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Adaptation.
Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives t...
[2002,
USA] from $1.99
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Plot Summary:
Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.
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Nicolas Cage |
Meryl Streep |
Chris Cooper |
Cara Seymour |
Tilda Swinton |
Bill Livingston |
Brian Cox |
Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Judy Greer |
Jim Beaver |
Litefoot |
Doug Jones |
Jim Tavaré |
Stephen Tobolowsky |
Roger Willie |
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Spike Jonze |
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The hero of an unlikely airplane disaster must overcome his own inadequacies, improbable accidents and his former girlfriend in order to save a space shuttle from destruction in this spoof sequel of the disaster parody Airplane!
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Sci-Fi |
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David Paymer |
Robert Hays |
Julie Hagerty |
Lloyd Bridges |
Chad Everett |
Peter Graves |
Chuck Connors |
William Shatner |
Raymond Burr |
John Vernon |
Stephen Stucker |
Kent McCord |
James A. Watson Jr. |
John Dehner |
Rip Torn |
Sonny Bono |
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| Directors: |
Ken Finkleman |
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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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Comedy |
Romance |
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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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| Directors: |
Jim Abrahams |
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.
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Biography |
Comedy |
Drama |
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Chris Ambrose |
Joey Krajcar |
Josh Hutcherson |
Cameron Carter |
Daniel Tay |
Mary Faktor |
Paul Giamatti |
Harvey Pekar |
Larry John Meyers |
Vivienne Benesch |
Barbara Brown |
Earl Billings |
Danny Hoch |
James Urbaniak |
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Shari Springer Berman |
Robert Pulcini |
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In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching to the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve him. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically. A futuristic adaptation of the tale of Pinocchio, with David being the "fake" boy who desperately wants to become "real".
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Drama |
Sci-Fi |
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Brendan Gleeson |
Haley Joel Osment |
Frances O'Connor |
Sam Robards |
Jake Thomas |
Jude Law |
William Hurt |
Ken Leung |
Clark Gregg |
Kevin Sussman |
Tom Gallop |
Eugene Osment |
April Grace |
Matt Winston |
Sabrina Grdevich |
Theo Greenly |
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Steven Spielberg |
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He's found his mojo, baby, and now Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is back again in this shagadelic comedy-adventure! The "sshhh!" hits the fan when Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin's father, master spy Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), in a dastardly time-travel scheme to take over the world. Before you can say "Shake Your Booty," Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with sexy Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles) to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem. With Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Mindy Sterling and Verne J. Troyer.
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Action |
Adventure |
Comedy |
Music |
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Mike Myers |
Beyoncé Knowles |
Seth Green |
Michael York |
Robert Wagner |
Mindy Sterling |
Verne Troyer |
Michael Caine |
Fred Savage |
Diane Mizota |
Carrie Ann Inaba |
Nobu Matsuhisa |
Aaron Himelstein |
Josh Zuckerman |
Eddie Adams |
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Jay Roach |
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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.
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Comedy |
Western |
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Cleavon Little |
Gene Wilder |
Slim Pickens |
David Huddleston |
Liam Dunn |
Mel Brooks |
Alex Karras |
John Hillerman |
George Furth |
Jack Starrett |
Harvey Korman |
Madeline Kahn |
Carol Arthur |
Richard Collier |
Charles McGregor |
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Mel Brooks |
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Bugsy Malone
Every year brings a great movie. Every decade a great movie musical!
[1976,
UK] from $1.99
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Plot Summary:
A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan".
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Comedy |
Crime |
Family |
Musical |
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Scott Baio |
Florrie Dugger |
Jodie Foster |
John Cassisi |
Martin Lev |
Paul Murphy |
Sheridan Earl Russell |
Albin 'Humpty' Jenkins |
Paul Chirelstein |
Andrew Paul |
Davidson Knight |
Michael Jackson |
Jeffrey Stevens |
Peter Holder |
Donald Waugh |
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Alan Parker |
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When his daughter is kidnapped and held in exchange for priceless diamonds, the leader of a crew of highly skilled urban thieves (DMX) forges an unlikely alliance with a Taiwanese Intelligence officer (Jet Li) to rescue her. Their race against the clock to find the precious stones ultimately unravels a plot to distribute a deadly new weapon of war.
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Action |
Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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DMX |
Jet Li |
Anthony Anderson |
Kelly Hu |
Tom Arnold |
Mark Dacascos |
Gabrielle Union |
Michael Jace |
Drag-On |
Paige Hurd |
Paolo Seganti |
Richard Trapp |
Ron Yuan |
Woon Young Park |
Johnny Nguyen |
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| Directors: |
Andrzej Bartkowiak |
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After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should bring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), who changes his view and perspective of life.
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Orlando Bloom |
Kirsten Dunst |
Susan Sarandon |
Alec Baldwin |
Bruce McGill |
Judy Greer |
Jessica Biel |
Paul Schneider |
Loudon Wainwright III |
Gailard Sartain |
Jed Rees |
Paula Deen |
Dan Biggers |
Alice Marie Crowe |
Tim Devitt |
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Cameron Crowe |
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The major sub-plot circles around the youngest Griffin, Stewie, who has a near-death experience at a pool when a lifeguard chair falls on him, but he survives. After having a vision of being in Hell, he decides to change his ways, but this doesn't last long. While watching television, he and Brian spot a man that looks like Stewie. Brian is convinced that he is Stewie's real father, until Stewie learns that the man is actually himself as an adult, taking a vacation from his own time period. Baby Stewie visits thirty years later to discover that his adult self, going by the name Stu, is a single blue-collar middle-aged virgin working at a Circuit City-type store. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois are trying to teach their two older kids, Meg and Chris, to date. In the future, Chris, who hasn't changed much, is working as a cop and is married to a foul-mouthed hustler named Vanessa. Meg is now called Ron, since she had a sex-change after college.
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Adventure |
Animation |
Comedy |
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Seth MacFarlane |
Alex Borstein |
Seth Green |
Mila Kunis |
Lori Alan |
Drew Barrymore |
Noel Blanc |
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