Archive for June, 2008
Other Boleyn Girl, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Do mesmo sangue, o mesmo amor. O destino decide. (Brazil) 2: In an age where a woman’s destiny was determined by her father, one sister followed the rules. The other defied them. 3: The only thing that could come between these sisters… is a kingdom. 4: They were the closest of sisters, until the most powerful man in the world made them rivals. 5: Two sisters divided for the love for a king. 6: What if you could have everything you ever wanted? What if all you had to do was betray the sister you loved? |
| Plot Summary: | A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family’s blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII. |
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Brick Lane
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| Plot Summary: | A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life’s blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided - and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door. |
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Bubba Ho-tep
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| Taglines: | 1: The King vs. The King of the Dead 2: You know the legends… Now learn the truth. |
| Plot Summary: | Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds. |
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Gabriel
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| Taglines: | 1: Far from Grace |
| Plot Summary: | GABRIEL tells the story of an archangel who fights to bring light back to purgatory - a place where darkness rules - and save the souls of the city’s inhabitants. |
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Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
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| Taglines: | 1: Bill & Ted party on! 2: It’s a trip. 3: Once… they made history. Now… they are history. 4: Whoa dude! Pressed hams!” |
| Plot Summary: | For many years now, at Bill and Ted University of the future, the people of the world have been excellent to each other. But fed-up with Bill and Ted’s peaceful world and even more fed up with heavy metal, Chuck De Nomolos decides to do something about it. De Nomolos creates cyborg versions of Bill and Ted, who travel back to 1990 with orders to kill the human versions of Bill and Ted, win the Battle of the Bands, and pave the way for De Nomolos to take over the future. In 1990, Bill and Ted are sent to hell by the cyborgs. Cyborg Bill and cyborg Ted make time with the real Bill and Ted’s girlfriends Joanna and Elizabeth and prepare to take the human Bill and Ted’s place in the Battle of the Bands. With the help of their friend Rufus, the human Bill and Ted are forced to find a way out of hell, deal with the Grim Reaper, and talk to God himself, in their mission to get to the Battle of the Bands and stop the two cyborgs. |
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Donkey Xote
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| Plot Summary: | Follows Don Quixote, his “squire”, Sancho Panza (Quixote’s best friend and the wealthiest man in town), Sancho’s donkey, Rucio (who wants to be a horse) and a real horse, Quixote’s faithful steed, Rocinante (who hates leaving his stable) on their adventure to duel the “Knight of the Moon” where, if Quixote wins the duel the true identity of Dulcinea will be revealed. |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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| Plot Summary: | In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. |
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Then She Found Me
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| Plot Summary: | A New York schoolteacher (Hunt) hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she (April) begins a courtship with the father (Firth) of one of her students. |
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Rails & Ties
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| Taglines: | 1: When life comes apart, love puts it back together. |
| Plot Summary: | A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage. |
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Near Dark
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| Taglines: | 1: …pray for daylight. 2: Blood is our life, Darkness, our feeding ground and sunlight, our eternal damnation. 3: In one hot hungry kiss, he gave her everlasting love. She gave him everlasting life. 4: Killing you would be easy, they’d rather terrify you…forever. 5: Vampires can only kill you once, but they can terrify you forever. |
| Plot Summary: | A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar. |
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