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Movies produced in 2007
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Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. |
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When a four-year-old girl, Amanda McCready (Madeline O'Brien), goes mysteriously missing in Dochester, one of Boston's toughest neighborhoods, and the local police fail to solve the case, her aunt, Beatrice McCready (Amy Madigan), turn to two private investigators for help. Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) reluctantly start an investigation as they have little experience with this type of case. But they succeed in getting on the trail of the girl's abductors due to criminal contacts. They discover that Amanda's drug-addicted mother, Helen (Amy Ryan), and her boyfriend cleaned out one of the local drug dealers who in revenge kidnapped the kid. They promise to pay him back in exchange for the girl; however, the switch goes horribly awry. Patrick and Angie come to realize that they have taken on the perilous job but their professional arrogance forces them to see it through. |
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In this edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller, Andy Hanson (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a finance executive with big personal and financial problems, lures his also-strapped younger brother Hank (Ethan Hawke) into a scheme to pull off the seemingly perfect, non-violent, victimless crime. The brothers conspire to rip off the jewelry store that belongs to their parents, Charles (Albert Finney) and Nanette (Rosemary Harris). However, the fail-safe plan goes horribly awry when, unbeknownst to his sibling, Hank hires his shady friend, Bobby Lasorda (Brian F. O'Byrne) who takes a real and loaded gun with him and thus puts himself and his accomplices in various kinds of jeopardy... |
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Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar. |
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Set in Harlem in the 1970s, the crime drama focuses on a violent struggle between Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), a menacing drug kingpin who smuggles heroin hidden in the coffins of U.S. soldiers killed during the Vietnam War, and Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), an honest to the backbone, hard-nosed detective attempting to catch Lucas and bring down his drug empire. |
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A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica. |
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The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Headed by Semyon, whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold and brutal core, the family's fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill, who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father. But Nikolai's carefully maintained existence is jarred once he crosses paths at Christmastime with Anna Khitrova, a midwife at a North London hospital. Anna is deeply affected by the desperate situation of a young teenager who dies while giving birth to a baby. Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's lineage and relatives. The girl's personal diary also survives her; it is written in Russian, and Anna seeks answers in it. Anna's mother Helen does not discourage her, but Anna's irascible Russian-born uncle Stepan urges caution. He is right to do so; by delving into the diary, Anna has accidentally unleashed the full fury of the Vory. With Semyon and Kirill closing ranks and Anna pressing her inquiries, Nikolai unexpectedly finds his loyalties divided. The family tightens its grip on him; who can, or should, he trust? Several lives - including his own - hang in the balance as a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution reverberates through the darkest corners of both the family and London itself. |
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After a notorious criminal, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), is eventually captured, his gang of thieves and thugs continues to terrorize the townspeople. Civil War veteran and impoverished rancher Dan Evans (Christian bale) volunteers to secretly escort Wade to the nearest town with a railway station where he will be put on the 3:10 train to the prison in Yuma, Arizona. As soon as they stay at the hotel, it becomes apparent that they both become hunted... |
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Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. |
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For teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky), school is a real yawn. She somehow tolerates her boring classes just to race home to catch her favorite dance show on TV. Despite her overweight, Tracy is obsessed with her dream of someday appearing on "The Corny Collins Show." When the chance to partake in the show arrives, the aspiring dancer immediately takes the auditions. To her great joy, Tracy lands a spot on the show and quickly pursues stardom. However, she must overcome many obstacles she faces on her path. |
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Seven months after the rage virus has annihilated the British isles, the US army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited—but one of them unwillingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever |
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An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb. |
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This touching comedy drama tells the story of two terminally ill men given only several months to live. While sharing a room in a cancer ward, blue-collar mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and millionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) decide to live their last days to the fullest and make a "bucket list" of things they want to do before they kick the bucket. Escaping from hospital, the newly made friends embark on an adventurous journey which includes seeing the wonders of the world, race car driving, sky diving, going on a safari in Africa and playing poker in Monte Carlo. |
