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A Prairie Home Companion

IMDB Rating: 7.20
6457 votes

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The movie is a celebrity version of Garrison Keillor's radio show of the same name. The movie takes place during the last live performance of the show as the new radio network owners have sent an axeman (Tommy Lee Jones)to close the show. Another fantasy element is thrown in as an angel (Virginia Madsen) stalks the theater to take one of the performers. Keillor essentially plays himself, even using his own name for the character. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play the singing Johnson Sisters, with Lindsay Lohan as a suicide-obsessed daughter of Streep. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are hilarious as the slightly off-color singing cowboy duo, Dusty & Lefty. Kevin Kline is a security guard who act as the narrator. Maya Rudolph also appears as a pregnant stage coordinator. Contains some mild sexually-oriented jokes.
Actors
DustyWoody Harrelson
AxemanTommy Lee Jones
Guy NoirKevin Kline
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Brick

IMDB Rating: 7.70
15153 votes

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In a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school, student Brendan Frye's piercing intelligence spares no one. He's not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. His feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, he enlists the aid of his only true peer, the Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan's single-minded unearthing of students' secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura, intimidating Tugger, substance-abusing Dode, seductive Kara, jock Brad and - most ominously - non-student the Pin. Only by gaining acceptance into the Pin's closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to.
Actors
BrendanJoseph Gordon-Levitt
LauraNora Zehetner
The PinLukas Haas
Also posted in 2005, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (0)

Saw II

IMDB Rating: 6.90
35870 votes

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When detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is called to a crime scene of a victim of Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), he finds a lead to the place where he is hidden. Once there, he realizes that Jigsaw trapped his son Daniel Matthews (Erik Knudsen) with three women and four men in a shelter, and they are inhaling a lethal nerve gas. If they do not use an antidote within two hours, they will die. Eric follows with increasing desperation the death of each member of the group in monitors, while trying to convince Jigsaw to release his son.
Also posted in 2005, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Sin City

IMDB Rating: 8.40
118245 votes

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"Sin City" is Four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The First Story (The Customer is always right)is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The Next Story is Part 1 of "That Yellow Bastard" starring Bruce Willis as a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The Third Story (The Hard Goodbye) features Mickey Rourke and his revenge on a heartless killer who murdered his one-night stand. The fourth story (The Big, Fat Kill) stars Clive Owen as a man who must dispatch of a cop's body, but it will be a tough ride to do it. Following that are two conclusions to Sin City, the ending of "That Yellow Bastard" which is set 8 years later, and a short story that ends Sin City.
Actors
NancyJessica Alba
MihoDevon Aoki
BeckyAlexis Bledel
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (3)

Helter Skelter

IMDB Rating: 6.00
737 votes

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A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.
Actors
Charles MansonJeremy Davies
Linda KasabianClea DuVall
Patricia 'Katie' KrenwinkleAllison Smith
Also posted in 2004, Action, Drama, Horror | Comments (0)

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)

The Poet

IMDB Rating: 3.70
125 votes

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A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past.
Actors
AndreiDougray Scott
PaulaLaura Harring
VashonJürgen Prochnow
Also posted in 2003, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

In the Cut

IMDB Rating: 5.20
7146 votes

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Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City—as if to test the limits of her own safety—propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows increasingly wary about the motives of every man with whom she has contact—and about her own.
Actors
PaulineJennifer Jason Leigh
FrannieMeg Ryan
Frannie's Young FatherMicheal Nuccio
Also posted in 2003, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Gigli

IMDB Rating: 2.30
18075 votes

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Gigli, a lowly and inept hitman, is assigned a job by the mob to kidnap a mentally retarded brother of a California district attorney. Gigli abducts the brother from his mental hospital and holds him hostage in his apartment. Ricki, a "lesbian assassin", is sent to oversee Gigli's job and make sure he doesn't screw it up. Comedic high jinks ensue as the two go on the lam and start to fall in love.
Actors
Larry GigliBen Affleck
Man in DryerTerry Camilleri
Laundry CustomerDavid Backus
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Crime, Romance | Comments (1)

Valentine

IMDB Rating: 4.10
6965 votes

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Valentine's Day 1988: At the school dance, geeky Jeremy Melton bravely faces one rejection after the other when asking four popular girls to dance with him. A fifth girl, plump and insecure, agrees, but they end up making out under the bleachers. When a group of school bullies catches them, the girl claims that Jeremy attacked her. This causes them to strip off his clothes and beat him up in front of the entire school. Flash forward to 2001. We meet the five girls who were in that school gym: Kate (Marley Shelton), Paige (Denise Richards), Shelly (Katherine Heigl), Lily (Jessica Cauffiel) and the formerly plump Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw). They are all in their 20's now and trying to sort out their love lives, which is appropriate, since Valentine's Day is coming up. After a disastrous date with a loser, one of the girls, a pre-med student, is murdered by a Cherub-mask wearing killer who sent her a death threat in the form of a Valentine card prior to the attack. After the four remaining girls are reunited at her funeral, they all start receiving threatening cards and messages. At first they don't know who would want to hurt them, but eventually they figure that maybe Jeremy is responsible. Police records show that Jeremy has completely disappeared, so no one knows what he looks like. Could the formerly nerdish Jeremy have had plastic surgery and turned into one of the girls' handsome boyfriends? Who ever it is, the lone survivor has to put a stop to this spurned individual's murder spree before she, too, becomes a valentine to die for.
Actors
Paige PrescottDenise Richards
Adam CarrDavid Boreanaz
Kate DaviesMarley Shelton
Also posted in 2001, Horror, Thriller | Comments (6)