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Malaysia:U certified movies
| Adaptation.
[2002,
USA]
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| Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Lives... A million ways it can end. |
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Kaufman is struggling with the arduous task of adapting The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean, which doesn't have an obvious dramatic line (it is essentially a book about orchids). At the same time he faces a mid-life crisis, which is worsened by the presence of his twin brother Donald, a less talented but more joyous person than Charlie, who dreams of making a lot of money with screenplays. The movie also shows Susan Orlean as she does her research for the book, and John Laroche, a colorful orchid hunter whom Susan interviews and, later, falls in love with. These stories eventually intertwine, with unpredictable results. |
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A film crew makes a unique commercial in the Alps with the help of the super professional extreme sportsmen doing sky diving, skiing and snowboarding. Unfortunately, they see Slobodan Pavlov, a Serbian war criminal who hides in the mountains with his family and gang after the simulation of his own death. And he can't allow anyone who has seen him to leave alive. |
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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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Toula Portokalos is a single thirty years old Greek woman, living with her parents and brother in a Chicago Greek community. After convincing her father to go to the university, she meets the non-Greek Ian Miller and they decide to get married. Her father does not accept the wedding of his daughter with a non-Greek man. |
| John Q
[2002,
USA]
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| Give a father no options and you leave him no choice. |
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Loss of consciousness turns out to be a symptom of the deadly threat for the young boy, who collapses during the baseball match, and his parents get to know the kid is urgently needs an urgent heart transplantation that won't be covered by insurance. The father (Denzel Washington) finds himself in a blind alley as his beloved son can suddenly die, and the man takes the severe measures risking his life and even the lives of the hospital personnel. The hospital is taken hostage, police negotiators try to do something when the team of the doctors has to operate. This desperate race against time can become the last trial for every participant... |
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When seductive British secret agent James Bond 007 is sent to North Korea to infiltrate renegade military officer Colonel Moon, the mission is sabotaged but Colonel Moon is killed and his second-in-command Zao is injured, but Bond is captured and is tortured and interrogated. 14 months later, Bond is released and traded for Zao, and Bond's boss M, rescinds his 007 status. 007 sets out to get his revenge on those who set him up. Where he tracks down Zao in Cuba and finds him in a genetic operation to give him a new identity. Bond finds diamonds on Zao which leads him to British billionaire Gustav Graves, who has set-up Icarus, a orbit satellite which will provide light and energy to the Earth. With help from sexy American secret agent Jinx and Grave's publicist, undercover M:I-6 agent Miranda Frost, Bond sets out to stop Graves who is working with Zao and plans on using Icarus as a weapon and unleash destruction. |
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Early mammals have hard times: the Ice Age is come! An action of this computer-animated movie takes place twenty thousand years ago, when Arctic glaciers approached close to the motherland of Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) and Scrat (Wedge), who respectively are a mammoth, a sloth and a side-splitting saber-tooth squirrel. Freezing temperatures and the command of evil tigers oblige them to fight for survival, from time to time animals get into different hilarious and threatening situations, trying to save the human child which was torn from its tribe as a result of the tiger assault. Manny and Sid want to return the infant to his father when the demonic saber-toothed striped villain named Diego (Denis Leary) claims his rights to this child. |
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The classic tale of 'Peter Pan' continues in Disney's sequel 'Return to Never Land'. In a world besieged by World War II, Wendy, now grown up, tries to give her own children hope by telling them of her magical experiences with Peter Pan in Never Land. However, Jane, Wendy's 12-year-old daughter, sees it all as make believe and refuses to believe in the tales. That is, until the villainous Captain Hook mistakes her for Wendy and abducts her to Never Land in an attempt to lure and capture Peter Pan. Peter Pan's quest to return Jane safely home is jeopardized until she can begin to believe in the magic of imagination. |
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An amiable young man named Pistachio Disguisey (Dana Carvey) works as a waiter at a small Italian restaurant run by his father, Fabbrizio (James Brolin). The guy can't figure out why he has been unconsciously trying to change his appearance by imitating his customers. Unbeknownst to Pistachio, he comes from a family with supernatural skills of disguise. One night his father is kidnapped by his former nemesis Devlin Bowman (Brent Spiner), a nefarious villain who wants to use Fabbrizio's knack for mimicry in order to steal the world's greatest treasures. From this point on, Pistachio has to become a master of disguise and rescue his father with the help of his attractive assistant, Jennifer Baker (Jennifer Esposito). |
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In the midst of the XXI century, new psychological technologies have made the crime prevention almost absolutely effective in this movie set in Washington DC. All crimes are being interrupted even before its commission, all future offenders get jailed before the coming victim will suffer. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) works for the Pre-crime Division, which obtains future crime data from three genetically altered humans (Pre-Cogs), a kind of extrasensory individuals who are maintained by the chemicals. John had lost his child, a little girl several years ago. Suddenly it becomes known that Anderton is soon-to-kill somebody, a man he don't even know. John can't believe this, and now he is outlawed trying to find the truth about himself, he gets to know that the minority report exists: Agatha, one of the Pre-Cogs, is having her separate opinion on the difficult situation... |
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A big fortune causes big changes in life as it could be resembled by Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler), a guy from the small town who comes into fortune and leaves his provincial life for big city temptations. In spite of everything he remains a nice, sympathetic guy, who gets spotted by Wynona Ryder's character named Babe Bennett, a newshound who wants to know much about the heir of a recently deceased uncle, who was a powerful media magnate. Sandler's Deeds is living in a luxurious mansion, fighting tooth and nail against the toadies who pretend to have a piece of the "hereditary pie". Meantime, Babe does her utmost to report to his scandalous behavior to the press, being feigned that she is a small town girl. |
