Tag Archives: character name in title

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

IMDB Rating: 6.90
24236 votes

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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.
Actors
Count OlafJim Carrey
KlausLiam Aiken
VioletEmily Browning
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (5)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

IMDB Rating: 7.20
30608 votes

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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he's having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he's attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?
Actors
Steve ZissouBill Murray
Ned PlimptonOwen Wilson
Jane Winslett-RichardsonCate Blanchett
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Starsky & Hutch

IMDB Rating: 6.20
25220 votes

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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 (Electra plays Hutch's girlfriend).
Actors
David StarskyBen Stiller
Ken HutchinsonOwen Wilson
Huggy BearSnoop Dogg
Also posted in 2004, Action, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Seed of Chucky

IMDB Rating: 5.10
4839 votes

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The killer doll is back! The all-new film is the fifth in the popular series of Chucky ("Child's Play") horror comedies. Making his directorial debut is the franchise creator and writer of all five films, Don Mancini. The film introduces Glen (voiced by "The Lord of the Rings" star Billy Boyd), the orphan doll offspring of the irrepressible devilish-doll-come-to-life Chucky (again voiced by series star Brad Dourif) and his equally twisted bride Tiffany (again voiced by Jennifer Tilly). When production starts on a movie detailing the urban legend of his parents' lethal exploits, Glen heads for Hollywood where he brings his bloodthirsty parents back from the dead. The family dynamics are far from perfect as Chucky and Tiffany go Hollywood and get rolling on a new spree of murderous mayhem; much to gentle Glen's horror. Chucky can't believe that his child doesn't want to walk in his murdering footsteps, and star-struck Tiffany can't believe that the movie will star her favorite actress, Jennifer Tilly (playing herself), who soon becomes an unwitting hostess to this new family in more ways than one...
Actors
ChuckyBrad Dourif
TiffanyJennifer Tilly
Glen/GlendaBilly Boyd
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Crime, Horror | Comments (1)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

IMDB Rating: 6.40
23571 votes

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Set in New York City circa 1939, the film centers on a reporter who notices that the world's scientists are disappearing. Teamed with a skilled pilot and an adventurous colleague, it's up to her to thwart the plans of a mad scientist bent on world domination.
Actors
Polly PerkinsGwyneth Paltrow
Joe "Sky Captain" SullivanJude Law
DexGiovanni Ribisi
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (3)

Alexander

IMDB Rating: 5.40
30272 votes

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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.
Actors
Old PtolemyAnthony Hopkins
HephaistionJared Leto
AlexanderColin Farrell
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, War | Comments (2)

Meet the Fockers

IMDB Rating: 6.40
32714 votes

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Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gaylord M. Focker?
Actors
Jack ByrnesRobert De Niro
Greg FockerBen Stiller
Bernie FockerDustin Hoffman
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (3)

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

IMDB Rating: 7.20
7168 votes

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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother's old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon's broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.
Actors
Samuel J. BickeSean Penn
Marie Andersen BickeNaomi Watts
Bonny SimmonsDon Cheadle
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

IMDB Rating: 7.70
50970 votes

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It's Harry's 3rd Year at Hogwarts, not only does he have a new "Defense against the Dark-Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards Prison, is coming after Harry.
Actors
Harry PotterDaniel Radcliffe
Uncle VernonRichard Griffiths
Aunt MargePam Ferris
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (10)

The Passion of the Christ

IMDB Rating: 7.20
54134 votes

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The Passion of The Christ focusses on the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The film begins in the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus has gone to pray after sitting the Last Supper. Jesus must resist the temptations of Satan. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death.
Actors
Rosalinda Celentano
Sergio Rubini
JesusJames Caviezel
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (7)