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Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter (1979)
Starring Dan O Herlihy as Mark Twain, this PBS special was created by renowned Twain scholars.
Will: G. Gordon Liddy (1982)
Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.
Dream Breakers (1989)
A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologies. One brother works for a power-hungry builder...
Are You Popular? (1947)
The issue of popularity, specifically amongst the high school set, is dramatized.
Code of Silence (1985)
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Mr. B Natural (1956)
A young boy is sitting in a room one day, bored, when suddenly a leotard-clad woman calling herself Mr. B Natural appears in his room. Mr. B Natural...
Only the Lonely (1991)
Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna , whose father owns...
Groundhog Day (1993)
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the...
The Naked Face (1984)
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city....
Heart of Steel (1983)
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him...
Equinox (1992)
Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young...
Gaily, Gaily (1969)
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben,...
Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine (1982)
The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative...