Released Date:
2002-08-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (24694 Reviews)
Director:
John StockwellSusan Orlean (magazine article "Surf Girls of Maui")
Lizzy Weiss (story)
Lizzy Weiss (screenplay)
John Stockwell (screenplay)
Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene ... until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt.
Released Date:
2004-01-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (21660 Reviews)
Director:
Robert LuketicRosalee Futch is a grocery clerk living in rural West Virginia. But even a small-town girl can have big dreams, and Rosalee's is to someday--somehow--meet her big-screen idol Tad Hamilton. The somehow arrives in the form of a contest--the grand prize: a date with Tad Hamilton--and the someday is now. Rosalee wins, much to the chagrin of her best friend and co-worker Pete, who is deeply, hopelessly--and secretly--in love with Rosalee. The Win a Date contest was cooked up by Tad's agent, Richard Levy, and his manager, also named Richard Levy, to clean up Tad's bad-boy image. Someone should have told them to be careful what you wish for. When Tad meets Rosalee and gets a taste of what he's been missing in the real world, he decides he wants seconds and moves to West Virginia, turning Rosalee's dream come true into a nightmare for Richard Levy, Richard Levy and, most of all, Pete.
Released Date:
2003-10-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (18214 Reviews)
Director:
James CoxJames Cox
Captain Mauzner
Todd Samovitz
D. Loriston Scott
John Holmes was a legend of the porn industry and revered in circles as a stud. But in 1981, years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. He's estranged from his wife, holding onto a relationship with his teenage mistress, and living as a junkie in search of his next fix. But one fateful night left four people dead and John as a key suspect in one of the most grisly murders in Los Angeles. Was he partly responsible for what happened at Wonderland Avenue?
Released Date:
2006-06-28
Languages:
English, German, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
154 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (228436 Reviews)
Director:
Bryan SingerMichael Dougherty (screenplay)
Dan Harris (screenplay)
Bryan Singer (story)
Michael Dougherty (story)
Dan Harris (story)
Jerry Siegel (characters)
Joe Shuster (characters)
Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure Superman Returns, a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world's most beloved superheroes. While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the heartbreaking realization that the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life. Or has she? Superman's bittersweet return challenges him to bridge the distance between them while finding a place in a society that has learned to survive without him. In an attempt to protect the world he loves from cataclysmic destruction, Superman embarks on an epic journey of redemption that takes him from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outer space.
Released Date:
2004-12-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany, UK
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (12193 Reviews)
Director:
Kevin SpaceyConsummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He's volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he's living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and on "Bandstand." He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it's on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it's balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn't always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.
Released Date:
2008-03-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
123 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (180623 Reviews)
Director:
Robert LuketicPeter Steinfeld (screenplay)
Allan Loeb (screenplay)
Ben Mezrich (book)
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.
Released Date:
2011-09-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (25541 Reviews)
Director:
Rod LurieRod Lurie (screenplay)
David Zelag Goodman (earlier screenplay)
Sam Peckinpah (earlier screenplay)
Gordon Williams (novel)
Screenwriter David Sumner travels with his wife Amy in his Jaguar to her homeland Blackwater, in the Mississippi. Amy's father has passed away and David intends to write his screenplay about Stalingrad in the house. David hires the contractor Charlie and his team to repair the roof of the Barn. Amy was the sweetheart of Charlie when she lived there and neither him nor his crew show respect to her. Charlie invites David to hunt deers with his group and him but they leave David alone in the woods and rape Amy. She does not tell to David what happened but when the drunken coach Tom Heddon calls Charlie and his friends to hunt down the slow Jeremy Niles that likes his daughter, David decides to protect not only Jeremy, but also Amy and his honor.
Released Date:
2013-11-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (1281 Reviews)
Director:
Michael PolishGenres:
DramaJack Kerouac (novel)
Michael Polish (screenplay)
Sudden fame and a self-destructive lifestyle were taking a toll on Jack Kerouac's mind and body following the unparalleled success of the groundbreaking novel, On The Road. Once the handsome literary maverick and hero of the Beat Generation, Kerouac now sees only a vestige of his former self, ravaged by alcohol and drugs, aged beyond his years and tormented by self-doubt. Questioning his talent, his faith, and his mortality, Kerouac leaves New York for California, on a quest for redemption at an isolated, fog-banked cabin in the primitive landscape of the Big Sur woods. What ensues in those fateful 3 weeks of August, 1960, is both terrifying and revelatory. While Kerouac is able to find beauty and elation in his surroundings, the dichotomy of his psyche renders him unable to face his demons alone. He sets off on a visceral collision course of paranoia, sex, delirium tremens, misery and madness. His desperation culminates in an intense, hallucinatory breakdown, but the duality of his nature (again) comes into play and he emerges from his dark place - however fleeting - with a modicum of peace and optimism.
Released Date:
2011-01-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (3626 Reviews)
Director:
Elgin JamesGenres:
DramaLily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
Released Date:
2013-11-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (1281 Reviews)
Director:
Michael PolishGenres:
DramaJack Kerouac (novel)
Michael Polish (screenplay)
Sudden fame and a self-destructive lifestyle were taking a toll on Jack Kerouac's mind and body following the unparalleled success of the groundbreaking novel, On The Road. Once the handsome literary maverick and hero of the Beat Generation, Kerouac now sees only a vestige of his former self, ravaged by alcohol and drugs, aged beyond his years and tormented by self-doubt. Questioning his talent, his faith, and his mortality, Kerouac leaves New York for California, on a quest for redemption at an isolated, fog-banked cabin in the primitive landscape of the Big Sur woods. What ensues in those fateful 3 weeks of August, 1960, is both terrifying and revelatory. While Kerouac is able to find beauty and elation in his surroundings, the dichotomy of his psyche renders him unable to face his demons alone. He sets off on a visceral collision course of paranoia, sex, delirium tremens, misery and madness. His desperation culminates in an intense, hallucinatory breakdown, but the duality of his nature (again) comes into play and he emerges from his dark place - however fleeting - with a modicum of peace and optimism.
Released Date:
2013-11-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (74054 Reviews)
Director:
Gary FlederSylvester Stallone (screenplay)
Chuck Logan (based on the novel by)
Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his action against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his boss' son. He is recently widowed and is left with a 9-years-old daughter,Maddy. He decides to quit the turbulent and demanding life of thrill for Maddy's sake and retires to a small town. His daughter fights off a boy who was bullying her at school and this sets in motion a round of events that end in his direct confrontation with the local Meth drug lord. His past history with the biker gang also enters the arena, making matters more complex. But he has a mission in his mind to protect his daughter and he is ready to pay any cost that it demands.
Released Date:
2015-02-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, France
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (56533 Reviews)
Genres:
DramaRichard Glatzer (screenplay)
Wash Westmoreland (screenplay)
Lisa Genova (novel)
Alice Howland is a renowned linguistics professor happily married with three grown children. All that begins to change when she strangely starts to forget words and then more. When her doctor diagnoses her with Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family's lives face a harrowing challenge as this terminal degenerative neurological ailment slowly progresses to an inevitable conclusion they all dread. Along the way, Alice struggles to not only to fight the inner decay, but to make the most of her remaining time to find the love and peace to make simply living worthwhile.
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