7/29/2008
HBO Asia Synopses - Month of August 2008
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A SCANNER DARKLY
Keanu Reeves stars as Bob Arctor, an undercover cop in a not-too-distant future where Los Angeles has become a city of drugs. To maintain his cover, Bob has to regularly ingest a dangerous drug at the expense of his well-being and ends up losing control of his mind.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr.
ACCEPTED
Bartleby Gaines (Long) is a slacker who has been rejected by every college he has applied to. To satisfy the demands of his parents, he decides to fake his college acceptance and crafts the South Harmon Institute of Technology out of thin air to fool his parents. But when his parents demand to view the website and school, he creates the website, leases an abandoned hospital and hires his friend's uncle to be the dean. He does such a good job that hundreds of other students like him turns up at the "campus" to get an education.
Starring: Justin Long, Lewis Black
AMERICAN PIE 5: THE NAKED MILE
Erik Stifler (White) is worried. He might be the only Stifler to graduate from high school a virgin. He decides to join The Naked Mile race, filled with naked girls, to try his luck.
Starring: John White, Candace Kroslak, Steve Talley
ANGEL RODRIGUEZ
An intimate HBO Original Movie about the complicated relationship between a social worker and the bright but troubled teenager she's trying to help. Rachel Griffiths stars as pregnant New York City counselor Nicole who takes in an inner-city teen, Angel, after he is thrown out by his intractable father. The experience comes to a head when Angel's hostilities surface in unexpected ways, compromising his future while underscoring Nicole's own personal frustrations. Directed by Jim McKay, this compelling tale looks at how the professional boundary between caregivers and those they try to help can be morally difficult to determine.
Starring: Rachel Griffiths
ANY GIVEN SUNDAY
Two-time football champion, the Miami Sharks, once ruled the playing field and shoved their opponents' bodies into the grindstone. But that is all history. Losing their bite of late, the Sharks have been swimming through lackluster performances with an aging coach at the helm (Pacino) and its star-quarterback Jack "Cap" Rooney (Quaid), who is past his prime and out of commission. Not only that, hot dogging problem-with-authority Willie Beamen (Foxx) is going to fill his shoes. With an all-star line-up, this is Oliver Stone ditching camouflage uniforms for football jerseys.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Al Pacino
BABY BOY
An aimless young man has to learn the meaning of fatherly responsibility when his mother's boyfriend moves in with them and starts pushing him to grow up – the hard way.
Starring: Ving Rhames, Tyrese
BLADES OF GLORY
When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they've found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences, they can skate together – as an all-male figure skating pair.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder
BLOOD DIAMOND
Danny Archer (DiCaprio), is a mercenary smuggler searching for a priceless pink diamond. Djimon Hounsou plays a desperate father searching for his lost son while Jennifer Connelly stars as a reporter trying to uncover the truth behind the trade of conflict diamonds. Amid the chaos of Sierra Leone's civil war, the three embark on a dangerous quest together — in search of the extraordinary gem, a lost son and the brutal story behind the diamond trade.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Leonardo Dicaprio
BLUE STREAK
What happens when a $20 million diamond gets stolen, then stashed in an unfinished building that turns out to be the new 37th L.A. Police Precinct two years later? Jewel thief Miles Logan (Lawrence) will have to go undercover as a cop to retrieve his loot. After a short jail term, Miles learns everything there is to know about the boys in blue, so he can blend in and cash out. But the new cop on the block soon discovers that he's a better law enforcer than he is a crook. That's until his old ways come back to haunt him.
Starring: Luke Wilson, Martin Lawrence
CASUALTIES OF WAR
Private Eriksson (Fox) is a member of an American squadron stationed in the deepest jungles of Vietnam. Sgt. Tony Meserve (Penn) is his slightly deranged squadron sergeant who vows revenge after his best friend was killed by the Vietcong. To Eriksson's surprise, Sgt. Meserve orders his men to kidnap and gang rape a Vietnamese girl. Torn between his loyalty to his squad and his conscience, Eriksson suddenly realizes he has much to fear from his comrades-in-arms as he does from the enemy.
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, John Leguizamo
CATCH A FIRE
Based on a true story, Derek Luke stars as Patrick Chamusso, a black foreman working at a refinery in apartheid South Africa. Patrick is apathetic to the black cause and just lives his life, but when he is wrongfully arrested for a fire at his workplace, his family's life is turned upside down and he takes up a political cause against the white rulers.
Starring: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
Locked in her own private world, a deaf woman is gently coaxed out of her shell by a dedicated teacher. Matlin won the 1986 Best Actress Oscar® as the beautiful, defiant woman awakened from a life of loneliness. Best Actor for the same film, Hurt takes on the role of the teacher who reaches out to her and then falls in love. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning Broadway play, this powerful drama was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress.
Starring: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin
CLASS ACT
In this second Kid 'N Play film, the resident high school genius switches identities with the class delinquent, setting the stage for all kinds of comic complications. To make matters even stickier, both guys meet the girl of their dreams - while masquerading as each other, making it even harder to end their charade.
Starring: Christopher Reid, Christopher Martin
CLEAN AND SOBER
Michael Keaton stars as Daryl Poynter, a hotshot real estate agent who embezzles money to feed his cocaine habit. To escape his problems, Poynter checks into a drug rehab center and begins a searing, painful journey of recovery and self-discovery.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker
CROSSROADS: A STORY OF FORGIVENESS
A man's family is killed in a car accident. He finds out that a street-racing teen is the culprit and hires an attorney to pursue justice.
Starring: Dean Cain, Peri Gilpin
DEAR GOD
When Tom Turner (Kinnear) gets busted for petty crime, he's given a chance to redeem himself. The deal? If he can stay employed for a year, his criminal past is history. Working in a post office, Tom handles a bunch of crazy letters to Santa, Elvis and God. When Tom opens one of the letters addressed to God, he is moved by the touching tale in its pages, and decides to answer it. Basking in the joyous effect this has on the author of the letter, Tom and his new postal friends decide to open all the letters to make more wishes come true.
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf
DISTANT THUNDER
Mark Lambert (Lithgow) is an ex-Navy commando who has served five years fighting in the Vietnam War. The war has left him psychologically traumatized and he chooses to live in a forest in the Pacific Northwest with other veterans who could no longer conform to society. But after 16 reclusive years, Lambert wants to reach out to the outside world. With the help of Char (Keane), Lambert goes looking for a job. But first, he has to reunite with his son, Jack (Macchio), who was a baby when Mark last saw him.
Starring: John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane
DRACULA DEAD AND LOVING IT
Mel Brooks, the comedic genius who has lampooned virtually every genre of filmmaking, turns his sights on the Dracula legend. Playing Dracula is another veteran of lampoons, Leslie Nielsen, who is in fine form as he mercilessly parodies every famous portrayal of the legendary vampire, from Bela Lugosi's to Gary Oldman's. A comedy of terrors, this side-splitting quest for fresh blood is satiric filmmaking at its finest.
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks
DREAMGIRLS
Set in the 1960s, three aspiring singers are on their way to finding out what it's like to have their wildest dreams come true. Discovered at a local talent show by ambitious manager Curtis Taylor Jr. (Foxx), the trio is soon offered the opportunity of singing backup for popular singer James "Thunder" Early (Murphy). Molded into an unstoppable hit machine and propelled into the spotlight as "the Dreams," the small-town girls with big-city dreams soon realize that fame has a much greater cost than any of them would have anticipated.
Starring: Beyonce Knowles, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy
EVAN ALMIGHTY
God (Freeman) appears to the newly-appointed Congressman Evan Baxter (Carell) and tells him to build an ark for a flood that's coming. While initially a disbeliever, Evan begins to have second thoughts when tools to build an ark arrive at his doorstep, animals of all types hound him in pairs and he starts to sport an unshaveable beard and hair.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell, Lauren Graham
EVENING
An outstanding cast unites for this drama adapted by author Michael Cunningham from the best-selling novel by Susan Minot. Vanessa Redgrave is Ann Grant, an old woman who, as she lay dying, recounts her romantic and fascinating past to her two daughters. An elegant journey through 50 years of defining moments, Evening weaves a beautiful tapestry of affecting performances and emotional revelations, drawing on the complex relationships between mothers and daughters - relationships made all the more vivid by a powerhouse list of actors.
Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave
FATHERS' DAY
Billy Crystal and Robin Williams play two different men who are conned by the same ex-girlfriend into searching for her runaway son. Both believe they’re the father of the missing boy. What ensues is a laugh-a-minute road movie, about an odd couple forced to work together.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Jared Harris
FINAL DESTINATION 3
In this third installment of the Final Destination series, the new heroine is a high school senior who has a premonition of a roller coaster ride that goes wrong and kills her and her friends. As before, she manages to warn her friends and save their lives, but death comes a-knocking to take back the lives which should have been lost.
Starring: Mary Winstead, Ryan Merriman
FIVE DAYS: PART 1
A mother vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also end up missing. As police search for clues over three gut-wrenching months, the woman's husband and family learn that nobody's quite what they seem. In the end, five days prove critical in solving the case.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, David Oyelowo, Sarah Smart
FIVE DAYS: PART 2
A mother vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also end up missing. As police search for clues over three gut-wrenching months, the woman's husband and family learn that nobody's quite what they seem. In the end, five days prove critical in solving the case.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, David Oyelowo, Sarah Smart
FLY AWAY HOME
Moving to Canada to live with her estranged father after her mother's death, young Amy (Paquin) is sullen and troubled until she becomes a surrogate mother to a nest of goose eggs. The newly hatched chicks regard her as their real mother, and it soon becomes clear that she's going to have to perform all of a mother's tasks!
Starring: Dana Delany, Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney
FRACTURE
Young district attorney Willy Beachum (Gosling) is on his way to the top with only one last case standing in his way: a mysterious engineer (Hopkins) found innocent on a technicality of his wife's murder. In a thriller laden with twists and turns that weave both in and out of the courtroom, the pair becomes entangled in a risky cat-and-mouse game with fatal consequences.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Ryan Gosling
GATTACA
This is a sci-fi suspense about "In-Valid" Vincent Freeman (Hawke), whose genetic defects mar his dream of ever journeying into space. He hatches a daring plan to assume the identity of Jerome Morrow (Law), a "Valid" who is crippled and willing to sell his superior genetic materials. Caught in the process is beautiful "Valid" Irene (Thurman), who is also denied space travel because of her heart defect. Together, Vincent and Irene must find a way to break out of this strict world they live in and change their destinies.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
GRENDEL
Chris Bruno stars as the legendary Beowulf, who travels from Sweden to Denmark to help battle a seemingly unstoppable monster called Grendel. In this screen adaptation, Beowulf carries a super crossbow complete with bayonets and sniper scope.
Starring: Chris Bruno
HBO CENTRAL
HBO Central is your monthly guide to the hottest attractions on HBO! Join your host, Simone Heng, for an exciting look at what's new on the channel each month. Take a peek at the biggest blockbusters and HBO Original productions headed your way, including Hollywood gossip, behind-the-scenes tidbits, superstar profiles and red carpet style guides. It's a one-stop hub of entertainment news that’s all about HBO, on HBO.
HANGING UP
All their lives, Georgia (Keaton), Eve (Ryan) and Maddy's (Kudrow) father had lived a wild life and kept in touch only over the phone. When he lands up in hospital, the three daughters finally take time off their self-involved lives to cope with their long lost family and find ways to laugh despite all they've been through.
Starring: Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Diane Keaton
HAPPY FEET
In this animated movie, Mumble, the Emperor penguin has a big problem. He does not possess the ability to sing like other penguins. Instead, he can tap dance. Blamed for the poor fishing season and cast out by his community, Mumble meets new friends who accept him with open arms. With his newfound friends, Mumble goes in search of the true cause of the famine.
Starring: Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman
HE SAID, SHE SAID
Let the battle of the sexes begin as two TV commentators go at and for each other. Dan (Bacon) and Lorie (Perkins) are exact opposites on and off the air. But when the womanizing conservative and the monogamous liberal get together, it's a toss-up between love and war as they play out their rivalry in newspaper columns and TV spots.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Sharon Stone
HUSH LITTLE BABY
Two years after losing her daughter in a drowning accident, Jamie (Pratt) gives birth to a new girl, only to have her suspicions aroused after several accidents, though unproven, that her newborn baby could have been possessed by her lost daughter.
Starring: Victoria Pratt, Johana Black
I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY
Comedy superstars Adam Sandler and Kevin James team up as two straight guys who stumble down the aisle with the best of intentions. Best friends and firefighters Chuck and Larry would do anything for each other. So when Larry asks Chuck if he can be listed as his domestic partner on some insurance forms, Chuck agrees since no one will ever know. But when an overzealous fact-checker wants to confirm that the two friends aren't lying, the goons have to play the part of a happily committed gay couple - or be exposed for fraud!
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jessica Biel, Kevin James
IDLEWILD
Set in the 30’s, this musical drama chronicles the lives of two friends. One works at his father's funeral parlor in the day and is a soulful pianist at night. The other runs the joint where the pianist plays and is fighting to save his business from the clutches of the mob. Songs from Outkast contributes to this drama’s musical diversity.
Starring: Ving Rhames, Terrence Howard, Malinda Williams
IMAGINARY PLAYMATE
Following their move into a new house, Suzanne's young stepdaughter Molly makes an imaginary friend. But things get twisted when Suzanne discovers that Molly's new make-believe friend isn’t made believe after all.
Starring: Dina Meyer, Nicole Munoz, Rick Ravanello
KIDS IN THE HALL: BRAIN CANDY
Kids In The Hall is a Canadian comedy troupe that had its origins in Second City-style improv – all the female roles are played by men in drag. This cult favorite however, is not a series of sketches, but a story about a pharmaceutical company which discovers a cure for depression. When the company finds itself in financial trouble, they rush the new drug into production without doing enough testing. Things go awry when users start slipping into comas. It becomes a race between the scientists who want to tell the truth and the company's marketing department who wants to protect their margins.
Starring: Bruce McCulloch, David Foley, Kevin McDonald
LAST DAYS
Set in the grunge-era Seattle, this rock and roll drama by award-winning director, Gus Van Sant, revolves around the final moments of a rock star's life. Following the exploits of a band whose tragic trajectory closely parallels that of the legendary Nirvana, this story tries to imagine what someone in Kurt Cobain's situation might have experienced in his last days.
Starring: Lukas Haas, Michael Pitt, Asia Argento
LAST HOLIDAY
Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is a shy woman who dreams of an elegant life but is in fact just an oversized ordinary Jane. But when she is diagnosed with a terminal disease and has three weeks left to live, all hell breaks loose as Georgia pulls out all the stops for her very last holiday.
Starring: LL Cool J, Queen Latifah
LIGHTNING - THE WHITE STALLION
Mickey Rooney plays a washed-out gambler whose expensive horse is stolen by a gangster who wants the horse for himself. Enlisting the help of two friends, he goes out to beat the criminal and win his horse back.
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Susan George
LOOSE CANNONS
With a team of Hackman, Aykroyd and DeLuise, what can you expect? Nothing less than comedy at its finest. Mac Stern (Hackman) and Ellis Fielding (Aykroyd) are police partners, who in the great tradition of cop movies, are total opposites to each other. Mac is a veteran in the field, while Ellis is well, a forensics expert who is almost wonderful as a partner, except for the particular disorder of assuming different characters when he is faced with danger. So Mac is not stuck with one partner, he is stuck with a whole slew at any one time, as Ellis breaks into impressions that range from Pee Wee Herman to Popeye. Hilarious and madcap, this movie will guarantee lots of laughter.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Gene Hackman
MAKING MR. RIGHT
An uptight magazine editor (Cox) makes a bet with her best friend to turn a scruffy con-man (Cain) into her magazine's Bachelor of the Year. Upon cleaning him up, she trains him proper manners while he teaches her to let herself go, resulting in chemistry neither of them would have expected.
Starring: Dean Cain, Christina Cox
MARY REILLY
A unique spin is given to the chilling tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by telling it through the eyes of Mary Reilly (Roberts), a housemaid of Dr Henry Jekyll (Malkovich). A simple and naive woman with a past she would rather forget, Mary thinks that she has finally found a safe haven in the service of the gentle Dr. Jekyll. However, the entrance of Dr. Jekyll's mysterious assistant - Mr. Hyde, propels Mary into an internal conflict. While devoted to the brilliant Dr. Jekyll, she finds herself drawn to Mr. Hyde. As Hyde grows stronger, Jekyll weakens, and it is up to Mary to unravel the awful, unholy truth.
