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1. Picnic (1955)
directed by Joshua Logan
featuring William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson
One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. ... More
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2. The Straight Story (1999)
directed by David Lynch
featuring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Everett McGill, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes
David Lynch offers an uncharacteristically straightforward and warmly sentimental approach to his material in this film, based on a true story, about ... More
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3. The Astronaut Farmer (2007)
directed by Michael Polish
featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot, Jasper Polish, Logan Polish
An aspiring astronaut who was forced to forsake his dream of exploring space in order to save the family farm begins building his own personal rocket ... More
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4. The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
directed by James Keach
featuring Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher, Brian Dennehy, Lexi Randall
This character drama follows the exploits of an aged oil seeker, known only as Mr. Cox, as he roams across Texas in search of black gold. He has a ... More
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5. Places in the Heart (1984)
directed by Robert Benton
featuring Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover
Of the three "mortgage on the farm" films of 1984 (Country and The River were the other two), Places in the Heart is the only one set during the ... More
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6. The Final Season (2007)
directed by David Mickey Evans
featuring Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, James Gammon, Larry Miller
A place where baseball is more than just a game fights to hold on to the national pastime in this drama inspired by a true story. Norway, IA, is a ... More
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7. East of Eden (1955)
directed by Elia Kazan
featuring Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Dick Davalos, Jo Van Fleet
This truncated screen version of John Steinbeck's best-seller was the first starring vehicle for explosive 1950s screen personality James Dean, who ... More
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8. Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
directed by Glenn Jordan
featuring Glenn Close, Christopher Walken
The made-for-television film Sarah, Plain & Tall is a Hallmark Hall of Fame production about a single New England schoolteacher (Glenn Close) who ... More
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9. Out of the Black (2001)
directed by Karl Kozak
featuring Tyler Christopher, Sally Kirkland, Dee Wallace, Jack Conley, Jacqueline Aries
A family faces new crises while trying to resolve an old one in this drama. After the death of Cal Malby (Miles O'Keefe), a miner who died in an ... More
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10. Little House on the Prairie [TV Series] (1974)
One of the most successful and beloved of all TV family drama series, the weekly, 60-minute Little House on the Prairie was based on the ... More
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11. Cannery Row (1982)
directed by David S. Ward
featuring Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae, M. Emmet Walsh
This highly anecdotal film centers upon Doc (Nick Nolte), a self-employed marine biologist who lives by the ocean and interacts with the neighborhood ... More
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12. Door to Door (2002)
directed by Steven Schachter
Door to Door is the inspirational true story of a man who refused to let severe physical debilitation get in the way of his life's goal. William H. ... More
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13. Harry and Tonto (1974)
directed by Paul Mazursky
featuring Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman
In Paul Mazursky's rueful character drama, 57-year-old Art Carney plays Harry, a 70-plus Manhattan widower who loses his tiny apartment to the ... More
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14. Melvin and Howard (1980)
directed by Jonathan Demme
featuring Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Jack Kehoe, Michael J. Pollard, Dabney Coleman, Pamela Reed
Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band ... More
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15. The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
directed by Peter Masterson
featuring Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay
Adapted by Horton Foote from his own television play, A Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son ... More
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16. The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
directed by John Ford
featuring Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell, Stepin Fetchit, Russell Simpson
Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence Stalllings' screenplay is based on ... More
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17. Sweet Lorraine (1987)
directed by Steve Gomer
featuring Maureen Stapleton, Trini Alvarado, Lee Richardson, John Bedford Lloyd, Freddie Roman
The elderly owner of an aging but still beloved Catskill's landmark inn must decide whether to make necessary repairs to the hotel or to sell the ... More
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18. Painted Hero (1995)
directed by Terry L. Benedict
featuring Dwight Yoakam, Michelle Joyner, Bo Hopkins, John Getz, Kiersten Warren
Country music star Dwight Yoakam plays a rodeo clown in this actioner. Virgil Kidder is running from his girlfriend and his son. He left them seven ... More
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19. Ruby's Dream (1982)
directed by Peter Lilienthal
featuring Joe Pesci, Karen Ludwig, Evan Handler, Ivy Ray Browning, Frank Vincent
This German film tells a purely about Ruby Dennis (Joe Pesci , a Jewish bowling alley/nightclub manager in New Jersey. Despite his tacky surroundings ... More
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20. Daltry Calhoun (2005)
directed by Katrina Holden Bronson
featuring Johnny Knoxville, Juliette Lewis, Elizabeth Banks, Kick Gurry, David Koechner
When seed and sod entrepreneur Daltry Calhoun's (Johnny Knoxville) abandoned ex-girlfriend shows up on his doorstep with the daughter he never knew ... More
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21. Heartwood (1998)
directed by Lanny Cotler
featuring Jason Robards, Jr., Eddie Mills, Hilary Swank, John Terry, Randall Batinkoff
Young Frank (Eddie Mills), an outcast in his small lumber mill town, falls for the gorgeous Sylvia (Hilary Swank), the daughter of an engineer hired ... More
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22. Postmark Paradise (1999)
directed by Thompson E. Clay
featuring Natalia Nazarova, Tantoo Cardinal, Vincent Angelini, Randall Godwin
A Russian woman gets an unexpected crash course in small-town American life in this independent comedy drama. Jake (Vincent Angelini) lives and works ... More
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23. It's a Big Country (1950)
directed by Charles Vidor, Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, Don Weis, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, William Wellman
featuring Ethel Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Van Johnson, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best ... More
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24. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980)
directed by Ralph Rosenblum
featuring Robert Preston
Filmed in Vermont, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is based on one of Mark Twain's more mysoginistic works. Mysterious stranger Robert Preston ... More
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25. Trailer Town (2002)
directed by Giuseppe Andrews
featuring Bill Nowlin
Prepare to be shocked and revolted as actor-turned-director Giuseppe Andrews explores the drunken, fecal-smeared exploits of a California trailer ... More
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