On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
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!
Based on a metaphysical 1978 novel by the talented science fiction and horror author Richard Matheson, this romantic fantasy-drama won an Oscar for its expensive and impressive visuals depicting an imaginative afterlife. Robin Williams stars as Chris Nielsen, a doctor who has suffered with his artist wife Annie (Annabella Sciorra) through the devastating loss of their children, Marie and Ian, who were killed in a car accident. When Chris dies and goes to Heaven he meets Albert and discovers that Heaven is even more wondrous than anything he could have imagined. However, Chris's death is the last straw for Annie and she in her madness commits suicide and journeys to a place very different from Chris. He decides to risk eternity in Hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven. This is a beautiful story that reminds us that love is stronger than death.
The clumsy and reckless Jack Fuller is fired by his boss and father and together with his friend and unsuccessful lawyer Hater, they decide to go to Las Vegas to have a good time. Meanwhile the fiancé of the workaholic stock broker Joy McNally breaks up their engagement because of her lack of attitude. Her friend and bartender Tipper convinces Joy to spend a couple of days also in Las Vegas. Due to a hotel management mistake, they are lodged in the same room and later they hang around together. During the night, they get completely wasted and on the next morning, Jack and Joy find that they got married. While discussing to briefly end their wedding, Jack borrows a coin from Joy to gamble in the jackpot machine and wins three million dollars. They question in court the ownership of the money and the conservative Judge R. D. Whopper freezes the money and sentence them to live together with Joy moving to Jack's house for six months and attending regular counseling sessions. Each one decides to make the life of the other hell on Earth to force to get out of the marriage.
Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford), a renowned university research scientist, and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired concert cellist, are a seemingly happily married couple. Their family life runs smoothly until Claire's daughter, Caitlin (Katharine Towne) goes off to college and the Spencers move into a lakeside house in Vermont that once belonged to Norman's father. Their new neighbors, Mary (Miranda Otto) and Warren Feur (James Remar), always make quarrels. One rainy night Claire sees Warren taking a carpet out of the house and putting it in the trunk of his car. When Mary abruptly disappears, Claire realizes that these two events are closely related to each other and begins seeing spectral images and hearing mysterious voices everywhere. At first she thinks it is her neighbor's wraith which is haunting her, but Mary then turns up alive. However, a mysterious woman's ghost keeps haunting Claire, and Norman suspects that his frightened wife experiences hallucinations as a consequence of an accident when Claire's car smashed into a tree a year ago. But the ghost (Amber Valletta) soon tells Claire a dreadful secret which is being carefully kept by her husband.
Tom plans to surprise Sara with an engagement ring, and he's asked his four best friends to witness the popping of the question at his place on Valentine's night. Trouble is Sara's left him a "Dear John" letter and will be by soon for her suitcases; plus, thinking it's a party, Tom's friend Sal has invited five women who were at his bar to come too. First the men talk - about women, sex, love, and homophobia (Tom's pals include a happily married guy, a gay man newly engaged, a metrosexual, and Sal, an inveterate player). Then the women arrive and argue in the loo about men and sex before joining the boys for talk, alcohol, and hookups. But what of Sara, and what of love?
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.
Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Taking care of Arnie is mostly Gilbert's task which can be pretty demanding, at least while you are working at the local grocery store. Then one day Becky and her grandmother passes through Endora getting trouble with the car. Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to find time for his own private life.
Attempting to impress his ideologies on religion, relationships, and the randomness (and worthlessness) of existence, lifelong New York resident Boris Yellnikoff rants to anyone who will listen, including the audience. But when he begrudgingly allows naive Mississippi runaway Melodie St. Ann Celestine to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to love, "whatever works" is his motto, but his already perplexed life complicates itself further when Melodie's parents eventually track her down.
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
A sumptuous mansion in a beautiful place seems to be a Garden of Eden. Dr. and Mrs. Mandrakis (Derek de Lint and Kate Jennings Grant) go away, leaving their two young kids in care of a babysitter, young high school student Jill Johnson (Camilla Belle). She whiles away the hours snooping around the house and trying on jewelry. What seems like an uneventful evening unexpectedly becomes her worst nightmare. At first, Jill gets a phone call from a menacing stranger (Tommy Flanagan) who asks if everything is okay. She goes upstairs to check the kids and finds them safe and asleep in bed. But the stranger keeps on calling and spooking the teenage girl. Her fear eventually escalates into panic attack. Jill desperately phones the police, only to find that the man who terrorizes her by making eerie phone calls is inside the house with her!
High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, "Have you checked the children lately?" After notifying the police, Jill is told that the calls are coming from inside the house...
Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) first meets Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) when they share a car ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. They repeatedly lose touch with each other but fate keeps bringing them together time and again. Their relationship blossoms into an abiding friendship which they value very much. They come to each other's assistance in emergencies and help each other in finding true love. But who would have thought that Harry and Sally would face the challenge threatening to ruin their close friendship?
They look like Nazis but . . . The Major is British . . . The Lieutenant is American . . . The Beautiful Frauleins are Allied Agents! (3 more taglines...)
In 1944, an American General is shot down over a heavily defended German fortress and imprisoned within. A rescue attempt is at once launched by British Intellegence, since the General must be liberated before being made to reveal Allied plans for an invasion of France. As the mission unfolds, however, double and triple agents begin to appear in the ranks of the rescue team with the added mystery of an American Lieutenant assigned to the mission for reasons unknown.
Novalee Nation, 17 and very pregnant, has never been part of a real home. The closest thing to family for the hard-luck teen is her selfish, would-be musician boyfriend, Willy Jack, with whom she's traveling from Tennessee to California in a rust bucket that used to be a Plymouth. A bathroom stop en route, at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart, changes Novalee's life forever. For when she leaves the store, she discovers that Willy Jack and the Plymouth are gone. Only her Polaroid camera remains in the parking space. Alone and broke, Novalee surreptitiously moves into the vast store, borrowing food and supplies from its shelves. When she gives birth on the floor - and her hideaway is revealed - Novalee and her "Wal-Mart Baby" become instant celebrities. More importantly, over the next few years, Novalee finally becomes part of an unconventional, makeshift family comprised of her wonderfully eccentric new friends. Now, with the family she always wanted, Novalee is transformed from a homeless teen to a successful and strong woman. She has finally found a home in this small town where fate has dropped her.
In the 1950s, the comedy duo of Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) are at the height of their popularity. Their performance at America's night clubs is a stunning success; they have hordes of fervent devotees, money, and fame. Their patron looks after the golden boys so that they can have anything they care to ask for. Their round-the-clock telethon continues until a mysterious incident leads to the break-up of their partnership. Fifteen years later, young journalist Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) decides to lift the veil of mystery and get to know the whole truth from Morris and Collins' own lips. But she unexpectedly becomes swept into a swirling vortex of passion, lust, deception and betrayal...
