Second Best

Second Best 1994

6.7/10

NETFLIX Rating : 3.1

IMDB Rating : 7.1

FD Smart Rating : 6.7

Synopsis : A lonely postal worker applies to adopt a troubled 10-year-old and all is going well -- until the boy's real father is released from prison.

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Directors:

Chris Menges

Actors:

Chris Cleary Miles , Jane Horrocks , Keith Allen , Alfred Lynch , James Warrior , Nathan Yapp , Doris Irving , Alan Cumming , William Hurt

Creators:

David Cook

Languages:

English , European Spanish , Brazilian Portuguese , Turkish , Italian , English [Original] , Spanish , Polish

Subtitles:

English , Arabic , Spanish , Portuguese , Traditional Chinese , Turkish , Italian , Greek , Simplified Chinese , Romanian , Polish

Genres:

Drama

Release Date:

1994

Run Time:

1h40m

Maturity Rating:

thematic elements

Graham Holt is a lonely middle-aged man who runs a postal substation in a small village in England. He decides to adopt a son. James is the troubled youth he gets with the assistance of social worker Debbie. James has been in an orphanage for years since his mother committed suicide. He adores his outlaw father John, sent to prison not long after the mother's death. Can James learn to love Graham? Can Graham settle for being second best?

The Shawshank Redemption 1994

9.2/10

Framed for murder, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison and gradually forms a close bond with older inmate Red.

Run Time: 2h22m’ | MMPA: R | Release: 14 Oct 1994

Directors: Frank Darabont

Actors: Morgan Freeman , William Sadler , Tim Robbins , James Whitmore , Gil Bellows , Larry Brandenburg , Clancy Brown , Jeffrey DeMunn , Bob Gunton , Mark Rolston

The Dark Knight 2008

8.8/10

As Batman, Lt. Gordon and the district attorney continue to dismantle Gotham's criminal underground, a new villain threatens to undo their good work.

Run Time: 2h32m’ | MMPA: PG-13 | Release: 18 Jul 2008

Directors: Christopher Nolan

Actors: Christian Bale , Heath Ledger , Aaron Eckhart , Michael Caine , Gary Oldman , Monique Gabriela Curnen , Morgan Freeman , Maggie Gyllenhaal

Pulp Fiction 1994

8.6/10

Quentin Tarantino's stylized crime caper weaves together stories featuring a burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner and a washed-up boxer.

Run Time: 2h34m’ | MMPA: R | Release: 14 Oct 1994

Actors: Laura Lovelace , Samuel L. Jackson

Forrest Gump 1994

8.7/10

Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.

Run Time: 2h22m’ | MMPA: PG-13 | Release: 06 Jul 1994

Directors: Robert Zemeckis

Actors: Tom Hanks , Sally Field , Rebecca Williams , Mykelti Williamson , Gary Sinise , Haley Joel Osment , Robin Wright , Michael Conner Humphreys , Hanna Hall

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001

8.7/10

From the idyllic shire of the Hobbits to the smoking chasms of Mordor, Frodo Baggins embarks on his epic quest to destroy the ring of Sauron.

Run Time: 2h58m’ | MMPA: PG-13 | Release: 19 Dec 2001

Actors: Elijah Wood , Noel Appleby , Sean Astin , Ian McKellen

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8.9/10

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Run Time: 3h20m’ | MMPA: PG-13 | Release: 17 Dec 2003

Directors: Peter Jackson

Actors: Ali Astin , Ian McKellen , Bernard Hill , Billy Boyd , John Rhys-Davies , Hugo Weaving , Dominic Monaghan , Elijah Wood , Liv Tyler , Orlando Bloom , Cate Blanchett , Viggo Mortensen , Sean Astin

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9/10

When an organized-crime family patriarch barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son steps in to take care of the would-be killers.

Run Time: 2h57m’ | MMPA: R | Release: 24 Mar 1972

Directors: Francis Ford Coppola

Actors: Richard S. Castellano , Robert Duvall , James Caan , Richard Conte , Marlon Brando , Sterling Hayden , Richard Castellano , Diane Keaton , Al Pacino , Al Lettieri , John Marley

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8.7/10

Frodo and Sam head to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin.

Run Time: 2h59m’ | MMPA: PG-13 | Release: 18 Dec 2002

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Actors: John Bach , Sala Baker , Liv Tyler , John Rhys-Davies , Ian McKellen , Billy Boyd , Christopher Lee , Viggo Mortensen , Bernard Hill , Cate Blanchett , Orlando Bloom , Sean Astin , Elijah Wood , Dominic Monaghan

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8.5/10

A seasoned homicide detective and his new partner are on a desperate hunt for a killer whose gruesome crimes are based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

Run Time: 2h6m’ | MMPA: R | Release: 22 Sep 1995

Directors: David Fincher

Actors: Morgan Freeman , Andrew Kevin Walker , Daniel Zacapa , Brad Pitt , Kevin Spacey , Gwyneth Paltrow , Richard Roundtree , R. Lee Ermey , Richard Schiff , John C. McGinley , Michael Massee , Mark Boone Junior

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8/10

With humanity teetering on the brink of extinction, a group of astronauts travels through a wormhole in search of another inhabitable planet.

Run Time: 2h49m’ | MMPA: PG-13 | Release: 07 Nov 2014

Actors: David Gyasi , Wes Bentley , Jessica Chastain , Anne Hathaway , Matthew McConaughey , Casey Affleck , Michael Caine , Mackenzie Foy , Bill Irwin , Ellen Burstyn , Topher Grace , John Lithgow