Archive for January, 2001
Ocean’s Eleven
A gangster by the name of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) rounds up a gang of associates to stage heists of three major Las Vegas casino’s (Bellagio, The Mirage, and the MGM Grand) simultaneously during a popular boxing event.
Ocean’s Eleven DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.50 out of 10 (72428 votes)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: George Clooney, Cecelia Ann Birt, Paul L. Nolan, Carol Florence, Lori Galinski, Bernie Mac, Brad Pitt, Mark Gantt, Timothy Paul Perez, Elliott Gould, Frank Patton, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Jemison, Jorge R. Hernandez,
Tags: Crime, Comedy, Thriller, 911, acrobat, blockbuster, blues-in-the-night, bomb, boxing, boxing-match, cameo-appearance, caper, casino, character-name-in-title, con-artist, convicted-felon, divorce, elevator-shaft, emp, ex-convict, ex-wife, explosion, explosive, explosives-expert, fake-illness, gambling, gentleman-crooks, gentleman-thief, gun, heist, las-vegas-nevada, los-angeles-california, mastermind, mormon, new-jersey, number-in-title, perfect-crime, pickpocket, poker, police-impersonator, power-failure, prison, remake, rhyming-slang, robbery, security, security-camera, subway, swat-team, thief, train, twist-in-the-end, vault, video-surveillance
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15 Minutes
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.”
15 Minutes DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.00 out of 10 (15815 votes)
Director: John Herzfeld
Actors: 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,
Tags: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action, arson, arson-investigator, betrayal, blood, blood-splatter, call-girl, camcorder, central-park-new-york, chase, chrysler-building-new-york, death, detective, disturbing, escort-service, female-nudity, fire-marshall, illegal-immigrant, journalism, marriage-proposal, media, media-manipulation, mirror, murder, neck-breaking-scene, new-york, nude-woman-murdered, nudity, number-in-title, person-on-fire, police, police-officer-killed, revenge, satire, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-foot, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, snuff-film, spit-in-the-face, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbed-to-death, statue-of-liberty, tied-to-chair, twist-in-the-end, two-headed-coin, video-camera
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3000 Miles to Graceland
It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino’s count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, and single mom Cybil Waingrow and her son Jesse constantly confounding things, Michael must track down Murphy.
3000 Miles to Graceland DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.40 out of 10 (11506 votes)
Director: Demian Lichtenstein
Actors: Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak, David Arquette, Jon Lovitz, Howie Long, Thomas Haden Church, Bokeem Woodbine, Ice-T, David Kaye, Louis Lombardi, Shawn Michael Howard, Michael Kopsa,
Tags: Drama, Crime, Comedy, Thriller, Action, animal-killing, armed-robbery, bad-to-the-bone, betrayal, blood, blood-splatter, body-in-trunk, bow-and-arrow, brat, bullet-proof-vest, casino, child-in-peril, corpse, death, elvis, elvis-impersonator, elvis-presley, exploding-car, exploding-gas-station, faked-death, fall-from-height, grand-theft-auto, gun, happy-birthday-to-you, helicopter, hit-by-car, kleptomania, las-vegas-nevada, mass-murder, murder, nevada, number-in-title, police-officer-killed, robbery, rough-sex, scorpion, shootout, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-face, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, single-mother, title-spoken-by-character, twist-in-the-end, vomit
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Bandits
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.
Bandits DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.60 out of 10 (18607 votes)
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: 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,
Tags: Romance, Drama, Crime, Comedy, bank-manager, bank-robbery, bar, bonfire, bored-housewife, boxing, cabin, cafe, california, car-accident, car-jacking, chase, cook, disguise, fainting, fight, flashback-sequence, friendship, fugitive, gunfire, helicopter, hostage, hypochondriac, illness, jealousy, journalism, lighthouse, love-triangle, media-manipulation, missing-person, motel, oregon, police, prison, prison-escape, reward, romantic-rivalry, shootout, special-effects, stuntman, television, trio, twist-ending, unhappy-marriage
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Legally Blonde
Elle Woods (’Reese Witherspoon’ (qv)) has it all. She’s the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But, there’s just one thing stopping Warner (’Matthew Davis (I)’ (qv)) from popping the question: Elle is too blonde. Growing up across the street from ‘Aaron Spelling’ (qv) might mean something in LA, but nothing to Warner’s East-Coast blue blood family. So, when Warner packs up for Harvard Law and reunites with an old sweetheart from prep school, Elle rallies all her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. But law school is a far cry from the comforts of her poolside and the mall. Elle must wage the battle of her life, for her guy, for herself and for all the blondes who suffer endless indignities everyday.
