Best Movies By Farr

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Best Movies by Farr defines itself as a quality filter for movies on DVD. Our constant aim is to go beyond the expected, and feature outstanding titles you may have missed, overlooked or forgotten about.Developed by film advocate John Farr, Best Movies by Farr provides a trusted voice and a simple tool to make the film viewing experience as rewarding as possible.

Category
Entertainment
# Episodes
260 episodes
Rating
TV-G

Episodes of Best Movies By Farr

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  Movie of the Week: The Apostle
  
  After discovering that his wife Jessie (Fawcett) is having an affair, devout Pentecostal preacher Sonny Dewey (Duvall) sends him into a coma. Sonny flees Texas for Louisiana and tries to rebuild his following. Sonny struggles to escape his past.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 23, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    02:16
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  Movie of the Week: Tender Mercies
  
  Mac Sledge, once a successful country music star, hits rock bottom as a drunk. When there is nowhere deeper to sink, with the help of gentle widow and her young son, Mac gradually finds the strength to reclaim his life.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 16, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    01:28
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  MOVIE OF THE WEEK - Apocalypse Now Redux
  
  Director Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edited “Redux” version includes new scenes which help clarify some loose ends in the original cut of this acknowledged masterpiece. Key performances from Sheen and Robert Duvall achieve a rare intensity.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 8, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    02:40
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  Movie of the Week: Tomorrow
  
  In the early 1900 a simple cotton farmer (Duvall) takes a job finds a troubled pregnant woman named Sarah (Bellin) wandering the property, Fentry takes her in, becoming her caretaker and eventually the adoptive father of her son.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 3, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    02:09
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  Movie of the Week: The Manchurian Candidate
  
  Set at the height of the Cold War, John Frankenheimer's tingling psychological thriller has lost little of its impact. This story of a soldier brainwashed by Communists to strike at the heart of the U.S. government remains an unnerving ride.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 26, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    02:37
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  Movie of the Week: Some Came Running
  
  Returning to his Midwest hometown after WWII, card-playing soldier and once-promising novelist Dave Hirsh (Sinatra) is a perturbing presence to his older brother, Frank, a well-to-do businessman who feels Dave is more trouble than he’s worth.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 19, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    02:25
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  Movie of the Week: The Man with the Golden Arm
  
  Frankie Machine (Sinatra) is a rehabilitated junkie who wants to start a new life as a jazz drummer. Yet his crippled, neurotic wife (Parker) and old pusher (Darren McGavin) undermine his dreams at every turn.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 12, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    03:05
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  Movie of the Week: From Here to Eternity
  
  In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love. All-star cast includes Frank Sinatra's Oscar-winning performance, that revived his sagging career.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 5, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    03:05
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  Movie of the Week: Julia
  
  Julia (Swinton) is an out-of-control alcoholic attends an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, she meets broken, obviously unhinged woman, who pleads with Julia to help kidnap her son from her wealthy father. Julia is desperate and stupid enough to do it.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 28, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    02:34
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  Movie of the Week: The Deep End
  
  When the body of her 17-year-old son's predatory former gay lover washes up on their lakefront property one morning, Margaret Hall (Swinton) does what any desperate mother might do: she gets rid of the corpse.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 20, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    02:49