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Sonny
Released: December 27, 2002
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Director: Nicolas Cage
Writer: John Carlen
Starring: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton
An honorably discharged soldier returns home to New Orleans, hoping to break away from his upbringing as a trained prostitute, but his brothel-madam mother has other expectations.
The Night of the Hunter
Released: September 29, 1955
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Director: Charles Laughton
Writer: James Agee, Davis Grubb, Charles Laughton
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
