Released Date:
1996-04-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (14289 Reviews)
Director:
David O. RussellGenres:
ComedyMel Coplin departs on a mission of discovery dragging his wife and 4 month old son behind. He and wife, Nancy, won't agree on a name for their son until adopted Mel gets in touch with his roots. He assures her that once he knows who he really is, the right name for their boy will be a snap. Enlisting the aid of student-psychologist and part-time adoption agent, Tina Kalb, they embark on a journey across the United States to find Mel's "birth" mother. "The best part," Mel tells Nancy, "is it's all free." Tina is finishing her dissertation and will film the happy reunion of mother and child as part of her research. For this privilege, she's footing the bill. His adoptive parents are left behind feeling abandoned by an ungrateful son. Clerical errors, mistaken identities, Nancy's misplaced high school friend and his gay lover, and a super-charged libido here and there are thrown into the mix along the way until -- at last -- Mel's real parents, the Schlictings (mispronounced as "Shit-kings" by Mrs. Coplin), are discovered in remote New Mexico. There, Mel begins to wonder if he would have been better off not knowing these people, after all.
Released Date:
1998-05-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (128192 Reviews)
Director:
Mimi LederJournalist Jenny Lerner is assigned to look into the background of Secretary Alan Rittenhouse who abruptly resigned from government citing his wife's ill health. She learns from his secretary that Rittenhouse was having an affair with someone named Ellie but when she confronts him, his strange reaction leads her to reconsider her story. In fact, a meteor, discovered the previous year by high school student Leo Biederman and astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, is on a collision course with the Earth, an Extinction Level Event. A joint US-Russian team is sent to destroy the meteor but should it fail, special measures are to be put in place to secure the future of mankind. As the space mission progresses, many individuals deal with their fears and ponder their future.
Released Date:
2001-07-18
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (195680 Reviews)
Director:
Joe JohnstonMichael Crichton (characters)
Peter Buchman
Alexander Payne
Jim Taylor
Dr. Alan Grant is now a happy man with the previous incidents of Jurassic Park now behind him. Grant is that happy that he announce in public, that nothing on Earth can persuade him back onto the islands. Maybe nothing, except Paul Kirby. Kirby and his wife, Amanda want a plane to fly them over Isla Sorna, with Dr. Grant as their guide. But not everything Kirby says is true. When the plane lands, Dr. Grant realizes that there is another reason why they are there, that he doesn't know of. Now, Dr. Grant is stuck on an island he has never been on before, with what was a plane journey now turned into a search party.
Released Date:
2001-07-18
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (195417 Reviews)
Director:
Joe JohnstonMichael Crichton (characters)
Peter Buchman
Alexander Payne
Jim Taylor
Dr. Alan Grant is now a happy man with the previous incidents of Jurassic Park now behind him. Grant is that happy that he announce in public, that nothing on Earth can persuade him back onto the islands. Maybe nothing, except Paul Kirby. Kirby and his wife, Amanda want a plane to fly them over Isla Sorna, with Dr. Grant as their guide. But not everything Kirby says is true. When the plane lands, Dr. Grant realizes that there is another reason why they are there, that he doesn't know of. Now, Dr. Grant is stuck on an island he has never been on before, with what was a plane journey now turned into a search party.
Released Date:
2000-12-22
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (81482 Reviews)
Director:
Brett RatnerA modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn't leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He's married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He's president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed's. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn't wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he's more confident in his new life and starts to see what he's been missing. Turns out money's good to have but that's not everything.
Released Date:
2005-12-21
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (104290 Reviews)
Director:
Dean ParisotJudd Apatow (screenplay)
Nicholas Stoller (screenplay)
Gerald Gaiser (story)
Judd Apatow (story)
Nicholas Stoller (story)
Gerald Gaiser (novel)
David Giler
Jerry Belson
Mordecai Richler
Released Date:
2004-12-17
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (61988 Reviews)
Director:
James L. BrooksJohn Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous!
Released Date:
2007-07-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (15736 Reviews)
Director:
John DahlFrank Falenczyk loves his job. He just happens to be the hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank's got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not a touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel, a woman who is dangerously devoid of boundaries. Meanwhile, things aren't going well in Buffalo where an upstart Irish gang is threatening the family business. When violence erupts, Frank is forced to return home and with an unlikely assist from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.
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