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Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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English
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A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife.
5) Bushwhacked
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
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A bumbling deliveryman is accused of murder when a get-rich scheme backfires. He flees for the woods where he is mistaken for a world famous scout leader. He ends up supervising six Ranger Scouts on their first overnight expedition.
10) Hero
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
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Davis is ace reporter Gale Gayley, who literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on an airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness, she's saved by a rude, foul-mouthed "hero", who promptly disappears into the night ... leaving only his shoe behind.
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Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theater event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA.
12) Date night
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English
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An ordinary couple is in the right place, on the wrong night. Phil and Claire Foster are a sensible, suburban husband and wife slogging through their daily lives and marriage. But a case of mistaken identity sets off an outrageous chain of events involving small-time thieves, big-city mobsters, corrupt cops and a crazed cabbie, as the Fosters' "date night" turns into a wild ride they'll never forget! --Container.
14) Big business
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Comedy about two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth, and forty years later their paths cross in Manhattan at New York's Plaza Hotel.
15) The wrong man
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Widescreen version.
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English
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The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, since he looks just like the real suspect.
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English
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Two friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students is separated from the group, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count and the laughs.
19) My cousin Vinny
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When two carefree pals from up north are mistakenly arrested in Alabama, they call Cousin Vinny, a lawyer from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after the sixth try.
20) The Big Lebowski
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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English
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Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski doesn't want any complications in his life. He can't even be bothered with a job. But, in a case of mistaken identity, a couple of thugs break into his place and steal his rug. Now, The Dude must embark on a quest with his crazy bowling buddies to make things right and get that rug back. Their journey blends unforgettable characters, kidnapping, and White Russians.
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