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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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Three wealthy kids - gadget geek Violet (Emily Browning), bookworm Klaus (Liam Aiken), and little Sunny (Kara Hoffman, Shelby Hoffman) are sent to live with a distant relative after losing their parents in a fire that destroyed the family home. Wild, weird and paranoid relative Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), an out-of-work actor, locks them up at night and plots to kill them for their inheritance. This black comedy for the whole family is based on the best-selling books by Daniel Handler and also stars Meryl Streep as Aunt Josephine and Billy Connolly as Uncle Monty. |
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This family-friendly suspense animation story tells about the adventures of the Easter Egg which lives in the Egg-Town. The tranquility of the sleepy settlement is broken when a mysterious figure sneaks into a bakery shop to steal some pastries. Meanwhile, the town prepares for its biggest day of the year, Egg Day. But some nasty strangers known as Take-Its intend to take the town's Easter Eggs. This animation includes vocal performances by James Woods, Eli Wallach, Joe Pantoliano, and Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. |
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Owen Baker is a 12-year-old loner who has been working as a neighborhood dog-walker so he can earn the privilege of getting a dog of his own. His hard work pays off when his parents let him adopt a scruffy mutt he names Hubble. Both boy and dog get more than they bargained for when Owen wakes up one morning to discover he can understand every word Hubble says, including the ominous phrase: "Take me to your leaders." Owen learns that dogs came to Earth thousands of years ago to colonize and dominate the planet. Hubble (who is really named Canid 3942) has been sent by the powerful Greater Dane on a mission from the Dog Star Sirius to make sure dogs have fulfilled this destiny. Despite the best efforts of Owen's rag-tag group of neighborhood dogs to convince him otherwise, Hubble soon discovers the awful truth about Earth dogs: "You're all pets!" Now Owen (a boy who never had a friend) and Hubble (a dog who never needed one) must work together to prepare the neighborhood dogs for a visit from The Greater Dane—or all dogs will be removed from the planet! The fate of Earth dogs hangs in the balance, and it's up to Owen, Hubble, and their canine companions to save man's best friend. |
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The generation gap between Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Annabel (Lindsay Lohan) is obvious. Their tastes and opinions actually differ. The tomboy disapproves of her widowed mother’s fiance. In her turn, Tess is dissatisfied with Anna's music, grades and friends. They wish they could exchange bodies so that they could see what it's like to be in the other person's situation, and you can’t believe it but it somehow happens! One Thursday evening, at a Chinese restuarant, they have fortune cookies that unexpectedly switch their bodies and minds. The next morning, when they discover the metamorphosis, they are seized with indescribable horror. They have no choice but to cope with the other person’s responsibilities. To make matters worse, this all happens on Friday when Tess's wedding rehearsal and Anna's band audition take place. Do they have a chance to switch back? |
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While the spy kids grow older, their enemies get stronger and more insidious. This time Juni (Daryl Sabara) and Carmen Cortez (AlexaVega) are assigned to defeat a 3-D video game designed by the evil Toymaker (Sylvester Stallone) to outsmart the kids of the world. Once entrapped inside the virtual reality world, one can’t escape from it. With the help of his grandad, a wheelchaired invalid, Juni sets on a journey to rescue his sister disappeared somewhere in the three-dimensional world.
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Imagine two kids, Sally (Dakota Fanning) and Conrad Walden (Spencer Breslin), home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside. While their wayward babysitter, Mrs. Kwan (Amy Hill), dozes off in the couch, the kids have nothing to do besides sit still and stare out of the window. Until their unexpected guest - a six-foot-tall talking cat, with a tall striped hat and more than a few tricks - appears. The wily Cat (Mike Myers) is determined to show Sally and Conrad that "it's good to have fun - but you have to know how!" and inveigles them into colorful, illogical, absurd misadventures. As a result, their house is all wrecked up and almost destroyed, the fish begins talking and moralizing... Mom’s party, as well as her career, is threatened with a hopeless failure. Can Sally and Conrad fix up things before their parents get back? |
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This comic film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre tells the story of a bumbling British spy who knows neither fear nor danger. In fact, he knows absolutely nothing. He doesn’t know what he does... When a plot to steal the Crown Jewels is exposed, Britain puts its secret agents on the case. However, almost all of MI5's top agents are killed in an explosion. Now there is only one man remaining who can even hope to protect his country. So the inept Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) tries to solve who has stolen the crown jewels from the Tower of London and to save the monarchy from the scheming Frenchman Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich). Accompanied by his assistant Bough (Ben Miller), Johnny gets into one scrape after another. On his way Johnny also comes face to face with Lorna Campbell (Natalie Imbruglia), a special agent whom he fancies. |
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Daphne Reynolds (Amanda Bynes) is a cheerful 17-year-old teen who lives in New York City with her loving musician mother, Libby (Kelly Preston). She makes up her mind to leave for England in search of her father she’s never known. Her daddy turns out to be Lord Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth), a wealthy aristocrat and powerful poltician. Before she plunges into a twister of numerous upper-class social events such as bohemian receptions, fashion shows and aristocratic parties, Daphne has to learn social etiquette and refashion herself; what is more, she should remain true to herself and her ideals. And she has the ingenuity to achieve her goal! |
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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter's mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he's going to do with it. |
| Elf
[2003,
USA]
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| This holiday, discover your inner elf. |
