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Plot Summary:
Z is just another ant in a colony of millions, striving for individuality. He falls in love with Princess Bala, and convinces his Warrior ant friend Weaver to switch places with him for a day, so that he can see Princess Bala once again. The outcome of this throws Z into a bigger adventure than he ever dreamed possible...
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Woody Allen |
Dan Aykroyd |
Anne Bancroft |
Jane Curtin |
Danny Glover |
Gene Hackman |
Jennifer Lopez |
John Mahoney |
Paul Mazursky |
Grant Shaud |
Sylvester Stallone |
Sharon Stone |
Christopher Walken |
Jim Cummings |
April Winchell |
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Eric Darnell |
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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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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.
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Jonathan Pryce |
Robert De Niro |
Katherine Helmond |
Ian Holm |
Bob Hoskins |
Michael Palin |
Ian Richardson |
Peter Vaughan |
Kim Greist |
Jim Broadbent |
Barbara Hicks |
Charles McKeown |
Derrick O'Connor |
Kathryn Pogson |
Bryan Pringle |
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Terry Gilliam |
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Fame hungry Roxie Hart dreams of a life on the Vaudville stage, and spends her nights jazzing it up in the bright lights of Chicago, continually hoping that she'll find her lucky break, and be shot into 1920's stardom, so able to flee her boring husband Amos. In awe of seductive club singer Velma Kelly (who is subsequantly arrested for the murder of her husband and sister - after discovering their affair), Roxie meets Fred Cassely a man who convinces her he can 'make her showbiz career take off'. However after Roxie has undergone the 'casting couch' treatment, and Fred has had his wicked way with her, he reveals that he has no more connections in showbusiness than she does. This is the final straw for Roxie, and her constant anger at rejection explodes. She shoots Fred Cassely and kills him. Upon discovering her infidelity, Roxie's husband Amos refuses to take the blame for the murder and Roxie is sent to jail, pending hanging. In jail she finally meets tabloid darling Velma Kelly, currently receiving huge media attention for the double murder she committed earlier in the tale. Sharing the clink with Velma, are a collection of other sly females, all awaiting trial for the murders of their own partners. Velma is aloof to Roxie, however the prison Warden Mrs Morton offers Roxie the opportunity of representation by slick Chicago lawyer Billy Flynn. Billy is more a showbiz P. R agent than a legal lawyer and minipulates the tabloids into thinking Roxie is no more than an innocent 'good time girl' who took the wrong path, than a scheming murderess. The tabloids go crazy for the new girl on the cell block, and Roxie finally becomes a star. However due to Roxie's new found fame, Velma is forgotten about. She is forced to approach Roxie with an offer of a part in her Vaudville act (filling the gap left by her murdered sister), but Roxie turns down her offer flat, thinking she needs no support in topping the bill. However, just as Velma's star fell, so does Roxie's, when Go-to-hell Kitty arrives at the jail on a multiple murder charge, the press forget Roxie and now she and Velma are in the same boat. With one more trick up her sleave Roxie manages to bring the media attention back onto her, and her day in court arrives. Billy is now ready to play the ultimate showman!
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Comedy |
Crime |
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Taye Diggs |
Cliff Saunders |
Catherine Zeta-Jones |
Renée Zellweger |
Dominic West |
Richard Gere |
Jayne Eastwood |
Bruce Beaton |
Christine Baranski |
Roman Podhora |
John C. Reilly |
Colm Feore |
Rob Smith |
Shawn Wayne Doyle |
Steve Behal |
Robbie Rox |
Chita Rivera |
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Rob Marshall |
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try "aversion therapy" to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Malcolm McDowell |
Patrick Magee |
Michael Bates |
Warren Clarke |
John Clive |
Adrienne Corri |
Carl Duering |
Paul Farrell |
Clive Francis |
Michael Gover |
Miriam Karlin |
James Marcus |
Aubrey Morris |
Godfrey Quigley |
Sheila Raynor |
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Stanley Kubrick |
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Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.
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Romance |
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Johnny Depp |
Amy Locane |
Susan Tyrrell |
Polly Bergen |
Iggy Pop |
Ricki Lake |
Traci Lords |
Kim McGuire |
Darren E. Burrows |
Stephen Mailer |
Kim Webb |
Alan J. Wendl |
Troy Donahue |
Mink Stole |
Joe Dallesandro |
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John Waters |
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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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Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.
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Drama |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Keanu Reeves |
Al Pacino |
Charlize Theron |
Jeffrey Jones |
Judith Ivey |
Connie Nielsen |
Craig T. Nelson |
Tamara Tunie |
Ruben Santiago-Hudson |
Debra Monk |
Vyto Ruginis |
Laura Harrington |
Pamela Gray |
Heather Matarazzo |
George Wyner |
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| Directors: |
Taylor Hackford |
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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.
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Adventure |
Comedy |
Fantasy |
Romance |
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Alan Rickman |
Alanis Morissette |
Chris Rock |
Salma Hayek |
Bud Cort |
Barret Hackney |
Jared Pfennigwerth |
Kitao Sakurai |
George Carlin |
Betty Aberlin |
Matt Damon |
Ben Affleck |
Dan Etheridge |
Linda Fiorentino |
Derek Milosavljevic |
Lesley Braden |
Brian O'Halloran |
Marie Elena O'Brien |
Janeane Garofalo |
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Kevin Smith |
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Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show "Galaxy Quest" was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They're wallowing in despair and at each other's throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.
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Tony Shalhoub |
Sam Rockwell |
Patrick Breen |
Tim Allen |
Sigourney Weaver |
Alan Rickman |
Daryl Mitchell |
Robin Sachs |
Enrico Colantoni |
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Dean Parisot |
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