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Filmography
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Pride and Glory (2007)
A family of New York City police
officers is torn apart by a corruption scandal.
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The Painted Veil (2006)
A woman becomes dissatisfied with
her marriage, as her husband favors of his research over time with
her. An affair leads her on a journey of self-discovery, and her
new dedication to fighting cholera brings her to the Far East.
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The Illusionist (2006)
A magician in turn-of-the-century
Vienna who falls in love with a woman well above his social
standing. When she becomes engaged to a prince, the magician uses
his powers to win her back and undermine the stability of the
royal house of Vienna.
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Down in the Valley (2006)
Set in the present-day San
Fernando Valley, the project revolves around a delusional man who
believes he's a cowboy and the relationship that he starts with a
rebellious young woman.
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Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Action/Adventure,
Drama and Romance
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is an epic adventure about a
common man who finds himself thrust into a
decades-long war. A stranger in a strange land, he
serves a doomed king, falls in love with an exotic
and forbidden queen, and rises to knighthood.
Ultimately, he must protect the people of
Jerusalem from overwhelming forces while striving
to keep a fragile peace.
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The Italian Job (2003)
Action/Adventure
and Crime/Gangster
A band of thieves, led by Charlie Croker (Wahlberg),
pulls off the ultimate heist by rigging the
stoplights of the city of Los Angeles so that they
can drive right out of the city with a carful of
gold (in a safe that they're stealing back after
Croker's double-crossing ex-partner, played by
Edward Norton, stole it from Croker first), with
nothing but green lights, while everyone else gets
red lights, thus keeping the roads plugged with
the largest traffic jam in L.A. history, and the
police from pursuing them.
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25th Hour (2002)
Drama and
Crime/Gangster
2 hrs. 14 min. This is the story of the last
twenty four hours Monty Brogan (Norton) gets to
spend with his two best friends, Frank (Pepper), a
bonds trader, and Jakob (Hoffman), a high school
English teacher, and his girlfriend, Naturelle
(Dawson), before he goes to prison for seven years
for pushing heroin, as they party the night away
in New York City one last time.
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Death to Smoochy (2002)
Comedy
1 hr. 49 min. DEATH TO SMOOCHY tells the comic
tale of Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams), the
costumed star of a popular children's television
show who is fired over a bribery scandal and
replaced by Smoochy (Edward Norton), a puffy,
Barney-esque fuscia rhinoceros. When Randolph
discovers Smoochy is having an affair with his
ex-lover, Nora (Catherine Keener), a top
programming executive at the network, he plots his
revenge.
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Frida (2002)
Drama and
Romance
2 hrs. 03 min. This film tells the true story
of Mexican painter and 20th century icon Frida
Kahlo (Hayek), focusing on her often rocky
relationship with husband Diego Rivera (Molina),
and their place in Mexican society. Included in
the mix will be David Siqueiros (Banderas),
Rivera's rival in the Mexican art world, Tina
Modotti (Judd), a famed Italian photographer, and
Nelson Rockefeller (Norton), who famously
contracted Rivera to paint the lobby mural of
Rockefeller Center, only to renege because it
included a portrait of Lenin. Others in their
social circle included Russian leader and refugee
Leon Trotsky (Rush) (soon before Stalin had him
assassinated there), muralist Jean Charlot,
painter Pablo O'Higgins, composer Silvestre
Revueltas, and photographer Edward Weston. In
addition to being a great artist, Frida Kahlo was
also a bisexual and a communist, struggling with
an abusive husband, a life of wracking pain
following a trolley accident, the amputation of a
leg, and finally, drug and alcohol abuse that
killed her at age 47.
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Red Dragon (2002)
Drama and
Thriller
2 hrs. 06 min. In this prequel to "The
Silence of the Lambs," the story of former
FBI agent Will Graham, who was nearly killed by
Hannibal Lecter, is told, and it includes the
initial capture of "The Cannibal."
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The Score (2001)
Action/Adventure,
Drama and Crime/Gangster
2 hrs. 00 min. Career thief Nick Wells (Robert
De Niro) is about to mastermind a nearly
impossible theft that will require his joining
forces with a clever young accomplice (Edward
Norton). The unlikely alliance, arranged by Nick's
longtime friend and fence, Max (Marlon Brando),
interrupts Nick's plan to retire from crime and
settle down with his fiancee, Diane (Angela
Bassett). Even worse, it requires that Nick
violate his most important rule: Always work
alone.
