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Back to the Future [DVD
videorecording]
Back to the Future: It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old
slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention
is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring
his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
[DVD videorecording]
Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California,
replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls
while they sleep. In a terrifying race, for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn
the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people.
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Terminator 2 [(DVD)videorecording]
A lethal cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back from 2029 A.D. to present day Los
Angeles on a mission to kill the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the
future. The original Terminator cyborg is reprogrammed and sent to save the boy,
assisted by the boy's mother, a woman warrior whose warnings of a world headed toward
nuclear disaster go unheeded.
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Alien [(DVD)videorecording]
Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate
planet and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind.
Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.
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Blade Runner [DVD videorecording]
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles.
He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment:
kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover
narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel,
and removes the "uplifting" finale.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
[(DVD)videorecording]
A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But
the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any
single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary
people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one
young woman and her son befriend him and soon realize that they may be all that
stands between the human race and total destruction.
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A Clockwork Orange [DVD
videorecording]
"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan
Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral
punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley
Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
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E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial
[DVD videorecording]
A 10-year old boy befriends a creature from another planet that has been stranded
on earth.
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Star Wars. Episode IV,
[(DVD)videorecording].
A rebel ship is being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker, with
his new allies, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2, attempt to rescue
rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is
culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make
an attack on the Empires most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star.
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2001, A Space Odyssey
[DVD videorecording]
A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward
the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
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