8/26/2008
HBO Asia Synopses - Month of September 2008
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A VERY BRADY CHRISTMAS
Deck the halls with love and laughter as the Brady Bunch is back for Christmas in this warm and wonderful two hour special featuring all of the characters from the popular series – plus their new families!
Starring: Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, Ann Davis
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
ARE WE DONE YET?
Are We Done Yet? is a follow-up to the hilarious 2005 family comedy Are We There Yet? Now married to Suzanne (Long), Nick Persons (Ice Cube) has bought a quiet suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids, Lindsey and Kevin. But when his new home quickly becomes a costly “fixer upper” and he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor (John C. McGinley), Nick’s suburban dream soon becomes a riotous nightmare.
Starring: Ice Cube, Nia Long
BARNYARD
In this delightful animated feature, Otis is a carefree cow who parties all night with his friends until his "Sheriff" father is murdered by a pack of coyotes. Now, Otis must step into the shoes of his dad and protect the animal town from the vicious predators.
BEBE'S KIDS
In this sassy, animated funfest, Robin Harris spends a day at an amusement park with a woman, Jamika, whom he's trying to impress, together with her son. What he doesn't count on is her neighbor Bebe's three pint-sized terrors tagging along who turn the place upside down. With the voices of Faizon Love, Nell Carter and Tone Loc.
Starring: Faizon Love
BEVERLY HILLS NINJA
An American child falls overboard an ocean liner and washes up in Japan. He is prophesized to be the child destined to lead an elite group of Japanese warriors. The child grows up and is named Haru (Farley), but is hardly brave or skilled - he's fat, clumsy and not too bright. One day, Alison Page (Sheridan) hires Haru to protect her from her criminal boyfriend and his Yakuza associates. When she disappears, Haru finds a matchbook that says "Beverly Hills" and decides to try and find Alison there.
Starring: Nicollette Sheridan, Robin Shou, Chris Farley
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
BLOOD TIES
Set in modern-day Sicily, an American Naval engineer must kill his uncle to save his father's life when he enters the secret violent underworld of the Sicilian Mafia.
Starring: Vincent Spano, Brad Davis, Tony Lo Bianco
BLUE THUNDER
The super-chopper "Blue Thunder" can zip through the skies at 200 mph, or record a lover's whisper through condominium walls! Officer Frank Murphy (Scheider), pilot of this futuristic police helicopter, uncovers a devious plot to turn this crime-fighting machine against an unsuspecting city.
Starring: Warren Oates, Roy Scheider, Daniel Stern
BOB ROBERTS
A wealthy politician, Bob Roberts, appears on the surface as a sincere believer in national pride and family values. In truth, he is a hypocrite unearthed by Raplin (Esposito), a reporter for an underground newspaper. Bob Roberts is a treasure for anyone who has sat through one too many "promise-them-anything" campaign speeches.
Starring: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Sarandon
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Based on Dee Brown's bestseller, this HBO Original Movie powerfully explores the tragic impact that the United States' westward expansion had on the American Indian culture, and the economic, political and social pressures that motivated it.
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, Anna Paquin
CANNONBALL RUN II
When an Arab sheik offers a million dollars to the person who zips from California to Connecticut fastest by car, it's fortune first, scruples later. Faster than a blink, a motley crew of rich-wannabes rev up their speed machines and start burning the rubber off their spare tires for a shot at some serious cash. Featuring comedy big-wigs Burt Reynolds, Jamie Farr, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra, this wacky ride sticks your nose where the rubber meets the road, and packs enough star power to come in first-place in any race.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Chan, Marilu Henner
CAPTAIN AMERICA
During WWII, the young and sickly Steve Rogers (Salinger) is miraculously transformed into Captain America in an experiment to create a super-soldier. He discovers that the Nazi super villain The Red Skull is planning to bomb the White House. In his confrontation with the Red Skull, Captain America is defeated, frozen, buried and left to die in Alaska. Fifty years on, the Captain is found alive, thawed and put back into action to stop the Red Skull once again – this time to prevent the villain from kidnapping the US President and fitting him with a mind-control implant.
Starring: Ned Beatty, Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox
CASPER
Kat (Ricci) and her eccentric dad, Dr. James Harvey (Pullman), a self-styled 'ghost therapist', shows up on the doorstep of the dilapidated Whipstaff Manor. Hired by Whipstaff's scheming owner, Carrigan (Moriarty), Dr. Harvey has to exorcise the manor of a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper, and his three incorrigibly odious uncles, so that she can get her hands on the macabre manor's fabled treasure. As the ill-mannered ghosts go out of their way to scare the 'fleshies', Casper finds himself becoming best friends with Kat in this funny and lively story.
Starring: Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman
CHARLIE'S ANGELS
In this revival of the classic TV series, Natalie (Diaz), Dylan (Barrymore) and Alex (Liu) work their butts off to fight evil for their invisible boss, Charlie, together with the help of John Bosley (Murray). Electronics genius, Eric Knox (Rockwell), has been kidnapped and his up-to-no-good kidnappers have plenty in mind for the whiz kid's latest invention: a device that can monitor voice communications from anywhere in the world. The Angels are unleashed to help restore order and find Knox’s kidnappers in this action-packed, fun flick.
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu
CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO
All football team owner Bert Waters (Kennedy) has to do to inherit a million bucks is to put himself in the driver's seat and take the Chattanooga Choo Choo from New York to Chattanooga, Tennessee in the next 24 hours. Not wanting to brave the journey alone, Bert gets everyone in on the act - his girlfriend Maggie (Eden), his entire football team complete with coach, and even the Choo Choo cheerleaders. As the guest list grows, so does the chaos on board and what started out as a cruise to a million dollars quickly becomes a crazy railroad trip!
Starring: George Kennedy, Barbara Eden, Melissa Sue Anderson
CLEAVERVILLE
A simple swindle gone wrong forces Grace (Carradine) to take off with a bag of diamonds and seek refuge at her estranged mother Kay's (Rose) home, only to face her daughter, Laura (Savasta), whom she left with Kay fifteen years ago.
Starring: Gabrielle Rose, Ever Carradine
CLICK
Architect Michael Newman is a loving father and husband but work and climbing the corporate ladder have made him neglect his family. One day, he stumbles upon a remote control that has the ability to control his universe. This seems like a godsend at first, until the remote starts controlling his life.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale
COBRA
Sylvester Stallone stars as Marion Cobretti, aka Cobra, who is sent to investigate a spate of random murders happening in the city. The "murderer" turns out to be a covert group of trained assassins with ties to the police force. However, they make a big mistake in leaving a witness to their crime alive. To fulfill his mission and protect the witness, Cobra must become a one-man army against the legion of assassins.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen
CONNORS' WAR
After losing his eyesight during a sabotaged CIA operation, Special Agent Connors (Criss) agrees to be injected with an experimental serum that promises to cure his blindness. Armed with new extraordinary abilities, Connors successfully completes a daring mission for his former mentor, only to discover he has been tricked into stealing a deadly chemical bomb intended for a twisted act of terrorism.
Starring: Anthony "treach" Criss, Nia Peeples
COPS AND ROBBERSONS
The Robbersons are your typical, average 90s suburban family. Norman Robberson (Chase) is an accountant hooked on TV cop shows and Helen (Wiest) is a housewife-with-an-attitude. Things take an interesting turn when hard-nosed, no-nonsense cop Jake Stone (Palance) enters their lives to nail the mobster living next door to the Robbersons! Stone's stakeout with the Robbersons soon leads to hilarious results!
Starring: Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest
DEAD SILENCE
The creators of "Saw" bring you this chilling, supernatural thriller. Dead Silence is set in Ravens Fair, a small town haunted by late night whispers and ghost stories of generations past. But when a grieving widower returns here for his wife's funeral, he begins to uncover the truth behind her mysterious death and how it may relate to Ravens Fair's own history - a history that includes a psychotic ventriloquist-ghost and her lifelike "dummy".
