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Movies produced in 2000
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Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment's notice, to far-flung locales - and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. Chuck's manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his true personal journey. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience. |
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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. |
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FBI agent Malcolm Turner is known best for being a brilliant, master of disguise. Malcolm's latest assignment sends him to small-town Georgia, where he's assigned to trap a brutal bank robber (and a recent prison escapee) who they suspect will be coming down to visit his ex-girlfriend Sherry and her son. Malcolm sets up a stakeout across from the home of a larger-than-life southern matriarch known as Big Momma, who's about to be visited by Sherry. It's a simple plan, but there's one big problem: Unbeknownst to Sherry, Big Momma has unexpectedly left town. So Malcolm, decides to impersonate the cantankerous Southern granny. Using a few tricks of disguise, he completely transforms himself into Big Momma, even taking on the corpulent septuagenarian's everyday routine-from cooking soul food to delivering babies to "testifying" at the local church. In the mean time, Malcolm starts falling for Sherry, who may or may not be hiding some stolen cash. Now, Malcolm/Big Momma must somehow find a way to nab his criminal and the girl. |
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Skydiving, clever disguise, extreme fighting is a way of life for Charlie's Angels, three accomplished private investigators. Armed with the latest in high-tech gadgetry, high-tech weaponry, martial arts techniques and killing charm, Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore) and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu) are able to pull off the impossible. Their boss, Charles Townsend (John Forsythe), gives them an important assignment to rescue a computer software owner, Eric Knox (Sam Rockwell), who has been kidnapped from his office. Moreover, the cute detectives must find and prevent his top-secret voice-identification software program from falling into the wrong hands. |
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The plot centres on a huge diamond stolen from the Orthodox Jewish diamond district in Antwerp by a gang of armed robberies. The diamond's thief and courier, Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) must deliver the valuable gem to his crime boss, "Cousin Avi" (Dennis Farina) in America. First he travels to England to give smaller stones to Avi's cousin, Doug "The Head" (Mike Reid) and other local Hatton Garden jewelers. But instead, hapless Franky is drawn into the whirlpool of rather undesirable events. In London he can't help placing a bet on an illegal boxing bout by Boris "The Blade" (Rade Serbedzija) who proves to have taken him over - local pawnshop owners Vincent (Robbie Gee) and Sol (Lennie James), along with their getaway driver, Tyrone (Ade) waylay and rob him at the bookies. As expected, the diamond goes missing. When bad news reaches Avi's ears, he blows off and rushes with a legendary hit man, 'Bullet Tooth' Tony (Vinnie Jones), to London to find Franky and the missing stone. Moreover, the priceless gem is hunted by cunning Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt), morose Brick Top (Alan Ford) and many other miscreants, each of whom strives to hit the jackpot. |
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The movie depicts the story of Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), once an alpinist and now a wildlife photographer, who cannot obliterate from his memory a tragic event in his life. The Garrets enjoyed climbing mountains. One day while climbing in Utah, Peter, his father, Royce (Stuart Wilson), and his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), were eyewitnesses to the death of two amatures falling down the mountain. This caused the Garrets to move quickly and slide off the side of the mountain. As the rope could hardly hold that much weight, the father made Peter cut it to save his and his sister's lives. The father died and Annie condemned her brother for making a fateful decision. Three years later, Annie, determined to continue her father's dream of climbing the world's toughest peaks, makes a risky attempt to ascend the perilous K-2. Having heard about Annie being trapped in an icy grave, Peter assembles a rescue team to save the three survivors of the expedition, his sister, Tom McLaren (Nicholas Lea) and Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton). |
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After a night of drunken revelry, two bumbling potheads, Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott), wake up with massive hangovers and a burning question: "Dude, where's my car?" To make matters worse, the anniversary presents they bought for their twin girlfriends, Wilma (Marla Sokoloff) and Wanda (Jennifer Garner), are left in their car. The dudes have nothing to do but to retrace in their mind the depraved events of the previous night in the hope of finding the missing car. The hapless guys embark on a hilarious journey and along the way, they come across a variety of bizarre characters including a transgender stripper wanting to retrieve his/her suitcase full of cash, a Cantonese -speaking Chinese tailor (Keone Young), two hard-nosed cops, a reclusive ostrich farmer (Brent Spiner), a pot-smoking dog, alien-seeking fanatics, and five sexy jumpsuit-wearing alien women looking for a mystical devise that can save or destroy the universe. |
