Jonathan Demme
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This film, like many from director Werner Herzog, is a poem of oddness and beauty. Investigating the lives of the "professional dreamers" who conduct research at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, he finds a happily cynical lot, who regard climate change and the potential extinction of Homo sapiens in rather a different light than most people. They study penguins, seals, volcanoes, miniscule underwater creatures, and the shifting ice patterns....
3) Philadelphia
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A story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
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Major Ben Marco, haunted by dreams of a Gulf War ambush attack in which he was knocked unconscious and Sgt. Raymond Shaw saved the unit, begins to investigate the incident and comes to believe he and his men were kidnapped and brainwashed so that Shaw, now running for vice-president, could be made into a war hero in an attempt to seize the White House.