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W. Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) was a high school student who changed places of employment working as a doctor, a pilot, a lawyer... not even wielding any skill of these professions. He was a perfect con artist pursued by the FBI in the sixties along with more dangerous offenders - terrorists, serial killers and others. This venturesome forger has been hunted by an FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) who tried to do his best to catch Abagnale in this funny picture by inimitable Steven Spielberg. This film is based on the real events! |
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Calvin Cambridge is fourteen, he is an orphan and dreaming of a grand basketball. Many obstacles divide him from his dream, including his low height. Still dreaming, he runs into a pair of old shoes with MJ letters on them and the boy supposes the footwear belong to none other than Michael Jordan. After the dangerous occasion with the lightning strike the boy realizes that the shoes are a magic key to the world of baseball as he gets an ability to make huge jumps, to play his favorite game at the stadiums filled with amazed, exalted spectators. |
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Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a successful young attorney, is in a hurry to get to the courthouse. He needs to deliver legal papers that will transfer control of a deceased eccentric rich man's multi-million dollar estate over to his law firm. Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman, is also in a rush to a custody hearing to announce that he has got a house loan from the bank so that his ex-wife Valerie (Kim Staunton) and his sons won't move to another country. The two men's cars collide on the expressway at the most inopportune moment. Due to the process of the post-crash discussion Gipson misses his hearing, while Banek arrives at the court in time but discovers a crucial legal file inadvertently dropped at the scene of the accident. As Gipson loses custody of his kids, he decides to ruin the well-groomed attorney's life by refusing to give him back his paper. Thus a fierce and treacherous battle starts between the two desperate men. |
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Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) seems to "have it all" - a cool sport car, a chic flat, pretty girls, etc. In his thirty-eight he is a mischievous child who use to pamper himself and not to take it all to the heart. Will's life was a series of fleeting romances, he had no problems and no boring obligations, and he was simply a handsome egoist until he met Marcus - twelve-aged child who turned all his life upside down. A sybarite and sweet bachelor's life is now totally changed... for the better! |
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Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts School of Wizardry for his second year. After a confrontation with a house elf named Dobby, Harry escapes to the Weasley house with Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) in a flying car. They are then late for the train and have to ride it to school. When they get there, strange happenings invade the school. "Mudbloods" (people of Muggle families) are "petrified" by an evil monster lurking in the grounds. When every one suspects that it is him, the trio then set out to find the culprit and find out more than they bargained for: the diary of Tom Riddle, why Hagrid was expelled and what the Chamber of Secrets is and why is it so feared in Hogwarts. |
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Jessy (Parminder Nagra), a young girl loves football very much. Despite her orthodox Indian parents want their daughter to be a lawyer, she desires to play professional football and accepts no half-ways. Along with her friend Jules (Keira Knightley) who share her football passion Jessy became obsessed by training in order to join the semi-pro team. Perspectives seem to be rosy when your team coach is handsome and when the first goals scored, but one should work really hard to succeed. To bend it like Beckham. |
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This is a remake of the Japan version of "The Ring", which still is a cornerstone of the contemporary horror. A journalist woman named Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) gets to know that her niece and the friends of the girl have died instantly and inexplicably when they checked a room in a distant motel, during their vacation. Rachel has a son Aidan (David Dorfman), she figures out that a mysterious video tape is involved in this story; these who are dead now, have watched it. Among other things, she resembles some ominous strangeness browsing photos of her dead niece's friends: their faces are uncommonly changed. And having seen the tape which initially seemed an amateurish film peculiar with an unskillful cutting, she realizes that something evil and nightmarishly unavoidable has begun looming over her and her son. Soon after watching the tape containing these various, inexplicably sinister frames she hears her phone ringing, and picks up a receiver only to hear how many days remained for her to live. Now her life is a race against the time, she is to know something about the tape and the horrifying story that lays hidden behind the dust of the past decades, spotting some things around her, the things she have seen watching the cursed cutting. A masterpiece of Gore Verbinski as a director and Naomi Watts as an actress is a prominent remake between the ones of the same genre. |
| City by the Sea
[2002,
USA]
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| When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son. |
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Detective Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is an ideal campaigner whose incorruptible reputation is known well. But this cop has a skeleton in the cupboard: his father was executed for the murder many years ago, a child was killed. Vincent is an incarnated atonement; "serving and protecting", he does his best to expiate his father's crime. But the poison seed' sprouts of the past are bitter and dire: LaMarca gets to know the part of his own son Joey (James Franco) in the crimes of the present; this awful knowledge obliges him to make the difficult choice between his professional duty and the love for his son. This film is based on the real events being an outstanding one between the other crime-themed movies. |
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Jennifer Barret (Madeline Stowe) is a successful woman who suddenly discovers that she is the heiress of the recently killed powerful mafia boss known as Angelo Aligieri. His colleagues were unaware that he has the daughter and now she is to deal with lots of grim guys and with the fearless bodyguard Frankie (Silvester Stallone) who defends her from the cutthroats. Meantime, she clandestinely plots revenge against the people who arranged her father's murder. |
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