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Filmography
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Shooter (2007)
A marksman (Wahlberg) living in
exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill
the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the
attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out
who exactly set him up, and why.
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We Own the Night (2007)
A New York nightclub manager tries
to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.
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Invincible (2006)
From the producers of "The
Rookie", this inspiring sports movie will star Mark Wahlberg
as a Philadelphia Eagles fan who has just lost his wife and his
teaching job. He decides one day to show up for an open tryout for
his favorite NFL team, only to see his wildest dreams come true.
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The Brazilian Job (2006) Charlie Croker and his fellow crew of expert thieves head to Rio de Janeiro to pull off another heist in this follow up to The Italian Job.
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The Departed (2006)
The story, set in Boston, revolves around a gangster (Damon) who infiltrates the police department and a cop
(DiCaprio) who infiltrates the gangs. The two find out that a mole is in each organization and race to find each other's identity.
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Four
Brothers (2005)
Four adopted brothers come
together to bury the woman who raised them. At the funeral, the
brothers discover that their mother may have been murdered and
they want revenge.
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I
Heart Huckabees (2004)
This ensemble comedy is about a
married couple, the Jaffes (Hoffman, Tomlin), who work as
detectives, helping people solve existential crises in their
lives. For those not familiar with the philosophy-based term of
"existential crisis", some examples of such a crises
would be a "mid-life crisis", a "what am I doing
with my life?" sort of hang up, "my life has been a
mistake", "my whole life is a joke", etc. Their
first client in this movie is Albert Markovski (Schwartzman), who
is experiencing angst because of his position at Huckabee's, a
popular chain of retail stores. Investigating his workplace, the
Jaffes take on one of Albert's coworkers, Brad Stand (Law) as a
client as well, which leads them to investigate his girlfriend,
Dawn Campbell (Watts), who is the spokesmodel in the Huckabees TV
commercials. Meanwhile, Albert teams up with an existential
firefighter (Wahlberg) and a French radical (Huppert) out of
frustration with the idea that the Jaffes are helping the very man
who seems to be part of Albert's existential crisis.
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The
Italian Job (2003)
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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The
Truth About Charlie (2002)
A young woman (Newton) in Paris is
about to divorce her husband when she discovers... he's dead; and
all their money is gone. She meets a mysterious man (Wahlberg),
who tells her that the money was really his, and he wants it back,
seemingly convinced that she's hiding the cash. Meanwhile, more
people end up dead.
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Rock
Star (2001)
The true, if loosely-based, story
of "Ripper" Owens, the office supply salesman who
replaced Rob Halford in the heavy metal band Judas Priest in 1996.
Owens moonlights as a singer for the cover band Blood Pollution,
until the heavy metal act Steel Dragon recruits him for a full
time position.
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Planet
of the Apes (2001)
Tim Burton reinvents Pierre
Boulle's classic novel, beginning with the famed original film's
premise - a pilot finds himself in a world turned upside down
after landing on a strange planet - with Burton's unique vision
and style breaking new ground in story, design, makeup and visual
effects.
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The
Yards (2000)
Director James Gray's second film
is a dark and atmospheric exploration of the corruption that lies
underneath both the surface of a New York City railway
manufacturing company and the family that runs it. Mark Wahlberg
turns in an impressive and quietly intense performance as Leo, a
24-year-old who has just been released from prison and is in need
of a job. Leo gets a job working for his uncle Frank (James Caan)
in the railway business, where his best friend, Willie (Joaquin
Phoenix), shows him how to bribe politicians by day and sabotage
the competition's work by night. Almost immediately Leo and Willie
run into trouble when they go down to the railway yards to damage
their competitor's work. Leo is soon on the run, hunted for a
murder that Willie committed.
Gray's THE YARDS shows the obvious influence of Francis Ford
Coppola's seminal GODFATHER films as he emphasizes that his
characters inhabit two worlds, one that follows the shifting
morality of their businesses, the other centering around
traditional family life. Aided immeasurably by its outstanding
cast, stylish visual sense, and a lush, dissonant score, THE YARDS
is a gripping and intensely moving film that fully lives up to its
own ambitions.