Legally Blonde DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.40 out of 10 (20420 votes)
Director: Robert Luketic
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge, Holland Taylor, Ali Larter, Jessica Cauffiel, Alanna Ubach, Oz Perkins, Linda Cardellini, Bruce Thomas, Meredith Scott Lynn, Raquel Welch,
Tags: Comedy, based-on-novel, blonde, boston-massachusetts, california, chihuahua, college, courtroom, deceiving-appearance, delivery-man, dog, fashion, fish-out-of-water, girl-power, harvard, law, law-school, law-student, lawyer, los-angeles-california, manicurist, murder, product-placement, professor, sorority, trial, what-happened-to-epilogue
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Vanilla Sky
David Aames takes all he has for granted; his wealth, his inherited publishing company, his good looks - his relationships. Especially his relationships. It catches up to him when a friend/sometimes sex-partner can’t see their relationship the way he sees it. From that point, the movie takes a Lynchian twist that ultimately and literally pulls us into Aames’ tortured psyche.
Vanilla Sky DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.80 out of 10 (50444 votes)
Director: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Delaina Mitchell, Shalom Harlow, Oona Hart, Ivana Milicevic, Johnny Galecki, Jhaemi Willens,
Tags: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama, Thriller, asylum, attempted-murder, bar, car-accident, coma, corporate-take-over, cryogenics, dancer, death, disfigured-face, disfigurement, doctor, dream, false-memory, flashback-sequence, hallucination, infidelity, jealousy, jump-from-height, love-affair, mask, mistaken-identity, murder, new-york, nightmare, no-opening-credits, parade, paranoia, party, prison, psychiatrist, psychologist, realization, reckless-driving, reconstructive-surgery, remake, rich-snob, sex, stalker, suicide, surreal, times-square, writer
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Enemy at the Gates
During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian (Law), and a German (Harris), are locked in a battle of wills and marksmenship, while the Russian is boosted to the status of hero by a political official (Fiennes).
Enemy at the Gates DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.30 out of 10 (30850 votes)
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Actors: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Thomson, Matthias Habich, Sophie Rois, Ivan Shvedoff, Mario Bandi, Hans Martin Stier, Clemens Schick, Mikhail Matveyev,
Tags: War, Romance, Drama, Thriller, Action, 1940s, assault, based-on-true-story, betrayal, blood-bath, blood-splatter, boat, boy, child-murder, cigarette, crystal-chandelier, death, death-of-child, destiny, double-agent, execution, explosion, factory, fragments-of-glass, hanged-boy, hanged-child, hero, heroism, jealousy, letter, loss-of-friend, major, massacre, mud, nazi, nazi-officer, nazism, newspaper, political-officer, premarital-sex, propaganda, rifle, ruins, russia, russian, severed-arm, severed-leg, sharpshooter, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-ear, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-hand, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-neck, shot-to-death, sniper, stalingrad, suicide, torture, violence, warehouse, wwii, young-boy, young-spy
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Beautiful Mind, A
A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
Beautiful Mind, A DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.80 out of 10 (67284 votes)
Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, Jason Gray-Stanford, Judd Hirsch, Austin Pendleton, Vivien Cardone, Jill M. Simon, Victor Steinbach, Tanya Clarke,
Tags: Biography, Mystery, Drama, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, bar, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, bathtub-scene, blockbuster, boston-massachusetts, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, car-chase, chase, child, child-nudity, classroom, code-breaking, cold-war, college, creativity, cryptography, economics, epiphany, face-slap, family-relationship, famous-score, flashback-sequence, flirting, friendship, game-of-go, genius, government-agent, guilt, harvard, humiliation, husband-wife-relationship, hypodermic-needle, imaginary-friend, implant, infant-nudity, insulin-coma-therapy, ivy-league, lecture, library, loner, marriage, marriage-proposal, massachusetts-institute-of-technology, mathematician, mathematics, medication, mental-illness, necktie, new-jersey, no-opening-credits, nobel-prize, paranoia, paranoid-schizophrenia, parent-child-relationship, parental-relationship, pen, pentagon-building, picnic, pool-game, prank, princeton, profanity, professor, psychiatric-hospital, psychiatrist, psychological-drama, rainstorm, reception, restaurant, rivalry, rooftop, roommate, schizophrenia, school, school-teacher, schoolteacher, self-mutilation, shock-therapy, shootout, speech, spy, star-gazing, stockholm-sweden, surreal, teacher-student-relationship, thorazine, tool-shed, top-secret, visual-hallucination, wedding, window
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