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Accidental Tourist
Adam
All That Jazz
Baby Boom
Baby M
Beaches
Benny and Joon
Big Boost
Boy With Green Hair
Broad-cast News
Burning Bed
Call Me Anna
Christmas Carol
Clean and Sober
Closer
Color Purple
Cries From the Heart
Crimes of the Heart
Dad
Damage
Darkness Before Dawn
David's Mother
Days of Wine and Roses
Dead Poets Society
Do you Know the Muffin Man?
Doctor
Dollmaker
Drop Dead Fred
Eating
Enchantment
Falling Down
Family of Strangers
Fatal Attraction
Father of the Bride
For the Love of Nancy
Forrest Gump
Frances
Gathering
Grand Canyon
Great Santini
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Harvey
Hot Spell
I Know My First Name Is Steven
I Never Sang for My Father
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Immediate Family
In the Best Interest of the Child
It's a Wonderful Life
Jason's Lyric
Joy Luck Club
Jungle Fever
Karen Carpenter Story
Kate's Story
Kramer vs. Kramer
Long Way Home
Longest Runner
Lost Weekend
M.A.D.D.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Made in Heaven
Memories of Me
Memory of Us
Men Don't Tell
Men's Club
Miracle Worker
Mission
Mommie Dearest
Mr. Destiny
My Name Is Bill W
'Night, Mother
Not My Kid
Nuts
On Golden Pond
Our Very Own
Parenthood
Postcards From the Edge
Pretty in Pink
Prince of Tides
Radio Flyer, Rain Man
Rape and Marriage
The Rideout Case
Regarding Henry
Rocket Gibraltar
Ryan White Story
Sarah T
Portrait of a Teenage Alco-holic
Sid and Nancy
Six Weeks
Sleepless in Seattle
Something About Amelia
Sophie's Choice
St. Elmo's Fire
Stanley and Iris
Steel Magnolias
Stella
Stranger in the Family
Sybil
Taking Back My Life
The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Tales of Manhattan
Terms of Endear-ment
That's Life
This Boy's Life
Three Faces of Eve
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toughlove
Trip to Bountiful
Unspeakable Acts
Ultimate Betrayal
Under the Influence
War of the Roses
What About Bob?
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
When a Man Loves a Woman
When Harry Met Sally
When You Remember Me
Wildflower
Wizard of Oz
Woman Under the Influence
Woman's Tale
Women of Brewster Place
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown