Archive for January, 2003
2 Fast 2 Furious
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| Taglines: | 1: 2Bold 2: 2Cool 3: 2Sexy 4: 2Tuff 5: Cross the line one more time 6: How fast do you like it? 7: The new models are in |
| Plot Summary: | Former cop Brian O’Conner who teams up with his ex-con pal Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of ‘dirty’ money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone, while actually working with undercover agent Monica Clemente to bring Verone down. |
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Monster
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| Taglines: | 1: Based on a true story |
| Plot Summary: | A dark tale based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s first female serial killers. Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute—servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. The tale focuses on the nine month period between 1989 and 1990, during which Wuornos had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby. And during that very same time, she also began murdering her clientele in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomena of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers—instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer. |
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Finding Nemo
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| Taglines: | 1: 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. That’s a lot of space to find one fish. 2: Come Fly With Me. 3: Fish are just like people, only flakier. 4: From the Creators of Monsters, Inc. 5: Grab shell dude! 6: Jaws Will Drop. 7: Sea it. 8: There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean*, they’re looking for one. 9: Wet Yourself! 10: You’ve never seen fish prepared like this. |
| Plot Summary: | Marlin (a clown fish) is a widower who only has his son Nemo left of his family after a predator attack. Years later, on Nemo’s first day of school, he’s captured by a scuba diver and taken to live in a dentist office’s fish tank. Marlin and his new absent-minded friend Dory set off across the ocean to find Nemo, while Nemo and his tankmates scheme on how to get out of the tank before he becomes the dentist’s niece’s new pet. |
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Open Range
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| Taglines: | 1: No place to run. No reason to hide. |
| Plot Summary: | Boss Spearman, Charley Waite, Mose Harrison and Button freegraze their cattle across the vast prairies of the West, sharing a friendship forged by a steadfast code of honor and living a life unencumbered by civilization. When their wayward herd forces them near the small town of Harmonville, the cowboys encounter a corrupt sheriff and kingpin rancher who govern the territory through fear, tyranny and violence. Boss and Charley find themselves inextricably drawn towards an inevitable showdown, as they are forced to defend the freedom and values of a lifestyle that is all too quickly vanishing. Amidst the turmoil, life suddenly takes an unexpected turn for the loner Charley when he meets the beautiful and warm spirited Sue Barlow, a woman who embraces both his heart and his soul. |
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Intoxicating
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| Taglines: | 1: Get seperated from your senses. |
| Plot Summary: | Dorian Shanley (Kirk Harris), is a heart surgeon who abuses alcohol and drugs. Dorian trades stolen pharmaceuticals for cocaine , provided by his best friend and enabler, Teddy (Eric Roberts). While Dorian’s life and career take a nosedive, Shanley numbs the pain of losing his father, William Shanley (John Savage), to a form of alzhiemer’s common in prizefighters. To further complicate circumstances, Dorian falls in love with his girlfriend’s best friend from college, Anna (Camila Overbye Roos). The film follows Shanley through a maze of pharmacies, clubs and binges and surgeries, into the heart of drug abuse. |
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House of Sand and Fog
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| Taglines: | 1: Some dreams can’t be shared. |
| Plot Summary: | Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results. |
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Gigli
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| Taglines: | 1: Life doesn’t play by the rules. 2: Murder. Blackmail. Temptation. Redemption. It’s been a busy week. 3: The movie everyone is talking about. The couple everyone wants to be (Australian DVD cover) |
| Plot Summary: | Gigli, a lowly and inept hitman, is assigned a job by the mob to kidnap a mentally retarded brother of a California district attorney. Gigli abducts the brother from his mental hospital and holds him hostage in his apartment. Ricki, a “lesbian assassin”, is sent to oversee Gigli’s job and make sure he doesn’t screw it up. Comedic high jinks ensue as the two go on the lam and start to fall in love. |
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Hitcher II: I’ve Been Waiting, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Evil waits again on the side of the road. 2: The most frightening road trip in movie history was only the beginning. |
| Plot Summary: | After being discharged from the local police force, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) travels to Texas with his girlfriend Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) to face down his demons and visit an old friend. Along the way, however, Jim & Maggie picks up a demented hitchhiker who has diabolical plans for the duo. |
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action
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| Taglines: | 1: How do they solve a mystery when they don’t have a clue? 2: Real life has never been so animated 3: The biggest animated adventure ever to hit real life |
| Plot Summary: | Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr.(Fraser) and embarks on a round-the-world adventure, along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros (Elfman). Their mission? Find Damien’s father, and the missing blue diamond… and stay one step ahead of The Acme Corp., who wants the diamond for thier own purposes. |
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
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| Taglines: | 1: Before the first movie, there was high school. They missed the bus. 2: The evolution of dumb… |
| Plot Summary: | Set in 1986 when best friends Harry (Olsen) and Lloyd (Richardson) were teenagers, this is the madcap comic tale of their attempt to get out of the “special needs” department and into regular high school life. |
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