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Dr. Ira Kane (David Duchovny), a biology teacher, and Prof. Harry Phineas Block (Orlando Jones), a geology teacher from Glen Canyon Community College, examine the samples of the meteorite crashed in the Arizona desert and discover an infinite number of one-celled life-forms. The microorganisms are evolving in leaps and bounds but scientists can’t explain the phenomenon. The aliens eventually adapt to local conditions and start spreading out to take over Earth. Aided by government scientist Allison Reed (Julianne Moore) and pool manager Wayne Green (Seann William Scott), the two professors take pains to save mankind from the menacing alien population and the resulting extinction. |
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Loosely based on the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, the fantasy movie revolves around George (James Purefoy), a valorous English knight who returns home from the Crusades, wishing to retire from soldering and settle down to a peaceful life to enjoy marital bliss. But when he arrives at King Edgar's (Simon Callow) palace, he finds him in a state of deep grief as his adorable daughter Princess Lunna (Piper Perabo) has recently been kidnapped by a dragon. The king offers George a glut of wealth if he finds the missing girl. The knight, who wants nothing more than a small acre of land and two cows, agrees to embark on a quest to save the princess. Little does he know that an unlimited number of incredible adventures await him. |
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This comic film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre tells the story of a bumbling British spy who knows neither fear nor danger. In fact, he knows absolutely nothing. He doesn’t know what he does... When a plot to steal the Crown Jewels is exposed, Britain puts its secret agents on the case. However, almost all of MI5's top agents are killed in an explosion. Now there is only one man remaining who can even hope to protect his country. So the inept Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) tries to solve who has stolen the crown jewels from the Tower of London and to save the monarchy from the scheming Frenchman Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich). Accompanied by his assistant Bough (Ben Miller), Johnny gets into one scrape after another. On his way Johnny also comes face to face with Lorna Campbell (Natalie Imbruglia), a special agent whom he fancies. |
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Newton Davis (Steve Martin) has loved Becky Metcalf (Dana Delany) since his schooldays. A talented architect, he builds a dream house in his hometown of Dobbs Mills and presents it to his sweetheart with a marriage proposal. But Becky rejects the offer, considering him to be an impulsive dreamer and loser. Heartbroken, Davis leaves his house abandoned and goes back to New York. Some time later, the architect ends up in a Hungarian restaurant to drown his sorrows in wine and meets an attractive waitress named Gwen (Goldie Hawn) to whom he hastily pours out his sad story. After spending one night together, Gwen decides to take advantage of the situation. She heads for Davis's native town, tracks down his house and takes up residence, pretending to be his wife. She promptly charges her purchases to the 'Newton Davis' account and gets acquainted with his parents and neighbors who are immediately taken with the open-hearted, romantic creature. When Davis shows up at his newly-built house, he finds himself surrounded by the neighbors who offer him their congratulations on his marriage and the store owners who want to get money... |
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Once upon a time, in the magical land of Whoville, there lived a little man named the Grinch (Jim Carrey). The Grinch was different from the townspeople: he was green and hairy, so the Who's teased him all the time. The Grinch took offence at the Who's and made his home high atop Mt. Crumpit where he lived for 30 years. He hated the Who's and Christmas with an equal hatred. Each Christmas with its festivities, decorations, presents and carols was sheer torture to the green hermit. One day the spiteful mountain dweller decided to deprive the Who's of Christmas once and for all. As soon as the carefree Who's went to sleep on Christmas Eve, the treacherous Grinch slunk into the town in order to steal everything associated with their favourite holiday. |
| Second String
[2002,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| She believed in him. Now he must believe in himself to lead the team to the Super Bowl. |
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American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired -relactantly, but his wife twisted his arm- just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan's place... |
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Based on Chris Miller's short story, this highly imaginative comedy focuses on Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton), an overworked, extremely exhausted family man who desperately struggle to cope with his household chores and career. One day his adoring wife Laura (Andie MacDowell) says that she wants to return to work and he sometimes will have to stay home with their child, Jennifer (Katie Schlossberg). Doug feels really depressed because he has scarcely time to perform his numerous responsibilities properly, to say nothing of relaxing and indulging in speculation. But fortune smiles upon him and he meets amazing geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds (Harris Yulin) who offers him an unusual yet attractive solution to his problems - cloning. His exact replica will be able to handle all his duties. You just have to watch the movie to find out how multiplicity changes Doug's life at home and work! |
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Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (2003) stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. As an adventurer, Passepartout ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world. |
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An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down. |
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The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world. |
