Having accrued critical success with the delicious Mad Men, AMC is eyeing a bevy of new (and different) projects. Among them, Variety reports: Fort Smith, a Western from 24 exec producer Robert Cochran and revolving around a posse patrolling the post-Civil War West; another Western centered on Comanche leader Quanah Parker; Uninvited Guest, a quirky drama from Less Than Zero screenwriter Harley Peyton and following a fella with multiple personality disorder; and Greenfields, in which a psychiatrist breaks his patient out of jail.
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Question: There's a movie about a burglar who breaks into a house on Christmas Eve; the house belongs to a couple who bicker constantly. Their son lives there, too, and a bunch of awful relatives are on their way over for Christmas. In the end the dad and son help the burglar out. Can you tell me what it is?
Answer: It's the mean-spirited The Ref (1994), which stars Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey as the squabbling parents, Dennis Leary as the burglar who takes them hostage in their own home, and the incomparable Christine Baranski as the bitchy sister-in-law who can make the word "slip
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