Starring: Donnie Wahlberg, Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta
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
ELECTION
When two-faced Tracy Flick (Witherspoon) decides to run for student body president, teacher supervisor Jim McAllister (Broderick) decides to generate some competition against her. He enlists the help of a dumb varsity football player Paul (Klein) to contest against her. What follows is one of the funniest, shrewdest and smartest satires in recent memory.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon
FIELD OF DREAMS
A struggling farmer Ray Kinsella (Costner) gets a calling one day from above to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. As the weeks go by, Ray receives several other messages, realizing that his field has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain values in their lives.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan
FIREFOX
America's ace pilot penetrates Russian security and races against time to steal the heavily guarded Firefox, a dexterous aircraft which can fly at six times the speed of sound. A spectacular thousand-mile dogfight climaxes this action adventure directed by Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, David Huffman
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
Filmmaking legends Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood team up for the first time to tell the unforgettable story of the grueling World War II battle for the island of Iwo Jima – a turning point in the war for control over the Pacific. The battle produced one of the war's most enduring images: a photograph of six US soldiers raising an American flag on the top of Mt Suribachi. A tragic depiction of an epic struggle that would cost the lives of thousands of Japanese and American soldiers based on the best-selling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers.
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, Jesse Bradford
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 01: SALLY
Transplanted New Zealanders Bret and Jemaine – a.k.a. Flight of the Conchords – have been living in NYC awhile but their quest for “hot women” and a music career remains a work in progress. At a friend’s bohemian party, Jemaine spies Sally, “the most beautiful girl in the room”, and ends up singing and dancing his way to her side.
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 02: BRET GIVES UP THE DREAM
Bret’s commitment to his new day job forces Jemaine to play at a gig with a tape recording of Bret. That doesn't work out and instead, prompts Jemaine and Murray to search for a more reliable replacement.
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 03: MUGGED
Jemaine and Bret are mugged by a “gang” of two thugs. The boys make a run for it after a song, “Hiphopopotamus vs. The Rhymenocerous”, fails to fill their attackers with fear. Bret abandons Jemaine after the latter gets tangled in a fence and, Bret fears the worst when Jemaine doesn’t turn up for two days.
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 04: YOKO
Bret’s girlfriend Coco threatens the Conchords’ fragile chemistry, not to mention the devotion of its lone fan, Mel. Jemaine accuses Coco of being Yoko-esque, prompting Bret’s angry departure. Ultimately, recognizing his partner is indispensable, Jemaine tracks down Bret to ask him back in the band – under one condition.
FREEDOM WRITERS
Inspired by a true story and the diaries of Long Beach teenagers after the LA riots. Hilary Swank stars as Erin Gruwell, whose passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of racially disparate students who hate her even more than they hate each other. When Erin shows them respect - something they never had from a teacher, these teens experience a hope that their lives matter and that they have something to say.
Starring: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, J. Hernandez
GREMLINS
Whatever you do, don't let them near water and never feed them past midnight! Produced by Academy Award® winning Steven Spielberg, Gremlins is about a small town plagued by hordes of nasty little creatures out to destroy everything and everyone in sight. Special effects take center stage as the marauding gremlins grow, multiply and wreak havoc all around.
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan
GRIDIRON GANG
Deep in the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, an ex-football star turned supervisor, Sean Porter (Johnson) identifies with the lack of discipline and self-esteem that plague many of the teenagers in the center. He proposes the formation of a football team with the support of his superiors, transforming the lives of the kids by instilling values of responsibility and team unity through football.
Starring: Vanessa Ferlito, Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, Xzibit
GROUNDHOG DAY
Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a cynical weatherman nobody likes. Then, something extraordinary happens when he and the crew are in the small town of Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day. While reporting on an over-sized squirrel that can predict the weather, he finds himself caught in a peculiar time warp where he lives out the same day over and over again. The film traces Phil’s descent into hopelessness and his eventual transformation, including a romance with the bubbly Rita (MacDowell). Murray’s chemistry with MacDowell is just one of the highlights of this entertaining feel-good tale.
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
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.
HOLLOW MAN
Sebastian Caine (Bacon) is a highly gifted scientist heading a top-secret research outfit that develops a serum that allows the user to become completely invisible. Linda McKay (Shue) is his ex-girlfriend and team-mate. Following extraordinary results on animals, Caine disregards strict orders from the Pentagon and experiments with the serum on himself. To his horror, he finds that he cannot come back from his invisible state. Caine goes on a reckless rampage, resorting to murder to hide reality. Here is a thriller that concludes that what you see is not what you get.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue
HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT
Winona Ryder plays Finn, a Berkeley graduate student who decides to spend the summer at the home of her grandmother, Hy (Burstyn) and her extended family – a group of women collectively known as the Grasse Quilting Bee. Finn is there to seek some peace and quiet in which she can write her thesis, and to consider a marriage proposal. In the solace of Hy's home, the women of the Quilting Bee relate to Finn the stories of the loves that shaped their lives - tales of love, betrayal, joy and heartbreak, each as individual as the women themselves.
Starring: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou
INTERSECTION
Wealthy architect Vincent Eastman (Gere) is torn between his beautiful but passive wife of 16 years, Sally (Stone), and his sizzling hot mistress Olivia (Davidovich) in this probing, mature drama. Will he make the right choice?
Starring: Lolita Davidovich, Richard Gere, Sharon Stone
K-9
Thomas Dooley (Belushi) is a cop with a problem - his fellow officers think he's too crazy to partner with. In comes Jerry Lee, Dooley's new partner with the best nose for drug-busting, except that Lee is a well trained German Shepherd K-9 police dog! Together, they become the best drug-busting team in town!
Starring: James Belushi, Mel Harris
LES MISERABLES (1998)
Set in the tumultuous backdrop of early 19th century France, this epic story tells the tale of Jean Valjean, who is condemned to an unjust prison sentence. Valjean escapes and leads a life on the run till he falls in love with the beautiful Fantine. He devotes himself to caring for Fantine and her daughter, Cosette. Javert, a policeman whose lifelong search for Valjean turned into an obsession, finally gets to meet the man he hunted in a bloody 1832 revolution during a rescue of Marius, Cosette’s lover.
Starring: Uma Thurman, Geoffrey Rush, Liam Neeson
LET'S GET HARRY
Both the US ambassador and an American engineer, Harry Burke Jr. (Harmon), are taken hostage and held for ransom in Columbia. Harry’s brother and friends take things into their own hands by hiring a mercenary soldier (Duvall) to lead a rescue mission. Now, five ordinary guys from Illinois have to become commandos. Armed with nothing but courage, they head deep into the jungles in order to bring Harry home.
Starring: Mark Harmon, Robert Duvall
LITTLE MAN
A small-sized jewel thief, Calvin (Marlon Wayans), disguises himself as a toddler to retrieve the diamond he hid with a childless couple, Daryl (Shawn Wayans) and Vanessa. But when Calvin's boss tracks him and the couple down, Calvin and Daryl must team up for a bigger purpose.
Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans
LONGFORD
Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton star in this HBO Original Movie based on a true story of a respected politician who stakes his name and career to campaign for a notorious serial killer.
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Samantha Morton
LOST & FOUND
David Spade (Black Sheep) is Dylan, your average guy next door. However, when the beautiful Lila (Marceau) moves in as his new neighbor, Dylan’s raging hormones make him lose control of all rational thought. Dylan hatches a scheme to win Lila’s heart – by kidnapping her dog. By finding Lila’s missing pooch, Dylan hopes to win a spot in Lila’s heart. However, Dylan’s wacky scheme starts to unravel before it even begins. Throw in a jealous former boyfriend, a missing anniversary ring, Neil Diamond, dessert swans and surly loan officers, and what you have is the right ingredients for a side-splitting comedy.
Starring: David Spade, Sophie Marceau
MONSTER HOUSE
In this animated movie, 12 year-old DJ and his friend Chowder learn that the house across the street is a monster that eats anything that trespasses on its lawn. DJ then comes up with a plan to destroy the house by striking at its heart – the basement furnace. But their plan is foiled when the house comes alive and starts to chase them down the street!
MOTIVES 2: RETRIBUTION
Three years after Emery Simms was wrongfully imprisoned for murder, his best friend Brandon and ex-wife Connie (Fox) get married and lead a successful life with their restaurant and club. Their lives changes dramatically when Simms is killed in prison and evidence suggests Brandon is involved. Emery's brother Donovan (White) arrives to unearth the truth, and lands himself in danger.
