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Here's a story about two murderesses who backstab, lie and cheat--plus sing and dance--in order to make themselves stand out in roaring 1920s Chicago, a town full of legends. Honestly, what more could you ask for in entertainment? Velma Kelley (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who has a sensational nightclub duo with her sister, blanks out and shoots her philandering husband after she catches him cheating on her--with said sister. She lives the high life in jail, enjoying the perks, as long as she pays for them, given to her by the warden, Matron "Mama" Morton (Queen Latifah). Velma also hires Chicago's slickest lawyer, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), to keep her notorious murder case on the front page. Enter little Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger), a wannabe singer/dancer who's entranced by Chicago's promise of fame and fortune and winds up on the row for offing her abusive lover because he lied to her about breaking her into show biz. Billy immediately recognizes enormous potential in Roxie's crime of passion and, while postponing Velma's case, turns Roxie into America's latest sweetheart. The press loves her, and Roxie milks it for all it's worth, convinced she'll be famous when it's all over. The jilted Velma, however, has other plans for little Miss Perfect and sets out to sabotage Roxie's case. The two women stop at nothing to top one another and claim their rightful place in the spotlight. Still, maybe there is room for two on that stage, after all. |
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The Civil War is wearily entering its last,
grisly year. Inman, a veteran of the Petersburg and Fredericksburg campaigns,
recovering from his wounds in a Confederate hospital, decides he has had enough
of the pointless slaughter and walks out, heading across the Blue Ridge
Mountains of North Carolina toward Cold Mountain, where he hopes to reclaim his
spiritual homeland and Ada, the woman he loves. It is to be an unforgettable
odyssey through the soon-to-be-defeated South, with Inman pursued by relentless
Home Guard troops whose task it is to hunt out deserters. Interwoven with
Inman's heart-stopping adventures is the story of Ada's own internal journey. A
genteel intellectual, Ada has been sheltered by her clergyman father from the
hard necessities of life. Now, orphaned and impoverished, she must confront the
physical world for the first time as she struggles to make her rundown farm
self-sufficient. With the help of Ruby, a tough, brave young woman, she comes
to terms with the forces of nature and, in the process, with her own soul. As
Ada and Inman's lives, long-separated, begin finally to converge, they discover
unsuspected truths about themselves and each other, and about the new world
that is being born from the ruins of the old. Charles Frazier writes about his
native territory with the eye of a lifelong countryman and the voice of a poet.
Cold Mountain is a saga of discovery, terror, and knowledge that is epic in its
passion and mythic in scope. Academy Award Winner. Rene Zellweger best supporting actress |
Captain Nathan Algren (TOM CRUISE) is a man adrift. The battles he once fought now seem distant and futile. Once he risked his life for honor and country, but, in the years since the Civil War, the world has changed. Pragmatism has replaced courage, self-interest has taken the place of sacrifice and honor is nowhere to be found - especially out West where his role in the Indian Campaigns ended in disillusionment and sorrow. Somewhere on the unforgiving plains near the banks of the Washita River, Algren lost his soul. A universe away, another soldier sees his way of life about to disintegrate. He is Katsumoto (KEN WATANABE), the last leader of an ancient line of warriors, the venerated Samurai, who dedicated their lives to serving emperor and country. Just as the modern way encroached upon the American West, cornering and condemning the Native American, it also engulfed traditional Japan. The telegraph lines and railroads that brought progress now threaten those values and codes by which the Samurai have lived and died for centuries. But Katsumoto will not go without a fight. The paths of these two warriors converge when the young Emperor of Japan, wooed by American interests who covet the growing Japanese market, hires Algren to train Japan's first modern, conscript army. But as the Emperor's advisors attempt to eradicate the Samurai in preparation for a more Westernized and trade-friendly government, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai. Their powerful convictions remind him of the man he once was. Thrust now into harsh and unfamiliar territory, with his life and perhaps more important, his soul, in the balance, the troubled American soldier finds himself at the center of a violent and epic struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his sense of honor to guide him.
A Story of lost and found.
