Tag Archives: mathematics

I.Q.

IMDB Rating: 5.90
7563 votes

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Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they scheme to make Catherine fall for Ed. The comedy in this movie stems from the fact that Catherine's uncle is none other than Albert Einstein, who's portrayed as a fun loving genius, as are his mischievous colleagues, Nathan, Kurt and Boris.
Actors
Ed WaltersTim Robbins
Catherine BoydMeg Ryan
Albert EinsteinWalter Matthau
Also posted in 1994, Comedy, Romance | Comments (0)

Sneakers

IMDB Rating: 7.00
17677 votes

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A group of security analysts are offered a job by the CIA and when they are reluctant, pressure is brought to bear by the threat to disclose the identity of their leader, a 60s radical with outstanding warrants. A chip exists that will allow any computer to be cracked, and organized crime will soon control it, though sudden changes in their police records suggest that it is already operational.
Actors
College-Aged BishopGary Hershberger
College-Aged CosmoJo Marr
Martin 'Marty' BishopRobert Redford
Also posted in 1992, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Mean Girls

IMDB Rating: 6.90
29361 votes

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Raised in African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron thinks she knows about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.
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Lacey Chabert
Lindsay Lohan
Rachel McAdams
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Event Horizon

IMDB Rating: 5.90
23098 votes

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A rescue crew in space comes to investigate and if possible, rescue a government spaceship gone missing for seven years. When they board the ship, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.
Actors
Captain MillerLaurence Fishburne
Dr. William WeirSam Neill
Peters, Med TechKathleen Quinlan
Also posted in 1997, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (1)

Cube

IMDB Rating: 7.50
25664 votes

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Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they've been imprisoned.
Actors
Joan Leaven (The Math Student)Nicole de Boer
Helen Holloway (The Doctor)Nicky Guadagni
David Worth (The Architect)David Hewlett
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (1)

Proof

IMDB Rating: 7.00
9210 votes

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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.
Actors
CatherineGwyneth Paltrow
RobertAnthony Hopkins
HalJake Gyllenhaal
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Cube Zero

IMDB Rating: 5.60
5124 votes

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Eric WynnZachary Bennett
Cassandra RainsStephanie Moore
JaxMichael Riley
Also posted in 2004, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Spider-Man 2

IMDB Rating: 7.90
53090 votes

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Peter Parker (Tobey McGuire) can't seem to catch any kind of break. Being Spiderman has brought him nothing but problems as far as his personal life is concerned. Not only that, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is engaged to astronaut John Jameson, and Peter may lose her forever. Things are so bad for him that he is pushed past his breaking point, so he decides that he doesn't want to be Spiderman anymore, until a freak accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villian with four metal tentacles coming out of him. Peter realizes that only Spiderman can stop him, but of course, problems arise. Mary Jane gets caught in the middle, and Harry Osborn, who still blames Spiderman for the death of his father, Norman Osborn, also the Green Goblin, wants him dead. Spiderman will have to push himself past his limits if he's going to survive.
Actors
Spider-Man/Peter ParkerTobey Maguire
Mary Jane WatsonKirsten Dunst
Harry OsbornJames Franco
Also posted in 2004, Action, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

A Beautiful Mind

IMDB Rating: 7.80
67284 votes

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A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
Actors
John NashRussell Crowe
ParcherEd Harris
Alicia NashJennifer Connelly
Also posted in 2001, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (1)

Contact

IMDB Rating: 7.30
40350 votes

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Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a free thinking radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists are able to decipher the Message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious Machine. Will the Machine spell the end of our world, or the end of our superstitions? Will we take our place among the races of the Galaxy, or are we just an upstart species with a long way to go?
Actors
Young EllieJena Malone
Ted ArrowayDavid Morse
Ellie ArrowayJodie Foster
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)