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Summary: All Abby Johnson ever wanted to do was help women. As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, she believed in a woman's right to choose. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,005,109
International: $ 2,510,498
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Summary: Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 28,912,646
International: $ 19,437,559
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Summary: The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Countries: United States, Canada
Language: English
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Summary: The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.
Runtime: 2 h 04 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 67,182,787
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Summary: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 18,000,000
Domestic: $ 23,383,987
International: $ 20,840
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Summary: A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: Unrated

Countries: France, Belgium, Germany
Language: French
Domestic: $ 31,611
International: $ 140,049
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Summary: Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model. Th...
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 44,348
International: $ 14,638,595
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Summary: A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,000,000
Domestic: $ 17,273,059
International: $ 4,815,474
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Summary: A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000
Domestic: $ 18,335,230
International: $ 42,403,567
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Summary: A teenage boy comes of age in the 1970's, sent by his neurotic, pretentious mother to live with a jolly, vulgar psychiatrist and his eccentric extended family.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 7,022,827
International: $ 437,970
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Summary: An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.
Runtime: 2 h 23 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 31,000,000
Domestic: $ 9,493,259
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Summary: A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 48,000,000
Domestic: $ 30,165,536
International: $ 5,577,772
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Summary: Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
Runtime: 2 h 43 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 23,000,000
Domestic: $ 43,984,230
International: $ 9,639
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Summary: James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
Runtime: 1 h 31 min
MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 101,597
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Summary: The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,032,261
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Summary: In the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,223,326
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Summary: Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 600,000
Domestic: $ 14,743,391
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Summary: A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 22,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,131,246
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Summary: The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
Runtime: 2 h 25 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,000,000
Domestic: $ 70,001,698
International: $ 91,000,000
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Summary: Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
Runtime: 2 h 38 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 1,054,638
International: $ 1,357