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Willow Chance, a 12-year-old genius who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life her world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world.

The story centers on Norman Ollestad's love/hate relationship with his charismatic father, who thrust him into extreme sports pursuits at age 3, and pressed him to excel in the world of surfing and competitive skiing which immersed them in the Southern California surf culture of the 1970s. Ollestad became his father's greatest creation, a fearless surfer and ski champion, and that fearlessness prompted him to not give up even after he saw his idol killed in the crash that left him alone in a blizzard in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Billy Bigelow is a carnival barker with a serious temper, that gets him in trouble and in the middle of a robbery gone bad. He dies and is sent to purgatory, where he is given one day to return to Earth and fix his troubles.

Tierney Cahill, a teacher from Reno, Nev., takes a challenge from her sixth-grade students to run for Congress in the 2000 elections on the condition that they would help run her campaign. The single mother ultimately loses her bid to an incumbent, but she ends up winning 35% of the popular vote.

Set in the early 1900's during the birth of jazz, Charles "Buddy" Bolden, an African American cornetist, is a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which becomes known as jazz. "King Bolden" and his band are a top draw in New Orleans from about 1900 until 1907, when he is incapacitated by schizophrenia. He is admitted to a mental institution where he spends the rest of his life.

A remake of the 1985 action film in which a dictator kidnaps the daughter of a retired special forces operative.

The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or C.S. 96, named for the year he confronted the sins of his life atop a massive drug distribution ring and flipped, becoming law enforcement's secret weapon. As Caribe launches his career as a confidential source, he finds his faith and seeks to finally do right by his stoic wife, Inez, and his four children, his marriage becomes stressed in new ways, the risks to his family unimaginable if he makes a single mistake on the job. He finds himself looking over his shoulder every day, knowing that with each drug ring or kingpin he destroys, he makes another dangerous enemy.

The movie centers on an Australian woman living in Boston with the heir (Somerhalder) to an incredible fortune whose family history is swirled in a legend that tells of a pact made with a demon which ensures that whenever a boy is born into the family, the father is killed. The heir suspects his girlfriend is pregnant, and after strange events occur, he comes to believe he will die if he continues to fall in love.

A human girl finds herself in the midst of a conflict between warring factions when she falls for a vampire prince, Jaxon Vega. He's a vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. But there is something about him that calls to her, something broken in him that somehow fits with what is broken in her — which could spell death for both of them. The young girl learns that Jaxon has walled himself off for a reason. And now someone wants to wake him, a sleeping monster, and she could very well be the bait.

Set in Las Vegas during the late 1960s, a pair of hustlers rob the decaying Moonlight Casino.

Two mercenary corporations named the "Black List" and "Global Risk" fight each other in an epic global conflict.

A female cryptozoologist journeys to her home in Puerto Rico to find the cause of a series of deadly attacks in the jungle. Is it the legendary Chupacabra or something even more vicious? Her fate becomes intertwined with the realities of a violent island and its terrifying inhabitants.

A special forces operative — frustrated with the bureaucracy of war — goes rogue and tries to exterminate terrorists being protected by the government.

Set in the 19th century in the Pacific Northwest, King Arthur and his Knights of the Roundtable are gunfighters sworn to protect the innocent, with (Ex)Caliber itself depicted as a magical six-shooter that never misses, but only when drawn by a man with justice on his side.