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Former pro golf player Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner), surnamed Tin Cup for his talent, lives in the tiny West Texas town of Salome and ruins himself by drinking. Everything goes wrong in his life. Financial problems force him to work as a driving range instructor. One day beautiful psychiatrist Dr. Molly Griswold (Rene Russo) arrives at his driving range wanting to take golf lessons. She turns out to be the girlfriend of Roy's nemesis, calculating and low-down golfer David Simms (Don Johnson), who is said to hate 'people, kids and dogs.' Roy becomes immediately attracted to Molly. Inspired by her psychotherapy sessions, Roy decides to qualify for and play in the U.S. Open. Roy is determined to compete with Simms, win the most difficult tournament and thus win the heart of Molly. |
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Five months after the birth of his son, Mel Coplin remains unable to name the child until he has met his own biological parents and discovered who he "really is." He, his wife Nancy, and his social-worker-in-training Tina Kalb jet off to California to meet his birth mother—who turns out not to be his mother, due to an error with the agency's adoption records. The quartet sets out in search of Mel's real parents, with tensions growing because of the sexual chemistry lacking between Mel and Nancy and growing between Mel and Tina. |
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Some Arabs hijack an airliner and demand the release of their leader who is in American custody. They also intend to land in Washington for refueling. At the Pentagon, everyone there advises the National Security Advisor that they should let the plane land and then let the counter terrorist team of Colonel Austin Travis take them out. But David Grant, an intelligence expert believes that this whole thing is a smokescreen. Grant believes that the Arab leader was abducted by his second in command, who is a fanatic. And that he has in his possession a biological weapon that could wipe out Washington and that it's on the plane. Now they have only two choices let them land and hope Grant is wrong or shoot the plane down along with every one onboard. Then Colonel Travis suggests that they use this new plane that the military uses to transport men from onto another aircraft while in flight. With no other option Travis is given the go ahead. He then asks that Grant be allowed to! |
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Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. |
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Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far. |
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Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thorton) was born and raised in a fanatically religious family. At the age of twelve, he caught his mother having sex with her lover. He considered their actions appalling and killed them with a sling blade. Twenty-five years later, the partially handicapped Karl is deemed harmless to society and released from a mental asylum. When he returns to his Arkansas hometown, he takes a job at a repair shop and lives in the backroom. He develops a warm friendship with a young boy named Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black) and is soon invited by his widowed mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday), to move into their garage. However, when he meets Linda's aggressive and abusive boyfriend who maltreats Frank and Linda and mocks at Karl's disabilities, Karl is faced with an agonizing moral dilemma. |
| Eraser
[1996,
USA]
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| He will erase your past to protect your future. |
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John Kruger works for a branch of the Justice Department call Witness Security or Witsec, that's responsible for relocatibng and protecting witnesses. John's latest assignment is Lee Cullen, who works for a company that's a Defense Contractor, who is selling weapons to enemies of the U.S. When she agrees to get the evidence that the Feds need to take them down, she goes in and does it but was not told by the Feds that she was going to have a bullseye on her for the rest of her life. After refusing to be placed in Kruger's custody, some men attack her home but Kruger arrives just in time to save her and relocate. Later when several witnesses under Witsec are killed, Kruger accompanies another Witsec agent Deguerin to save a potential victim, when they get there, Deguerin shoots the killer but also kills the witness, and then plants a photo of Lee in the shooter's pocket. When Kruger sees the photo, Deguerin asks where she is, Kruger intially gives him a false location but while on the plane, Kruger sensing something's not right, calls her, which means that she is suppose to meet him somewhere. Kruger's drugged and when he awakens he discovers that Deguerin is not only working with the people who are trying to sell the weapons but has just framed him for killing another agent. Kruger escapes and gets to Lee in time but unfortunately, he is still a fugitive, so he must try and prove his innocence while trying to protect Lee. |
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This futuristic dystopia is an action where the world has changed dramatically being presented with a scorched desert where the concentrated cities are scattered in a distance from each other. The life in these cities is chaotic and lawless, but the only people who can stop this illegitimacy are Judges, who have all rights to judge and execute. One of such tough men is Judge Dredd (Silvester Stallone) who cleans the streets of Mega City One from criminals...
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The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers. LETAC would like to train police officers by putting them in VR with SID, but they must prove the concept by using prisoners as test subjects. One such prisoner is ex-cop Parker Barnes. When SID manages to inject his personality into a nano-machine android, it appears that Barnes might be the only one who can stop him. |
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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. |
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They finally meet - the tough cop John Mc Clein played by Bruce Willis and the dangerous terrorist, who is an ace of explosion technique. Simon (Jeremy Irons), the terrorist, wants to wreak vengeance on John involving him into the dangerous game when body count rapidly increases and McClein should save New York: Simon's cat-and-mouse game compels the cop to make difficult decisions, but nevertheless he should act really fast. Police is searching for terrorists when the genuine aim of the gang emerges... It will be a very, very hard day for our hero, because John McTiernan is the director known well by the tough action movies and their high budget.
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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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The stunning Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is totally obsessed with her dream of becoming a celebrity of the silver screen and is determined to achieve her goal by any measures. Having married Larry Maretto (Matt Dillon), the most handsome guy in the small town of Little Hope, she decides to start climbing the TV ladder as a weather person at a local cable station. When her family-minded husband becomes an obstacle on the road to her fame, the cold-hearted Susan hatches a diabolical plot to get rid of him. She seduces a dim-witted high school student, Jimmy Emmett (Joaquin Phoenix), who has a crush on her, and manipulates him into killing her husband. Susan hopes that the murder case will become national news and make her known all over the world. |
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Finn (Wynona Ryder) has the steady course on her life: she is certain to marry her boyfriend Sam (Dermot Malroney) and to end up her thesis. She is heading to her grandma's house to concentrate attention at the work. There, at the grandma's sitting room, Finn and her friends spend some time talking and sewing a quilt. Having exchanged with personal experience, and listened to the stories of treason, love and forgiveness she re-exams her plans on life...
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| Fair Game
[1995,
USA]
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| He's a cop on the edge. She's a woman with a dangerous secret. And now they're both... |
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The wife (Cindy Crawford) of Max Kirkpatrick (William Baldwin) is awarded by alimony, and he should hand over his dry cargo ship to her. But the vessel is unfortunately occupied by ex-KGB terrorist team and they intend to slay Kate McQuean (Crawford). Max should save her from an impending death and to settle accounts with the ragtag team of well-equipped cutthroats. The film is reach of explosions and skirmishes, and Cindy Crawford is as inimitable as always.
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The movie begins in the small town of Elerslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William's father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and his father then go to a battle between the British and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a British guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city's and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Sterling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realises that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace's death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland's freedom. |
| 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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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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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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Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary public accountant returning home from his ex-wife's funeral and is met by Mr Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia) who kidnap his daughter (Courtney Chase) and give him a gun, six bullets, a name-tag that will give him access to anywhere in a specific hotel, and the itinerary of Governor Grant (Marsha Mason) and is informed that he must kill the Governor in 1 hour and 15 minutes or his daughter will die. The rest of the movie follows Mr. Watson as he desperately attempts to warn the Governor without the knowledge of the two and finds out that the conspiracy against her reaches all the way to those she trusts most. |
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