Archive for June, 2008
Horton Hears a Who!
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| Taglines: | 1: One Elephant One World One Story 2: The Next Big Comedy Event |
| Plot Summary: | One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can’t see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands by the motto that, “After all, a person is a person, no matter how small.” |
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Geronimo
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| Taglines: | 1: No bullet could kill him. No army could capture him. 2: The Most Defiant Warrior Of Them All! |
| Plot Summary: | An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down. |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
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| Taglines: | 1: If you don’t go to the movies - you won’t see… 2: Indiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS. 3: The creators of JAWS and STAR WARS now bring you the ultimate hero in the ultimate adventure. 4: The return of the great adventure. |
| Plot Summary: | The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Inidana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it. |
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
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| Taglines: | 1: Brace yourself amigos for a most triumphant video! (UK VHS Box) 2: History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can’t spell… 3: Party on, dudes! 4: The funniest comedy in the history of history. 5: Time flies when you’re having fun. |
| Plot Summary: | When best friends Bill S. Preston and Ted “Theodore” Logan are in danger of being seperated and having their band, Wyld Stalyns broken up because they’re failing history, a time traveler from the future gives them a telephone booth so they can travel through time and ace their history report. |
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Fingerprints
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| Plot Summary: | Haunted railroad tracks lead a troubled teenager to discover the horrifying truth hidden in a small Texas town. |
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King and I, The
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| Taglines: | 1: 20th Century-Fox’s crowning entertainment achievement! 2: In the complete grandeur of Cinemascope 55! Richer - Deeper - Clearer! 3: More Than You’ve Ever Seen On The Screen! 4: The Fabulous Broadway Stage Success Comes to the Screen! |
| Plot Summary: | After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better. |
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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
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| Taglines: | 1: Loyalty. It’s all relative. 2: No one was supposed to get hurt. |
| Plot Summary: | Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed. |
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Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
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| Plot Summary: | Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa’s sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea… |
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Outlaw Josey Wales, The
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| Taglines: | 1: …an army of one. |
| Plot Summary: | Josey Wales is a peaceful farmer in the days near the end of the Civil War. After his home is burned and his family murdered, he hardens into a human bullet - dedicated to destroying the renegades who took his “life.” He joins a band of unreconstructed rebel guerilla fighters who continue to fight the Union - even after the official surrender of the Confederacy - an action which makes them, legally, outlaws. Josey is driven by vengeance, but after a while, that’s not enough. Back before his own personal Holocaust, he had been a builder - of home, family, farm, and life. And no matter how much ice he’s wrapped himself in, down inside there’s still the soul of a living man. While Wales exists, he’s pulled by this hidden yearning to Live. Each day offers him chances to remember, to assuage his yearning, to begin again. And the movie shows us how Josey Wales - a mere seeker of vengeance - learns to live again, rededicated to the values he chose so long ago. |
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Like Mother, Like Daughter
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| Plot Summary: | When a successful business woman (Michelle Stafford)finds out her college-aged daughter (Dani Kind) has gone missing, she elicits help from her friend and daughter’s college professor (Billy Moses) unaware that she is seeking assistance from the very man who kidnapped her. |
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