Stacy (Brittany Murphy) is just landed a job as associate producer on a local talk show. Her life gets turned upside down when she is persuaded to explore one of the show's themes, and snoops through her boyfriend's Palm Handheld to investigate his exes. But when she develops a friendship with one of the women, Stacy begins to question not only what she has done, but also what she really wants. In the long run, Stacy gets much more than she bargained for as this slightly dark comedy takes some unexpected turns.
When UK economics is to switch from pounds to euro, a poorly-secured train crammed full with respective pounds is being robbed. Seven-years old Damien and his brother unexpectedly get a money-filled sack voyage literally fallen from the sky. This visually sophisticated, ethically loaded and emotionally nuanced movie follows Damien as he discovers the human nature being a kind of a visionary in the mystic sense of this word. Damian is anxious to share the wealth with those less fortunate while his fun-loving brother Anthony would rather spend it like there's no tomorrow! Anyway, the 265,000 British pounds should be spent before the UK nation switches over to the Euro.
Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), Chronicle reporter along with ace aviator Sky Captain are on the investigation as the many famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared in 1930s. As they travel to a variety of exotic places around the globe and risking their lives, the fearless duo attempts to stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind laying a plot to destroy the Earth. It begins when New York is under attack by robots and alien-looking space craft. Angelina Jolie co-stars as the charming Captain Franky Cook, commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, in this action-packed blockbuster abundant with plenty of innovative special effects. Giovanni Ribisi appears as Dex, an extraordinary technical genius, who have joined the duo in hopes of saving the planet before it's too late.
Stan Ross was a baseball superstar who turned his back on the game years ago when he finally hit 3,000 hits. Years later, he's now a successful, self-made entrepreneur whose many businesses revolve around his title: Mr. 3000. But a clerical error has proven that Stan is just short three hits of his spectacular hit record. Now, with time on his side and the potential to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Stan must return back to the game and get back his title. But things have changed with age, and as Stan finds out, it's not too easy to get back into the game when he hasn't played for years, and he's nearing 50.
The enchanting children’s tale follows the adventures of five siblings who are sent to stay with their uncle Albert (Kenneth Branagh) in his tumbledown mansion by the seaside during World War I. While exploring the ramshackle house, Robert (Freddie Highmore), Anthea (Jessica Claridge), Cyril (Jonathan Bailey), Jane (Poppy Rogers), and Martha (Zoл Wanamaker) discover a grouchy 8,000-year-old sand fairy, Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), who promises to grant them one wish per day, each one lasting until sundown. All the wishes, however, backfire in amusing ways.
Loosely based on the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, the fantasy movie revolves around George (James Purefoy), a valorous English knight who returns home from the Crusades, wishing to retire from soldering and settle down to a peaceful life to enjoy marital bliss. But when he arrives at King Edgar's (Simon Callow) palace, he finds him in a state of deep grief as his adorable daughter Princess Lunna (Piper Perabo) has recently been kidnapped by a dragon. The king offers George a glut of wealth if he finds the missing girl. The knight, who wants nothing more than a small acre of land and two cows, agrees to embark on a quest to save the princess. Little does he know that an unlimited number of incredible adventures await him.
The compelling drama opens in a nursing home where an elderly man named Duke (James Garner) regularly visits an invalid woman (Gena Rowlands) whom he reads a touching story of enduring love from a tattered old notebook. The story follows two young sweethearts, socialite Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and poor country boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling), who were separated by Allie's snobbish parents and World War II. Noah wrote 365 letters to his beloved but Allie's mom (Joan Allen) kept them from reaching her. After waiting to hear from Noah for seven years, Allie decided to marry a wealthy war veteran, Lon Hammond (James Marsden). But when fate once again threw them together, Allie and Noah became seized by overwhelming passion. Allie had to make a difficult choice between her first love and her prosperous fiancé...
Starting a new school is always full of anxiety. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is doubly unlucky. The fact is that she moves to the United States from Africa where she has been home schooled her whole life. And now the 15-year-old girl has to enter public high school for the first time! Cady soon comes to realize that school life can be more dangerous than the jungle. Trying to 'survive' in her new surroundings, she infiltrates the school's most popular and fashionable clique that includes the meanest girls of all - Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen (Lacey Chabert), and Karen (Amanda Seyfriend). When Cady has a crush on Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), Regina flies into a rage and becomes bent on seeking revenge by sabotaging their potential romance.
Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) isn't very popular in his high school – he's a bit cranky, he has a very strange family, but he'd like to find himself and socialize. After Pedro (Jon Gries), a Mexican guy, comes to the town and befriends Napoleon, they decide Pedro will run for a class president and Napoleon shows his best in arranging Pedro's campaign.
Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) can't stop getting his education and obtains one university degree after another. Thus it's the only thing in life he does well. His mother is more down-to-earth so she makes him find a job at last. Flynn thinks that New York Metropolitan Library is the very place for him to work in, but his duties turn out to be far from being usual – he's responsible for a secret collection of magic artifacts such as the Holly Grail or Pandora's Box. The Serpent Brotherhood, a group of bad guys, has been looking for the Spear of Destiny for along time and now its members won't lose their chance to get it.
This time, the Man of Steel has his hands full with a trio of super-powered villains who escape from their Phantom Zone prison (remember the weird flying diamond-shaped mirror that scooped them up from the planet Krypton?) and land on Earth, where all three have powers to rival Superman's own. How does it all come out? With a fabulous duel above the streets of Metropolis, and a startling plot twist that neatly ties in Superman's explosive past. Arch-criminal Lex Luthor plays both ends gleefully against the middle in hopes of a modest reward: Australia.
A story of several intertwined characters unfolds in this comedy drama when their paths cross in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Rose Harrison's (Susan Sarandon) mother is interned in a hospital with Alzheimer's disease, Rose is a middle-aged divorcee who use to visit her mother often. Robin Williams plays the mysterious fellow who later prevents her from possibly jumping in the East River. Mike is engaged to marry the beautiful Nina (Penélope Cruz), but he's so consumed with jealousy and suspicion that she's not sure if she can go through with the wedding. Meantime, Mike (Paul Walker) portrays a police officer who has become the obsessive focus of an elderly waiter, Artie (Alan Arkin), who is convinced Mike is the reincarnation of his late wife. Paul Walker's character reveals great depths of painful feeling as the cop struggling to save his future family. Chazz Palminteri, well-known as an actor, directed this, his first feature film. Though set in New York, the movie was filmed in Montreal.
Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (2003) stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. As an adventurer, Passepartout ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world.
Ella (Anne Hathaway) has been cursed by her dimented fairy godmother with the gift of obedience. On the quest to find her godmother again to make her take back the "gift", Ella meets, and reluctantly falls in love with the Prince (Hugh Dancy) of Frell.
Dan Foreman is headed for a shakeup. He is demoted from head of ad sales for a major magazine when the company he works for is acquired in a corporate takeover. His new boss, Carter Duryea, is half his age—a business school prodigy who preaches corporate synergy. While Dan develops clients through handshake deals and relationships, Carter cross-promotes the magazine with the cell phone division and Krispity Krunch, an indeterminate snack food under the same corporate umbrella. Both men are going through turmoil at home. Dan has two daughters, Alex, age 18, and Jana, age 16, and is shocked when his wife tells him she's pregnant with a new child. Carter, in the meanwhile, is dumped by his wife of seven months just as he gets his promotion. Dan and Carter's uneasy friendship is thrown into jeopardy when Carter falls for, and begins an affair with, Dan's daughter Alex.
The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.
It's 1987, and geeky Jenna wants to be popular. After her 13th birthday party goes awry, Jenna wishes she could just be 30 instead - only to wake up and discover that she's flash-forwarded 17 years. Now a sexy, successful magazine editor, Jena finds out that being an adult isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be.
Young Sophie Hatter is cursed by the Witch of the Waste, and turns into an old hag. Ashamed of how she looks, she flees into the hills where a moving castle roams the hills. It is said to belong to the young and handsome wizard Howl, who has a bad reputation. Within the castle, Sophie befriends the fire demon Calcifer, who promises to help her become young again. One catch: she must help Calcifer to be free of Howl, and Calcifer cannot tell her how. However, Sophie agrees to stay and try to find out about the contract through other ways. Still, Howl can see that Sophie is under a spell like Calcifer can, and he falls in love with her for who she is and not for what she looks like. Sophie manages to bring life to the moving castle, and she helps Howl to face his former tutor, Madam Suliman.
The inspiring story of the team that transcended its sport and united a nation with a new feeling of hope. Based on the true story of one of the greatest moments in sports history, the tale captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice. In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team's coach, Herb Brooks, took a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning from a distraction from world events. With the world watching the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels' now famous question, to the millions viewing at home: Do you believe in miracles? Yes!
Set not so long ago in a distant land, the film follows the adventures of twin tiger cubs—one shy and gentle, the other bold and fierce—who are born among the temple ruins of an exotic jungle. However, on a fateful day, the brothers are separated by fate. The bold brother is sold off to a circus, where homesickness and living in a cage rob him of his spirit. Meanwhile, the shy cub becomes the beloved companion of the governor's lonely young son, until an accident forces the family to give him away to a man who resolves to break his gentle nature and turn him into a fighter for sport. When they are fully grown the brothers find themselves reunited—but as forced enemies, pitted against each other.
