Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the movie centers around Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam), a Government minister who is famous for his honesty and incorruptibility. His wife, Lady Gertrude Chiltern (Cate Blanchett), who is morality itself, is a match for him. So they are a happily married couple. However, Sir Robert isn't as perfect as he seems. One day Mrs. Laura Cheveley (Julianne Moore) who has proof of his past misdeed arrives in London to blackmail Chiltern. His impeccable reputation and successful political career are threatened but he is more anxious about how not to lose his beloved wife. Therefore he turns for help to his best pal, Lord Arthur Goring (Rupert Everett), who coincidentally had a relationship with the devilish Mrs. Chieveley. Goring advises not to give way to despair but take serious measures against the blackmailer.
The biopic comedy relates the story of Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey), a famous American entertainer, actor and performance artist who was able to stir any audience. An eccentric, extraordinary person and an enigmatic comedian, he gave bizarre performances making the audience empathize with him, hate him or wonder at his escapades. He made them show their emotions, as opposed to just sitting in front of a TV and swallowing cheap jokes. The movie takes a profound look at Kaufman's art as well as his personal life and his relationship with his girlfriend Lynne Margulies (Courtney Love), his best pal and partner Bob Zmuda (Paul Giamatti), and his manager George Shapiro (Danny DeVito).
When Eleanor (Geena Davis) and Fredrick Little (Hugh Laurie) were asked by their son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) to adopt a little brother as opposed to a big one, they took his request too literally. One fine day they adopted Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox), a charming little mouse that can talk, walk upright and wear clothes. And from then on he embarked on unpredictable, comic and sometimes risky adventures. The family cat, Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane), who took an instant dislike to Stuart, gave him a cool welcome: he made an attempt to eat him, and then he set all the cats in the neighborhood on the mouse. After all, Stuart was kidnapped by small-time bandits. In order to return home, the new member of the Little family had to show his remarkable pluck and wits.
William Thacker (Hugh Grant) was a shy, kind, attractive Englishman who kept a small travel bookstore in the Notting Hill district in West London and shared an apartment with a whimsical Welsh pal, Spike (Rhys Ifans). The chance meeting with a celebrated American movie star, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), who one day dropped into his store, could have ended in nothing if William hadn't run out a few minutes later to buy some coffee. On his way back to the shop, he accidentally rammed into Anna in the street, spilling the coffee onto her blouse. The gentlemanlike William kindly offered to remove a spot at his nearby house and Anna agreed. They began dating and love blossomed between the ordinary guy and the famous actress was ardent and romantic. Nevertheless the idyl came to an end when Anna's actor boyfriend Jeff King (Alec Baldwin) arrived in London to see her...
Long long ago in the Wild Wild West there lived an evil genius, Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh). An honored inventor, he unfortunately fell victim to his own experiment: his legs were torn off. Driven mad by the hapless experiment, he made the President of the United States and the entire world responsible for the tragedy, and revenge became the breath of life to him. Assisted by fascinating criminals, Amazonia (Frederique Van Der Wal), Munitia (Musetta Vander), Miss Lippenreider (Sofia Eng), and Miss East (Bai Ling), Loveless is scheming a mischievous plan to assassinate the President with the aid of a giantic weapon-transport vehicle called "The Tarantula." Two most sophisticated government agents, Captain James West (Will Smith) and Marshal Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline), are charged with thwarting the psychotic Loveless. West, a smooth-talking lady-killer and vigorous, impulsive gunfighter, and the refined Gordon, a master of disguises and an extraordinary genius for gadgets, take a hazardous train journey from Washington to Utah. Along the way, they happen to meet an enticing beauty, Rita Escobar (Salma Hayek), who has her own bone to pick with Loveless.
