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Stephen King: 20 Movie Rentals That Never Let Me Down

When summer movies' bombast leaves EW's pop culture columnist exhausted, he returns to these perennials at the video store that simply never disappoint -- ''Die Hard,'' ''Titanic,'' ''The Blair Witch Project,'' and more
By Stephen King Updated August 21, 2009 at 06:00 PM EDT
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