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Sam and George (2007)
Two old friends
reunite after one of them (Gibson) is released from prison after
serving twenty years for a crime he didn't commit.
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Warrior (2007)
A drama about the
warrior Boudica and her rise from peasant roots to become a
military leader who led Britain against the Romans in 61 A.D., and
who was posthumously crowned the first queen of the empire.
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Under and Alone
(2007)
In Southern
California, an ATF agent infiltrates the notorious Mongols
motorcycle gang.
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Apocalypto (2006)
An
action/adventure film set 600 years ago, prior to the 16th-century
Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America, where a man goes
on a perilous journey to save his idyllic world.
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The Passion of The
Christ (2004)
2
hrs. 06 min. This film tells the story of the
last
12 hours in the life of Jesus (Caviezel), on the day of
his crucifixion in Jerusalem. This film's script is
based upon several sources, including the diaries of St.
Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) as collected in the
book, "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus
Christ", "The Mystical City of God" by
St. Mary of Agreda, and the New Testament books of John,
Luke, Mark and Matthew.
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Paparazzi (2004)
Thriller
1 hr. 25 min. When an overzealous group of four
paparazzi photographers cause a car accident that
injures his wife (Tunney) and son, a hot young (and very
angry) movie star named Bo Laramie (Hauser) concocts a
revenge plot against them.
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The Singing
Detective (2003)
Musical/Performing
Arts and Thriller
1 hr. 49 min. Robert Downey Jr. stars as Dan Dark, a
bedridden crime novelist writing about a private
investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band.
The detective is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue
during the murder investigation of a prostitute. Heavily
medicated, the border between reality and fiction starts
to blur in Dark's mind. The plot is woven together with
his own childhood memories, and soon he is living in a
fevered film-noir hell constructed by his own twisted
psyche, where everyone is his enemy and no one can be
trusted. Mel Gibson co-stars as the enigmatic Dr.
Gibbon, the hospital psychiatrist who dares to take on
Dark's tortured mind.
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Signs (2002)
Thriller
1 hr. 47 min. Writer/Director M. Night Shyamalan
follows up THE SIXTH SENSE and UNBREAKABLE with his new
feature film, SIGNS, a thriller set in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania focusing on the mysterious appearance of a
five-hundred-foot design of circles and lines carved
into a family's crops. Mel Gibson stars as Graham Hess,
the family patriarch, who is tested in his journey to
find the truth behind the unfolding mystery. Joaquin
Phoenix is Merrill Hess, brother to Graham and a former
minor league baseball star.
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We Were Soldiers
(2002)
Action/Adventure
and Drama
2 hrs. 17 min. Based on the true story of Lt. Col.
Hal Moore (Mel Gibson), who led 400 American soldiers
into the first bloody battle of the Vietnam War.
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The Million Dollar
Hotel (2001)
Art/Foreign,
Romance and Thriller
2 hrs. 02 min. In this Wim
Wenders-directed film,
Mel Gibson plays a detective investigating the murder of
a millionaire's son. He died in a run-down hotel on the
edge of Hollywood that is inhabited by a closely knit
group of eccentric mentally ill people (Milla Jovovich
and Jeremy Davies play two of them). With a script based
on ideas by U2's Bono, THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL is a
smorgasbord of interesting components.
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Chicken Run (2000)
Comedy,
Drama and Animation
1 hr. 35 min. A comedy drama set on a Yorkshire
chicken farm in 1950s England, the story follows the
turbulent romance between Rocky the Rooster and Ginger
the chicken, both of whom yearn for freedom and are
planning a daring "prisoner of war" style
escape. Both chickens are tired of being repressed and
know they face an eventual certain death, so in planning
their escape, they rally with their fellow chickens.
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The Patriot (2000)
Drama
2 hrs. 40 min. Benjamin Martin is a reluctant hero
who is swept into the American Revolution when the war
reaches his home and threatens his family. A hero of the
fierce French and Indian conflict, Martin had renounced
fighting forever to raise his family in peace. But when
the British arrive at his South Carolina home and
endanger what he holds most dear, Martin takes up arms
alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel, and leads
a brave rebel Militia into battle against a relentless
and overwhelming English army. In the process, he
discovers the only way to protect his family is to fight
for a young nation's freedom.