Starring: Michael Gambon, Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, Glenn Close
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li star as geishas in this drama which traces the life of a nine-year-old girl (Zhang) sold to a geisha house by her impoverished fishing family. Despite a treacherous rival Hatsumomo (Gong Li) who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha, Sayuri, with the help of a kind and influential gentleman (Watanabe) and geisha Mameha (Yeoh) who takes Sayuri under her wing as her protégé.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Zi Yi
MIKE'S MURDER
When an ordinary woman's lover turns up dead, curiosity propels her into a contemporary nightmare from which there's no awakening. Betty (Winger) is an unassuming bank teller whose boyfriend, a small-time drug pusher, is murdered. She decides to do some amateur sleuthing which drags her into a murky underworld of unsavory characters and the viewer into a chilling suspense film.
Starring: Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun
MUNICH
11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and this is the story of what happened next. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this gripping thriller is about the five men hired by the Israeli government for a top-secret mission to assassinate the Palestinian terrorists responsible. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler and Geoffrey Rush star in this film about tragedy, revenge and the vicious cycle of violence in the Middle East.
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig
MY BLUE HEAVEN
Steve Martin is a city mobster, Vinnie Antonelli, who has been relocated to the suburbs under the federal witness protection program. While hapless agent Barney Coopersmith (Moranis) hangs on for the ride, Vinnie finds some wise guys to hang with, romances a lady and paints the town red with his flamboyance.
Starring: Steve Martin, Joan Cusack, Rick Moranis
NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
Two mismatched LA detectives investigate a murder, and end up following a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads back to their office. That's when they realize there is a mole and they go all out to nab the crime boss- and uncover the mole.
Starring: Billy Dee Williams, Robert Carradine
OCTOBER SKY
Based on a true story, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Homer, a teenage boy who has but one future in sight: to work in the West Virginia coal mines with his father. But with the launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957, Homer becomes determined to learn all he can about rockets. With the support of a teacher and hopes for a scholarship prize at the science fair, Homer and his friends set out to build their own rocket against the wishes of the town's community.
Starring: William Lee Scott, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Owen
OLIVER'S STORY
Oliver Barrett (O'Neal) tries to pick up the pieces of his broken life after the death of his beloved Jenny in this touching sequel to Love Story. He meets Marcie Bonwit (Bergen), the direct opposite of Jenny but whom he falls in love with when she forces him to come to grips with himself.
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen
PATERNITY
In this comedy about paternal instincts, Burt Reynolds plays Buddy, a successful 44-year-old self-made bachelor who has everything but a stable relationship and a family of his own. Hilarity ensues when he hears his biological clock ticking and decides to audition for the perfect surrogate mother of his heir. That special someone is waitress and struggling music student, Maggie (D'Angelo). What starts out as a contractual relationship evolves into something more profound when Maggie and Buddy really fall for each other.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo
PERMANENT RECORD
When smart, musically talented and popular high school student David Sinclair unexpectedly commits suicide, shock and unanswered questions reverberate throughout the school. David was perfect, so where did he or his friends go wrong? His best friend, Chris Townsend (Reeves), struggles with his friend's death and asks himself if he too is capable of self-destruction.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Rubin, Alan Boyce
POSEIDON
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, this is a remake of the classic high-seas drama, The Poseidon Adventure. It's New Year's Eve, and over 2,000 people are celebrating the moment onboard a luxury cruise liner, Poseidon. At the stroke of midnight, a huge rogue wave hits the ship and rolls it upside down. Against the captain's orders to stay and wait for rescue, a group of survivors make their way out of the wreckage, determined to save themselves from an impending watery grave.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Joshua Lucas
POWER
Politics is the game and power is the prize. Director Sidney Lumet presents a provocative glimpse of how media experts have replaced the old party bosses and the press as the movers and shakers of politics in the 1980s. Most importantly, he offers viewers a portrait of what power does to those who wield it and how it changes them and those they control. Pete St. John (Gere) is the hotshot media consultant who sells his services to the highest bidder, only to learn the dangers of pursuing and having too much political power.
Starring: Richard Gere, Gene Hackman, Julie Christie
PUMPKINHEAD: ASHES TO ASHES
The mortician of a small town has been throwing bodies of the dead townsfolk into the swamp instead of giving them a proper burial. When the townsfolk discover this, they want vengeance and call upon the witch Haggis to summon the demon Pumpkinhead to their aid. But summoning a demon comes at a deadly price.
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Doug Bradley
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
The story of the traumatic childhood of writer Augusten Burroughs. After his parents' divorce, Augusten is abandoned by his mentally unstable, aspiring-poet mother and sent to live with her fraudulent psychiatrist and his nutty family. Realizing at age 13 that he is gay, he has an affair with a 33 year-old man. At 17, Augusten finally escapes the emotional chaos and moves to New York to become a writer.
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Annette Bening, Brian Cox
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
Tony Manero (Travolta) is a regular Joe who spends six days a week working in a Manhattan paint store. He spends the remaining one night ruling the disco floor - his only escape from his monotonous job and a demanding family. There, he meets Stephanie, a young woman with the moves to match his. When they dance together, something electrifying happens. They both decide to enter the local disco competition, and while going through the motions, the two discover that they may have more in common than just the bell-bottoms, the hair and the slick moves.
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Gorney, Donna Pescow
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Director for Steven Spielberg, this film authentically recreates the setting and the horror of D-Day in Normandy. The story centers on the mission to recover one soldier — Private Ryan (Damon). Dropped behind enemy lines, his survival is crucial since three of his brothers have already died in previous battles. An eight-man team, led by Captain John Miller (Hanks) must conquer their individual fears and rescue a soldier who is after all, just a name to them. Hanks earned an Oscar nomination for his powerful performance as the woeful veteran whose only real goal is to return home to his wife.
Starring: Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore
SECOND SIGHT
Jenny Morris has an unusual talent - psychic visions of murders! The first time she had one was in her childhood when she “saw” her best friend killed. When no one believed her, she suffered a nervous breakdown. Years later as she tries to rebuild a normal life, the visions return. This time, she is determined not to just let another murder happen. She teams up with the brother of her slain friend to track down the killer before he strikes again.
Starring: Bronson Pinchot, John Larroquette
SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN
An engaging comedy-drama about the coming-of-age and growing pains of three Ohio teenagers. Beautiful, brainy Natalie (Connelly) gives up her virginity to her "soul mate", while boy-crazy Polly wants to be the next President of the United States and rebellious Jeff (Thames) runs away from home.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Byron Thames
SHY PEOPLE
Writer Diana Sullivan (Clayburgh) wants to remove her drug-addict daughter Grace (Plimpton) from the corruptive environs of Manhattan. When assigned to write an article about family trees, Diana takes her daughter, heads to Louisiana, to seek out an elusive great-uncle, hoping to give Grace a new start in life.
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh
SOLDIER
Set in the post apocalyptic future, Sgt. Todd 3465 (Russell) is a veteran soldier who becomes obsolete and is replaced by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers. The deadliest of these is Caine 607 (Lee). Dumped on a remote planet inhabited by a peaceful group of lost and forgotten pioneers, Todd must now defend the settlers from Caine 607 and his deadly squad of soldiers.
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT
When the perfect wife, Grace (Roberts), discovers that her husband Eddie (Quaid) has been cheating on her, she takes their daughter with her and leaves him, seeking refuge at Grace's parents' home. Grace is surprised when she doesn't get any tears of sympathy from her father, a rich horseman, Wyly King (Duvall); her mother, Georgia (Rowlands); or her cynical and hard-nosed sister, Emma Rae (Kyra Sedgwick). Instead, Grace's parents tell her to go back to Eddie. Grace's dysfunctional relationship with her family nonetheless spurs her to lick her wounds and fight back with class, style and a sense of humor.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall
SUPERMAN RETURNS
After spending five years in space searching for the planet Krypton, Superman returns to Earth to find Lois Lane engaged and the evil Lex Luthor still at work, swindling a terminally ill old woman. But Luthor has bigger plans — he wants to build a new continent which will wipe out most of North America. Can Superman stop him and win back the love of Lois?
Starring: Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Brandon Routh
TEA WITH MUSSOLINI
An orphan boy is raised by an eccentric group of women in 1930s Florence who teach him about art, love, passion for living, and humanity as they weather the rise of fascism, the menacing political climate and personal heartbreaks.
Starring: Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright
TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF DESTINY
Funnymen Jack Black and Kyle Glass team up in this comedy about two guys who come together to form the world’s greatest band. But to make it work, they must first go on a quest to get the fabled (guitar) Pick Of Destiny housed in a museum.
