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Movies produced in 2006
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In 1950 ZomCon Corporation domesticates flesh-eating zombies, turning them into gardeners, milkmen, paper boys, domestic servants and even our favourite pets. A lonely eleven-year-old boy, Timmy Robinson (K'Sun Ray), spends much time in his room; even his own parents pay little attention to him. So it is a great surprise to him when his mother, Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss), buys a six-foot zombie servant (Billy Connolly). He is really amazed when the creature suggests playing catch. After the zombie protects the little boy from bullies, Timmy takes to the creature and names him Fido. Timmy strengthens his friendship with Fido even when he ends up eating the some friendly townsfolk. Mr. Bottoms (Henry Czerny), a high-powered ZomCom executive, sets out to investigate the case but Timmy does everything in his power to keep Fido as a member of the family... |
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A deeply religious middle-aged black farmer, Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson), discovers a young white woman, Rae (Christina Ricci), beaten half to death and thrown on the side of the road. He brings the traumatized woman home and gives medical care to her. When Lazarus learns that Rae is afflicted with a severe form of nymphomania, he makes a decision to take the healing of the woman into his own hands. |
| Cashback
[2006,
UK]
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| Time flies, but the good news is that you're the pilot. |
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Being dumped hurts... Art student Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff) feels desperate and full of grief after a breakup with his girlfriend Suzy (Michelle Ryan). He can't understand why on earth he was dumped when their relationship seemed so perfect. He is so distressed that he can't sleep any more. To burn time, Ben starts working the night shift at the local supermarket. He unexpectedly finds himself with the unimaginable ability to stop time that gives a powerful incentive to his artistic talent. |
| Eight Below
[2006,
USA]
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| The Most Amazing Story Of Survival, Friendship, And Adventure Ever Told. |
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Due to force majeure circumstances three members of a scientific expedition — survival guide Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker), cartographer Charlie Cooper (Jason Biggs), and geologist Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood) – are ordered to evacuate the National Science Foundation Research Base in Antarctica. As there is no room on board plane for their dogsled team, they reluctantly leave their smart and devoted four-footed friends, vowing to return in a few weeks and rescue them. |
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Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis. |
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Set in a separate storyline not related to the "Trailer Park Boys" Television show, but with the same lovable characters. The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty" which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever. |
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Set in Victorian England, the charming romantic drama tells the story of Beatrix Potter (Renee Zellweger), a single, 32-year-old woman who goes from one publishing house to another, showing her children's stories and drawings and trying to get her book published. The Warne brothers, Harold (Anton Lesser) and Fruing (David Bamber), are among the six publishers to whom Beatrix submits the story of Peter Rabbit. Having examined her rabbits in frock coats and half-witted ducks who she talks to as if they are living creatures, the brothers only agree to publish her work to preoccupy their younger brother Norman (Ewan McGregor). Beatrix's first project proves a huge success, making her a writing celebrity. |
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In the detective thriller, Truman Capote (Toby Jones), a famous writer for The New Yorker, reads a brief story about the brutal and senseless murders of four members of a farm family in Holcomb, Kansas. Intrigued by the story, he and his assistant and fellow writer, Nelle Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock), set out for Kansas to research the horrific case for an article. The deeper Capote digs into the story, the more convinced he becomes that it is too big for just an article, and he decides to write a modern non-fiction novel about the murders and suspects. In doing so, he creates his famous work, "In Cold Blood," but he has to pay too big a price for his success. |
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Werewolves, divided into two rival clans, wage a relentless war against each other: one, gripped with the blood lust, goes in search of victims under the full red moon; the other resists the animal instinct of the beast within and wants to become human again. The endpoint in the longtime war is expected to be the13th birthday of Timothy (Matthew Knight), the child of a werewolf father and a human mother. If the boy reaches the predicted age, he will put an end to the curse of lycanthropy. Skinwalkers, the evil tribe of werewolves, have only a few days to prevent the ancient prophecy. |
