For 500 years, a conflict has raged between the rival Rajadi and Saneda clans. Tensions flare when the handsome, but criminal Ram Rajadi (Ranveer Singh) falls for beautiful young Leela (Deepika Padukone) and tries to woo her away from an arranged marriage. Sanjay Leela Bhansali's colorful, crowd-pleasing adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" is bursting with swoony compositions and heart-swelling songs. But it's the sheer charisma and chemistry of the film's dreamy stars that make this tragic melodrama a cross-cultural delight.
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Bugs Bunny and his pals are threatened with kidnapping by evil theme park mogul Swackhammer (Danny DeVito) and his alien minions, The Nerdlucks. Bugs challenges the Nerdlucks to a fateful basketball game to win his friends' freedom. But when Swackhammer summons the power of the NBA's best players, Bugs is forced to recruit retired superstar Michael Jordan. This manic mashup of Looney Tunes animation and sports comedy has become a generational touchstone. Though dissed by boomer critics, Space Jam dribbled its way into the hearts and minds of millennial audiences who made it a runaway hit.
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Straitlaced doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) becomes anxious when his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman) confesses to fantasizing about another man. Harford sets out into the New York night where he has a series of fraught encounters, before finding himself mixed up with a sinister sex cult. Stanley Kubrick's notoriously divisive final film is an elegant and enigmatic erotic thriller, spiked with subversive humor. Adapted from a 1926 novella by Arthur Schnitzler, Eyes Wide Shut has the uncanny feeling of a lucid dream, with the formal structure of a digressive dirty joke. Riffing on Cruise and Kidman's real life relationship, Kubrick crafts one last masterpiece about marriage, infidelity, and the delicate dance between sex and death.
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