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Johnny Utah, a freshman at FBI's bank-robbery crew, goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of surfers he suspects can be the infamous ex-president-robbers. To infiltrate them, he has got to learn to surf, something his boss doesn't like very much. |
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Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer, the designer of Speed's thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company's maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won't drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family's business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother's life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible. |
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A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time. |
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Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) aspires to follow in the footsteps of his courageous father, a successful and respectable stuntman who died while performing a dangerous stunt. Rod fancies himself the world's greatest stuntman, but, objectively speaking, he is not very good at that. His abusive stepfather Frank (Ian McShane) doesn't respect him as a man and thus mocks at him at every opportunity, but Rod keeps doing stunts, desperately trying to land jumps with his bike. When Rod learns that his stepdad needs a heart transplant which demands $50,000, he comes up with a brilliant idea to raise the money by jumping 15 parked buses on a motorbike. Will the klutzy Rod manage both to save Frank's life and win his respect? |
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Set in 1890 in America, the breathtaking western adventure tells the story of Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), a Pony Express rider and winner of long-distance horse races. His reputation as the greatest rider in the West reaches the ears of a wealthy Arabian sheik (Omar Sharif) who challenges Hopkins to take part in "The Ocean of Fire," a survival horse race across Middle Eastern deserts. Determined to receive $100,000 as prize money and the honor of being the best rider in the world, Hopkins accepts the invitation from the Sheikh to enter the treacherous competition with his endurance mixed-breed mustang, Hidalgo.
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Dr. Evil returns from space just as British spy Austin Powers learns on his honeymoon that his wife is a fembot in Evil's control. Back on the singles scene, Powers discovers he's impotent because Evil has used a time machine to return to the late 60s and steal his libido. British intelligence also has a time portal, so Powers goes back to 1969 to recapture his mojo and, teaming with agent Felicity Shagwell, to stop another Evil plot to take over the world, this time with a "laser" beamed from the moon. Subplots involve Evil's son Scott's discovery of who his mother is, Evil's affection for a clone one-eighth his size, and the machinations of an obese Scot named Fat Bastard. |
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Meet Larry Daley (Ben Stiller), an unemployed single father and a born loser. In an attempt to regain authority with his son Nicky (Jake Cherry), Larry takes a job as a graveyard-shift security guard at the Museum of Natural History. In his first nightshift, he sees extraordinary things occurring: all the exhibits come to life (due to an old Egyptian stone). When Larry takes his son to work with him, three former guards break into the museum to steal the magic stone, and Larry proves to Nicky that he is, indeed, a great man. He shows his savvy and bravery by organizing the historic characters to help him arrest the criminals and save the museum.
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In 1896, a construction engineer from the British Army, J.H. Patterson (Kilmer) is sent to build a railway bridge across Uganda's Tsavo River for the British East African Railway. Soon after he arrives, workmen begin to disappear at night from their tents - never to be seen alive again. The engineer soon discovers that a pair of man-eating lions are stalking around the bridge and campsites, killing the workmen for food. He tries a number of different methods to get rid of them, but the beasts always seem to know what Patterson is doing and avoid being shot. After 30 men have been killed Patterson's boss recruits a hunter, Charles Remington (Douglas) to hunt down and destroy the lions. But the lions continue killing the workmen until they flee the camps, jumping onto the train as it rolls through Tsavo. Now Remington, Patterson & his aide (John Kani) must face these brilliant yet frightening monsters alone. |
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James Clayton (Colin Farrell), one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country, is recruited by the secret CIA training facility called the Farm at Camp Peary in Virginia. The brilliant agent trainee quickly learns the tricks of the spy trade and rises through the ranks. When he gets a special assignment to root out a suspected spy that has infiltrated the Agency, Clayton starts to doubt whom he can truly trust as he suspects his mentor, Walter Burke (Al Pacino), and others at the Farm of being double agents for the Chinese government. |
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Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in a different way to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted. |
