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Australia:PG certified movies
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This comic film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre tells the story of a bumbling British spy who knows neither fear nor danger. In fact, he knows absolutely nothing. He doesn’t know what he does... When a plot to steal the Crown Jewels is exposed, Britain puts its secret agents on the case. However, almost all of MI5's top agents are killed in an explosion. Now there is only one man remaining who can even hope to protect his country. So the inept Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) tries to solve who has stolen the crown jewels from the Tower of London and to save the monarchy from the scheming Frenchman Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich). Accompanied by his assistant Bough (Ben Miller), Johnny gets into one scrape after another. On his way Johnny also comes face to face with Lorna Campbell (Natalie Imbruglia), a special agent whom he fancies. |
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Once upon a time there lived a young woman named Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy). When her father who was a popular rock-n-roll musician died in a plane crash with Molly's mother, she came into possession of a large fortune. Molly led a hectic social life as if she were a princess in a fairy tale. All she could do was go partying, go shopping at trendy boutiques and look down on bachelors who dreamt of dating her. But one day the fairy tale came to an end when her accountant vanished with all her money. Molly dashed off into the conviction that the only thing to do was to find a job. After a few failed attempts she eventually took a job as a nanny for a nine-year-old girl, Lorraine "Ray" Schleine (Dakota Fanning), whose overbusy executive mother, Roma Schleine (Heather Locklear), neglected her parental duties. The childlike Molly and the precocious Ray developed a warm friendship and began teaching each other how to act their age. |
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Imagine two kids, Sally (Dakota Fanning) and Conrad Walden (Spencer Breslin), home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside. While their wayward babysitter, Mrs. Kwan (Amy Hill), dozes off in the couch, the kids have nothing to do besides sit still and stare out of the window. Until their unexpected guest - a six-foot-tall talking cat, with a tall striped hat and more than a few tricks - appears. The wily Cat (Mike Myers) is determined to show Sally and Conrad that "it's good to have fun - but you have to know how!" and inveigles them into colorful, illogical, absurd misadventures. As a result, their house is all wrecked up and almost destroyed, the fish begins talking and moralizing... Mom’s party, as well as her career, is threatened with a hopeless failure. Can Sally and Conrad fix up things before their parents get back? |
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The generation gap between Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Annabel (Lindsay Lohan) is obvious. Their tastes and opinions actually differ. The tomboy disapproves of her widowed mother’s fiance. In her turn, Tess is dissatisfied with Anna's music, grades and friends. They wish they could exchange bodies so that they could see what it's like to be in the other person's situation, and you can’t believe it but it somehow happens! One Thursday evening, at a Chinese restuarant, they have fortune cookies that unexpectedly switch their bodies and minds. The next morning, when they discover the metamorphosis, they are seized with indescribable horror. They have no choice but to cope with the other person’s responsibilities. To make matters worse, this all happens on Friday when Tess's wedding rehearsal and Anna's band audition take place. Do they have a chance to switch back? |
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Dewey Finn’s (Jack Black) brilliant career as a rock star ends in dead failure. Fired from his own band and faced with unsettled debts and deep depression, Dewey pretends to be his roommate Ned Schneebly (Mike White) and accepts substitute-teaching position at a private school. What do you think he can teach the 4th grade students? He shows the kiddies the guitar strings, explains what music is and teaches them how to rock. Long live rock-n-roll! |
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It is 1953. American women struggle for their rights. Meanwhile, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a Berkeley graduate, takes a job as an art history teacher at the all-female Wellesley College. She likes her job and finds the students very talented and her life happy. However, Katherine discovers that patriarchal views on woman’s role in the world still prevail among the college faculty and students. She enthusiastically starts a struggle for equal rights and exerts profound influence on her students including Betty Warren (Kirsten Dunst) and Joan Brandwyn (Julia Stiles). Katherine evokes a great change in the students who in turn make her reappraise her own life. |
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A happy young couple, Sarah and Tom (Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher) marry against the wishes of Sarah's friends and family and go to Europe for their Honeymoon. Unfortunately for them, Sarah's parents send Sarah's ex-boyfriend Peter Prentis (played by Christian Kane) to break up the happy marriage. |
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Two men (Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin) get laid off in product development at a large food company and are forced to become stay-at-home fathers and take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy. They create a new day care facility called "Daddy Day Care" and have kids like: the smart-mouthed-but-became-polite Crispin (Shane Baumel), the really-smart Becca (Hailey Noelle Johnson), and The Flash/Tony (Jimmy Bennett). As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a comedic rivalry with the Chapman Academy tough-as-nails director, Ms. Harridan (Anjelica Huston). |
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While the spy kids grow older, their enemies get stronger and more insidious. This time Juni (Daryl Sabara) and Carmen Cortez (AlexaVega) are assigned to defeat a 3-D video game designed by the evil Toymaker (Sylvester Stallone) to outsmart the kids of the world. Once entrapped inside the virtual reality world, one can’t escape from it. With the help of his grandad, a wheelchaired invalid, Juni sets on a journey to rescue his sister disappeared somewhere in the three-dimensional world.