Starring: Jack Black, Kyle Glass
TEQUILA SUNRISE
Mel Gibson plays a cop and Kurt Russell a drug dealer desperate to get out of the business. Both of them fall for the same woman (Pfeiffer). When word gets around that a big deal is going down with a drug lord, personal loyalties and individual honor become sources of conflict.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell
THE GOONIES
Enter a thrilling world of sunken treasure and hidden passageways echoing with breathless underground chases in this delightfully zany family adventure. A bunch of children need to find money to stop greedy land developers from taking over their home. Armed with only a baffling treasure map, they embark upon a search for a legendary cache of jewels. Produced by Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Sean Astin, Corey Feldman
THE HUNT FOR THE BTK KILLER
This is the true story about the serial killer who terrorized Wichita, Kansas for 30 years before he was finally caught by the police.
Starring: Robert Forster, Maury Chaykin
THE LAST SUPPER
Five students invite a stranger for dinner, only to accidentally kill him when he starts to threaten them with his view and hunting knife. Now with a corpse on their hands, the friends decide that killing someone to make a statement is, in fact, not that hard, and that perhaps it is worth defending their viewpoints to the death. Just who can save their next dinner guest from becoming the next corpse?
Starring: Bill Paxton, Cameron Diaz, Jason Alexander
THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS
Steve Martin is a world famous neuro-surgeon who has invented a few bizarre methods of surgery. While being in an unhappy marriage, he falls in love with a brain in a jar. He must find a new home for it. The perfect setting for a zany, madcap, screwball comedy.
Starring: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
An eighteenth century castle, hidden from the world. A costume ball about to begin. And a masked murderer, eager to teach the guests a new tango of terror. In this modern adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's original horror classic, unsuspecting guests find themselves worm-bait in a deadly game of hide and seek, and a by-the-numbers killing spree. Not wanting the suspense to kill them, the guest list gets shortened quickly. Does remaining survivor Rebecca have what it takes to confront The Masque Of The Red Death? What will be her fate? Survivor or statistic?
Starring: Frank Stallone, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro
THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES
Columbia professor Rose Morgan (Streisand) enters into a unique marital agreement with her colleague, Gregory Larkin (Bridges). The terms of the agreement being - intellect and camaraderie can supplant sexual passion. But things heat up when she undergoes a makeover which transplants her into a raving beauty.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Bridges, Barbra Streisand
THE MUMMY
Rick O'Connell (Fraser) is a dashing legionnaire who stumbles upon the ruins of an ancient Egyptian city where an evil high priest, Imhotep (Vosloo), has been buried, cursed to remain undead for all eternity for indulging in a love affair with the Pharaoh's mistress. O'Connell finds himself in an uneasy alliance with a beautiful, but clumsy Egyptologist, Evelyn (Weisz), only to discover that Imhotep intends to use Evelyn's body as a host for his long-lost paramour, the Pharaoh's mistress. It is up to O'Connell and Evelyn's brother, Jonathan (Hannah), to prevent the total regeneration of Imhotep, and to keep Evelyn from becoming an unwilling bride.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo, John Hannah
THE PEST
When you accept $50,000 to be a human target, it's best to be a moving target. That's what Miami scam artist Pest Vargas (Leguizamo) realizes when he is on the run from the Scottish mob and a German headhunter. Once the chase is on, he uses his wits and wiles to don multiple personalities to save his skin, regardless of who he offends in the process.
Starring: John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Dashing pirates and their lovely lasses take you along for a rollicking good time in the film version of Broadway's long-running hit by Gilbert and Sullivan. Kevin Kline plays the fiery pirate king ever ready to brandish his sword for a rousing duel. As young lovers, rock stars Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith sparkle in their crossover to the jazzed-up version of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta. Angela Lansbury stars as the nanny of the bumbling pirate band.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt
THE PRESTIGE
Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale star as friends and fellow magicians who become bitter enemies after a sudden tragedy. As the two devote their lives to a rivalry played out on the London stage, the sacrifices they make take them to the pinnacle of fame — with terrible consequences.
Starring: Michael Caine, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale
THE SECRET GARDEN
When ten year-old Mary's parents are killed in India, she's sent to live in her uncle's gloomy old mansion. Though her life there seems gloomy, she soon discovers an abandoned, locked garden. Aided by a local boy, she nurtures the garden -and her sickly cousin -back to glorious, blooming life.
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Kate Maberly
THE SENDER
A frightened patient in a mental institution transmits his thoughts and ghoulish nightmares into the minds of others. But who is he? He has lost his money, has no I.D. and is in the grip of powers he doesn't understand.
Starring: Kathryn Harrold, Shirley Knight, Zeljko Ivanek
THE SOPRANOS 39: THE ARMY OF ONE
In the season three finale, yet another academic misstep by AJ forces his parents to seriously contemplate a military-school alternative. Tony orders Ralph to deal personally with the Jackie Jr. situation, and later seems to take Ralph's side in a money dispute with Paulie. Once again, the family gathers in Artie Bucco's restaurant, where Meadow is forced to reflect on what it means to live, and die, in the Soprano family.
THE SOPRANOS 40: FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
With the slowing economy affecting business, New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano invests in a potentially lucrative land deal, while his wife Carmela frets about the family's long-term financial security. Problems abound among Tony's crime family as well: Uncle Junior worries about his pending RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) trial; Adriana confides in her new friend Danielle, who may be an undercover FBI agent and Christopher sets his sights on avenging an old murder.
THE SOPRANOS 41: NO-SHOW
With Paulie in jail, Christopher acts as capo, but he gets off to a bad start with Patsy. Still troubled by Jackie Jr.'s death, Meadow contemplates taking a year off from college to travel. Meanwhile, Adriana is in a bind after ending her friendship with Danielle, and Silvio discusses a misunderstanding at the Newark riverfront construction site.
THE SOPRANOS 42: CHRISTOPHER
Silvio and Ralph must deal with a planned protest of the Columbus Day parade by a Native American group. At an Italian Pride ladies' lunch, Carmela is embarrassed by anti-mafia remarks. Meanwhile, Ralph deals with new relationship troubles and Bobby receives some tough news.
THE SOPRANOS 43: THE WEIGHT
A disparaging remark about his wife sets Johnny Sack off on a personal vendetta. Meadow decides to volunteer at South Bronx Law Center. Furio hosts a housewarming party for the gang; Silvio and Chris make an offer to an old-time hit man named Lou DiMaggio; and Tony and Carmela find themselves at odds over the family's bill – consolidation strategy.
THIR13EN GHOSTS
Upon his Uncle Cyrus' mysterious death, a widowed teacher, Arthur Kriticos (Shalhoub), inherits a luxurious mansion which was once the home to Cyrus. As Arthur and his family moves into their strange new home, they encounter vengeful entities that threaten to annihilate anyone in their path. Soon, Arthur is joined by ghost hunter, Dennis (Lillard), and ghost "liberator", Kalina (Davidtz). Caught in a frantic race to save himself and his family, Arthur soon realizes the house is a riddle which contains the key to their salvation – or destruction.
Starring: Matthew Lillard, Tony Shalhoub, Shannon Elizabeth
TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY
Letting go is harder for some people than it is for others. For David Lewis (Gallagher), it's impossible. He refuses to accept the fact that his wife, Gillian (Pfeiffer), has died tragically, so much so that she even appears to return to him from beyond the grave. As the family celebrates the Labor Day weekend, relationships are re-examined and truths revealed. When David discovers that his obsession with Gillian is about to damage his precious relationship with his daughter Rachel (Danes), he realizes that he must do something to regain his daughter's love, even if it means letting go of his beloved Gillian.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Peter Gallagher
VAMPIRE BATS
Insect specialist-cum-college professor Maddy Rierdon (Lawless) gets suspicious when a student is found dead with all his blood drained and covered with mysterious puncture marks. Maddy investigates and discover a group of mutated vampire bats. Can she stop them before they kill everyone?
Starring: Lucy Lawless, Dylan Neal, Liam Waite
VISION QUEST
Eighteen year-old Louden Swain is determined to lose 23 pounds to make it into the high-school wrestling team. His opponent: the human-battering ram, Shute. Enter Louden's self-appointed half-Indian spiritual advisor, Kuch, who puts his young friend's problem in perspective. According to Kuch, Louden is on what a vision quest, an attempt to gain communion with the 'Everywhere Spirit' and find his place in the eternal circle. But Louden gets distracted from his mission when he falls for an older woman, Carla.
Starring: Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Follow the chains of events as Wallace and Gromit race to prevent a monstrous herbivore from chomping down on the town’s vegetable harvest before their annual vegetable competition.
