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When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
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Thriller |
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Robert De Niro |
Edward Burns |
Kelsey Grammer |
Avery Brooks |
Melina Kanakaredes |
Karel Roden |
Oleg Taktarov |
Vera Farmiga |
James Handy |
Darius McCrary |
Bruce Cutler |
Charlize Theron |
Kim Cattrall |
David Alan Grier |
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John Herzfeld |
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Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the '70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other "female" interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it's more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons... it's war.
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Will Ferrell |
Christina Applegate |
Paul Rudd |
Steve Carell |
David Koechner |
Fred Willard |
Chris Parnell |
Kathryn Hahn |
Fred Armisen |
Seth Rogen |
Paul F. Tompkins |
Danny Trejo |
Scot Robinson |
Ian Roberts |
Darcy Donavan |
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Adam McKay |
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When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact that the game, as well as post-modern life may be passing him by. Adding to the pressure on D'Amato to win at any cost is the aggressive young President/Co-owner of the team, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), now coming into her own after her father's death. Christina's driving desire to prove herself in a male dominated world is intensified by her focus on the marketing and business of football, in which all coaches and players are merely properties.
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Al Pacino |
Cameron Diaz |
Dennis Quaid |
James Woods |
Jamie Foxx |
LL Cool J |
Matthew Modine |
Jim Brown |
Lawrence Taylor |
Bill Bellamy |
Andrew Bryniarski |
Lela Rochon |
Lauren Holly |
Ann-Margret |
Aaron Eckhart |
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Oliver Stone |
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Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
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Robert Duvall |
Marlon Brando |
Martin Sheen |
Frederic Forrest |
Sam Bottoms |
Laurence Fishburne |
Dennis Hopper |
Albert Hall |
Harrison Ford |
G.D. Spradlin |
Jerry Ziesmer |
Scott Glenn |
Bo Byers |
James Keane |
Kerry Rossall |
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Francis Ford Coppola |
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A charismatic convict (Bruce Willis) and a hypochondriac inmate (Billy Bob Thornton) break out of prison in a cement truck and immediately start a bank robbing spree. Becoming known as the "Sleepover Bandits", the two kidnap bank managers the night before their robbery, spend the night with their families, and then all go to the bank in the morning to get the dough. Using a dim-witted stunt man (Troy Garrity) as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs that gets them recognition on a tv show about America's criminals. When a bored housewife (Cate Blanchett) with a failing marriage decides to runaway, she ends up in the hands of the criminals. Initially attracted to Willis, she nonetheless also ends up in bed with Thornton and a confused romantic relationship begins. Continuing along with their spree, the bandits hit the wall when the bank managers realize that they are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees. This leads to one more big score at the Alamo Bank, where in the very opening scenes, things appear to go awry.
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Bruce Willis |
Billy Bob Thornton |
Cate Blanchett |
Troy Garity |
Brian F. O'Byrne |
Stacey Travis |
Bobby Slayton |
January Jones |
Azura Skye |
Peggy Miley |
William Converse-Roberts |
Richard Riehle |
Micole Mercurio |
Scott Burkholder |
Anthony Burch |
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Barry Levinson |
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Miranda Priestley, of "Runway" magazine tears up the landscape as a demanding fashion editor. She is a terror to everyone who is around her as is quickly depicted in the opening scenes of the movie. Her first assistant strives to please her and tries to emulate her, but one can sense that she is not quite as hard as she tries to put on. Into this mix comes a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, has never read the magazine, and doesn't know who Miranda Priestley is. She only sees this as a stepping stone to another journalism position. Showing no fashion sense and immediately scorned by everyone, Miranda nonetheless hires her as the second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, you can sense that she is trying to force her to quit, but it makes the young woman dig in to please her boss. With the help of one of the magazine's fashion editors, she gets a complete makeover and a new security. However, with her new appearance and the demands placed on her, she starts to lose her friends, family and her live-in boy friend. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamor that could be hers, including a flashy if not artificial freelance journalist, she is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.
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Meryl Streep |
Anne Hathaway |
Emily Blunt |
Stanley Tucci |
Simon Baker |
Adrian Grenier |
Tracie Thoms |
Rich Sommer |
Daniel Sunjata |
David Marshall Grant |
James Naughton |
Tibor Feldman |
Rebecca Mader |
Jimena Hoyos |
Gisele Bündchen |
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David Frankel |
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The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.
