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Canada:14A certified movies
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A cheerful, trustful and dare-devil criminal named Archie Moses makes friends with Rock Keats (Damon Wayans), unaware of his being an undercover cop, actually named Jack Carter, assigned to catch the ruthless drug lord Frank Colton (James Caan). Keats wins not only Archie's confidence but also his affection as he comes to his rescue in a fight. Archie graciously invites him to join Colton's gang and even get him involved in a multimillion-dollar drug smuggling operation. During the police raid, Carter is accidentally shot in the head by his best buddy who flees to Arizona. After recovering, Keats returns to his duties only to discover that Archie is arrested and agrees to turn state's evidence against the villainous drug king pin. But there is only one condition: he wants to be escorted to California by his former friend. Carter has nothing to do but to agree. Once friends and now bitter enemies, Moses and Carter, however, join forces when they find themselves pursued by violent assassins hired by the vengeful Colton. |
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This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship. |
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Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) was raised to be the best bowler in the world (trained early on by his father). But a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray) and a misunderstanding with some rough punks, leaves poor Roy with the loss of his bowling hand! Not to let this get him down, he gets a prosthetic hand and becomes a traveling sales man. But it's really all down hill for him from that night on until ... One day he meets Ishmael (Randy Quaid) who's a Quaker that sneaks away from the farm to bowl (his fellow Quakers would disown him if they knew)! Roy convinces Ishmael to let him be his trainer and he'll make him the best bowler the world has ever seen. Reluctantly Ismael agrees to go on the road and shortly afterwards actually finds that life outside the farm is quite fun. Soon their paths cross that of Ernie McCracken who is still top ranking bowler. While Roy's career and life have landed in the toilet bowl, Ernie is still drawing huge crowds and all the babes! They both square off for the untimate bowling championship ... to see which one truly IS the champion. To find that out you'll have to see this funny and original movie. Bill Murray is at his best, since Caddyshack. Randy Quaid makes some daring choices that really work and Woody Harrelson brings us the comdey style from "Cheers" that made him a household name! |
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President James Dale of the United States and his right-hand man, Jerry Ross discover that an army of Martian UFOs are hovering around the Earth, and everyone has a different response. Some, like Texan alcohol dealer Art Land and slimy nesman Jason Black, just want to make a profit out of it. Others, such as TV hostess Nathalie Lake, Land's spiritualist wife Barbara, and the Southern-like Norris family, are excited, and some, like Dale's wife, Marsha, and daughter, Taffy, don't care. Richie Norris is extremely intelligent but is only respected by his insane grandmother, while his older brother Billy is favored for joining the army. General Decker doesn't trust the Martians and insist they fight, but General Casey is more optimistic. The Martians appear to come in peace but suddenly begin to use their super-powerful and technologically advanced weapons to wipe out the population and great structures. Soon, they attack Las Vegas, where the Norrises are living, where former heavyweight champion Byron Williams is visiting, where an obnoxious lawyer is gambling, and where Tom Jones is performing in concerts. |
| Rob Roy
[1995,
USA]
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| Honor made him a man. Courage made him a hero. History made him a Legend |
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In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour. |
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Two foster brothers, black John (Wesley Snipes) and white Charlie (Woody Harrelson), who have dreamt since their childhood of someday becoming rich, hatch an audacious scheme to rob the money train that carries the New York Subway's daily revenue. Only two things can keep them from doing it: they are transit cops; and the train belongs to their boss, Donald Patterson (Robert Blake), the chief of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. However, the temptation seems too strong for them to resist. Charlie needs the money to repay his gambling debts to the mob. Furthermore, he is desperate to wreak vengeance upon his fierce boss, who has discharged him lately. On New Year's Eve, the brothers venture to make their plan a reality... |
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A group of five graduate student roommates in Iowa fall into a descent that leads to murder after an accidental meeting leads them to search out extremists in the local community. |
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Maximillian is the only survivor from a race of vampires on a Caribbean Island, and as a vampire, he must find a mate to keep the line from ending. He knows that a child had been born to a woman who had a vampire father, and he searches for her in Brooklyn. Rita's mother, who has died in an asylum, was that woman and Rita has nightmares that she does not understand. Not knowing that she is part vampire, Max woos her and attempts to bring her to her blood sucking destiny. Even though Rita has strange dreams and actions, Justice, her partner, has feelings for her and does not want her involved with this stranger Max. But it is Rita who must decide her destiny. |
