Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus is nearly set to be released from a mental hospital after being cleared. However, a visit from current Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau resurrects his insanity, and he is denied leaving. Determined to take out Clouseau once and for all, he escapes and blows up Clouseau's apartment, but fails to kill Clouseau. As a back-up plan, he abducts a famous scientist in order to build a Doomsday Machine which vaporizes whatever it shoots. Dreyfus threatens to use it unless Clouseau is exterminated, so reluctantly, 26 countries send their top assassin to kill the Chief Inspector. His clumsiness saves him again, and the assassin's attempts kill each other. In a conquest to save the world, Clouseau heads out to put an end to Dreyfus's terror once and for all.
In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives.
Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love.
The existence of a small gold-mining community is shattered by the arrival of Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart), a neighboring landowner who intends to take over their territory. He offers the prospectors to leave the town on a voluntary basis; otherwise he will use force to drive them out. The townspeople are so intimidated by the ruthless invader that they decide not to put up resistance. But a mysterious rider (Clint Eastwood), dressed like a preacher, unexpectedly shows up at the camp and attempts to defend the struggling miners.
Emma Thompson portrays a governess who uses magic to alter the behavior of a gaggle of previously irredeemable kids. She enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. She almost does, but there is a menace looming over the family – aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) is going to take away one of the kids.
Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max's real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max' real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. On top of that, she is quite possibly the dumbest person Lenny has ever met. Interwoven is a Greek chorus linking the story with the story of Oedipus.
The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
William Thacker (Hugh Grant) was a shy, kind, attractive Englishman who kept a small travel bookstore in the Notting Hill district in West London and shared an apartment with a whimsical Welsh pal, Spike (Rhys Ifans). The chance meeting with a celebrated American movie star, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), who one day dropped into his store, could have ended in nothing if William hadn't run out a few minutes later to buy some coffee. On his way back to the shop, he accidentally rammed into Anna in the street, spilling the coffee onto her blouse. The gentlemanlike William kindly offered to remove a spot at his nearby house and Anna agreed. They began dating and love blossomed between the ordinary guy and the famous actress was ardent and romantic. Nevertheless the idyl came to an end when Anna's actor boyfriend Jeff King (Alec Baldwin) arrived in London to see her...
The energetic film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical is about American teens in love in the 1950s. During her summer vacation goody-two-shoes Australian girl Sandy Olsen (Olivia Newton-John) visits America and meets leader of the greaser gang Danny Zuko (John Travolta) at the beach. Despite social differences, the two fall in love and spend time together until the summer ends. Sandy is upset to return home as she never expects to see her love interest again. But fortunately for her, her parents decide to stay in America and Sandy begins to attend the same high school.
In this tale of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice, Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young farm girl who rescues the runt of a litter of eleven piglets when her dad (Kevin Anderson) decides to kill him. Fern names the piglet Wilbur (voiced by Dominic Scott Kay), begins to raise him on her own and becomes excessively attached to him. To her regret, after her tiny pet grows into a big pig, he is taken to the farm run by her uncle and aunt, Homer (Gary Basaraba) and Edith Zuckerman (Siobhan Fallon). There, the amiable pig forges an unlikely, but truly remarkable, friendship with Charlotte (voiced by Julia Roberts), a spider that lives in the space above his pen. When Wilbur hears the bad news that he is destined to become Christmas dinner, it's up to Charlotte to save the day. The loyal spider begins spinning messages in her web, hoping to make the farmer realize Wilbur is a special pig that should be spared.
Wonderful comedy, existential philosophy, corporate satire, and idealistic quest are mixed in this offbeat movie about a married couple of metaphysicians working as private "existentialist" detectives. They fearlessly investigate the mysteries at the core of their clients' secret innermost lives. They help others to solve their existential issues — the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means. Jason Schwartzman plays Albert, an environmental activist with a penchant for bad poetry and self-doubt. During his campaign to stop Huckabees, a suburban superstore, from destroying marshland, Albert's group is taken over by one of the store's vapidly charming salesmen, a pitch-perfect Jude Law. Utterly distraught and questioning the meaning of life, Albert seeks the help of a bizarre husband-and-wife team of "existential detectives." By spying on Albert's daily life, they seek to help him answer that most elemental of human questions, "Why am I here?"
Michael Newman (Adam Sandler), an architect, is a father of two. He's a workaholic, and being frustrated in his job and an ungrateful boss. Suddenly Michael discovers a universal remote allowing him to control not only his home electronics but entirely his life. In this high-concept fantasy comedy Sandler's hero travels back and forth through the different points of his life. The wonderful device lets him to mute a neighbour's barking dog and to zoom back the details of a past quarrel with wife. Suddenly Michael realizes the huge amount of important things he missed in his life paying to much attention to his work.
