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Under the Tuscan Sun

IMDB Rating: 6.60
8606 votes

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Academy Award nominee 'Diane Lane (I)' (qv) stars as 'Frances Mayes' (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer's block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on 'Frances Mayes' (qv)' memoir of the same name.
Actors
FrancesDiane Lane
PattiSandra Oh
KatherineLindsay Duncan
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (1)

Hot Fuzz

IMDB Rating: 8.10
64792 votes

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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "acidents".
Actors
Sgt. Nicholas AngelSimon Pegg
Met SergeantMartin Freeman
Met Chief InspectorBill Nighy
Also posted in 2007, Action, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (1)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

IMDB Rating: 7.40
71084 votes

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Captain Jack Sparrow's life is in debt to the legendary Davey Jones, Captain of the Flying Dutchmen who are supernatural warriors out for blood. Facing possible eternal damnation, Jack must save himself with help from Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who must come to Jack's aid.
Actors
Jack SparrowJohnny Depp
Will TurnerOrlando Bloom
Elizabeth SwannKeira Knightley
Also posted in 2006, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Pink Panther

IMDB Rating: 4.90
11747 votes

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When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) to the case. His intention is to give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno) to work with Closeau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery.
Actors
ClouseauSteve Martin
DreyfusKevin Kline
PontonJean Reno
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Crime, Mystery | Comments (1)

Lord of War

IMDB Rating: 7.70
33996 votes

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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.
Actors
Yuri OrlovNicolas Cage
Ava FontaineBridget Moynahan
Vitaly OrlovJared Leto
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

National Treasure

IMDB Rating: 6.80
35933 votes

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Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who've all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben's close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.
Actors
Ben GatesNicolas Cage
Abigail ChaseDiane Kruger
Riley PooleJustin Bartha
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating | Comments (5)

What a Girl Wants

IMDB Rating: 5.70
6285 votes

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Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman.
Actors
Daphne ReynoldsAmanda Bynes
Henry DashwoodColin Firth
Libby ReynoldsKelly Preston
Also posted in 2003, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | Comments (1)

Cheaper by the Dozen

IMDB Rating: 5.70
12338 votes

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The Bakers, a family of 12, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker (Martin) gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife (Hunt) also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in order while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart.
Actors
Tom BakerSteve Martin
Kate BakerBonnie Hunt
Nora BakerPiper Perabo
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Family | Comments (0)

Mars Attacks!

IMDB Rating: 6.10
31675 votes

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President James Dale of the United States and his right-hand man, Jerry Ross discover that an army of Martian UFOs are hovering around the Earth, and everyone has a different response. Some, like Texan alcohol dealer Art Land and slimy nesman Jason Black, just want to make a profit out of it. Others, such as TV hostess Nathalie Lake, Land's spiritualist wife Barbara, and the Southern-like Norris family, are excited, and some, like Dale's wife, Marsha, and daughter, Taffy, don't care. Richie Norris is extremely intelligent but is only respected by his insane grandmother, while his older brother Billy is favored for joining the army. General Decker doesn't trust the Martians and insist they fight, but General Casey is more optimistic. The Martians appear to come in peace but suddenly begin to use their super-powerful and technologically advanced weapons to wipe out the population and great structures. Soon, they attack Las Vegas, where the Norrises are living, where former heavyweight champion Byron Williams is visiting, where an obnoxious lawyer is gambling, and where Tom Jones is performing in concerts.
Actors
President James Dale/Art LandJack Nicholson
First Lady Marsha DaleGlenn Close
Barbara LandAnnette Bening
Also posted in 1996, Action, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)