Starring: Vivica A. Fox, Brian White
MUSIC AND LYRICS
Hugh Grant stars as Alex Fletcher, a washed up '80s pop star who gets a chance at a comeback when a reigning pop diva invites him to write and record a duet with her. Alex hasn't written a song in years, he's never written lyrics, and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days. Enter Sophie Fisher (Barrymore), whose flair for words strikes a chord with the struggling songwriter. On the rebound from a bad relationship, Sophie is reluctant to collaborate with anyone, especially with a commitment-phobic Alex. Now Alex and Sophie will have to face their fears — and the music — to find the love and success they both deserve.
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant
NUTS
Claudia Draper (Streisand) is a high-priced call girl who murders one of her clients. Though her parents try to convince her to cop a plea of insanity, she refuses to use the easy way out. Her lawyer, Aaron Levinsky (Dreyfuss), must convince the court of her competence, yet at the same time, help her to gain her freedom.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Barbra Streisand
OPEN SEASON
When a 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog and a scrawny one-horned mule deer named Elliot become stranded in the woods during hunting season, it's up to the duo to rally all the other forest animals and turn the tables on the hunters.
OUTLAND
Marshall O'Neil (Connery) knows about living life in limbo — his wife left him and had taken their son along with her, and he's stranded in a forgotten mining town on one of Jupiter’s moons. But there's more to worry about when the miners start killing themselves in bizarre ways. His investigations into their deaths lead him to discover that their mine boss, Sheppard (Boyle), has been keeping his workers on overtime by feeding them a work-enhancing drug with deadly side-effects.
Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle
P.O.W. THE ESCAPE
An American colonel taken prisoner in Vietnam helps lead an escape in this action film. David Carradine stars as Colonel Cooper, an American soldier captured while fighting the Viet Cong. When Vietnamese captor Captain Vinh gets word of a government plot to kill the Colonel and himself, Vinh decides to take his chances with the American by offering an escape route for the prisoners of war in return for passage to the US.
Starring: David Carradine, Mako
PALE RIDER
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this two-fisted, pistol-packed adventure as The Preacher, a stranger who rides into town to save the day, in the tradition of the great Hollywood westerns. The Preacher visits a gold rush town ruled by a corrupt banker. Will he be able to help the terrorized miners whose land is threatened by the robber baron?
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress
PERFECT STRANGER
When her friend's affair with married ad exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) ends in the woman’s murder, investigative reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) vows to bring the killer to justice. Suspecting Hill of the crime, she goes undercover by posing as two highly alluring women: Katherine, a sexy temp who works within his agency, and Veronica, a seductive temptress he chats up online. Engaging in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, both Rowena and Hill begin to realize things may not be as what they seem.
Starring: Halle Berry, Giovanni Ribisi, Bruce Willis
POLICE ACADEMY 4 CITIZENS ON PATROL
Yes, the boobs in blue are back. They’re training teenage skateboarders, little old ladies and minor offenders as volunteer aides. Crime fighting may never be the same again! Steve Guttenberg (Three Men and a Baby) again leads the pack as the likable Mahoney. With Bubba Smith and Michael Winslow.
Starring: Michael Winslow, Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith
RACE THE SUN
The kids from detention become a team in contention! Calling themselves 'lolos' ('lowly locals' in Hawaiian slang), they have endured life's hard knocks and have nothing to look forward to until their new teacher Miss Sandra Beecher (Berry) arrives. She actually thinks they can learn something in school. Spurred on by her encouragement, the lolos decide to build a solar-powered car. When they decide to take the car all the way across the Australian continent, it's time to cheer them on.
Starring: Halle Berry, Jim Belushi, Casey Affleck
RUNNING SCARED
When a stowaway unknowingly photographs a secret US military base, he and his friend find themselves pursued by an intelligence agent who believes that they are spies.
Starring: Judge Reinhold, Ken Wahl
RUSH HOUR
When a Chinese Consul's eleven-year-old daughter is kidnapped by a gang of antique smugglers in Los Angeles, Detective Inspector Lee (Chan) flies in to handle the case. However, the FBI is not willing to have an outsider interfere with their investigations and decides to distract him with LAPD's finest - and most notorious - detective, James Carter (Tucker). Reluctant partners at first, they eventually overcome their cultural and personality differences to take on the criminal mastermind behind the abduction. Expect a roller-coaster ride as Jackie supplies the punches and Chris the punchlines - it's a hilariously explosive combination!
Starring: Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan
SAHARA
Blistering heat, a despicable rival and feuding nomadic tribes can't keep a beautiful woman from taking the desert by storm. The sexy Brooke Shields stars as a headstrong American heiress who takes part in an international car race in the Sahara desert. She is caught between her commitment to her late father's lifelong dream and her passion for a dashing young sheik. Can the resourceful young woman find a way to keep her promise to her father without losing her heart's desire?
Starring: Brooke Shields, Lambert Wilson
SHORT CIRCUIT 2
Remember that clever, lovable robot, Number 5? He and his human buddy, Ben, are now in New York, where Ben peddles miniature models of his mechanical wonder. Thieves trick "Five" into helping in a gem heist, but the mechanical wonder isn't about to be outsmarted for long!
Starring: Michael McKean, Fisher Stevens, Cynthia Gibb
SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL
Sensitive artist-wannabe and social misfit Keith (Stoltz) goes all out to win the heart of the school's most popular girl Amanda (Thompson), though his chances do not look bright. He enlists the help of his best pal, tomboy and fellow misfit Watts (Masterson), who hides her true feelings for him to help him win Amanda’s heart. When he finally succeeds, he realizes that the person he truly loves is someone much closer to him.
Starring: Mary Stuart Masterson, Eric Stoltz
SOMETHING NEW
A successful corporate black accountant is going to be made a partner at her firm, though in her personal life, she doesn’t have much success in finding one for herself. She has had her last straw spending another Valentine's Day working late and goes for a blind date with a white landscaper. She rejects him initially but sparks start to fly when she turns to him for help with her own landscaping.
Starring: Simon Baker, Sanaa Lathan
STAR TREK INSURRECTION
From the beginning of the Federation, the Prime Directive was clear: no Starfleet expedition may interfere with the natural development of other civilizations. Picard is confronted with orders that undermine that decree. If he obeys, 600 peaceful residents of Ba'ku will be forcibly removed from their remarkable world, all for the reportedly greater good of millions who will benefit from Ba'ku's Fountain of Youth-like powers. If he disobeys, he will risk his Starship, his career, his life. But for Picard, there's really only one choice. He must rebel against Starfleet… and lead the insurrection to preserve Paradise.
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes
STRANGER THAN FICTION
Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, an IRS Agent whose world is turned upside-down when he begins to hear his life being chronicled by a narrator only he can hear. The Narrator, a nearly forgotten author of tragic novels, is struggling to complete her latest and best book, unaware that her protagonist is alive and uncontrollably guided by her words. When Harold hears that she intends to kill him off, he decides to take charge and tries to change the ending.
Starring: Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Will Ferrell
SWORD OF THE VALIANT
A bold and gallant knight of King Arthur volunteers to fight an evil magician in this colorful fantasy adventure. Miles O'Keefe is noble Sir Gawain, whose mortal adversary is the tricky Green Knight, played by Sean Connery. Trevor Howard co-stars as Arthur.
Starring: Sean Connery, Miles O'Keefe
THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE
A space hero. A beautiful school teacher. A marriage made in the stars, and a lifetime to discover their love - all that abruptly ends in two minutes. During his last mission in deep space, astronaut Spencer Armacost (Depp) blacks out. After that, nothing about him is the same. He hides a horrifying secret - he has been taken over by something evil. Spencer's wife, Jillian (Theron), begins having strange dreams related to the horrifying truth. When she becomes pregnant, she realizes it's not a baby that she's carrying inside her body, but something far more sinister.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron
THE BONE COLLECTOR
The Manhattan Murderer is leaving bony fragments of clues behind after his killings. It's up to Lincoln Rhymes (Washington), a New York detective specializing in forensics, and rookie street cop Amelia (Jolie) to see if they have the mind and the stomach to trail the clues. But an injury sustained in the line of duty leaves Rhymes a quadriplegic; his arms and legs useless. Amelia must become his hands and feet, and he, her mind. But will it be enough to decipher the clues in time to find the next victim before the killer does?
