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A TV news crew is doing a story on a day in the life of two prison guards when a violent prison riot breaks out, leaving the news crew and the less than entirely competent guards stranded inside. "All Day and a Night" is prison slang for "life without parole."

Revolves around the Acme Corporation, a purveyor of crazy and outlandish products.

A high school drama student wants to be famous and will do just about anything to get there.

Set in Southern California over a summer in the 1960s and includes the sounds of the Beach Boys music and the beach culture of the time.

A real estate agent has a one-night stand with a distinguished older man. After becoming engaged to someone else and heading off to meet her fiance's family, she discovers her future father-in-law was her bedmate.

retired district court judge is invited out of the blue by a local comedian to attend his show, a stand-up routine in a bar. The judge and the comedian, who trade on divisive and offensive jokes, knew each other as boys but have had no contact for over 40 years. With barbs flying back and forth, a deeper story begins to take shape — one that will alter the lives of many of those in attendance and lead to a series of candid and chilling revelations.

Four overweight friends get fed up with dieting and decide to start a sumo wrestling team, which helps them learn to love themselves.

Continued adventures of widowed single mother Stephanie (Kendrick) and vlogger Emily (Lively).

A group of nerds attempt to steal Nicolas Cage's copy of the "Action Comics No. 1," the landmark 1938 comic that introduced the world to the Man of Steel/Superman. The issue stays missing until 2011, when it is discovered among the contents of an abandoned storage locker. The issue sells for a record $2.1 million at auction in November 2011.

A couple desperately tries to adopt a baby but accidentally adopt a full-grown man.

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

The third-most-popular girl in school is secretly dating a troubled loner when the most popular guy is suddenly interested in her. She struggles to choose between them until she is faced with a tragedy that changes her entire perception of high school and the social order.

A futuristic, space-set relationship comedy in which two travellers are distracted from their mission by beautiful women.

Two estranged brothers, one a cop and the other a criminal, team up to go undercover.

A British travel writer attempts to find her soulmate, sending her profile and specs to contacts around the world. She then travels the globe, going on dates with the top 80 candidates in 16 countries.