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This tough, ironic action begins when a strip teaser girl gets killed by a maniac. A cop (Bruce Willis) tries to find the criminal, and the only man who can help is a former sportsman James Alexander Dix (Damon Wayans). The threads which can explain the murder, lead to the high politics and professional football teams. Bones crunch, bullets fly and dark jokes spout in the film by Tonny Scott (Top Gun and other). |
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Lyra Belaqua, living in Oxford's Jordan College, is not but a young girl living among scholars. Her world may seem diverse, from physical embodiments of souls that take the shape of an animal, but similar with people around you to become friends and enemies. She is thrown into a perilous adventure when she overhears a conversation of an extraordinary microscopic particle, Dust. This particle is said to unite different worlds, and is feared by many who want to destroy it forever. As Lyra is flung into the middle of this horrible struggle, she meets wondrous creatures both big and small, and villains who are not what they seem. Gobblers, that kidnap children, will turn out in the most unexpected places. And a magical compass of gold that will answer any question if one is skilled enough to read it. Lyra's adventure continues throughout these three books, and the first is about to be told. |
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Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix), a Baltimore firefighter who was trapped in an inferno, in a blazing high rise. His life starts flashing before his eyes as he remembers fighting his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, falling in love with a beautiful local girl (Jacinda Barrett), getting married, and having children. He also looks back on forming a close relationship with the first mentor (John Travolta), the man, who helped him realize what it takes to be firefighter. This man, the fire chief Mike Kennedy, now is to lead his rescue. |
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After Bond helps Russian officer Georgi Koskov ('Jeroen Krabbe'(qv)) make a daring defection to the West, the intelligence community is shocked when Koskov is abducted from his remote hiding place. Bond leaps into action, following a trail that leads to the gorgeous Kara ('Maryam d'Abo'(qv)), who plays Bond as easily as she plays her Stradivari cello. As they unravel a complex weapons scheme with global implications, they are forced into hair-raising chases, a riveting jailbreak and an epic battle in the Afghanistan desert with tanks, airplanes and a legion of freedom fighters on horseback. |
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stars as a couple who live a boring life - 6 years in marriage, nothing new. But events unexpectedly take a new turn when the couple turns out to be a pair of highly paid assassins, who know nothing about real life of each other and even working for the competing organizations. Truth is disclosed at the moment when they are both assigned by their employers to kill the same person. While the deceived bosses are trying to ruin the couple, the real fun begins. Lots of dizzy stunts and a bit of a sexy humour are presented in this action thriller laced with comedy. |
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When successful stand up comedian Buddy 'Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven) is determined to turn state's evidence and testify against mob boss Primo Sparazza (Joseph Ruskin), the latter gives his orders, Aces' mouth is to be shut, and sets a price of a million dollars upon his head. Hoping to bring the big-time mobster to trial, the FBI places the sharpen-tongued witness into protective custody, under the supervision of two agents Richard Messner (Ryan Reynolds) and Donald Carruthers (Ray Liotta), and not without reason, for a gang of money-hungry villainous thugs is close on Buddy's tail, waiting for an opportunity to hit the jackpot. And they get a chance when the indiscreet Aces decides to go to a casino to try his luck. It must be said that luck is just what he needs!
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Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters. |
| Long Kiss Goodnight, The
[1996,
USA]
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| Eight years ago she lost her memory. Now, a detective must help her remember the past before it buries them both. What's forgotten is not always gone. |
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Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing. |
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In order to get out of hock with mobster Billy Walker, restaraunteur-turned-"retrieval expert" Beck has to go down to Brazil and retrieve Billy's ne'er-do-well archaeologist-wannabe son Travis, who is searching for an ancient gold idol called the Gato del Diablo. This idol is prized by not only the local population as the path to their salvation, but by Cornelius Hatcher, slavedriving operator of the Helldorado mining town who oppresses said population in the name of profits, and Hatcher just won't let Beck leave with Travis. |
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Reapers, a new breed of vampire that feed off humans and vampires, emerge with plans for world domination and Blade must team with the Bloodpack, an elite team of vampire warriors specifically trained to hunt him, in order to defeat this new menace. |
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