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The A.V. Club's Turning on a dime: 15 great gearshift movies

’"Gearshift movies," a term coined by P.T. Anderson, are films that head in one direction, stop on a dime, and veer off into radically different territory.’

(found at: http://www.avclub.com/articles/turning-on-a-dime-15-great-gearshift-movies,23015/)
1. Psycho (Collector's Edition)  
2. Audition (Uncut Special Edition)
by Takashi Miike
  
3.
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 Grindhouse Presents Death Proof  
4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans  
5. Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series)
by Paul Thomas Anderson
  
6. Something Wild
by Jonathan Demme
  
7. Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Martin Scorsese
  
8. Full Metal Jacket
by Stanley Kubrick
  
9. Lost Highway (Widescreen)  
10. In the Bedroom
by Todd Field
  
11. Wild Things (Unrated Edition)
by John McNaughton
  
12. The Ninth Configuration  
13. Million Dollar Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
14. Adaptation (Superbit Collection)  
15. The Crying Game (Collector's Edition)
by Neil Jordan
  
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Created by blurgess on Feb 01, 2009.