Archive for January, 2006
Rescue Dawn
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| Taglines: | 1: A true story of survival… declassified. 2: This summer experience the incredible true story of one man’s fight for freedom |
| Plot Summary: | This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler, to be played by Bale, organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin (Zahn). |
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Inland Empire
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| Taglines: | 1: A Story of a mystery…A mystery inside worlds within worlds…Unfolding around a woman…A woman in love and in trouble. 2: A Woman In Trouble |
| Plot Summary: | After taking the lead in a new movie Hollywood star Nikki Grace learns the script is based on an old polish film, which was abandoned after the two lead roles of the film were murdered, Thinking the film is cursed Nikki’s imagination runs riot. |
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
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| Taglines: | 1: An epic quest. A magical guitar pick. A chance to put the D in Destiny. 2: The greatest motion picture of all time. |
| Plot Summary: | This is the story of a friendship that changes the course of rock history forever, of the fateful collision of minds between JB and KG that led to the creation of the precedent-shattering band Tenacious D, and of the two heroes’ quest to find the fabled Guitar Pick Of Destiny… |
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Knocked Up
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| Taglines: | 1: From the director of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” comes a comedy about a one night stand that became something more 2: Save the due date |
| Plot Summary: | Slobby Ben and up and coming career girl Alison meet at a bar, and end up having a one night stand. Eight weeks later, Ben is shocked when Alison meets him and reveals that she is pregnant. Despite having little in common, the two decide that they have to at least try to make some kind of relationship work for the baby’s sake. |
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Wild, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A whole new breed of tourist. 2: Hitting the streets 2006 3: Hitting the streets April 14 4: Start spreading the newspaper. 5: The Circle Of Life, meets the big apple. |
| Plot Summary: | Ryan (Greg Cipes) is a lion who wants to go to the wild, where his dad (Samson, voiced by Keifer Sutherland) once lived. When he gets himself shipped to Africa, his zoo friends (and Samson) work together to bring him back. When they get to Africa, however, the animals find themselves in a pile of danger. They have to fight an evil wildebeest called Kazar (William Shatner). But Kazar’s safe compared to the other danger on the island- a volcano that’s on the edge of eruption. Can the animals find Ryan and get out of Africa before the volcano erupts in so little time? |
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Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The
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| Taglines: | 1: If You Ain’t Outta Control, You Ain’t In Control. 2: On the streets of Tokyo, speed needs no translation… 3: Speed Needs No Translation. |
| Plot Summary: | To avoid jail time, street racer Sean Boswell is sent to live with his father in Tokyo. There he discovers drift racing. After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt. |
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Pursuit of Happyness, The
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| Plot Summary: | In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners while his wife toiled in double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream with his son even when the odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father and son struggle through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make Gardner a respected millionaire. |
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Ultimate Gift, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A life experience becomes a gift. 2: Life is how you live it… not how you spend it. 3: Share the gift. Change the world. 4: Some things are worth more than money. |
| Plot Summary: | Jason thought his inheritance was going to be the gift of money and lots of it. Was he ever in for a big surprise. Based on the best-selling book “The Ultimate Gift” by Jim Stovall, the story sends trust fund baby Jason Stevens on an improbable journey of discovery, having to answer the ultimate question: “What is the relationship between wealth and happiness?” Jason had a very simple relationship with his impossibly wealthy Grandfather, Howard “Red” Stevens. He hated him. No heart-to-heart talks, no warm fuzzies, just cold hard cash. So of course he figured that when Red died, the whole “reading of the will” thing would be another simple cash transaction, that his Grandfather’s money would allow him to continue living in the lifestyle to which he had become accustomed. But what Red left him was anything but simple. Red instead devised a plan for Jason to experience a crash course on life. Twelve tasks, which Red calls “gifts,” each challenging Jason in an improbable way, the accumulation of which would change him forever. |
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Bordertown
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| Plot Summary: | Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger. |
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Failure to Launch
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| Taglines: | 1: To leave the nest, some men just need a little push. |
| Plot Summary: | Tripp is a thirty-five years old bachelor man that still lives with his parents, Al and Sue. Al and Sue hire the manipulative interventionist Paula to play Tripp’s girlfriend and seduce him, convincing Tripp to move out of their home. Paula and Tripp fall in love for each other, but Tripp’s best friends Ace and Demo accidentally find the truth about Paula and Demo discloses to Tripp, spoiling the plan and their relationship. When Tripp and Paula miss each other, their friends plot a scheme trying to arrange an encounter to fix the situation. |
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