Dan Aykroyd
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"Born in the Delta, the blues has meandered through Mississippi juke joints and Chicago nightclubs, Texas roadhouses and Memphis studios, and on to concert halls worldwide. Elwood's Blues in the story of the artists who have carried the blues along these roads." "Since 1993 the award-winning House of Blues Radio Hour has brought in-depth artist profiles and blues music to millions of listeners, courtesy host Dan Aykroyd and producer Ben Manilla. Now...
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Uncle Buck (1989, 100 min.): As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces.
Great outdoors (1988, 91 min.): When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restful.
7) The Campaign
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In order to gain influence over their North Carolina district, two CEOs seize an opportunity to oust long-term congressman Cam Brady by putting up a rival candidate. Their man -- naive Marty Huggins, director of the local Tourism Center.
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Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station. Two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Widower Larry wants just one thing, to protect his kids. His buddy Chuck also wants on thing, to enjoy the single life. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in his marker when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries. All that Chuck...
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The rich and greedy Duke Brothers wager a bet on whether a born loser like Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler from the ghetto, can become as successful as Winthorpe, a wealthy investment executive, if put in the proper environment--and if a prig like Winthorpe were to lose all, would he turn to a life of crime? The Dukes arrange for that to happen. Valentine becomes the golden boy of the commodities market and Winthorpe finds himself out in the streets....
10) Ghostbusters II
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The Ghostbusters team regroup when the infant son of single mother Dana Barrett becomes the target of a demonic force. They must put a stop to an enormous underground river of slime ready to rot the roots of the Big Apple.
"After waging a war on slime that cost New York City millions, the Ghostbusters find themselves out of business--until an ancient tyrant, preparing to return to the Earthly domain through his portal at the Manhattan Museum of Art,...
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The couch trip (1987, 97 min.) : A mental patient sent to jail for computer fraud cons his way into a mental facility for men, where he takes over the psychiatric practice of a million-dollar-a-year shrink who is about to have a breakdown.
Clifford (1991, 99 min.) : A mischievous and obnoxious 10-year-old boy makes life pure hell for his bachelor uncle while his parents are in Hawaii.
14) Ghostbusters
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The doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler suddenly find themselves downsized from the University's parapsychology department, they decide to go the entrepreneurial route, chasing down ghostly ghosts, unappetizing apparitions and the occasional insolent succubae.
15) Sneakers
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When computer expert Martin Bishop and his team of renegade hackers are blackmailed into carrying out a covert operation to recover a mysterious black box, they discover factions from all sides are willing to kill for it.
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They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two former Presidents are framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents. The two squabbling ploitical foes plunge into a desparate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence.
18) War, Inc
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Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. vice-president. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growning demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show producer in order to pull off his current hit. He has to do all this while maintaining his...
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Uncle Buck: Uncle Buck has a reputation for being unreliable and a bit of a house wrecker. It is therefore with reluctance, his sister-in-law agrees to leave Buck looking after her three kids - two harmless youngsters and a rebelious teenager - while she visits her sick father.
The great outdoors: Chet is a family man who has brought his family to a lakeside resort area. His wife and kids aren't quite as excited as he is. His optimism is sabotaged...
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Dorothy's only just returned home from her first incredible journey to Oz, but she's already being called back for another adventure! After waking to post-tornado Kansas, Dorothy and Toto are whisked to Oz on a magical rainbow mover sent by their old friends the Scarecrow, the Lion and the Tin Man. Time in Oz has passed much faster than back in Kansas, and Dorothy discovers that the Jester, the devious brother of the Wicked Witch of the West, is taking...