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Canada:14A certified movies
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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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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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Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, and her father Saul, a religious studies professor, becomes obsessed with her victories. He sees something transcendent in Eliza's magical gift, and begins to teach her the secrets of Kabbalah. Her brother, a promising musician, is wrapped up in his own adolescent life, her mother Miriam is rather compulsive. Whole family is spreading further and further into four separate directions. Eliza is preparing for the National Spelling Bee, and a new secret of her family's hidden turmoil seems to be revealed with each new word she spells. This story is based on the novel by Myla Goldberg. |
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In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York. |
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Set in 1950s, Asylum follows a psychiatrist family living in a house by the psychiatric asylum. In this drama based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, a forensic psychiatrist Max (Hugh Bonneville) serves at a remote psychiatric hospital where his wife slowly begins to fall for a dangerously handsome inmate named Edgar (Marton Csokas). Stella (Natasha Richardson) soon finds herself caught in the web of intrigue and the forbidden passion. A little pergola on the grounds of the Asylum becomes a shelter for the insane love, until the moment when Edgar escapes and hides somewhere in London. From this turning point the really deadly game begins as Stella's child is under the threat. |
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The dramedy focuses on David Spritz (Nicholas Cage), one of those lucky men whom you can envy. A popular weatherman on a Chicago news program, he prepares for an audition for New York morning show "Hello America". While Dave's professional dreams and ambitions come true, his personal life is really a mess. He is cut up about his father's lethal disease; he feels distressed and devastated after his painful divorce with his wife Noreen (Hope Davis); he desperately tries to get along with his estranged kids, Shelly (Gemmenne de la Pena) and Mike (Nicholas Hoult). Will he manage to cope with all his problems or will he swim with the tide? His afterlife will depend on this choice. |
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When Kyle Williams (Matthew Le Nevez) takes up a position as sheriff in the sleepy town of Bywater, he hopes of having a quiet life. Contrary to all expectations Kyle has to roll up his sleeves and get down to work. A string of mysterious murders makes him believe that there is a weird force in the nearby swamps which has been claiming the lives of people. A tribe of Seminole Indians warns Kyle about a sinister ancient spirit which has been reawakened in their sacred place but the local oil tycoon, Frederic Schist (Jack Thompson), anxious to lay hands on the vast swampland, doesn’t believe in myths and legends. Nevertheless, eerie groans and screams are heard from the swamps by night. The sheriff makes up a decision to set out on a mission to discover the truth. There, in the very heart of the baleful deep swamp, he will have to face the Man-Thing (Conan Stevens), a monster that grows more ferocious as your fear grows.
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The war drama is narrated by Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), a third-generation Marine enlistee, who vividly recounts his experiences in the first Gulf War, depicting the rigours of boot camp, horrors of combats, friendship and loyalty of brothers-in-arms, and their memories of family and lovers who are cheating on them while they are on the front line. |
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The story follows Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), a young tennis instructor who becomes involved with a wealthy family after he is hired to coach one of the members. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy, Tom's sister Chloe instantly falls in love with Chris but he, in his turn, has his eyes on Tom's fiancée, the sweet Nola. The attraction turns to an obsession that forces Chris to make a critical choice. This dark, disturbing drama is written and directed by Woody Allen, his first film set and shot in Great Britain and one his few films almost without any humor. |
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Set in the Cold War era, the geopolitical thriller movie focuses on petroleum politics, and the global influence of the oil industry, whose political, financial, legal, and social effects are experienced by covert CIA agent Bob Barnes (George Clooney), energy analyst Bryan Woodman (Matt Damon), attorney Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright), and laid-off worker Wasim Kahn (Mazhar Munir).
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Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop. His close friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over the recording company of Tommy and begins courting Tommy's girlfriend, Edie (Uma Thurman) and takes patronage over promising young singer (Christina Milian). A wannabe gangster, gay bodyguard and Russian gangsters makes his life more complicated. This film is a sequel to "Get Shorty", Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) co-stars in this movie, which can be of music lovers' interest. |
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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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...She had a crush on the literature teacher Mr. Bill Natolly (Matthew Marsden), and was interested in witchcraft. Unpopular teenage girl Tamara (Jenna Dewan) was unintentionally killed by her classmates as a result of a prank when they decided to cover up and to bury her young body. She returns from the death realm for the revenge as a sexy, seductive vixen overtaking her former offenders. She also tries to take Bill from his beloved wife. |
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Devastated by the abuse from her husband, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) gets a divorce and returns to her hometown in North Minnesota. With two kids to take care of, Josey takes a back-breaking job at the iron mine where she becomes one of only a handful of female employees and faces harsh reality. Along with the other women, she endures humiliation and sexual harassment from the male miners who brook no competition from womanhood. Despite the risk of losing her good-paying job, Josey finds the courage to take legal action against the company in order to stand up for herself and her fellow female coworkers. As a result, the case becomes the first sexual harassment lawsuit in the history of the United States to be won. |
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called "Mam's Law". Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay. |
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Based on the cult-hit animated television series The Family Guy, this feature-length comedy movie centers on the dysfunctional Griffins family consisting of Peter (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), the unintelligent, bumbling patriarch of the family; his loving and patient wife Lois (voiced by Alex Borstein); his oldest kid Meg (voiced by Mila Kunis), a nerdy student unpopular in high school; his middle kid, backward Chris (voiced by Seth Green); Stewie (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), the youngest and smartest kid who is bent on world domination, and Brian (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), a melancholic talking dog. The movie follows Stewie and Brian as they embark on an incredible journey in search of Stewie's real father. Their adventure leads to a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, Peter is spotted by a TV producer and given the opportunity to host his own show "You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?" Peter immediately becomes so popular that Tom Tucker, a newscaster at Quahog 5, begins to feel envious of his success and tries the darndest to get rid of him. |
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Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside world, but now Rose's emerging womanhood poses troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism and other altruistic causes, Jack now rages at those who do not share his concerns, like developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious. Rose acts out wildly, creating chaos. As everything flies out of control, Jack finds himself trapped in an impossible place and is forced to take action. |
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In a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school, student Brendan Frye's piercing intelligence spares no one. He's not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. His feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, he enlists the aid of his only true peer, the Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan's single-minded unearthing of students' secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura, intimidating Tugger, substance-abusing Dode, seductive Kara, jock Brad and - most ominously - non-student the Pin. Only by gaining acceptance into the Pin's closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to. |
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Set in Wichita, Kansas, the black comedy centers on mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and his associate Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) who decide to give themselves a Christmas present and embezzle $2 million in cash from Charlie's crime boss, Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). The lawyer is impatient to slip out of town with the alluring strip club owner Renata (Connie Nielsen). But you never know what surprises are in store for you. For Charlie, Christmas Eve proves to be a great surprise... |
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Two mid-aged divorcees Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) are a pair of longtime friends who work for a law firm, helping contentious couples mediate their divorces, continuously crashing weddings to meet girls. They can get into any wedding and into the heart of every bridesmaid, for one night, of course. Suddenly one of them falls for Claire, also a bridesmaid, who is a daughter of an influential and eccentric politician, and soon guys get into spending a wild weekend at the family's palatial waterside estate and find themselves quickly over their heads. |
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