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In this spectacular political thriller, ace journalist Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) and his cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard) have worked together in many hot spots on the planet, covering war atrocities in Iraq, Somalia, El Salvador, etc. But Hunt's career spirals downhill after he suffers a breakdown during a live report from Bosnia. Five years later, Hunt happens to meet Duck in Sarajevo and convinces him to shoot an interview with Radovan "The Fox" Karadzic (Liubomir Kerekes), the no. 1 Bosnian war criminal. Wanting actually revenge on The Fox for his girlfriend's murder, Simon leads Duck and fresh young journalist Benjamin (Jesse Eisenberg) deep into Serb territory to capture the elusive criminal. The three unexpectedly quickly track him down. However, things go horribly awry... |
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The touching movie tells the story of Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank), an optimistic and idealistic English language teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High School where racial violence flourishes. Her students are troubled teenagers from different walks of life who feel vehement hatred for each other. Willing to help the kids to get along, Erin assigns them to read "The Diary of Anne Frank" and then encourages them to write their own journals. Erin tries to change their attitudes about themselves and others before it's too late. While organizing unconventional class activities, she faces various personal and professional obstacles that stand in her way.
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When a new princess is born to King Stefan & his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies - Flora, Fauna & Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark by Merryweather, she places a curse on the princess - that she will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow the princess - named Aurora - to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage in the woods to keep her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her as their own child, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a king whose own kingdom will soon merge with King Stefan's - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself! Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the 3 good fairies head to Maleficent's castle at the Forbidden Mountain, and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent's army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent's evil spells - which include a thorn forest as thick as weeds around King Stefan's castle, and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress? |
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries. |
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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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Jack Walsh is a former cop from Chicago, who was framed by criminal he was investigating and about to arrest. He is now a bounty hunter based in Los Angeles. His boss wants him to find, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas, an accountant, who was working for Las Vegas mobster, who stole millions of dollars from him and gave it away. His boss was the one who bailed him out, and now unless he can get him back in L.A. in the next 5 days, he will forfeit the bond and be placed out of business. So he sends Jack to get him, which is Midnight Run or easy job in the bail bond business. Except for the fact that the man The Duke stole the money from, wants to get him, and he is also the same man who framed Jack. And also the FBI wants to get Mardukas so that they can use him to get his boss, so they warn Walsh not to get in their way. But Walsh nevertheless finds The Duke and is about bring him back but when Mardukas claims that he has difficulty with flying the airline throws them out of the plane, so they have to go back on the road. When Walsh's boss, learns that he didn't arrive when he was suppose to, he sends another bounty hunter, Marvin, who is Jack's greatest adversary, to get Mardukas. And when Marvin cancels Walsh's card, they don't have enough funds to make it all the way, so they have to scrape everything they have. And it doesn't help that Mardukas is doing everything he can to escape, cause he says that his former boss can get him even in jail. |
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A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss. |
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Up-and-coming sports reporter (Hartnett) rescues a homeless man ("Champ", Jackson) only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family. |
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Denzel Washington is hired as the T.C. Williams High football coach over a white coach in Alexandria, Virginia in the early 1970's during a time when the school has just been integrated to allow blacks into the school. |
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A rookie cop named Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) starts working in the Los Angeles Police Department's undercover narcotics unit. Jake is trained by a corrupt veteran officer Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), who excels the most inveterate criminals in perfidy and brutality. Fighting with the very dregs of the population, Harris keeps neither laws nor morals. He lives by the maxim: "One must howl with the wolves." At the end of his first workday idealistic Jake is confronted with the moral dilemma whether he will obey the rules of his partner or make a stand against them. |
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A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men. |
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Dutch (Arnlod Schwarzenegger) and a team of commandos have been sent into a Central American jungle to track down some missing airmen that were kidnapped by terrorists. By the time they get to the camp, the airmen have been butchered in a very violent fashion and the commandos retaliate on the terrorists' camp. After that's over, they wait for a helicopter to pick them up, but something strange begins to happen in the woods. It isn't long before the commandos start getting killed off and Dutch and a girl from the camp, Anna (Elpidia Carrillo), are the only people left and fighting for their lives. But what they discover is too shocking for them to imagine. What's been killing them is the Predator, an alien that hunts rare species and make his trophies out of their skulls. And human beings are the new species he has discovered. |
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An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences. |
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Walter is released from the prison after the 12-years imprisonment and being shunned as he is a sex offender. Was he really guilty or it was a terrible mistake? Now he is to prove his innocence to the people who met him with hate and indifference. To cap it all, a maniac attacks children in the Walter's town and all victims of the villain had been arrogated to Walter. Now he has the only chance to get clear - by attempting to catch the real pervert. Walter begins an all-out war against the dangerous predator. |
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A mysterious African-American warrior nicknamed Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) follows "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai." He lives in solitude, communicating with the outside world via homing pigeon, and faithfully serves a small-time mobster, Louie (John Tormey), who once saved his life. He blindly obeys his master, performing dangerous missions that are generally connected with assassination. When his recent murder is witnessed by the big boss' daughter, Louise Vargo (Tricia Vessey), the mafia group decides to put Ghost Dog away so as to conceal their involvement. The gangsters keep the track of all the lofts in town and kill Ghost Dog's pigeons when they eventually find his hut. Ghost Dog realizes that he is given the toughest assignment to slay the entire mafia or, otherwise, they will kill him and his master, so he starts wiping out his many adversaries.
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Well-known and deeply respected for his great deeds, the red-and-blue-suited Spider-Man is an idol and hero in New York City. Meanwhile, the modest Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) leads a regular, almost ascetic lifestyle, trying to win his spurs as a photographer, and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is the star of a great Broadway show. She is one of few people who know about Peter’s crime-fighting alter-ego. Harry Osborn (James Franco), once Peter’s friend, who is also aware of his secret identity, has become the New Goblin, bent on taking revenge the death of his father, the Green Goblin, by killing Spider-Man. Moreover, he is attracted by the charming Mary Jane and willing to take her away from Peter. To make matters more complicated, Peter is taken over by mysterious black alien substance Venom which amplifies his powers and changes his personality for the worst. And now he must battle not only with his remorseless foes, Harry and Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), a crime fugitive incidentally transformed into Sandman, but also with...himself.
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Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction. |
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Somewhere in the desert. A car speeds like crazy along the roads. Suddenly, the driver loses control and sails off a cliff. Four other vehicles are near, they stop to help. The dying man narrates the drivers of a fortune in cash, $350,000, which he has hidden below a giant "W" in Santa Rosita, some 200 miles away. The four drivers and their respective passengers can't decide on how to share the future fortune, and suddenly a wild race to Santa Rosita develops. While one party manages to rent a plane (from 1916), the others face different problems like tire damage, untrustworthy lifts, deep water, drunken millionaires, a British adventurer, little girl's bicycles, and last but far not least a mother-in-law from hell and her imbecile son. While the folks slowly travel towards the goal, they are being watched. Who ever said that nobody else knew about the fortune? |
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High school hockey player Chris Pratt (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) spent four years in a coma caused by a car accident. His brain injury left him unable to focus on anything for very long. Being mentally challenged, he takes a job as a night janitor at a bank. Chris gets warm encouragement from Gary Spargo (Mattew Goode), a former classmate who tries to worm himself into Chris' confidence so that he can use him as the lookout for a big-money heist at the bank where he works. |
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All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal.... |
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