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What Women Want
(2000)
Comedy,
Drama and Romance
2 hrs. 00 min. A Chicago advertising exec, Nick
Marshall, gets a whole new outlook on life when a fluke
accident gives him the ability to read women's minds. At
first, this gift provides Nick with way too much
information, but he begins to realize that he can use it
to good effect, especially when it comes to outwitting
his new boss, Darcy Maguire. In spite of his best
efforts to finesse Darcy, he soon finds himself falling
in love and ultimately understanding what women want.
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Attack Force Z
(1999)
The
elite volunteers of Attack Force Z are assigned the
difficult and dangerous task of locating and recovering
a defecting Japanese government official. Set in the
Sambalang Straits in the South Pacific during World War
II.
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Payback (1999)
Action/Adventure,
Thriller and Crime/Gangster
2 hrs. 00 min. The heist goes smoothly enough. The
cash is already hot. So when Porter and Val steal it,
they're in the clear. Time comes around to split the
take and Val makes three grave mistakes: he takes
Porter's cut; he takes Porter's wife and tries to take
Porter's life. Problem is, when you kill this guy, you
better make sure he's dead. Porter soon resurfaces,
reborn with a serious case of tunnel-vision. He wants
his cut and doesn't care what he has to do to get it.
Now, everyone in the city's criminal underworld,
including an air-tight syndicate called The Outfit, have
Porter's cross-hairs trained on them.
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Lethal Weapon 4
(1998)
Action/Adventure
and Comedy
Fourth in the series of
uber-successful action films
directed by Richard Donner. Gibson and Glover return as
Los Angeles detectives who can't seem to get through a
day without a shooting, a robbery, or a car chase.
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Conspiracy Theory
(1997)
Drama
A crackpot Big Apple cabbie finds himself in a heap
of trouble after his self-published conspiracy 'zine
elicits the interest of some shady government
heavies--and leads to the unexplained murders of all
five subscribers. As the J. Edgars close in, he takes to
the lam with the one person who may be able to help
him--a Justice Department attorney with a mysterious
murder of her own to solve.
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Ransom (1996)
Drama
A headstrong airline tycoon pays the ransom for his
abducted son, despite the pleas of his wife and FBI
agents, then must gamble on the consequences of
attempting to turn the tables on the kidnapper, setting
up a gut-wrenching confrontation between the anguished
father and the increasingly desperate criminals. This
tightly conceived nail-biter, with head-spinning plot
twists, is another fine effort from the director of
"Apollo 13."
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Braveheart (1995)
Action/Adventure
and Romance
2 hrs. 50 min. Mel Gibson directs and stars in this
Academy Award-winning epic based on the life of
legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero William
Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death
of an heirless king, Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the
political landscape precarious. Edward the Longshanks,
King of England (Patrick McGoohan), has captured
Scotland's throne and threatens the freedom of all
Scottish people, as tyrannical policies instituted by
the English plague the Scots. Initially, Wallace is
content to stand by the wayside, yearning for the simple
life of building a home and raising a family. However,
when the woman he loves (Catherine McCormack) suffers a
cruel fate at the hands of English soldiers, Wallace
takes a stand against the new rule. With his fierce
patriotism and determination, he gathers an amateur but
passionately rebellious army. Although this makeshift
force may be outnumbered by the English troops, their
desperation and love for their land surpass any military
maneuvers, as evidenced in the film's breathtaking
battle sequences.
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Maverick (1994)
Western
An updating of the classic Western TV series
"Maverick," this comic oater finds our
fast-talking, hard-gambling hero surviving many
adventures while trying to come up with enough money to
play in a high-stakes poker game. Penned by William
Goldman with music by Randy Newman. Academy Award
Nominations: Best Costume Design.
