Tag Archives: male bonding

Around the World in 80 Days

IMDB Rating: 5.60
14667 votes

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Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (2003) stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. As an adventurer, Passepartout ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world.
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Passepartout/Lau XingJackie Chan
Phileas FoggSteve Coogan
Jean MichelRobert Fyfe
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance | Comments (0)

Boiler Room

IMDB Rating: 6.80
16301 votes

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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who's harsh with his son. At his father's insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he'll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He's terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.
Actors
Seth DavisGiovanni Ribisi
Chris VarickVin Diesel
Greg WeinsteinNicky Katt
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Bubba Ho-tep

IMDB Rating: 7.50
15220 votes

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Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.
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ElvisBruce Campbell
JackOssie Davis
The NurseElla Joyce
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery | Comments (0)

Strange Wilderness

IMDB Rating: 5.30
2640 votes

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With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.
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ConservationistJake Abel
Hispanic Man #1Kevin Alejandro
Bill CalhounJoe Don Baker
Also posted in 2007, Comedy | Comments (0)

Are We Done Yet?

IMDB Rating: 2.70
4684 votes

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Newlyweds Nick (Ice Cube) and Suzanne (Long) decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor (McGinley) with a bizarre approach to business.
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Nick PersonsIce Cube
Suzanne PersonsNia Long
Chuck Mitchell, Jr.John C. McGinley
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Family | Comments (0)

Fifty Pills

IMDB Rating: 4.40
722 votes

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Darren Giles has lost his college scholarship, can't work up the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams and doesn't have the cash to stay in college another semester. Unless he can survive the teenage dominatrix, New York's largest drug mogul, convince his parents he's not gay, write a paper on Dante's Inferno, escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy in time to make his tuition payment, he'll never get the chance to date the girl of his dreams.
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DarrenLou Taylor Pucci
GracieKristen Bell
ColemanJohn Hensley
Also posted in 2006, Comedy | Comments (0)

The Outsiders

IMDB Rating: 6.80
14198 votes

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Based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. The tension between two groups: The Greasers and The Socials "Socs" puts Ponyboy Curtis (Howell) and his best friend Johnny Cade (Macchio) in a bad spot. One night at the movies, Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri "Cherry" Valance (Lane) and Marcia (Meyrink) once they get Dally Winston (Dillon), the toughest and meanest of the Greasers to stop attempting to "score" Cherry and Marcia. What Johnny and Ponyboy don't know is that Cherry and Marcia are girls for the snobbish, popular, and rich group, the Socs. Once Johnny kills Bob Sheldon (Garrett), the toughest and meanest member of the Socs, this begins as the Socs demand a rumble against the Greasers.
Actors
Dallas 'Dally' WinstonMatt Dillon
Johnny CadeRalph Macchio
Ponyboy CurtisC. Thomas Howell
Also posted in 1983, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Point Break

IMDB Rating: 6.60
20364 votes

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In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Utah meets surfer Bodhi and gets drawn into the lifestyle of his new friend.
Actors
Keanu Reeves
John C. McGinley
Gary Busey
Also posted in 1991, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport, Thriller | Comments (0)

Stand by Me

IMDB Rating: 8.10
55531 votes

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Unable to grasp the fact of his brother's death, Gordie Lachance feels compelled to travel with three friends to see a dead body that has been found near the railroad tracks.
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Chris ChambersRiver Phoenix
Gordie LachanceWil Wheaton
Teddy DuchampCorey Feldman
Also posted in 1986, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Alfie

IMDB Rating: 6.10
12018 votes

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Alfie is a remake of the 1966 film. In the contemporary film, Alfie is quite the ladies man and rarely gets rejected when it comes to the opposite sex. He successfully has relations with multiple women without a hint of emotional attachment. A major (lifelong) problem arises when he sleeps with the wrong woman, namely his best friend's (and future business partner) ex-girlfriend. As a result, his life slowly comes into focus and he begins to appreciate the little things he always missed in the opposite sex. A must see for all guys who call themselves "players".
Actors
AlfieJude Law
Lu SchnitmanRenée Taylor
DorieJane Krakowski
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)
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