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The magic of Nicole Kidman

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The magic of Nicole Kidman

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The Stepford wives: After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little too perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna figure out the problem before it's too late?Practical magic: The wry, comic romantic tale follows the Owens sisters as they struggle to use their hereditary gift for practical magic to overcome the obstacles in discovering true loveThe human stain: Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made publicThe interpreter: In one of the hidden corridors of power at United Nations headquarters, translator Silvia Broome (Kidman) overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller (Penn) investigates her claim and digs deeper into Silvia's dangerous past, he begins to question whether she is a victim - or a suspectBewitched: A B-list actor agrees to star in a modern-day remake of the television program "Bewitched", with unexpected consequences

The Stepford wives / produced by Scott Rudin [and others] ; written by Paul Rudnick ; directed by Frank Oz (2004 : PG-13 : 92 min.) -- Practical magic / screenplay by Robin Swicord and Akiva Goldsman and Adam Brooks ; produced by Denise Di Novi ; directed by Griffin Dunne (1998 : PG-13 : 104 min.) -- The human stain / producers, Gary Lucchesi, Scott Steindorff, Tom Rosenberg ; screenplay by Nicholas Meyer ; directed by Robert Benton (2003 : R : 105 min.) -- The interpreter / produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Kevin Misher ; story by Martin Stellman & Brian Ward ; screenplay by Charles Randolph and Scott Frank and Steven Zaillian ; directed by Sydney Pollack (2005 : PG-13 : 129 min.) -- Bewitched / produced by Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher ; produced by Penny Marshall, Nora Ephron ; written by Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron ; directed by Nora Ephron (2005 : PG-13 : 102 min.)

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