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In ancient times, the Roman Empire had no commander more powerful than general Maximus (Russell Crowe). The invincible Legions of the Empire led by the noble warrior worshiped him reverently and could follow him even to the hell. But it happened that the courageous Maximus, determined to have a fair fight with enemy troops, turned out powerless against treacherous court intrigues. The general was betrayed and condemned to death. Having escaped an execution and been sold into slavery, Maximus was forced to train as a gladiator in the arena, where his fame grew. Once in the Coliseum, he was locked in mortal combat with his sworn enemy, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix)... |
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? |
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Let's make no bones about betrayal. Cheating on your girlfriend is mean. Videotaping the entire process of cheating is worse. On top of everything, it is absolutely unforgivable for you to mail your beloved the racy tape as a present, even if you do it by accident. If the situation is to be saved, you'll have a long march across America to intercept the disastrous tape before it falls into your sweetheart's hands. But you can put out of your mind the notion that it'll be plain sailing. You'll have a road trip so breathtaking that a roller coaster seems a quiet play in a sandbox by comparison. |
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Gaylord Focker (Ben Stiller), a Jewish male nurse, is always plagued with bad luck and all his good deeds lead him into a string of mishaps. This time Greg tries his darndest to marry his beloved, Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo). However, after he spends his first weekend with Pam's parents at her sister's wedding on Long Island, this task becomes really tough. Things start to go horribly wrong when he loses his luggage at the airport. During the weekend Greg contrives to give Pam's sister, Deborah (Nicole DeHuff), a black eye, lose the Byrnes' rare cat and set their garden on fire. But there's more to it than that: his soon-to-be father-in-law, former CIA agent Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), dislikes Greg very much and gives him an acid test. The strict and suspicious father even subjects his daughter's boyfriend to a lie detector. Will the Byrnes give their blessing to a future wedding between their daughter, the apple of their eyes, and the clumsy, bustling, accident-prone Greg? |
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He is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel). He is a stranger to fear. More than once he has been within hair's breadth of death. This time fortune doesn't smile upon him: the dangerous escaped criminal is being caught, shackled and headed for a new prison in a large cargo spacecraft. After being damaged in a meteor storm, the spaceship crash-lands on a seemingly desolate distant planet. As a matter of fact, there is life on the eerie planet. Nasty carnivorous creatures dwelling in the subterraneans come out onto the surface and start seeking for flesh and blood, as three suns set and the planet plunges into pitch-darkness. The spaceship crash survivors – Riddick's captor William J. Johns (Cole Hauser), a Muslim Imam (Keith David ) with his three sons, Sulieman (Les Chantery), Hassan (Sam Sari) and Ali (Firass Dirani), a young stowaway, Jack (Rhiana Griffith), an antiquary, Paris P. Ogilvie (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), and two Australian settlers, Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery (Claudia Black) and John "Zeke" Ezekiel (John Moore) – have hope for the criminal Riddick who can see in the dark owing to an illegal prison surgery. Riddick get into a terrible fight with the vicious monsters so as to survive and leave the planet from whose bourn no traveller returns... |
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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. |
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A Russian scientist in Australia, Dr. Nekhorvich (Rade Serbedzija), who has created a skin-corroding virus called "Chimera" and its antidote called "Bellerophon", goes to the CDC in Atlanta. When renegade IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) learns about Dr. Nekhrovich's inventions, he is intent on getting them and infecting the whole world in order to acquire the wealth and power by selling the cure. What he expects is that the price of "Bellerophon" will bump up when the public gets to know about the shocking effect of "Chimera". Ambrose kills the scientist but what he gets is only the antidote. It turns out that the prudent Dr. Nechrovich has injected himself with the deadly virus. Ambrose stops at nothing to steal the virus from Biocyte Pharmaceuticals in Sydney otherwise no one will buy the cure. The Government sends IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) on a mission to stop the bloodthirsty terrorist before he manages to execute his perfidious destructive plans. Ethan enlists help of his beloved, seductive adventuress Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), computer expert Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Australian helicopter pilot Billy Biard (John Polson). Can Hunt destroy the virus and retrieve the cure to save the world from a horrible and hasty death? |
