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Summary: An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Runtime: 3 h 05 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 11,000,000
Summary: A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,288,000
Summary: A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,081,254
Summary: An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 21,002,919
International: $ 37,088,840
Summary: A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: G

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 573,368
International: $ 96,845
Summary: A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,500,000
Summary: A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 810,000
Domestic: $ 148,882
International: $ 379,632
Summary: A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
Runtime: 1 h 29 min
MPAA: 14+

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Summary: A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Summary: Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 11,000,000
Domestic: $ 22,549,338
Summary: An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.
Runtime: 1 h 25 min
MPAA: Approved

Language: English
Domestic: $ 8,718
International: $ 215
Summary: A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.
Release Date: September 15, 1972
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Runtime: 2 h 34 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Summary: Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Summary: An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Summary: A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Summary: A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 36,000,000
Domestic: $ 33,459,416
International: $ 1,337
Summary: Schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: G

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 250,000
Summary: Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.
Runtime: 2 h 04 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 8,000,000
Domestic: $ 26,890,068
Summary: A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Runtime: 2 h 11 min
MPAA: M/PG

Language: English