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

A volunteer fighter squadron is formed by General Claire Chennault to help the Chinese fight against the Empire of Japan before the United States enters WWII. The aging Chinese planes are no match for the superior Japanese forces, until the volunteers arrive in American-made P-40 War Hawks. The two squadrons fly side by side, in fighter planes emblazoned with the gaping tiger's teeth logo. After Pearl Harbor, the Flying Tigers become an effective squadron in the U.S. Air Force.

In a futuristic world in which racing exo-suits have replaced fighter jets, a genetically engineered racer learns that his bloodline has the power to change society.

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

High school student Laurel's beloved older sister has died under mysterious circumstances. Emotionally frayed by the loss, she unexpectedly finds catharsis in an assignment from her English teacher: write a letter to a dead person. Instead of handing in the assignment, though, she begins an ongoing series of letters to an eclectic group of rock stars, poets, and popular icons such as Kurt Cobain, Judy Garland, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse. She writes to her epistolary confidants about navigating new and complicated friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time. Ultimately, the letters reveal the painful truth about her past.

The quasi-prequel to the 2005 hit, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, will serve as an origin story about a similar but differently named couple, showing how a pair of twentysomething spies are set up as a fake married couple when they graduate agency training.

A disgraced computer hacker is hired to complete the ultimate hack: one on an artificial intelligence orbiting Earth.

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.

"Romancing the Stone" tells the story of a repressed romance novelist who travels to Colombia to find her missing sister only to meet up with an American soldier of fortune. The two embark on a cross-country adventure involving a map, a jewel and a private police force.

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.

After freed slave Britt Johnson moves his family to Young County, TX at the end of the Civil War, his family and neighbors are attacked by Comanche and Kiowa, with many of them being taken captive. While Britt waits through the winter before he can set out to rescue his wife and children, Samuel Hammond, a Quaker man preaching nonviolence and an agrarian lifestyle gets sent to the region to be the new Indian Agent. The contrast between Johnson, a pragmatic man of action, and Hammond, an idealist who struggles with the ambiguities of reality, echoes the history of a period when government programs and westward expansion collided, ruinously, with Native cultures.

Zita leaps to the rescue when her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult. Along the way, she faces humanoid chickens, ancient prophecies, doomed planets, and a mystery man who takes a secret interest in her myriad of quests.

Jim Obergefell marries his spouse John Arthur in Maryland in 2013, three months before Arthur dies. The state of Ohio refuses to list him as John's spouse on the death certificate, so Obergefell sues. He is the lead plaintiff in a U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively legalizes same-sex marriage.

The story centers on a successful businesswoman who is on the brink of divorcing her washed-up sports star husband.

A musical inspired by Pharrell Williams’ childhood in Virginia Beach, California.

19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore commits scores of crimes, mostly in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, including allegedly stealing at least five small aircraft, a boat and two cars, as well as burglarizing at least 100 private residences. He earns the nickname "Barefoot Bandit" after being seen running barefoot from the scene of the crime.

Set 25 years in the future, a special ops team battles for "peace and security."