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  "Bucket List"
  Jack Nicholson,  Morgan Freeman

  When he closed his eyes, his heart was opened
  Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off
  on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.

  "Click"
  Adam Sandler,  Kate Beckinsale,  Christopher Walken

  What If You Had A Universal Remote... That Controlled Your Universe?
  A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to
  fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications
  arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.

  "Dead Poet's Society"
  Robin Williams,  Robert Sean Leonard,
  Ethan Hawke,  Josh Charles

  English professor John Keating (Williams) inspires his students to a
  love of poetry and to seize the day. Part of what makes Dead Poet's
  Society so great is that it challenges you to think. It can inspire
  you to be more than a simple cog in a wheel.

  "Field of Dreams"
  Kevin Costner,  Ray Liotta,  James Earl Jones,  Burt Lancaster,

  All his life, Ray Kinsella was searching for his dreams.
  Then one day, his dreams came looking for him.
  An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command
  to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the
                              Chicago Black Sox come

  "Invictus"
  Morgan Freeman,  Matt Damon

  His people needed a leader. He gave them a champion.
  Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President,
  initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land:
  enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995
                              Rugby World Cup.

This Poem was written by English Poet William Ernest Henley
While incarcerated on Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited the poem
to other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self mastery.

Invictus  (Latin for "unconquered)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

  "Life is Beautiful"
  Roberto Benigni,  Nicoletta Braschi,  Giorgio Cantarini

  An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination
  conquer all. A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help
  of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son
  in a Nazi death camp.

  "Patch Adams"
  Robin Williams,  Monica Potter

  Fact-based story of Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams), the founder
  of the Gesundheit Clinic, a clinic which deals with their patients with
  humor and pathos. The film starts with Hunter admitting himself as a
  patient in a mental ward. While there, he found he enjoyed helping the
  other patients and found the staff to be cold and seperative from the patients. Vowing to
  change things, he releases himself from the hospital and headed to the Virginia Medical
  College. His unorthodox methods cast him up against many of the doctors and dean of the
  university, despite him getting some of the highest grades in his class. Recognizing that
  many poor people were not being treated, as a student he formed the Gesundheit Clinic to
  aid those who were not getting proper treatment at the hospital. However this brought him
  up before the Medical Review Board for practicing without a license.

  "Pay It Forward"
  Kevin Spacy,  Helen Hunt,  Haley Joel Osment,

  Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the
  goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to
  change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.

Plot:
When 12-year-old Trevor McKinney (Osment) begins seventh grade in Las Vegas,   Nevada, his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Spacey) gives the class an   assignment to devise and put into action a plan that will change the world for   the better. Trevor calls his plan "pay it forward", which can be described as a   charitable pyramid scheme, based on good deeds rather than profit. "Paying it forward"   means the recipient of a favor does a favor for a third party rather than paying the   favor back.

  "Power of One"
  Stephen Dorff,  Sir John Geilgud,  Morgan Freeman

  An exhilarating epic of a triumph of the heart.
  The story of a young English boy named Peekay and his passion
  for changing the world...

  The Power of One is an intriguing story of a Peekay and his passion for changing
  the world. Growing up he suffered as the only English boy in an Afrikaans school.
  Soon orphaned, he was placed in the care of a German national named Professor
  von Vollensteen (a.k.a. "Doc"), a friend of his grandfather. Doc develops Peekay's
  piano talent and Peekay becomes "assistant gardener" in Doc's cactus garden. It is
  not long after WWII begins that Doc is placed in prison for failure to register
  with the English government as a foreigner. Peekay makes frequent visits and meets
  Geel Piet, an inmate, who teaches him to box. Geel Piet spreads the myth of the
  Rainmaker, the one who brings peace to all of the tribes. Peekay is cast in the
  light of this myth. After the war Peekay attends an English private school where he
  continues to box. He meets a young girl, Maria, with whom he falls in love. Her father,
  Professor Daniel Marais, is a leader of the Nationalist Party of South Africa. The
  two fight to teach the natives English as Peekay's popularity grows via the myth.
  Peekay loses focus until he sees the success of his language school among the tribes.
  He and Guideon Duma continue the work in hopes of building a better future for Africa

  "Pursuit of Happyness"
  Will Smith,  Jaden Smith,  Thadie Newton

  A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to
  begin a life-changing professional endeavor.

Review:
  The San Francisco Chronicle observed: "The great surprise of the
  picture is that it's not corny . . . The beauty of the film is its
  honesty. In its outlines, it's nothing like the usual success story
  depicted onscreen, in which, after a reasonable interval of disappointment,
  success arrives wrapped in a ribbon and a bow. Instead, this success story
  follows the pattern most common in life — it chronicles a series of
  soul-sickening failures and defeats, missed opportunities, sure things that
  didn't quite happen, all of which are accompanied by a concomitant accretion
  of barely perceptible victories that gradually amount to something.
  In other words, it all feels real"

  "Seven Pounds"
  Will Smith,  Rosario Dawson,  Woody Harrelson

   Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret, embarks on an
  extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing
  the lives of seven strangers

  "The Time Travellers Wife"
  Eric Bana,  Rachel McAdams

  A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes
  him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates
  for his marriage. A graceful, elegant love story, that carefully
  avoids quasi-science, time travelling philosophy or mills and boon
  style passionate embraces, focussing instead on the means by which two truly
  star crossed lovers cope with their unique lives together.

  "Yes Man"
  Jim Carey,  Zooey Deschanel

  One word can change everything.

  A guy challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year

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