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Keeping the Faith (2000)
Comedy and
Romance
2 hrs. 09 min. Best friends since they were
kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are
dynamic and popular young men living and working
on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly,
once their childhood friend and now grown into a
beautiful corporate executive, suddenly returns to
the city, she reenters Jake and Brian's lives and
hearts with a vengeance. Sparks fly and an unusual
and complicated love triangle ensues.
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Fight Club (1999)
Drama
2 hrs. 20 min. You are not your job. You are
not how much you have in the bank. You are not the
contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. What
happens first is you can't sleep. What happens
then is there's a gun in your mouth. And what
happens next is you meet Tyler Durden. Let me tell
you about Tyler. He had a plan. In Tyler we
trusted. Tyler says the things you own, end up
owning you. It's only after you've lost everything
that you're free to do anything. Fight Club
represents that kind of freedom. First rule of
Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club.
Second rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about
Fight Club. Tyler says self-improvement is
masturbation. Tyler says self-destruction might be
the answer.
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American History X (1998)
Drama
Edward Norton gives an impassioned performance
as Derek Vinyard, a Southern Californian skinhead
who must do time after committing a hateful
murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees
the error of his ways. Upon reentering the real
world, he must now turn his attentions to his
younger brother Danny, who is swiftly heading down
the same path as his brother. Controversy
surrounded the film when director Tony Kaye
disowned it, claiming that Norton had the film
re-edited without Kaye's permission. Norton still
got an Oscar Nomination for his intense
performance.
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Out of the Past (1998)
Documentary
1 hr. 05 min. Historically provocative
documentary about a Salt Lake City girl's efforts
to form a gay high school club, tied to the
venerable tradition of homosexual repression in
the United States.
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Rounders (1998)
Drama
2 hrs. 20 min. Set against the backdrop of New
York's high-stakes underground poker world. Mike
McDermott, a master card player who trades the
poker playing rounds for law school and a shot at
a new life with his girlfriend. For Mike, the new
life he is staking out seems to be a legitimate
road to success, but it is short on thrills and
excitement of backroom poker games. When his
friend is released from prison, Mike is faced with
the high-stakes dilemma of his life.
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Everyone Says I Love You
(1996)
Comedy
1 hr. 37 min. Woody Allen's 26th film is a
celebration of an eccentric and very extended
family living on New York's upper east side,
exploring a broad spectrum of romantic
entanglements as they fall in and out of love.
Allen creates a world in which Yves St. Laurent
mannequins come to life in store windows and
dance, in which hospital orderlies and nurses join
their patients in a musical sequence, and in which
ghosts and jewelry salespeople alike participate
in intricately staged production numbers.
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
(1996)
In THE PEOPLE VS.
LARRY FLYNT, Milos Forman expertly directs the
viewer's sympathy toward Larry Flynt (Woody
Harrelson in a superb performance): smut peddler,
misogynist, and Editor in Chief of the infamous
Hustler magazine. Born in the back woods of
Appalachia, the young Flynt--in an opening scene
that immediately grabs and amuses--is seen selling
moonshine as a child to alcoholic hermits. Flash
forward to the 1960s, and he's running a go-go
club where he meets the wild (and strangely
loveable) Althea Leasure (Courtney Love) who
becomes his soul mate and wife. Life is not as
sweet as it first seems for the porn king who
finds a massive readership for his magazine (the
first to show crotch shots). He soon finds himself
in the middle of several Supreme Court law suits,
and also as an assassin's target. While Flynt's
various outrageous meetings with self-righteous
Reverend Jerry Falwell (Richard Paul) and devout
Christian Ruth Carter Stapleton (President Jimmy
Carter's sister, played by Rudolph Giuliani's
ex-wife Donna Hanover) are hilarious and smartly
pointed, it is perhaps the touching, and
ultimately tragic, love story between him and
Althea that make him very human, and very
interesting to watch.
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Primal Fear (1996)
Drama
Powerful, media-hungry Chicago defense
attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) gets in over
his head when he takes the case of an altar boy
(Edward Norton making his film debut) accused of
murdering an archbishop. His opponent for the
prosecution is his former protege and lover Janet
Venable (Laura Linney), who's out to make this her
watershed case. A suspenseful courtroom with a
truly unexpected ending, this drama is based on
the novel by William Diehl.
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The Painted Veil
Drama and
Romance
Set in the 1920s, this love story is about a
young English couple (a doctor and a society girl)
who marry hastily. They relocate to Hong Kong
where they betray each other easily, but then they
find an unexpected chance at redemption and
happiness while on a deadly journey into the heart
of ancient China.
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