Six Days, Seven Nights
Tough as nails New York magazine editor (Heche) is surprised when her boyfriend (Schwimmer) pulls the romantic stunt of spontaneously buying tickets for a romantic South Pacific getaway. The trip seems to be shiny and happy until they find out that a grizzled curmudgeonly pilot (Ford) is their sole option for reaching their final destination, the remote island of Marcata. Along the way the bickering couple finds themselves stranded on a desert island, threatened by pirates, and ultimately, falli…
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The Next Best Thing (Wide Screen)
When best friends Abbie (Madonna - EVITA) and Robert (Everett - MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING)–who happens to be gay–engage in an unexpected tryst, they write it off as the result of clouded judgment from too many drinks. However, when Abbie discovers she’s pregnant, the two decide to move in together and form a loving, if unconventional, family. Everett sparkles and Madonna oozes her usual cool in this drama/comedy from the director of MIDNIGHT COWBOY….
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Garden State
Andrew ‘Large’ Largeman (Zach Braff of TV’s Scrubs) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother’s funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he’s been living under clouds of medication prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). After drifting through the funeral with the same emotional numbness he’s felt for years, he reconnects with old friends Mark (Peter Sarsgaard), a gravedigger, and Albert (Denis O’Hare), a millionaire who invented noiseless…
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The English Patient (Special Edition)
Set during the Second World War, this epic romance tells the story of a mysterious Englishman found badly burned in the Sahara. His nurse transports him across war-torn Europe taking him to a deserted Tuscan monastery where he can die in peace. There they become friends and she begins to read to him from a book he wrote about a previous relationship with a married woman with whom he fell in love whilst working in the Middle East….
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Dirty Dancing 2
Katey Miller (Romola Garai) is an 18-year-old girl who is about to have the time of her life, even if she doesn’t know it. When her father Bert Miller (John Slattery) is transferred to Havana in 1958, just before Katey’s senior year in high school, the whole family relocates to the exotic locale, moving into a luxurious hotel filled with Americans as Cuba teeters on the brink of revolution. Bookish Katey is mesmerized by the raw intensity of the dancing she sees in a public square one afternoon-…
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One From The Heart
ONE FROM THE HEART is Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious and intensely stylized musical about a working-class couple living in Las Vegas. On the eve of their five-year anniversary, Frannie (Teri Garr) and Hank (Frederic Forrest) find themselves breaking up. Hank meets a circus performer (Nastassja Kinski), while Frannie accepts the attentions of a would-be lounge singer (Raul Julia). Tom Waits wrote the music for the movie and performed it with Crystal Gayle, and the renowned Vittorio Storaro (APO…
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Titus
Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s revenge play, Titus Andronicus….
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Kolya
When a financially strapped former symphony cellist, now making a meagre living by playing at funerals, gets pressured into a paper marriage with a friend’s single-mother niece, his roving-eye bachelor life is turned upside-down. The beautiful young woman immediately abandons her new husband and her five-year-old son, and the unlikely duo struggles to adjust to their new lives in Prague on the eve of 1989’s Velvet Revolution. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Academy Awa…
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House Of Sand And Fog
Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly star in the powerful drama HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG as two people fighting over the same house. Connelly is Kathy, a troubled young woman struggling with addiction and her husband’s departure. Lost in druggy daze, she fails to check her mail, which includes letters threatening to evict her. After she is thrown out of the house she grew up in–wrongly, it turns out, so she seeks legal representation–Massoud Amir Behrani (Kingsley) buys the property at auction with…
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Jersey Girl
Breaking from his signature slacker-underdog films like CLERKS, MALLRATS, and CHASING AMY, Kevin Smith delivers the feel-good family movie JERSEY GIRL. While Smith’s pert one-liners and wryly ironic sense of humour are clearly present in the script, his casting choices (Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck) and glossy aesthetic identify the film as a mainstream Hollywood crowd-pleaser. Affleck stars as Ollie, a powerful entertainment executive with a perfect wife (Lopez) and a beautiful Manhattan apar…
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Abandon
Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (TRAFFIC) makes his directorial debut with ABANDON, a dense, moody psychological thriller. Loosely based on the book ADAM’S FALL by Sean Desmond, ABANDON tells the troubled story of Katie (Katie Holmes), a college senior who’s having a tough time keeping herself focused. She is still struggling with memories of her boyfriend Embry (Charlie Hunnam), who disappeared two years earlier. Her past comes back to haunt her when recovering alcoholic detective Wad…
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Under The Tuscan Sun
Who hasn’t dreamed at least once of running off to a foreign country and starting a new life…
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I’m Not Scared (aka Io Non Ho Paura) (Subtitled)
Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (MEDITERRANEO) masterfully directs this eerie and engrossing suspense thriller involving a 10-year-old boy who lives in rural southern Italy. It is summertime and Michele (Guiseppe Cristiano) is free to spend the long sunny days riding his bike and running through the wheat fields. In fact, the wheat could be considered Michele’s costar, as it often consumes the entire scope of the screen showing how Michele plays, hides, and ponders life in the vast expanses…
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The Human Stain
Director Robert Benton brings Philip Roth’s 2000 novel THE HUMAN STAIN to the screen in this lavish production, with expert cinematography from Jean-Yves Escoffier. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a light-skinned African-American college professor who has kept his true racial identity secret for the majority of his life. His career comes to a sudden halt when he makes a comment that is misinterpreted as a racial slur. Soon after he is fired, Silk hooks up with young Faunia Farely (Nicole Kidma…
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Cold Mountain
Fearing for thesafety of his beloved Ada, the wounded confederate soldier inman makes his way across the war-ravaged south, back to her farm on Cold Mountain. He faces trials and tribulations as he encounters slaves and bounty hunters, soldiers and witches, unexpected friends and dangerous enemies at every turn. Ada’s road is no easier as she relies on wits and newfound bravery to protect her father’s farm from attack, with the help of an intrepid drifter named Ruby…..
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Seabiscuit
The story of three men who saw the untapped potential of a racehorse called Seabiscuit. Owner, Charles Howard, horse trainer, Tom Smith and jockey, Red Pollard work together to push the horse to three victories……
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It Runs In The Family
Three generations of Hollywood’s Douglas clan star in this family comedy that mirrors the ups and downs of the famous family’s real lives. Following in the footsteps of ON GOLDEN POND Michael Douglas and his father Kirk Douglas appear onscreen together as a dysfunctional father and son struggling to understand one another. Michael Douglas stars as Alex Gromberg, a successful New York lawyer working in the firm that his own father, Mitchell Gromberg (Kirk Douglas), founded. While juggling his suc…
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Veronica Guerin
VERONICA GUERIN, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher, is the true story of the tenacious Irish crime reporter (Cate Blanchett) who exposed the brutal drug trade in 1990s Dublin. Veronica Guerin’s intense dedication to her journalism, reckless hunger for the truth, and profound sense of social responsibility is grippingly portrayed by Blanchett in a magnetic performance. Told in flashback, the film begins at the moment of her brutal assassination in 1996 and moves backw…
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Anne Frank
Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley, Golden Globe winner Brenda Blethyn and Hannah Taylor Gordon star in the stirring tale of one of the most influential young women of the 20th century. Based on Melissa Muller’s critically acclaimed book, ANNE FRANK goes beyond the story you already know and paints the true portrait of Anne both before and after she went into hiding. Get to know the high-spirited and popular girl before the war, and experience the challenges of the brave people who riske…
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Watcher In The Woods
An American composer moves to England to conduct his own opera. Dark secrets from the past emerge as forces of the dark come to light….
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