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Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show "Galaxy Quest" was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They're wallowing in despair and at each other's throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada. |
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On his 11th birthday, young Harry Potter discovers the life he never knew he had, the life of a wizard. In his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he meets his two best friends Ron Weasley, an expert at Wizard Chess, and Hermione Granger, a girl with non-magic parents. Harry learns the game of Quiditch and Wizard Chess on his way to facing a Dark Arts teacher who is bent on destroying him. |
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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. |
| 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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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. |
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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. |
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A young Hawaiian girl Lilo (voice of Daveigh Chase) makes friends with an amazing alien creature who is a dangerous, but rather cute being. The creature's name is Stitch (voice of Chris Sanders) as she called him, the tricky little monster is a product of an illegal "Genetic Experiment 626" escaped to Earth. But Lilo thinks he's a kind of dog, and this "dog" gradually proves to be a rowdy and mischievous being. Mad professor, who had created Stitch, is jailed and his fluffy blue nursling is being searched by intergalactic police and considered to be the most dangerous creature in the Universe. But Lilo can unwittingly reclaim the crafty extraterrestrial... |
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A young Mexican woman Maya crosses American border into LA illegally where her sister Rosa works as a maid in one of the city's largest corporations. Surrounded by the big business machinations, the sisters try to organize a janitorial union. A chance meeting with a passionate American activist Sam leads Maya to a confrontation with their employers. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa and Maya's lives change radically,their interests may be set to collide. |
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Jessy (Parminder Nagra), a young girl loves football very much. Despite her orthodox Indian parents want their daughter to be a lawyer, she desires to play professional football and accepts no half-ways. Along with her friend Jules (Keira Knightley) who share her football passion Jessy became obsessed by training in order to join the semi-pro team. Perspectives seem to be rosy when your team coach is handsome and when the first goals scored, but one should work really hard to succeed. To bend it like Beckham. |
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Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. |
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Working-class hairdresser Susan White (Julie Walters) who calls herself Rita - that is her favourite writer's name - is intent on changing her life for the better. She is determined to have a proper education and enters Open University. Needing a tutor, she selects Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), Professor of English literature. Depressed after his divorce and his failed attempt to become a poet, he seeks comfort in a bottle of whisky. Furthermore, Frank is bored with teaching students who are able to speak about literature only in clichés and platitudes. Rita's arrival breaks the monotony of his daily existence – she is literally a breath of fresh air for him. Excited by her impulsive approach to life and by Rita herself, Frank comes to realize that though Rita lacks education, she is more intelligent than anyone else at college. |
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1989, South London. Jack, an ebullient butcher, has died, and his last orders are to cast his ashes off the Margate Pier. His wife of 50 years, Amy, stays home, with the excuse of a visit to their mentally-disabled daughter. Jack's three closest friends, Ray, Vic, and Lenny - along with Jack's son Vince - head for Margate. Each has memories of Jack and of friendships, family, and conflicts. It's Vince's relationship with his dad that's the most complex, and Ray's long friendship with both Jack and Amy that holds things together. The last orders - to go to Margate and strew the ashes - become an invitation to recall what's done, what's left, and what's important. |
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When Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) arrives at the NY airport, he finds himself a citizen of a non-existing country as the tiny European commonwealth where he lived disappeared after the military coup-d-etat. Thus, as he has nowhere to return and the USA can not let him in, the last and the best thing he can think out is to live in the airport until his legal status become apparent. The situation is complicated by lack of Navorski language knowledge, and an airport official, Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci), who considers Viktor a problem he can't control but still desperately wants to take him off the hands. As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds himself involved in the romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia Warren (Catherine Zeta-Jones). |
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch's descent into Alzheimer's Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends). |
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The sparkling comedy focuses upon the life of fictional legendary jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), who lived during the 1930s. We observe Ray’s unimaginable escapades, creative crisis, love affairs with a mute laundry worker, Hattie (Samantha Morton), and a graceful writer, Blanche (Uma Thurman), and long-awaited success. He was an eccentric, alcohol-abusing, womanizing, arrogant, reckless, prodigal guy who once vanished into thin air. Goodness knows what happened to him. Fortunately, he left his beautiful music records for us to enjoy.
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Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is a famous spy from 60's who is cryonically frozen and then brought back to life in the middle of 1990's. The world has changed dramatically, his mission still being the same: to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Having got back his wonderful belongings, such as "Swedish-made penis-enlarger pump", a receipt for a "Swedish-made penis-enlarger pump" and a book written by Austin entitled "Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger Pumps and Me (This Sort of Thing Is My Bag, Baby)", Austin teams up with lovely Miss Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley), his ex-partner's daughter and they go to Vegas to face the dangerous adventure there. Unfortunately, the secret agent's free love credo taken from the 1960s doesn't seem to really work out with Vanessa...
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a 'secret garden' that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little 'magic', can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family? |
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Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." Based on the Broadway musical based on the novel. |
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This touching comedy follows the story of a bashful, chain-smoking, successful playwright having a midlife crisis. Peter McGowan (Kenneth Branagh) runs out of inspiration; his new play is set to open, but he can't find a child to act the part of a 10-year-old character; his neighbors' dog barks all night; he is unnerved by his wife who insists on having a child. Fortunately, things take a turn for the better when a recently separated woman, Trina Walsh (Lucinda Jenney), and her 8-year-old cerebral palsy-afflicted daughter Amy (Suzi Hofrichter) move next door. Peter befriends the girl who helps him to see the world through other eyes... |
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All of your life is on videotape — or perhaps laser disk — to make it easier on your prosecutor and defense attorney at Judgement City to randomly access a few episodes to show whether you made the most of the life you just completed. If you didn't make the most of that life, you will be sent back to try again and again until you do get it right. And the court must be taking an advance peek at that life tape. Posh accommodations go to those who look like they will merit moving up to citizen of the universe — like Julia who falls for Daniel, whose quarters have no ambiance at all. |
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