Jack Black
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You Can't Win by Jack Black is a captivating autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a professional thief and drifter during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The narrative follows Jack Black's tumultuous journey through the underworld of America, as he navigates a life of crime, addiction, and deception. From his early days as a petty thief and con artist to his later exploits as a seasoned criminal, Black provides readers with...
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My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall. All manner of crimes against property. Arrests, trials, acquittals, convictions, escapes. Penitentiaries! I see in the background four of them. County jails, workhouses, city prisons, Mounted Police barracks, dungeons, solitary confinement, bread and water, hanging up, brutal floggings, and the murderous straitjacket. I see hop joints, wine dumps, thieves' resorts,...
3) Bernie
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English
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In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp.
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Jack Black and Mos Def star in Be Kind Rewind, a one-of-a-kind comedy from the mind of writer/director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Black plays a loveable loser stuck in a life that's too small for his big dreams. But when he unintentionally erases all the tapes in a video store where his best friend works, he devises a plan to satisfy the store's few loyal customers by re-creating and re-filming every movie they decide to...
6) Nacho Libre
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English
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Jack Black is more hilarious than ever as Ignacio, a monastery cook who feeds orphan children by day and by night transforms himself into Nacho Libre, a notorious Luchador in stretchy pants.
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The gang is back, but the game has changed. As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored, from the arid deserts to the snowy mountains, in order to escape the world₂s most dangerous game.
13) Kung fu panda 2
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Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Newly anointed Dragon Warrior Po must look to his past in order to prevent Lord Shen from taking over China and eliminating kung fu.
14) King Kong
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English
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Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by using...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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A Brooklyn plumber named Mario travels through the Mushroom Kingdom with a princess named Peach and an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad to find Mario's brother, Luigi, and to save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing Koopa named Bowser.
16) Kung fu panda
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Clumsy Po the panda dreams of becoming a kung fu master when he is invited to study with legendary fighters under the leadership of Master Shifu.
18) Goosebumps
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets Hannah, the girl next door, and makes a quick friend in Champ. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah's mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine holds a dangerous secret....
19) Tropic thunder
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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While filming an action movie in the jungle, death and hilarity ensue as the lead actors believe the murderous heroin-producing gang they encounter is a part of the script.
Publisher
DreamWorks Animation SKG Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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He may have defeated the ferocious Tai Lung, but our Dragon Warrior must now face Shifu's biggest challenge with the help of Viper, Tigress, Monkey, Crane and Mantis, teaching a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens. We learn it takes more than fast feet and fists to become a kung fu master.