Starring: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
Matt Damon returns as the trained assassin Jason Bourne in the third explosive installment of this smash hit espionage thriller series. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, Bourne is forced to hunt down his past in order to find a future. Traveling from Moscow, Paris and London to Tangier and New York City, he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne - all the while trying to outmaneuver the scores of cops, federal officers and Interpol agents who have him in their crosshairs.
Starring: Matt Damon, David Strathairn, Julia Stiles
THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
Beth (Pfeiffer) is struggling to find a balance between raising three children and a photography career. At a high school reunion, she takes her eyes off three-year-old Ben, and he mysteriously disappears. A frantic search for him proves to be futile. Over time, Beth learns to cope with the tragedy. Nine years later, a boy the same age as Ben would have been turns up at her doorstep. Based on the bestselling novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard, this compelling drama costars Whoopi Goldberg as a detective who refuses to let the case go.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Whoopi Goldberg, Treat Williams
THE DEVIL'S OWN
Two countries, two men, two opposite ways to do the right thing. In strife-torn Northern Ireland, terrorist Rory Devaney (Pitt) does not hesitate to shoot and kill in the name of what he believes. In New York, a cop, Tom O'Meara (Ford), will shoot only in the direst of emergencies. The two meet when Rory goes to the Big Apple on a mission. He takes refuge in Tom's house, under the guise of an innocent man. But Rory's world is too violent and Tom's house is too peaceful, and soon this unlikely juxtaposition erupts in conflict.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford
THE GREAT GATSBY
The 20s never roared louder than in this sumptuously romantic retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic. Robert Redford stars as Jay Gatsby, who once loved beautiful, pampered Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), but lost her to a rich boy. Now Gatsby is mysteriously wealthy and ready to risk everything to woo Daisy back.
Starring: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black
THE HITCHER
Going on a road trip during their spring break, college students Grace Andrews (Bush) and Jim Halsey (Knighton) pick up a hitchhiker (Bean) on a road in New Mexico. Unsuspectingly, they realized too late that he is sadistic and psychotic. What was once a thrilling journey is now fast becoming a horrible roller-coaster nightmare!
Starring: Sean Bean, Sophia Bush
THE LAKE HOUSE
Kate Forster (Bullock) is a doctor who has just left her all-glass lake house while Alex Wyler (Reeves) is an architect who is just moving in to the same house. Alex finds Kate's letter in the mailbox and starts a correspondence with her and the two begin to fall for each other. But there is a catch - the two are living in two different periods. Can they travel through time to meet?
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock
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 NAKED FACE
A psychoanalyst finds himself the target of a faceless killer and races to find out who it is before it's too late.
Starring: Roger Moore, Rod Steiger
THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1996)
Eddie Murphy is back and he's bigger than ever in this updated version of the 1962 Jerry Lewis classic. Professor Sherman Klump (Murphy) is an overweight, socially inept scientist who invents a formula that can change human metabolism. In order to win the heart of the beauteous Carla Purty (Pinkett), he takes his own formula and Buddy Love is born, a slender and overconfident version of Klump. In a Jekyll-and-Hyde-like clash between Klump and Love, who'll win? In addition to Klump and Love, Murphy also plays the roles of his mother, father, grandmother and brother.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett
THE PATRIOT
Violent demons of the French and Indian War resurrect themselves to haunt veteran soldier Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), who now craves the simple life of a farmer and his family’s company. But when America comes under British tyranny, his eldest son Gabriel (Ledger) runs off to battle against his wishes, and the peace-loving soldier is drawn back into his violent past to make sure no harm befalls his son. His mission to protect his son becomes one of revenge when his house is burned down and one of his children savagely slaughtered by Colonel Tavington (Isaacs).
Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson
THE SOPRANOS 44: PIE-O-MY
Checking out Ralph's promising new filly at the track, Tony displays a flair for horse-racing strategy – and discovers an unexpected affinity for the serene stable life. Adriana finds her rock club increasingly being used as a place of business for Chris and his cronies. Meanwhile, a court artist incurs the wrath of Uncle Junior over an unflattering likeness, and Janice feeds Bobby in his hours of need, albeit not his wife Karen's ziti.
THE SOPRANOS 45: EVERYBODY HURTS
After hiring an attractive French hostess, Elodi, at Nuovo Vesuvio, Artie agrees to loan her brother some money, with interest, for an overseas business venture. Meanwhile, Christopher gets some new responsibilities; Carmela fixes Furio up with an oral hygienist; Anthony Jr. becomes the "dough boy" of a new rich girlfriend; and Tony receives some unsettling news about an old acquaintance.
THE SOPRANOS 46: WATCHING TOO MUCH TELEVISION
Tony and the gang throw Paulie a bash after his release from jail, but it doesn't take long for old tensions to resurface. Carmela's cousin Brian (now a Soprano financial advisor) throws out a hypothetical investment scenario that Tony and Ralph attempt to turn into reality, with the help of Assemblyman Zellman and a black community leader named Maurice Tiffen. Adriana presses the marriage issue on Christopher, who has some reservations.
THE SOPRANOS 47: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Paulie takes pains to integrate his mother Nucci into the social world at Green Grove. Meanwhile, Furio faces up to his inner feelings during a trip to Italy to see his ailing father; Ralph introduces Tony to his new "goomar", Valentina; and Carmela finds a new source of investment income.
THE SOPRANOS 48: WHOEVER DID THIS
As he's leaving the courthouse, Uncle Junior falls down a flight of stairs after being hit by a microphone. Uncle Junior is hospitalized, and his lawyers decide to pursue a new defense strategy. Meanwhile, Ralph's son, Justin, is critically injured when he's hit in the chest by an arrow while playing. Later, a fire at the stable results in three horses killed and Pie-O-My so badly burned that she has to be destroyed. Tony is devastated and goes to Ralph's home to tell him, where Tony finds out that Ralph had set the fire to collect insurance money.
THE WITCHES
A recently orphaned boy is taken to a hotel in England by his grandmother. Their timing could not be worse however, as they stumble into a witch convention with the mission of getting rid of children all over the world. The boy is turned into a mouse, but even in this state, he is the only hope for all children, in this film adaptation of the book by well-loved children's author, Roald Dahl.
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Rowan Atkinson, Mai Zetterling
TOOTSIE
Michael Dorsey (Hoffman) has a problem - he is an actor but no producer in New York will hire him. In desperation, he dresses up as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands a part in a soap series. All goes well until he falls in love with his lovely co-star, Julie (Lange). While Michael plans to reveal his secret to Julie, her father has secretly fallen for "Dorothy." Watch the hugely talented Hoffman extract himself from this hilarious situation in this award-winning movie by the late Sydney Pollack.
Starring: Jessica Lange, Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr
VARSITY BLUES
Bud Kilmer (Voight) is a coach obsessed with winning. 35 years as head coach and 22 division titles under his belt, he plans to make his 23rd division title. His perfect plans for gold are marred by the season-ending injury of his star quarterback. Filling those big shoes is Jonathan Moxon (Van Der Beek) who ends up being a thorn at the side of the coach and leads a rebellion against him.
Starring: Paul Walker, Jon Voight, James Van Der Beek
VERTICAL LIMIT
Peter Garrett (O'Donnell) is a young spirited climber. So is his sister Annie (Tunney). But his sister and her team members are trapped on the world's second highest peak K2, and it is up to Peter to risk his and his own team members' lives to save that of his sister and her team. Together with reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick (Glenn), they set out to brave the mighty winds and the chilling snow atop K2 - and to bring the trapped team back safely.
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Scott Glenn, Robin Tunney
WAKING THE DEAD
Fielding Pierce is a dashing political hopeful who falls in love with Sarah, a more radically insurgent political activist. Ten years past after Sarah was suspiciously killed during a terrorist attack and he runs for congress, Fielding is suddenly haunted by visions of his past love.
Starring: Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Hipp
WORLD TRADE CENTER
Directed by Academy Award-winning director, Oliver Stone, this is the true story of John McLouglin (Cage) and William J. Jimeno, two Port Authority policemen who went on a rescue mission into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, only to get trapped in the falling rubble as the building came crashing down. The heroic story is told through their eyes, their families, friends and those of their rescuers, reflecting the survival, hope and faith of all those involved in the rescue effort.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Jay Hernandez
Deck the halls with love and laughter as the Brady Bunch is back for Christmas in this warm and wonderful two hour special featuring all of the characters from the popular series – plus their new families!
