Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He's volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he's living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and on "Bandstand." He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it's on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it's balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn't always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.
When a New York City teenager from Greenwich Village, Lola Steppe (Lindsey Lohan), is forced to move to the New Jersery suburb of Dellwood, she finds that in her new high school, there is another girl, Carla Santini (Megan Fox), who already has claim to the title of most popular girl (and most rudest) that Lola had at her old school. Aiming to oust Carla from her reign, Lola and her new best friend, Ella Gerard (Alison Pill), sets her sights on nabbing the lead role in the next big school play "Pygmalion", which Carla also hopes to star in. As the two girls engage in a war for popularity, Carla lashes back at Lola by obtaining tickets to the sold-out "farewell concert" of Lola's favorite band. Can Lola somehow sneak into the concert and quell Carla's latest scheme, and at the same time meet the band's English lead singer, Stu Wolff (Adam Garcia), whom she has such a crush on?
Based on Cheri Lovedog's experiences in the rock world as the founder, songwriter, singer and guitar player for an all-girl punk rock band, the movie follows the story of four Los Angeles rockers, Jacki (Gina Gershon), Tracy (Drea de Matteo), Faith (Lori Petty) and Sally (Shelly Cole), who after years of obscurity still cherish the hope to make it big. Finally, the band named Clamdancy is given an opportunity to win fame. However, while making a record the band gets to know the low-down of the music business – "sex, drugs and rock-n-roll".
Dewey Finn’s (Jack Black) brilliant career as a rock star ends in dead failure. Fired from his own band and faced with unsettled debts and deep depression, Dewey pretends to be his roommate Ned Schneebly (Mike White) and accepts substitute-teaching position at a private school. What do you think he can teach the 4th grade students? He shows the kiddies the guitar strings, explains what music is and teaches them how to rock. Long live rock-n-roll!
Against the backdrop of a nation on the brink of revolution, Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) and Nina Veronica (Jessica Lange) are slimy promoters planning a benefit concert. They desire the services of legendary singer Jack Fate (Bob Dylan), and soon Fate is sprung from jail. A rock journalist (played by Jeff Bridges) investigates the concert, attempting to determine just who will benefit. Revolution may be raging outside the arena, but Jack Fate and the benefit concert play on as planned.
When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left behind a legacy of music and a family of performers he has shepherded to folk stardom. To celebrate a life spent submerged in folk, Irving's loving son Jonathan has decided to put together a memorial concert featuring some of Steinbloom's best-loved musicians. There's Mitch and Mickey, who were the epitome of young love until their partnership was torn apart by heartbreak; classic troubadours The Folksmen, whose records were endlessly entertaining for anyone able to punch a hole in the center to play them; and The New Main Street Singers, the most meticulously color-coordinated neuftet ever to hit an amusement park. Now for one night only in New York City's Town Hall, these three groups will reunite and gather together to celebrate the music that almost made them famous.
Lizzie McGuire is a teenager graduating from Junior high school, and eager to find adventures in Rome, Italy on a School trip. Upon arriving there, she discovers that she is the identical spitting image of an Italian beauty who is half of a famous pop duo. Meeting Pualo, the other half of the duo, she is reeled into posing as Isabella on what becomes a journey of self-discovery.
One of the most accomplished piano players in Poland, Wladyslaw Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans in the 1930s. At last deciding to escape, suffering the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
Eminem, the white star of American rap, acts in this movie incarnating some events of his own life on-screen. We can see a talented, emotional young rapper Jimmy Smith-Jr. aka Rabbit who has hard times living on the 8 mile street in Detroit. After the break-up with his girlfriend Jimmy lives with his mother who is constantly quarrelling with her admirer. To rent a flat and to save up money he lands a job at the metallurgical plant where he meets Alex, a girl who believes in his rap talents. His Afro-American buddy allows Jimmy to make a demo-record at the studio but their friendship crushes when Jimmy and Alex get caught red-handed at the scene of kissing. Meantime, Jimmy takes part in rap contests despite the fact he isn't met with open hands in the Afro-American community.
