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David Dunn (Bruce Willis), a Philadelphia football-stadium security guard, is famous for his uncanny ability to survive all horrendous catastrophes. David is "unbreakable": he has never been injured or sick, not even a day.
Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), a comic book dealer, is David's opposite. He is an accident-prone guy who even emerged from the womb with broken arms and legs. All his life, Elijah, nicknamed "Mr. Glass", has been sick because of his strange and rare bone disease. One day, after a disastrous train crash, David encounters the cripple Elijah, who offers an odd theory as to why David has so tremendous potential, why he has survived without a single scratch...
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In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlo's, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the seductive and powerful Terl (Travolta), the Psychlo's are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state, believing the invaders to be demons and technology to be evil. After humanity has all but given up any hope of freeing themselves from alien oppression, a young man named Tyler (Pepper) decides to leave his desolate home high in the Rocky Mountains to discover the truth, whereupon he is captured and enslaved. It is then that he decides to fight back, leading his fellow man in one final struggle for freedom. |
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What would your life have been like if you had...? Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) has never asked himself that question. He is a successful Wall Street investment banker and playboy enjoying the high life in New York City. But one Christmas morning everything magically changes in his life. When Jack wakes up, he unexpectedly finds himself living in a modest suburban New Jersey house and working as a tire salesman. And most importantly he is married to Kate Reynolds (Téa Leoni), his college sweetheart whom he abandoned for the sake of his career in the past, and has two sweet kids, toddler Josh (Jake and Ryan Milkovich) and six-year-old Annie (Makenzie Vega). At first Jack feels horrified at this turn of events. But when he gets used to the idea that he is given a chance to start a new life with a big happy family, fate gets ready to play another trick on him... |
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Abbie Reynolds (Madonna) is a 30-year-old yoga instructor whose years go never to return. All her efforts to succeed in business and find her significant other are still in vain. The only soul mate with a shoulder to cry on is her best childhood friend, Robert Whittaker (Rupert Everett). He is a successful landscaper and a bright, witty, responsive person who can always help by word and deed. He would be a perfect match for Abbie if he weren't a gay. However, their friendly relations take a different twist when, after drinking too many cocktails one night, they black out and can't remember what happened between them, but Abbie soon turns up pregnant. Will they find a way out of this delicate situation? |
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Gaylord Focker (Ben Stiller), a Jewish male nurse, is always plagued with bad luck and all his good deeds lead him into a string of mishaps. This time Greg tries his darndest to marry his beloved, Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo). However, after he spends his first weekend with Pam's parents at her sister's wedding on Long Island, this task becomes really tough. Things start to go horribly wrong when he loses his luggage at the airport. During the weekend Greg contrives to give Pam's sister, Deborah (Nicole DeHuff), a black eye, lose the Byrnes' rare cat and set their garden on fire. But there's more to it than that: his soon-to-be father-in-law, former CIA agent Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), dislikes Greg very much and gives him an acid test. The strict and suspicious father even subjects his daughter's boyfriend to a lie detector. Will the Byrnes give their blessing to a future wedding between their daughter, the apple of their eyes, and the clumsy, bustling, accident-prone Greg? |
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An American police detective, Tom Canboro (Gary Busey), used to live a perfectly-ordered yet unremarkable life, until one day something inexplicable began to happen. After two people had thrown themselves out the window, Tom launched an investigation into the incident and uncovered that the suicides had been connected with some supernatural powers. Having had a car crash and awakened from a 7-year coma, Tom found himself in a bizarre new world ruled by Franco Macalousso (Nick Mancuso) who proclaimed himself Messiah. Millions had gone down the drain, none of those remaining people could remember who and what they had been before. Almost everyone had the Mark of the Beast on their right hand; all those who had refused to give allegiance to the evil leader were hunted down and brutally killed. Tom was also pursued by the same dark forces he had faced before his accident to brand him with the number 666. Having joined an underground resistance group led by Helen Hannah (Leigh Lewis), Tom began struggling for his life, mind and soul freedom. |
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The action takes place during the World War II. A crew of American mariners is given the top-secret assignment of penetrating into a submerged German U-Boat submarine to capture Enigma, a Nazi coding device that will allow the Allied naval forces to win the war much faster. However, they are unaware that the Germans also head for U-571 after a wrecked vessel sends out an SOS signal. As a result, nine U.S. soldiers become trapped in an enemy submarine in the middle of hostile waters with little chance of survival. |
| Perfect Storm, The
[2000,
USA, Germany]
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| In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. (4 more taglines...) |
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Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait. |
