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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Roberts, Julia | Westley, Jennifer Rae | Clark, Dick | Rockwell, Sam | Sweeney, Michelle | Barrymore, Drew | Ceci, Chelsea | Pitt, Brad | Damon, Matt | Cera, Michael | Rose Ambroziak, Aimee | Blais, Isabelle | Carter, Melissa | Hall, Jennifer | Elkin, Ilona | Tucker, Sean | Morgan, Jaye P. | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hirsh, David Julian
Directors: Clooney, George
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

1776 (1972)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | History | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniels, William | Da Silva, Howard | Howard, Ken | Madden, Donald | Cullum, John | Poole, Roy | Ford, David | Holgate, Ron | Middleton, Ray | Hansen, William | Danner, Blythe | Vestoff, Virginia | Bass, Emory | Hill, Ralston | Caine, Howard
Directors: Hunt, Peter H.
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The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single “nay” vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants.

Rocky V (1990)

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Shire, Talia | Young, Burt | Stallone, Sage | Burgess Meredith | Morrison, Tommy | Gant, Richard | Burton, Tony | Gambina, Jimmy | Sheppard, Delia | Sheehan, Mike Girard | Williams, Michael | Connolly, Kevin | Peters, Elisebeth | Swope, Hayes
Directors: Avildsen, John G.
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World heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Balboa returns home to Philadelphia to a hero’s welcome after defeating Ivan Drago in a brutal match. Rocky soon discovers that his match with Drago has left him with damage to his brain, and his fortune, which he had entrusted to his wife Adrian’s brother Paulie, has been squandered by an incompetent accountant. In debt to the IRS, Rocky is forced to sell most of his possessions, including his mansion. Rocky, Adrian, and their son Rocky Balboa Jr, move back to Rocky’s old neighborhood in South Philadelphia. Adjustment to the dramatically different lifestyle proves to be more difficult for Rocky Balboa Jr than it is for Rocky and Adrian. Junior quickly becomes involved with a bad crowd, and encounters a bully. Meanwhile, financially desperate Rocky is tempted to re-enter the ring when shady promoter George Washington Duke offers him a huge amount of money to defend his title. Adrian insists that Rocky not risk his life by returning to the ring. Rocky’s financial future looks bleak, until he is approached by a young boxer named Tommy “Machine” Gunn, who idolizes Rocky and begs Rocky to help him train. Rocky agrees to train Tommy, but this hurts Rocky’s relationship with Junior, who believes Rocky is neglecting him in favor of Tommy. Junior becomes even more deeply involved with the bad crowd that he has fallen into. Junior even undergoes training and beats up the bully who was harassing him. After Tommy wins his first few matches, he starts becoming arrogant. When Tommy, who wants a high profile match against a champion, arrogantly decides that Rocky is not moving him up quickly enough, an impatient Tommy turns his back on Rocky and hires Duke as his new manager. While this gives Rocky and Junior the chance they need to work things out with each other, Tommy wins a belt, and still doesn’t have the respect that he’s arrogantly looking for because fans always boo him. Duke tells Tommy that the only way to get the respect Tommy wants would be to beat Rocky one-on-one, so Duke and Tommy find Rocky at a bar, and Tommy challenges Rocky to a street fight that may put Rocky’s life on the line.

Rocky (1976)

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Shire, Talia | Young, Burt | Weathers, Carl | Burgess Meredith | David, Thayer | Spinell, Joe | Gambina, Jimmy | Baldwin, Bill | Silvani, Al | Memmoli, George | Letizia, Jodi | Lewis, Diana | O'Hanlon, George | Carroll, Larry
Directors: Avildsen, John G.
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The ‘Italian Stallion’, Rocky Balboa, is an aspiring boxer in downtown Philadelphia. His one chance to make a better life for himself is through his boxing and Adrian, a girl who works in the local pet store. Through a publicity stunt, Rocky is set up to fight Apollo Creed, the current heavyweight champion who is already set to win. But Rocky really needs to triumph, against all the odds…

