Archive for January, 2004
50 First Dates
Henry Roth (Sandler) is a veterinarian living in Hawaii who enjoys the company of vacationing women. He leaves the playboy life behind after he falls for Lucy (Barrymore), who suffers from short-term memory loss. Since she can never remember meeting him, Henry has to romance Lucy every single day and hope that she falls for him.
50 First Dates DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.80 out of 10 (28572 votes)
Director: Peter Segal
Actors: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin, Lusia Strus, Dan Aykroyd, Amy Hill, Allen Covert, Blake Clark, Maya Rudolph, Pomaika’i Brown, Joe Nakashima, Peter Dante, Dom Magwili, Jonathan Loughran,
Tags: Romance, Comedy, amnesia, androgyny, aquarium, baseball-bat, beach, beach-party, birthday-party, boating-accident, break-up, brother-sister-relationship, cannabis, car-accident, clinic, crude-humor, daydream, deception, diner, doctor, dolphin, dream, drug-humor, fantasy-sequence, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, flashback-sequence, friendship, golf, hawaii, jet-ski, journal, lisp, love, male-female-relationship, memory-loss, number-in-title, obscene-finger-gesture, painting, penguin, pineapple, playing-with-food, prank, product-placement, profanity, prologue, rain, restaurant, sailboat, scream, screwball, shark, steroids, stitches, swimming, teacher, true-love, twist-in-the-end, veterinarian, video-camera, video-footage, videotape, waffles, wager, walrus, wedding, womanizer
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Van Helsing
During the late 19th century, famed monster hunter Dr. Gabriel Van Helsing (Jackman) heads to Eastern Europe to battle with Count Dracula (Roxburgh), the Wolf Man (Kemp), and Frankenstein’s Monster (Hensley). By his side is the ravishing Anna (Beckinsale), a member of a family committed to ridding the world of evil.
Van Helsing DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.30 out of 10 (35357 votes)
Director: Stephen Sommers
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Shuler Hensley, Elena Anaya, Will Kemp, Kevin J. O’Connor, Alun Armstrong, Silvia Colloca, Josie Maran, Tom Fisher, Samuel West, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fisher,
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Adventure, Action, 1880s, angry-mob, arm-amputation, arrow, based-on-novel, bitten-in-the-throat, blood, blood-drinking, bridge, brother-sister-relationship, budapest-hungary, cardinal, castle, cathedral, character-name-in-title, costume-ball, crossbow, dark-hero, decomposing-body, doctor-frankenstein, dracula, electricity, electrocution, exploding-body, fall-from-height, fire, frankenstein, frankenstein's-monster, friar, gun, holy-water, impalement, lycanthropy, monster, no-opening-credits, offspring, paris-france, person-on-fire, regeneration, ring, severed-arm, shot-to-death, silver-bullet, snow, stabbed-in-the-arm, stabbed-in-the-chest, steampunk, throat-ripping, title-spoken-by-character, transylvania, trap, twist-in-the-end, vampire, vampire-bite, vampire-hunter, vampire-slayer, vampiress, vatican, werewolf, windmill
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Garfield
Meet Garfield. One of life’s greatest answers to the fattest cat in the world. All he does all day long is sleep, watch TV and eat lasagna. But things change for the fat cat when his faithful owner, Jon Arbuckle (Brecken Meyer) brings home a new rival for Garfield - a dog named Odie. Garfield opposes his new puppy rival until Odie runs away and is picked up by a nasty dog trainer, Happy Chapman. Now it’s up to Garfield to finally leave his precious ‘cul-de sac’ and go on a daring rescue mission to rescue his opponent before its too late!