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The movie depicts the story of Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), once an alpinist and now a wildlife photographer, who cannot obliterate from his memory a tragic event in his life. The Garrets enjoyed climbing mountains. One day while climbing in Utah, Peter, his father, Royce (Stuart Wilson), and his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), were eyewitnesses to the death of two amatures falling down the mountain. This caused the Garrets to move quickly and slide off the side of the mountain. As the rope could hardly hold that much weight, the father made Peter cut it to save his and his sister's lives. The father died and Annie condemned her brother for making a fateful decision. Three years later, Annie, determined to continue her father's dream of climbing the world's toughest peaks, makes a risky attempt to ascend the perilous K-2. Having heard about Annie being trapped in an icy grave, Peter assembles a rescue team to save the three survivors of the expedition, his sister, Tom McLaren (Nicholas Lea) and Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton). |
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The Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) has never been so seductive. This time, he assumes the aspect of a gorgeous woman and forces a man to do reckless things. A hapless computer programmer, Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser), is a perfect person to make a deal with. The perfidious Devil makes a tempting offer to Elliot: she promises to fulfill seven wishes in exchange for his soul. However, there is no such thing as a free lunch. It's no wonder that Elliot's life is turned into a hell when he sells his soul to the Devil. He can't enjoy the bargain because each time he makes a wish, the results are regrettable... |
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The historical drama tells a breathtaking story about real heroes of the Cold War. In October, 1962 the world poised on the brink of the war for thirteen tense days. People in the East and the West lapped up every report about the course of alarming events that threatened to result in a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. Due to those fateful days the world learnt the names of such politicians, diplomats and soldiers as Adlai Stevenson, Theodore Sorenson, Andrei Gromyko, Anatoly Dobrynin, General Curtis LeMay, Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy and many others. |
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When Mona's key won't fit in her Yugo, she tries it in her son's; when it works, she borrows his car. The brakes fail; she goes through the guard rail, into the river, and drowns. When police chief Rash learns that the brake lines were cut, he looks for a murderer. Suspect one: Mona's dim son Jeff, whom she constantly denigrated. Suspect two: her husband Phil, whom she constantly belittled and who's having an affair with Rona, a waitress with a secret of her own. Suspect three: Jeff's landscape partner Bobby, who wants Jeff out, has yelled at Mona that he'd like to rip out her ovaries, and who is soon to be Rash's son-in-law. Can Rash find the killer and keep Bobby out of jail? |
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When men meet Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) in the street, they never follow her with their eyes, except for those situations, when she is armed and pursues a criminal. Gracie is an experienced FBI agent, and the lack of good manners and charm is more than compensated for by her marksmanship and martial arts skills. But her life takes an unexpected twist when she is assigned to go undercover as a contestant in the Miss America pageant in order to prevent one of the most dangerous criminals from bombing the competition. The bumbling Gracie wears neither a dress nor high heels. She doesn't wear make-up either. In her cosmetics bag there is nothing but a pair of handcuffs. An image consultant, Victor Melling (Michael Caine), will have a hard time beautifying Gracie and teaching her poise, gracefulness and perfect smile. |
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When moving up to the 7th grade, Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) doesn't even suspect that his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet (Kevin Spacey), will change not only his life forever but lives of many people all over America. Having assigned his students to come up with an idea of world improvement, Eugene Simonet at first doesn't take seriously Trevor's utopian plan. The precocious Trevor reflects that you can make the world better by doing a favor for a stranger and by that stranger paying it forward with good deeds for three other people. Trevor starts to follow his own philosophy of life and helps local outcast Jerry (James Caviezel) to open a new chapter. His next recipients whom Trevor wants to bring together are his single, overworked, alcoholic mother, Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt), and the lonely Eugene with a scarred face. |
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Set in the near future after a massive earthquake splits California into a desert island, Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren), a US army captain, Lucky Simcoe (Joe Michael Burke), a marine sergeant, and seductive Sarah McBride (Sherri Alexander), an air force captain, join forces to find food, water, and fellow survivors and start building a new world upon the ruins of the civilization. However, among survivors are not only law-abiding citizens but convicts as well. |
| What Women Want
[2000,
USA]
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| He has the power to hear everything women are thinking. Finally... a man is listening. |
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Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a successful man in every way. He is a lady-killing yet bumptious advertising executive living on the A-list of life and having women on a string. It takes him only to crook his finger to obtain all women. His promotion is in the bag. Everything seems to be getting along first-rate. His perfectly-ordered life, however, is disrupted when the creative director position he aspired to goes to a new team member, Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt), who thinks he must learn to advertise feminine products. Disappointing isn't the word for it. Nick tries desperately to prove that he is still the best and to get Darcy's job. But suddenly his life takes whole new turn when, after a fluke accident, Nick discovers that he is able to hear women's thoughts. At first, he thinks of it as a curse because he learns that most of his women colleagues pull him to pieces as soon as he's out of the room. However, Nick soon realizes that he can take advantage of his uncanny ability to hear what women really want. |
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The action takes place in a small French town where its residents lead a hopeless life full of restrictions, rules and regulations. They are blamed and faced with a boycott for any irregularity. Regular church services and masses give no joy to the townspeople but strengthen dogmatism and prejudices in their hearts.
