Tag Archives: lawyer

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

IMDB Rating: 4.30
10595 votes

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Sassy postgrad Elle Woods (Witherspoon) is all about animal rights. In fact, she puts her nuptial plans on hold to head to Washington D.C. to get an anti-animal testing bill passed. Her building's doorman (Newhart) quickly shows her the ways and workings of our nation's capital.
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Elle WoodsReese Witherspoon
Rep. Victoria RuddSally Field
Grace RossiterRegina King
Also posted in 2003, Comedy | Comments (0)

Murder by Numbers

IMDB Rating: 5.90
12706 votes

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Murder By Numbers is a psychological suspense-thriller that tells the story of a tenacious homicide detective, Cassie Mayweather ('Sandra Bullock' (qv)) and her new partner Sam Kennedy ('Ben Chaplin' (qv)) who become pitted against two malevolently brilliant young men ('Ryan Gosling (I)' (qv) and 'Michael Pitt (II)' (qv)) in an ingenious battle of wits as they try to solve a murder case.
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Cassie Mayweather/Jessica Marie HudsonSandra Bullock
Sam KennedyBen Chaplin
Richard HaywoodRyan Gosling
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Thriller | Comments (12)

Evelyn

IMDB Rating: 7.00
1976 votes

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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.
Actors
Evelyn DoyleSophie Vavasseur
Dermot DoyleNiall Beagan
Maurice DoyleHugh McDonagh
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

White Oleander

IMDB Rating: 7.00
7632 votes

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Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love.
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Miss MartinezAmy Aquino
ParamedicJohn Billingsley
Girl In FightElisa Bocanegra
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

The Banger Sisters

IMDB Rating: 5.50
4732 votes

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When fiftysomething Suzette loses her job as a bartender she decides to make a road trip to visit her old friend Vinnie who she hasn't seen since their days as groupies back in the day. On the way she meets Harry, a nervous writer who says he is going home to confront his father, then shows her his gun. Once they reach their destination Suzette finds that Vinnie is now Lavinia, a conservative housewife who is reluctant to reexperience the flower power of her youth, and Harry finds confrontation with himself rather than with his father.
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SuzetteGoldie Hawn
Lavinia KingsleySusan Sarandon
Harry PlummerGeoffrey Rush
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Drama | Comments (3)

The Hard Word

IMDB Rating: 6.00
1255 votes

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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.
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DaleGuy Pearce
CarolRachel Griffiths
FrankRobert Taylor
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

High Crimes

IMDB Rating: 6.10
8914 votes

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High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the military justice system, she'll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire's sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died.
Actors
Claire KubikAshley Judd
Charlie GrimesMorgan Freeman
Tom Kubik/Ron ChapmanJames Caviezel
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (7)

Interstate 60

IMDB Rating: 7.70
5153 votes

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Neal Oliver is a young artist, but his father doesn't like his choice and wants him to go to Oxford. Everything changes after Neal's meeting with O.W.Grant, who grants exactly one wish per person, as his name suggests. Neal wishes for answers, and so he must travel to the nonexistent Danver by the nonexistent Interstate 60. In this trip he hopes to find the girl of his dreams, following the trail of her photos on the advertising stands along the route. Many encounters await him ahead. Will he receive what he asked for?
Actors
Kurt Russell
Amy Smart
QuincyMatthew Edison
Also posted in 2002, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Catch Me If You Can

IMDB Rating: 7.60
70535 votes

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An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.
Actors
Frank Abagnale Jr.Leonardo DiCaprio
Carl HanrattyTom Hanks
Frank Abagnale, Sr.Christopher Walken
Also posted in 2002, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (15)

Two Weeks Notice

IMDB Rating: 5.80
18265 votes

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Bullock stars as Lucy Kelson, Chief Counsel for the Wade Corporation, one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with a sharp, strategic mind. She also has an ulcer and doesn't get much sleep. It's not the job that's getting to her. It's her millionaire boss, George Wade (Hugh Grant). Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad and can barely choose a tie without her help. Now, after one year of calling the shots-on everything from his clothes to his divorce settlements - Lucy Kelson is calling it quits.
Actors
Lucy KelsonSandra Bullock
George WadeHugh Grant
June CarverAlicia Witt
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Romance | Comments (3)
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