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Here's What's Leaving Netflix In November 2016, So Say Your Tearful Goodbyes

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Just when you were learning to trust again, starting to believe that these movies would be there for you whenever you needed an excuse to stay in on a Friday night, you find yourself confronting a list of everything that's leaving Netflix in November. It's tough, and I know that, but, like any relationship worth having, there's some give and take with Netflix. Anytime they take something we love, there's a chance they could add something that's even nearer and dearer to our hearts. So try to smile through your tears.

I'm preparing you because there are some real doozies this month, movies and shows that you may have never dreamed you might have to live without. I'm talking classics like Legally Blonde and The Holiday, you guys. This is no joke. But one thing that's great about your relationship with Netflix, vs your relationship with that boy from college who was emotionally distant for no reason, is that Netflix gives you warning before it's about to whisk something away forever, instead of just ghosting you.

So let's say our goodbyes to these shows and movies, which will be have vanished from Netflix come the end of November. They shall be missed.

(Unless otherwise noted, all items are being pulled on Nov. 1.)

'The Addams Family'

The spookiest family will vanish right after Halloween, so sleep with one eye open until then so you can watch their antics on repeat.

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'Almost Famous'

Baby-faced Kate Hudson got an Oscar nomination for her role in this comedy-drama about a teenager journalist covering a rock band for Rolling Stone. The film also won Best Screenplay, so it's worth a revisit for sure.

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'Can't Hardly Wait'

This 1998 teen comedy set entirely at a graduation party is the perfect throwback to remind you of your own teenage dramas. Jennifer Love Hewitt is the biggest name in the main cast, but you can also catch glimpses of now-famous background players like Jason Segel, Selma Blair, and Donald Faison.

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'The Core'

Who doesn't love a sci-fi disaster film where the best idea that the characters can come up with is to drill to the center of the Earth and use nuclear explosions to try to trigger its core into rotating again?

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'E.T. the Extra Terrestrial'

If you haven't seen this classic film from Steven Spielberg, please drop everything and go solve your childhood right now. There are so many iconic moments in this movie that it's hard to know where to start, but please do not phone home again until you've laughed and cried your little heart out over this gem.

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'Eight Crazy Nights'

Speaking of crazy, it's pretty weird that this Adam Sandler-starring animated comedy is being pulled from Netflix right before Hanukkah, when it would be most popular. Better enjoy it while you can.

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'Escape To Witch Mountain'

Before we had the modern X-Men movies, we had Tony and Tia, a brother-sister pair with strange abilities that they themselves don't even understand.

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'Fatal Attraction'

Often copied but never improved upon, this 1987 psychological thriller stars Glenn Close and Michael Douglas, and it will mess your brain up, I promise you.

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'The Holiday'

One second, trying to decide which of these couples is more perfect: Jack Black and Kate Winslet, or Jude Law and Cameron Diaz? The two women swap homes in this adorable romcom, and it will make you want to click over to Airbnb right this very second to reserve a cozy English cottage for Christmas.

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'Into The Wild'

Based on Jon Krakauer's book of the same name, this is the true story of Christopher McCandless, played by Emile Hirsch, who walked away from his comfortable life and into the Alaskan wilderness to attempt survival there.

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'Legally Blonde'

I know, I know. If they can take our classic Reese-Witherspoon-goes-to-law-school-to-win-back-an-ex-but-then-is-shockingly-good-at-it story without fluttering an eyelid, then what can we rely on in this world?

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'Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde'

The less-acclaimed but still pretty good sequel to the beloved Reese Witherspoon film is leaving as well.

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'Major League'

There's nothing like putting together a team designed to lose, only to have them win again and again. It's a feel-good sports movie starring Charlie Sheen, and it'll make you cheer for the underdog like never before.

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'Mansfield Park'

If you like warm fuzzies in your belly, but want to feel smart at the same time, I can't recommend anything on this list more highly than Mansfield Park. Based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name, it features a tangle of love stories and weaves in elements of Austin's life as well.

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'Meet Joe Black'

Can you believe Brad Pitt was ever as young as he is playing a human personification of Death? Death takes the body of a young man and names himself Joe Black in order to be able to ask Anthony Hopkins' character Bill Parrish about his views on life and love.

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'Patton Oswalt: My Weakness Is Strong'

Patton Oswalt has recently become one of our most inspirational voices on the subject of grief, considering the tragic death of his wife, Michelle McNamara. But, lest you forget, he has a comedic side as well. His third comedy special My Weakness Is Strong was released in 2007, so scoop it up before it's gone for a reminder of Oswalt in simpler days.

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'The Powerpuff Girls'

Seasons 1 through 6 are about to slip through our fingers, so get your feminist cartoon fix while you can. If only Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup had a superpower that could keep their show on Netflix...

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'Scream 2'

Put this 1997 sequel on your list of movies to watch during your pre-Halloween marathon, or suffer the worst fate of all — having to pay for it the next time you want to watch it. Truly terrifying.