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The Man Without a
Face (1993)
In Mel
Gibson's directorial debut, THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE,
Chuck Nordstadt (Nick Stahl) has idealized the memory of
his deceased fighter pilot father so much that he dreams
of one day walking in his footsteps by attending
military school. When he fails the entrance exam at his
father's alma mater, Chuck asks former teacher Justin
McLeod (Mel Gibson), a disfigured recluse living in the
coastal village where Chuck and his family are
vacationing, to help tutor him. Chuck and McLeod develop
a special friendship that helps both to overcome their
tragic, difficult pasts.
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Forever Young
(1992)
Drama
A test pilot loses his true love so he volunteers to
become cryogenically frozen for an experiment. Many
years later a group of young boys stumble across his
frozen capsule and revive him. He befriends the boy's
mother and learns that his old sweetheart is still
alive. Can they be reunited after so much time has gone
by?
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Lethal Weapon 3
(1992)
Action/Adventure
L.A. police detectives Riggs and Murtaugh team up
again to track down an ex-cop who has been smuggling
guns out of impound back to gangs on the street. Days
away from retirement, Murtaugh is reluctantly pushed
into action by Riggs.
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Air America (1990)
Comedy
Based on actual events, this satiric drama--based on
true events--tells the story of an airline allegedly
purchased by the CIA solely for the purpose of opium and
heroin smuggling out of Laos to help finance the Vietman
War. One pilot (Mel Gibson) believes in his mission. The
other (Robert Downey, Jr.) would like to do the whole
program in. The retired General who heads the operation
will do anything to protect it.
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Bird on a Wire
(1990)
Comedy
Happy-go-lucky hairdresser Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson)
did a good turn fifteen years ago when he gave the
government a much-needed testimony in a court case that
put a dangerous drug dealer behind bars. The Witness
Protection Program kept up its side of the bargain,
moving him around over the years and hiding his
identity. Now they have him working in a Detroit gas
station, but his cover is blown when a former
girlfriend, Marianne Graves (Goldie Hawn) discovers Rick
at about the same time that the now-released, and very
angry, drug dealer has caught up to him. A shootout
ensues and Rick and his ex barely escape with their
lives. Now the former lovers must flee together; on the
run, they rediscover their shared past as they
desperately try to keep one step ahead of the killers.
Set against thrilling backdrops and fantastical
settings, director John Badham's film is a funny and
heartwarming romantic adventure highlighting the
bumbling antics of Goldie Hawn and the action heroics of
Mel Gibson
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Hamlet (1990)
Drama
2 hrs, 15 min. Mel Gibson stars in Franco
Zeffirelli's version of the Shakespeare classic
"Hamlet," in which the young prince of Denmark
returns home after his father has died, and he is left
to uncover the conspiracy that has led to this tragedy
that includes his own mother, Gertrude (Glenn Close).
Helena Bonham Carter plays Ophelia.
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Lethal Weapon 2
(1989)
Action/Adventure
Murtaugh is still the family man. Riggs is still the
daredevil, but now he counts the odds before bucking
them. This time, they must protect an accountant who has
laundered a half billion dollars in narcotics money. He
leads them to a murderous syndicate with ties to a
foreign power. Along the way, there's a six-story
plummet from a window, a booby-trapped toilet, an
underwater escape, and more. Academy Award Nominations:
Best Sound Effects Editing.
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Tequila Sunrise
(1988)
Drama
A former drug dealer trying to leave the business
once and for all comes up against his best friend, a
narcotics cop. Also caught in the net of suspicion is
the beautiful restaurant owner with whom they're both in
love. Academy Award Nominations: Best Cinematography.
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Lethal Weapon
(1987)
Action/Adventure
and Drama
1 hr. 57 min. The first in a series of four Lethal
Weapons. Mel Gibson plays an emotionally off-balanced
undercover cop. His partner, Danny Glover, is good
valued family man. The two opposite personalities become
embroiled in a series of tense and exciting situations.
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Mad Max Beyond
Thunderdome (1985)
Science
Fiction/Fantasy
In this third installment in the "Mad Max"
series, Max battles the crafty ruler of Bartertown,
Aunty Entity (Tina Turner). Among many other pop hits,
the film features the songs, "We Don't Need Another
Hero," and "One of the Living."