Based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks, the story starts on a deserted New England beach, where Teresa Osborne (Robin Wright Penn of "Hurlyburly"), a divorced mother with a young son (Jesse James), is taking a stroll. During her stroll, she spies a glass bottle poking out of the wet loam. Picking up the odd artifact, she finds a typewritten note inside addressed to a woman named Catherine, whom the unknown writer deeply misses. Moved by the heartfelt and stirring words of love lost, Teresa shows the intriguing letter to her coworkers upon her return to the Chicago Tribune, where she works as a researcher. Seeing the potential for a great human interest story, Teresa's editor (Robby Coltrane) decides to run the letter as a front page item. Not surprisingly, the letter's publication generates an overwhelming response from Tribune readers, who send hundreds of pieces of fan mail in support. While wading through the reams of mail with her best friend Lina (Ileanna Douglas of "Picture Perfect"), a couple of letters pique their interest-- letters from individuals who found two similar letters stuffed in glass bottles.
A ghostly ship looms silently ahead as the crippled, ocean-going, salvage tug Sea Star approaches. The Sea Star crew, their ship slowly sinking, has sought refuge in the eerie calm of the eye of a typhoon to make repairs and hopefully avert disaster. But something's terribly wrong. The ship, a Russian science vessel bristling with high-tech radar, electronics and other wonders, appears to be deserted. Unfortunately for the crew of the Sea Star, nothing could be further from the truth. Shelter from the storm turns into terror on board as they find themselves stalked by a mutating alien life form that has traveled across time and space¾ an energy force unlike any in the universe. It is powerful. Intelligent. And it has found the perfect planet to inhabit. Now, in order to survive, it must destroy the one threat to its existence: a virus called man.
The story of Virus begins in the South Pacific as the Akademic Vladislav Volkov, a Russian science ship, is lining up its parabolic dish with the Russian MIR Space Station anchored in geosynchronous orbit above. Nadia (Joanna Pacula), chief science officer, prepares to download a routine scientific data transmission from MIR. Suddenly, up in space, a huge, blue, crackling energy mass envelops MIR, invading and overloading its circuits and killing the crew. The energy mass then follows the path of MIR's data transmission directly to the parabolic dishes waiting on the science ship below, invading and engulfing the ship's computer and electrical systems in a stunning display of electronic pyrotechnics. The alien presence has found its host.
Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon arrested and subpoenas her ex-husband Pete to testify against Dixon in court. This was the 1st time that John Grisham wrote a story direct for a movie screen. His second attempt will be Mickey.
Philandering hotshot Southern lawyer takes on a simple case of a father stalking/harassing his daughter (whom said lawyer is sleeping with), and succeeds in getting the man put away. Unfortunately for all involved, the nutty father escapes and begins to make the lives of his daughter, the lawyer and his family a living nightmare. His band of religious hillbilly followers help him along his twisted path.
One thousand brides. One hundred million dollars.
Jimmie Shannon is about to discover the true value of love.
Jimmie (O'Donnell) is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne (Zellweger) catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to her, but he sticks his foot in his mouth and botches the proposal. Being insulted by the defeatist proposal, Anne leaves town on an assignment. After she's gone, he finds out that his recently-deceased grandfather's will stipulates that he gets nothing of a multi-million dollar fortune unless he's married by 6:05pm on his 30th birthday: tomorrow! Not being able to find Anne, Jimmie begins backtracking through his past girlfriends to find a wife.
Exec producer/star Chris O'Donnell's remake of Buster Keaton's 1925 silent comedy "Seven Chances" falls short of bringing the story to a modern audience. Well, an audience that's aware of the discovery of talkies, feminism and plot holes anyway. O'Donnell plays Jimmy, who stands to inherit a fortune from his grandfather (Ustinov) if he marries before the age of 30. Unfortunately, he receives this news immediately after his odious proposal to girlfriend Anne (Zellweger) is rejected...And of course his thirtieth birthday happens to be 27 hours away. Madcap antics allegedly ensue as Jimmy trolls for a wife from the pool of his ex-girlfriends and flees the husband-hunting horde who respond to a front-page ad placed by his pal Marco (Lange).
"Pay It Forward" tells the story of a physically and emotionally scarred social studies teacher (Spacey) who assigns his class to think of an idea for world change and put it into action. One of his students, a boy (Osment) whose single mom is struggling with alcohol, takes the assignment to heart by committing random acts of kindness and hopes his idea will catch on. The boy creates the notion of doing a favor for someone in advance, which will ideally result in that person doing another favor for someone else, also in advance. The female lead, the role of the mother, will likely be the next cast.
