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Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts - born 28 Oct 1967, in Smyrna Georgia - was originally going to be a vet, and then a journo, but had to settle for being the less-talented sister of Eric Roberts. Hang on, this isn’t a parallel universe, this is the one where Mystic Pizza did happen (after an episode of Miami Vice), and launched La Roberts on the path to superstardom.
Two years later came the double-whammy of psychological thriller Flatliners and modern-day fairy-tale Pretty Woman: the latter confirming her status opposite silver-fox, sex-symbol snorter Richard Gere; the former almost resulting in her being Mrs Kiefer Sutherland. Until 11th hour cold feet. And this was years before Runaway Bride.
Despite a few duds, Julia remains A-list queen because: a. she’s rom-com gold, b. she makes business decisions like turning down Basic Instinct and Shakespeare In Love, but accepting (and netting an Oscar for) Erin Brockovich, and c. that 10,000 kilowatt smile. In fact, when a bunch of Bulgarian archaeologists unearthed a 9,000 year old skeleton in 2004, they named her ‘Julia Roberts’ because she had such a perfect set of teeth.
Wise words: "I'm too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn't call myself a woman. I'd say I'm somewhere between a chick and a broad."
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Roberts' Brockovich voted top movie heroine -
1 October 2009
-Erin Brockovich has been voted the greatest movie heroine of all time.-
-The single mum lawyer, played by Julia Roberts in the 2000 drama based on a real-life story, fights to gain compensation for victims of contaminated drinking water - and Brockovich has come out a
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Roberts filming in world's wettest place -
25 September 2009
-Julia Roberts is getting soaked in one of the world's wettest places, so scenes in her new movie are shot in the rain. -
-The Pretty Woman actress and the crew of Eat, Pray, Love are heading for Cherrapunji in north-east India after winding up a film shoot at a Pataud
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Roberts seeks Hindu blessing for film -
24 September 2009
-Julia Roberts and her new film have been officially blessed by the Swami who oversees the ashram where she is shooting. -
-The Pretty Woman star began shooting Eat, Pray, Love at Ashram Harimandir in Pataudi on Sunday (20Sep09) - and she met with the sacred site's chi
Julia Roberts - what members say
Julia Roberts - filmography
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Duplicity
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Tony Gilroy
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From the writer/director of Michael Clayton, Duplicity is a smart, slick and cool espionage movie. Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts and Clive Owen star as two sexy spies turned-corporate operatives who attempt to pull off one of the biggest heists ever. As the stakes rise in the ultimate game of ..read more »
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Fireflies in the Garden
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe
Director: Dennis Lee
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In this haunting family drama of recrimination and reconciliation, Lisa Waechter is at the center of the story playing a beleaguered family matriarch who has subordinated her needs and desires to those of her family, particularly her cold, demanding husband. Lisa's sudden death brings her entire ..read more »
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Duplicity - BLU-RAY Version
(2009)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Tony Gilroy
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CLOSER co-stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen reunite for Oscar-nominated director Tony Gilroy's drama tracing the illicit love affair between two spies-turned-corporate operatives. The Cold War has thawed, and for CIA agents seeking to make an easy mint, the real money is in multinational ..read more »
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Charlie Wilson's War - HD DVD Version
(2007)
Starring: Amy Adams, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
Director: Mike Nichols
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The first time the audience sees Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) in the early 1980s, he seems far from a model politician. Surrounded by strippers, a Playboy Playmate, and cocaine, the naked congressman lies in a hot tub at a party. Despite the distractions, the TV news catches Charlie'..read more »
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Charlie Wilson's War
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Amy Adams, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
Director: Mike Nichols
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A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
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Charlotte's Web
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, oprah winfrey (voice)
Director: Gary Winick
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Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
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Closer
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman
Director: Mike Nichols
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Are humans meant to mate for life - What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them - Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time - How well does anyone really know the one that they love. Directed by Mike ..read more »
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Closer - BLU-RAY Version
(2004)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman
Director: Mike Nichols
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Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them? Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time? How well does anyone really know the one that they love? Directed by Mike ..read more »
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61%
from 1,051 member
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Grand Champion
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis, Joey Lauren Adams
Director: Barry Tubb
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With the help of his family and friends, 12-year-old Buddy turns his beloved calf Hokey Pokey into a prize winning champion. After winning the GRAND CHAMPION title, Hokey is auctioned off for a hefty sum that will pay for family necessities. But when Buddy realizes that his former pet is going to ..read more »
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Mona Lisa Smile - BLU-RAY Version
(2003)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles
Director: Mike Newell
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Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts ..read more »
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from 146 members
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Mona Lisa Smile
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles
Director: Mike Newell
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Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts ..read more »
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Full Frontal
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: David Duchovny, Nicky Katt, Catherine Keener
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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It's a chaotic day for seven strangers from Hollywood who end up at the birthday party of a mutual friend. Before the night is over, relationships are tested, hearts are broken and passions are renewed!
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Ocean's Eleven
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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On his release from prison Danny Ocean plans robberies of the three biggest casinos in Las Vegas, the owner of which just happens to be the new love-interest of Danny's ex-wife...
