George Segal
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From best-selling novelist Michael Crichton (ER, Disclosure) comes the chilling thriller of a risky experiment gone awry as a brilliant scientist becomes The Terminal Man. After an automobile accident causes irreversible brain damage, Harry Benson (George Segal) elects to have a microcomputer implanted in his brain to control the fierce outbursts he later cannot recall. But when Harry escapes police custody, his violent seizures turn murderous, and...
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Serpico. Dog Day Afternoon. Prince of the City. In these gritty and distinguished films, director Sidney Lumet held a mirror up to his adopted hometown, New York. In Bye Bye Braverman, he uses a funhouse mirror. The result is hilarious, satiric, wise, giddy–and no less trenchant. Sparked by a blue-ribbon cast, the film follows four Jewish intellectuals jammed into one Volkswagen and squabbling nonstop en route to the funeral of their friend Leslie...
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Beverly Hills attorney Stephen Blume loves his wife Nina more than ever before. Trouble is, he didn't realize it until they divorced. Now bumbling, bereft Blume will do anything to win her back. Each overture is rejected. And each rejection just fuels Blume's humbling and hilarious quest. Blume in Love is writer/director Paul Mazursky's witty, dead-on look at the modern marriage-go-round. The An Unmarried Woman and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice filmmaker...
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In a quest to find his biological parents, Mel - joined by his wife and a sexy adoption counselor - embarks on a cross-country search for his "roots." As he careens from one outrageous situation to another, he finds himself tempted by the counselor - as his wife starts a flirtation of her own! By the time they meet his birth parents, the whole situation is spinning hysterically out of control!
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Suspense-master Willam Golman (Marathon Man) wrote the novel from which this bizarre black comedy was adapted. It's the extraordinary account of a plumber who kills a dowdy matron, a priest who kills a dowdy matron, and a policeman who kills a dowdy matron. Actually they're all the same man, a psychotic master of disguise brilliantly played by versatile Rod Steiger. The killer also gets his kicks phoning in clues to detective George Segal. All of...
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2009
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Angel in the family: Sisters, separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding, find themselves brought back together for one amazing Christmas where a miracle will make you believe the impossible.
Fielder's choice: The uncomplicated life of a promising ad exec is disrupted when he's given custody of his autistic nephew. But as one learns from the other, two hearts open up, and a future of unexpected possibilities await.
Ordinary miracles: A troubled...