Two trains crash somewhere in Russia, one carrying a nuclear payload. A nuclear explosion follows the crash and the world is on alert... However, White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) doesn't think it was an accident... Special Forces Intelligence Officer Colonel Thomas Devoe (George Clooney) doesn't think so either... Together they must unravel a conspiracy that goes from Europe to New York, to stop a terrorist who has no demands...
Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by his former neighbor Nicholas Oz Oseransky, retired hitman Jimmy The Tulip Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep: it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife from the Hungarian mob. To complicate matters even further, the men, who are out to get Oz, are led by Lazlo Gogolak, a childhood rival of Jimmy's and another notorious hitman. Oz, Jimmy and Jill will have to go the whole nine yards--and then some--to manage the mounting Mafioso mayhem.
Following the theft of a highly-secured piece of artwork, an agent convinces her insurance agency employers to allow her to wriggle into the company of an aging but active master thief. Connery's burglar takes her on suspiciously and demands rigorous training before their first job together--stealing a highly-valued mask from a chichi party. Their deepening attraction and distrust could tear apart their partnership but the promise of a bigger prize (some eight billion odd dollars) by Zeta-Jones keeps the game interesting. Only, who's playing with whom?
The film opens with 4 tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend (Luke Wilson) who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girl friend (Drew Barrymore). En route to the wedding, one of the men (Sean Patrick Flanery) asks to stop by a bank to pick up some cash. As it turns out, he is a wanted bank robber who uses Shakespeare passages during his robberies and thus has become known as "Hamlet". Soon all five men are caught up in the bank and involved in the robbery as they end up in a hostage situation. The hostage negotiator (Fred Ward) shows up who turns out to be Hamlet's father. As the men are all known to those being robbed, this quirky comedy takes a left turn as their hostages all work to support the men.
The Oscar®-winning team of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (2001, A Beautiful Mind, Best Director, Best Picture) present a riveting, spine-tingling thriller destined to become a classic! Academy Award-nominee Cate Blanchett (1998, Elizabeth, Best Actress in a Leading Role) is Maggie, a young plainswoman raising her daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily (Evan Rachel Wood, Thirteen) is snatched by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones (1993, The Fugitive, Best Actor in a Supporting Role) appears suddenly, offering help. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track down the fiend that took Lily. But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them forever!
Meet the Devil. She's giving Elliott seven wishes. But not a chance in Hell.
Elliot is lonely and finds it very hard to make friends in his workplace - displaying an acute lack of social skills anytime he tries. When he is approached by the Devil in a bar he ends up signing away his soul in exchange for seven wishes. Everything appears to be great - he can have the woman of his dreams and anything else he wants, but his wishes don't quite go the way he expected them to.
It sounded like just another urban legend-a videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video·and watches it. Now, she must enlist the aid of her friend Noah (Martin Henderson) to save her life and the life of her son (David Dorfman).
Together, they have just seven days to unravel the mystery of "The Ring."
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For the most cautious man on Earth, life is about
to get interesting.
Can a risk-averse insurance salesman on the rebound
from his bride's infidelity (during their honeymoon) find happiness with a
waitress he knew in junior high who's averse to commitment? Reuben is a sweet
klutz who's ready to settle down but sees in her a chance to recover from
disappointment and have some fun; Polly is a sweet itinerant, not ready to
settle down but sees a chance to spend time with a nice guy who likes her. What
will he do when his bride comes crawling back? What will Polly do, when he runs
the numbers and thinks she's a good risk? Sub-plots involve his self-centered
pal, who's a has-been actor, and an assignment to assess the insurability of a
balls-out Aussie.
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For the most cautious man on Earth, life is about to get interesting.
Can a risk-averse insurance salesman on the rebound from his bride's infidelity (during their honeymoon) find happiness with a waitress he knew in junior high who's averse to commitment? Reuben is a sweet klutz who's ready to settle down but sees in her a chance to recover from disappointment and have some fun; Polly is a sweet itinerant, not ready to settle down but sees a chance to spend time with a nice guy who likes her. What will he do when his bride comes crawling back? What will Polly do, when he runs the numbers and thinks she's a good risk? Sub-plots involve his self-centered pal, who's a has-been actor, and an assignment to assess the insurability of a balls-out Aussie.
