Archive for April, 2008
Shrek
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| Taglines: | 1: It’s COOL 2: Its Big! 3: The greatest fairy tale never told. 4: The Prince isn’t charming. The Princess isn’t sleeping. The sidekick isn’t helping. The ogre is the hero. Fairy tales will never be the same again. |
| Plot Summary: | Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared from all the people in the land of Duloc. When Lord Farquaad, the ruler of Duloc, exiles all the fairy-tale beings in the woods, Shrek looses his peaceful life and his home becomes a refugees camp. So, he sets to find Lord Farquaad and convince him to take the fairy-tale beings back where they belong, and leave him alone. Lord Farquaad accepts, under one condition. Shrek must first go and find the beautiful young princess Fiona, who will become Farquaad’s bride. So, the big Ogre begins his quest, along with his newfound donkey friend… |
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Proof of Life
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| Plot Summary: | In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company’s subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman’s wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter’s sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne’s strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? |
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Serving Sara
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| Taglines: | 1: The One Thing That Could Bring Them Together Is Revenge. |
| Plot Summary: | When Sara (Elizabeth Hurley) is served divorce papers while she is in New York, she is stunned. Not about to lose the fortune she amassed with her self-serving Texas husband, she makes an offer to her process server, Joe (Matthew Perry) that sets them off on a wild trip across the country. |
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Gerry
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| Plot Summary: | A friendship between two twenty-something men—both named Gerry—is tested to its very limits when they go on a hike in an impossibly large desert and forget to bring any water or food with them |
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Rapid Exchange
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| Plot Summary: | The plan: Break in to a 747 during flight and steal 1/4 billion dollars-they have the right team but double cross follows double cross |
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Shot in the Dark, A
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| Taglines: | 1: … The Picture That Gets Away With Murder! 2: It’s Sellers the Sleuth… and there’s nothing he won’t do to track down a body — dead or alive! 3: Meet the inspector who was always on the job In The Bedroom… In The Nightclub… In The Nudist Colony! 4: This is a real high calibre comedy! |
| Plot Summary: | When rich M. Ballon’s spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene. All evidence suggests Maria Gambrelli, the maid, to be the murderer. But Clouseau, being attracted to the beautiful girl, is convinced that she is hiding something. So, he has her released from jail and tries to follow her secretly. Things do not work out the way the inspector wanted and people keep being murdered, and each time innocent Maria seems to be the killer. But with someone important wanting Clouseau and nobody else to cover this case, his tolerance-challenged boss Charles Dreyfuss is close to losing his mind when casualties keep turning up. And Clouseau keeps on causing trouble without knowing it… |
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Prague Duet
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
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| Taglines: | 1: 50 million people used to watch him on TV. Now he washes their cars. |
| Plot Summary: | TV child star of the ’70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid. Several folk who are also involved in Dickie’s special world include: Sidney, Dickie’s longtime friend and agent; Cyndi, his on-again, off-again girlfriend; Peggy, Dickie’s real mother; George, Dickie’s adopted father figure; and Grace, his adopted mother figure. |
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Demon Hunter
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| Plot Summary: | A half-human-half-demon works for the Catholic Church in its ceaseless battle against the powers of hell. |
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Raging Sharks
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| Taglines: | 1: You Can Swim, But You Can’t Hide. |
| Plot Summary: | Ever since JAWS enchanted and frightened cinemagoers in the 1970s, the shark movie has become a welcome addition to the horror film genre. RAGING SHARKS continues the tradition, once again tapping into mankind’s innate fear of these creatures who lurk in the ocean. This time out, the Bermuda Triangle is the location for some Great White action, as a strange object plops into the water from outer space. Unfortunately this drives our amphibious friends into a frenzy, with carnage ensuing, and a chance for the rugged Corbin Bernsen to come to the rescue. |
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