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The Mexican
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini
Director: Gore Verbinski
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Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts have star power to burn in Gore Verbinski's offbeat THE MEXICAN, about the search for a cursed legendary gun. Pitt stars as Jerry Welbach, a small-time loser who is given no choice but to run an errand for a powerful boss (Bob Balaban) who will have him killed if he ..read more »
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America's Sweethearts
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta Jones, Billy Crystal
Director: Joe Roth
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Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center and Gwen into the arms of her current ..read more »
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In The Wild - Mongolian Horsemen With Ju...
(2000)
Starring: Julia Roberts
Director: Nigel Cole
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Julia Roberts travels to Mongolia in search of the Asiatic wild horse - the Takhi. In recent times these horses have nearly been hunted to extinction, but now the Mongolian people are re-introducing the Takhis to their natural habitat.
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Erin Brockovich
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Aaron Eckhart, Albert Finney
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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In a world where heroes are often in short supply, the story of Erin Brockovich is an inspirational reminder of the power of the human spirit. Her passion, tenacity and steadfast desire to fight for the rights of the underdog defied the odds, her victory made even more sweet by the fact that while ..read more »
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71%
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Runaway Bride
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack
Director: Garry Marshall
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A down-and-out big-city reporter (Richard Gere), in a last-ditch effort to save his tarnished career, chases a scoop on a mercurial, small-town girl (Julia Roberts) known as the Runaway Bride, due to her habit of leaving her grooms-to-be on the alter. Director Marshall once again directs the stars ..read more »
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56%
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Notting Hill
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville
Director: Roger Michell
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Two features 'About A Boy' Will Freeman, a shallow thirty-something bachelor, lives a carefree life courtesy of his deceased father's fortune. Will is terrified of commitment and so decides that single mothers will make the easiest romantic targets... His world is turned around when he meets Marcus,..read more »
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from 42,015 members
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In The Wild - Orang-Utans With Julia Roberts
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Julia Roberts
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In this episode of the PBS series, IN THE WILD, Americas's sweetheart Julia Roberts takes a trip to Borneo to commune with the endangered great orange simians known as orangutans.
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64%
from 276 members
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Stepmom
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris
Director: Chris Columbus
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Jackie (Susan Sarandon) and Luke (Ed Harris) are divorcing after years of marriage and two children, Anna and Ben. Their new stepmother, Isabel (Julia Roberts), wants to be involved in the children's life, but is unwilling to sacrifice anything for her work. Jackie considers this to be selfish and ..read more »
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My Best Friend's Wedding
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz
Director: P.J. Hogan
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A 28-year-old woman, who years earlier made a pact with her closest male friend that if neither were married in ten years time they would marry one another, now faces the fact that the man is about to marry someone else. He asks her to be his best man and she agrees, planning to go to the ceremony ..read more »
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Conspiracy Theory
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, Patrick Stewart
Director: Richard Donner
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A crackpot Big Apple cabbie finds himself in a heap of trouble after his self-published conspiracy 'zine elicits the interest of some shady government heavies--and leads to the unexplained murders of all five subscribers. As the J. Edgars close in, he takes to the lam with the one person who may be ..read more »
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Everyone Says I Love You
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Woody Allen, Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn
Director: Woody Allen
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A melange of sentimental musical vignettes about the various members of a madcap Manhattan family, who attempt by turns to find romance. Allen returns to his improvisational comic vein, reportedly springing the musical numbers on his nonmusical stars--only Barrymore was dubbed--shortly before ..read more »
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Michael Collins
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman
Director: Neil Jordan
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Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this brilliantly photographed epic from director Neil Jordan tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA founder whose innovative guerrilla tactics succeeded in bringing freedom from British ..read more »
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Something To Talk About
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Julia Roberts, Robert Duvall
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
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Lasse Hallstrom (THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, MY LIFE AS A DOG) directs this romantic comedy in which Julia Roberts plays Grace, a decent but naive southern woman who, happening to drive by her husband, Eddie (Dennis Quaid), one afternoon, is shocked to discover him locked in a passionate embrace, in ..read more »
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53%
from 1,015 member
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Mary Reilly
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole
Director: Stephen Frears
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In this moody and melodramatic revision of the classic horror tale, based on the novel by Valerie Martin, the Jekyll and Hyde saga is told from the point of view of the doctor's long-time maid, Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts). Despite Mary's close collaboration with the staid Dr. Jekyll (John Malkovich)..read more »
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I Love Trouble
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Nick Nolte, Julia Roberts, Robert Loggia
Director: Charles Shyer
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A romantic-comedy-thriller set amidst Chicago's newspaper trade, this star vehicle pits an established news writer against a beautiful cub reporter from a rival paper. When a story each is after turns dangerous, they put aside their differences to get to the bottom of a lethal miasma of corporate ..read more »
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from 554 members
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Pret A Porter
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder ..read more »
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The Pelican Brief
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Julia Roberts (ERIN BROCKOVICH) stars in THE PELICAN BRIEF as sharp law student Darby Shaw whose querying mind gets her into trouble. A faithful adaptation of John Grisham's (THE FIRM) best-selling novel, this taut thriller follows the travails that beset Shaw when her theory on the cause of the ..read more »
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Hook
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Director Steven Spielberg brings J.M. Barrie's PETER PAN to the screen with a delightfully modernized twist. Forty-year-old Peter (Robin Williams) has grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with more affection for his cell phone than his wife and two children. When the family travels to England to ..read more »
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Sleeping With The Enemy
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Patrick Bergin, Julia Roberts, Kevin Anderson
Director: Joseph Ruben
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Soon after marrying, a woman discovers her husband is compulsive, controlling and violent. Faking her own death, she escapes him and begins a new life with a new look in a new town where she'll never have to see him again. Or so she thinks...
