Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention. The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning of the film. Edwards' tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight.
Gaylord Focker (Ben Stiller), a Jewish male nurse, is always plagued with bad luck and all his good deeds lead him into a string of mishaps. This time Greg tries his darndest to marry his beloved, Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo). However, after he spends his first weekend with Pam's parents at her sister's wedding on Long Island, this task becomes really tough. Things start to go horribly wrong when he loses his luggage at the airport. During the weekend Greg contrives to give Pam's sister, Deborah (Nicole DeHuff), a black eye, lose the Byrnes' rare cat and set their garden on fire. But there's more to it than that: his soon-to-be father-in-law, former CIA agent Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), dislikes Greg very much and gives him an acid test. The strict and suspicious father even subjects his daughter's boyfriend to a lie detector. Will the Byrnes give their blessing to a future wedding between their daughter, the apple of their eyes, and the clumsy, bustling, accident-prone Greg?
Grand Duchess Gloriana XII (Peter Seller), the ruler of the tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick, convokes the Parliament and Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy (Peter Seller) to discuss the coming financial collapse of their government. The economy, dependent almost exclusively on exporting their wine, Pinot Grand Fenwick, to the USA, is on the brink of bankruptcy as the State of California begins producing a cheaper version, Pinot Grand Enwick. The scheming Prime Minister comes up with the idea of declaring war on the USA, losing, and then accepting foreign aid.
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.
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.
Everyone has a quirk of their own. Brian Stimpson (John Cleese), the headmaster of a British high school, is obsessed with punctuality; therefore his school runs 'like clockwork'. But when the day of his glory approaches, his ordered world starts to unravel. Being elected the chairman of a prestigious educational conference of headmasters, Stimpson sets out upon his journey to the other side of the country. But he unwittingly boards the wrong train and is forced to run a cross country race to be in time for the conference and make the most important presentation in his life. Things only get worse for Stimpson when he ends up wanted by the police for a car theft, shoplifting and vandalism...
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.
Freddy Benson, a con(fidence) man, lives off women by waking their compassion with shocking stories about his fake fate. One day in beautiful Beaumont sur Mer, he meets Lawrence Jamieson, who shares the same passion, works the rich ladies with the same scheme, but in quite a different league. With the knowledge of his profession, Freddy forces Lawrence to teach him high-society behaviour, so that he himself can earn a major living. When time comes to say goodbye, Freddy decides to stay a little longer. As there is no way two con men can work a town that small at the same time, Lawrence and Freddy agree on a settlement: The first one to extract $50.000 from a young female target wins, the other leaves town. The sum is no match for Lawrence, the age of the lady no match for Freddy. Let the games begin!
On her sixteenth birthday, Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) feels that she is the unhappiest girl in the world because he parents, who are preoccupied with her older sister's wedding, completely forget the momentous occasion. To add insult to injury, her irksome grandparents bring along an odd Japanese exchange student, Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe), and force her to take him with her to the school dance. On top of it all, Sam can hardly get rid of an obnoxious freshman named Ted (Anthony Michael Hall) who has a crush on her and insistently tries to bed her. Nevertheless, she nourishes hope that she will capture the attention of the boy of her dreams, Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling)...
The workaholic Dr. Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) has a car accident after twenty-six hours working in a hospital. Three months later, the landscape architect David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) is recovering from the loss of his wife, and rents her apartment with furniture in San Francisco. While living in the place, the spirit of Elizabeth, that only he is able to see, visits and argues with him, but later they fall in love for each other. David tries to find who Elizabeth was, and is surprised with his discovering.
Movie trailer editor, Amanda of Los Angeles, CA and journalist Iris of Surrey, England live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda having just broken up with her cheating boyfriend, Ethan and Iris having pined for her ex, Jasper, becoming engaged to the woman he left her for decide to take a vacation during Christmas. They come upon a website called home exchange and swap houses for two weeks both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives. But love ends up finding them anyways. Amanda starts a romance with Iris' older brother, Graham, a book editor and Iris starts a romance with a movie composer named Miles. With new found romance, both their lives change forever.
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.
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...
A lonely hospital doctor, Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock), happens to find her twin soul – a talented but frustrated architect, Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves). The amazing thing is that he lives in the very same glass house in a lake where she used to live. The two begin exchanging letters and eventually develop a long distance relationship. When Kate and Alex become overwhelmed by the urge to meet each other, they face a very powerful obstacle standing in their way. It turns out that they are living in disparate time periods: he in 2004 and she in 2006. They disclose that the enchanted mailbox outside the lake house is the only link between past and future. Alex and Kate try their darndest to find means to bridge the distance between them.
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...
This animated feature is set in medieval times. After the English king dies leaving no heir, in the churchyard of a cathedral in London, a sword appears imbedded in a stone inscribed, "Who so pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of England." Although many try, no one can budge the sword from the stone. Deep in the dark woods, kind, but absent-minded Merlin the Magician begins to teach 11-year-old Arthur, who is called Wart, and lives in the castle of Sir Ector where he's an apprentice squire to burly, oafish Sir Kay — when he's not washing stacks of pots and pans in the scullery. By being changed by Merlin into various animals, Wart learns the basic truths of life, but he also runs into the evil Madam Mim, who tries to destroy him. Merlin and Mim have a Wizards' Duel, during which each changes into various creatures, with Merlin using his wits to win. On New Year's Day, a great tournament is held in London to pick a new king. Wart, attending as Kay's squire, forgets Kay's sword, and runs back to the inn to get it, but the inn is locked. Wart, seeing the sword in the stone, innocently, and easily, pulls it out. When the knights marvel at the wondrous sword and question where he got it, Wart has to prove himself all over again, and again he pulls the sword from the stone. Wart is proclaimed king by the marveling warriors. Wart as King Arthur is apprehensive of his ability to govern, but Merlin returns to reassure him.
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.
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.
Robby is stood up at the altar by Linda, who decides that the prospect of marrying a guy who sings at wedding receptions doesn't equal the attraction she felt when he was lead singer in a rock band. Robby finds consolation in his friendship with Julia, a waitress at the wedding receptions and bar mitzvahs where he performs. Julia asks Robby to help her plan her upcoming wedding to Glenn, who isn't interested in the details of the ceremony. Robby learns that Glenn also isn't totally interested in Julia and is marrying her because she "deserves it" after sticking with him for years and because he knows she's not marrying him for his money, since she dated him back before he started pulling down the big bucks.
Last times of Amedeo Modigliani's life are depicted in this biographic movie set in 1919 in Paris. This exciting and breathtaking story includes a unique spirit of an epoch when nightly Paris drowned in the fire of passions and dangerous pleasures watching the rivalry of two geniuses: Modigliani (Andy Garcia) and Picasso (Omid Djalili). These great painters had initially ignored the yearly art competitions, until the one in which the prize was the hearty money and a guaranteed career. In the same time, Paris high society was shaken by the Amedeo's ardent relations with Jeanne Hebuterne (Elsa Zylberstein). Modigliani's tragedy was in being unappreciated and addicted to alcohol and opium, which made his often unpredictable and sometimes violent behavior all the more volatile.
