1998 movies

Rushmore (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwartzman, Jason | Murray, Bill | Williams, Olivia | Cassel, Seymour | Cox, Brian | Gamble, Mason | Tanaka, Sara | McCole, Stephen | Nielsen, Connie | Wilson, Luke | Pallana, Dipak | Wilson, Andrew | Marich, Marietta | McCawley, Ronnie | McCawley, Keith
Directors: Anderson, Wes
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Max Fischer is a more than determined student at his prep school, Rushmore Academy where he oversees anything with the word “extra-curricular”. He befriends a preschool teacher named Ms. Cross, whom he ends up falling in love with. Only to find things take a turn for the worst when his mentor, Herman Blume, an unhappy millionaire falls for her as well. As a result, their personal and professional lives spiral out of control.

The Legend of 1900 (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Music | Romance
Countries: Italy
Actors: Roth, Tim | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | Thierry, Mélanie | Nunn, Bill | Williams III, Clarence | Vaughan, Peter | O'Brien, Niall | Lavia, Gabriele | Nurse, Vernon | Vazquez, Alberto | Armstead, John | Buck, Cory | Chancer, Norman | Cole, Sidney | Cuom, Katy Monique
Directors: Tornatore, Giuseppe
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Shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition. This chance discovery prompts a story from Max, which he relates both to the shopkeeper and later to the official responsible for the doomed vessel, for Max is a born storyteller. Though now down on his luck and disillusioned by his wartime experiences, the New Orleans-born Max was once an enthusiastic and gifted young jazz musician, whose longest gig was several years with the house band aboard the Virginian, a posh cruise ship. While gaining his sea legs, he was befriended by another young man, the pianist in the same band, whose long unlikely name was Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900, though everyone just called him 1900, the year of his birth. Abandoned in first class by his immigrant parents, 1900 was found and adopted by Danny, a stoker, and raised in the engine rooms, learning to read by reading horseracing reports to his adoptive dad. After Danny’s death in an accident, 1900 remained on the ship. Increasingly lured by the sound of the piano in the first-class ballroom, he eventually became a gifted pianist, a great jazz improvisationist, a composer of rich modern music inspired by his intense observation of the life around him, the stories passengers on all levels of the ship trusted him enough to tell. He also grew up to be a charming, iconoclastic young man, at once shrewd and oddly innocent. His talent earned him such accolades that he was challenged by, and bested Jelly Roll Morton in an intense piano duel that had poor Max chewing paper on the sofa in agonies of suspense. And yet for all the richness and variety of his musical expression, he never left the ship, except almost, once, in the aftermath of his infatuation with a beautiful young woman immigrant who inspired the music committed to the master Max discovers in the pawnshop. Max realizes that 1900 must still be on the ship, and determines to find him, and to find out once and for all why he has so consistently refused to leave.

Truman Show, The (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Linney, Laura | Emmerich, Noah | McElhone, Natascha | Taylor, Holland | Delate, Brian | Slater, Blair | Krause, Peter | Schanz, Heidi | Taylor, Ron | Taylor, Don | Raymond, Ted | Clayton, Judy
Directors: Weir, Peter
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

Krippendorf’s Tribe (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Dreyfuss, Richard | Elfman, Jenna | Lyonne, Natasha | Smith, Gregory | Lindner, Carl Michael | Handy, Jacob | Handy, Zachary | Tomlin, Lily | Root, Stephen | Belack, Doris | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Fallon, Siobhan | Strickland, Amzie | Leeds, Phil | Bay, Frances
Directors: Holland, Todd
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A university professor is paid to find the last undiscovered tribe of New Guinea. When he fails to find the tribe, he comes home, and rather than admitting that he’s failed, he gives a lecture about the Shelmikedmu tribe (named after his children: Shelly, Mike, and Edmund) and then has his family dress like “Shelmikedmus,” so that he can film them as proof of his discovery.

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Aykroyd, Dan | Goodman, John | Morton, Joe | Peeples, Nia | Freeman, Kathleen | Bonifant, J. Evan | Oz, Frank | Lawrence, Steve | Hammond, Darrell | Erykah Badu | Levine, Walter | Davis, Tom | Johnson, Shann | King, B.B. | Slade, Gloria
Directors: Landis, John
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Primarily a two hour video, albeit a very good one, this sequel picks up 18 years later from the original and finds Elwood Blues being released from prison and trying to re-form his old band with new lead singer Mighty Mac replacing Jake. A road trip culminates with a battle of the bands against the Louisiana Gators led by B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, and others.

Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Midorikawa, Hikaru | Yajima, Akiko | Seki, Toshihiko | Nakahara, Shigeru | Orikasa, Ai | Ishino, Ryûzô | Sakuma, Rei
Directors: Aoki, Yasunao
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The year is AC 196. A year has past since the Gundam pilots fought for peace between the colonies and Earth. Now a new threat has arisen and threatens to take over the Earth. The result: Relena is kidnapped by Trieze’s daughter and the Gundam pilots must fight for peace…one last time. The Endless Waltz has begun.

Rush Hour (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rolston, Mark | Peña, Elizabeth | Leung, Ken | Chan, Jackie | Wilkinson, Tom | Ma, Tzi | Littman, Robert | Chow, Michael | Hsu, Julia | Tucker, Chris | Penn, Chris | Lennox, Kai | Sullivan, Larry | Lin, Yang | Fan, Roger | Cheung, George | Lin, Lucy
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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Realizing that the FBI and their by the book tactics may be unsuccessful, the Chinese consul recruits the aid of a loyal Hong Kong inspector to help rescue his kidnapped daughter. Outlawed by the FBI, the inspector must form an unlikely partnership with a cocky, street smart LAPD officer who prefers doing things his own way.

Red Violin, The (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music | Mystery | Romance
Countries: Canada | Italy | UK
Actors: Grazioli, Irene | Cecchi, Carlo | Laurenzi, Anita | Puntelli, Tommaso | Amighetti, Samuele | Brugnini, Aldo | Bideau, Jean-Luc | Koncz, Christoph | Mollet, Clotilde | Groll, Florentín | Silberschneider, Johannes | Egger, Rainer | Koeker, Paul | Böck, Wolfgang | Mairginter, Josef
Directors: Girard, François
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In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as “the red violin,” is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of “the red violin.”

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Flemyng, Jason | Fletcher, Dexter | Moran, Nick | Statham, Jason | Mackintosh, Steven | Rowe, Nicholas | Marcq, Nick | Forbes, Charlie | Jones, Vinnie | McLean, Lenny | McNicholl, Peter | Moriarty, P.H. | Harper, Frank | Sweeney, Steve | Leaver, Huggy
Directors: Ritchie, Guy
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Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.

Dark City (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Sewell, Rufus | Hurt, William | Sutherland, Kiefer | Connelly, Jennifer | O'Brien, Richard | Richardson, Ian | Spence, Bruce | Friels, Colin | Bluthal, John | Butel, Mitchell | George, Melissa | Gallacher, Frank | Singer, Ritchie | Monjo, Justin | Bell, Nicholas
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.