WYATT EARP
Kevin Costner stars in a sweeping epic of the transformation of a country. In the tumultuous years that take him from a secure family life to the frontiers of America, Earp grows from an innocent boy to a hardened lawman, transformed by the land he walks. But Earp's unflinching loyalty to his brothers and their dreams brings great joy – and ultimately great tragedy – to the man destined to become one of the West's most enduring legends.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman
Keanu Reeves stars as Bob Arctor, an undercover cop in a not-too-distant future where Los Angeles has become a city of drugs. To maintain his cover, Bob has to regularly ingest a dangerous drug at the expense of his well-being and ends up losing control of his mind.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr.
ACCEPTED
Bartleby Gaines (Long) is a slacker who has been rejected by every college he has applied to. To satisfy the demands of his parents, he decides to fake his college acceptance and crafts the South Harmon Institute of Technology out of thin air to fool his parents. But when his parents demand to view the website and school, he creates the website, leases an abandoned hospital and hires his friend's uncle to be the dean. He does such a good job that hundreds of other students like him turns up at the "campus" to get an education.
Starring: Justin Long, Lewis Black
AMERICAN PIE 5: THE NAKED MILE
Erik Stifler (White) is worried. He might be the only Stifler to graduate from high school a virgin. He decides to join The Naked Mile race, filled with naked girls, to try his luck.
Starring: John White, Candace Kroslak, Steve Talley
ANGEL RODRIGUEZ
An intimate HBO Original Movie about the complicated relationship between a social worker and the bright but troubled teenager she's trying to help. Rachel Griffiths stars as pregnant New York City counselor Nicole who takes in an inner-city teen, Angel, after he is thrown out by his intractable father. The experience comes to a head when Angel's hostilities surface in unexpected ways, compromising his future while underscoring Nicole's own personal frustrations. Directed by Jim McKay, this compelling tale looks at how the professional boundary between caregivers and those they try to help can be morally difficult to determine.
Starring: Rachel Griffiths
ANY GIVEN SUNDAY
Two-time football champion, the Miami Sharks, once ruled the playing field and shoved their opponents' bodies into the grindstone. But that is all history. Losing their bite of late, the Sharks have been swimming through lackluster performances with an aging coach at the helm (Pacino) and its star-quarterback Jack "Cap" Rooney (Quaid), who is past his prime and out of commission. Not only that, hot dogging problem-with-authority Willie Beamen (Foxx) is going to fill his shoes. With an all-star line-up, this is Oliver Stone ditching camouflage uniforms for football jerseys.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Al Pacino
BABY BOY
An aimless young man has to learn the meaning of fatherly responsibility when his mother's boyfriend moves in with them and starts pushing him to grow up – the hard way.
Starring: Ving Rhames, Tyrese
BLADES OF GLORY
When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they've found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences, they can skate together – as an all-male figure skating pair.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder
BLOOD DIAMOND
Danny Archer (DiCaprio), is a mercenary smuggler searching for a priceless pink diamond. Djimon Hounsou plays a desperate father searching for his lost son while Jennifer Connelly stars as a reporter trying to uncover the truth behind the trade of conflict diamonds. Amid the chaos of Sierra Leone's civil war, the three embark on a dangerous quest together — in search of the extraordinary gem, a lost son and the brutal story behind the diamond trade.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Leonardo Dicaprio
BLUE STREAK
What happens when a $20 million diamond gets stolen, then stashed in an unfinished building that turns out to be the new 37th L.A. Police Precinct two years later? Jewel thief Miles Logan (Lawrence) will have to go undercover as a cop to retrieve his loot. After a short jail term, Miles learns everything there is to know about the boys in blue, so he can blend in and cash out. But the new cop on the block soon discovers that he's a better law enforcer than he is a crook. That's until his old ways come back to haunt him.
Starring: Luke Wilson, Martin Lawrence
CASUALTIES OF WAR
Private Eriksson (Fox) is a member of an American squadron stationed in the deepest jungles of Vietnam. Sgt. Tony Meserve (Penn) is his slightly deranged squadron sergeant who vows revenge after his best friend was killed by the Vietcong. To Eriksson's surprise, Sgt. Meserve orders his men to kidnap and gang rape a Vietnamese girl. Torn between his loyalty to his squad and his conscience, Eriksson suddenly realizes he has much to fear from his comrades-in-arms as he does from the enemy.
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, John Leguizamo
CATCH A FIRE
Based on a true story, Derek Luke stars as Patrick Chamusso, a black foreman working at a refinery in apartheid South Africa. Patrick is apathetic to the black cause and just lives his life, but when he is wrongfully arrested for a fire at his workplace, his family's life is turned upside down and he takes up a political cause against the white rulers.
Starring: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
Locked in her own private world, a deaf woman is gently coaxed out of her shell by a dedicated teacher. Matlin won the 1986 Best Actress Oscar® as the beautiful, defiant woman awakened from a life of loneliness. Best Actor for the same film, Hurt takes on the role of the teacher who reaches out to her and then falls in love. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning Broadway play, this powerful drama was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress.
Starring: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin
CLASS ACT
In this second Kid 'N Play film, the resident high school genius switches identities with the class delinquent, setting the stage for all kinds of comic complications. To make matters even stickier, both guys meet the girl of their dreams - while masquerading as each other, making it even harder to end their charade.
Starring: Christopher Reid, Christopher Martin
CLEAN AND SOBER
Michael Keaton stars as Daryl Poynter, a hotshot real estate agent who embezzles money to feed his cocaine habit. To escape his problems, Poynter checks into a drug rehab center and begins a searing, painful journey of recovery and self-discovery.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker
CROSSROADS: A STORY OF FORGIVENESS
A man's family is killed in a car accident. He finds out that a street-racing teen is the culprit and hires an attorney to pursue justice.
Starring: Dean Cain, Peri Gilpin
DEAR GOD
When Tom Turner (Kinnear) gets busted for petty crime, he's given a chance to redeem himself. The deal? If he can stay employed for a year, his criminal past is history. Working in a post office, Tom handles a bunch of crazy letters to Santa, Elvis and God. When Tom opens one of the letters addressed to God, he is moved by the touching tale in its pages, and decides to answer it. Basking in the joyous effect this has on the author of the letter, Tom and his new postal friends decide to open all the letters to make more wishes come true.
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf
DISTANT THUNDER
Mark Lambert (Lithgow) is an ex-Navy commando who has served five years fighting in the Vietnam War. The war has left him psychologically traumatized and he chooses to live in a forest in the Pacific Northwest with other veterans who could no longer conform to society. But after 16 reclusive years, Lambert wants to reach out to the outside world. With the help of Char (Keane), Lambert goes looking for a job. But first, he has to reunite with his son, Jack (Macchio), who was a baby when Mark last saw him.
Starring: John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane
DRACULA DEAD AND LOVING IT
Mel Brooks, the comedic genius who has lampooned virtually every genre of filmmaking, turns his sights on the Dracula legend. Playing Dracula is another veteran of lampoons, Leslie Nielsen, who is in fine form as he mercilessly parodies every famous portrayal of the legendary vampire, from Bela Lugosi's to Gary Oldman's. A comedy of terrors, this side-splitting quest for fresh blood is satiric filmmaking at its finest.
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks
DREAMGIRLS
Set in the 1960s, three aspiring singers are on their way to finding out what it's like to have their wildest dreams come true. Discovered at a local talent show by ambitious manager Curtis Taylor Jr. (Foxx), the trio is soon offered the opportunity of singing backup for popular singer James "Thunder" Early (Murphy). Molded into an unstoppable hit machine and propelled into the spotlight as "the Dreams," the small-town girls with big-city dreams soon realize that fame has a much greater cost than any of them would have anticipated.
Starring: Beyonce Knowles, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy
EVAN ALMIGHTY
God (Freeman) appears to the newly-appointed Congressman Evan Baxter (Carell) and tells him to build an ark for a flood that's coming. While initially a disbeliever, Evan begins to have second thoughts when tools to build an ark arrive at his doorstep, animals of all types hound him in pairs and he starts to sport an unshaveable beard and hair.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell, Lauren Graham
EVENING
An outstanding cast unites for this drama adapted by author Michael Cunningham from the best-selling novel by Susan Minot. Vanessa Redgrave is Ann Grant, an old woman who, as she lay dying, recounts her romantic and fascinating past to her two daughters. An elegant journey through 50 years of defining moments, Evening weaves a beautiful tapestry of affecting performances and emotional revelations, drawing on the complex relationships between mothers and daughters - relationships made all the more vivid by a powerhouse list of actors.
Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave
FATHERS' DAY
Billy Crystal and Robin Williams play two different men who are conned by the same ex-girlfriend into searching for her runaway son. Both believe they’re the father of the missing boy. What ensues is a laugh-a-minute road movie, about an odd couple forced to work together.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Jared Harris
FINAL DESTINATION 3
In this third installment of the Final Destination series, the new heroine is a high school senior who has a premonition of a roller coaster ride that goes wrong and kills her and her friends. As before, she manages to warn her friends and save their lives, but death comes a-knocking to take back the lives which should have been lost.
Starring: Mary Winstead, Ryan Merriman
FIVE DAYS: PART 1
A mother vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also end up missing. As police search for clues over three gut-wrenching months, the woman's husband and family learn that nobody's quite what they seem. In the end, five days prove critical in solving the case.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, David Oyelowo, Sarah Smart
FIVE DAYS: PART 2
A mother vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also end up missing. As police search for clues over three gut-wrenching months, the woman's husband and family learn that nobody's quite what they seem. In the end, five days prove critical in solving the case.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, David Oyelowo, Sarah Smart
FLY AWAY HOME
Moving to Canada to live with her estranged father after her mother's death, young Amy (Paquin) is sullen and troubled until she becomes a surrogate mother to a nest of goose eggs. The newly hatched chicks regard her as their real mother, and it soon becomes clear that she's going to have to perform all of a mother's tasks!
Starring: Dana Delany, Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney
FRACTURE
Young district attorney Willy Beachum (Gosling) is on his way to the top with only one last case standing in his way: a mysterious engineer (Hopkins) found innocent on a technicality of his wife's murder. In a thriller laden with twists and turns that weave both in and out of the courtroom, the pair becomes entangled in a risky cat-and-mouse game with fatal consequences.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Ryan Gosling
GATTACA
This is a sci-fi suspense about "In-Valid" Vincent Freeman (Hawke), whose genetic defects mar his dream of ever journeying into space. He hatches a daring plan to assume the identity of Jerome Morrow (Law), a "Valid" who is crippled and willing to sell his superior genetic materials. Caught in the process is beautiful "Valid" Irene (Thurman), who is also denied space travel because of her heart defect. Together, Vincent and Irene must find a way to break out of this strict world they live in and change their destinies.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
GRENDEL
Chris Bruno stars as the legendary Beowulf, who travels from Sweden to Denmark to help battle a seemingly unstoppable monster called Grendel. In this screen adaptation, Beowulf carries a super crossbow complete with bayonets and sniper scope.
Starring: Chris Bruno
HBO CENTRAL
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HANGING UP
All their lives, Georgia (Keaton), Eve (Ryan) and Maddy's (Kudrow) father had lived a wild life and kept in touch only over the phone. When he lands up in hospital, the three daughters finally take time off their self-involved lives to cope with their long lost family and find ways to laugh despite all they've been through.
Starring: Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Diane Keaton
HAPPY FEET
In this animated movie, Mumble, the Emperor penguin has a big problem. He does not possess the ability to sing like other penguins. Instead, he can tap dance. Blamed for the poor fishing season and cast out by his community, Mumble meets new friends who accept him with open arms. With his newfound friends, Mumble goes in search of the true cause of the famine.
Starring: Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman
HE SAID, SHE SAID
Let the battle of the sexes begin as two TV commentators go at and for each other. Dan (Bacon) and Lorie (Perkins) are exact opposites on and off the air. But when the womanizing conservative and the monogamous liberal get together, it's a toss-up between love and war as they play out their rivalry in newspaper columns and TV spots.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Sharon Stone
HUSH LITTLE BABY
Two years after losing her daughter in a drowning accident, Jamie (Pratt) gives birth to a new girl, only to have her suspicions aroused after several accidents, though unproven, that her newborn baby could have been possessed by her lost daughter.
Starring: Victoria Pratt, Johana Black
I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY
Comedy superstars Adam Sandler and Kevin James team up as two straight guys who stumble down the aisle with the best of intentions. Best friends and firefighters Chuck and Larry would do anything for each other. So when Larry asks Chuck if he can be listed as his domestic partner on some insurance forms, Chuck agrees since no one will ever know. But when an overzealous fact-checker wants to confirm that the two friends aren't lying, the goons have to play the part of a happily committed gay couple - or be exposed for fraud!
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jessica Biel, Kevin James
IDLEWILD
Set in the 30’s, this musical drama chronicles the lives of two friends. One works at his father's funeral parlor in the day and is a soulful pianist at night. The other runs the joint where the pianist plays and is fighting to save his business from the clutches of the mob. Songs from Outkast contributes to this drama’s musical diversity.
Starring: Ving Rhames, Terrence Howard, Malinda Williams
IMAGINARY PLAYMATE
Following their move into a new house, Suzanne's young stepdaughter Molly makes an imaginary friend. But things get twisted when Suzanne discovers that Molly's new make-believe friend isn’t made believe after all.
Starring: Dina Meyer, Nicole Munoz, Rick Ravanello
KIDS IN THE HALL: BRAIN CANDY
Kids In The Hall is a Canadian comedy troupe that had its origins in Second City-style improv – all the female roles are played by men in drag. This cult favorite however, is not a series of sketches, but a story about a pharmaceutical company which discovers a cure for depression. When the company finds itself in financial trouble, they rush the new drug into production without doing enough testing. Things go awry when users start slipping into comas. It becomes a race between the scientists who want to tell the truth and the company's marketing department who wants to protect their margins.
Starring: Bruce McCulloch, David Foley, Kevin McDonald
LAST DAYS
Set in the grunge-era Seattle, this rock and roll drama by award-winning director, Gus Van Sant, revolves around the final moments of a rock star's life. Following the exploits of a band whose tragic trajectory closely parallels that of the legendary Nirvana, this story tries to imagine what someone in Kurt Cobain's situation might have experienced in his last days.
Starring: Lukas Haas, Michael Pitt, Asia Argento
LAST HOLIDAY
Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is a shy woman who dreams of an elegant life but is in fact just an oversized ordinary Jane. But when she is diagnosed with a terminal disease and has three weeks left to live, all hell breaks loose as Georgia pulls out all the stops for her very last holiday.
Starring: LL Cool J, Queen Latifah
LIGHTNING - THE WHITE STALLION
Mickey Rooney plays a washed-out gambler whose expensive horse is stolen by a gangster who wants the horse for himself. Enlisting the help of two friends, he goes out to beat the criminal and win his horse back.
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Susan George
LOOSE CANNONS
With a team of Hackman, Aykroyd and DeLuise, what can you expect? Nothing less than comedy at its finest. Mac Stern (Hackman) and Ellis Fielding (Aykroyd) are police partners, who in the great tradition of cop movies, are total opposites to each other. Mac is a veteran in the field, while Ellis is well, a forensics expert who is almost wonderful as a partner, except for the particular disorder of assuming different characters when he is faced with danger. So Mac is not stuck with one partner, he is stuck with a whole slew at any one time, as Ellis breaks into impressions that range from Pee Wee Herman to Popeye. Hilarious and madcap, this movie will guarantee lots of laughter.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Gene Hackman
MAKING MR. RIGHT
An uptight magazine editor (Cox) makes a bet with her best friend to turn a scruffy con-man (Cain) into her magazine's Bachelor of the Year. Upon cleaning him up, she trains him proper manners while he teaches her to let herself go, resulting in chemistry neither of them would have expected.
Starring: Dean Cain, Christina Cox
MARY REILLY
A unique spin is given to the chilling tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by telling it through the eyes of Mary Reilly (Roberts), a housemaid of Dr Henry Jekyll (Malkovich). A simple and naive woman with a past she would rather forget, Mary thinks that she has finally found a safe haven in the service of the gentle Dr. Jekyll. However, the entrance of Dr. Jekyll's mysterious assistant - Mr. Hyde, propels Mary into an internal conflict. While devoted to the brilliant Dr. Jekyll, she finds herself drawn to Mr. Hyde. As Hyde grows stronger, Jekyll weakens, and it is up to Mary to unravel the awful, unholy truth.
Starring: Michael Gambon, Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, Glenn Close
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li star as geishas in this drama which traces the life of a nine-year-old girl (Zhang) sold to a geisha house by her impoverished fishing family. Despite a treacherous rival Hatsumomo (Gong Li) who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha, Sayuri, with the help of a kind and influential gentleman (Watanabe) and geisha Mameha (Yeoh) who takes Sayuri under her wing as her protégé.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Zi Yi
MIKE'S MURDER
When an ordinary woman's lover turns up dead, curiosity propels her into a contemporary nightmare from which there's no awakening. Betty (Winger) is an unassuming bank teller whose boyfriend, a small-time drug pusher, is murdered. She decides to do some amateur sleuthing which drags her into a murky underworld of unsavory characters and the viewer into a chilling suspense film.
