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Last Holiday

IMDB Rating: 6.40
3328 votes

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In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when an MRI discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Europe's Grandhotel Pupp, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the attention of the chef and the hotel's powerful American guests: a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and his mistress. She has nothing to lose, so she tells them what she thinks. Will the truth set them free?
Actors
Georgia ByrdQueen Latifah
Sean MatthewsLL Cool J
Matthew KragenTimothy Hutton
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Thank You for Smoking

IMDB Rating: 7.90
24553 votes

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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick's son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad's philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there's always one more coffin nail in Nick's pack.
Actors
Nick NaylorAaron Eckhart
Polly BaileyMaria Bello
Joey NaylorCameron Bright
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Good Night, and Good Luck.

IMDB Rating: 7.80
23224 votes

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In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator 'Joseph McCarthy (II)' (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter 'Edward R. Murrow (I)' (qv) and his producer 'Fred W. Friendly' (qv) decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history.
Actors
Edward R. MurrowDavid Strathairn
Joe WershbaRobert Downey Jr.
Shirley WershbaPatricia Clarkson
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

IMDB Rating: 7.90
109442 votes

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A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrilling climax. The story here logically sets up the events of Episode IV, the original 1977 Star Wars movie in which Darth Vader goes to war against his own children, Luke and Leia.
Actors
Obi-Wan KenobiEwan McGregor
PadméNatalie Portman
Anakin SkywalkerHayden Christensen
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

The Manchurian Candidate

IMDB Rating: 6.70
20017 votes

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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn't happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.
Actors
Al MelvinJeffrey Wright
Eddie IngramPablo Schreiber
Robert BakerAnthony Mackie
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War | Comments (7)

The Aviator

IMDB Rating: 7.60
41695 votes

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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.
Actors
Howard HughesLeonardo DiCaprio
Katharine HepburnCate Blanchett
Ava GardnerKate Beckinsale
Also posted in 2004, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (4)

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.
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Mitch GilliamBernie Mac
Martin GellerDylan Baker
Brian LewisNick Searcy
Also posted in 2003, Comedy | Comments (2)

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

IMDB Rating: 6.80
101120 votes

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Ten years after the 'Phantom Menace' threatened the planet Naboo, Padmé Amidala is now a Senator representing her homeworld. A faction of political separatists, led by Count Dooku, attempts to assassinate her. There aren't enough Jedi to defend the Republic against the threat, so Chancellor Palpatine enlists the aid of Jango Fett, who promises that his army of clones will handle the situation. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi continues to train the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker, who fears that the Jedi code will forbid his growing romance with Amidala...
Actors
Obi-Wan KenobiEwan McGregor
Sen. Padmé AmidalaNatalie Portman
Anakin SkywalkerHayden Christensen
Also posted in 2002, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Gladiator

IMDB Rating: 8.20
147070 votes

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Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.
Actors
MaximusRussell Crowe
CommodusJoaquin Phoenix
LucillaConnie Nielsen
Also posted in 2000, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (50)