Archive for January, 1999
Iron Giant, The
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| Taglines: | 1: It came from outer space! |
| Plot Summary: | “Iron Giant” is based upon the 1968 story,’Iron Man,’ by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 1958, only to find a friend named, Hogarth, that ultimately finds its humanity and saving the towns people of their fears and prejudices. |
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
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| Taglines: | 1: “I’m Coming Again, Baby!” [Australia] 2: Double-O Behave! 3: First, he fought for the Crown. Now he’s fighting for the Family Jewels. 4: He’s back, he’s even bigger and he’s up for it! 5: I’m Back, Baby! 6: If you see only one movie this summer, see Star Wars. But if you see two movies this summer, see Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 7: The BRITISH Empire Strikes Back! 8: The return of Dr. Evil. 9: You Were Expecting Someone Else? |
| Plot Summary: | Dr. Evil uses a device he calls a “Time Machine” to travel back to 1969 and remove Austin Powers’ mojo. The sexually wounded swinger must travel back in time and, with the help of agent Felicity Shagwell, recover his vitality. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil’s personal life runs amok as he discovers love, continues to shun his son and develops a close relationship with himself. Well, actually, a clone 1/8 his size whom he dubs “Mini-Me”. The always time-baffled Dr. Evil begins his plan to put a gigantic cannon on the moon, thus turning it into a device called either “The Death Star” or “Alan Parson’s Project,” depending on which name is available. |
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Corruptor, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Geen recht. Geen regels. Geen gerechtigheid. 2: No law. No rules. No justice. [translation Dutch tagline] 3: You can’t play by the rules when there aren’t any. |
| Plot Summary: | A New York police officer (Wahlberg) goes undercover in a dangerous crime scene to investigate abductions and drug-trafficking operations. He obtains backup with the help of another brave Hong Kong police officer (Yun-Fat) who works for the NYPD. They partner up together to stop the operation before the city goes down. The criminal orginization is called the “Fukanese Dragons” who are likely terrorists and illegal immigrants who are about to tear up Chinatown in New York City. |
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Faeries
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Omega Code, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A mystery hidden within an ancient text reveals the ultimate secret. 2: Not Just a Movie…a Miracle. 3: One man wants the power. The other seeks the truth. 4: Prepare yourself for the secrets of The Omega Code 5: Revelation foretold it, Nostradamus predicted it… 6: Revelation Foretold It, The End Has Begun! 7: The First Suspense Thriller for the New Millennium |
| Plot Summary: | Ancient codes hidden within the Torah reveals the secrets of global events, past (i.e. Hitler, the Kennedy assasination, the Gulf War), present, and future. One man (York) is after the Code, seeking the power to change the world as we know it…for the worse. Another (Van Dien) seeks the truth, risking his life and everything he stands for in order to stop him. |
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American Pie
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| Taglines: | 1: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets pie. 2: Come again! 3: Fill that sticky hole! 4: There’s something about your first piece. |
| Plot Summary: | At a high-school party, four friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz) find that losing their collective virginity isn’t as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to try to be the first to “score.” And of course, the senior prom is their last best chance. As the fateful date draws near, the boys wonder who among them will get lucky. More importantly, do they really want to do it at all? |
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House on Haunted Hill
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| Taglines: | 1: Are You Dying To Be Rich? 2: Evil Loves To Party. 3: If you’re in, you may not want to get out 4: It’s going to be a long night. 5: Six strangers have the chance to make $1,000,000 EACH. All they have to do is make it through the night alive. |
| Plot Summary: | When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called “Haunted House” with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made up story just to mess with their heads a little and test their courage. But, once they stay in the house they start to think about the mistake they made in coming there when mysterious things start to happen. |
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American Beauty
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| Taglines: | 1: … look closer |
| Plot Summary: | Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father. |
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Bowfinger
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| Taglines: | 1: A desperate plan for a desperate man 2: Devious, ruthless, shameless 3: Loser. Faker. 4: The con is on. 5: They’re going to lie, cheat and steal - but in a nice way. |
| Plot Summary: | Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood’s number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he’s being filmed. |
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Big Daddy
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| Taglines: | 1: Nature called. Look who answered. 2: Once you adopt a kid, you’ve got to keep him. |
| Plot Summary: | Sonny Koufax is 32 years old. He’s a law school graduate. He’s got a nice apartment in Manhattan. There’s just one problem. He does nothing, except sit on his butt and live off an investment that was the result of a meager lawsuit he won a year ago. But after his fed up girlfriend leaves him, he comes up with the ingenious idea to adopt a five year old boy to showcase his newfound maturity. But things don’t go as planned, and Sonny finds himself the unlikely foster father that will change his perspective on just looking out for himself. |
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