Mannequin (1987)

Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: McCarthy, Andrew | Cattrall, Kim | Getty, Estelle | Spader, James | Bailey, G.W. | Davis, Carole | Vinovich, Steve | Maher, Christopher | Taylor, Meshach | Newman, Phyllis | Rubenstein, Phil | Lampert, Jeffrey | Lloyd, Kenneth | Jundef, Jake | Levine, Harvey
Directors: Gottlieb, Michael
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Jonathan Switcher is a young artist. He just doesn’t seem to last in any job he does. But when he builds a mannequin, he makes it so perfect, he falls in love with it. It is the first thing he has made that makes him feel like a real artist. The mannequin ends up in the window of a big department store. When he saves the life of an old lady who happens to be the owner of that store, he is rewarded by getting a job at the store as stock boy. Later the mannequin comes to life as Emmy, who was an ancient Egyptian living in the year 2514BC. The two redesign the window display to make it most eye catching in town. The store competitors are not happy and will do anything to stop them!

Buddy (1997)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Russo, Rene | Coltrane, Robbie | Cumming, Alan | Hall, Irma P. | Elliott, Peter | Wilson, Mak | Bruce, Lynn Robertson | Sealey, Mark | Tygner, Robert | Sisti, Michelan | Hurst, Peter | Tilden, Leif | Townsend, Star | Reubens, Paul | Aylward, John
Directors: Thompson, Caroline
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This is a fact based story about an English socialite (Rene Russo) and her husband (Robbie Coltrane) who live in a mansion with a brood of animals including chimpanzees who are raised as her children. When she discovers an ailing baby gorilla, she decides to care for it as well. Years later, the gorilla is fully grown and its strength is sometimes out of control. However, the gorilla shows love for his mistress and obeys her commands. That all changes when she is invited to display the gorilla and chimps at the Chicago World’s Fair. Accidentally freed by one of the chimps, the gorilla terrorizes the Fair. From that point on, he becomes moody and more uncontrollable until he attacks his mistress in a bestial rage.

Baby Mama (2008)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Poehler, Amy | Tina Fey | Kinnear, Greg | Shepard, Dax | Malco, Romany | Weaver, Sigourney | Martin, Steve | Tierney, Maura | Mailer, Stephen | Taylor, Holland | Rebhorn, James | O'Hare, Denis | Collins, Kevin | Forte, Will | Armisen, Fred
Directors: McCullers, Michael
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Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she’s finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough … After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive’s well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby’s arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they’ll discover two kinds of family: the one you’re born to and the one you make.

In Her Shoes (2005)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Mount, Anson | Collette, Toni | Burgi, Richard | Bergen, Candice | Smith, Brooke | Mastrangelo Sr., John | Mignucci, Emilio | Feuerstein, Mark | Jones, Terrance Christopher | Johnson, Nicole Randall | DeMartino, Kateri | Karrer, Brandon | Ingrassia, Jon | Peck, Jason
Directors: Hanson, Curtis
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Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad’s house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose’s apartment. Then, while searching in her father’s desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.

Trading Places (1983)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Denholm | Aykroyd, Dan | Woods, Maurice | Fisher Jr., Richard D. | Gallagher, Jim | DiSabatino, Anthony | Behrend, Bonnie | Merrill, Sunnie | Newell, James | St. John, Mary | Tremena, Bonnie | Schwartz, David | Bellamy, Ralph | Ameche, Don | Degidon, Tom
Directors: Landis, John
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Melito, Joseph | Willis, Bruce | Seda, Jon | Chance, Michael | Campbell, Vernon | Walls, H. Michael | Adrian, Bob | Jones, Simon | Florence, Carol | Raymond, Bill | Abuba, Ernest | St. Paule, Irma | Stowe, Madeleine | Perillo, Joey | Kirkpatrick, Bruce | Pitt, Brad | Plummer, Christopher
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.