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FBI agent Joel Campbell (James Spader) spent over five years chasing a cunning serial killer, David Allen Griffin (Keanu Reeves). Frustrated and all to pieces after many years of a fruitless search, Campbel can hardly comprehend the maniac's perverted logic and goes into retirement. He moves to Chicago in the hope of finding peace of mind and beginning a new life. Nothing seems to prevent him from making a clean break with his terrible past. But some months later, murder wave swamps Campbell's new hometown. This is undoubtedly the handiwork of David Griffin who decides to play a sadistic cat-and-mouse game with Campbell and mails him photos of his soon-to-be victims. Campbell must stop the gruesome killer by all means otherwise he will be Griffin's final victim. |
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After having served a 6-year sentence for car theft, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) is about to go at large. His cellmate and best buddy Nick Cassidy (James Frain) is to be released from prison the same day but he is suddenly killed during a prison mutiny with only three days left to serve. Rudy makes up his mind to assume his dead cellmate's identity to start a relationship with his gorgeous pen pal, Ashley Mercer (Charlize Theron). Rudy, however, is unaware that Ashley's brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise) and his gang of thugs plot to rob a gambling casino in Michigan where Nick used to work, thus, Ashley is just tempting bait for Nick to be trapped into an armed heist on Christmas Eve. And now this seemingly funny idea of pretending to be Nick can cost Rudy his life. |
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Everyone knows that police detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) is the toughest and smartest cop in New York City. He is one of those people who are ready to work themselves to the bone to fight for justice. This time Shaft is out to put away a spoiled preppie, Walter Wade (Christian Bale), who killed a young black student. Shaft arrests the perpetrator but he is soon set free on 200-thousand dollars bail and escapes to Switzerland. Two years later, Wade secretly returns to the United States and gets a bust. When Wade's father (Philip Bosco), a wealthy tycoon, posts a million dollars bail for his son once again, Shaft throws his badge and leaves police to lead his personal vendetta against Wade. Teamed up with his eye-catching fellow detective Carmen Vasquez (Vanessa L. Williams), Shaft must find barmaid Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), who was an eye witness to the racially-motivated murder. Meanwhile, Wade asks his cellmate Peoples Hernandez (Jeffrey Wright), a Dominican drug lord, to kill the only witness of his crime. Hernandez, in his turn, gives a graft to two corrupt officers to find the girl. |
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A group of scientists, led by the brilliant and ambitious inventor Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon), accepts the Pentagon's assignment to formulate a serum for invisibility. After creating a formula and testing on animals, Caine doesn't report his success to the military and decides to be the next guinea pig for the experiment. Unfortunately, the antidote fails to work, and Caine is unable to regain his visibility. But he eventually finds out the advantages of his new found power: he can spy on other people, penetrate anywhere, indoors and out, and commit any crime with impunity. In order to prevent his co-workers from sharing the terrible truth to the military, Caine begins killing all the witnesses one by one. |
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While "Stab 3" is in production, somebody in a ghost mask starts to murder the new cast members. This lures Sidney out from hiding deep in the woods where she lives, and she comes to Hollywood to face the killer for the final act. |
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Kate Wells (Famke Janssen) is a magazine journalist who is given an impossible assignment to write an article on love and sex by the end of the day. Kate has no choice but to reminisce about her past romances. Kate experienced her first love at school. But it was unhappy love ending in break-up with classmate Bobby Norton. She lost her virginity to her high-school French teacher. With the years, the number of her sexual partners was a bit shocking: Kate had had 13 lovers when she met artist Adam Levy (Jon Favreau). However, the longer people live together, the more they irritate each other. Her miscarriage and regular domestic quarrels made them split up. Depressed and devastated, Kate met charismatic B-movie actor Joey Santino (Josh Hopkins) at a sex-shop while buying a vibration toy for her "female friend". On the same day they became lovers. Their love affair totally based on sex didn't last long. Kate resumed dating other men but, to her surprise, Adam decided to come back into Kate's life. At first Kate resisted but soon agreed to reunite... Love and sex... |
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