This movie consists of 5 different novels dedicated to taxi drivers who live in five different cities, every novel has its specific theme, which is peculiar to each action scene. LA and NY, Paris and Rome are the scenes where the stories about cities, culture, blind and seeing, life and death unroll. And the theme of man's abandonment develops in the snow-covered Helsinki.
The animated story of Bambi, a young deer hailed as the 'Prince of the Forest' at his birth. As Bambi grows, he makes friends with the other animals of the forest, learns the skills needed to survive, and even finds love. One day, however, the hunters come, and Bambi must learn to be as brave as his father if he is to lead the other deer to safety.
A pair of comic book painters named Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee), who live in New Jersey, are best friends for about 20 years. They spend their time working in their studio, and in the evenings they are going out. But their friendship is about to be disputed for the first time in their life, when a beautiful young lesbian woman named Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams) enter their life and Holden fall in love with her. Now Holden has to deal with Banky's jealous, and with his new girlfriend's very rich pass.
The satirical documentary revolves around General Motors, a multinational corporation which betrayed those who believed in the American dream by closing its factories in the thriving town of Flint, Michigan in the mid-1980s. The closure resulted in the loss of 33,000 jobs and the economical devastation of the town. Filmmaker Michael Moore doggedly and unsuccessfully tries to meet and obtain an interview from General Motors Chairman Roger Smith who throws various obstacles in his way.
Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is a young lawyer who is making a career in Philadelphia, in a well-known firm. But one day he finds himself fired - at the first glance, for a minor error, but the real reason is that he is gay and more to say he is AIDS-infected person. Andrew hires an attorney, Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), to defend his interests in the law-court, and the pair tries to fight for the truth.
What do you get when you cross a hopelessly straight starving actor with a dynamite red sequined dress? You get America's hottest new actress. (5 more taglines...)
Michael Dorsey is desperate; he can't find a job. That is, until he gets a female role in a soap opera and becomes very famous. Of course, nobody knows that this new television star is a man... But, after a while, he falls in love with the leading actress of the series, and here is the big problem: how can he express his feelings, since she thinks that Michael is a woman?
All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal....
The ten-year marriage of Mark and Joanna Wallace is on the rocks. In flashback they recall their first meeting, memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, their travels through Europe, their broken vow never to have children, and their increasing tensions that led to both of them having extra-marital affairs.
An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.
Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) seems to "have it all" - a cool sport car, a chic flat, pretty girls, etc. In his thirty-eight he is a mischievous child who use to pamper himself and not to take it all to the heart. Will's life was a series of fleeting romances, he had no problems and no boring obligations, and he was simply a handsome egoist until he met Marcus - twelve-aged child who turned all his life upside down. A sybarite and sweet bachelor's life is now totally changed... for the better!
Retelling of the Robin Hood legend with animals for the characters. Robin Hood is an outlaw who starts to form a gang in Sherwood Forest to fight the injustices of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who levies unpayable taxes upon the people.
A small VHS only video store faces foreclosure in a poor community. While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee's friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.
In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies, Cinderella's wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and provide him with a required number of grandchildren. So the King invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where his son will be able to choose his bride. Cinderella has no suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, lead by Jaques and Gus, and the birds lend a hand in making her one, a dress the evil stepsisters immediately tear apart on the evening of the ball. At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother, the pumpkin carriage, the royal ball, the stroke of midnight, the glass slipper, and the rest, as they say, is fairy tale history.
The riveting mystery thriller takes place almost exclusively on a passenger ship, en route from England to Algiers. Intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are charged with the job of accompanying Prince Nikolas (Leslie Vincent) on his journey home after his father's assassination. Holmes must guard the prince, disguised as Watson's nephew, from numerous villains who are also on board to murder the young sovereign and thus subvert the throne.
Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), a respectable, wealthy Philadelphia commodity broker, finds his life upended after his employers, Mortimer (Don Ameche) and Randolph Duke (Ralph Bellamy), make an unusual, one-dollar bet. Randolph believes that the company can be run by anyone, even a regular rascal. The Duke brothers find a perfect candidate for their cruel social experiment when they come across a street con named Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy). Billy unexpectedly finds himself placed in the lap of luxury and given a cushy job, while Lois is expelled from the company and stripped of his fashionable townhouse. But the eccentric brothers don't know that by switching the lifestyle of the criminal and the trusted employee they expose themselves to more risk than they have bargained for.
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
While traveling down south, two college kids Bill Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and Stanley Rothenstein (Mitchell Whitfield) find themselves mistakenly arrested for murdering a convenience store clerk in Alabama. Thinking that they are accused of shoplifting, the buddies sign the avowal of their guilt. With no money and no one to turn to for help, Bill decides to call his lawyer cousin, Vincent Laguardia Gambini (Joe Pesci). The brash Vinny, who has never tried a criminal case, has secret weapon – he can outtalk anyone. With his glib-talking, sexy girlfriend Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei) in tow, Vinny heads to the small Southern town to get the hapless pair out of trouble.
Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her lawfirm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.
After the end of World War II, two reserve officers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) create one of the most successful song-and-dance act in the USA. When fate brings the buddies and two sisters, Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen), together, Bob and Phil become attracted to the girls and decide to travel with them to a ski-resort lodge in Vermont for White Christmas. On their arrival, the guys face two big surprises: the inn is run by their former commander, Major General Thomas F. Waverly (Dean Jagger), and it's about to go under due to lack of snow and consequent lack of guests. Wallace and Davis come up with a brilliant idea to form a quartet and perform a Christmas show to benefit the struggling lodge.
It's Christmas season and Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) promises his beloved wife Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) and his adorable kids, Audrey (Juliette Lewis) and Russell (Johnny Galecki), to make the most fun-filled and exciting celebration in their lives. He invites his long-estranged parents, Clark Wilhelm (John Randolph) and Nora (Diane Ladd), his Aunt Bethany (Mae Questel) and Uncle Lewis (William Hickey), and his wife's parents, Arthur (E.G. Marshall) and Francis Smith (Doris Roberts), to celebrate a great holiday at their house in Chicago. It should be noted that Clark answers his big family's expectations. In addition to traditional dishes, the Christmas menu includes an exploding turkey on the dinner table, the Christmas bonus bugaboo, the electrocution of a cat, and the police raid which gives zest to the holiday.