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Two lifetime buddies Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) are about to graduate high school and go off to different colleges. Therefore they decide to have a graduation blowout before a long separation. The nerdy guys set out to supply the party with alcohol, hoping to spend an unforgettable night of love with drunken girls. However, things go awry and their attempts at buying liquor become a greater challenge than picking up girls. |
| Alien Agent
[2007,
Canada]
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| Only one man stands in the way of an alien invasion... And he's not even human. |
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Rykker is an intergalactic warrior trapped on Earth, destined to fight a gang of ruthless aliens known as The Syndicate. The syndicate is an alien fifth column plotting to take over the world. The film opens with a spectacular highway chase, as Rykker liquidates several syndicate agents. Saylon is a top syndicate leader who comes from outer space and crash-lands on Earth. His mission to build a wormhole link between Earth and the alien planet - a portal - making possible a full-scale invasion of the Earth. Isis is the sexy and ruthless leader of the syndicate on Earth. While launching a robbery spree to steal the spare parts necessary to build the portal, Isis becomes hell bent on destroying Rykker and clearing the way for Saylon's master plan. Julie is a fifteen year old who's family is murdered During the hijacking of a truck carrying material for the portal. Julie left totally alone in the world, Seeks vengeance on the killers. Rykker also seeks to find them. He must stop them before they complete the portal and flood the world with alien scum. Julie and Rykker are thrown together by tragic circumstance. They hook up - actually, she follows him against his will; he tries and tries to ditch her, but she keeps popping up, even saving his life at one point - and embark on a cross country journey, with Isis and an army of syndicate killers in hot pursuit. The final showdown, inside a nuclear reactor, is a balls to the wall action climax, as Rykker and Julie battle Isis, Saylon and their army of killers, and try to prevent the portal from opening a rein of destruction upon Earth. |
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For many years the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, along with the town dwellers, has got rid of its toxic waste and garbage by discharging them into the lake. After the sinking of the barge the band "Green Day" (Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt) was performing on, Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith) convinces the locals to clean up the polluted lake. But when her muddle-headed father Homer (Dan Castellaneta) dumps an overflowing silo of "Pig Crap" in it, he involuntarily causes ecological catastrophe. Induced by the treacherous adviser from the EPA, Russ Cargill (Albert Brooks), President Arnold Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer) orders to put a giant glass dome over Springfield. The Simpsons, however, manage to escape with a whole skin through a sinkhole in their baby Maggie's sandbox and they flee to Alaska. Having heard of the president’s villainous plan to destroy Springfield, Homer’s wife Marge (Julie Kavner) and his kids try to persuade him to return to the town but all to no avail. Therefore Marge, along with the kids, leaves Homer. But a meeting with a medicine woman (Tress MacNeille) drastically changes his outlook and Homer comes to the conclusion that he must defy the president, once known as Terminator, so as to save the home town, which is on a razor's edge, and reunite with his family.
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Once in London there lived a young and naïve barber named Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp). He was married to a beautiful woman named Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly) who gave birth to a lovely baby girl. Unfortunately for Barker, voluptuous Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) coveted his wife and sentenced him to a life of hard labor so that he could ravish Lucy. The woman couldn't survive disgrace and poisoned herself with arsenic. Following that, the judge took Barker's little daughter, Johanna (Jayne Wisener), as his ward, perhaps to soothe his conscience. Fifteen years later, Barker escaped from prison and returned to his hometown under the assumed name of Sweeney Todd, only to find his beloved wife dead and his grown-up daughter in the clutches of the corrupt judge. Embittered and devastated, Todd vowed vengeance against Turpin and his henchman, Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall). He followed advice of his former landlady Mrs. Lovett's (Helena Bonham Carter) and reopened his barbershop in the hope of someday luring the judge and slitting his throat with his sharp razor. |
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A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town. |
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Set in the USA in the 1950s, the harrowing thriller is narrated by David Moran (Daniel Manche). After losing their parents in a horrific car accident, the Loughlin sisters, Megan (Blythe Auffath) and Susan (Madeline Taylor), are sent to live with their alcoholic aunt, Ruth Chandler (Blanche Baker), and her three sons, Willie (Graham Patrick Martin), Donny (Benjamin Ross Kaplin), and Ralphie (Austin Williams). The amiable Meg forges a friendship with her teenage neighbor, David, who immediately becomes enamoured of her. He soon makes a shocking discovery that the girl he dearly loves systematically receives gruesome physical tortures from her abusive aunt and neighborhood kids... |
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A New York schoolteacher (Hunt) hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she (April) begins a courtship with the father (Firth) of one of her students. |
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