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Canada:14A certified movies
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The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife (Laura Linney) discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family, leaving two teenage sons to forge new relationships with their parents. Linney's character begins dating her younger son's tennis coach. Meanwhile, Daniels' character has an affair with the student his older son is pursuing. |
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Based on the notorious Ray Bradbury's short novel, this unrolled narration depicts dinosaur hunters' adventures and the following consequences. A game hunter (Edward Burns) travels through time to go on a dinosaur-hunting safari in the prehistoric era. When a tyrannosaurus scares him off the marked path, he accidentally changes history forever as the past times affect the following. |
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Samantha Goodman (Kate Greenhouse) is an attractive thirty-something woman who is married to a writer, Dave Goodman (Gordon Currie), and works as a psychiatrist at an institution for the criminal insane. For many years everything in her life seems to be coming up roses. Then suddenly the whole world begins crumbling and disintegrating about her ears. Her incurable brain tumor starts to grow at an alarming rate. Feeling totally stressed and needing to get away from it, she decides to spend the weekend at a winter cottage in the woods, where her husband is working on editing his latest book with the assistance of her younger sister Melody (Iris Graham). It knocks Sam back on her heels when she notices that there is something in the nature of an incipient love affair between Dave and Melody. To make matters worse, Sam's weekend is ruined by an invited guest who turns out to be her former patient, Harlan Pyne (Aidan Devine), a violent sexual offender. Convinced that he has been unethically experimented on, Harlan takes revenge by compelling the family to participate in his diabolic game that is a sort of psychological and physical tortures.
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Professional quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler), a former NFL player, and former college champion and coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) are doing time in the same prison. Tough warden Hazen (James Cromwell) decides to organize a soccer match between the guards and the inmates and forces Paul to assemble his team. Yet, he tries to persuade Crewe to lose the game in exchange of his early release. The convicts willingly unite when they discover that the guards will be their rivals. They see the forthcoming game as a golden opportunity to exact some revenge on the sadistic warders. |
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Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a teenager boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. His mother (Tilda Swinton) seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has her own obsessions as well, like a crush on a TV-star (Benjamin Bratt). The only person who's aware of Justin's problem is his father (Vincent D'Onofrio), manager in a store, but none of his advices seem to be working for Justin. The kid is signed up in a debate workshop, but the thing isn't going well, because he has his mind in a pretty classmate and, of course, in his thumb, affecting all the rest of his classes. So, Justin is a loner kid in the school, who prefers to lock himself in the bathroom and suck his thumb. Justin's dentist (Keanu Reeves), a mystical-hippie person, will try to help to overcome his thumb problem, through the hypnosis. But the school's psychologist will diagnose Justin with the Attention Deficit Disorder, and will prescribe him some drugs. Suddenly, Justin's problem with his thumb will disappear, becoming an hyperactive genius, winning several debate contests and the admiration from his teacher (Vince Vaughn). Nevertheless, more serious problems will come for Justin with his mother, his father and with a drug addiction. |
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Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. Although the team does not win the first place in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback. |
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This quite speculative story tells about two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm who pretends to protect townsfolk from folklore creatures they fabricated. But when their quick-money-getting scheme is disclosed, the con men are forced to contend with a real magical curse. They enter an enchanted forest where young girls keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The story sometimes balances on a brink of nonsense, but Monica Belucci appearing by the end of film is good as usual. |
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One of the greatest Hollywood adventure stories gets the Peter Jackson's newest interpretation in this high-budget block-buster. A group of documentary filmmakers headed by Carl Denham (Jack Black) explores mysterious relict jungle somewhere upon the lost island near Sumatra in 1930s to examine how truthful the legends of the great ape Kong are. Soon they found themselves in this forest surrounded by dangerous and huge prehistoric fauna which was hidden there for millions of years. Explorers had found that King Kong is really exists in form of the 25 feet tall gorilla which can outfight any creature on Earth, even the dinosaurs inhabiting the mysterious Skull Island. Meanwhile, an actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) strikes up a romance with Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), a respected playwright hired by Denham to write the script for his latest epic. Adventurers manage creature capture, and bringing him to New York City for display, where Kong escapes and runs amok, finally climbing the Empire State Building. Andy Sirkis (Gollum in the Lord of The Rings) was brought in to provide the body movements and mimic for King Kong digital animation. |
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One hundred years past since the moment of a tragedy: a ship was burned to the ground when nobody has survived. Nowadays, Nick Castle (Tom Welling), a captain in the small coastal town of Antonio Bay, finds the salvage – a bag filled with treasures. As it happens, there's a terrible secret behind the disaster, and now that Castle and Davis have unintentionally awakened the watery grave, the spirits of the ship's crew and passengers have come back to claim their revenge in the form of a thick and impenetrable fog. |
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This movie presents Jennifer Garner as Elektra, a deadly and gracious female ninja. She is forced to make a responsible decision when she is sent to kill Mark Miller and his 13-year old daughter Abby. She rejects her mission and begins to fight against the hand, a powerful ninja syndicate whose members practice the dark martial art of ninjiutsu. Her fantastic abilities help her to struggle: she has a gift to see the future and her fighting skills also is not a trifle! |
