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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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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...
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Richard Gere |
Juliette Binoche |
Flora Cross |
Max Minghella |
Kate Bosworth |
Corey Fischer |
Sam Zuckerman |
Joan Mankin |
Piers Mackenzie |
Lorri Holt |
Brian Leonard |
Kathy McGraw |
John Evans |
Alisha Mullally |
Olivia Charles |
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Scott McGehee |
David Siegel |
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Two brothers travel to Germany for Oktoberfest, only to stumble upon secret, centuries-old competition described as a "Fight Club" with beer games.
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M.C. Gainey |
Paul Soter |
Erik Stolhanske |
Cloris Leachman |
Jürgen Prochnow |
Cameron Scher |
Owain Yeoman |
Tom Tate |
Allan Graf |
Chris Moss |
Bjorn Johnson |
Kevin Heffernan |
Jay Chandrasekhar |
Steve Lemme |
Collin Thornton |
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Jay Chandrasekhar |
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Charlie Bucket comes from a poor family, and spends most of his time dreaming about the chocolate that he loves but usually can't afford. Things change when Willy Wonka, head of the very popular Wonka Chocolate empire, announces a contest in which five gold tickets have been hidden in chocolate bars and sent throughout the country. The kids who find the tickets will be taken on a tour of Wonka's chocolate factory and get a special glimpse of the wonders within. Charlie miraculously finds a ticket, along with four other children much naughtier than him. The tour of the factory will hold more than a few surprises for this bunch...
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Johnny Depp |
Freddie Highmore |
David Patrick Kelly |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Noah Taylor |
Missi Pyle |
James Fox |
Deep Roy |
Christopher Lee |
Adam Godley |
Franziska Troegner |
AnnaSophia Robb |
Julia Winter |
Jordan Fry |
Philip Wiegratz |
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Tim Burton |
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Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn't work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ?
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Paul Newman |
George Kennedy |
J.D. Cannon |
Lou Antonio |
Robert Drivas |
Strother Martin |
Clifton James |
Morgan Woodward |
Luke Askew |
Marc Cavell |
Richard Davalos |
Robert Donner |
Warren Finnerty |
Dennis Hopper |
John McLiam |
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Irreverent as ever, Larry The Cable Guy plays a big city health inspector who's happy with his usual beat of greasy spoon diners and low-rent ethnic restaurants. His easygoing life is turned upside-down when he's saddled with a straight-arrow rookie partner (Iris Bahr) and assigned the biggest case of his career: investigating an outbreak of mysterious food poisonings at the city's swankiest restaurants. Infuriating restaurateurs with his bad manners, Larry still manages to charm a sweet, shy waitress (Megyn Price) into a budding romance. But when his unorthodox methods cost him his job, Larry has to go undercover to bring the conspirators to justice and 'Git-R-Done!'
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Larry The Cable Guy |
David Koechner |
Michael Papajohn |
Thomas F. Wilson |
Brooke Dillman |
Joanna Cassidy |
Arian Waring Ash |
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Trent Cooper |
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Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan.
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Kurt McKinney |
Jean-Claude Van Damme |
J.W. Fails |
Kathie Sileno |
Tai Chung Kim |
Kent Lipham |
Ron Pohnel |
Dale Jordan |
Peter Cunningham |
Timothy D. Baker |
Gloria Marziano |
Joe Vance |
Farid Panahi |
Tom Harris |
John Andes |
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Corey Yuen |
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances.
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Julianne Moore |
Woody Harrelson |
Laura Dern |
Trevor Morgan |
Ellary Porterfield |
Simon Reynolds |
Monté Gagné |
Robert Clark |
Michael Seater |
Erik Knudsen |
Jake Scott |
Jordan Todosey |
Ryan Price |
Shae Norris |
Abigail Falle |
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Jane Anderson |
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From Gold's Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. Five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young deaf Lou Ferrigno, whose father is his coach; the ruthless champ psyches out the young lion. Sardinian Franco Columbu competes in the lightweight class; at home in Italy he solves a tight parking problem by lifting the car into place. Joe Weider is the marketer; Mike Katz and Ken Waller go for the title of Mr. Universe. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream.
