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A lonely young woman saves the life of a handsome stranger she has fallen in love with from afar. His family mistakes her for his fiancee, and she goes along because she likes his offbeat family so much. Matters take a hilarious turn when she meets and falls in love with her make-believe lover's brother.
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Shakespeare's comedy of mistaken romance, in which a shipwrecked woman disguises herself as a man in order to help woo a lover for a Duke, but with unexpected results. This edition includes a selection from Shakespeare's original source, dramatic criticism from past and present, and a comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of the play.
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Stranger on a train: A man jokes with a stranger about killing his wife. The stranger wants his own father dead. In theory, each could murder the other's victim. The problem is, the stranger takes the idea seriously.
North by Northwest: An ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agents.
6) Big business
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Comedy about two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth, and forty years later their paths cross in Manhattan at New York's Plaza Hotel.
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One special night: A builder and a doctor stranded in a storm are attracted to one another despite--or perhaps because of-- their differences.
The Christmas clause: A stressed lawyer and mother of three is granted her wish to see what her life would have been like without marriage and children.
A guest at a Native-American owned ski resort is mistaken for a travel guide critic while, at the same time, she thinks the resort owner is the man with...
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Jon Arbuckle travels to the London and decides to bring his cat, Garfield, along for the trip. A case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle after swapping places with an aristocratic kitty who has inherited a fabulous castle. Garfield's reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
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One night in the tropics: Abbott and Costello play "two stooges employed by Roscoe, a crooked nightclub owner. Having financed a dubious 'love insurance' policy, Roscoe wants the boys to ensure that Steve marries his hard-to-get girlfriend as they travel to fun in the sun aboard a luxury ocean liner bound for San Marcos, South America."
Buck privates: Abbott and Costello hide in an enlistment center to elude the police, and find themselves in the...
11) She's the man
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Viola becomes furious when she learns that her high school, Cornwall, has just cut the girl's soccer team. So furious, in fact, that she takes advantage of her twin brother Sebastian skipping town for a few weeks to take his place at his school, Illyria, so she can join the soccer team there. But her disguise as her brother leads to major complications when she falls in love with her soccer-playing roommate and the girl he's in love with falls in...
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Spirit of the eagle: In the spectacular wilds of America's northwest, legendary mapmaker Big Eli McDonough (Dan Haggerty) searches for his kidnapped son, who has been sold to a local Indian tribe.
Sign of the otter: the little patriot: One wilderness family's adventures in Frontier America set against the backdrop of events that stirred James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.
Colorado: It is brother pitted against brother in this Civil...