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USA:PG certified movies
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Things are not what they seem at a lonely bus stop nestled in a small New England town. It's a crisp winter morning with a landscape painted of fresh snow. A beggar takes shelter from the frozen wind and in his hand he clutches a brown paper bag. During his stay, he encounters three young ladies going shopping, a jogger, a business woman and a newly married couple. Each views him from their own perspective. They come and go, but he does not follow. A bus pulls up, but he does not board. With the hint of something "more" in his demeanor, he just waits. |
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Terri Fletcher (Hilary Duff) is a small-town girl with a fine singing voice and a great love of music in this heartfelt musical drama. She has her sights set on attending the LA Bristol-Hillman Conservatory, the most celebrated summer music program in the country. When a tragedy interrupts her steady life when her brother died in a car crash, Terri defies her father's wishes and covertly heads off to the respective arts academy. As she tries to come to terms with her family, she finds herself romantically involved with the one of her fellow students, Jay (Oliver James), and contending for attention and for the school's $10,000 academic scholarship against many of kids whose talent rivals her own. |
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Around the World in 80 Days is based on the classic novel by Jules Verne and stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. He was a thief in 1872 who became the traveling companion and martial arts bodyguard of a man betting that he can circumnavigate the world in a set time. British inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), a daring man of science, stated his belief that it's possible for him to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days, as he asserted in a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), the head of the Royal Academy of Science. During their adventurous trip the pair has various points to stop at, situated in France (Paris, of course!), Turkey, India, China and the United States. Femme fatale Monique and a suspecting detective are also involved in the story. Soon after the pair left London, a major bank was robbed and Phileas and Passportout are considered as the main suspects trying to escape. |
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Bill Cosby's Saturday-morning cartoon series comes to the big screen with himself as a co-writer. The movie is based on William H. Cosby, Jr.'s comedy monologues about his childhood, centered on a group of urban pals growing up in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Animated heroes unexpectedly appear in the present day as real-life characters: a corpulent boy named Albert and his friends Bill, Weird Harold, Rudy, Mushmouth, Russell, and Dumb Donald. Fat Albert pulls his friends into trouble when they "fall" out of their TV world into the real world, where Fat Albert tries to help a young girl, Doris, make friends. However, the things get complicated when Fat Albert falls for Lauri, older sister of his new friend, making his pals worry about their leader who may never want to return to his cartoon world again. |
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Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (2003) stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. As an adventurer, Passepartout ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world. |
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Archaeologist Ben Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage), a treasure hunter, promises to locate and protect an ancient treasure hidden 200 years ago in this action-packed adventure movie. His grandfather states that the treasure is buried somewhere in the country, and that the highly cryptic clues are scattered everywhere. Ben thinks that he had obtained some clues which can lead him directly to the treasure, when his ally Ian plots to kill an archaeologist. Ben fortunately evades this threat and soon finds out that the main hint to the treasure location, a map, is hidden on the back cover of the most protected document in U.S. history, the Declaration of Independence. Being pursued by his criminal-minded ally and the FBI, Ben should eventually find the National Treasure. |
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Loosely based on the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, the fantasy movie revolves around George (James Purefoy), a valorous English knight who returns home from the Crusades, wishing to retire from soldering and settle down to a peaceful life to enjoy marital bliss. But when he arrives at King Edgar's (Simon Callow) palace, he finds him in a state of deep grief as his adorable daughter Princess Lunna (Piper Perabo) has recently been kidnapped by a dragon. The king offers George a glut of wealth if he finds the missing girl. The knight, who wants nothing more than a small acre of land and two cows, agrees to embark on a quest to save the princess. Little does he know that an unlimited number of incredible adventures await him. |
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Peru 1714. A beautiful but wobbly bridge collapsed when five were attempting to cross, dooming these people to death as they fell into the deep. Five people, on separate journeys for very different reasons were united by the same tragic destiny. Was it an accident? Or was it the divine punishment? A Franciscan monk Brother Fray Juniper (Gabriel Byrne) has been given the duty of looking into the tragedy by the archbishop of Lima (Robert De Niro), and to learn what he can about the victims. Thornton Wilder's award-winning novel gets a brilliant screen adaptation in this historical drama by writer and director Mary McGuckian. |
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Ella (Anne Hathaway) has been cursed by her dimented fairy godmother with the gift of obedience. On the quest to find her godmother again to make her take back the "gift", Ella meets, and reluctantly falls in love with the Prince (Hugh Dancy) of Frell. |
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Harry Potter, Ron and Germiona continue studying at the Hogwarts. Third year of study brings the new mystery: the condemned magician escaped from the ominous Azkaban prison, so Harry's life is under a deadly threat. Terrible dementors are lurking around the Hogwarts, trying to track down the dangerous fugitive, and a howl of wolves is being brought by the wind from neighbouring forests... |
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When a dropped anchor accidentally kills Frankie, a son of the shark boss, a fast-talking bottom-feeder named Oscar (voice of Will Smith) lies and takes the credit as the shark-slayer. Soon it starts to become clear that Oscar's tale about being the defender of the Reef is all wet, but the shark mafia boss Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) threatens to make him the Catch of the Day. Oscar's unexpected fame involves Lola (voice of Angelina Jolie), a graceful dragon fish who captures Oscar's attention away from his steady date, Angie (voice of Renée Zellweger). Meantime, Oscar strikes up a friendship with Lenny, a vegetarian shark who is the second and the last son of Don Lino. Eventually, Don Lino decides it's time to "take care" of the "shark-slayer". |
