Released Date:
1996-04-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (21815 Reviews)
Director:
Michael LehmannJaneane Garofalo plays Dr. Abby Barnes, the "Truth About Cats and Dogs" radio question-and-answer show host who unwittingly entices a listener over the radio with her soothing voice and personality. This listener, Brian, tries to meet the Abby from the radio, but Noelle, played by Uma Thurman, is mistaken for the real thing when Brian comes to the studio. Instead of clearing things up right away, the self-conscious Abby allows her best friend, Noelle, a tall, stunning blonde, to take her place for a while. Abby takes on the made-up persona of Donna, while thinking Brian would never go for her, a short, cute, brunette, who thinks she's unattractive. As the real Abby woos Brian over the phone and radio, Noelle, the pseudo-Abby, takes her place in the flesh. As time goes on, Abby feels more and more confident that Brian would rather have the beautiful Noelle than the simply attractive Abby.
Released Date:
2001-12-25
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
157 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (73782 Reviews)
Director:
Michael MannGregory Allen Howard (story)
Stephen J. Rivele (screenplay)
Christopher Wilkinson (screenplay)
Eric Roth (screenplay)
Michael Mann (screenplay)
In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of duty for himself, Ali refuses to submit on principle to cooperate in an unjust war for a racist nation that treated his people so poorly. The cost of that stand is high as he finds himself unable to legally box in his own country while his case is contested in court. What follows is a battle for a man who would sacrifice so much for what he believes in and a comeback that would cement his legend as one of the great sports figures of all time.
Released Date:
2004-05-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (4070 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel TaplitzQuincy Watson, after being unceremoniously dumped by his fiancèe, pens a "how to" book on breaking up and becomes a best-selling author on the subject. Not wanting his male friends to suffer the same fate, he gives them advice on dumping their mates. A comedy of errors ensues.
Released Date:
2004-10-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
152 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (100456 Reviews)
Director:
Taylor HackfordTaylor Hackford (story)
James L. White (story)
James L. White (screenplay)
Legendary rhythm and blues singer Ray Charles' life transpires on-screen, from his humble beginnings in Georgia, where he went blind at age seven, to his pre-fame life touring the South, and on to his career as one of the most enduring, inimitable performers in modern music.
Released Date:
2004-08-06
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (276566 Reviews)
Director:
Michael MannReleased Date:
2005-07-29
Languages:
English, Korean, Russian, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(43764 Reviews)
Director:
Rob CohenIn the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war...
Released Date:
2004-05-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (4076 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel TaplitzQuincy Watson, after being unceremoniously dumped by his fiancèe, pens a "how to" book on breaking up and becomes a best-selling author on the subject. Not wanting his male friends to suffer the same fate, he gives them advice on dumping their mates. A comedy of errors ensues.
Released Date:
2004-03-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (2686 Reviews)
Director:
Vondie Curtis-HallRedemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence resolutions which earned him multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. After exhausting all forms of appeal, Tookie was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison, California; he was declared dead on December 13, 2005 at 12:35 a.m. PST (08:35 UTC). Williams is the 12th person to be executed by California since it reinstated the death penalty in 1977.
Released Date:
2005-11-04
Languages:
English, Spanish, Arabic, Latin
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (133309 Reviews)
Director:
Sam MendesWilliam Broyles Jr. (screenplay)
Anthony Swofford (book)
Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go?
Released Date:
2006-07-28
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA, Germany, Paraguay, Uruguay
Runtime:
134 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(88309 Reviews)
Director:
Michael MannMichael Mann
Anthony Yerkovich (TV series)
Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.
Released Date:
2007-09-28
Languages:
English, Arabic
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (96767 Reviews)
Director:
Peter BergAfter a terrorist attack on an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and FBI Agent Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the Saudi Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes and Adam Leavitt to avenge their friend and try to find those responsible for the bombing. The agents find all sorts of difficulties in their investigation, but they are supported by Colonel Faris Al Ghazi that advises the team how to act in a hostile environment.
Released Date:
2006-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
130 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (51181 Reviews)
Director:
Bill CondonBill Condon (screenplay)
Tom Eyen (book)
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due?
Released Date:
2009-04-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA, France
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (42120 Reviews)
Director:
Joe WrightSusannah Grant (screenplay)
Steve Lopez (book)
In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life. However, Lopez's good intentions run headlong in the hard realities of the strength of Ayers' personal demons and the larger social injustices facing the homeless. Regardless, Lopez and Ayers must find a way to conquer their deepest anxieties and frustrations to hope for a brighter future for both of them.