One winter day a mysterious young woman, Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche), and her 6-year-old daughter, Anouk (Victoire Thivisol), move to the conservative town. A stranger to fear and prejudice, she dares to open a chocolate shop during Lent and offer the customers to enjoy her delicious candies they've never tasted. Vianne is immediately met with bitter censure and resistance. But, vivacious and persistent, she doesn't lose heart and continues to work her magic giving love and comfort to those around her. It's no wonder that the locals are gradually won-over by this cordial, responsive woman and her delectable chocolates.
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Shortly before the playoffs, the Washington Sentinels and their cheerleaders have gone on strike for more money. To put their nose out, the owner of the NFL football team, Edward O'Neil (Jack Warden), brings in self-retired head coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to hire a team of substitute players. The replacement team is comprised of Daniel Bateman (Jon Favreau), a violent SWAT leader; Clifford Franklin (Orlando Jones), an ex-convict, who can outrun bit can't catch a football; Nigel 'The Leg' Gruff (Rhys Ifans), a Welsh soccer player who can kick a soccerball the full length of the playing field; Jahmal Abdul Jackson (Faizon Love) and André Action Jackson (Michael Taliferro), stout gangster rapper brothers; Jumbo Fumiko (Ace Yonamine), a Japanese sumo wrestler. Among them is Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a former Ohio State quarterback who has to become the ragtag team's captain. Charming blonde Annabelle Farrell (Brooke Langton), the head cheerleader, assembles a group of former strippers to encourage the replacements and kindle their fighting spirit. "Glory lasts forever, " Falco says to his team players. His plan of the game seems to be flawless. Their power is their unpredictability... |
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FBI agent Malcolm Turner is known best for being a brilliant, master of disguise. Malcolm's latest assignment sends him to small-town Georgia, where he's assigned to trap a brutal bank robber (and a recent prison escapee) who they suspect will be coming down to visit his ex-girlfriend Sherry and her son. Malcolm sets up a stakeout across from the home of a larger-than-life southern matriarch known as Big Momma, who's about to be visited by Sherry. It's a simple plan, but there's one big problem: Unbeknownst to Sherry, Big Momma has unexpectedly left town. So Malcolm, decides to impersonate the cantankerous Southern granny. Using a few tricks of disguise, he completely transforms himself into Big Momma, even taking on the corpulent septuagenarian's everyday routine-from cooking soul food to delivering babies to "testifying" at the local church. In the mean time, Malcolm starts falling for Sherry, who may or may not be hiding some stolen cash. Now, Malcolm/Big Momma must somehow find a way to nab his criminal and the girl. |
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One day while jogging along the coast Theresa Osborne (Robin Wright Penn), a divorced female journalist, finds a bottle containing a romantic and moving message addressed to a woman. The letter’s heart-wrenching poetry touches the chords of her soul and she decides to begin a search for the mysterious author known only as "G." The trail leads her to Garret Blake (Kevin Costner), a North Carolina boat-restorer who grieves for his tragically dead wife. After Theresa and Garret meet, they soon make friends and feel warm affection towards each other. But Theresa encounters a significant obstacle to her happiness...
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