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Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.
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Tom Hanks |
Bruce Willis |
Melanie Griffith |
Kim Cattrall |
Saul Rubinek |
Morgan Freeman |
John Hancock |
Kevin Dunn |
Clifton James |
Louis Giambalvo |
Barton Heyman |
Norman Parker |
Donald Moffat |
Alan King |
Beth Broderick |
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Brian De Palma |
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The movie begins in the small town of Elerslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William's father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and his father then go to a battle between the British and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a British guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city's and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Sterling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realises that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace's death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland's freedom.
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Mel Gibson |
James Robinson |
Sandy Nelson |
James Cosmo |
Sean Lawlor |
Alan Tall |
Andrew Weir |
Gerda Stevenson |
Ralph Riach |
Mhairi Calvey |
Brian Cox |
Patrick McGoohan |
Peter Hanly |
Sophie Marceau |
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Mel Gibson |
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Based on the classic novel by 'CS Lewis' (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor's country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.
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Family |
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Georgie Henley |
Skandar Keynes |
William Moseley |
Anna Popplewell |
Tilda Swinton |
James McAvoy |
Jim Broadbent |
Kiran Shah |
James Cosmo |
Judy McIntosh |
Elizabeth Hawthorne |
Patrick Kake |
Shane Rangi |
Brandon Cook |
Cassie Cook |
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Andrew Adamson |
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Emma is a very beautiful young woman who decides to devote her life in finding the right mate for the people around her. But, her cause will come to contestation when she will find love in the face of a much sought after man.
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Gwyneth Paltrow |
James Cosmo |
Greta Scacchi |
Alan Cumming |
Denys Hawthorne |
Sophie Thompson |
Jeremy Northam |
Toni Collette |
Kathleen Byron |
Phyllida Law |
Edward Woodall |
Brett Miley |
Brian Capron |
Karen Westwood |
Paul Williamson |
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Douglas McGrath |
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Beginning in the 1930's, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.
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Ralph Fiennes |
Juliette Binoche |
Willem Dafoe |
Kristin Scott Thomas |
Naveen Andrews |
Colin Firth |
Julian Wadham |
Jürgen Prochnow |
Kevin Whately |
Clive Merrison |
Nino Castelnuovo |
Hichem Rostom |
Peter Rühring |
Geordie Johnson |
Torri Higginson |
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Anthony Minghella |
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In 1950, few soccer players in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. Most Americans had heard about the soccer only by hearsay, even though it was the world's most popular sport, and when the United States was invited to compete in the World Cup in Brazil, the country turned out to have no soccer team to call their own. The U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer breeding ground of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with almost absolute lack of an appropriate experience, only an unabashed love of the game.
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Gerard Butler |
Wes Bentley |
Richard Jenik |
Jay Rodan |
Louis Mandylor |
Jimmy Jean-Louis |
Zachery Ty Bryan |
Nelson Vargas |
John Rhys-Davies |
Gavin Rossdale |
Maria Bertrand |
Terry Kinney |
Joe Erker |
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David Anspaugh |
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After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?