Garfield DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.70 out of 10 (10091 votes)
Director: Peter Hewitt
Actors: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bill Murray, Evan Arnold, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Vanessa Christelle, Daamen J. Krall, Rufus Gifford, Randee Reicher, Ryan McKasson, Susan Moore, Eve Brent, Bill Hoag, Michael Monks,
Tags: Animation, Family, Comedy, animal-shelter, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-strip, cat, character-name-in-title, comic-strip, dancing, dog, dog-show, garfield, lost-dog, part-computer-animated, remorse, sunglasses, talking-animal, television, title-spoken-by-character, train, train-station, tv-host, veterinarian
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
The Bride woke up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before the coma was gone. The only thing on her mind was to get revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of. With two of the people on her Death List taken care of, she must pursue Budd, Elle Driver and of course Bill himself. But she is in for a surprise…
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.10 out of 10 (88281 votes)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Chia Hui Liu, Daryl Hannah, Michael Parks, Bo Svenson, Jeannie Epper, Stephanie Moore, Shana Stein, Caitlin Keats, Christopher Allen Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson,
Tags: Drama, Thriller, Action, action-heroine, anti-hero, australia, bathroom-scene, betrayal, bittersweet, black-comedy, blindness, blood, blood-splatter, bloodshed, bouncer, brother-brother-relationship, brutality, buddhist-temple, buried-alive, character-name-in-title, code-name, corpse, critically-acclaimed, death, desert, employer-employee-relationship, eye-gouging, eyeball, father-daughter-relationship, female-assassin, female-killer, femme-fatale, flashback-sequence, flashlight, forgiveness, girl-fight, gore, grave-digging, guilt, hate, head-in-toilet, headstone, hit-in-crotch, honor, human-relationship, humanity, justice, katana, katana-sword, kindness, kung-fu, love, loyalty, martial-arts, massacre, mentor, moral-ambiguity, mother-child-reunion, mother-daughter-relationship, narration, neo-noir, no-opening-credits, nonlinear-timeline, organist, pain, perth-australia, philosophy, poetic-justice, poison-dart, pregnancy-test, presumed-dead, promise, racial-slur, redemption, respect, retribution, returning-character-killed-off, revenge, righteous-rage, second-part, sequel, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-knee, shot-through-door, snake, snake-bite, split-screen, strip-joint, stripper, surprise-after-end-credits, sword-fight, syringe, teacher-student-relationship, tragedy, tragic-hero, tragic-love, tragic-villain, trailer-home, true-love, truth-serum, twist-in-the-end, uncle-niece-relationship, venom, violence, violent-movie, warrior, warrior-woman, wedding-chapel, wedding-rehearsal, wedding-singer, women-fight, wuxia-fiction
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Butterfly Effect, The
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single working mom and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evans’ friends and mom hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble, something bad always seems to happen during these blackouts. As Evan grows up he has less of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!
Butterfly Effect, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.70 out of 10 (49477 votes)
Director: Eric Bress; J. Mackye Gruber
Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Melora Walters, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott, John Patrick Amedori, Irene Gorovaia, Kevin Schmidt, Jesse James, Logan Lerman, Sarah Widdows, Jake Kaese, Cameron Bright,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, accidental-killing, altering-history, alternative-history, alternative-reality, alternative-timeline, animal-killing, attempted-murder, baseball-bat, beaten-to-death, blackout, blood, breasts, bully, burned-alive, cancer, cause-and-effect, cemetery, chaos-theory, child-abuse, child-hero, child-molester, child-murder, child-pornography, childhood, convulsion, dead-dog, death, disturbed-childhood, dog, drug-addict, dynamite, explosion, father-son-conflict, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, fraternity, funeral, gay-slur, girlfriend, hypnosis, impalement, insanity, jealousy, journal, mail-bomb, memories, mental-institution, movie-theater, murder, nose-bleed, notebook, pedophile, pool-hall, pornography, premarital-sex, prison, prison-life, prison-rape, prosthetic-limb, prostitute, psychological-drama, psychological-thriller, psychology, psychotherapy, racial-slur, rape, repressed-memory, scar, school, self-mutilation, set-on-fire, severed-arm, sex-scene, sorority, stabbed-in-the-back, stabbed-in-the-chest, stabbed-in-the-hand, strangulation, suicide, suicide-attempt, time-travel, twist-in-the-end, underage-smoking, violence, vomit, vulgar-language, wheelchair
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Secret Window
Mort Rainey (Depp), a writer just coming off of a troublesome divorce with his ex-wife, Amy (Bello), finds himself stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger (Turturro) who claims Mort stole his best story idea (changing just the ending)… (Hutton plays Bello’s new boyfriend; Dutton plays a private investigator hired to make Turturro’s character leave Mort alone.)
