Archive for January, 2004
Shark Tale
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| Taglines: | 1: A new school’s gonna rule… 2: Behind every little fish is a great white lie. 3: In fall, a new school will rule. 4: The story of what happens when one little fish tells a great white lie… |
| Plot Summary: | The sea underworld is shaken up when the son of the shark mob boss is found dead and a young fish named Oscar is found at the scene. Being a bottom feeder, Oscar takes advantage of the situation and makes himself look like he killed the finned mobster. Oscar soon comes to realize that his claim may have serious consequences. |
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Mr. 3000
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| Taglines: | 1: Back in the game. Out of his league. 2: Big league. Big mouth. Big time. 3: He’s putting the “I” back in team. 4: Hits theaters everywhere. |
| Plot Summary: | Stan Ross was a baseball superstar who turned his back on the game years ago when he finally hit 3,000 hits. Years later, he’s now a successful, self-made entrepreneur whose many businesses revolve around his title: Mr. 3000. But a clerical error has proven that Stan is just short three hits of his spectacular hit record. Now, with time on his side and the potential to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Stan must return back to the game and get back his title. But things have changed with age, and as Stan finds out, it’s not too easy to get back into the game when he hasn’t played for years, and he’s nearing 50. |
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Riding the Bullet
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| Taglines: | 1: The dead travel fast |
| Plot Summary: | A young man hitchhiking back home to visit his mother is picked up by a mysterious stranger. As the ride goes on, the young man uncovers a terrible secret about the stranger, and is given a choice by the stranger. A choice that can mean life or death. |
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Sniper 3
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| Taglines: | 1: Everyone is a target. 2: He only needs one shot. |
| Plot Summary: | Sniper Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) is hired by NSA officials, William Avery (Denis Arndt) and Richard Addis ( William Duffy) to perform a covert operation to eliminate a suspected terrorist. The terrorist turns out to be a friend of Beckett’s and the real purpose of the mission turns out to be something other than what Beckett was told. |
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Christmas with the Kranks
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| Taglines: | 1: No! Ho! Ho! 2: Their Christmas will turn the town upside down! |
| Plot Summary: | Allen portrays Luther Krank who, fed up with the commerciality of Christmas, decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration. |
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One Point O
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| Taglines: | 1: Are you infected? |
| Plot Summary: | After receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer (named Simon) begins a personal investigation into their origins. This leads him to discover his odd and eccentric neighbors; an artificially intelligent robot-head, named Adam; a virtual-reality sex game; and a possible corporate conspiracy. As the story progresses, Simon’s grip on reality becomes more and more tenuous, while his craving for Nature Fresh milk becomes almost unbearable. Is it all just in his mind, or is something more sinister happening here? |
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Ghost Game
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| Taglines: | 1: Cabin Fever meets Jumangi 2: The Soul Searching Begins! |
| Plot Summary: | 7 Friends go out to cabin for a weekend of relaxing and find a game that should not be opened! |
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Terminal, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Life is waiting. |
| Plot Summary: | Viktor Navorski, a man from an Eastern European country arrives in New York but after he left his country; war broke out and because of that Navorski is a man without a country that the U.S. cannot recognize, thus he is denied entrance to the U.S. However, he also can’t be deported so he is told by the Security Manager that he has to remain in the airport until his status can be fixed. And also Navorski doesn’t speak English well, so no one can talk to him and he can’t talk to anyone. But he somehow adapts and sets up residence in the airport, which makes the man who placed him there unhappy cause, it seems he is line for a promotion but Navroski’s presence might complicate that. So he tries to get Navorski to leave but Navorski remains where he is. Navorski makes friends with some of the people who work in the airport and is attracted to a flight attendant he runs into whenever she comes in. |
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Ripper 2: Letter from Within
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| Plot Summary: | The director of an asylum offers to the serial killer Molly Keller (Erin Karpluk) a chance to be submitted to a pilot unconventional experiment in Prague, in the Weisser Institute. Molly accepts, and she travels to the clinic, where Dr. Samuel Wiesser (Richard Bremmer) developed a treatment using a virtual world, and Molly and deranged youngsters would be trial subjects. However, something does not work well in the experiment, and when the patients die in their trip, the same happens in the real world. The explanation is a huge twist point in the very end of the story. |
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She Hate Me
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| Taglines: | 1: 18 women want children. Jack is a white collar whistle-blower in need of a job. 2: From the director of “She’s Gotta Have It” and “25th Hour,” a new film about one heterosexual male and 18 lesbians. 3: One heterosexual male. 18 lesbians. His fee $10,000… each. |
| Plot Summary: | Harvard-educated biotech executive John Henry Jack Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses, launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima, a high powered businesswoman–and now a lesbian–offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex, Jack is persuaded by the chance to make easy money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a try. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for security fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated. |
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