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Freddie Highmore |
Albert Finney |
Russell Crowe |
Rafe Spall |
Archie Panjabi |
Richard Coyle |
Ben Righton |
Patrick Kennedy |
Ali Rhodes |
Daniel Mays |
Nila Aalia |
Stephen Hudson |
Giannina Facio |
Tom Hollander |
Lionel Briand |
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Ridley Scott |
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" The Man Who Would Be King" is about two ambitious ex-soldiers stationed in India who set out to become the rulers of an entire country. After finishing their tour of duty in India, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan have decided that India is "too small for the likes of them," so they decide to bribe a local ruler and extort money from him, in order to buy twenty Martini rifles, which they will use to take over villages in Kafristan. They face many challenges and perils along the way, including difficult terrain, hostile natives, freezing temperatures, and an avalanche high in the mountains. They eventually come to a small village, Urheb, where they meet Ootah and Billy Fish, an Indian who speaks English; he then becomes their translator. They then train the natives of this village to use the rifles, and soon conquer village after village. During a battle, Daniel is struck by an arrow that seemingly sticks out of his chest. The ignorant natives believe that he must be a God for not having died, and fall down and begin worshiping him. Daniel and Peachy decide that it would be easier for a "God " to take over the country, so they pretend that Daniel is a god, the son of Alexander the Great who has returned after 2200 years to again rule Kafristan. The entire country celebrated the return of their new ruler, the Son of Segunda ("Alexander"). As a token of their admiration, the holiest of holy men gives Daniel all of the gold and riches left by Alexander in 328 B.C. It is enough to make them the richest men in the world . . . All goes well until Daniel's ego and greed gets the best of him. He asks Peachy to bow when he walks in front of him. He later tells Peachy that he has decided to stay, and now believes that he is the son of Alexander ( 'in spirit, anyways"), and that to fulfill his destiny, he will marry Roxanne, like his "father" Alexander did before him. The Kafiri's believe that a mortal cannot marry a God, but Daniel goes ahead anyway. Peachy was set to leave with his share of the treasure, but Daniel convinced him to stay " for old time's sake" for the wedding. At the ceremony, Roxanne, believing that she would soon die, bites Daniel, drawing blood. The entire crowd realizes that since Danny is bleeding, that he is a man, not a God, and that he has been deceiving them the entire time. Peachy grabs Daniel and they run off with their twenty soldiers, shooting at the crowd of monks who set out to kill them. They are eventually captured, and Daniel is forced to walk out on a rope bridge. The monks cut the ropes, and Daniel bravely falls to his death. Peachy is later crucified; when they come to see him the next day, he is still alive, and they say that it is a miracle that he lived and they cut him down. He eventually climbs down into the valley and retrieves Danny's head, still wearing the crown. He brings it back to Rudyard Kipling, a writer for the Northern Star, as proof that Daniel accomplished his goal, and became the King of Kafristan. Themes developed in the story: 1. ambition 2. friendship 3. taking risks 4. perseverance (not giving up) 5. power 6. honor and dignity
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Sean Connery |
Michael Caine |
Christopher Plummer |
Saeed Jaffrey |
Doghmi Larbi |
Jack May |
Karroom Ben Bouih |
Mohammad Shamsi |
Albert Moses |
Paul Antrim |
Graham Acres |
The Blue Dancers of Goulamine |
Shakira Caine |
Gurmuks Singh |
Kimat Singh |
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John Huston |
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During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, HMS Surprise, and a much larger French warship, the Acheron, with greater fire power, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Russell Crowe brings great intensity to the role of Captain Jack Aubrey. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. While the naval battle sequences are quite fantastic, the film is successful because director Weir chose to build the story to get to know the men who are locked aboard the tight quarters of a small ship and how they interact everyday. The officers and the mates are well-known by the time the final battle comes. Paul Bettany offers a strong performance as the surgeon and naturalist who balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist. He is the captain's friend and confidant, the two frequently playing violin and cello duets together. The horrors of the injuries from the war are frequently implied, but vividly depicted in the reactions of the characters.
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Russell Crowe |
Paul Bettany |
James D'Arcy |
Edward Woodall |
Chris Larkin |
Max Pirkis |
Jack Randall |
Max Benitz |
Lee Ingleby |
Richard Pates |
Robert Pugh |
Richard McCabe |
Ian Mercer |
Tony Dolan |
David Threlfall |
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Peter Weir |
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his "sleeping dictionary", to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.
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Jessica Alba |
Brenda Blethyn |
Hugh Dancy |
Bob Hoskins |
Christopher Ling Lee Ian |
Junix Inocian |
Michael Jessing Langgi |
Mano Maniam |
K.K. Moggie |
Emily Mortimer |
Cicilia Anak Richard |
Malcolm Rogers |
Eugene Salleh |
Noah Taylor |
Kate Helen White |
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Guy Jenkin |
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The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff 'Little Bill' tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid', and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no | | |