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Pusit is having the worst day of his life. He just lost his job and is in serious debt. That is all about to change when he receives a mysterious phone call with a tempting offer. If he could complete 13 tasks, he will win 100 million Baht. Pusit agrees and the game begins. |
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The L.A. of a not-too-distant future suffers a surge of drug abuse involving a new ultra-addictive and eventually brain-damaging substance simply named "D". Bob Arctor is an undercover narc leading a double life, dutifully reporting to his superiors while effectively having abandoned whatever normal existence he had for a "D" user/dealer career. But this schizophrenic situation and the drug-induced memory and concentration lapses put Bob under mounting stress. |
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On a fateful night in November 1970, the town of Huntington, West a plane crash took the lives of 75 members of the Marshall University football team, coaching staff, boosters and crew. Aided by the former Marshall assistant coach Red Dawson (Matthew Fox) and the three remaining players who didn't travel for the away game, Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey), a daring, persistent young coach, sets out to reassemble the football program, and raise the spirits spirit of the grief-stricken town. |
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Having awaken from hibernation, forest dwellers - Verne the overptotective turtle (Garry Shandling), Stella the skunk (Wanda Sykes), Hammy the energetic squirrel (Steve Carell), Ozzie the opossum (William Shatner) and his daughter Heather (Avril Lavigne), Lou the porcupine (Eugene Levy), his caring wife Penny (Catherine O'Hara) and their fidgety kids – feel very anxious about not having enough food for everyone. And what is more, they are bitterly disappointed to discover that a suburban housing development has appeared in a place that used to be their forest home. Unaware of where to find food and scared of approaching the hedge, not to mention alien creatures called humans, they start thinking hard about solving the problem. Fortunately for them, an opportunistic yet charismatic traveling raccoon named RJ (Bruce Willis) who has recently attached himself to the forest community is bursting with ideas. RJ convinces the forest band of having nothing to fear and suggests that they should go over the hedge and get all they want from their new neighbors.
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Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before. |
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When a crime is committed on the border of Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to come together, whether they want to or not. As the investigation gets underway, we meet David Bouchard and Martin Ward, members of their respective provincial police forces who are forced to work together. The two men couldn't be more different. In fact, the only thing they appear to have in common is that they are both cops, albeit cops with totally different styles. |
| Midnight Clear
[2006,
USA]
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| For many people, the holidays are the loneliest time of year. Merry Christmas. |
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A recently homeless and jobless loser, a senior citizen estranged from her family, a mother of one dealing with her husband's brain damage, a gas station owner stuck in a job he hates, and a youth pastor feeling irrelevant face depression and loneliness on Christmas Eve. As they cross paths and experience random and minor acts of kindness, their lives are changed forever. |
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Inspired by true events, the drama follows the adventures of Clifford Irving (Richard Gere), a struggling American novelist in the 1970s who couldn't sell his books. Wanting to make a name for himself, Irving decided to resort to a ruse about writing an "autobiography" of Howard Hughes (Milton Buras), one of the most famous and wealthiest people in the world. After enlisting the help of his pal Richard Suskind (Alfred Molina), Irving attempted to compose the fake memoirs. To make them "authentic," they did some research, stole government documents, forged Hughes' handwritten communiqués and copied his former confidante Noah Dietrich's (Eli Wallach) manuscript of his conversations with the eccentric billionaire. The published book immediately became a mammoth bestseller. |
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A BBC adaptation of the classic tale of the 18th century demon barber of Fleet Street, London, who cuts the throats of his unsuspecting clients in his shop. |
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This movie is an interpretation of Garrison Keillor's radio show of the same name. After 32 years, Garrison Keillor's radio variety show is coming to an end. Some establishment had bought the radio station this program stapled, so this very broadcast will be the last... Keillor and Altman worked hard at creating a distinct element of authenticity. The entire film (except opening and closing scenes) was shot in St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater, home to the show since 1978. "Prairie Home Companion" band members and regular guests also appear in the film. |
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In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph. |
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