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The sound of the wind in a storm is distinct at
each level of severity. Force Nine is a scream. Force Ten is a shriek. Force
Eleven is a moan. Force Twelve is a church organ played by a child: its fierce
winds inhaling air, water, earth and everything humankind puts within its
reach. No one who has heard it can possibly ever forget it. On Halloween of
1991 there was such a sound. There was such a storm.
Gloucester,
Massachusetts, is home to a swordfishing boat called the Andrea Gail, captained
by Billy Tyne (Clooney), a veteran fisherman who has had a run of disappointing
catches. It docks beside the Hannah Boden, captained by Linda Greenlaw
(Mastrantonio), who has been hugely successful with recent hauls. Bobby
Shatford (Wahlberg) has a divorce lawyer to pay off and a new life to build
with his girlfriend, Christina "Chris" Cotter (Lane). Fishing is the only job
he knows that will pay the kind of money he needs. So, against Chris' wishes,
he's going to sign on again with Billy for one last trip this season.
Billy
Tyne and Bobby are joined on the trip by Dale "Murph" Murphy (John C. Reilly),
a seasoned crewmember trying to support his estranged wife and child; Alfred
Pierre (Allen Payne), a free-spirited Jamaican who has a way with women; Bugsy
(John Hawkes), a friendly local who just wants someone to come home to; and
last-minute replacement Sully (William Fichtner), who shares a volatile
relationship with Murph.
Tyne is convinced that he can change his run of bad
luck by going beyond the normal reach of New England fishing boats to the
Flemish Cap, a remote area known for its rich fishing prospects. Once out at
sea, he hears about the storm building offshore. But unlike Greenlaw, who
determines to play it safe, Billy thinks he can beat the storm back to
Gloucester, taking an enormous catch with him. If he doesn't try, his crew will
come away empty-handed on this last trip of the season. It is nothing out of
the ordinary for fishermen to wager their lives against their
livelihoods.
What is out of the ordinary is the disturbing weather pattern
that emerges once the Andrea Gail is out to sea. Local TV weatherman Todd Gross
tells his viewers it begins with Hurricane Grace, a powerful southern storm
front heading up the Atlantic. Grace is on a collision course with two other
weather fronts that are rapidly gathering strength. When the three meet, there
will be a storm more terrifying than anyone has imagined, greater than any that
has ever been recorded in modern history.
It will come to be called "The
No-Name Storm" or "The Halloween Storm," coming as it does on that legendarily
fearsome night. In fact, it will form with such suddenness that the National
Weather Bureau doesn’t have time to call it anything. They barely have
time to send out a warning to all vessels at sea.The crew of the Andrea Gail
never receives that warning. They have no forewarning of what is about to hit
them.
Fear Thy Neighbor
A college professor begins
to suspect that his neighbour is a terrorist.
Widowed when his FBI agent
wife is killed in an FBI anti-terrorist operation gone wrong, a college
professor (Bridges) becomes increasingly obsessed with the culture and
sub-society of these dangerous groups. The arrival of new neighbors (Robbins,
Cusack), gives him new spirit, as they are gregarious and friendly, with two
children (Gamble, Green) that his son (Clark) can be friends with. He is even
beginning to see another woman (Davis). However, he begins to suspect something
is odd about the neighbors, something about the way they don't want him to see
certain parts of the house, or a set of blueprints they have there. Are his
neighbors terrorists... or is the stress of losing his wife merely driving him
past the point of paranoia?
A detective is searching for a deadly collector.
His only hope is the woman who got away.
Police hunting for a serial killer
are helped when a victim manages to escape for the first time.
A smooth,
egomaniacal serial killer who fancies himself a connoisseur of extraordinary
women holds his victims captive in an underground lair, and only murders them
when they break his rules.
However, he makes two crucial mistakes: first,
when he nabs the violin-playing niece (Gina Ravera) of a famed, exceptional
Washington D.C. forensic psychologist (Morgan Freeman) who is determined to
find and save her. Second, when another of his intended victims (Ashley Judd)
manages to escape from him - and becomes just as determined to save the other
girls.
Murder isn't always a crime.
A woman framed
for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been
tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills
him.
Young Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) is happy as a clam, and why not?