Wayne Campbell is a heavy metal fanatic living in a suburban Chicago neighborhood. On a Friday Night, Wayne and his eccentric best friend, Garth Algar hosts "Wayne's World", a public cable network TV show in Wayne's basement and is very popular. "Wayne's World" catches the attention of handsome TV network executive Ben Oliver who wants "Wayne's World" on his television network in downtown Chicago and sponsored by billionaire Noah Vandahoff, one of the largest owners in the arcade business. With "Wayne's World" now on a Prime Time TV network, Wayne and Garth find themselves moving up big time and Wayne finds himself falling in love with Cassandra Wong, a Chinese-American lead singer of a heavy metal band. But Ben has a hidden agenda and plans on ruining their show and he bids to steal Cassandra from Wayne if Wayne and Garth do not make a success in making "Wayne's World" #1 in the TV ratings. Wayne and Garth finds the show isn't the same and Wayne plans to help Cassandra make it big time with her career.
Gremlins begins with inventor Rand Peltzer trying to find a quick gift for his son Billy before returning home from a New York trip. He settles on a unique pet in a Chinatown curio shop--a cute, furry creature known as a Mogwai. Before he leaves, he is warned by the shop's owner that three rules must be obeyed by a Mogwai owner: 1) Keep it away from bright light, 2) Don't get any water on it, and 3) Never, never ever feed it after midnight. Rand takes note of these rules and returns home with the Mogwai to his idyllic small-town home of Kingston Falls. Rand's gift is an instant hit: Billy loves his adorable new pet, naming it Gizmo and taking it everywhere he goes. Unfortunately, he and his friends also begin breaking the rules of Mogwai care. When water is accidentally spilled on Gizmo, it causes him to multiply and produce a number of mischievous little brothers. Among these is the mean-tempered Stripe. Soon enough, the new Mogwai get hold of some food after midnight and this causes them to change from cute fur-balls into nasty, scaly monsters dubbed 'Gremlins.'
Emma is a very beautiful young woman who decides to devote her life in finding the right mate for the people around her. But, her cause will come to contestation when she will find love in the face of a much sought after man.
One Christmas Eve an orphan baby crawls into Santa’s sack to play hide-and-seek. Thus he accidently finds himself in the North Pole where he is reared by his adoptive elf father. When he grows to be three times the size of his elf family, his father realizes Buddy will never fit into the elf world and tells him the truth. This holiday season, Buddy sets off for New York City to find his roots. In Big Applethe innocent elf faces with all kinds of humorous trouble. First he seeks out his real father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a workaholic publisher, who has lost the Christmas spirit. Walter doesn’t believe Buddy is who or what he says he is. Buddy also discovers his stepmother Emily (Mary Steenburgen) and his ten-year-old stepbrother Michael (Daniel Tay) who doesn’t believe in Christmas or Santa. In fact, everyone seems to have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas. Fortunately, buddy encounters Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), a beautiful department store elf, who supports him to save Christmas for New York and the world.
After his Vice-president suddenly dies, the President (Jeff Bridges) who is near the end of his final term, decides to leave a legacy by selecting a woman to fill the position. Enter a Senator (Joan Allen), who has shifted from the Republican Party to the Democratic. Initially appearing to be the perfect candidate, an allegation suddenly appears that she had been involved in a sexual orgy as a 19 year old in college. The confirmation committee chairman (Gary Oldman), a Republican, leaks the information to the press, while using the press discussion as a forum to bring it into the hearings. The chairman desires to get a Governor (William Petersen) into the office. The Governor had become a national hero when he attempted to rescue a young woman from a car that crashed from a bridge into deep water near where the Governor had been fishing.
Miranda Priestley, of "Runway" magazine tears up the landscape as a demanding fashion editor. She is a terror to everyone who is around her as is quickly depicted in the opening scenes of the movie. Her first assistant strives to please her and tries to emulate her, but one can sense that she is not quite as hard as she tries to put on. Into this mix comes a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, has never read the magazine, and doesn't know who Miranda Priestley is. She only sees this as a stepping stone to another journalism position. Showing no fashion sense and immediately scorned by everyone, Miranda nonetheless hires her as the second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, you can sense that she is trying to force her to quit, but it makes the young woman dig in to please her boss. With the help of one of the magazine's fashion editors, she gets a complete makeover and a new security. However, with her new appearance and the demands placed on her, she starts to lose her friends, family and her live-in boy friend. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamor that could be hers, including a flashy if not artificial freelance journalist, she is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.
Believe in your dreams and someday your dreams will come true! This inspiring story is about Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker), a young Mexican immigrant living in the barrios of Los Angeles, who has always dreamt of being a professional soccer player. Although he works a day job for his father's landscaping service, and a night job as a bus boy in a restaurant, he cherishes his dream of making it big one day and continues to play for a local team. Santiago believes that perseverance and hard work is the keystone to success. One day his untapped potential attracts the attention of pro scout Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane) who immediately offers him a try-out for England's premier soccer club, Newcastle United. Without thinking twice, Santiago leaves his family and job and travels to England where he hopes to prove that he has the talent and determination to make it alongside the best in the world.
This story happened at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt. A basket with a tiny infant was washed ashore by the swift and great Nile River and then was found by the Queen (Helen Mirren). Pharaoh Seti I (Patrick Stewart) adopted the Hebrew born boy and named him Moses (Val Kilmer). Years went by. Moses and his brother Rameses (Ralph Fiennes) grew up together, happily and wealthy. There came a day when one of them became the ruler of the most powerful empire on Earth, and the other – the leader and liberator of his people.
