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• You start every conversation with “Seen anything good?”
• Your spouse asks what you want for dinner, and you answer “The usual–popcorn.”
• You step outside on a beautiful afternoon and run immediately back into the theater.
• You see people on the street talking in a foreign language, and your eyes automatically drop down for the subtitles.
• You have an irresistible urge to see a big-budget Hollywood flick with lots of explosions and special effects.

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I just received the strangest press release. It was from the Insurance Information Institute, “a nonprofit, communications organization supported by the insurance industry.” Not really my kind of organization.

But the subject was movies. The release proudly announced the “top ten insurance films of all time.” And no, these aren’t educational shorts with titles like “Why You Need Whole Life.”

In fact, the list is downright open-minded. Sicko makes the grade. I’d expect the insurance industry would list it as one of the worst films of all time.

Anyway, here’s the list:

• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Memento (2000)
• The Fortune Cookie (1966)
• The Killers (1946)
• Save the Tiger (1973)
• The Rainmaker (1997)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, 1999)
• Sicko (2007)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• Along Came Polly (2004)

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