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Filmography
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You, Me and Dupree (2006)
A best man (Wilson) stays on as a
houseguest with the newlyweds, much to the couple's annoyance.
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Cars (2006) Action/Adventure, Comedy and
Kids/Family
1 hr. 36 min.
Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson), a hotshot rookie racecar driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the
journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly
detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. En
route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in
California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to
know the town's offbeat characters - including Sally (a snazzy
2002 Porsche voiced by Bonnie Hunt), Doc Hudson (a 1951 Hudson
Hornet with a mysterious past, voiced by Paul Newman), and Mater
(a rusty but trusty tow truck voiced by Larry the Cable Guy) -
who help him realize that there are more important things than
trophies, fame and sponsorship.
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The Wendell Baker Story (2006)
In his return to writing and as
director, Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job
in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back
his girlfriend (Eva
Mendes) as he lends them a hand in fighting
hotel corruption. Owen Wilson co-stars as the head nurse.
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Wedding Crashers (2005)
Comedy
Vaughn and Wilson star as a pair of divorce mediators who
spend their weekends crashing weddings in a search for Ms.
Right...for a night. But when one of them falls for the engaged
daughter (Rachel McAdams) of an influential and eccentric
politician (Christopher Walken) at the social event of the year,
they get roped into spending a weekend at the family's palatial
waterfront estate and quickly find themselves in over their
heads.
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Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Action/Adventure and Comedy
2 hrs. 00 min.
This version of the classic novel set in 1872 focuses on
Passepartout (Chan), a Chinese thief who steals a valuable jade
Buddha and then seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of
an eccentric London inventor and adventurer, Phileas Fogg (Coogan),
who has taken on a bet with members of his gentlemens' club that
he can make it around the world in a mere 80 days, using a
variety of means of transportation, like boats, trains,
balloons, elephants, etc. Along the way, Passepartout uses his
amazing martial arts abilities to defend Fogg from the many
dangers they face. One major threat to their adventure is a
detective that's following them. Why? Just as Fogg and
Passeportout left London, a major bank was robbed, with Fogg
suspected of using the "around the world" trip as an
excuse to escape. Their path from London and back includes stops
in Paris, Turkey, India, China and the United States of America.
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The Big Bounce (2004)
Romance, Thriller and
Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 48 min.
Jack Ryan is a likeable drifter whose talents lie just
outside the law. Hoping a change of scenery will bring him luck,
Jack heads for Hawaii. There on the exotic North Shore of Oahu,
he soon discovers that whether he is looking for a new con or a
little romance, temptation is everywhere. Jack takes a job
working construction for Ray Ritchie, a shady real estate
developer who is building a resort despite protests by local
Hawaiians. Almost immediately, Jack has a run-in with Ray
Ritchie's foreman, Lou Harris, and cold-cocks him across the jaw
with a Louisville Slugger. Bob Jr., Ritchie's right-hand man,
warns Jack to get off the island if he knows what's good for
him. Jack happily ignores Bob Jr. Impressed with Jack's knockout
ability, North Shore District Judge Walter Crewes offers Jack a
job while taking an unusually keen interest in Jack's past
crimes and uncertain future. Enter Nancy Hayes, a thrill-loving
local who specializes in good looks and petty crime. Wh! en
Nancy tries to seduce Jack into helping her double-cross Ray
Ritchie and steal $200,000 of his payoff money, Jack is
intrigued, but hesitant. This could be the perfect score, or the
perfect setup.
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Comedy
1 hr. 58 min.
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill
Murray) and his crew -- Team Zissou -- set sail on an expedition
to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly non-existant
Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary
filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their
voyage by a young airline co-pilot who may or may not be
Zissou's son (Owen Wilson), a beautiful journalist (Cate
Blanchett) assigned to write a profile of Zissou, and Zissou's
estranged wife and co-producer, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston). They
face overwhelming complications including pirates, kidnapping,
and bankruptcy.
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
Comedy
1 hr. 54 min.
Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker (Stiller)
to wed his daughter (Polo), ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes (De Niro) and
his wife (Danner) travel to Detroit to "meet the
parents", who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker
(Hoffman and Streisand), who are as different from them as can
be.