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Around the World in 80 Days is based on the classic novel by Jules Verne and stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. He was a thief in 1872 who became the traveling companion and martial arts bodyguard of a man betting that he can circumnavigate the world in a set time. British inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), a daring man of science, stated his belief that it's possible for him to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days, as he asserted in a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), the head of the Royal Academy of Science. During their adventurous trip the pair has various points to stop at, situated in France (Paris, of course!), Turkey, India, China and the United States. Femme fatale Monique and a suspecting detective are also involved in the story. Soon after the pair left London, a major bank was robbed and Phileas and Passportout are considered as the main suspects trying to escape. |
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Two men (Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin) get laid off in product development at a large food company and are forced to become stay-at-home fathers and take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy. They create a new day care facility called "Daddy Day Care" and have kids like: the smart-mouthed-but-became-polite Crispin (Shane Baumel), the really-smart Becca (Hailey Noelle Johnson), and The Flash/Tony (Jimmy Bennett). As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a comedic rivalry with the Chapman Academy tough-as-nails director, Ms. Harridan (Anjelica Huston). |
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A timeless story of a young girl who moves to Cuba with her family, where she meets Javier, a local and falls in love with him, who encourages her to dance dirty Cuban-style. The Revolution approaches as the couple prepares for a national dance competition, discovering the love, sensuality and independence. When Castro takes over, Katey's parents decide to flee for the U.S., leaving Katey to make the ultimate decision. |
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For many years now, at Bill and Ted University of the future, the people of the world have been excellent to each other. But fed-up with Bill and Ted's peaceful world and even more fed up with heavy metal, Chuck De Nomolos decides to do something about it. De Nomolos creates cyborg versions of Bill and Ted, who travel back to 1990 with orders to kill the human versions of Bill and Ted, win the Battle of the Bands, and pave the way for De Nomolos to take over the future. In 1990, Bill and Ted are sent to hell by the cyborgs. Cyborg Bill and cyborg Ted make time with the real Bill and Ted's girlfriends Joanna and Elizabeth and prepare to take the human Bill and Ted's place in the Battle of the Bands. With the help of their friend Rufus, the human Bill and Ted are forced to find a way out of hell, deal with the Grim Reaper, and talk to God himself, in their mission to get to the Battle of the Bands and stop the two cyborgs. |
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An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love. |
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The enchanting children’s tale follows the adventures of five siblings who are sent to stay with their uncle Albert (Kenneth Branagh) in his tumbledown mansion by the seaside during World War I. While exploring the ramshackle house, Robert (Freddie Highmore), Anthea (Jessica Claridge), Cyril (Jonathan Bailey), Jane (Poppy Rogers), and Martha (Zoл Wanamaker) discover a grouchy 8,000-year-old sand fairy, Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), who promises to grant them one wish per day, each one lasting until sundown. All the wishes, however, backfire in amusing ways.
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A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults. |
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They are back, again in black! The heroes of the most successful sci-fi comedy of the 1997 return to the screen to fight the powerful intergalactic villain Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle), an alien disguised as a lingerie model. Jay (Will Smith), whose partner Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) is retired since the very ending of the previous series, is to find his colleague who is now a mailman and remembers absolutely nothing about his agent life as his memory is selectively wiped. Serleena's aim is to possess some hidden artifact, in that case our world will have serious troubles, namely, it will be destroyed. The most hilarious characters in this series are talking dog Frank (voiced by Tim Blaney) and a motley crew of the alien worms who help guys in black to fight super-powerful, super-sexy villain. She will not surrender for nothing: Serleena's tentacles wrapped the MIB central office... |
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Once upon a time there lived a young woman named Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy). When her father who was a popular rock-n-roll musician died in a plane crash with Molly's mother, she came into possession of a large fortune. Molly led a hectic social life as if she were a princess in a fairy tale. All she could do was go partying, go shopping at trendy boutiques and look down on bachelors who dreamt of dating her. But one day the fairy tale came to an end when her accountant vanished with all her money. Molly dashed off into the conviction that the only thing to do was to find a job. After a few failed attempts she eventually took a job as a nanny for a nine-year-old girl, Lorraine "Ray" Schleine (Dakota Fanning), whose overbusy executive mother, Roma Schleine (Heather Locklear), neglected her parental duties. The childlike Molly and the precocious Ray developed a warm friendship and began teaching each other how to act their age. |
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A tight-collared workaholic ad executive, Nelson Moss (Keanu Reeves), is devoted to his career and can't imagine another lifestyle. One day he has to beg off work for a couple of hours to take a driving test. At the Department of Motor Vehicles he meets lively, eccentric Sara Deever (Charlize Theron), who is different from the other women in his life. Sara is a beautiful temptress who each month starts a new romantic relationship with no commitments, no pressure, no dependence and no infatuation. Before moving on to the next "patient" she helps her lover to change his life for the better. This time, she, however, falls deeply in love with Nelson, Mr. November, who is determined to give up his career and change his habitual way of life in order to make Sara happy. Will the two live a blissful life? |
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