Archive for the 'Adventure movies' Category
MirrorMask
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| Taglines: | 1: An extraordinary dream quest to rescue a world out of balance. 2: Enter A World Where Dreams Are Real |
| Plot Summary: | Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister. |
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Black Cauldron, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Hidden by darkness. Guarded by witches. Discovered by a boy. Stolen by a king. Whoever owns it will rule the world. Or destroy it. 2: Seven years in the making - In the celebrated Disney tradition comes our 25th animated motion picture. |
| Plot Summary: | Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory. |
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Children of Men
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| Taglines: | 1: He must protect our only hope. 2: In 20 years, women are infertile. No children. No future. No hope. But all that can change in a heartbeat. 3: No child has been born for 18 years. 4: No children. No future. No hope. 5: The future’s a thing of the past. 6: The last days of human race. 7: The last one to die please turn out the light. |
| Plot Summary: | With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England’s Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo’s bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret? |
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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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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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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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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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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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Casualties of War
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| Taglines: | 1: Even in war… murder is murder. |
| Plot Summary: | During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event. |
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