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Filmography
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Shrek 3 (2007)
When Fiona's dad
dies Shrek is supposed to take the crown but Shrek doesn't want
the responsibility. So Shrek, Fiona,Donkey and Puss look for a new
king. And so far King Arthur is the best they got.
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Holiday (2006)
A woman plagued by
man trouble finds her fortune improves when she befriends an
Englishwoman while on vacation.
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In
Her Shoes (2005)
Drama
Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is fun-loving and irresponsible.
Her older sister Rose is a high-powered lawyer who watches
Maggie's wild life with distain. When an attempt to live
together fails miserably, they go off in different
directions to find the missing pieces in their lives.
Based on the book by Jennifer Weiner.
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Shrek
2 (2004)
Action/Adventure,
Comedy, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Animation
1 hr. 45 min. Picking up exactly where the first movie
left off, this movie takes us to the kingdom of Far, Far
Away as Shrek and Fiona return to her homeland to tell her
parents (Cleese, Andrews) the good news. Not everyone is
happy to find her married to an ogre, with the most irate
in this group being Prince Charming (Everett), who was
supposed to be the one who lifted Fiona's curse. We're
also introduced to the mysterious Fairy Godmother
(Saunders), and a bar called the Poison Apple, where the
villains of the fairy tale world hang out, including the
great ogre-slayer, Puss-in-Boots (Banderas).
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Charlie's
Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Action/Adventure and
Comedy
1 hr. 51 min. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a
sequel to the blockbuster action-adventure-comedy hit
released by Columbia Pictures and inspired by the popular
television series. The sequel reunites Cameron Diaz, Drew
Barrymore and Lucy Liu as the indomitable crime-fighting
heriones. In the Angels' new adventure, the captivating
trio once again demonstrates their expertise as espionage
and martial arts, and disguise.
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Gangs
of New York (2002)
Drama and
Crime/Gangster
2 hrs. 44 min. Set in New York City, 1840-1863, a
young man named Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio) seeks
vengeance against Bill "The Butcher" Poole
(Daniel Day-Lewis), the man who killed his father. Though
he secures the help of pickpocket Jenny Everdeane, the
task at hand may be more dangerous than Amsterdam ever
imagined when he realizes that his father was murdered as
a result of gang warfare between the powerful Manhattan
gangs. Amid the crooked cops and corrupt politicians of
the Tammany Hall era, political enforcer Bill Poole stands
out as only one scoundrel in the crime-plagued Five Points
section of lower Manhattan in the early 1860s.
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The
Sweetest Thing (2002)
Comedy and Romance
1 hr. 24 min. Sexy and bold Christina Walters (Cameron
Diaz), after years of avoiding meaningful relationships
with men, unexpectedly meets her perfect match (Thomas
Jane) one night while hanging out with best girlfriends
Courtney (Christina Applegate) and Jane (Selma Blair).
When she finds out the next morning that he's suddenly
left town, she and Courtney set out to find him on a wild
road trip, encountering a series of hilarious
misadventures on their journey. Their search ultimately
leads them to a surprising discovery and the realization
that love is, after all, the sweetest thing.
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The
Invisible Circus (2001)
Drama
In THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, sixties idealism meets
headlong with family conflict and, mysteriously, death.
This compelling drama, based on Jennifer Egan's novel,
begins in the infamous Summer of '69, when radical hippie
Faith O'Connor (Cameron Diaz), and her English boyfriend
Wolf (Christopher Eccleston) take off for Europe, feeling
that they will change the world for the positive. Faith
diligently writes postcards to her younger sister Phoebe (Jordana
Brewster). When they suddenly stop, the next Faith's
family hears of her is that her body has been found at the
bottom of a cliff outside a tiny Portuguese fishing
village, the victim of an apparent suicide. Seven years
later, Phoebe, a haunted, introverted teenager, still
doesn't believe her adventurous, life-loving sister would
have taken her own life so, against the wishes of her
protective mother (Blythe Danner), Phoebe decides to
retrace Faith's journey across Europe, using the postcards
she had received from Faith as her only clues to a growing
mystery. From a houseboat in Amsterdam to a flat in Paris,
Phoebe follows Faith's footsteps right to the end. Along
the way, she finds Wolf married and settled into a life of
bourgeois complacency, one of the many twists in this
chilling, engaging story.
