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IMDB Rating: 7.00
14314 votes

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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.
Actors
Ben CampbellJim Sturgess
Prof. Micky RosaKevin Spacey
ChoiAaron Yoo
Also posted in 2008, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

P.S. I Love You

IMDB Rating: 6.90
11130 votes

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Holly Kennedy (Hillary Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life— a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Gerard Butler). So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and "celebrate herself". In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P.S. I Love You. Holly's mother (Kathy Bates) and best friends (Gina Gershon) and Denise (Lisa Kudrow), begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future. With Gerry's words as her guide, Holly embarks on a touching, exciting and often hilarious journey of rediscovery in a story about marriage, friendship and how a love so strong can turn the finality of death into a new beginning for life.
Actors
Holly KennedyHilary Swank
Gerry KennedyGerard Butler
Denise HennesseyLisa Kudrow
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Calendar Girls

IMDB Rating: 7.00
6772 votes

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In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives.
Actors
Chris HarperHelen Mirren
Annie ClarkeJulie Walters
John ClarkeJohn Alderton
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

In Her Shoes

IMDB Rating: 7.00
12756 votes

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Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.
Actors
MaggieCameron Diaz
ToddAnson Mount
RoseToni Collette
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

American History X

IMDB Rating: 8.40
72446 votes

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A Neo Nazi skinhead, named Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) goes to jail for 3 years after committing a murder of 2 black guys. In the meanwhile, his younger brother, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) goes in the same way and makes the same mistakes (racism and hatred) his eldest brother did (this is the result of the Neo Nazi environment he grows up into, and the influence Derek left behind). While Derek is in jail he realize that he choose the wrong path. after coming back from jail, Derek try to convince his brother not to go in his own way.
Actors
Mitch McCormickAlex Sol
LawrenceAntonio David Lyons
Little HenryJason Bose Smith
Also posted in 1998, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Deranged

IMDB Rating: 6.50
739 votes

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A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.
Actors
Ezra CobbRoberts Blossom
Ma CobbCosette Lee
Tom SimsLeslie Carlson
Also posted in 1974, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Mr. Woodcock

IMDB Rating: 5.00
2005 votes

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Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
Actors
Jasper WoodcockBilly Bob Thornton
John FarleySeann William Scott
Beverly FarleySusan Sarandon
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

The King and I

IMDB Rating: 7.40
5935 votes

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After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better.
Actors
Anna LeonowensDeborah Kerr
King Mongkut of SiamYul Brynner
TuptimRita Moreno
Also posted in 1956, Adventure, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating, Musical, Romance | Comments (0)