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The Butterfly Effect 2

IMDB Rating: 4.40
3097 votes

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Nick Larson and his best friends Trevor Eastman and Amanda are celebrating the twentieth-fourth anniversary of his girlfriend Julie Miller in a beautiful lake on a Sunday morning. Nick is expecting to be promoted in the company where he works, and Julie is planning to move to his place instead of going to New York for her Master degree. However, Nick is called by his colleague Dave Bristol, who is disputing the promotion with Nick, for a meeting with a client. While in the road, Nick has an accident and Julie and his friends die. One year later, Nick finds that he can travel in time and tries to fix the past, with tragic consequences for the future.
Actors
Nick LarsonEric Lively
Julie MillerErica Durance
Trevor EastmanDustin Milligan
Also posted in 2006, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Big Momma’s House 2

IMDB Rating: 3.60
5623 votes

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Martin Lawrence returns as FBI agent Malcolm Turner, a master of disguise who again goes deep undercover as the sassy septuagenarian "Big Momma." The FBI has learned that a computer software developer named Tom Fuller has created a computer virus that allows access to classified US government files, Fuller is planning to sell the virus to terrorist organizations all over the world. Upon hearing this, the FBI's best lead is Fuller's wife. So Malcolm goes undercover again as Big Momma in order to pose as Mrs. Fuller's nanny. and as always, Big Momma once again turns the house upside down.
Actors
Malcolm TurnerMartin Lawrence
Assit. Bingo CallerElton LeBlanc
Sherry PierceNia Long
Also posted in 2006, Action, Comedy, Crime | Comments (0)

Thank You for Smoking

IMDB Rating: 7.90
24553 votes

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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick's son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad's philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there's always one more coffin nail in Nick's pack.
Actors
Nick NaylorAaron Eckhart
Polly BaileyMaria Bello
Joey NaylorCameron Bright
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

An American Haunting

IMDB Rating: 4.80
7059 votes

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In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe Batts, who has a fame of being a witch. From this moment on, an entity threatens John and her daughter Betsy Bell, attacking the girl during the nights. With the support of Betsy's school teacher Richard Powell, who tries to find rational explanations for the manifestation; her brother John Bell Jr.; and their friend James Johnston, who unsuccessfully tries to exorcize the entity from the house, the family does their best to protect Betsy in the haunted house.
Actors
John BellDonald Sutherland
Lucy BellSissy Spacek
Richard PowellJames D'Arcy
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

An Unfinished Life

IMDB Rating: 7.20
5731 votes

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In order to escape from the abusive boy-friend, Gary Winston (Damian Lewis), Jean Gilkyson (Jennifer Lopez) moves with her young daughter Griff Gilkyson (Becca Gardner) without previous notice to the ranch of her father-in-law Einar Gilkyson (Robert Redford) in Wyoming. Jean and Einar are disaffected, since he blames her for the death of his beloved son in a car accident. Einar is taking care of his friend Mitch Bradley (Morgan Freeman), who was attacked and seriously wounded by a bear, and he does not know that he has a grand-daughter. While Mitch heals his wounds and forgives the bear, Einar also changes his feelings regarding Jean, finally understanding that accidents happen and accepting her and loving his grand-daughter.
Actors
Einar GilkysonRobert Redford
Jean GilkysonJennifer Lopez
Mitch BradleyMorgan Freeman
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Boa vs. Python

IMDB Rating: 2.90
891 votes

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After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It's two great snakes that snake great together!
Actors
EmmettDavid Hewlett
MonicaJaime Bergman
Agent SharpeKirk B.R. Woller
Also posted in 2004, Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

House of Sand and Fog

IMDB Rating: 7.70
15956 votes

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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter's chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house's former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.
Actors
KathyJennifer Connelly
BehraniBen Kingsley
LesterRon Eldard
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Wonderland

IMDB Rating: 6.50
6114 votes

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John Holmes was a legend of the porn industry and revered in circles as a stud. But years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. He's estranged from his wife, holding onto a relationship with his teenage mistress, and living as a junkie in search of his next fix. But one fateful night left four people dead and John as a key suspect in one of the most grisly murders in Los Angeles. Was he partly responsible for what happened at Wonderland Avenue?
Actors
John HolmesVal Kilmer
Dawn SchillerKate Bosworth
Ron LauniusJosh Lucas
Also posted in 2003, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Pay It Forward

IMDB Rating: 6.70
15767 votes

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A school social studies assignment leads to social changes that spread from city-to-city. Assigned to come up with some idea that will improve mankind, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can "pay it forward" and so forth, positive changes can occur. What appears to initially be a failure, is indeed a success that is not immediately known but is traced backwards by a reporter who is a benefactor. The initial recipients of the boy are a drug addict (James Cavaziel), his badly scarred school teacher (Kevin Spacey), and his alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt). While physically and mentally scarred by past events, the teacher is not the only one bearing scars. The young boy fears his mother's fate, particularly at his brutal, alcoholic father's (Jon Bon Jovi) hands. The mother also bears scars from her childhood with a homeless, alcoholic mother (Angie Dickinson).
Actors
Eugene SimonetKevin Spacey
Arlene McKinneyHelen Hunt
Trevor McKinneyHaley Joel Osment
Also posted in 2000, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (15)

Men of Honor

IMDB Rating: 6.60
15619 votes

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The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is strife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer, determined to see him fail. Fate, challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulance and ultimately triumph.
Actors
Master Chief/Senior Chief/Chief Leslie W. 'Billy' SundayRobert De Niro
BM2/Chief/Senior Chief Carl BrashearCuba Gooding Jr.
Gwen SundayCharlize Theron
Also posted in 2000, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (11)