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Christmas with the Kranks

IMDB Rating: 4.60
4414 votes

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Allen portrays Luther Krank who, fed up with the commerciality of Christmas, decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration.
Actors
Luther KrankTim Allen
Nora KrankJamie Lee Curtis
Vic FrohmeyerDan Aykroyd
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Family | Comments (0)

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)

Head of State

IMDB Rating: 5.00
4751 votes

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Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, is about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee—for President of the United States. The players in Gilliam's life include: Mitch Gilliam, his unsophisticated older brother who becomes his running mate; Kim, his ex-girlfriend who had once dumped him, but who now has a sudden change of heart as she sees a chance at becoming First Lady; Martin Geller, his campaign manager; Lisa Clark, the woman who truly believes in Gilliam; and Debra Lassiter, the woman who doesn't have faith in his candidacy, and is serving as his reluctant advisor.
Actors
Mitch GilliamBernie Mac
Martin GellerDylan Baker
Brian LewisNick Searcy
Also posted in 2003, Comedy | Comments (2)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

IMDB Rating: 6.70
30769 votes

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Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think it's his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt's travel agency (again making her father think it's his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula's huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself.
Actors
Toula PortokalosNia Vardalos
Gus PortokalosMichael Constantine
Ian MillerJohn Corbett
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (8)

John Q

IMDB Rating: 6.40
15343 votes

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John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.
Actors
John Quincy ArchibaldDenzel Washington
Beautiful WomanGabriela Oltean
Lt. Frank GrimesRobert Duvall
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (4)

Dragonfly

IMDB Rating: 5.80
6426 votes

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Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner) lost his wife, Emily (Susanna Thompson), in a bus accident in South America. It's hard for him to accept her death, but when it seems that he could move on with his life, at least, something weird happen. Mysterious symbols starts appear around him all the time, and Joe sure that Emily is beyond all this, trying to contact him and to tell him something. He goes after the clues that the symbols left, which lead him to different places. His friends think he become nuts, but he is steady with his decision to find out what's behind the symbols. When the last symbol brings him to South America, he is about to be very very surprised
Actors
Joe DarrowKevin Costner
Emily DarrowSusanna Thompson
Hugh CampbellSamantha Morton
Also posted in 2002, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (5)

Red Dragon

IMDB Rating: 7.30
34660 votes

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FBI Agent Will Graham has been called out of early retirement to catch a serial killer, known by authorities as "The Tooth Fairy". He asks for the help of his arch-nemesis, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, so that he can be able to catch "The Tooth Fairy" and bring him to justice. The only problem is that "The Tooth Fairy" is getting inside information about Graham and his family from none other than Dr. Lecter.
Actors
Dr. Hannibal LecterAnthony Hopkins
Will GrahamEdward Norton
Francis DolarhydeRalph Fiennes
Also posted in 2002, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (9)

On the Line

IMDB Rating: 3.20
1654 votes

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A young man (Bass) meets a girl (Chriqui) on a train, only to spend the rest of the movie trying to reunite with her (one of the love-at-first-sight things), aided by his best friend (Fatone) in a quest of posters and signs that soon gains public notice. Will he ever find his soulmate?
Actors
KevinLance Bass
RodJoey Fatone
AbbeyEmmanuelle Chriqui
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Family, Romance | Comments (1)

The Whole Nine Yards

IMDB Rating: 6.50
25584 votes

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Oz is a Montréal dentist, paying off debts so he can divorce his wife: the dislike is mutual. When she learns their new neighbor is hit man Jimmy the Tulip, with a price on his head, she sends Oz to Chicago to earn a finder's fee telling Mob boss Yanni where to find Jimmy. To get his wife off his back, Oz goes, his assistant Jill urging him to get laid while there. One of Yanni's men awaits Oz at the hotel; Oz's now in too deep to avoid telling Yanni what he knows. Meanwhile, Oz's wife rats on Oz to Jimmy, hoping Jimmy will kill Oz and she can cash in on life insurance. Oz meets Jimmy's wife (Yanni's captive), flips for her, and the double-crosses mount. Even Jill isn't whom she seems.
Actors
Jimmy 'The Tulip' TudeskiBruce Willis
Nicholas 'Oz' OseranskyMatthew Perry
Sophie OseranskyRosanna Arquette
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (23)

What Women Want

IMDB Rating: 6.30
30234 votes

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Nick, a somewhat chauvanistic advertising exec hot shot, has his life turned haywire when a fluke accident enables him to hear what women think. At first all he wants to do is rid himself of this curse, until a wacky psycologist (played to perfection by Bette Midler) shows him that this could be used to his advantage! His first target is Darcy McGuire, the very woman that got the promotion he wanted. But just as his plan is beginning to work, love gets in the way...
Actors
Nick MarshallMel Gibson
Darcy McGuireHelen Hunt
LolaMarisa Tomei
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (25)
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