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Flatliners
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
Director: Joel Schumacher
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A tense thriller in which hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death ..read more »
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Pretty Woman
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Garry Marshall
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The Cinderella story that made Julia Roberts a star. While driving back to his Beverly Hills hotel, millionaire corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) takes a wrong turn and ends up on Hollywood Boulevard, where he meets prostitute Vivian Ward (Roberts). She steers him back to his hotel, ..read more »
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Flatliners - BLU-RAY Version
(1990)
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
Director: Joel Schumacher
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A tense thriller in which hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death ..read more »
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66%
from 1,241 member
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Pretty Woman - BLU-RAY Version
(1990)
Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Garry Marshall
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The Cinderella story that made Julia Roberts a star. While driving back to his Beverly Hills hotel, millionaire corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) takes a wrong turn and ends up on Hollywood Boulevard, where he meets prostitute Vivian Ward (Roberts). She steers him back to his hotel, ..read more »
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Steel Magnolias
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Dolly Parton
Director: Herbert Ross
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Based on a true incident of screenwriter Harling's mother and sister. The story is set in a small-town beauty shop near New Orleans, and spans several years in the lives of the shop's owner and her customers.
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Mystic Pizza
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor
Director: Donald Petrie
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In MYSTIC PIZZA, three young women, sisters Daisy (Julia Roberts) and Kat (Annabeth Gish) and their friend Jojo (Lili Taylor), work at a pizza parlor in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut, during the summer after their high-school graduation. Jojo wants to stay in Mystic and take over the ..read more »
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Satisfaction
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Justine Bateman, Liam Neeson, Trini Alvarado
Director: Joan Freeman
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Justine Bateman is Jennie, the lead singer in a rock band from a tough neighbourhood. Held together by Jennie's brains and determination, and armed with the raw energy of their music, they gatecrash high-society parties, learn some lessons on love and take their first steps on the uncertain road to ..read more »
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from 89 members
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Crime Story - Series One
(5 discs)
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Stephen Lang, Lorraine Bracco, Gary Sinise
Director: Michael Mann, Abel Ferrara
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This first volume of CRIME STORY features the complete first series of 20 episodes plus the original feature-length pilot--directed by Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT) and produced by Michael Mann (HEAT, MIAMI VICE). The subsequent television crime drama series has become a cult favourite.The pilot ..read more »
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from 372 members
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Ocean's Eleven - BLU-RAY Version
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Ocean's Eleven improves on the 1960's Rat Pack original with supernova casting, a slickly updated plot and Steven Soderbergh's graceful touch behind the camera. Soderbergh reportedly relished the opportunity "to make a movie that has no desire except to give pleasure from beginning to end", and he ..read more »
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Dying Young
on DVD
Starring: Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott star in this moving love story about the power of inspiration. With little money, a poor education and no luck when it comes to love, Hilary O'Neil (Roberts) answers a wanted ad and finds her whole world suddenly changed. Hired as a caretaker to a seriously ill ..read more »
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Law and Order - Corruption Empire
on DVD
Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Jerry Orbach, Julia Roberts
Director: Matt Penn
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The death of a corporate mogul due to an overdose from a sexual performance enhancing drug leads to a case in which a witness (Roberts) accuses Detective Curtis (Bratt) of tampering with evidence. Meanwhile Detective Briscoe is set up by a former partner to take the rap for corruption.
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Ant Bully - BLU-RAY Version
Starring: Julia Roberts, Zach Tyler, Nicolas Cage
Director: John A Davis
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An all-star cast--including A-list stars such as Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep--lend their voices to The Ant Bully, from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) and producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (The Polar Express). Social misfit Lucas gets ..read more »
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Ocean's Twelve - BLU-RAY Version
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Like its predecessor Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve has a preposterous plot given juice and vitality by the combination of movie star glamour and the exuberant filmmaking skill of director Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight, The Limey). The heist hijinks of the first film come to roost for a team of ..read more »
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Julia Roberts facts
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ok for a rainy day 15 September 2003
...rigue - however, this is not one of the better adaptations I?ve seen. Although Julia Roberts and Denzil Washington provide starpower and even a little surprising chemistry,...
Best romance film by far 21 April 2004
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