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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)