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Annotation:A Broadway agent/comic gets into trouble with the Mafia while he is trying to get his client's career back on track.
Annotation:Romantic comedy about a very minor minor-league team and three of its current constituents, an aging baseball groupie that beds one player each season, a cocky foolish new pitcher, and the older, weary catcher brought in to wise the rookie up.
Annotation:Story of Jim Braddock, a fighter during the depression who triumphs against all odds over heavyweight champ Max Baer in 1935.
Annotation:A former successful sitcom actress attempting a career comeback is so desperate that she agrees to star in a reality television show.
Annotation:An aging dysfunctional country musician finds himself falling in love with a newspaper journalist who wants to write a story about him for her paper.
Annotation:Biopic of the life of B-movie director, Ed Wood, who some say is the worst movie director of all time, starring Johnny Depp.
Annotation:An aging third-rate vaudeville entertainer finds that a lifetime of failures is now more than he can put up with.
Annotation:A homeless, former history professor helps a shock radio dj find redemption in his search for the Holy Grail in modern day New York.
Annotation:Two sisters, locked in a rivalry, are both rock musicians; one is talented and successful and the other is driven and passionate.
Annotation:Sir Ian McKellen plays the director of the Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, who after two successful films becomes a recluse and forms an unlikely friendship with a young gardner.
Annotation:Fighter Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is convicted of murder at the height of his boxing career and after 20 years in prison, four people go to extraordinary lengths to prove his innocence.
Annotation:An alcoholic has-been actress panics when she wakes up next to a man who has been stabbed to death. Stars Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges.
Annotation:A has-been singer is asked to write and record a duet with a popular teen singer to reignite his career, having never written lyrics before he turns to a woman who has a way with words.
Annotation:A young film star and drug addict survives a rehab clinic only to discover how hard things are in the world of Hollywood.
Annotation:Tells the story of boxer Jake La Motta's life and how his self-destructive behavior affected his career and relationships. Robert De Niro won a Best Actor Academy Award for his starring role.
Annotation:Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. 'Ray' follows as he overcomes drug addiction while becoming one of the country's most beloved performers. Jamie Foxx received the Best Actor Academy Award for his starring role.
Annotation:In the punk scene of the 1970s Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious falls in with groupie Nancy Spungen causing both to spiral into drug addiction and death.
Annotation:A movie star declining in popularity marries a shy young actress whose fame grows to eclipse his.
Annotation:Struggling Hollywood writer Joe Gillis becomes entangled with reclusive silent film star Norma Desmond, whose madness destroys them both.
Annotation:Satirical look at rock groups and their performances. An old British group fumbles their way through one more tour.
Annotation:A golf pro whose ego and wild ways have kept him from achieving true greatness finally decides to get serious, about a woman and about winning a tournament.
Annotation:Paul Newman stars as a down-and-out lawyer takes on the system against impossible odds.
Annotation:Follows the tumultous life of country superstar Johnny Cash, and how he met and fell in love with singer June Carter.
Annotation:The story of two sisters living alone in a mansion, Blanche whose career as an actress was cut short by a crippling accident and Baby Jane Hudson, a child star who has "taken care" of Blanche since her accident.
Annotation:A wrestler in the downswing of his career tries to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned as a child as he attempts one more match with his former rival that he hopes will make him a star once more.
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Movies about once-successful people who fall on hard times.
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