Starring: Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, Ann Davis
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
ARE WE DONE YET?
Are We Done Yet? is a follow-up to the hilarious 2005 family comedy Are We There Yet? Now married to Suzanne (Long), Nick Persons (Ice Cube) has bought a quiet suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids, Lindsey and Kevin. But when his new home quickly becomes a costly “fixer upper” and he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor (John C. McGinley), Nick’s suburban dream soon becomes a riotous nightmare.
Starring: Ice Cube, Nia Long
BARNYARD
In this delightful animated feature, Otis is a carefree cow who parties all night with his friends until his "Sheriff" father is murdered by a pack of coyotes. Now, Otis must step into the shoes of his dad and protect the animal town from the vicious predators.
BEBE'S KIDS
In this sassy, animated funfest, Robin Harris spends a day at an amusement park with a woman, Jamika, whom he's trying to impress, together with her son. What he doesn't count on is her neighbor Bebe's three pint-sized terrors tagging along who turn the place upside down. With the voices of Faizon Love, Nell Carter and Tone Loc.
Starring: Faizon Love
BEVERLY HILLS NINJA
An American child falls overboard an ocean liner and washes up in Japan. He is prophesized to be the child destined to lead an elite group of Japanese warriors. The child grows up and is named Haru (Farley), but is hardly brave or skilled - he's fat, clumsy and not too bright. One day, Alison Page (Sheridan) hires Haru to protect her from her criminal boyfriend and his Yakuza associates. When she disappears, Haru finds a matchbook that says "Beverly Hills" and decides to try and find Alison there.
Starring: Nicollette Sheridan, Robin Shou, Chris Farley
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
BLOOD TIES
Set in modern-day Sicily, an American Naval engineer must kill his uncle to save his father's life when he enters the secret violent underworld of the Sicilian Mafia.
Starring: Vincent Spano, Brad Davis, Tony Lo Bianco
BLUE THUNDER
The super-chopper "Blue Thunder" can zip through the skies at 200 mph, or record a lover's whisper through condominium walls! Officer Frank Murphy (Scheider), pilot of this futuristic police helicopter, uncovers a devious plot to turn this crime-fighting machine against an unsuspecting city.
Starring: Warren Oates, Roy Scheider, Daniel Stern
BOB ROBERTS
A wealthy politician, Bob Roberts, appears on the surface as a sincere believer in national pride and family values. In truth, he is a hypocrite unearthed by Raplin (Esposito), a reporter for an underground newspaper. Bob Roberts is a treasure for anyone who has sat through one too many "promise-them-anything" campaign speeches.
Starring: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Sarandon
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Based on Dee Brown's bestseller, this HBO Original Movie powerfully explores the tragic impact that the United States' westward expansion had on the American Indian culture, and the economic, political and social pressures that motivated it.
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, Anna Paquin
CANNONBALL RUN II
When an Arab sheik offers a million dollars to the person who zips from California to Connecticut fastest by car, it's fortune first, scruples later. Faster than a blink, a motley crew of rich-wannabes rev up their speed machines and start burning the rubber off their spare tires for a shot at some serious cash. Featuring comedy big-wigs Burt Reynolds, Jamie Farr, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra, this wacky ride sticks your nose where the rubber meets the road, and packs enough star power to come in first-place in any race.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Chan, Marilu Henner
CAPTAIN AMERICA
During WWII, the young and sickly Steve Rogers (Salinger) is miraculously transformed into Captain America in an experiment to create a super-soldier. He discovers that the Nazi super villain The Red Skull is planning to bomb the White House. In his confrontation with the Red Skull, Captain America is defeated, frozen, buried and left to die in Alaska. Fifty years on, the Captain is found alive, thawed and put back into action to stop the Red Skull once again – this time to prevent the villain from kidnapping the US President and fitting him with a mind-control implant.
Starring: Ned Beatty, Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox
CASPER
Kat (Ricci) and her eccentric dad, Dr. James Harvey (Pullman), a self-styled 'ghost therapist', shows up on the doorstep of the dilapidated Whipstaff Manor. Hired by Whipstaff's scheming owner, Carrigan (Moriarty), Dr. Harvey has to exorcise the manor of a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper, and his three incorrigibly odious uncles, so that she can get her hands on the macabre manor's fabled treasure. As the ill-mannered ghosts go out of their way to scare the 'fleshies', Casper finds himself becoming best friends with Kat in this funny and lively story.
Starring: Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman
CHARLIE'S ANGELS
In this revival of the classic TV series, Natalie (Diaz), Dylan (Barrymore) and Alex (Liu) work their butts off to fight evil for their invisible boss, Charlie, together with the help of John Bosley (Murray). Electronics genius, Eric Knox (Rockwell), has been kidnapped and his up-to-no-good kidnappers have plenty in mind for the whiz kid's latest invention: a device that can monitor voice communications from anywhere in the world. The Angels are unleashed to help restore order and find Knox’s kidnappers in this action-packed, fun flick.
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu
CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO
All football team owner Bert Waters (Kennedy) has to do to inherit a million bucks is to put himself in the driver's seat and take the Chattanooga Choo Choo from New York to Chattanooga, Tennessee in the next 24 hours. Not wanting to brave the journey alone, Bert gets everyone in on the act - his girlfriend Maggie (Eden), his entire football team complete with coach, and even the Choo Choo cheerleaders. As the guest list grows, so does the chaos on board and what started out as a cruise to a million dollars quickly becomes a crazy railroad trip!
Starring: George Kennedy, Barbara Eden, Melissa Sue Anderson
CLEAVERVILLE
A simple swindle gone wrong forces Grace (Carradine) to take off with a bag of diamonds and seek refuge at her estranged mother Kay's (Rose) home, only to face her daughter, Laura (Savasta), whom she left with Kay fifteen years ago.
Starring: Gabrielle Rose, Ever Carradine
CLICK
Architect Michael Newman is a loving father and husband but work and climbing the corporate ladder have made him neglect his family. One day, he stumbles upon a remote control that has the ability to control his universe. This seems like a godsend at first, until the remote starts controlling his life.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale
COBRA
Sylvester Stallone stars as Marion Cobretti, aka Cobra, who is sent to investigate a spate of random murders happening in the city. The "murderer" turns out to be a covert group of trained assassins with ties to the police force. However, they make a big mistake in leaving a witness to their crime alive. To fulfill his mission and protect the witness, Cobra must become a one-man army against the legion of assassins.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen
CONNORS' WAR
After losing his eyesight during a sabotaged CIA operation, Special Agent Connors (Criss) agrees to be injected with an experimental serum that promises to cure his blindness. Armed with new extraordinary abilities, Connors successfully completes a daring mission for his former mentor, only to discover he has been tricked into stealing a deadly chemical bomb intended for a twisted act of terrorism.
Starring: Anthony "treach" Criss, Nia Peeples
COPS AND ROBBERSONS
The Robbersons are your typical, average 90s suburban family. Norman Robberson (Chase) is an accountant hooked on TV cop shows and Helen (Wiest) is a housewife-with-an-attitude. Things take an interesting turn when hard-nosed, no-nonsense cop Jake Stone (Palance) enters their lives to nail the mobster living next door to the Robbersons! Stone's stakeout with the Robbersons soon leads to hilarious results!
Starring: Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest
DEAD SILENCE
The creators of "Saw" bring you this chilling, supernatural thriller. Dead Silence is set in Ravens Fair, a small town haunted by late night whispers and ghost stories of generations past. But when a grieving widower returns here for his wife's funeral, he begins to uncover the truth behind her mysterious death and how it may relate to Ravens Fair's own history - a history that includes a psychotic ventriloquist-ghost and her lifelike "dummy".
