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Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.
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Hugh Grant |
Nicholas Hoult |
Toni Collette |
Rachel Weisz |
Sharon Small |
Madison Cook |
Jordan Cook |
Nicholas Hutchison |
Ryan Speechley |
Joseph Speechley |
Natalia Tena |
Laura Kennington |
Tanika Swaby |
Peter McNicholl |
Christopher Webster |
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Chris Weitz |
Paul Weitz |
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A Neo Nazi skinhead, named Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) goes to jail for 3 years after committing a murder of 2 black guys. In the meanwhile, his younger brother, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) goes in the same way and makes the same mistakes (racism and hatred) his eldest brother did (this is the result of the Neo Nazi environment he grows up into, and the influence Derek left behind). While Derek is in jail he realize that he choose the wrong path. after coming back from jail, Derek try to convince his brother not to go in his own way.
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Edward Norton |
Edward Furlong |
Beverly D'Angelo |
Avery Brooks |
Jennifer Lien |
Ethan Suplee |
Stacy Keach |
Fairuza Balk |
Elliott Gould |
Guy Torry |
William Russ |
Joseph Cortese |
Jason Bose Smith |
Antonio David Lyons |
Alex Sol |
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Tony Kaye |
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Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, the drilling team all faces deep personal issues which may jeopardize humanity's last chance...
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Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Bruce Willis |
Billy Bob Thornton |
Ben Affleck |
Liv Tyler |
Will Patton |
Steve Buscemi |
William Fichtner |
Owen Wilson |
Michael Clarke Duncan |
Peter Stormare |
Ken Hudson Campbell |
Jessica Steen |
Keith David |
Chris Ellis |
Jason Isaacs |
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Michael Bay |
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New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
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Jack Nicholson |
Helen Hunt |
Greg Kinnear |
Cuba Gooding Jr. |
Skeet Ulrich |
Shirley Knight |
Yeardley Smith |
Lupe Ontiveros |
Jill the Dog |
Timer the Dog |
Billy the Dog |
Bibi Osterwald |
Ross Bleckner |
Bernadette Balagtas |
Jaffe Cohen |
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James L. Brooks |
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Erin Brockovich
She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees.
[2000,
USA] from $1.99
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Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her lawfirm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.
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Julia Roberts |
David Brisbin |
Dawn Didawick |
Albert Finney |
Valente Rodriguez |
Conchata Ferrell |
George Rocky Sullivan |
Pat Skipper |
Jack Gill |
Irene Olga López |
Emily Marks |
Julie Marks |
Scotty Leavenworth |
Gemmenne de la Peña |
Erin Brockovich-Ellis |
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Steven Soderbergh |
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Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is an L.A. playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility, a stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him, neighbors have a new dog that barks all night; his wife wants to have a child, and he does not: he's become impotent. He's working on a new play when a single mom moves in next door with her 8-year-old daughter. His wife immediately invites the girl into the McGowan household. Will this child stir Peter's paternal feelings? Will she also help him get his dialogue right? And what of his doppelganger and the neighbor's dog?
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Kenneth Branagh |
Robin Wright Penn |
Suzi Hofrichter |
Lynn Redgrave |
Jared Harris |
Peter Riegert |
David Krumholtz |
Johnathon Schaech |
Kaitlin Hopkins |
Suzy Joachim |
Brett Rickaby |
Lucinda Jenney |
Derek Kellock |
Stacy Hogue |
Peri Gilpin |
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Michael Kalesniko |
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Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player. Can Jerry resurrect his career while still staying true to himself?
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Tom Cruise |
Cuba Gooding Jr. |
Renée Zellweger |
Kelly Preston |
Jerry O'Connell |
Jay Mohr |
Bonnie Hunt |
Regina King |
Jonathan Lipnicki |
Todd Louiso |
Mark Pellington |
Jeremy Suarez |
Jared Jussim |
Benjamin Kimball Smith |
Ingrid Beer |
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Cameron Crowe |
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4 Harlem teens, Q, Bishop, Raheem and Steel, are out skipping school one day when they find out an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar. After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, or juice. To get some, they rob a corner grocery store, but the lunatic Bishop intentionally shoots the clerk for no apparent reason. They run into an alley where Raheem tells Bishop to give him the gun, they fight, and Raheem gets shot. Only the other 3 know what happened, and Bishop wants to get rid of them too.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Omar Epps |
Tupac Shakur |
Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins |
Khalil Kain |
Cindy Herron |
Vincent Laresca |
Samuel L. Jackson |
George Gore II |
Grace Garland |
Queen Latifah |
Bruklin Harris |
Victor Campos |
Eric Payne |
Sharon Cook |
Darien Berry |
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Ernest R. Dickerson |
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Mollie is a single mum who's on the lookout for a reliable and normal boyfriend. Her son Mikey, (unbeknownst to her) seems to have a better idea of which of the men she dates would make a good father figure! If only she could understand him...
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Romance |
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John Travolta |
Kirstie Alley |
Olympia Dukakis |
George Segal |
Abe Vigoda |
Bruce Willis |
Twink Caplan |
Jason Schaller |
Jaryd Waterhouse |
Jacob Haines |
Christopher Aydon |
Joy Boushel |
Don S. Davis |
Louis Heckerling |
Brenda Crichlow |
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Amy Heckerling |
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A master chef, Kate (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan—with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivattes and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, preparing delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones |
Aaron Eckhart |
Abigail Breslin |
Patricia Clarkson |
Jenny Wade |
Bob Balaban |
Brian F. O'Byrne |
Lily Rabe |
Eric Silver |
Arija Bareikis |
John McMartin |
Celia Weston |
Zöe Kravitz |
Matthew Rauch |
Dearbhla Molloy |
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Scott Hicks |
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Plot Summary:
Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radicall | | |