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Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Action/Adventure, Comedy and
Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 40 min.
Set in the 1970s in a metropolis called "Bay
City," this is the tale of two police detective partners,
Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (Wilson), and Dave Starsky
(Stiller), who always seem to get the toughest cases from their
boss, Captain Dobey, rely on omniscient street informer Huggy
Bear (Dogg) and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up
1974 Ford Torino hot rod, telling the story of their first big
case (as a prequel to the TV show), which involved a former
college campus drug dealer (Vaughn) who went on to become a
white collar criminal.
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Shanghai Knights (2003)
Action/Adventure and Comedy
1 hr. 47 min.
After taming the wild west in the comedy “Shanghai
Noon,” Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) and Roy O’Bannon (Owen
Wilson) are back in the saddle, but off the range – this time,
they’re out to settle a score in civilized London in the
sequel, “Shanghai Knights.” When a Chinese rebel murders
Chon’s estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy
make their way to London with revenge on their minds. Chon’s
sister, Lin, has the same idea, and uncovers a worldwide
conspiracy to murder the royal family – but almost no one will
believe her. With the help of a kindly Scotland Yard Inspector
and a 10-year-old street urchin, the acrobatic Chon (Chan) gives
Victorian Britain a kick in the pants as he attempts to avenge
his father’s death – and keep the romance-minded Roy away
from his sister.
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I Spy (2002)
Action/Adventure and Comedy
1 hr. 37 min.
When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype
stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government,
one of the United States’ top spies, Alex Scott (Owen Wilson),
is called to action. What he doesn’t expect is to get teamed
up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly
Robinson (Eddie Murphy), on a dangerous top secret espionage
mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor,
catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world’s most successful
illegal arms dealers, and foil his treacherous plans for the
plane.
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Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Action/Adventure and Drama
1 hr. 45 min.
A Navy pilot (Owen Wilson) is shot down over enemy territory
and struggles to survive the relentless pursuit of a ruthless
secret police enforcer, a deadly tracker, and countless hostile
troops. With time running out, the injured pilot's commanding
officer (Gene Hackman) goes against orders to carry out a
desperate rescue mission.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Comedy
1 hr. 50 min.
Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etheline (Anjelica
Huston) had three children -- Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke
Wilson) and Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) -- and then they separated.
Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to
have an almost preternatural understanding of international
finance. Margot was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant
of fifty thousand dollars in the ninth grade. Richie was a
junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three
years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the
young Tenenbuams was subsequently erased by two decades of
betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally
considered to be their father's fault. "THE ROYAL
TENENBAUMS" tells the story of a family's sudden,
unexpected reunion one recent winter.
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Zoolander (2001)
Comedy
1 hr. 45 min.
Ben Stiller is Derek Zoolander, a supermodel overflowing
with charisma but lacking in common sense. He is targeted by a
dangerous crime organization that wants him to carry out some
dangerous plans. Suddenly, Zoolander has to think fast - but
with his head always in the clouds, Zoolander has trouble
thinking at all.
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Meet the Parents (2000)
Comedy
1 hr. 48 min.
In Meet the Parents, everything that could possibly go wrong
for groom-to-be Greg Focker does. The problems begin with Greg's
disastrous first meeting with his girlfriend's family-most
notably her intimidating father Jack Byrnes-and it's all
downhill from there.
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Shanghai Noon (2000)
Action/Adventure and Comedy
1 hr. 45 min.
The Wild West meets the Far East in a battle for honor,
royalty and a trunk full of gold when acrobatic Imperial Guard
Chong Wang comes to America to rescue a beautiful kidnapped
Chinese princess. With the help of a partner he doesn't trust, a
wife he doesn't want, a horse he cannot ride and martial arts
moves that no one can believe, Chan finds himself facing the
meanest gunslingers in the West.