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Mark F. Barnes |
Roger Callard |
Franco Columbu |
Ed Corney |
Bud Cort |
Lou Ferrigno |
Matty Ferrigno |
Mike Katz |
Serge Nubret |
Patrick Reynolds |
Helmut Riedmeier |
Robbie Robinson |
Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Ken Waller |
Joe Weider |
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George Butler |
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A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner (John Cleese) search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. First one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, who talks indecipherably because of a newly pierced tongue). When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower in a very funny sequence. Their antics carry them into a hot air balloon chase that catches a cow with a dangling rope and into a monster truck competition. The second team is an estranged mother (Whoopi Goldberg) reunited with her daughter (Lanai Chapman), who is struggling to start a business. They face an insane squirrel-selling woman (Kathy Bates) and steal a rocket car scheduled for a land speed record attempt. A hated NFL referee (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is stranded in the desert by an irate cabbie (Paul Rodriguez) and hijacks a busload of Lucille Ball look-alikes on the way to a convention. The Jewish family man (Jon Lovitz) on a family vacation joins the race without telling his wife (Kathy Najimy) why they are rushing across the country. When his daughter insists on stopping at a Barbie museum, it is without realization that it is the Klaus Barbie Nazi Museum. The escape from that location involves the theft of Hitler's personal touring car and culminates with Lovitz having his tongue burned and accidentally crashing into a WWII Veteran's convention. A narcoleptic Italian (Rowan Atkinson in his best Mr. Bean-like manner) gets a ride with an ambulance driver (Wayne Knight), who is carting a human heart for a transplant. Through various ineptitude, the heart ends up flying out of the truck's window and the two have to recover it from a playful dog. The final race member (Breckin Meyer) is a straight-laced future lawyer who at first declines to participate in the race, but re-thinks his position after he meets a smart, beautiful woman (Amy Smart) who is flying a helicopter to New Mexico. He quickly finds out that she is unbalanced after she flies over her boy friend's house and starts an attack on the boy friend when she sees him in the pool with an ex-girl friend. An air pursuit results in the crash of the helicopter. Dave Thomas also appears as Cleese's humorless attorney.
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John Cleese |
Rowan Atkinson |
Amy Smart |
Breckin Meyer |
Jenica Bergere |
Cuba Gooding Jr. |
Carrie Diamond |
Douglas Haase |
Chris Myers |
Kevin Frazier |
Seth Green |
Vince Vieluf |
Gloria Allred |
Renée Lee |
Corinna Harney |
Jane C. Walsh |
Whoopi Goldberg |
Lanei Chapman |
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Jerry Zucker |
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Of East Indian origin, Taj Mahal Badalandabad lives in Coolidge, U.S.A. along with his dad, Dilip, mom, and sister. After hearing about his dad's exploits at Camford University in Britain, he re-locates there. When he arrives he is royally received by the elite, only to be humiliated and told this reception was because of a 'typographical error'. He thus re-locates to his new quarters in a distant wreck of a building called the 'barn' - reserved for 'losers'. When he gets over this welcome, Taj must now come to terms with the Queen's language, her dialect, and the racial profiling ('Curry-breath', 'Paki'), and a busty Charlotte Higginson, who is not only better at fencing, but is also intent to ensure his dismissal. Hilarious results follow when Taj decides to fight the Queen and her people at their own game(s) with the help of fellow losers and a horny bulldog.
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Kal Penn |
Lauren Cohan |
Daniel Percival |
Glen Barry |
Anthony Cozens |
Steven Rathman |
Holly Davidson |
Tom Davey |
William de Coverly |
Beth Steel |
Amy Steel |
Jonathan Cecil |
Roger Hammond |
Kulvinder Ghir |
Shobu Kapoor |
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Mort Nathan |
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It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a "humane" pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon's hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her ...and our two heroes.
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Peter Sallis |
Ralph Fiennes |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Peter Kay |
Nicholas Smith |
Liz Smith |
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