| Four Rooms
[1995,
USA]
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| Twelve outrageous guests. Four scandalous requests. And one lone bellhop, in his first day on the job, who's in for the wildest New year's Eve of his life. |
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This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He's on his first night on the job, when he's asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster's kids for him while he's away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager. |
| Friday
[1995,
USA]
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| a lot can go down between thursday and saturday... |
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Just an ordinary day in Craig (Ice Cube) and his sidekick Smokey's (Chris Tucker) lives is featured. Smoking weed in their South Central neighborhood, drinking, resolving money problems with a nasty drug-dealer, looking for something to do... With some other odd characters hanging around, there is a pretty good chance for these two to be having their last Friday. |
| Assassins
[1995,
USA, France]
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| In the shadows of life, In the business of death, One man found a reason to live... |
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Silvester Stallone incarnates a skillful hitman named Robert Rath in this movie, where he is to assassinate Julianna Moore's character who is a computer hacker stealing technical information from the most successful corporations. Antonio Banderas plays another ambitious killer, who considers Rath an old an useless bounty hunter. Banderas's hero is Miguel Bain, and he wants to outrun Robert and slay Electra (Moore). Rath realizes that he'd better conjoined with Electra to fight against as well his own principals who want to have Moore's hacker dead as his nimble counterpart.
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The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth. |
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Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster, loan-sharks for Ray Bones, a violent thug with a big chip on his shoulder. Ray sends Chili to Vegas after a bad debt, and a casino boss enlists Chili to find an even bigger deadbeat: Harry Zimm, Hollywood player and producer of low-budget horror films. In Tinseltown, Chili meets Harry, as well as his scream- queen leading lady, Karen Flores; Harry's drug-dealing financier, Bo Catlett; and Karen's ex, Martin Weir (aka "Shorty"), a big star with an ego to match. Chili finds his Mafioso skills lend themselves quite nicely to what he's always really wanted to do: producing movies. |
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In the future, the Greenhouse Effect has taken place on a now ravaged Earth covered in water, and a mysterious drifter aids a mother and daughter in seeking Dryland, a mythical place that a group of savage bandits seek out as well. |
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After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won't leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent "Keyser Soze" is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot. |
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Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy's) is back in Beverly Hills. And it's a call of personal duty again... One night in Detroit, being on assignment, his boss, Inspector Todd (Gilbert R. Hill) gets killed. Closing his eyes forever, Inspector Todd urges Axel to get the shooter, and he promises to do that. Axel carries some investigation, and some tracks lead to an amusement park in Los Angeles called "Wonderworld". Axel's old friend, Billy Rosewood, is helping him.
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| Specialist, The
[1994,
Peru, USA]
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| The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld. |
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Ray Quick is an ex-CIA bomb expert now living as an high-tech outsider somewhere in Miami, Florida. May Munro has heard of his skills and tries over and over to convince Ray to bomb the guys who killed her parents once. Ray begins to overshadow May. He is interested in May's case, but still is of the opinion to never use his skills again. The situation changes dramatically when a former CIA comrade of Ray appears on the scene. |
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To avoid spoiling the movie this plot summary is very brief. It starts when three people living together in a four bedroom flat are looking for a house mate. The interviews they conduct are very unorthodox and very funny. Eventually the three agree on one prospective tenant. He moves in, locks his door, and is not seen again. After a couple of days the three become curious and break in to his room. What follows is an amazing piece of cinema and to say more would ruin it. |
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Andy Dufresne, a hotshot banker, has murdered his wife and her secret lover and is sent to Shawshank Prison for the lifetime. He is very isolated and lonely at first, but over the years, he retains hope and eventually gains the respect of his fellow inmates, especially longtime convict "Red" Redding, a black marketeer, and becomes influential within the prison. Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner. |
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The devil in disguise comes to a quiet, peaceful town and opens a store called Needful Things. The store has an item for everyone in town. All the devil asks for in return is a few dirty pranks. Little do they know, that they've sold their souls, and the pranks escalate to murder... |
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