Starring: Donnie Wahlberg, Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta
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
ELECTION
When two-faced Tracy Flick (Witherspoon) decides to run for student body president, teacher supervisor Jim McAllister (Broderick) decides to generate some competition against her. He enlists the help of a dumb varsity football player Paul (Klein) to contest against her. What follows is one of the funniest, shrewdest and smartest satires in recent memory.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon
FIELD OF DREAMS
A struggling farmer Ray Kinsella (Costner) gets a calling one day from above to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. As the weeks go by, Ray receives several other messages, realizing that his field has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain values in their lives.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan
FIREFOX
America's ace pilot penetrates Russian security and races against time to steal the heavily guarded Firefox, a dexterous aircraft which can fly at six times the speed of sound. A spectacular thousand-mile dogfight climaxes this action adventure directed by Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, David Huffman
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
Filmmaking legends Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood team up for the first time to tell the unforgettable story of the grueling World War II battle for the island of Iwo Jima – a turning point in the war for control over the Pacific. The battle produced one of the war's most enduring images: a photograph of six US soldiers raising an American flag on the top of Mt Suribachi. A tragic depiction of an epic struggle that would cost the lives of thousands of Japanese and American soldiers based on the best-selling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers.
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, Jesse Bradford
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 01: SALLY
Transplanted New Zealanders Bret and Jemaine – a.k.a. Flight of the Conchords – have been living in NYC awhile but their quest for “hot women” and a music career remains a work in progress. At a friend’s bohemian party, Jemaine spies Sally, “the most beautiful girl in the room”, and ends up singing and dancing his way to her side.
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 02: BRET GIVES UP THE DREAM
Bret’s commitment to his new day job forces Jemaine to play at a gig with a tape recording of Bret. That doesn't work out and instead, prompts Jemaine and Murray to search for a more reliable replacement.
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 03: MUGGED
Jemaine and Bret are mugged by a “gang” of two thugs. The boys make a run for it after a song, “Hiphopopotamus vs. The Rhymenocerous”, fails to fill their attackers with fear. Bret abandons Jemaine after the latter gets tangled in a fence and, Bret fears the worst when Jemaine doesn’t turn up for two days.
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 04: YOKO
Bret’s girlfriend Coco threatens the Conchords’ fragile chemistry, not to mention the devotion of its lone fan, Mel. Jemaine accuses Coco of being Yoko-esque, prompting Bret’s angry departure. Ultimately, recognizing his partner is indispensable, Jemaine tracks down Bret to ask him back in the band – under one condition.
FREEDOM WRITERS
Inspired by a true story and the diaries of Long Beach teenagers after the LA riots. Hilary Swank stars as Erin Gruwell, whose passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of racially disparate students who hate her even more than they hate each other. When Erin shows them respect - something they never had from a teacher, these teens experience a hope that their lives matter and that they have something to say.
Starring: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, J. Hernandez
GREMLINS
Whatever you do, don't let them near water and never feed them past midnight! Produced by Academy Award® winning Steven Spielberg, Gremlins is about a small town plagued by hordes of nasty little creatures out to destroy everything and everyone in sight. Special effects take center stage as the marauding gremlins grow, multiply and wreak havoc all around.
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan
GRIDIRON GANG
Deep in the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, an ex-football star turned supervisor, Sean Porter (Johnson) identifies with the lack of discipline and self-esteem that plague many of the teenagers in the center. He proposes the formation of a football team with the support of his superiors, transforming the lives of the kids by instilling values of responsibility and team unity through football.
Starring: Vanessa Ferlito, Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, Xzibit
GROUNDHOG DAY
Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a cynical weatherman nobody likes. Then, something extraordinary happens when he and the crew are in the small town of Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day. While reporting on an over-sized squirrel that can predict the weather, he finds himself caught in a peculiar time warp where he lives out the same day over and over again. The film traces Phil’s descent into hopelessness and his eventual transformation, including a romance with the bubbly Rita (MacDowell). Murray’s chemistry with MacDowell is just one of the highlights of this entertaining feel-good tale.
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
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.
HOLLOW MAN
Sebastian Caine (Bacon) is a highly gifted scientist heading a top-secret research outfit that develops a serum that allows the user to become completely invisible. Linda McKay (Shue) is his ex-girlfriend and team-mate. Following extraordinary results on animals, Caine disregards strict orders from the Pentagon and experiments with the serum on himself. To his horror, he finds that he cannot come back from his invisible state. Caine goes on a reckless rampage, resorting to murder to hide reality. Here is a thriller that concludes that what you see is not what you get.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue
HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT
Winona Ryder plays Finn, a Berkeley graduate student who decides to spend the summer at the home of her grandmother, Hy (Burstyn) and her extended family – a group of women collectively known as the Grasse Quilting Bee. Finn is there to seek some peace and quiet in which she can write her thesis, and to consider a marriage proposal. In the solace of Hy's home, the women of the Quilting Bee relate to Finn the stories of the loves that shaped their lives - tales of love, betrayal, joy and heartbreak, each as individual as the women themselves.
Starring: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou
INTERSECTION
Wealthy architect Vincent Eastman (Gere) is torn between his beautiful but passive wife of 16 years, Sally (Stone), and his sizzling hot mistress Olivia (Davidovich) in this probing, mature drama. Will he make the right choice?
Starring: Lolita Davidovich, Richard Gere, Sharon Stone
K-9
Thomas Dooley (Belushi) is a cop with a problem - his fellow officers think he's too crazy to partner with. In comes Jerry Lee, Dooley's new partner with the best nose for drug-busting, except that Lee is a well trained German Shepherd K-9 police dog! Together, they become the best drug-busting team in town!
Starring: James Belushi, Mel Harris
LES MISERABLES (1998)
Set in the tumultuous backdrop of early 19th century France, this epic story tells the tale of Jean Valjean, who is condemned to an unjust prison sentence. Valjean escapes and leads a life on the run till he falls in love with the beautiful Fantine. He devotes himself to caring for Fantine and her daughter, Cosette. Javert, a policeman whose lifelong search for Valjean turned into an obsession, finally gets to meet the man he hunted in a bloody 1832 revolution during a rescue of Marius, Cosette’s lover.
Starring: Uma Thurman, Geoffrey Rush, Liam Neeson
LET'S GET HARRY
Both the US ambassador and an American engineer, Harry Burke Jr. (Harmon), are taken hostage and held for ransom in Columbia. Harry’s brother and friends take things into their own hands by hiring a mercenary soldier (Duvall) to lead a rescue mission. Now, five ordinary guys from Illinois have to become commandos. Armed with nothing but courage, they head deep into the jungles in order to bring Harry home.
Starring: Mark Harmon, Robert Duvall
LITTLE MAN
A small-sized jewel thief, Calvin (Marlon Wayans), disguises himself as a toddler to retrieve the diamond he hid with a childless couple, Daryl (Shawn Wayans) and Vanessa. But when Calvin's boss tracks him and the couple down, Calvin and Daryl must team up for a bigger purpose.
Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans
LONGFORD
Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton star in this HBO Original Movie based on a true story of a respected politician who stakes his name and career to campaign for a notorious serial killer.
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Samantha Morton
LOST & FOUND
David Spade (Black Sheep) is Dylan, your average guy next door. However, when the beautiful Lila (Marceau) moves in as his new neighbor, Dylan’s raging hormones make him lose control of all rational thought. Dylan hatches a scheme to win Lila’s heart – by kidnapping her dog. By finding Lila’s missing pooch, Dylan hopes to win a spot in Lila’s heart. However, Dylan’s wacky scheme starts to unravel before it even begins. Throw in a jealous former boyfriend, a missing anniversary ring, Neil Diamond, dessert swans and surly loan officers, and what you have is the right ingredients for a side-splitting comedy.
Starring: David Spade, Sophie Marceau
MONSTER HOUSE
In this animated movie, 12 year-old DJ and his friend Chowder learn that the house across the street is a monster that eats anything that trespasses on its lawn. DJ then comes up with a plan to destroy the house by striking at its heart – the basement furnace. But their plan is foiled when the house comes alive and starts to chase them down the street!
MOTIVES 2: RETRIBUTION
Three years after Emery Simms was wrongfully imprisoned for murder, his best friend Brandon and ex-wife Connie (Fox) get married and lead a successful life with their restaurant and club. Their lives changes dramatically when Simms is killed in prison and evidence suggests Brandon is involved. Emery's brother Donovan (White) arrives to unearth the truth, and lands himself in danger.
