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The long-running prime-time soap opera "Dallas" is the inspiration for this big-screen story of a wealthy family beset by all sorts of shady behavior, including murder. The most famous episode of the show was the season-ending cliffhanger in which J.R. Ewing (played by Larry Hagman) was shot by an unknown assailant.

A teacher with paranormal abilities helps a group of ghosts confined to the high school where they died years earlier in a fire.

A private investigator is killed when he discovers a dead body. With his soul's future at stake — it's not decided if he's going to Heaven or Hell — he gets a chance for some redemption work, coming back to Earth as a dog in order to solve his own murder.

A fourth-grader gives his peers tips on communicating with their fairer schoolmates beyond pulling hair and kicking shins.

The story centers on a man who fakes going to rehab to reconnect with a former high school sweetheart, now a rock star and in rehab for her excesses.

A race car driver stops in a small town, only to have his race carstripped by six youths. The six youths then stowaway in his trailer and he becomes a reluctant father to them.

A man wakes up in a different body each day and has to stay connected to the woman he loves.

A teen named Junior, a budding cartoonist, grows up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, he leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

For "Senior Night," a high school rents out an amusement park for the entire senior class where everyone rides the rides and plays the games as much as they want with no lines and no rules. The only drawback: students start dying on the rides in elaborate ways. All the exits are sealed, and there is a killer on the loose turning all the rides into ways of punishing the bullies and the so called "bad" people at school. Kids from all different cliques have to band together to figure out who the killer is and how to stop them.

After being given a bulletin board by his father to put above his bed, Stanley Lambchop is flattened by it in the night. He's okay despite his appearance and can slip under doors and entertain his brother by posing as a kite. He even solves an art heist by posing as a wall painting.

A recently deceased guy is determined to be more productive as a corpse than he was during his life as a slacker. He attempts to set himself up in a business with a couple of other ghouls, starting a temp agency for the dead. The deceased guy and his cohorts rent out ghouls and ghosts to the living, until things go awry.

A picky dentist is paid with a pair of magic figs that can make dreams come true.

A low-rent entertainer has no luck with the ladies but suddenly finds himself stranded with beauty pageant contestants.

B.O.O. is a supernatural action comedy [that] follows two bumbling apparitions who find themselves in an extraordinary afterlife adventure when they join the Bureau of Otherworldly Operations (B.O.O.) -- the ghost world’s elite counter-haunting unit -- and ultimately must face off against the planet’s greatest haunter.

A 20-something stoner who, after missing the plane for his holiday ski trip, gets high and becomes paranoid that people are breaking into his house. While high, he tries to thwart the thieves who have actually broken into his house.

A 7-year old girl accidentally misspells “Santa” in her letter to the North Pole and instead invites Satan to bring her a toy for Christmas.