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Shrek
(2001)
Comedy, Kids/Family,
Romance and Animation
1 hr. 40 min. Set in a strange, colorful land
populated by fairy tale characters, SHREK is a hilarious
comedy that will win over audiences of children and adults
alike. Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is a fearsome green
ogre living in isolation in his own cozy little swamp. He
is not receptive to visitors, and fends off the occasional
party of torch-wielding villagers with ease. But when the
power-hungry Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) turns Shrek's
swamp into a relocation camp for dozens of banished
fairy-tale characters (including some pesky dwarves,
wolves, and fairies) Shrek's quiet, introverted life is
ruined. Joined by the talkative Donkey (Eddie Murphy),
Shrek makes his way to Farquaad's realm of Duloc, where
the Lord makes Shrek an offer: He will rid Shrek's land of
the unwanted visitors if Shrek will go on a simple quest
to free Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from her remote,
dragon-guarded castle and convince her to marry Farquaad.
On their quest, Shrek and Donkey run into a number of
bizarre situations, and Shrek finds himself realizing that
he isn't quite the fearsome monster he has always made
himself out to be. Reinventing the traditional fairy tale
adventure, SHREK features gorgeous computer animation, a
unique sense of humor, and compelling
characters--especially Eddie Murphy's lovable Donkey.
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Things
You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2001)
Drama
THINGS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HER is a
wonderfully intelligent and deeply poignant series of
interconnected vignettes that focus on the lives of
strong, independent single women. In "This Is Dr.
Keener," Glenn Close stars as a divorced doctor
taking care of her elderly mother. A visit by a tarot card
reader forces Keener to come to grips with her loneliness.
In the marvelously perceptive "Fantasies About
Rebecca," Holly Hunter is a bank manager on the verge
of turning 40 who meets a disturbed homeless woman
determined to share some harsh insights into Rebecca's
life. Kathy Baker stars as Rose, a divorced mother raising
a teenage son in "Someone for Rose"; when a
little person moves into the house across the street,
long-subdued sexual yearnings awaken in Rose. In
"Good Night, Lilly, Good Night, Christine,"
Calista Flockhart is Christine, who is taking care of her
dying girlfriend, reminiscing about their pasts, and
worrying about the future. Finally, in "Love Waits
for Kathy," Amy Brenneman plays a lonely single
detective living with her blind sister, who begins
reevaluating her life after finding a former classmate of
hers dead from an apparent suicide. A terrific cast (which
also includes Cameron Diaz, Valeria Golino, and Gregory
Hines), a soft, evocative score, and a sharp, penetrating
script help make Garcםa's directorial debut a
shining success.
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Vanilla
Sky (2001)
Romance and Thriller
2 hrs. 25 min. David Aames (Tom Cruise) appears to
lead a charmed life. Handsome, wealthy and charismatic,
the young New York City publishing executive's
freewheeling existence is enchanting, yet he seems to be
missing something. Then, in one night David meets Sofia
(Penelope Cruz), the girl of his dreams, but loses her by
making a small mistake. Thrust unexpectedly onto a
roller-coaster ride of romance, comedy, suspicion, love,
sex and dreams, David finds himself on a mind-bending
search for his soul and discovers the precious, ephemeral
nature of true love.
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Charlie's
Angels (2000)
Action/Adventure and
Comedy
1 hr. 38 min. In this remake of the popular 1970s
television show, the three angels--Dylan (Drew Barrymore),
Natalie (Cameron Diaz), and Alex (Lucy Liu)--are called to
duty by their flirtatious boss, Bosley (Bill Murray), to
intervene in the kidnapping of a well-known millionaire.
The film has been updated from the original TV show in a
few poignant ways: The angels are now called
"women" (not "little girls") in the
introductory voice-over, and they concentrate on strength
and martial arts when they fight criminals because they no
longer carry guns. Packed with glam action and featuring a
fantastic cast--including LL Cool J--CHARLIE'S ANGELS
promises to please.
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Any
Given Sunday (1999)
Drama
2 hrs. 45 min. Although professional football provides
the action-packed backdrop of Any Given Sunday, the film
takes a simultaneously epic and intimate look at the men
and women who comprise the milieu of the film, from the
modern-day gladiators of the gridiron, their coaches and
often beleaguered families, to the moneyed team owners and
business concerns who attempt to control the game as big
business, to the hungry sports media, and hangers-on
trying to get a taste of the glamour.