Starring: Vivica A. Fox, Brian White
MUSIC AND LYRICS
Hugh Grant stars as Alex Fletcher, a washed up '80s pop star who gets a chance at a comeback when a reigning pop diva invites him to write and record a duet with her. Alex hasn't written a song in years, he's never written lyrics, and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days. Enter Sophie Fisher (Barrymore), whose flair for words strikes a chord with the struggling songwriter. On the rebound from a bad relationship, Sophie is reluctant to collaborate with anyone, especially with a commitment-phobic Alex. Now Alex and Sophie will have to face their fears — and the music — to find the love and success they both deserve.
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant
NUTS
Claudia Draper (Streisand) is a high-priced call girl who murders one of her clients. Though her parents try to convince her to cop a plea of insanity, she refuses to use the easy way out. Her lawyer, Aaron Levinsky (Dreyfuss), must convince the court of her competence, yet at the same time, help her to gain her freedom.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Barbra Streisand
OPEN SEASON
When a 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog and a scrawny one-horned mule deer named Elliot become stranded in the woods during hunting season, it's up to the duo to rally all the other forest animals and turn the tables on the hunters.
OUTLAND
Marshall O'Neil (Connery) knows about living life in limbo — his wife left him and had taken their son along with her, and he's stranded in a forgotten mining town on one of Jupiter’s moons. But there's more to worry about when the miners start killing themselves in bizarre ways. His investigations into their deaths lead him to discover that their mine boss, Sheppard (Boyle), has been keeping his workers on overtime by feeding them a work-enhancing drug with deadly side-effects.
Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle
P.O.W. THE ESCAPE
An American colonel taken prisoner in Vietnam helps lead an escape in this action film. David Carradine stars as Colonel Cooper, an American soldier captured while fighting the Viet Cong. When Vietnamese captor Captain Vinh gets word of a government plot to kill the Colonel and himself, Vinh decides to take his chances with the American by offering an escape route for the prisoners of war in return for passage to the US.
Starring: David Carradine, Mako
PALE RIDER
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this two-fisted, pistol-packed adventure as The Preacher, a stranger who rides into town to save the day, in the tradition of the great Hollywood westerns. The Preacher visits a gold rush town ruled by a corrupt banker. Will he be able to help the terrorized miners whose land is threatened by the robber baron?
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress
PERFECT STRANGER
When her friend's affair with married ad exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) ends in the woman’s murder, investigative reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) vows to bring the killer to justice. Suspecting Hill of the crime, she goes undercover by posing as two highly alluring women: Katherine, a sexy temp who works within his agency, and Veronica, a seductive temptress he chats up online. Engaging in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, both Rowena and Hill begin to realize things may not be as what they seem.
Starring: Halle Berry, Giovanni Ribisi, Bruce Willis
POLICE ACADEMY 4 CITIZENS ON PATROL
Yes, the boobs in blue are back. They’re training teenage skateboarders, little old ladies and minor offenders as volunteer aides. Crime fighting may never be the same again! Steve Guttenberg (Three Men and a Baby) again leads the pack as the likable Mahoney. With Bubba Smith and Michael Winslow.
Starring: Michael Winslow, Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith
RACE THE SUN
The kids from detention become a team in contention! Calling themselves 'lolos' ('lowly locals' in Hawaiian slang), they have endured life's hard knocks and have nothing to look forward to until their new teacher Miss Sandra Beecher (Berry) arrives. She actually thinks they can learn something in school. Spurred on by her encouragement, the lolos decide to build a solar-powered car. When they decide to take the car all the way across the Australian continent, it's time to cheer them on.
Starring: Halle Berry, Jim Belushi, Casey Affleck
RUNNING SCARED
When a stowaway unknowingly photographs a secret US military base, he and his friend find themselves pursued by an intelligence agent who believes that they are spies.
Starring: Judge Reinhold, Ken Wahl
RUSH HOUR
When a Chinese Consul's eleven-year-old daughter is kidnapped by a gang of antique smugglers in Los Angeles, Detective Inspector Lee (Chan) flies in to handle the case. However, the FBI is not willing to have an outsider interfere with their investigations and decides to distract him with LAPD's finest - and most notorious - detective, James Carter (Tucker). Reluctant partners at first, they eventually overcome their cultural and personality differences to take on the criminal mastermind behind the abduction. Expect a roller-coaster ride as Jackie supplies the punches and Chris the punchlines - it's a hilariously explosive combination!
Starring: Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan
SAHARA
Blistering heat, a despicable rival and feuding nomadic tribes can't keep a beautiful woman from taking the desert by storm. The sexy Brooke Shields stars as a headstrong American heiress who takes part in an international car race in the Sahara desert. She is caught between her commitment to her late father's lifelong dream and her passion for a dashing young sheik. Can the resourceful young woman find a way to keep her promise to her father without losing her heart's desire?
Starring: Brooke Shields, Lambert Wilson
SHORT CIRCUIT 2
Remember that clever, lovable robot, Number 5? He and his human buddy, Ben, are now in New York, where Ben peddles miniature models of his mechanical wonder. Thieves trick "Five" into helping in a gem heist, but the mechanical wonder isn't about to be outsmarted for long!
Starring: Michael McKean, Fisher Stevens, Cynthia Gibb
SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL
Sensitive artist-wannabe and social misfit Keith (Stoltz) goes all out to win the heart of the school's most popular girl Amanda (Thompson), though his chances do not look bright. He enlists the help of his best pal, tomboy and fellow misfit Watts (Masterson), who hides her true feelings for him to help him win Amanda’s heart. When he finally succeeds, he realizes that the person he truly loves is someone much closer to him.
Starring: Mary Stuart Masterson, Eric Stoltz
SOMETHING NEW
A successful corporate black accountant is going to be made a partner at her firm, though in her personal life, she doesn’t have much success in finding one for herself. She has had her last straw spending another Valentine's Day working late and goes for a blind date with a white landscaper. She rejects him initially but sparks start to fly when she turns to him for help with her own landscaping.
Starring: Simon Baker, Sanaa Lathan
STAR TREK INSURRECTION
From the beginning of the Federation, the Prime Directive was clear: no Starfleet expedition may interfere with the natural development of other civilizations. Picard is confronted with orders that undermine that decree. If he obeys, 600 peaceful residents of Ba'ku will be forcibly removed from their remarkable world, all for the reportedly greater good of millions who will benefit from Ba'ku's Fountain of Youth-like powers. If he disobeys, he will risk his Starship, his career, his life. But for Picard, there's really only one choice. He must rebel against Starfleet… and lead the insurrection to preserve Paradise.
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes
STRANGER THAN FICTION
Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, an IRS Agent whose world is turned upside-down when he begins to hear his life being chronicled by a narrator only he can hear. The Narrator, a nearly forgotten author of tragic novels, is struggling to complete her latest and best book, unaware that her protagonist is alive and uncontrollably guided by her words. When Harold hears that she intends to kill him off, he decides to take charge and tries to change the ending.
Starring: Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Will Ferrell
SWORD OF THE VALIANT
A bold and gallant knight of King Arthur volunteers to fight an evil magician in this colorful fantasy adventure. Miles O'Keefe is noble Sir Gawain, whose mortal adversary is the tricky Green Knight, played by Sean Connery. Trevor Howard co-stars as Arthur.
Starring: Sean Connery, Miles O'Keefe
THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE
A space hero. A beautiful school teacher. A marriage made in the stars, and a lifetime to discover their love - all that abruptly ends in two minutes. During his last mission in deep space, astronaut Spencer Armacost (Depp) blacks out. After that, nothing about him is the same. He hides a horrifying secret - he has been taken over by something evil. Spencer's wife, Jillian (Theron), begins having strange dreams related to the horrifying truth. When she becomes pregnant, she realizes it's not a baby that she's carrying inside her body, but something far more sinister.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron
THE BONE COLLECTOR
The Manhattan Murderer is leaving bony fragments of clues behind after his killings. It's up to Lincoln Rhymes (Washington), a New York detective specializing in forensics, and rookie street cop Amelia (Jolie) to see if they have the mind and the stomach to trail the clues. But an injury sustained in the line of duty leaves Rhymes a quadriplegic; his arms and legs useless. Amelia must become his hands and feet, and he, her mind. But will it be enough to decipher the clues in time to find the next victim before the killer does?