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Mrs. Soffel (1985)
Drama
A woman who distributes Bibles to prison inmates has
an affair with one of them, and later helps him to
escape. Set in Pittsburgh during the turn of the
century.
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The Bounty (1984)
Action/Adventure
THE BOUNTY is a well-made adventure based on the
disastrous voyage of the HMS Bounty, starring Mel Gibson
as the rebellious crew leader Fletcher Christian and
Anthony Hopkins as the stern Captain Bligh. Although the
story was filmed twice before, this revisionist version
of the mutinous tale offers new insight into the
characters, particularly through its depiction and
exoneration of Bligh. In this film, he is seen as a
professional seaman who maintains an appropriate level
of discipline, rather than an outrageous tyrant. Under
Bligh's autocratic rule, the Bounty begins an ill-timed
voyage around Cape Horn. The crew approach a breaking
point, and Christian leads them in revolt. But Christian
fails to grasp the dire consequences that await them
all. Roger Donaldson's movie features a remarkable cast
that includes Gibson, Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Liam
Neeson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Edward Fox, and Bernard Hill.
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The River (1984)
Drama
Mae and Tom Garvey (Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson,
respectively) are farmers at a time (the mid-1980s) when
bankers, real estate agents, and nature itself threaten
to destroy their way of life in THE RIVER, a powerful
film about the fragility of the American dream. When the
local river floods and nearly destroys the farms around
it, hardship hits the area. The Garveys are also at odds
with the local power authority and one of its chief
officers, Joe Wade (Scott Glenn), who has plans to build
a dam and flood the land for a hydroelectric project.
Though the family stoically attempts to continue working
its farm, massive debts and a poor season finally force
Tom Garvey to accept a low-paying factory job as a scab.
As they struggle to keep up, Wade hovers vulturelike
over the Garvey farm, waiting for its demise. Director
Mark Rydell's THE RIVER is a truly beautiful, subtly
heartwrenching, and unique film in that it captures the
seldom-seen pleasures of living and growing up in an
endangered world--that of the family farm. When the
Garveys and their children work the land and tend the
animals proudly and happily, their sun-drenched farm
seems like paradise.
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The Year of Living
Dangerously (1983)
Action/Adventure
An Australian reporter assigned to Jakarta,
Indonesia, during the summer of 1965, struggles to
uncover the dangerous truth about the toppling
government of the Dictator Sukarno. Academy Awards: Best
Supporting Actress--Linda Hunt.
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Gallipoli (1981)
Action/Adventure
A profound study of the friendship of two young
Australian men caught up in the murderous First World
War. Set on the Turkish front in 1915, this film
effectively combines history and drama.
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The Road Warrior
(1981)
Science
Fiction/Fantasy
The first sequel to MAD MAX takes place after
nuclear war has destroyed Australia. In this
installment, Max lends his aid and protection to a small
band of survivors who are losing their struggle to
protect an oil refinery under siege by a band of savage,
mohawked marauders. Playing very much like a
post-apocalyptic western (right down to Max's dog,
Hondo) THE ROAD WARRIOR boats one of the most thrilling
car chase scenes ever filmed.
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Mad Max (1979)
Action/Adventure,
Art/Foreign and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Rebel bikers combat the police in a bleak
post-nuclear future where the highways are bloody
battlegrounds. When a gang of motorcyclists brutally
murder a policeman's family he becomes Mad Max, avenger
of the highways. Sequel: "The Road Warrior."
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Tim (1979)
Drama
A handsome, mentally retarded young man shares an
intimate relationship with an attractive businesswoman
in her mid-40's. When the question of marriage
eventually arises, they both suddenly realize the
seriousness of their friendship. Based on the novel by
Colleen McCollough.
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Summer City (1977)
Comedy
A sizzling, sexy surfing epic starring Mel Gibson.
Plenty of pretty girls and spectacular scenery make this
film a super hit.
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