Starring: Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun
MUNICH
11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and this is the story of what happened next. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this gripping thriller is about the five men hired by the Israeli government for a top-secret mission to assassinate the Palestinian terrorists responsible. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler and Geoffrey Rush star in this film about tragedy, revenge and the vicious cycle of violence in the Middle East.
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig
MY BLUE HEAVEN
Steve Martin is a city mobster, Vinnie Antonelli, who has been relocated to the suburbs under the federal witness protection program. While hapless agent Barney Coopersmith (Moranis) hangs on for the ride, Vinnie finds some wise guys to hang with, romances a lady and paints the town red with his flamboyance.
Starring: Steve Martin, Joan Cusack, Rick Moranis
NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
Two mismatched LA detectives investigate a murder, and end up following a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads back to their office. That's when they realize there is a mole and they go all out to nab the crime boss- and uncover the mole.
Starring: Billy Dee Williams, Robert Carradine
OCTOBER SKY
Based on a true story, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Homer, a teenage boy who has but one future in sight: to work in the West Virginia coal mines with his father. But with the launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957, Homer becomes determined to learn all he can about rockets. With the support of a teacher and hopes for a scholarship prize at the science fair, Homer and his friends set out to build their own rocket against the wishes of the town's community.
Starring: William Lee Scott, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Owen
OLIVER'S STORY
Oliver Barrett (O'Neal) tries to pick up the pieces of his broken life after the death of his beloved Jenny in this touching sequel to Love Story. He meets Marcie Bonwit (Bergen), the direct opposite of Jenny but whom he falls in love with when she forces him to come to grips with himself.
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen
PATERNITY
In this comedy about paternal instincts, Burt Reynolds plays Buddy, a successful 44-year-old self-made bachelor who has everything but a stable relationship and a family of his own. Hilarity ensues when he hears his biological clock ticking and decides to audition for the perfect surrogate mother of his heir. That special someone is waitress and struggling music student, Maggie (D'Angelo). What starts out as a contractual relationship evolves into something more profound when Maggie and Buddy really fall for each other.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo
PERMANENT RECORD
When smart, musically talented and popular high school student David Sinclair unexpectedly commits suicide, shock and unanswered questions reverberate throughout the school. David was perfect, so where did he or his friends go wrong? His best friend, Chris Townsend (Reeves), struggles with his friend's death and asks himself if he too is capable of self-destruction.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Rubin, Alan Boyce
POSEIDON
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, this is a remake of the classic high-seas drama, The Poseidon Adventure. It's New Year's Eve, and over 2,000 people are celebrating the moment onboard a luxury cruise liner, Poseidon. At the stroke of midnight, a huge rogue wave hits the ship and rolls it upside down. Against the captain's orders to stay and wait for rescue, a group of survivors make their way out of the wreckage, determined to save themselves from an impending watery grave.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Joshua Lucas
POWER
Politics is the game and power is the prize. Director Sidney Lumet presents a provocative glimpse of how media experts have replaced the old party bosses and the press as the movers and shakers of politics in the 1980s. Most importantly, he offers viewers a portrait of what power does to those who wield it and how it changes them and those they control. Pete St. John (Gere) is the hotshot media consultant who sells his services to the highest bidder, only to learn the dangers of pursuing and having too much political power.
Starring: Richard Gere, Gene Hackman, Julie Christie
PUMPKINHEAD: ASHES TO ASHES
The mortician of a small town has been throwing bodies of the dead townsfolk into the swamp instead of giving them a proper burial. When the townsfolk discover this, they want vengeance and call upon the witch Haggis to summon the demon Pumpkinhead to their aid. But summoning a demon comes at a deadly price.
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Doug Bradley
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
The story of the traumatic childhood of writer Augusten Burroughs. After his parents' divorce, Augusten is abandoned by his mentally unstable, aspiring-poet mother and sent to live with her fraudulent psychiatrist and his nutty family. Realizing at age 13 that he is gay, he has an affair with a 33 year-old man. At 17, Augusten finally escapes the emotional chaos and moves to New York to become a writer.
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Annette Bening, Brian Cox
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
Tony Manero (Travolta) is a regular Joe who spends six days a week working in a Manhattan paint store. He spends the remaining one night ruling the disco floor - his only escape from his monotonous job and a demanding family. There, he meets Stephanie, a young woman with the moves to match his. When they dance together, something electrifying happens. They both decide to enter the local disco competition, and while going through the motions, the two discover that they may have more in common than just the bell-bottoms, the hair and the slick moves.
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Gorney, Donna Pescow
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Director for Steven Spielberg, this film authentically recreates the setting and the horror of D-Day in Normandy. The story centers on the mission to recover one soldier — Private Ryan (Damon). Dropped behind enemy lines, his survival is crucial since three of his brothers have already died in previous battles. An eight-man team, led by Captain John Miller (Hanks) must conquer their individual fears and rescue a soldier who is after all, just a name to them. Hanks earned an Oscar nomination for his powerful performance as the woeful veteran whose only real goal is to return home to his wife.
Starring: Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore
SECOND SIGHT
Jenny Morris has an unusual talent - psychic visions of murders! The first time she had one was in her childhood when she “saw” her best friend killed. When no one believed her, she suffered a nervous breakdown. Years later as she tries to rebuild a normal life, the visions return. This time, she is determined not to just let another murder happen. She teams up with the brother of her slain friend to track down the killer before he strikes again.
Starring: Bronson Pinchot, John Larroquette
SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN
An engaging comedy-drama about the coming-of-age and growing pains of three Ohio teenagers. Beautiful, brainy Natalie (Connelly) gives up her virginity to her "soul mate", while boy-crazy Polly wants to be the next President of the United States and rebellious Jeff (Thames) runs away from home.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Byron Thames
SHY PEOPLE
Writer Diana Sullivan (Clayburgh) wants to remove her drug-addict daughter Grace (Plimpton) from the corruptive environs of Manhattan. When assigned to write an article about family trees, Diana takes her daughter, heads to Louisiana, to seek out an elusive great-uncle, hoping to give Grace a new start in life.
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh
SOLDIER
Set in the post apocalyptic future, Sgt. Todd 3465 (Russell) is a veteran soldier who becomes obsolete and is replaced by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers. The deadliest of these is Caine 607 (Lee). Dumped on a remote planet inhabited by a peaceful group of lost and forgotten pioneers, Todd must now defend the settlers from Caine 607 and his deadly squad of soldiers.
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT
When the perfect wife, Grace (Roberts), discovers that her husband Eddie (Quaid) has been cheating on her, she takes their daughter with her and leaves him, seeking refuge at Grace's parents' home. Grace is surprised when she doesn't get any tears of sympathy from her father, a rich horseman, Wyly King (Duvall); her mother, Georgia (Rowlands); or her cynical and hard-nosed sister, Emma Rae (Kyra Sedgwick). Instead, Grace's parents tell her to go back to Eddie. Grace's dysfunctional relationship with her family nonetheless spurs her to lick her wounds and fight back with class, style and a sense of humor.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall
SUPERMAN RETURNS
After spending five years in space searching for the planet Krypton, Superman returns to Earth to find Lois Lane engaged and the evil Lex Luthor still at work, swindling a terminally ill old woman. But Luthor has bigger plans — he wants to build a new continent which will wipe out most of North America. Can Superman stop him and win back the love of Lois?
Starring: Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Brandon Routh
TEA WITH MUSSOLINI
An orphan boy is raised by an eccentric group of women in 1930s Florence who teach him about art, love, passion for living, and humanity as they weather the rise of fascism, the menacing political climate and personal heartbreaks.
Starring: Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright
TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF DESTINY
Funnymen Jack Black and Kyle Glass team up in this comedy about two guys who come together to form the world’s greatest band. But to make it work, they must first go on a quest to get the fabled (guitar) Pick Of Destiny housed in a museum.
Starring: Jack Black, Kyle Glass
TEQUILA SUNRISE
Mel Gibson plays a cop and Kurt Russell a drug dealer desperate to get out of the business. Both of them fall for the same woman (Pfeiffer). When word gets around that a big deal is going down with a drug lord, personal loyalties and individual honor become sources of conflict.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell
THE GOONIES
Enter a thrilling world of sunken treasure and hidden passageways echoing with breathless underground chases in this delightfully zany family adventure. A bunch of children need to find money to stop greedy land developers from taking over their home. Armed with only a baffling treasure map, they embark upon a search for a legendary cache of jewels. Produced by Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Sean Astin, Corey Feldman
THE HUNT FOR THE BTK KILLER
This is the true story about the serial killer who terrorized Wichita, Kansas for 30 years before he was finally caught by the police.