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Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Comedy
Midland City madman Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) has car
commercials on every local channel and his smiling face beaming
down from every billboard, but he’s not smiling inside; his
life is falling apart. Not only is he saddled with a
pill-popping schizophrenic wife (Barbara Hershey), a
glitter-covered lounge singer son named Bunny (Lukas Haas), and
a paranoid, cross-dressing sales manager (Nick Nolte, in a
hilarious performance), but it’s Hawaiian week at the
dealership, and everyone is acting extra-bizarre, especially
Dwayne. Luckily, obscure science fiction novelist Kilgore Trout
(Albert Finney) is coming to Midland City to preside over an art
festival--and maybe save the day. His eyes wide open to the
cosmic truths behind the horrors of existence, Trout might be
the one man who can lead Hoover out of the hell of his own
perceptions.
Based on the revered Kurt Vonnegut novel, this ultraweird film
from director Alan Rudolph may alienate viewers in search of a
conventional narrative, but those in the mood for a
neopsychedelic trip through the American psyche should enjoy the
ride. They’ll also dig the great "exotica" score by
lounge legend Martin Denny.
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The Haunting (1999)
Suspense/Horror and Thriller
1 hr. 57 min.
A remake of the classic 1963 movie "The Haunting"
about a team of paranormal experts who look into strange
occurrences in an ill-fated house. Through the course of the
night some will unravel, some will question, and all will fight
for their lives as the house fights back.
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The Minus Man (1999)
Drama
A placid drifter named Vann (Owen Wilson) inhabits a small
town looking for a fresh start on life. His passive demeanor and
appearance hides the fact that he's a serial killer. He wanders
the country preying on the desperate and lonely. Although, in
this particular town, he becomes romantically entangled with a
postal worker (Janeane Garofalo) and their relationship may be
the one thing that can put an end to his murderous ways, or will
it? An offbeat psychological drama from the producers of SLING
BLADE and the writer of BLADE RUNNER that presents an eerie look
into the mind of a serial killer.
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Armageddon (1998)
Science Fiction/Fantasy and
Thriller
2 hrs. 24 min.
Bruce Willis stars as a roughneck oil driller who takes his
merry band of misfits into outer space to save the world from a
giant asteroid on a collision course with it.
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Permanent Midnight (1998)
Documentary and Drama
Based on the memoirs of Jerry Stahl, a successful TV writer
who was reduced to working at a McDonalds' drive-thru window by
his crippling addiction to heroin. Ben Stiller gives an
acclaimed performance as Stahl in this gritty film ripe with
darkly comedic moments. Stahl himself has a cameo as a drug
counselor.
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Anaconda (1997)
Suspense/Horror
A big-budget B-movie thrill ride, ANACONDA stars Jon Voight
as Sarone, a hardened, crusty river man riding the Amazon who is
rescued by a film crew when the propeller on his boat
malfunctions. The crew, led by director Terri Flores (Jennifer
Lopez), hopes to make a documentary about the Amazon tribe known
as The People of the Mist. She is joined by her cinematographer
(Ice Cube) and a scientist (Eric Stoltz), among others.
Unfortunately for all of them, a monstrous, 40-foot
anaconda--which habitually swallows its prey whole--is on the
rampage. The snake, which is a marvel of effects technology
achieved through a seamless combination of animatronics and
computer animation, helped make this one of the box office
success stories of 1997.
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Bottle Rocket (1996)
Comedy
Three criminally aspiring friends bungle their way through a
series of misadventures in this oddball comedy from Austin
auteur Wes Anderson. Brothers Luke and Owen Wilson play best
friends Anthony and Dignan, two good-hearted though confused
misfits who, along with their friend Bob (Robert Musgrave),
attempt to find purpose in their lives by starting criminal
careers. Though they make rather unimpressive criminals, the
three guys shine in their unwavering sense of honor, friendship,
and loyalty. BOTTLE ROCKET is an endearing, funny, and unique
comic gem, featuring James Caan's adept turn as the local crime
boss.
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The Cable Guy (1996)
Comedy
When a young urbanite calls to order cable TV for his
apartment he gets much more than he bargained for, as the
demented title character arrives and proceeds to insinuate his
way into the beleaguered customer's life. Raised by television
as a child and starved for human contact, the "cable
guy" is a darkly hilarious carnation of the modern age.
Carey's manic karaoke rendition of Jefferson Airplane's
"Somebody to Love" is a twisted highlight.
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