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In 2046, in a research facility in Mars, some subjects are released and the place is kept in quarantine. A team of Marines, leaded by Sarge (The Rock), is assigned to rescue the personnel and retrieve the research data, with the support of Dr. Samantha Grimm (Rosamund Pike), the twin sister of the Marine John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl Urban). While in the mission, Samantha finds a dark hidden secret about the monsters and the researches. |
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'Rent' tells the story based on Puccini's 'La Boheme' and on Jonathan Larson's award-winning Broadway musical. It's about of one year in the life of friends living the Bohemian life in modern day East Village, New York City, 1989-1990. They struggle to express themselves through their art and strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. Will this year change their lives or all the things will stay the same? Former and actual junkies, gays, computer and music geniuses are the modern day's bohemia, but did the human changed novadays? |
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In Miami, the professional driver Frank Martin is working temporarily for the Billings family, transporting their son Jack while his driver is on vacation. Mr. Billings is an important member of the government and Mrs. Audrey Billings trusts on Frank, who promises to protect the boy. When Jack is kidnapped by a mercenary hired by the Colombian cartels, Frank faces the criminals and the Miami police force trying to rescue the kid. When the boy returns to his family, Jack discloses the real and lethal intention of the abduction of Jack. |
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The evil wizard Damodar (Bruce Payne) is bent on world domination. Having turned into a black whirlwind, Damodar steals a mysterious black orb, the power source, and assembles a huge army of giant dragons, flying harpies and other gruesome creatures in order to ruin the kingdom of Ismir. Berek (Mark Dymond), once a captain of the king's guard and a valorous warrior, and his wife Melora (Clemency Burton-Hill), a sorceress, join four intrepid heroes, Lux (Ellie Chidzey), Nim (Tim Stern), Dorian (Steven Elder), and Ormaline (Lucy Gaskell), to cross the path of the forces of evil. Together, they must bereave Damodar of the orb to thwart his sinister plans and eliminate the threat of the sleeping black dragon reawakening. |
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In New York City, Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) has just divorced from her husband and is disputing the custody of their daughter Cecilia (Ariel Gade). She has a very restricted budget, so she moves with Cecilia to an old small apartment in an island near Manhattan. She does not pay attention to a stain of water on the ceiling of the bedroom, but once living in the place, she realizes that there is a drip of dark water in the bedroom and she asks the landlord to repair the leakage. Meanwhile, Cecilia finds a red Hello Kitty bag on the terrace, and Dahlia returns it to the administrator. In school, the teacher tells Dahlia that Cecilia has an imaginary friend called Natasha. Along the days, Dahlia has severe migraines and nightmares, while disputing her daughter in the justice and having troubles in the apartment. Dahlia decides to investigate further, and she faces a tragic accident. |
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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick's son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad's philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there's always one more coffin nail in Nick's pack. |
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The plot takes place in the Philippines in 1945. The Second World War is coming to an end. Under the command of the confident Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt), the 6th Ranger Battalion gets an order to infiltrate deep into enemy territory and liberate U.S. prisoners. The mission appears to be virtually impossible to undertake but the tough Mucci sends his soldiers to their doom, performing one of the most daring rescue missions in history. The Rangers manage to penetrate thirty miles behind enemy lines and rescue over five hundred prisoners who are about to be transferred to the infamous Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp. |
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Sylvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an interpreter. She is an expert in the obscure language of Ku, a dialect of the African Matobo, her homeland. Unintentionally she overhears a talk on Ku, where the deadly plot against the country ruler was mentioned. The life of Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), Matobo's controversial ruler, is under the treat, so as Sylvia's life. Realizing she's become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia is desperate to thwart the plot... if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. Secret Service agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) is brought in to investigate Broome's story, and it isn't long before he's convinced that she knows more than she's willing to tell. Keller has his doubts. Is Silvia a witness or is she somehow connected to the threat against the African head of state? "The Interpreter" is a cat and mouse game with a few of the involved parties appearing to change sides throughout the process. Sometimes you should pay close attention in order to keep up with the plot (you can miss a key detail being away for a tea watching this film). |
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This time, the hilarious comedy focuses on Steve Stifler's younger brother Matt (Tad Hilgenbrinck). Sent to Band Camp for the summer, he intends to play outrageous pranks on his fellow campers. At first, Matt fits the camp with spy cameras in order to record how sex-obsessed students spend their time while away from home. However, the filming is put on the back burner when Matt gets infatuated with his enchanting childhood friend, Elyse (Arielle Kebbel)... |
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In the 60´s, the Puerto Rican Carlito Brigante, the Afro-American Earl and the Italian Rocco become best friends while in prison. When they are released, Rocco intermediates a heroin business with a family of the Italian Mafia leaded by Artie Bottolota Sr. Carlito negotiates with the lord Leroy "Hollywood Nicky" Barnes the area where the trio could operate in his neighborhood and sooner the three friends become powerful. Later, Carlito dates and has an affair with the beautiful Leticia. When Earl decides to move to Barbados with his girlfriend and leave the heroin business, his stupid younger brother causes a situation with the Italian mobsters, and Carlito and Rocco have to resolve the mess to save their lives. |
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