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Being
John Malkovich (1999)
Comedy
1 hr. 52 min. A man takes a new job on the
7th-and-a-half floor of an office building and stumbles
upon a membranous room that leads inside the head of stage
and screen actor John Malkovich. There he can see life
through Malkovich's eyes before being systematically
ejected from the room and onto the New Jersey turnpike.
The man then rents out Malkovich's head to others,
eventually letting his wife inside where she falls in love
with another woman who, in turn, thinks she has fallen in
love with John Malkovich.
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Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Comedy and Drama
2 hrs. 00 min. Journalist Raoul Duke and his lawyer Dr
Gonzo drive from LA to Las Vegas on a drugs binge. They
nominally cover news stories, including a convention on
drug abuse, but also sink deeper into a frightening
psychedelic otherworld. As Vietnam, Altamont and the Tate
killings impinge from the world of TV news, Duke and Gonzo
see casinos, reptiles and the American dream.
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There's
Something About Mary (1998)
Comedy
2 hrs. 00 min. There sure is. A stalker love story,
from the people who brought you "Dumb and
Dumber" and "Kingpin." Ted (Ben Stiller) is
still in love with his high school prom date, Mary
(Cameron Diaz), even though it's been years after the
humiliating incident that cut their date short. Ted hires
Pat, a private detective (Matt Dillon) to track her down,
but Pat ends up falling in love with her too, starting a
battle for Mary's heart that's rife with gross-out humor.
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Very
Bad Things (1998)
Comedy
When a group of friends go to Las Vegas for a bachelor
party, things begin to go wrong when the party's stripper
dies. Attempting to cover up her death only leads to
greater, and grislier, complications. A brutally dark
comedy written and directed by Peter Berg of "Chicago
Hope" fame.
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Keys
to Tulsa (1997)
Drama
When a mysterious seductress enters the lives of two
men, is she just starved for attention, or is she after
more than meets the eye--like blackmail? A condemning look
at the idle rich of the titular city.
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A
Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Comedy
Petulant, rich honeypie Celine and scruffily adorable
janitor Robert find themselves on the road to romance
after he kidnaps her to avenge his termination at the
hands of her callous father. But what they don't realize
is that their love is celestially predetermined, as a pair
of gun-toting angels gives chase to force the issue. A
quixotic and inconsistent Hollywood debut from the
production team of director Boyle, writer John Hodge, and
producer Andrew MacDonald ("Shallow Grave" and
"Trainspotting").
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My
Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Comedy
1 hr. 52 min. A 28-year-old woman, who years earlier
made a pact with her closest male friend that if neither
were married in ten years time they would marry one
another, now faces the fact that the man is about to marry
someone else. He asks her to be his best man and she
agrees, planning to go to the ceremony and then break up
the couple before they exchange their vows. Instead, she
accepts the turn of events and realizes she doesn't need
to be married to be happy.
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Feeling
Minnesota (1996)
Comedy
Chaos, violence, and a Cain-and-Abel-like struggle
ensue when, on the day of her wedding, a young
midwesterner makes the mistake of falling in love with
another man--her fiance's brother. An independent romantic
comedy.
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Head
Above Water (1996)
Drama
It's a case of too many men--one of whom mysteriously
winds up dead--for a recovering addict whose vacation with
her husband at a secluded resort is interrupted by the
appearance of an ex-lover and a hot-pants handyman.
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She's
the One (1996)
Comedy
A pair of brothers--one a cabdriver, the other a Wall
Street bigwig--try to work out the kinks in their
relationships with their wives, their mistresses (at least
one of them), their father, and, ultimately, each other.
SHE'S THE ONE is a charming romantic comedy from the
director of THE BROTHERS McMULLEN, with a soundtrack by
Tom Petty.
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The
Last Supper (1995)
Comedy
A tongue-in-cheek examination of both sides of the
political spectrum, this black comedy follows the culinary
exploits of a group of liberal graduate students who
invite right-wingers to dinner to pick their
brains--literally, as it turns out. After each dinner, the
guest of honor is murdered and buried in the back yard. A
cutting satire on the self-righteous on both sides of the
political divide.
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The
Mask (1994)
Comedy
When a no-account bank clerk discovers a curious
wooden mask he finds it has some interesting properties;
to wit, the mask magnifies the wearer's personality to
superhuman proportions--oddly, others seem to find this
attractive. The no-longer-nebbischy clerk enjoys his new
life considerably, but when he seduces the girlfriend of a
powerful gangster, complications result. Academy Award
Nominations: Best Visual Effects.
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