Archive for January, 2004
Wake of Death
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| Taglines: | 1: Revenge is all he has left. |
| Plot Summary: | Ben Archer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a thug/enforcer for a criminal organization. Tiring of the work, he tells his coworkers that he’s ready to retire. His wife Cynthia is a social worker for the INS. She brings a Chinese refugee girl to their home. Soon, Sun Quan (Simon Yam) wants his daughter back. Cynthia Archer is murdered, and Ben’s son Nicholas disappears, along with the Chinese girl. Ben must save the children and avenge his wife’s murder. |
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Helter Skelter
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| Taglines: | 1: Based on the true story of the Manson murders. 2: How did one man turn all-American teens into cold-blooded killers? |
| Plot Summary: | A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself. |
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Raise Your Voice
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| Taglines: | 1: Don’t hold back. Don’t give up. |
| Plot Summary: | Hilary Duff stars in Raise Your Voice as a young woman from a small town who spends the summer in a performing arts school in Los Angeles. She encounters big city circumstances and romance that challenge her small town upbringing. Sean McNamara directs. |
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EuroTrip
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| Taglines: | 1: No actual Europeans were harmed in the making of this film. |
| Plot Summary: | When Scotty’s German online pen pal suggests they meet, he initially freaks out. But then he discovers that she’s gorgeous, and heads out with three friends after graduation to meet her. As they travel across Europe, the four friends have comical misadventures. |
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White Chicks
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| Plot Summary: | When brothers and fellow FBI agents Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans) accidentally ruin an otherwise painstakingly executed drug bust, getting back into the good graces of their boss becomes a high-priority assignment in itself. With this in mind, Marcus and Kevin take on a case far beneath their usual standards when they agree to escort socialite sisters Brittany (Maitland Ward) and Tiffany Wilton (Anne Dudek) from a private terminal at JFK Airport to their hotel room in the Hamptons. Once there, two considerably higher-ranking agents will take over the girls’ protection. The extra security is no mere perk of wealth, however, as it appears that Brittany and Tiffany have been targeted by a serial kidnapper. The FBI hopes to apprehend the perpetrator by using the girls as bait, unbeknownst to them. The plan may have worked if it weren’t for Kevin and Marcus, who manage to let the sisters in on the secret. Understandably, neither of them want any part in the process, so they force the brothers to come up with a radical solution: With the help of an FBI lab scientist, the very much African-American Kevin and Marcus will be transformed into two white women who could pass for Brittany and Tiffany. The agents must keep the charade up long enough to lure the kidnapper, but fooling everyone involved will be the job of their lives. Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, White Chicks also features James King and Lochlyn Munro. |
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Seed of Chucky
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| Taglines: | 1: Deliver us some evil. 2: Fear the second coming. 3: Get a load of Chucky. 4: This November, get a load of Chucky. |
| Plot Summary: | The killer doll is back! The all-new film is the fifth in the popular series of Chucky (”Child’s Play”) horror comedies. Making his directorial debut is the franchise creator and writer of all five films, Don Mancini. The film introduces Glen (voiced by “The Lord of the Rings” star Billy Boyd), the orphan doll offspring of the irrepressible devilish-doll-come-to-life Chucky (again voiced by series star Brad Dourif) and his equally twisted bride Tiffany (again voiced by Jennifer Tilly). When production starts on a movie detailing the urban legend of his parents’ lethal exploits, Glen heads for Hollywood where he brings his bloodthirsty parents back from the dead. The family dynamics are far from perfect as Chucky and Tiffany go Hollywood and get rolling on a new spree of murderous mayhem; much to gentle Glen’s horror. Chucky can’t believe that his child doesn’t want to walk in his murdering footsteps, and star-struck Tiffany can’t believe that the movie will star her favorite actress, Jennifer Tilly (playing herself), who soon becomes an unwitting hostess to this new family in more ways than one… |
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Torque
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| Plot Summary: | Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey (Ice Cube), leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood. |
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Return to Sender
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| Taglines: | 1: How can you save someone, who won’t save herself? |
| Plot Summary: | Charlotte Cory (Connie Nielsen) is a young woman convict on Death Row who has built up a friendship with Frank Nitzche (Aidan Quinn) through mail correspondence, whilst her attorney (Kelly Preston) desperately tries to appeal the verdict before Charlotte’s time runs out. With only days to spare Frank realizes that he has fallen in love with Charlotte and discovers that there is much more to the tragic circumstances of her imprisonment than he first thought - her life is now in his hands. Frank races to solve the puzzle that will reveal the truth, and tell the secrets that both he and Charlotte have been concealing, before it’s too late. |
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Aviator, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn the star who stole his heart. 2: For some men, the sky was the limit. For him, it was just the beginning. 3: Imagine a life without limits. 4: Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner the passion he couldn’t resist. 5: Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes the man who became a legend. 6: Some men dream the future. He built it. |
| Plot Summary: | The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn. |
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
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| Taglines: | 1: I’m good, but I’m not that good 2: My name is Alice and I remember everything. 3: Our lives are in their hands. 4: The evil continues… 5: The infection is spreading faster than anyone could have anticipated 6: You’re all going to die |
| Plot Summary: | The nightmare isn’t over, General Cain ordered The Hive to be reopened, and in doing so contaminated all of Raccoon City, a city of the dead, with Alice stuck right in the middle. Now, along with other surviors, Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliviera and his Captain, Nicholai, they must fight to survive, to escape the nightmare that has plaqed Raccoon City. But now there is a new threat: Matt Addison has fully mutated into a seemingly unstoppable creature, code named Nemesis, who will stop at nothing until everything around it is dead, but it also has another agenda… |
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