Yes, Austin Powers (Mike Myers), the most renowned international man of mystery, is back again to face his enemy number one – Dr. Evil! In this stunning comedy-adventure Dr. Evil and his plotter Mini Me (Verne Troyer) escape from prison and who but Austin is good enough to stop them? The villains, with help of a Goldmember, kidnap Austin's father (Michael Caine), and to save him and the humanity Austin leaps to 1975 where he teams up with his ex-girlfriend Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles). There are also some girls involved whose lovely names are Fook Mi and Fook Yu.
Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Stuart Townsend), weary of his reclusive immortal life, decides to become the leader of an unknown rock and roll band. The group achieves overnight fame and popularity due to his efforts and Lestat becomes a worldwide idol. He defies the unspoken rule that vampires must keep aloof from people and writes songs containing specific words of the secret life of bloodsuckers. As might be expected in such a set-up, his lyrics enchain both his fellow vampires who are bent on taking revenge on him for his betrayal and scholars who study bloodthirsty creatures. Among them is Jesse Reeves (Marguerite Moreau), a young London student who goes off her head about the charismatic Lestat. Furthermore, Lestat's delightful gloomy music awakens the evil Queen of the Dammed, Akasha (Aaliyah), from her century-long slumber and kindles the flame of love in her heart. None of vampires can confront the mighty Akasha...
A fish-out-of-water comedy about a talented street drummer from Harlem who enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top.
Sara Johnson (Stiles) dreams of becoming a professional ballerina. After the accidental death of her mother, Sara is forced to move from Lemont, a quiet Chicago suburb, to her father's ghetto apartment on Chicago's gritty south side. The new urban environment, very different than what she is used to, adds to Sara's feelings of loss and frustration, and her misplaced guilt, which is caused by the fact that her mother had been en route to her dance performance at the time of her death. But when she meets Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas), a popular fellow student with a passion for hip hop dancing and a future brighter than his troubled past, her repressed ambition is released through a revitalized interest in dance.
William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. There's the struggling singer who dreams of making it to the big time, a frustrated salesman who ends up on an unexpected road trip, the dysfunctional family performers which includes a con-artist (Huey Lewis) and his long lost daughter, and an escaped convict (Andre Braugher) with the voice of an angel. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off.
A 21-year-old girl with a beautiful voice, Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo), moves to New York with the hope to make it big as a songwriter. But life in Big Apple is much harder than she expected. All her efforts to rent a good apartment and to find a producer are in vain. Frustrated and aground, Violet finally gets a job as a barmaid at a famous nightclub called Coyote Ugly where only gorgeous and enterprising women run the show. In company of sexy bartenders whose manners disgust canting hypocrites and attract men, Violet has to overcome her shyness so that she can perform her songs herself.
Two sex-obsessed teenage boys, Kevin (Harry Enfield) and his longtime buddy Perry (Kathy Burke), haven't yet lost their virginity. If they don't pick up girls soon, they will go crazy. As dance music fans, they find an outlet in creating great music mixes. But then they come up with the idea of taking a holiday trip to Ibiza inhabited by top DJs and hot babies. Armed with condoms and sunscreen, the guys go to the sunny island, hoping to succeed in bedding some babes and meeting their idol, superstar DJ Eyeball Paul (Rhys Ifans), in order to give him their demo tape.
Everrett Ullysus McGill, sick of breaking rocks in the heat of a Mississippi summer, escapes with his two dim accomplices, Delmar and Pete. Trying to reclaim a buried treasure before its lost forever underneath a lake, the three make their way to Everett's homestead. Along the way, they meet a conniving one-eyed Bible salesman, a blind prophet, a trio of sexy sirens, and a man who sold his soul to the devil. In their race to reach the treasure before it's flooded, they end up crashing a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob, help a sensitive Baby-Face Nelson rob three banks in two hours, and even have enough time to put out a best selling record as "The Soggy Bottom Boys."
After auditions, 12 young dancers make it to the American Ballet Academy. They'll prepare for the student showcase to determine who will be asked to join the American Ballet Company. Tensions mount between Jonathan, the company's aging choreographer, and Cooper, his best dancer, who also wants to choreograph. The brilliant Maureen seems poised for success, but she discovers that life is passing her by. Jody, whose body may be the wrong type and whose technique is ragged, elicits Cooper's interest. The edgy, smart-mouthed Eva loves to dance but seems destined to be stuck in the back of the chorus. The showcase will decide their fates.
