Promising football player Brandon Lane (Matthew McConaughey) sustains a serious knee injury which puts the kibosh on his football career. Failing professional options he takes a job in a telephone service foretelling the outcome of games for sports betters. His talent to pick the winners soon attracts the attention of Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) who runs a large sports prognosticating business. He lures Brandon to join his enterprise, hoping to make lots of money off him. Brandon changes his name and personality and the perilous game starts!
Former pro golf player Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner), surnamed Tin Cup for his talent, lives in the tiny West Texas town of Salome and ruins himself by drinking. Everything goes wrong in his life. Financial problems force him to work as a driving range instructor. One day beautiful psychiatrist Dr. Molly Griswold (Rene Russo) arrives at his driving range wanting to take golf lessons. She turns out to be the girlfriend of Roy's nemesis, calculating and low-down golfer David Simms (Don Johnson), who is said to hate 'people, kids and dogs.' Roy becomes immediately attracted to Molly. Inspired by her psychotherapy sessions, Roy decides to qualify for and play in the U.S. Open. Roy is determined to compete with Simms, win the most difficult tournament and thus win the heart of Molly.
Based on true events, the movie follows the ghastly story of a group of friends, Erin (Jessica Biel), her boy-friend Kemper (Eric Balfour), Andy (Mike Vogel) and Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), who decide to have a good time and take a journey before they are recruited to serve in Vietnam. On their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas, the ill-starred youths pick up a shocked girl who has been pursued by a stranger. Under stress, the girl commits suicide in their van. Looking for the local authorities, they find themselves in a gloomy house with an atrocious clan of Texas cannibals. The youths’ lives are threatened by a chainsaw-wielding madman, Thomas Hewitt (Andrew Bryniarski), known as Leatherface. Is there hope that they will find a way to stay alive?
The story of Mike Tyson. Form his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulant life moves quickly, never focussing for long on anything in particular.
In Miami, the professional driver Frank Martin is working temporarily for the Billings family, transporting their son Jack while his driver is on vacation. Mr. Billings is an important member of the government and Mrs. Audrey Billings trusts on Frank, who promises to protect the boy. When Jack is kidnapped by a mercenary hired by the Colombian cartels, Frank faces the criminals and the Miami police force trying to rescue the kid. When the boy returns to his family, Jack discloses the real and lethal intention of the abduction of Jack.
Joe Hickley thinks he's got a great scheme: kidnap the child of rich parents, hold it for 24 hours, keeping the mother under his control while an accomplice gets the ransom from the father, who is on a trip. But things go very wrong when he tries this scheme on the Jennings family, in part because their daughter Abby is asthmatic, and in part because the Jennings' find out more than Hickley wants them to know.
A British intelligence agent, Andy Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), is ruled by two passions: gambling and infatuation with other men's wives. After having a clandestine liaison with an ambassador's mistress, Osnard is exiled to Panama by his boss, Luxmore (David Hayman). This time, he finds himself at the center of political intrigue concerning the Panama Canal treaty. The only one who captures his attention is a prestigious tailor, Harold Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), who works for the Panamanian President and influential embassy officials. Osnard recruits him as an informant, leveraging his checkered past and his huge debt.
When an old Japanese tycoon suspects that he may be murdered, he establishes a huge reward fund for the person who will find his killer. When the old man is killed, out-of-luck con man (Eric Tsang) and struggling "newbie' hitman (Jet Li) band together in hope of a big payday as they try to discover the identity of the "King of the Hitmen."
High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.
Many years ago an experiment was conducted to produce a perfect human being. Unfortunately there was a problem. The zygote split unevenly leaving two children - one with strength, brains, personality and love and the other one with what else was left! Both children were raised seperately at different locations until one day the two unite and help one another find their long lost mother.
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.
Although life hasn't turned out the way they once dreamed, life-long buddies Mark, McGriff and Jason are managing to stay above water in their small Pennsylvania hometown. Mark, whose fleeting college football glory has morphed into a dangerous obsession with gambling, McGriff, the beer truck driver who has never let go of his rock-n-roll aspirations, and Jason the high school Valedictorian working as a clerk in an office supply store. After the death of Marl's Dad and McGriff's discovery of his wife's infidelity, the guys embark on a cross country road trip to a football game, boozing and misbehaving every step of the way. They finally discover what is really important: in this crazy, uncertain world, the one thing we can count on is our friends.
A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Successful property developer Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) lives with his trophy wife Jane (Kim Cattrall) and his adolescent son Connor (Brian Gleeson) in a huge mansion in Dublin, Ireland. On the surface Liam lives in a clover. However, it is in semblance rather than in fact. His marriage has become stale and flat; his business is just about to go under; his rebellious son takes an interest in communism, and his aging mother (Moira Deady) turns out to love his sister Oona (Sinéad Cusack) more than him. To make matters worse, Liam finds himself standing on the brink of a precipice when, stuck in a traffic hold-up, he encounters his begging doppelganger (Gleeson again) who proves to be cunning and opportunistic. His ruthless identical twin brother comes up with a nefarious idea to step into Liam's shoes, depriving him of his family, his house and his job.
Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first (Alec Baldwin), a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other (Michael Jai White) is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss (David Byrd) and a female police officer (Rebecca De Mornay) try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.
Two young promising architects, Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) and Peter Steinberg (Oliver Platt), are bidding on a multi-million dollar contract to restore a cultural center. There is a significant obstacle in their path: Strauss (John C. McGinley) and Decker (Bob Balaban), highly successful designers, who take great pains to get the job and spread false rumours about Oscar and Peter’s non-traditional sexual orientation. Chief Executive Officer Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott), who is mistakenly convinced that Oscar is gay, decides that he is a perfect person to keep a watchful eye on his mistress, Amy Post (Neve Campbell). Unwilling to miss the job of a lifetime, Oscar accepts the assignment but soon finds himself falling for Amy. Moreover, the heterosexual Oscar is honored as Chicago's Gay Professional of the Year. To reveal the truth means to lose everything. What will he do?
Bullock stars as Lucy Kelson, Chief Counsel for the Wade Corporation, one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with a sharp, strategic mind. She also has an ulcer and doesn't get much sleep. It's not the job that's getting to her. It's her millionaire boss, George Wade (Hugh Grant). Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad and can barely choose a tie without her help. Now, after one year of calling the shots-on everything from his clothes to his divorce settlements - Lucy Kelson is calling it quits.
A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
