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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 school since 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 Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged 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.
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Jim Sturgess |
Kevin Spacey |
Aaron Yoo |
Jacob Pitts |
Laurence Fishburne |
Jack McGee |
Josh Gad |
Sam Golzari |
Jack Gilpin |
Butch Williams |
Jeffrey Ma |
Frank Patton |
Steven Richard Vezina |
Chaska T. Werner |
Kyle Morris |
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After a successful last score, a master thief retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he's making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse.
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Pierce Brosnan |
Salma Hayek |
Woody Harrelson |
Don Cheadle |
Naomie Harris |
Chris Penn |
Troy Garity |
Mykelti Williamson |
Obba Babatundé |
Russell Hornsby |
Rex Linn |
Robert Curtis-Brown |
Mark Moses |
Michael Bowen |
Tony Ledard |
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Brett Ratner |
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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker's aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Lloyd Bridges |
Peter Graves |
Julie Hagerty |
Robert Hays |
Leslie Nielsen |
Lorna Patterson |
Robert Stack |
Stephen Stucker |
Otto |
Jim Abrahams |
Frank Ashmore |
Jonathan Banks |
Craig Berenson |
Barbara Billingsley |
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Jim Abrahams |
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200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth.
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Horror |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Sigourney Weaver |
Winona Ryder |
Dominique Pinon |
Ron Perlman |
Gary Dourdan |
Michael Wincott |
Kim Flowers |
Dan Hedaya |
J. E. Freeman |
Brad Dourif |
Raymond Cruz |
Leland Orser |
Carolyn Campbell |
Marlene Bush |
David St. James |
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
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A bounty hunter is on the trail of a conman who skipped bail. The two wind up in a deserted warehouse where they witness a diamond scam in action, caught in the midst they put their differences aside to team up and detain the looters.
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Comedy |
Crime |
Thriller |
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Ice Cube |
Mike Epps |
Tommy Flanagan |
Carmen Chaplin |
Eva Mendes |
Valarie Rae Miller |
Anthony Giaimo |
Jeff Chase |
Roger Guenveur Smith |
Gino Salvano |
Tony Ward |
Dominic Chianese Jr. |
Anthony Michael Hall |
Antoni Corone |
Bob Carter |
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Kevin Bray |
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Can a risk-averse insurance salesman on the rebound from his bride's infidelity (during their honeymoon) find happiness with a waitress he knew in junior high who's averse to commitment? Reuben is a sweet klutz who's ready to settle down but sees in her a chance to recover from disappointment and have some fun; Polly is a sweet itinerant, not ready to settle down but sees a chance to spend time with a nice guy who likes her. What will he do when his bride comes crawling back? What will Polly do, when he runs the numbers and thinks she's a good risk? Sub-plots involve his self-centered pal, who's a has-been actor, and an assignment to assess the insurability of a balls-out Aussie.
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Romance |
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Ben Stiller |
Jennifer Aniston |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Debra Messing |
Alec Baldwin |
Hank Azaria |
Bryan Brown |
Jsu Garcia |
Michele Lee |
Bob Dishy |
Missi Pyle |
Judah Friedlander |
Kevin Hart |
Masi Oka |
Kym Whitley |
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John Hamburg |
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Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.
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Kevin Spacey |
Annette Bening |
Thora Birch |
Wes Bentley |
Mena Suvari |
Chris Cooper |
Peter Gallagher |
Allison Janney |
Scott Bakula |
Sam Robards |
Barry Del Sherman |
Ara Celi |
John Cho |
Fort Atkinson |
Sue Casey |
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Sam Mendes |
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A Neo Nazi skinhead, named Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) goes to jail for 3 years after committing a murder of 2 black guys. In the meanwhile, his younger brother, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) goes in the same way and makes the same mistakes (racism and hatred) his eldest brother did (this is the result of the Neo Nazi environment he grows up into, and the influence Derek left behind). While Derek is in jail he realize that he choose the wrong path. after coming back from jail, Derek try to convince his brother not to go in his own way.
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Drama |
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Edward Norton |
Edward Furlong |
Beverly D'Angelo |
Avery Brooks |
Jennifer Lien |
Ethan Suplee |
Stacy Keach |
Fairuza Balk |
Elliott Gould |
Guy Torry |
William Russ |
Joseph Cortese |
Jason Bose Smith |
Antonio David Lyons |
Alex Sol |
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Tony Kaye |
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
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Biography |
Crime |
Drama |
Sport |
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| Actors: |
Leonardo DiCaprio |
Lorraine Bracco |
Marilyn Sokol |
James Madio |
Patrick McGaw |
Mark Wahlberg |
Roy Cooper |
Bruno Kirby |
Jimmy Papiris |
Nick Gaetani |
Alexander Chaplin |
Ben Jorgensen |
Josh Mostel |
Juliette Lewis |
Michael Imperioli |
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Scott Kalvert |
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Be Cool
Everyone is looking for the next big hit
[2005,
USA] from $1.99
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Plot Summary:
Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangsta rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing. From the recording studio to an Aerosmith concert to the MTV Music Awards, he manipulates events to watch them play out the Chili way, using his signature blend of wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics. It's a dangerous business, and everyone's looking for their next big hit.
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Comedy |
Crime |
Music |
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John Travolta |
Uma Thurman |
Vince Vaughn |
Cedric the Entertainer |
André Benjamin |
Steven Tyler |
Robert Pastorelli |
Christina Milian |
Paul Adelstein |
Debi Mazar |
Gregory Alan Williams |
Harvey Keitel |
The Rock |
Danny DeVito |
James Woods |
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F. Gary Gray |
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