Secret Window DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.40 out of 10 (26137 votes)
Director: David Koepp
Actors: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton, Len Cariou, Joan Heney, John Dunn-Hill, Vlasta Vrana, Matt Holland, Gillian Ferrabee, Bronwen Mantel, Elizabeth Marleau, Kyle Allatt, Richard Jutras,
Tags: Horror, Drama, Thriller, animal-killing, arson, author, axe, based-on-novel, blood, cabin, cheating-wife, claustrophobic, corn, corpse, dead-animal, decapitation, divorce, dog, dog-killed, flashlight, gun, hat, insanity, isolation, jealousy, lake, loss-of-son, macabre, magazine, manuscript, marriage-problems, mental-breakdown, mississippi, motel, multiple-personality, murder, mystery-writer, new-york, notebook, paranoia, paranoid, plagiarism, psychological-thriller, screwdriver, sheriff, split-personality, stabbed-in-the-head, stabbed-in-the-leg, stabbed-in-the-throat, stalker, tennessee, tense, title-spoken-by-character, twist-in-the-end, unfaithful-wife, window, writer
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Big Bounce, The
Surfer/drifter/con man Jack Ryan (Wilson) makes his way to Hawaii and lands a job caring for an Walter Crewes (Freeman), a judge on the island. His new gig leads to an involvement with an beautiful, enterprising woman (Foster), who’s really the lover of a real estate tycoon (Sinise) - a shady businessman and longtime rival of Judge Crewes. Ryan, naturally, has to choose between the woman, the money, or the honorable path.
Big Bounce, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.80 out of 10 (4943 votes)
Director: George Armitage
Actors: Owen Wilson, Butch Helemano, Charlie Sheen, Vinnie Jones, Gregory Sporleder, Terry Ahue, Pete Johnson, Mike Renfro, Tony Dorsett, Brian L. Keaulana, Morgan Freeman, Willie Nelson, Andrew Wilson, Sara Foster, Gary Sinise,
Tags: Crime, Comedy, Thriller, adultery, baseball-bat, based-on-novel, beach, beer-drinking, betrayal, blackmail, boxing, breaking-and-entering, cockney-accent, construction-site, dominoes, double-cross, drunk-scene, fall-down-stairs, harmonica, hawaii, helicopter, hitchhiking, husband-wife-relationship, judge, kitchen-scene, loss-of-job, nude-sunbathing, nude-swimming, racial-slur, robbery, scam, seduction, shot-in-the-face, surfing, taunting, thick-accent, twist-in-the-end, unhappy-marriage, yacht
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Chronicles of Riddick, The
Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. ‘Colm Feore’ (qv) plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. ‘Judi Dench’ (qv) is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins.
Chronicles of Riddick, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.20 out of 10 (23248 votes)
Director: David Twohy
Actors: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos, Linus Roache, Yorick van Wageningen, Nick Chinlund, Keith David, Mark Gibbon, Roger R. Cross, Terry Chen, Christina Cox, Nigel Vonas,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure, Action, action-hero, alien, alien-invasion, anti-hero, ashes, battle, betrayal, bounty-hunter, character-name-in-title, dagger, desert, desert-planet, destiny, disguise, epic, fight, futuristic, genocide, gunfight, knife-in-shoe, leader, mercenary, murder, no-ending, nomad, planet, prison, prison-escape, prison-planet, reluctant-hero, self-sacrifice, sequel, sequel-to-cult-favorite, shootout, space, space-travel, spacecraft, spaceship, suicide, sun, sunglasses, sunrise, warrior, warrior-race
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