Boston Legal revolves around the law firm of Crane, Poole, & Schmidt: in particular, two eccentric attorneys, Alan Shore and Denny Crane.

Shore, an unscrupulous and wily ambulance chaser and womanizer, finds an uneasy alliance with Crane, a bombastic, self-aggrandizing, and occasionally batty elder lawyer. Despite their ethical and emotional deficiencies, Shore and Crane usually find themselves fighting on the right side, as they take up cases that no one else is willing to touch.

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John Ford's 1948 classic stars John Wayne as a Cavalry officer used to doing things a certain way out West at Fort Apache. Along comes a rigid, new commanding officer (Henry Fonda) who insists that everything on his watch be done by the book, including dealings with local Indians. The results are mixed: greater discipline at the fort, but increased hostilities with the natives. Ford deliberately leaves judgments about the wisdom of these changes ambiguous, but he also allows plenty of room in this wonderful film for the fullness of life among the soldiers and their families--community rituals, new romances--to blossom. Fonda, in an unusual role for him, is stern and formal as the new man in charge; Wayne is heroic as the rebellious second. This is easily one of the greatest of American films.

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When British playboy John brings his new wife Larita, a race car-driving feminist from Detroit, home to meet the family at their country estate, pretty much everyone's expectations are disappointed.

His snooty mother is offended by Larita's carefree American ways, while Larita does everything she can to get her mother-in-law to loosen up, which only annoys her even more. John's sisters have diametrically opposed feelings about their new sister-in-law, but his father is intrigued to have finally found another who sees through the family's facade and takes great perverse pleasure in watching his wife meet her match.

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