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Johnny Depp |
Benicio Del Toro |
Tobey Maguire |
Ellen Barkin |
Gary Busey |
Christina Ricci |
Mark Harmon |
Cameron Diaz |
Katherine Helmond |
Michael Jeter |
Penn Jillette |
Craig Bierko |
Lyle Lovett |
Flea |
Laraine Newman |
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Terry Gilliam |
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Jack Elgin is the European editor of The Economist, which is based in London, England. Jack has a wife named Maria and three kids named Joanne, Julia, and Andrew. Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu, Greece, to a tour of India, because of a story he has to cover. Maria is not as impressed by this as the kids are. Jack himself envisioned a chance to simultaneously work an easy reporting assignment and spend a little quality time with his family. But on the way to India, the airplane, a 747 owned by AM Air, an American airline, makes an unscheduled stopover in Limassol Cyprus, because of a mechanical problem. After a while of waiting inside the Limassol airport, everyone gets back on the plane — which is then hijacked by a group of terrorists known as the August 15th Movement, led by a Serbian man named Ivanic Loyvek and his right-hand man Karadan Maldic. And they are demanding $50,000,000 from the US State Department in one hour, or everyone on the airplane will die. The demand is met, and Loyvek and Maldic start releasing the women and children, with the men to go last. But as soon as a front passenger door is opened, a local police team gunning for the terrorists opens fire. The flight attendants frantically open the rest of the airplane's doors and start getting passengers out, but the terrorists start killing passengers, leading to an explosion. Maria, Joanne, and Julia get out of the airplane, and then Jack, holding Andrew, gets out — only to watch Maria, Joanne, and Julia get shot by the terrorists. Jack tries to hide Andrew's face so he can't see it. Maria and Joanne are dead, and Julia is still alive — but Julia burns to death while crying for help. Jack and Andrew survive. In all, a total of 15 passengers die, and Loyvek and Maldic, the surviving terrorists, escape, knowing that they now have the $50,000,000. The hijacking would never have ended this way if the police team had waited until after the passengers were released from the airplane before getting trigger happy. Back in London, an absolutely devastated Jack is told that the terrorists were captured, but they were released and deported secretly, with no charges and no arrest, the result of some awfully compromised politics. Jack is understandably enraged that Loyvek and Maldic got off scot-free. While helping Andrew cope, Jack tries all the legal ways to ensure justice for his family, but to no avail. Jack even pays a visit to Henry Davidson, a CIA agent who works at the American Embassy in London. Davidson tells Jack that there's little that can be done. Obviously, the American and British governments are completely impotent when it comes to going after Loyvek and Maldic, so Jack has absolutely no choice in the matter. He must do it himself. With the help of his ex-intelligence operative friend Kate Stockton, who is well-schooled in the finer points of international intelligence, Jack becomes a one-man anti-terrorist squadron, searching for Loyvek and Maldich. Dogging Jack's trail is FBI agent Jules Bernard, who's cooperating with Scotland Yard on anti-terrorist activities, and who suspects that Jack is the man who has been killing anyone involved in the hijacking. But as it turns out, Jules is on Jack's side, and he's willing to help Jack make those responsible pay for the deaths of his family and the other people who died in Cyprus.
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Jeremy Irons |
Forest Whitaker |
Jason Priestley |
Briony Glassco |
Charlotte Rampling |
Lois Maxwell |
Timothy West |
Joel Pitts |
Anna Maguire |
Holly Boyd |
Kal Weber |
Ian McNeice |
William Armstrong |
Garrick Hagon |
Serge Soric |
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John Irvin |
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In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator 'Joseph McCarthy (II)' (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter 'Edward R. Murrow (I)' (qv) and his producer 'Fred W. Friendly' (qv) decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history.
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David Strathairn |
Robert Downey Jr. |
Patricia Clarkson |
Ray Wise |
Frank Langella |
Jeff Daniels |
George Clooney |
Tate Donovan |
Thomas McCarthy |
Matt Ross |
Reed Diamond |
Robert John Burke |
Grant Heslov |
Alex Borstein |
Rose Abdoo |
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George Clooney |
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.
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Tim Robbins |
Jennifer Jason Leigh |
Paul Newman |
Charles Durning |
John Mahoney |
Jim True-Frost |
Bill Cobbs |
Bruce Campbell |
Harry Bugin |
John Seitz |
Joe Grifasi |
Roy Brocksmith |
John Wylie |
I.M. Hobson |
Gary Allen |
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Joel Coen |
Ethan Coen |
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