Two young promising architects, Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) and Peter Steinberg (Oliver Platt), are bidding on a multi-million dollar contract to restore a cultural center. There is a significant obstacle in their path: Strauss (John C. McGinley) and Decker (Bob Balaban), highly successful designers, who take great pains to get the job and spread false rumours about Oscar and Peter’s non-traditional sexual orientation. Chief Executive Officer Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott), who is mistakenly convinced that Oscar is gay, decides that he is a perfect person to keep a watchful eye on his mistress, Amy Post (Neve Campbell). Unwilling to miss the job of a lifetime, Oscar accepts the assignment but soon finds himself falling for Amy. Moreover, the heterosexual Oscar is honored as Chicago's Gay Professional of the Year. To reveal the truth means to lose everything. What will he do?
One day while jogging along the coast Theresa Osborne (Robin Wright Penn), a divorced female journalist, finds a bottle containing a romantic and moving message addressed to a woman. The letter’s heart-wrenching poetry touches the chords of her soul and she decides to begin a search for the mysterious author known only as "G." The trail leads her to Garret Blake (Kevin Costner), a North Carolina boat-restorer who grieves for his tragically dead wife. After Theresa and Garret meet, they soon make friends and feel warm affection towards each other. But Theresa encounters a significant obstacle to her happiness...
In 1958 residents of a small town in Maine witness a blinding flash and a huge flying object falling into the sea. A few days later a nine-year-old boy, Hogarth Hughes (Eli Marienthal), finds an enormous robot (Vin Diesel) sent from a distant galaxy to destroy Earth. The alien visitor loses its memory due to serious damage and proves to be a gentle, ingenuous, amiable guy who makes friends with Hogarth. Hearing about the Iron Giant, Kent Mansley (Christopher McDonald), an ambitious government agent wishing to distinguish himself, arrives in Rockwell to mouse out and destroy the robot. But the fearless little boy is ready to take any risk in order to protect his metal pal against the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines and hides him in the junkyard.
Miles Logan is a jewel thief. Things go awry while he's stealing a huge diamond in downtown L.A.: a thief, Deacon, tries a double-cross, the police arrive, and Miles is arrested, but not before he hides the jewel in an air duct of a building under construction. Two years' later, he's out of prison and he heads for the site: it's L.A.'s new police headquarters! Posing as a reassigned cop, Miles gets into the building, but before he can recover the swag, he's partnered with a naive detective and sent out to investigate burglaries. With Deacon on his trail, he must recover the diamond, keep the cops fooled, and do a few good deeds as a detective who can think like a criminal.
An aging football coach finds himself struggling with his personal and professional life while trying to hold his team together. A star quarterback has been knocked out of the game and a naive football player replaces him only to become exposed to the world of sports and become a danger to himself and to his players. Meanwhile, the coach finds himself constantly at battle with the team owner's money and power hungry daughter intent on moving the team out.
The Persian Gulf War comes to an end and the United States triumph over a defeated enemy. Hundreds of Iraqi officers and soldiers surrender themselves cradling leaflets promising food and drink, home and kind treatment. Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) and Private First Class Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze) are charged to disarm, strip naked and search the surrendering Iraqi. They are lucky to have found an important document on a resisting Iraqi officer. The document proves to be a map that discloses the location of Saddam Hussein's caches of gold confiscated from Kuwait. Troy and Conrad arrive at a decision not to report their commanding officers, except their pal, Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin (Ice Cube). However, the rumors of the secret map reach the ears of Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), and the four soldiers come up with a selfish plan to abstract the treasure from the bunkers.
After losing their payload the ramshackle, sinking, ocean-going salvage tug "Sea Star" takes refuge in the eye of a typhoon in an attempt to make repairs. Whilst trying to find help the tug, captained by Robert Everton ('Donald Sutherland' (qv)), discovers a Russian science vessel adrift in the eye. The crew believes their troubles are over and they are set for life when the captain informs them of the value of salvaging this apparent ghost-ship. However, the navigator Kit Foster ('Jamie Lee Curtis' (qv)) and the chief engineer Steve Baker ('William Baldwin' (qv)) are not convinced that it will be that easy. Once power is restored to the ship strange things start to happen and the crew mysteriously disappear one by one. It isn't until the discovery of the last remaining Russian crew member, the chief science officer Nadia Vinogradiya ('Joanna Pacula' (qv)), that the crew realise the enemy ranged against them isn't the Russians but something far more malevolent...
Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk--with the exception of Camille Dixon (Glenn Close)--a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora (Julianne Moore), whose estranged daughter Emma (Liv Tyler) has just returned to town. On the heels of her latest play, Camille is shocked to discover that her Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) has committed suicide. Terrified at the thought of how this will tarnish the family name, she eats the suicide note to make it look like a burglary. This set-up leads the police to one main suspect, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton), who also happens to be Cookie's best friend. Although the rest of the town is convinced Willis didn't commit the crime, an outside investigator (Courtney B. Vance) isn't so sure. As Easter Sunday and opening night of the play arrive, the truth comes out, revealing more secrets than anyone could have possibly imagined. Director Altman tells his story at a leisurely pace, beautifully recreating the eccentricities of small town life in this sweet-natured tale.
Set in 18th century England, the movie follows the story of Captain James Macleane (Jonny Lee Miller), a broken aristocrat who escapes from a debtor’s prison with the help of Will Plunkett (Robert Carlyle), once a druggist and now a highwayman. The two combine Plunkett’s criminal know-how and Macleane’s social connections to make a good team for robbing rich gamblers. Things go on wheels until Macleane falls for gorgeous Lady Rebecca Gibson (Liv Tyler), the niece of Chief Justice Gibson (Michael Gambon).
Scholars have revealed the clue to ancient codes which are hidden in the Bible and foretell global events. The interpretations of the codes are burned on computer disks but are stolen by Antichrist's henchman Dominic (Michael Ironside). Dr. Gillen Lane (Casper Van Dien), a world-known motivational speaker and expert on theology and mythology, is called to assist European Union Chairman Alexander Stone (Michael York) in the quest for global peace. Lane suddenly discovers that Stone is bent on using the stolen disks to take control of the entire universe...
The sparkling comedy focuses upon the life of fictional legendary jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), who lived during the 1930s. We observe Ray’s unimaginable escapades, creative crisis, love affairs with a mute laundry worker, Hattie (Samantha Morton), and a graceful writer, Blanche (Uma Thurman), and long-awaited success. He was an eccentric, alcohol-abusing, womanizing, arrogant, reckless, prodigal guy who once vanished into thin air. Goodness knows what happened to him. Fortunately, he left his beautiful music records for us to enjoy.
Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show "What Do Kids Know?"(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced "WDKK" when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl's trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her... The host of "WDKK", Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia's house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away... Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on "WDKK", who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He's been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness...
The 8-episode movie presents a chronological account of the discovery and exploration of the solar system, from the first attempts to magnify the sky with primitive telescopic lenses to sophisticated space probes revealing even the most remote planets today. Exciting narrative, comprehensive interviews with numerous scientists, vivid images, excellent graphics and a delightful soundtrack will leave inquiring audience breathless.
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps. Explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but nice) Amber Atkins won't be stopped. There could well be more death and disappointment to come.
After learning that she has cancer and mere a few months left to live, Susan Morton (Nancy Travis) makes up her mind to move with her12-year-old daughter, Carson (Jamie Renee Smith), from Chicago to California where her ex-husband Peter lives. But Peter and his new wife refuse to take custody of Carson; Susan's parents, Phil (James Karen) and Marnie (Holland Taylor), are strict and conservative enough to raise their freedom-loving granddaughter. In the meantime, Susan meets a young busboy, Michael Blake (Scott Bairstow), who falls in love with her and becomes fast friends with her daughter. Hearing about Susan's terminal illness, Michael, however, keeps his distance from her. The reason is that after the tragical loss of his sister he is afraid of losing another person who is near and dear to him. It's up to Carson to convince Michael that they should keep together.