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The
Perfect Storm (2000)
October 1991. It was "the
perfect storm" — a tempest that may happen only once in a
century — a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of
factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves
ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour (193 kph), the
storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth
have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea
Gail, a commercial fishing boat headed towards its hellish center.
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Three
Kings (1999)
The Gulf War is over, and three
soldiers want to go home rich. Major Archie Gates retires in two
weeks. Sergeant Troy Barlow is a new father. Chief Elgin is on a
four-month paid vacation from Detroit. Saddam Hussein stole a
great deal of gold from Kuwait, and these soldiers have no problem
with stealing it from him. But on their way to collect their
booty, they bear witness to the the disturbing results of the war
effort. President Bush has encouraged Iraqi citizens to fight back
against Saddam and pledged to support them, but when they rise up,
they get NO American support, and they're getting slaughtered. As
the soldiers realize the true situation in Iraq, they're
confronted with their own humanity, and they're forced to rethink
who they are and what they're doing.
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The
Corruptor (1999)
Chow Yun-Fat is Nick Chen, a
severe New York Chinatown cop who is having a tough time keeping
peace on the streets after a turf war breaks out between the
triads and a street gang. Mark Wahlberg is Danny Wallace, another
cop brought in to help with the peacekeeping effort. When he
realizes that Chen's ties to the criminals go even deeper than he
suspected, things get very violent and complicated.
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The
Big Hit (1998)
Mel (Mark Wahlberg) is a neurotic,
overworked hit man working for two crime bosses--Cisco (Lou
Diamond Phillips) and Paris (Avery Brooks). He has a demanding
fiance (Christina Applegate) with parents he's trying to impress
and a gold-digging mistress (Lela Rochon) to occupy his scarce
free time. Cisco proposes that stressed-out Mel kidnap Keiko
(China Chow), the young daughter of Jiro Nishi, a wealthy Japanese
industrialist. Mel captures her, but unfortunately Cisco is
unaware that she is the goddaughter of Paris, who promptly puts a
separate crew out to find and destroy Keiko's captors---and Paris
is unaware that Mel is the man they are looking for. This unique
and violent blend of action and comedy was executive produced by
John Woo
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Boogie
Nights (1997)
A dark comedy following the rise
and fall of Eddie Adams, a handsome, uneducated teenager who works
in the kitchen of a popular San Fernando Valley nightclub. Back at
home, Eddie has to face the oppressive company of a passive father
and a domineering mother who keeps reminding him he's stupid and a
failure. But when he's spotted at the club by Jack Horner, a
successful porn producer, Eddie is instantly lured to a promising
career in the adult entertainment industry.
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Traveller
(1997)
A seasoned grifter, Bokky,
welcomes a neophyte into his loose-knit clan of peripatetic
Irish-American scam artists, who, in the manner of modern-day
snake oil salesmen, make a living cheating small-town rubes across
the rural South. But a change of heart is in store for Bokky after
he falls in love with a woman he defrauded. An atmospheric,
languid directorial debut from "Twister" cinematographer
Green.
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Fear
(1996)
A pretty teenager meets and falls
in love with a charming, mysterious young man at an all-night rave
party in Seattle. When she stops seeing him after discovering he's
cheating on her with her best friend, he snaps, vowing vengeance
against her and her family. A tense thriller.
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The
Basketball Diaries (1995)
Based on the autobiographical
journals of poet Jim Carroll, BASKETBALL DIARIES follows the
descent of a Catholic high school student from star basketball
player to drug addict. Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his friends
roam the streets of New York City as goof-offs, petty thieves, and
junkies. Expelled from school for using drugs before a game, Jim
is also thrown out of his house and takes up street hustling. A
pre-superstardom DiCaprio gives a strong performance in this
gritty and uncompromising look at being young and streetwise.
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Renaissance
Man (1994)
An unemployed advertising
executive (Danny DeVito) takes a job teaching an underachieving
class of Army recruits in this fish-out-of-water story. His
radical tactics, though frowned on by the Army, help the students
learn, and in turn the kids teach him a thing or two.
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The
Substitute (1993)
A teacher who dislikes upstart
students gives them a "D" -- for death.
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