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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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John Sullivan (Caviezel) is a New York City homicide officer who is traumatized for 30 years following the death of his father, Frank (Quaid), After finding Frank's HAM radio, John begins talking to Frank, 30 years into the future. Together, they change the past but have to find a way to stop a serial killer from murdering John's Mom & Frank's wife with a 30 year gap. |
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"The Believer" explores a Jewish student's private journey to understand the meaning of Judaism in his life. Set in New York City, the Plot follows a morally confused young adult struggling with the conflict between his beliefs and his heritage. "The Believer" examines themes of religion, family, and self-loathing. It is a psychological examination into the forces of intolerance, both on the individual and society as a whole. |
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Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries. |
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Willie (Billy Bob Thornton), a lonely drunkard, and his midget friend Marcus (Tony Cox) work the Holiday seasons as Santa Claus and his elf in department stores. However, their intent is to rob malls so as to hit the jackpot. When Christmas shoppers, satisfied with their purchaces, leave the mall, Santa and his Elf crack the store safe and make off with their own holiday presents. But in Phoenix their annual robbery gets endangered by a pesky store manager, a sharp mall detective, and a precocious 8-year-old boy who believes that Willie—as intoxicated and felonious as he seems to be—is the real Santa he's been looking for. The innocent, ingenuous little boy evokes inner change in Santa. |
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Set in the Cold War era, the geopolitical thriller movie focuses on petroleum politics, and the global influence of the oil industry, whose political, financial, legal, and social effects are experienced by covert CIA agent Bob Barnes (George Clooney), energy analyst Bryan Woodman (Matt Damon), attorney Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright), and laid-off worker Wasim Kahn (Mazhar Munir).
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| Tigerland
[2000,
USA, Germany]
from $1.99 |
| The system wanted them to become soldiers. One soldier just wanted to be human. |
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In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. Jim Paxton has enlisted; he wants to experience everything and write books later. He befriends Roland Bozz, a cool Texan with a gift for getting into trouble and for helping misfits get discharges. At least one sociopath in the platoon hates Bozz, even as the sergeants grudgingly recognize his leadership abilities. As the platoon heads into its week in Tigerland, Paxton's body gives out, Bozz makes plans to go AWOL, and the sociopath gets hold of live ammo. Is the Louisiana swamp more dangerous than the DMZ? |
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Negotiator is a person who is to conduct talks with a terrorists or another kind of criminals when hostages are taken. When a police negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson) standing on his own legs, one of the best negotiators in Chicago, is framed and faced the perspective of serving time for a murder he not committed, he has to take hostages. His friend is killed by corrupt cops, and the detractive documents are stealthily placed to defile Roman's reputation. When Inspector Terence Niebaum (J.T. Walsh) and his equally corrupted colleagues conduct a search in Roman's place of abode, he takes them as hostages and demands to talk with a negotiator who serves in another police precinct, because he knows that the killer of the friend is between his own counterparts. Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey), a high-skilled negotiator, is involved and all that Roman can do is to try to prove his innocence and to expose the real criminals. |
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn't see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20's, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time. |
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Set in the small British town of Sheffield, six old friends, Gary "Gaz" (Robert Carlyle), Dave (Mark Addy), Lomper (Steve Huison), Gerald (Tom Wilkinson) and Guy (Hugo Speer), find themselves out of job and out of money when their steel mill shuts down. The former steel workers are desperate and depressed over their unemployment and Lomper is so despondent that he attempts to commit suicide. Meanwhile, the Chippendales, a troupe of male strippers, arrive in town and their act is a tremendous success with the local women. Inspired by the exotic dancers, Gaz comes up with the brilliant idea of putting on a similar show of his own, with one difference – they are daring to end the performance "fully nude". But there is only one snag: their bodies are far from perfect and they can't dance at all. |
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A mock documentary which traces the criminal career of Virgil Starkwell from his childhood through his incarceration for bank robbery. Along the way we learn much about Virgil's childhood, his musical (and moral) education, and the vagaries of his relationships with women. |
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In this update of Disney's masterpiece film mixture of animation and music, new interpretations of great works of music are presented. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen's Fifth Symphony. Then we see the adventures of a Humpback Whale calf and his pod set to "The Pines of Rome." Next is the humourous story of several lives in 1930's New York City, scored with "Rhapsody in Blue." Following is a musical telling of the fairy tale, "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" set to Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. Then a goofy Flamingo causes havoc in his flock with his yo-yo to the tune of the finale of "Carnival of the Animals." This is followed by the classic sequence from the original film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" starring Mickey Mouse and followed by "Pomp and Circumstance" starring Donald Duck as a harried assistant to Noah on his Ark. Finally, we see the awesome tale of the life, death and renewal of a forest in a sequence featuring the composition, "The Firebird." |
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The story follows a University of Austin professor, Dr. David Gale (Kevin Spacey). In a twist of fate this anti-death-penalty activist is convicted and condemned to death for the rape and murder of colleague Constance Hallaway (Laura Linney). Three days before his execution, he grants an exclusive interview to Elizabeth "Bitsey" Bloom (Kate Winslet), the brave reporter who sets out to learn the truth behind Gale's crime. Bitsey, full of skepticism and scorn for the convict, soon finds herself believing in David's innocence as he reveals his tragic tale to her. Can Bitsey find out who framed the professor? |
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In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them. |
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In ancient China, the sanguinary Hun leader, Shan-Yu (Miguel Ferrer), and his mighty army have launched attacks on the Great Wall. Declaring martial law, China's Emperor (Pat Morita) drafts one man from every family to defend the country against the usurpers. Aware of the call to arms, young girl Mulan (Ming-Na Wen), the only kid of Fa Zhou (Soon-Tek Oh), is determined to prevent her crippled and ailing father from having to go to war. Therefore the bold-spirited girl disguises herself as a man and runs away from home to join the Imperial Army. |
| Erin Brockovich
[2000,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. |
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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. |
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Two twenty-something stoner roommates — one a Korean American investment banker; the other an Indian American medical school candidate — go through a life changing journey, as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers. |
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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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Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts School of Wizardry for his second year. After a confrontation with a house elf named Dobby, Harry escapes to the Weasley house with Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) in a flying car. They are then late for the train and have to ride it to school. When they get there, strange happenings invade the school. "Mudbloods" (people of Muggle families) are "petrified" by an evil monster lurking in the grounds. When every one suspects that it is him, the trio then set out to find the culprit and find out more than they bargained for: the diary of Tom Riddle, why Hagrid was expelled and what the Chamber of Secrets is and why is it so feared in Hogwarts. |
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A young man (Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks. |
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