Starring: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
Matt Damon returns as the trained assassin Jason Bourne in the third explosive installment of this smash hit espionage thriller series. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, Bourne is forced to hunt down his past in order to find a future. Traveling from Moscow, Paris and London to Tangier and New York City, he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne - all the while trying to outmaneuver the scores of cops, federal officers and Interpol agents who have him in their crosshairs.
Starring: Matt Damon, David Strathairn, Julia Stiles
THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
Beth (Pfeiffer) is struggling to find a balance between raising three children and a photography career. At a high school reunion, she takes her eyes off three-year-old Ben, and he mysteriously disappears. A frantic search for him proves to be futile. Over time, Beth learns to cope with the tragedy. Nine years later, a boy the same age as Ben would have been turns up at her doorstep. Based on the bestselling novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard, this compelling drama costars Whoopi Goldberg as a detective who refuses to let the case go.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Whoopi Goldberg, Treat Williams
THE DEVIL'S OWN
Two countries, two men, two opposite ways to do the right thing. In strife-torn Northern Ireland, terrorist Rory Devaney (Pitt) does not hesitate to shoot and kill in the name of what he believes. In New York, a cop, Tom O'Meara (Ford), will shoot only in the direst of emergencies. The two meet when Rory goes to the Big Apple on a mission. He takes refuge in Tom's house, under the guise of an innocent man. But Rory's world is too violent and Tom's house is too peaceful, and soon this unlikely juxtaposition erupts in conflict.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford
THE GREAT GATSBY
The 20s never roared louder than in this sumptuously romantic retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic. Robert Redford stars as Jay Gatsby, who once loved beautiful, pampered Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), but lost her to a rich boy. Now Gatsby is mysteriously wealthy and ready to risk everything to woo Daisy back.
Starring: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black
THE HITCHER
Going on a road trip during their spring break, college students Grace Andrews (Bush) and Jim Halsey (Knighton) pick up a hitchhiker (Bean) on a road in New Mexico. Unsuspectingly, they realized too late that he is sadistic and psychotic. What was once a thrilling journey is now fast becoming a horrible roller-coaster nightmare!
Starring: Sean Bean, Sophia Bush
THE LAKE HOUSE
Kate Forster (Bullock) is a doctor who has just left her all-glass lake house while Alex Wyler (Reeves) is an architect who is just moving in to the same house. Alex finds Kate's letter in the mailbox and starts a correspondence with her and the two begin to fall for each other. But there is a catch - the two are living in two different periods. Can they travel through time to meet?
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock
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 NAKED FACE
A psychoanalyst finds himself the target of a faceless killer and races to find out who it is before it's too late.
Starring: Roger Moore, Rod Steiger
THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1996)
Eddie Murphy is back and he's bigger than ever in this updated version of the 1962 Jerry Lewis classic. Professor Sherman Klump (Murphy) is an overweight, socially inept scientist who invents a formula that can change human metabolism. In order to win the heart of the beauteous Carla Purty (Pinkett), he takes his own formula and Buddy Love is born, a slender and overconfident version of Klump. In a Jekyll-and-Hyde-like clash between Klump and Love, who'll win? In addition to Klump and Love, Murphy also plays the roles of his mother, father, grandmother and brother.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett
THE PATRIOT
Violent demons of the French and Indian War resurrect themselves to haunt veteran soldier Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), who now craves the simple life of a farmer and his family’s company. But when America comes under British tyranny, his eldest son Gabriel (Ledger) runs off to battle against his wishes, and the peace-loving soldier is drawn back into his violent past to make sure no harm befalls his son. His mission to protect his son becomes one of revenge when his house is burned down and one of his children savagely slaughtered by Colonel Tavington (Isaacs).
Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson
THE SOPRANOS 44: PIE-O-MY
Checking out Ralph's promising new filly at the track, Tony displays a flair for horse-racing strategy – and discovers an unexpected affinity for the serene stable life. Adriana finds her rock club increasingly being used as a place of business for Chris and his cronies. Meanwhile, a court artist incurs the wrath of Uncle Junior over an unflattering likeness, and Janice feeds Bobby in his hours of need, albeit not his wife Karen's ziti.
THE SOPRANOS 45: EVERYBODY HURTS
After hiring an attractive French hostess, Elodi, at Nuovo Vesuvio, Artie agrees to loan her brother some money, with interest, for an overseas business venture. Meanwhile, Christopher gets some new responsibilities; Carmela fixes Furio up with an oral hygienist; Anthony Jr. becomes the "dough boy" of a new rich girlfriend; and Tony receives some unsettling news about an old acquaintance.
THE SOPRANOS 46: WATCHING TOO MUCH TELEVISION
Tony and the gang throw Paulie a bash after his release from jail, but it doesn't take long for old tensions to resurface. Carmela's cousin Brian (now a Soprano financial advisor) throws out a hypothetical investment scenario that Tony and Ralph attempt to turn into reality, with the help of Assemblyman Zellman and a black community leader named Maurice Tiffen. Adriana presses the marriage issue on Christopher, who has some reservations.
THE SOPRANOS 47: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Paulie takes pains to integrate his mother Nucci into the social world at Green Grove. Meanwhile, Furio faces up to his inner feelings during a trip to Italy to see his ailing father; Ralph introduces Tony to his new "goomar", Valentina; and Carmela finds a new source of investment income.
THE SOPRANOS 48: WHOEVER DID THIS
As he's leaving the courthouse, Uncle Junior falls down a flight of stairs after being hit by a microphone. Uncle Junior is hospitalized, and his lawyers decide to pursue a new defense strategy. Meanwhile, Ralph's son, Justin, is critically injured when he's hit in the chest by an arrow while playing. Later, a fire at the stable results in three horses killed and Pie-O-My so badly burned that she has to be destroyed. Tony is devastated and goes to Ralph's home to tell him, where Tony finds out that Ralph had set the fire to collect insurance money.
THE WITCHES
A recently orphaned boy is taken to a hotel in England by his grandmother. Their timing could not be worse however, as they stumble into a witch convention with the mission of getting rid of children all over the world. The boy is turned into a mouse, but even in this state, he is the only hope for all children, in this film adaptation of the book by well-loved children's author, Roald Dahl.
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Rowan Atkinson, Mai Zetterling
TOOTSIE
Michael Dorsey (Hoffman) has a problem - he is an actor but no producer in New York will hire him. In desperation, he dresses up as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands a part in a soap series. All goes well until he falls in love with his lovely co-star, Julie (Lange). While Michael plans to reveal his secret to Julie, her father has secretly fallen for "Dorothy." Watch the hugely talented Hoffman extract himself from this hilarious situation in this award-winning movie by the late Sydney Pollack.
Starring: Jessica Lange, Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr
VARSITY BLUES
Bud Kilmer (Voight) is a coach obsessed with winning. 35 years as head coach and 22 division titles under his belt, he plans to make his 23rd division title. His perfect plans for gold are marred by the season-ending injury of his star quarterback. Filling those big shoes is Jonathan Moxon (Van Der Beek) who ends up being a thorn at the side of the coach and leads a rebellion against him.
Starring: Paul Walker, Jon Voight, James Van Der Beek
VERTICAL LIMIT
Peter Garrett (O'Donnell) is a young spirited climber. So is his sister Annie (Tunney). But his sister and her team members are trapped on the world's second highest peak K2, and it is up to Peter to risk his and his own team members' lives to save that of his sister and her team. Together with reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick (Glenn), they set out to brave the mighty winds and the chilling snow atop K2 - and to bring the trapped team back safely.
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Scott Glenn, Robin Tunney
WAKING THE DEAD
Fielding Pierce is a dashing political hopeful who falls in love with Sarah, a more radically insurgent political activist. Ten years past after Sarah was suspiciously killed during a terrorist attack and he runs for congress, Fielding is suddenly haunted by visions of his past love.
Starring: Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Hipp
WORLD TRADE CENTER
Directed by Academy Award-winning director, Oliver Stone, this is the true story of John McLouglin (Cage) and William J. Jimeno, two Port Authority policemen who went on a rescue mission into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, only to get trapped in the falling rubble as the building came crashing down. The heroic story is told through their eyes, their families, friends and those of their rescuers, reflecting the survival, hope and faith of all those involved in the rescue effort.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Jay Hernandez
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