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Raising Arizona

IMDB Rating: 7.50
31003 votes

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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she's barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi's convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.
Actors
H.I. McDunnoughNicolas Cage
Edwina 'Ed' McDunnoughHolly Hunter
Nathan Arizona Huffhines, Sr.Trey Wilson
Also posted in 1987, Action, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | 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.
Actors
DarrenLou Taylor Pucci
GracieKristen Bell
ColemanJohn Hensley
Also posted in 2006, Comedy | Comments (0)

For Your Consideration

IMDB Rating: 6.20
4320 votes

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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!
Actors
Marilyn HackCatherine O'Hara
Studio Gate GuardStephen Rannazzisi
Sandy LaneEd Begley Jr.
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Fearless

IMDB Rating: 7.00
6879 votes

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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
Actors
Max KleinJeff Bridges
Laura KleinIsabella Rossellini
Carla RodrigoRosie Perez
Also posted in 1993, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Home of the Brave

IMDB Rating: 5.30
1968 votes

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The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman. Each of the four has come home changed, each feels dislocation. Group therapy, V.A. services, halting gestures from family and colleagues, and regular flashbacks keep the war front and center in their minds. They're angry, touchy, and explosive: can a warrior find peace back home?
Actors
Will MarshSamuel L. Jackson
Vanessa PriceJessica Biel
Tommy YatesBrian Presley
Also posted in 2006, Action, Drama, War | Comments (0)

Four Brothers

IMDB Rating: 6.80
17105 votes

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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.
Actors
Bobby MercerMark Wahlberg
Angel MercerTyrese Gibson
Jeremiah MercerAndré Benjamin
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Lookout

IMDB Rating: 7.50
1822 votes

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An admired high school hockey player (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend (Jeff Daniels) who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader (Matthew Goode) befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman (Isla Fisher) who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. Bruce McGill and Alberta Watson also co-star as the young man's parents, who still search for the person that was there before the tragic crash.
Actors
LewisJeff Daniels
Chris PrattJoseph Gordon-Levitt
Gary SpargoMatthew Goode
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Grindhouse

IMDB Rating: 8.20
27473 votes

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An homage to exploitation B-movie thrillers that combines two feature-length segments into one double-bill designed to replicate the grind house theatergoing experience of the 70s and 80s. In "Death Proof," a psycho named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) stalks and kills beautiful women with his car. In "Planet Terror," a small-town sheriffs' department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." A gun-legged woman named Cherry (Rose McGowan) and her martial arts-wielding partner (Freddy Rodriguez) take on the zombie army. The two films will be fused together by fake movie trailers.
Actors
AbbyNaveen Andrews
AnnouncerWill Arnett
OmarLauren Bacall
Also posted in 2007, Action, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Antwone Fisher

IMDB Rating: 7.30
7484 votes

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A sailor (Derek Luke) prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist (Washington) for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.
Actors
Antwone Quenton 'Fish' FisherDerek Luke
Antwone Fisher Age 7Malcolm David Kelley
Antwone Fisher Age 14Cory Hodges
Also posted in 2002, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Spider-Man

IMDB Rating: 7.40
100682 votes

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Based on Marvel Comics' superhero character, this is a story of Peter Parker who is a nerdy high-schooler. He was orphaned as a child, bullied by jocks, and can't confess his crush for his stunning neighbourhood girl Mary Jane Watson. To say his life is "miserable" is an understatement. But one day while on an excursion to a laboratory a runaway radioactive spider bites him... and his life changes in a way no one could have imagined. Peter acquires a muscle-bound physique, clear vision, ability to cling to surfaces and crawl over walls, shooting webs from his wrist ... but the fun isn't going to last. An eccentric millionaire Norman Osborn (William Dafoe) administers a performance enhancing drug on himself and his maniacal alter ego Green Goblin emerges. Now Peter Parker has to become Spider-Man and take Green Goblin to the task... or else Goblin will kill him. They come face to face and the war begins in which only one of them will survive at the end.
Actors
Spider-Man/Peter ParkerTobey Maguire
Green Goblin/Norman OsbornWillem Dafoe
Mary Jane WatsonKirsten Dunst
Also posted in 2002, Action, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)