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In the near future, the government has run out of options trying to stop the city's maniacal crime lord - who owns the police force and is about to bring the city to its knees. In an unorthodox move, four slightly twisted brothers are deputized, armed to the teeth and sent in to save a city gone to hell - until everything goes incredibly wrong and the bullets and bodies fly.
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The play deals with the efforts of Sir John Frugal to curb the extravagance of his wife and daughters, by pretending to retire to a monastery, and leaving them to the mercy of his prodigal brother Luke. Luke treats them so harshly that Frugal is welcomed home, with promises of reform.
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A drama for a 7 men and 2 women cast. This striking drama of love and addiction broke new ground for the depiction of realism in the theater. Celia and Johnny Pope live in a New York tenement with his brother "Polo". As Johnny's heroine addiction spirals out of control, Celia and Polo's attraction and dependency grow.
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"In director Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other - to become brothers again like they used to be. Their 'spiritual quest', however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray), and they eventually find themselves...
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This fantastically twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on a dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls...
8) Big night
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The story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance for success is to risk everything they own on an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima. But their big night is complicated by a lovers' triangle, a sneaky restaurant rival, and the hilarious perfection of chef Primo.
9) Public enemy
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Classic gangster film tells the story of two brothers, one an honorable war veteran, the other a high-class gangster that sold alcohol during the prohibition.
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The Caretaker was Harold Pinter's first successful play, first staged in 1960 in London. The play is a subtle exploration of madness, power, and the inertia at the core of many people's lives. But because The Caretaker is such a subtle piece of theatre, it might be worth recapping the plot of the play (if we can call it a 'plot' as such) before proceeding to an analysis of its themes.
The dumb waiter: Two hit-men, Ben and Gus, are waiting in a basement...
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An emotionally charged story of two brothers who struggle to find their place within their family after one of them is sent to the war in Afghanistan. The responsible brother at war is missing in action and presumed dead. His less responsible brother gravitates toward his brother's presumed widow and cares for her. When the older brother returns from prison camp with post traumatic stress problems his role and his brother's shift.
12) Love for love
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Valentine has fallen under the displeasure of his father by his extravagance, and is besieged by creditors. His father, Sir Sampson Legend, offers him £4000 (only enough to pay his debts) if he will sign a bond engaging to make over his right to his inheritance to his younger brother Ben. Valentine, to escape from his embarrassment, signs the bond. He is in love with Angelica, who possesses a fortune of her own, but so far she has not yielded to...
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An acting edition of the 1939 drama in which brothers Oscar and Ben Hubbard steal money from their ailing brother-in-law in order to fund a cotton mill, only to be caught by their sister Regina who demands they give her a seventy-five percent share of the business in exchange for keeping them out of prison.
Regina Giddens is a woman who will stop at nothing to outwit her brothers in running the family business, even if it means sacrificing the health...
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Written by Cyril Tourneur and first published in 1611, "The Atheist's Tragedy, or the Honest Man's Revenge" is a classic Jacobean era revenge play. In this drama we find the story of D'Amville, a wealthy French nobleman and our titular atheist. D'Amville is a cynical, ruthless, and Machiavellian character who conspires to have his brother, the Baron Montferrers, killed and ruin his nephew, Charlemont, in order to gain the son's inheritance. With a...
16) Ordinary people
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Powerful story of a family's struggle to deal with one son's accidental death and the other's subsequent guilt-ridden suicide attempt.
17) The homecoming
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This play was first produced in London in 1965, and in New York City in 1967. In it, Teddy, a professor of philosophy who lives in America, brings his wife Ruth to England to visit his family, whom she has never met. His father, a widower, and two brothers, a pimp and a boxer, convince Ruth to remain with them and to enter a life of prostitution. Teddy returns to America alone. Pinter's very high talent manages to make the situation believable.
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After their good-for-nothing father dies and their mother leaves to be with the man she really loves, brothers Jack, Barry and Patrick are left with only each other as they struggle with their relationships. Married Jack is tempted to have an affair; Patrick isn't sure his fiancee is 'the one'; and Barry can't deal with the fact that he is actually falling in love.
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A play based upon an Irish myth. In the story a strong, independent woman is doomed by her own beauty to win and lose the man of her choice, Naoise. Ordered to marry King Conchobor, she escapes with Naoise and his two brothers to Scotland. Conchobor tricks them into returning, then kills all three brothers. Deirdre chooses to kill herself rather than marry the King. --www.livingmyths.com.
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