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'Shameless'

This UK show won "Best Drama Series" at the BAFTA TV Awards in 2005, and went on for eight more seasons after that. But Seasons 1 through 10 are about to be pulled from the screening platform, so, if you ever want to watch James McAvoy and his now-estranged wife Anne-Marie Duff fall in love, now is your chance.

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'Something's Gotta Give'

It's a rom-com that even your parents will love, starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in a love triangle that becomes a love square. And then, hey, you know what? It's right there in the title — something's gotta give.

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'The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie'

Hey, he never pretended to live anywhere other than a pineapple under the sea; Netflix was always a temporary home for this animated favorite.

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'The Sum Of All Fears'

Based on a Tom Clancy novel of the same name, The Sum of All Fears stars Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman in a world on the brink of nuclear war, pushed there by a man who wants to establish his own fascist state.

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'Varsity Blues'

James Van Der Beek? Check. Paul Walker? Check. A coming-of-age-sports film where you can ogle them both at the same time? Check check check.

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'Gigli'

One of the most delightfully unsuccessful movies of all time, starring then-real-life couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, and just ripe for a drinking game, if you ask me.

Leaving Netflix Nov. 4.

'The Homesman'

With a cast like Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Hailee Steinfeld, John Lithgow, and James Spader, how can you go wrong? I'm not going to even bother telling you about how cool the plot is, with Swank's character rescuing Jones' and demanding he help her escort three mentally unstable women to safety. (Oops.)

Leaving Netflix Nov. 5.

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'Stuck In Love'

This 2012 indie romantic comedy focuses on a family split by divorce who are attempting to, y'know, still be a family. Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly play the divorced parents, and Nat Wolff and Lily Collins are their children.

Leaving Netflix Nov. 30.

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'Spy Game'

Robert Redford and Brad Pitt in a spy thriller? Honestly, where do I sign?

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'Fresh'

This critically-acclaimed 1994 crime film didn't get the attention it deserved from the public, but you could change all that by giving the coming-of-age film set during the crack epidemics a watch before it's too late.

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'The Family Man'

We all wonder sometimes what would've happened if we'd chosen another path in life, and single Wall Street exec Nicolas Cage has to live out the answer to that question opposite Téa Leoni and the family he now suddenly has.

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'Equilibrium'

This dystopian sci-fi thriller stars Christian Bale, and is set in a 2072 world where feelings and outward expressions aren't allowed — aka it's just creepy enough to make it to your Halloween must-watch list.

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'Echelon Conspiracy'

Shane West plays Max, a computer engineer who gets his hands on a seemingly all-knowing mobile phone that directs him to make decisions via text messages, from missing a flight that ends up crashing to massive casino windfalls. What could go wrong?

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'Angel Heart'

This 1987 neo-noir psychological thriller stars Lisa Bonet and Mickey Rourke as a private investigator who's hired to solve a disappearance, then gets pulled into a series of murders himself. It's been referred to as one of the best horror movies of all time, so here's something to watch before Halloween.

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'Chuck'

Guy-next-door Zachary Levi isn't what he seems in this spy-comedy series with a hint of drama — he's a computer whiz who had a chip with all of the United States' top secret intel installed into his brain. What could go wrong? Find out soon, or all five seasons will be gone forever.

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'The Boondocks'

If you haven't checked out The Boondocks yet, you definitely should. The Adult Swim show centers around a black family, the Freemans, who settle in a largely white suburb, and it deals with themes of identity, class, stereotypes — handling it all with humor.

Seasons 1-4 will leave Netflix Nov. 24.

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'The 'Burbs'

Speaking of the suburbs, this is a very different take on that topic. Hinkley Hills resident Ray Peterson, played by Tom Hanks, is pretty sure that his new neighbors are murders, and he aims to get to the bottom of his suspicions in this movie, termed a "comedy thriller."

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'Deliverance'

This iconic, vividly violent 1972 tale of survival, revenge, and secrecy stars Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox as four men who set off on a seemingly-innocuous river trip, only to come up against a set of obstacles they couldn't have possibly imagined.

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'Underground: The Julian Assange Story'

The founder of WikiLeaks is a controversial, fascinating figure, and this 2012 film is crammed full of information on how Julian Assange came to be the way he is.

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'Urban Cowboy'

You'd hope that a movie about a relationship between an independent man who wants traditional gender roles, played by John Travolta, and an independent woman who wants to be treated as an equal would be slightly less relevant in 2016, but this country music drama from 1980 has a lot of parallels to modern life.

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'The Boxtrolls'

A talented cast of voice actors, including Game of Thrones' Isaac Hempstead-Wright and Elle Fanning, bring to life this stop-motion animated story about a human boy named Egg, raised by trash-collecting trolls. Make sure you catch all of these movies and shows before they're gone.

Leaving Netflix Nov. 23.

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