Description: Again. A list of good movies that came out in the year 1996. Also, like with my other lists, if a movie has a different year other than 1996, I double checked to make sure. I’m just goin’ by what imdb says. lol.
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Independence Day
( 1996 )
The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.
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Scream
( 1996 )
A masked killer targets a past victim's daughter.
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Fargo
( 1996 )
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
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Romeo + Juliet
( 1996 )
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
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Mission: Impossible
( 1996 )
An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.
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From Dusk Till Dawn
( 1996 )
Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results.
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Matilda
( 1996 )
A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.
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Trainspotting
( 1996 )
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.
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Happy Gilmore
( 1996 )
After his grandmother's house is repossessed by the IRS, a bad tempered hockey player takes his talents to golf to earn the big bucks and get his grandmothers house back.
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Jerry Maguire
( 1996 )
When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.
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Mars Attacks!
( 1996 )
Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
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Twister
( 1996 )
Two storm chasers on the brink of divorce must work together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
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Space Jam
( 1996 )
In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.
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Striptease
( 1996 )
A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her.
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The Craft
( 1996 )
A young girl new to a Catholic school befriends a coven of witches whom the other students either shun or fear. But when a powerful invocation goes wrong, the consequences could endanger their lives.
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The Rock
( 1996 )
An FBI chemical weapons expert, and a former SAS solider turned political prisoner, must break into Alcatraz prison when a rogue military group, led by a renegade general, take it over and threaten a nerve gas attack on San Francisco.
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Sleepers
( 1996 )
A reporter and a District Attorney help childhood friends who killed a sadistic guard.
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Primal Fear
( 1996 )
A high-profile murder intrigues a publicity hungry lawyer.
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Swingers
( 1997 )
A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends.
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The English Patient
( 1996 )
At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
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Kingpin
( 1996 )
An amateur state bowling champion whose professional aspirations are prematurely dashed when he gets "Munsoned" hopes to ride a new bowling prodigy to success and riches by becoming his manager.
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A Time to Kill
( 1996 )
A young Mississippi lawyer defends a black man who killed the two white men that raped his preteen daughter.
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Breaking the Waves
( 1996 )
Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.
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Bound
( 1996 )
Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.
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Sling Blade
( 1997 )
Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.
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The Birdcage
( 1996 )
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing, conservative parents.
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That Thing You Do!
( 1996 )
A local Pennsylvania band scores a one-hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from their manager.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
( 1996 )
A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.
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The Phantom
( 1996 )
The Phantom, descendent of a line of African superheroes, travels to New York City to thwart a wealthy criminal genius from obtaining three magic skulls which would give him the secret to ultimate power.
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Fear
( 1996 )
When Nicole met handsome, charming, affectionate David, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear.
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Crash
( 1997 )
A car crash victim suddenly finds himself turned on by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground sub-culture of like-minded souls.
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Hard Eight
( 1997 )
A stranger mentors a young, troubled Reno gambler.
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Aladdin and the King of Thieves
( 1996 )
The King of Thieves disrupts Aladdin and Jasmine's long-anticipated wedding, looking for an oracle that will lead him to an even bigger treasure. His true identity causes trouble for Aladdin.
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Jane Eyre
( 1996 )
Jane Eyre, an orphan, is raised in a harsh charity school. She becomes a teacher and is hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall by housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax. The plot revolves around her experiences there.
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Stealing Beauty
( 1996 )
After her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.
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Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
( 1996 )
A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.
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101 Dalmatians
( 1996 )
An evil high-fashion designer plots to steal dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat but creates an extravagant mess instead.
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Escape from L.A.
( 1996 )
In 2013, Snake Plissken is tasked by a despotic U.S. President with entering Los Angeles - now an autonomous island prison - and recovering a doomsday device stolen by his daughter.
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Marvin's Room
( 1997 )
After seventeen years, a fiercely independent woman and her rebellious son return home and together they turn the family she left behind upside down.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
( 1996 )
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.
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DragonHeart
( 1996 )
The last dragon and a disillusioned dragon-slaying knight must unite to stop an evil king, who was granted partial immortality.
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The Frighteners
( 1996 )
After a tragic car accident that kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead, and he uses that gift to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.
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The Substitute
( 1996 )
Shale's Mercenary team is retired after a (not so) covert mission in Cuba. He becomes a substitute teacher at his teacher fiancee's Miami high school to get those behind kneecapping her. His team helps him.
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Star Trek: First Contact
( 1996 )
The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
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Movie:
The Cable Guy
( 1996 )
A designer makes a grievous mistake when he rejects the friendship of a borderline cable guy.