Starring: Robert Forster, Maury Chaykin
THE LAST SUPPER
Five students invite a stranger for dinner, only to accidentally kill him when he starts to threaten them with his view and hunting knife. Now with a corpse on their hands, the friends decide that killing someone to make a statement is, in fact, not that hard, and that perhaps it is worth defending their viewpoints to the death. Just who can save their next dinner guest from becoming the next corpse?
Starring: Bill Paxton, Cameron Diaz, Jason Alexander
THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS
Steve Martin is a world famous neuro-surgeon who has invented a few bizarre methods of surgery. While being in an unhappy marriage, he falls in love with a brain in a jar. He must find a new home for it. The perfect setting for a zany, madcap, screwball comedy.
Starring: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
An eighteenth century castle, hidden from the world. A costume ball about to begin. And a masked murderer, eager to teach the guests a new tango of terror. In this modern adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's original horror classic, unsuspecting guests find themselves worm-bait in a deadly game of hide and seek, and a by-the-numbers killing spree. Not wanting the suspense to kill them, the guest list gets shortened quickly. Does remaining survivor Rebecca have what it takes to confront The Masque Of The Red Death? What will be her fate? Survivor or statistic?
Starring: Frank Stallone, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro
THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES
Columbia professor Rose Morgan (Streisand) enters into a unique marital agreement with her colleague, Gregory Larkin (Bridges). The terms of the agreement being - intellect and camaraderie can supplant sexual passion. But things heat up when she undergoes a makeover which transplants her into a raving beauty.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Bridges, Barbra Streisand
THE MUMMY
Rick O'Connell (Fraser) is a dashing legionnaire who stumbles upon the ruins of an ancient Egyptian city where an evil high priest, Imhotep (Vosloo), has been buried, cursed to remain undead for all eternity for indulging in a love affair with the Pharaoh's mistress. O'Connell finds himself in an uneasy alliance with a beautiful, but clumsy Egyptologist, Evelyn (Weisz), only to discover that Imhotep intends to use Evelyn's body as a host for his long-lost paramour, the Pharaoh's mistress. It is up to O'Connell and Evelyn's brother, Jonathan (Hannah), to prevent the total regeneration of Imhotep, and to keep Evelyn from becoming an unwilling bride.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo, John Hannah
THE PEST
When you accept $50,000 to be a human target, it's best to be a moving target. That's what Miami scam artist Pest Vargas (Leguizamo) realizes when he is on the run from the Scottish mob and a German headhunter. Once the chase is on, he uses his wits and wiles to don multiple personalities to save his skin, regardless of who he offends in the process.
Starring: John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Dashing pirates and their lovely lasses take you along for a rollicking good time in the film version of Broadway's long-running hit by Gilbert and Sullivan. Kevin Kline plays the fiery pirate king ever ready to brandish his sword for a rousing duel. As young lovers, rock stars Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith sparkle in their crossover to the jazzed-up version of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta. Angela Lansbury stars as the nanny of the bumbling pirate band.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt
THE PRESTIGE
Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale star as friends and fellow magicians who become bitter enemies after a sudden tragedy. As the two devote their lives to a rivalry played out on the London stage, the sacrifices they make take them to the pinnacle of fame — with terrible consequences.
Starring: Michael Caine, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale
THE SECRET GARDEN
When ten year-old Mary's parents are killed in India, she's sent to live in her uncle's gloomy old mansion. Though her life there seems gloomy, she soon discovers an abandoned, locked garden. Aided by a local boy, she nurtures the garden -and her sickly cousin -back to glorious, blooming life.
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Kate Maberly
THE SENDER
A frightened patient in a mental institution transmits his thoughts and ghoulish nightmares into the minds of others. But who is he? He has lost his money, has no I.D. and is in the grip of powers he doesn't understand.
Starring: Kathryn Harrold, Shirley Knight, Zeljko Ivanek
THE SOPRANOS 39: THE ARMY OF ONE
In the season three finale, yet another academic misstep by AJ forces his parents to seriously contemplate a military-school alternative. Tony orders Ralph to deal personally with the Jackie Jr. situation, and later seems to take Ralph's side in a money dispute with Paulie. Once again, the family gathers in Artie Bucco's restaurant, where Meadow is forced to reflect on what it means to live, and die, in the Soprano family.
THE SOPRANOS 40: FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
With the slowing economy affecting business, New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano invests in a potentially lucrative land deal, while his wife Carmela frets about the family's long-term financial security. Problems abound among Tony's crime family as well: Uncle Junior worries about his pending RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) trial; Adriana confides in her new friend Danielle, who may be an undercover FBI agent and Christopher sets his sights on avenging an old murder.
THE SOPRANOS 41: NO-SHOW
With Paulie in jail, Christopher acts as capo, but he gets off to a bad start with Patsy. Still troubled by Jackie Jr.'s death, Meadow contemplates taking a year off from college to travel. Meanwhile, Adriana is in a bind after ending her friendship with Danielle, and Silvio discusses a misunderstanding at the Newark riverfront construction site.
THE SOPRANOS 42: CHRISTOPHER
Silvio and Ralph must deal with a planned protest of the Columbus Day parade by a Native American group. At an Italian Pride ladies' lunch, Carmela is embarrassed by anti-mafia remarks. Meanwhile, Ralph deals with new relationship troubles and Bobby receives some tough news.
THE SOPRANOS 43: THE WEIGHT
A disparaging remark about his wife sets Johnny Sack off on a personal vendetta. Meadow decides to volunteer at South Bronx Law Center. Furio hosts a housewarming party for the gang; Silvio and Chris make an offer to an old-time hit man named Lou DiMaggio; and Tony and Carmela find themselves at odds over the family's bill – consolidation strategy.
THIR13EN GHOSTS
Upon his Uncle Cyrus' mysterious death, a widowed teacher, Arthur Kriticos (Shalhoub), inherits a luxurious mansion which was once the home to Cyrus. As Arthur and his family moves into their strange new home, they encounter vengeful entities that threaten to annihilate anyone in their path. Soon, Arthur is joined by ghost hunter, Dennis (Lillard), and ghost "liberator", Kalina (Davidtz). Caught in a frantic race to save himself and his family, Arthur soon realizes the house is a riddle which contains the key to their salvation – or destruction.
Starring: Matthew Lillard, Tony Shalhoub, Shannon Elizabeth
TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY
Letting go is harder for some people than it is for others. For David Lewis (Gallagher), it's impossible. He refuses to accept the fact that his wife, Gillian (Pfeiffer), has died tragically, so much so that she even appears to return to him from beyond the grave. As the family celebrates the Labor Day weekend, relationships are re-examined and truths revealed. When David discovers that his obsession with Gillian is about to damage his precious relationship with his daughter Rachel (Danes), he realizes that he must do something to regain his daughter's love, even if it means letting go of his beloved Gillian.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Peter Gallagher
VAMPIRE BATS
Insect specialist-cum-college professor Maddy Rierdon (Lawless) gets suspicious when a student is found dead with all his blood drained and covered with mysterious puncture marks. Maddy investigates and discover a group of mutated vampire bats. Can she stop them before they kill everyone?
Starring: Lucy Lawless, Dylan Neal, Liam Waite
VISION QUEST
Eighteen year-old Louden Swain is determined to lose 23 pounds to make it into the high-school wrestling team. His opponent: the human-battering ram, Shute. Enter Louden's self-appointed half-Indian spiritual advisor, Kuch, who puts his young friend's problem in perspective. According to Kuch, Louden is on what a vision quest, an attempt to gain communion with the 'Everywhere Spirit' and find his place in the eternal circle. But Louden gets distracted from his mission when he falls for an older woman, Carla.
Starring: Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Follow the chains of events as Wallace and Gromit race to prevent a monstrous herbivore from chomping down on the town’s vegetable harvest before their annual vegetable competition.
WYATT EARP
Kevin Costner stars in a sweeping epic of the transformation of a country. In the tumultuous years that take him from a secure family life to the frontiers of America, Earp grows from an innocent boy to a hardened lawman, transformed by the land he walks. But Earp's unflinching loyalty to his brothers and their dreams brings great joy – and ultimately great tragedy – to the man destined to become one of the West's most enduring legends.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman
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