Released Date:
2009-04-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA, France
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (42116 Reviews)
Director:
Joe WrightSusannah Grant (screenplay)
Steve Lopez (book)
In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life. However, Lopez's good intentions run headlong in the hard realities of the strength of Ayers' personal demons and the larger social injustices facing the homeless. Regardless, Lopez and Ayers must find a way to conquer their deepest anxieties and frustrations to hope for a brighter future for both of them.
Released Date:
2009-10-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
109 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (200068 Reviews)
Director:
F. Gary GrayClyde Shelton's family is brutally murdered. The ones responsible are caught. However, because of improper procedure, the D.A., Nick Rice only has circumstantial evidence. So he decides to get one of them to testify against the other. When Shelton learns of this, he is not happy. Ten years later, the one who was convicted is being executed but something goes wrong; his execution goes awry and he suffers. They learn that someone tampered with the machine. And the other one is found dead, killed in a gruesome manner. Rice suspects Shelton, so he has him picked up. At first, Shelton agrees to a plea agreement with Rice but changes his mind. It appears that Shelton is not done, it appears he blames the whole system and is declaring war on it going after everyone involved with his family's case. So Rice has to stop him but Shelton is way ahead of him.
Released Date:
2010-11-05
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (258017 Reviews)
Director:
Todd PhillipsGenres:
ComedyAlan R. Cohen (screenplay)
Alan Freedland (screenplay)
Adam Sztykiel (screenplay)
Todd Phillips (screenplay)
Alan R. Cohen (story)
Alan Freedland (story)
In Atlanta on business, straight-laced and overly analytical architect Peter Highman is flying home to Los Angeles and his wife Sarah for the imminent birth of their first child. However, traveling by plane no longer becomes an option when he and a fellow passenger, aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay, are kicked off the plane, which was caused by Ethan's social inappropriateness, due to being generally unaware, exacerbated by Peter's temper at a situation against his sensibilities. Peter, who ends up without money or his suitcase, is forced to accept Ethan's offer of a shared car ride to Los Angeles, Ethan who is looking for his big acting break. For Peter, this partnership is one made in hell, but he feels he has no other choice. Peter obviously wants to take as direct and as quick a route as possible, while he is at Ethan's mercy as the person with the driver's license, car rental and money. They get into one misadventure after another on this trip, with the same issue at each misadventure being Ethan's ineptness as an adult combined with Peter's resulting temper. The questions become whether they will survive the trip together, and if so if Peter will make it home in time to witness the birth of his and Sarah's first child.
Released Date:
2014-12-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (19717 Reviews)
Director:
Will GluckWill Gluck (screenplay)
Aline Brosh McKenna (screenplay)
Thomas Meehan (stage play book)
Harold Gray (comic strip "Little Orphan Annie")
Academy Awardè nominee Quvenzhanè Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) - advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) - makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.
Released Date:
2012-12-25
Languages:
English, German, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
165 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.5 (817800 Reviews)
Director:
Quentin TarantinoGenres:
WesternFormer dentist, Dr. King Schultz, buys the freedom of a slave, Django, and trains him with the intent to make him his deputy bounty hunter. Instead, he is led to the site of Django's wife who is under the hands of Calvin Candie, a ruthless plantation owner.
Released Date:
2012-12-25
Languages:
English, German, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
165 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.5 (821085 Reviews)
Director:
Quentin TarantinoGenres:
WesternFormer dentist, Dr. King Schultz, buys the freedom of a slave, Django, and trains him with the intent to make him his deputy bounty hunter. Instead, he is led to the site of Django's wife who is under the hands of Calvin Candie, a ruthless plantation owner.
Released Date:
2014-05-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
142 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (284539 Reviews)
Director:
Marc WebbAlex Kurtzman (screenplay)
Roberto Orci (screenplay)
Jeff Pinkner (screenplay)
Alex Kurtzman (screen story)
Roberto Orci (screen story)
Jeff Pinkner (screen story)
James Vanderbilt (screen story)
Stan Lee (Marvel comic book)
Steve Ditko (Marvel comic book)
We've always known that Spider-Man's most important conflict has been within himself: the struggle between the ordinary obligations of Peter Parker and the extraordinary responsibilities of Spider-Man. But in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker finds that his greatest battle is about to begin. It's great to be Spider-Man. For Peter Parker, there's no feeling quite like swinging between skyscrapers, embracing being the hero, and spending time with Gwen. But being Spider-Man comes at a price: only Spider-Man can protect his fellow New Yorkers from the formidable villains that threaten the city. With the emergence of Electro, Peter must confront a foe far more powerful than he. And as his old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, Peter comes to realize that all of his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp.
Released Date:
2013-06-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (147218 Reviews)
Director:
Roland EmmerichCapitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.
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