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Eraser
( 1996 )
A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
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Hamlet
( 1996 )
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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Barb Wire
( 1996 )
During the Second American Civil War in 2017, Barb Wire owns a nightclub called the Hammerhead. Things become complicated when her ex-lover Axel Hood, who is married to the fugitive Corrina Devonshire, re-enters her life.
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The Nutty Professor
( 1996 )
Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.
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The Ghost and the Darkness
( 1996 )
A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.
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Bottle Rocket
( 1996 )
Three friends plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.
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Chain Reaction
( 1996 )
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
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Emma
( 1996 )
While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.
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Phenomenon
( 1996 )
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
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Kazaam
( 1996 )
A troubled kid inadvertently releases a genie, who must grant him any three wishes he requests.
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The First Wives Club
( 1996 )
Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.
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D3: The Mighty Ducks
( 1996 )
The unruly team of hockey misfits grows up a bit and receives scholarships to a prestigious prep school, where they take on the snotty varsity team.
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Bio-Dome
( 1996 )
Moronic best friends get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, a science experiment, along with a group of environmental scientists for one year.
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Courage Under Fire
( 1996 )
A U.S. Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor.
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Beautiful Girls
( 1996 )
A piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love.
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Daylight
( 1996 )
Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.
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James and the Giant Peach
( 1996 )
An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.
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Movie:
Down Periscope
( 1996 )
Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days.
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
( 1996 )
Government agents come after an amnesiac woman, who gradually remembers her past.
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Movie:
Set It Off
( 1996 )
Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.
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Jack
( 1996 )
Because of an unusual disorder that has aged him four times faster than a typical human being, a boy looks like a 40-year-old man as he starts fifth grade at public school after being homeschooled.
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
( 1997 )
The story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.
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Big Night
( 1996 )
New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible food.
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Thinner
( 1996 )
An obese attorney is cursed by a gypsy to rapidly and uncontrollably lose weight.
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Secrets & Lies
( 1997 )
Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.
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Evita
( 1997 )
The hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
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Fly Away Home
( 1996 )
Amy moves to Ontario to live with her father after the death of her mother. Her father, an aviation expert, helps Amy lead a flock of orphaned geese south for the winters.
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Feeling Minnesota
( 1996 )
An ex-convict and his bumbling crook brother fight for the same woman.
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Mulholland Falls
( 1996 )
In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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Broken Arrow
( 1996 )
Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the U.S. military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans.
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Ransom
( 1996 )
Multi-millionaire Tom Mullen's son is kidnapped, but after initially agreeing to pay the ransom Mullen then decides to use the ransom money as a bounty.
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The Crucible
( 1996 )
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
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The Arrival
( 1996 )
Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it.
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Jingle All the Way
( 1996 )
A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.
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Tin Cup
( 1996 )
A washed-up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the U.S. Open in order to win the heart of his successful rival's girlfriend.
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Shine
( 1997 )
David Helfgott, a gifted pianist, struggles through childhood as his dysfunctional father abuses him and his siblings. Years later, he suffers a mental breakdown but manages to return as a legend.
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Executive Decision
( 1996 )
When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation.
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One Fine Day
( 1996 )
The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.
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Last Man Standing
( 1996 )
A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.
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Lone Star
( 1996 )
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
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Freeway
( 1997 )
A twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.
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Foxfire
( 1996 )
Legs Sadovsky gets four other high school girls to think for themselves and react to a teacher's sexual harassment, which gets them suspended. They bond, and rebel, at an abandoned house.
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Michael Collins
( 1996 )
Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
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The Portrait of a Lady
( 1997 )
An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.
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Spy Hard
( 1996 )
Dick Steele, Agent WD-40 is assigned by his Director, to stop the evil General Rancor from destroying the world. WD-40 believed Rancor was dead and he teams up with the hot KGB Agent Veronique Ukrinsky to find Rancor and save the world.
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Bulletproof
( 1996 )
Two criminals, Keats and Moses, end their friendship, when Keats turns out to be an undercover cop. Many years later, the two are forced to work together when Keats is assigned to protect Moses as a witness.
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White Squall
( 1996 )
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
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Sgt. Bilko
( 1996 )
Sgt. Bilko is a well-liked conman in charge of the army base's motor pool, developing a hover tank and unofficially of gambling etc. One man hates Bilko and he's coming to inspect the base for possible closure.
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Basquiat
( 1996 )
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
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Michael
( 1996 )
Two tabloid reporters checking out a report of the Archangel Michael living with an old woman find that it's true. But that's not the only surprise.
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Eye for an Eye
( 1996 )
When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.
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Poison Ivy II
( 1996 )
First time out of Michigan, Lily starts art school in LA and shares a house with other young artistic people. Both her teacher and a roomie/classmate show interest in her.
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Everyone Says I Love You
( 1997 )
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.
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