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Danny and Bernie are two best friends in Chicago whose friendship changes when Danny has a one night stand that suprisingly develops into a relationship. Based on a play by local David Mamet. | |
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After her date cancels on her Chris agrees to babysit the Andersons, but when a friend calls asking Chris to rescue her from a Chicago bus station, she packs up the kids and heads into the city. | |
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A group of Chicago firefighters, including two combative brothers, battle a serial arsonist in this 1991 Ron Howard thriller. | |
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John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd star as Chicago brothers trying to reunite their band and save an orpahage in this rollicking musical comedy. | |
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The story of Chess Records, located on Chicago's South Side, gets the Hollywood treatment, with Beyoncé as Etta James, Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters and Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess. | |
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This 1948 film stars James Stewart as a journalist attempting to prove that a man, in jail for the 1932 murder of a Chicago policeman, is innocent. The film is based on a true story and was shot in Chicago. | |
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Chicago quite obviously played the role of Gotham in this celebrated installment of the rebooted Batman franchise. But do you really need an excuse to watch this great film? | |
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This 1988 film based on a book by Eliot Asniov is a dramatization of the Black Sox Scandal, in which eight members of the 1919 White Sox team were accused of throwing the world series for a group of gangsters. | |
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Feigning sickness, Ferris takes the day off with his best friend and girlfriend and spends the day in Chicago while his high school principal desperately tries to catch him in the act. | |
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The fugitive |
Falsely accused of murdering his wife, Chicago surgeon Richard Kimball sets off a manhunt in this 1993 film based on a classic TV series. |
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Adapted from a book by Nick Hornby, High Fidelity's setting was switched from London to Chicago for the film. When record store owner, Rob Gordon (John Cusack), is left by his girlfriend, he recalls his five more memorable breakups and seeks out his former girlfriends to figure out what went wrong. | |
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Toula is a frumpy middle aged Greek woman who works in her family's resturant in Chicago, but an encounter with an attractive teacher prompts her to transform her life and herself. Will her lively Greek family be able to accept her non-Greek boyfriend? | |
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Johnny Depp plays John Dillinger, America's first Public Enemy Number One, in Michael Mann's take on the infamous Chicago gangster's life. Chicago and regional locales are featured, including the Biograph Theater. | |
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Soul food |
Big Mama brings together a large Chicago African American family for Sunday dinners. As they cope with the vissitudes of life, they find strength in one another. |
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The untouchables |
Prohibiton agent Eliot Ness tries to bring down Chicago gangster Al Capone in this 1987 film based on historical events. |
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Nicolas Cage stars as a Chicago meterologist called to audition for a national televison show, but while a success in his professional life, he is afraid of being a failure in his personal one. |