She's got a loving, successful husband (Bruce Greenwood), an adorable son, and
an island home to die for. One morning, after a romantic sailing expedition
with her husband, Libby finds herself covered in blood. Her husband's missing,
the boat resembles a murder scene, and there's a knife on the deck. One might
stop right there and call for help; Libby, however, takes matters--or, more
specifically, the knife--into her own hands, and the moment she does, there's
the Coast Guard. Faster than you can say frame-up, Libby's been charged with
murder and jailed, with her young son stripped from her custody. It's all
cut-and-dried, except for one thing: Libby's husband isn't dead, and she's
about to track him down. And thanks to the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy
rule, she can't be charged twice for his
murder.
Can two friends sleep together and still love
each other in the morning?
Harry and Sally have known each other for years,
and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the
friendship.
The witty and likeable, lightweight, old-fashioned romantic
comedy, When Harry Met Sally... (1989) was intended to answer the sexual
politics question, "Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in
the morning?" The engaging, episodic film keenly observes romance,
relationships between males and females, friendship and sex. Two long-time
acquaintances Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) grapple
with this question over a 12-year period (beginning in the spring of 1977), as
their relationship grows and matures. Their love is not "at first sight" but
takes years to develop.
Their contrasting names reflect their polar-opposite
attitudes toward life: the dark, angst-driven, eternally pessimistic but warm
nature of the male, with the bright-eyed, perky, fresh-faced, effervescent and
happier character of the female. In fact, Harry says early on, "When I buy a
new book, I always read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I
finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side." He is basically
sexist and irascible, while she fights back in a persnickety, eccentric,
feminist way.]
The film jumps 35 years to Chicago where Father
Frank Shore (Harris) is living in a flophouse and taking his meals at a soup
kitchen. Father Shore was a professional postulator, a priest who investigates
reported miracles, who has retreated to this world after uncovering a hoax in a
town that destroyed the faith of its residents and called into question his own
beliefs.
Now a slick, politically savvy bishop (Charles Haid) is
calling for his services. Father Shore is asked to investigate the case for
sainthood of one Helen O'Regan (Barbara Sukowa), who reportedly cured a young
girl who prayed to her memory.
Not wanting to make the same mistakes as he
has in the past, Father Shore moves forward cautiously, tracking down the cured
girl, now a runaway and prostitute. Complicating matters for him is the
presence of Helen's daughter Roxane (Heche), who says that her mother abandoned
her in favor of the church. As Father Shore and Roxane draw closer -- she
presents a palpable temptation to this man whose own faith is wavering -- he is
also working to champion Helen's cause for
sainthood.
It's Sick...It's Dirty...It's Their Job
A
spiteful loser finds his true calling when he opens a highly successful
business specializing in revenge.
Ex Saturday Night Live member Norm
MacDonald teams up with Artie Lange as a couple of losers who decide to get
even with the world -- for a price. Pratfalls and pranks are the order of the
day as the duo set themselves up in business as a couple of revenge experts
who'll get even for you if you'll pay their
fee.
All they wanted was a little getaway. All they
got was nothing but trouble.
A businessman finds he and his friends the
prisoners of a sadistic judge and his equally odd family in the backwoods of a
bizarre mansion.
A financier [Chevy Chase] meets a spurned lover [Demi
Moore] and agrees to take her to a business meeting. On the way there, they run
a stop sign in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. They are arrested and
taken to the local court. But all is not as it seems: the courthouse and the
"prison" are a maze of zany booby- traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of
the captured couple as they try to escape from the mad judge and his bizarre
family make up the rest of this unusual
film.
A castle can only have one king
A Court
Martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that
put him away.
When three star General Irwin is transferred to a
maximum security military prison, its warden, Colonel Winter, can't hide his
admiration towards the highly decorated and experienced soldier. Irwin has been
stripped of his rank for disobedience in a mission, but not of fame. Colonel
Winter, who runs the prison with an iron fist, deeply admires the General, but
works with completely different methods in order to keep up discipline. After a
short while, Irwin can feel Winter's injustice towards the inmates himself. He
decides to teach Winter a lesson by taking over command of the facility and
thus depriving him of his smugly position. When Winter decides to participate
in what he still thinks of as a game, it may already be too late to
win.
Redford stars as three-star General Irwin, a renowned military
tactician, who has been court-martialed and sentenced to a maximum security
military prison run with an iron fist by its warden, Colonel Winter (James
Gandolfini). Winter can't help but respect the once-legendary general, but that
respect turns to hostility as Irwin defiantly confronts the warden on his
methods. Their confrontation escalates into war when the general organizes his
fellow inmates into an army to take over the
prison.