen--but should

What French film could teach Hollywood how to make a smart, sexy romantic comedy (page 233)

Where will you find a female-centric Western with a gender-bending protagonist (page 10)

What film won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and then fell off the radar (page 261)

What farcical comedy includes such real-life characters as Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger (page 50)

In what unsung comedy will you find Michael Douglas giving his all-time best performance (page 130)

What debut film from the director of The Dark Knight creates palpable chills--despite a shoestring budget and a no-name cast (page 79)

What John Wayne movie was out of circulation for thirty years--and still qualifies as a sleeper (page 121)

What terrific Heath Ledger movie was released the same month as Brokeback Mountain--and flopped (page 26)

What clever modern-day film noir was made for just half a million dollars (page 18)

What captivating film stars one of the seminal artists of the twentieth century (page 203)

American dreams -- The animal factory -- Aurora borealis -- Baadasssss! -- The ballad of Little Jo -- Better than sex -- The big hit -- Blood and wine -- Brick -- Brothers -- Bubba Ho-Tep -- Career girls -- Casanova -- Chop shop -- Citizen Ruth -- Connie and Carla -- C.R.A.Z.Y. -- Criminal -- Crush -- Dark days -- The dead girl -- The devil's backbone -- Diamond men -- Dick -- The dinner game -- Dinner rush -- The dish -- Disney's teacher's pet -- The door in the floor -- Driving lessons -- Duck season -- East is east -- Everything put together -- Fast, cheap & out of control -- 15 minutes -- Find me guilty -- Firelight -- Following -- Gilles' wife -- Gloomy Sunday -- Go tigers -- Going in style -- The great Buck Howard -- The greatest game ever played -- The hard word -- The harmonists -- Hedwig and the angry inch -- Hidalgo -- A home at the end of the world -- The house of sand -- How to lose friends & alienate people -- I served the king of England -- Idiocracy -- In the shadow of the moon -- Indigenes (Days of glory) -- Innocent blood -- Intermission -- Island in the sky -- Julia -- Keeping mum -- Kill me later -- King of California -- The king of masks -- King of the hill -- Kontroll -- La ciudad / The city -- La petite Lili -- La promesse -- Lady for a day -- The last shot -- Lawless heart -- Levity -- Look both ways -- The lookout -- Love and death on Long Island -- Mad money -- The Maltese falcon -- The man from Elysian Fields -- Man push cart -- Marvin's room -- The matador -- Matchstick me -- Matewan -- Maybe baby -- The merry gentleman -- Metroland -- A midnight clear -- The mighty -- Millions -- Mirrormask -- Moonlighting -- Mountains of the moon -- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont -- My first mister -- The mystery of Picasso -- Nine lives -- Nothing but the truth -- October sky -- Off the map -- Once were warriors -- One fine day -- Owning Mahowny -- The painted veil -- Paradise now -- Peter's friends -- Phoebe in wonderland -- The pledge -- Pr

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