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The movie tells the story of a love affair between two lonely Americans – Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a middle-aged movie actor burdened with his unloved wife and kids, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman bored of her unloving husband. They meet in the Tokyo hotel and spend together an unforgettable weekend. Their love is not one of passion but rather one of emotional need. The relation is motivated by loneliness and melancholy. It’s probably a passing infatuation that provides long hoped-for comfort and companionship... |
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In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives. |
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The clumsy and shy Stanley (Luke Wilson) is a nice fellow, beloved by his colleagues in the office. He has a crush on the gorgeous new-hire Diana (Denise Richards), but he has difficulties to get close to her. When Stanley finally invites Diana for a date, he hits the homeless Phil (Jay Lacopo) with his Taurus and his planned night turns upside down. |
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They are back, again in black! The heroes of the most successful sci-fi comedy of the 1997 return to the screen to fight the powerful intergalactic villain Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle), an alien disguised as a lingerie model. Jay (Will Smith), whose partner Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) is retired since the very ending of the previous series, is to find his colleague who is now a mailman and remembers absolutely nothing about his agent life as his memory is selectively wiped. Serleena's aim is to possess some hidden artifact, in that case our world will have serious troubles, namely, it will be destroyed. The most hilarious characters in this series are talking dog Frank (voiced by Tim Blaney) and a motley crew of the alien worms who help guys in black to fight super-powerful, super-sexy villain. She will not surrender for nothing: Serleena's tentacles wrapped the MIB central office... |
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Victor Taransky (Al Pacino) has hard times: an actress, who played the key role in his new film (Winona Ryder), had quitted the shooting area prejudicing the destiny of the film in production. Victor needs a substitute, right now! He solves the problem having involved Simona (Rachel Roberts), who is a talented, beautiful actress; she is almost perfect in spite of the one little detail: she is not real but looks like a living woman. But the whole world already is at her charming but artificial feet and it's too late to change anything. Victor shall keep it secret - that he created his star of the highest magnitude by his own hands using his own computer... But will he succeed with keeping the secret? |
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Christmas this year looks bad to Kevin McCallister. His parents Peter and Kate have been separated for the past 8 months, and things at home with Kate are difficult enough without the bullying dealt to Kevin by his older brother Buzz and older sister Megan. Peter invites Kevin and his siblings to stay with him and his rich new girlfriend Natalie for Christmas. Kate simply offers the kids love and affection. The kids side with Kate, but Kevin is thinking hard about the invitation. On Christmas Eve, Kevin sneaks to Natalie's place to spend the holidays with Peter. Natalie lives in a mansion where almost everything responds to remote commands. Butler Prescott and kindly housekeeper Molly are at Kevin's beck and call. Peter and Natalie leave for a while. At Christmas, they will be picking up some house guests at the airport, including an 11-year-old crown prince. Kevin witnesses his old enemy Marv Merchants and Marv's wife Vera breaking in to case the mansion with the help of an insider who gave Marv a remote control to it. Natalie and Peter don't believe Kevin, and Prescott says he saw nothing, which makes Kevin think maybe Prescott is the insider. Peter decides they should all trim the Christmas tree, and they do. Kate comes over to bring Kevin some things, and it becomes obvious to Kevin that Kate and Peter still love each other deep down inside. Marv and Vera plan to kidnap the prince and decide to make their move on Christmas morning. Upon learning about this, Kevin rigs the house with booby traps. Come Christmas morning, Kevin is left at the mansion while Natalie and Peter go out to pick up the guests. In their absence, Marv and Vera break in again, looking for the prince. But they didn't know that they'd find Kevin in there, with a bunch of painful booby traps for them. |
| Second String
[2002,
USA]
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| She believed in him. Now he must believe in himself to lead the team to the Super Bowl. |
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American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired -relactantly, but his wife twisted his arm- just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan's place... |
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Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek going through a hellish senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the technics of being cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris, to make new friends where he soon gains respect from the jocks and geeks alike. Dizzy then gets noticed by the head cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football team gain self-respect to win games. But things unknowingly begin to turn sour when Danielle's disgruntled boyfriend begins investigating into "Gil Harris'" past to uncover any dirt on him. |
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Sara (Elizabeth Hurley) and Gordon Moore (Bruce Campbell) are successful farmers - he is a Texan, she is typical English. Gordon is unfaithful, he has a lover and in one moment he sends a process server to deliver the divorce papers to Sara. When she gets to know about this sad fact, she realizes that if she will not outstrip Gordon, filing for divorce, she will lose her legal part of their impressive fortune. Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) is the process server who is to deliver papers, but Sara quickly arranges things with him and tries to outrun her so to speak husbandrel. But things get complicated when the counterpart Tony (Vincent Patore) of Joe is drawn into an affair by Gordon's request... |
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On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. |
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Welcome to the world of the super-speed and extreme risk, the world where the fastest cars race under the scorching sun of the hottest desert of America! These races are known by the high stakes, and the today's prize is fifty million dollars granted by Clayton Winfree (Greg Travis). Michael Sanger (Billy Zane), an experienced car driver going to be a contestant in the upcoming race along with his father (Ray Wise), they have designed the powerful bolide to break the land speed record, 1000 MPH. The team which is supported by Clayton Winfree is the most dangerous rival, but Michael and his father have a trump card. |
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