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes "Peter Pan." After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads' mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow's mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia's health worsens, Barrie's ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland. |
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A story of several intertwined characters unfolds in this comedy drama when their paths cross in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Rose Harrison's (Susan Sarandon) mother is interned in a hospital with Alzheimer's disease, Rose is a middle-aged divorcee who use to visit her mother often. Robin Williams plays the mysterious fellow who later prevents her from possibly jumping in the East River. Mike is engaged to marry the beautiful Nina (Penélope Cruz), but he's so consumed with jealousy and suspicion that she's not sure if she can go through with the wedding. Meantime, Mike (Paul Walker) portrays a police officer who has become the obsessive focus of an elderly waiter, Artie (Alan Arkin), who is convinced Mike is the reincarnation of his late wife. Paul Walker's character reveals great depths of painful feeling as the cop struggling to save his future family. Chazz Palminteri, well-known as an actor, directed this, his first feature film. Though set in New York, the movie was filmed in Montreal. |
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Luther (Tim Allen) and Nora Krank (Jamie Lee Curtis) learns that their daughter won't be at home to celebrate Christmas due to her mission within the Peace Corps somewhere in Peru. They decide to skip the high expenses of the holiday altogether, despite the fact that they're usually the most fanatical about it. Situation becomes really hilarious when their daughter suddenly returns home and they decide to start celebration from scratch. The movie is based on John Grisham's novel "Skipping Christmas" and directed by Chris Columbus which means it will be really funny! |
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Shrek and Princess Fiona are back from their happy honeymoon to pay the first visit to Fiona's parents, the King and Queen of the Kingdom of Far, Far Away. But the new in-laws are expecting to meet a stately prince, so they're in for a surprise when Fiona introduces them to a giant green ogre and his donkey friend. When King Harold realizes that his new son-in-law is a green-coloured monster, and their daughter has a problem with the magical spell gone wrong, he is emotionally shocked. Fiona's parents haven't ever dreamt of such green future for their daughter so King Harold decides to take Shrek out of his sight and return Fiona to her former appearance with the help of the Fairy Godmother (voice of Jennifer Saunders), Prince Charming (voice of Rupert Everett), and the famed ogre killer feline Puss in Boots (voice of Antonio Banderas). |
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When UK economics is to switch from pounds to euro, a poorly-secured train crammed full with respective pounds is being robbed. Seven-years old Damien and his brother unexpectedly get a money-filled sack voyage literally fallen from the sky. This visually sophisticated, ethically loaded and emotionally nuanced movie follows Damien as he discovers the human nature being a kind of a visionary in the mystic sense of this word. Damian is anxious to share the wealth with those less fortunate while his fun-loving brother Anthony would rather spend it like there's no tomorrow! Anyway, the 265,000 British pounds should be spent before the UK nation switches over to the Euro. |
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Garfield (computer animated character voiced by Bill Murray) is the everyone's favorite wisecracking, grouchy cat, who certainly finds out that the attention of his beloved family is began to divide between him and the dense, but lovable dog Odie. This state of affairs begins to disturb him, but when the dog is kidnapped by some lousy dog trainer, the world's laziest cat feels responsible to restore family's peace and gets into action to save Odie. This movie is of peculiar because some roles are played and some are computer animated. |
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Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject of this documentary about the commercial food industry. Rigorously eating a diet of McDonald's fast food, three times a day for a month straight. Spurlock is out to prove the physical and mental effects of consuming fast food. While doing this, Spurlock also provides a look at the food culture in America through it's schools, corporations, and politics as seen through the eyes of regular people and health advocates. "Super Size Me" is a movie that sheds a new light on what has become one of our nation's biggest health problems: obesity. |
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Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), Chronicle reporter along with ace aviator Sky Captain are on the investigation as the many famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared in 1930s. As they travel to a variety of exotic places around the globe and risking their lives, the fearless duo attempts to stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind laying a plot to destroy the Earth. It begins when New York is under attack by robots and alien-looking space craft. Angelina Jolie co-stars as the charming Captain Franky Cook, commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, in this action-packed blockbuster abundant with plenty of innovative special effects. Giovanni Ribisi appears as Dex, an extraordinary technical genius, who have joined the duo in hopes of saving the planet before it's too late. |
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Hilary Duff stars as Sam Montgomery, a clumsy high school student who undergoes an amazing transformation into the one of her school's hottest girls. She is routinely exploited by her mean-spirited stepmother (Jennifer Coolidge) and being forced to scrub floors at her diner after the death of her father. But her gloomy life changes when she starts exchanging notes with a mysterious guy over the internet, who promises to meet her at the upcoming school dance, she also finds a friend in the person of an artsy nerd Carter (Dan Byrd). Sweet diner manager (Regina King), helps Sam to get disguised for the Halloween dance. There she discovers her prince is one of the popular guys, Austin Ames (Chad Michael Murray). This fairy tale having a cellular phone instead of the crystal shoe comes with plenty of wit, style, and heart. The uncovered shallowness of popular kids, their stupid parents, and whimpering siblings are shown in a way that should balm the unhealed wounds of anyone who's ever been to high school. |
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