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One Christmas Eve an orphan baby crawls into Santa’s sack to play hide-and-seek. Thus he accidently finds himself in the North Pole where he is reared by his adoptive elf father. When he grows to be three times the size of his elf family, his father realizes Buddy will never fit into the elf world and tells him the truth. This holiday season, Buddy sets off for New York City to find his roots. In Big Applethe innocent elf faces with all kinds of humorous trouble. First he seeks out his real father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a workaholic publisher, who has lost the Christmas spirit. Walter doesn’t believe Buddy is who or what he says he is. Buddy also discovers his stepmother Emily (Mary Steenburgen) and his ten-year-old stepbrother Michael (Daniel Tay) who doesn’t believe in Christmas or Santa. In fact, everyone seems to have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas. Fortunately, buddy encounters Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), a beautiful department store elf, who supports him to save Christmas for New York and the world. |
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Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a shy common teenager, living with his mother, father and little brother in a suburban house. But he is also a very efficient undercover CIA agent. He is assigned by CIA director (Keith David), with the support of his instructor Ronica Miles (Angie Harmon), to date Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) in order to be invited to her birthday party and get close and spy Natalie's father, Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan). Dr. Connors is a brilliant scientist, who has developed some sort of micro-robots with the intention of controlling oil leakage from tankers. However, the investors of the experiment intend to use the device as a powerful weapon. |
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Two men (Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin) get laid off in product development at a large food company and are forced to become stay-at-home fathers and take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy. They create a new day care facility called "Daddy Day Care" and have kids like: the smart-mouthed-but-became-polite Crispin (Shane Baumel), the really-smart Becca (Hailey Noelle Johnson), and The Flash/Tony (Jimmy Bennett). As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a comedic rivalry with the Chapman Academy tough-as-nails director, Ms. Harridan (Anjelica Huston). |
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This comedy follows the misadventures of two childhood friends, Charlie Carbone (Jerry O' Connell), a New York hair stylist, and Louis Booker (Anthony Anderson), a musician and a magnet for bad luck. Once they get involved in shady dealings of mafia boss Sal (Christopher Walken) and have to travel to the Australian Outback to deliver a large sum of money to Sal's associates, Mr. Smith (Marton Csokas). The assignment is not as easy as it seems to be. First the guys enjoy their trip, but soon their good mood is replaced by fear when they accidentally injure a kangaroo. Trying to revive the poor animal, they decide to put Louis’s lucky red jacket on the kangaroo and to take a picture of it. Luckily, the kangaroo comes to its senses. On the other hand, unfortunately for the travellers, the unreasonable beast, with the money-containing-jacket on, skips away and is lost to sight in the jungles. Louis and Charlie, panic-stricken, team up with a smart American wildlife expert, Jessie by name (Estella Warren), to chase down the kangaroo in order to retrieve the mob cash. |
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In the comic movie animated Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (voiced by Joe Alaskey) interact with human characters. This time, Bugs and Daffy work together for the Warner Bros. Having a starring role in a new movie, Bugs Bunny gets all the attention, and so the frustrated Daffy arrives at a decision to leave Hollywood once and for all. Teamed up with fired WB security guard and stuntman DJ Drake (Brendan Fraser), the duck starts on a round-the-world journey in order to find the mythical Blue Monkey Diamond and Drake’s missing father (Timothy Dalton) who may have been kidnapped by a Mr. Chairman ( Steve Martin). In the meantime, Bugs Bunny, along with a young studio executive (Jenna Elfman), is hot on the heels of Daffy, trying to bring him back to Hollywood. |
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Are you scared of ghosts? You should not even approach a gloomy old mansion with its squeaky doors and dark corridors. Hoping to make the biggest deal of his career, carefree estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) decides to buy a desolate mansion, located on a remote bayou, in order to reconstruct it for resale. Accompanied by his wife Sara (Marsha Thomason) and two kids, Jim pays a visit to the estate to check out the property. But it soon becomes clear that the Evers are not the only owners of the estate. The other tenants of the house are 999 creepy ghosts that don’t relish the idea of sharing their eeire cosy nook with impudent and noisy people. Nobody wants to concede the house, therefore a real war of nerves breaks out between the Evers family and the scheming haunts. However, the ghosts have great advantage over their rivals – they have no nerves!.. |
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Get ready for a fantastical round-the-world voyage and perilous adventures along the way. This time, Sinbad (Brad Pitt), the daredevil seafarer and adventure-seeker, is framed for stealing the precious and powerful Book of Peace. The infuriated Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer), the Goddess of Chaos, gives Sinbad the last chance to go over the hills and far away to find and recover the missing book or his former childhood friend Prince Proteus of Syracuse (Joseph Fiennes) will perish. Our hero makes a wise decision not to tempt fate and instantly sets off on a dangerous odyssey, along with his loyal dog Spike and Proteus' betrothed, Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones). |
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The Bakers, a family of 12, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker (Martin) gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife (Hunt) also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in order while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart. |
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A young Hawaiian girl Lilo (voice of Daveigh Chase) makes friends with an amazing alien creature who is a dangerous, but rather cute being. The creature's name is Stitch (voice of Chris Sanders) as she called him, the tricky little monster is a product of an illegal "Genetic Experiment 626" escaped to Earth. But Lilo thinks he's a kind of dog, and this "dog" gradually proves to be a rowdy and mischievous being. Mad professor, who had created Stitch, is jailed and his fluffy blue nursling is being searched by intergalactic police and considered to be the most dangerous creature in the Universe. But Lilo can unwittingly reclaim the crafty extraterrestrial... |
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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. |
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