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The Best Movies of 2003
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Movie: The Life of David Gale ( 2003 )
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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Movie: The Shape of Things ( 2003 )
A quiet, unassuming man begins to change in a major way as a result of meeting a new, art-student girlfriend, and his friends are unsettled by the transformation.
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Movie: Runaway Jury ( 2003 )
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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Movie: The Rundown ( 2003 )
A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure.
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Movie: American Splendor ( 2003 )
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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Movie: What a Girl Wants ( 2003 )
An American teenager learns that her father is a wealthy British politician running for office. Although she is eager to find him, she realizes it could cause a scandal and cost him the election.
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Movie: Leprechaun 6: Back 2 Tha Hood ( 2003 )
When Emily Woodrow and her friends happen on a treasure chest full of gold coins, they fail to heed the warnings of a wise old psychic, who had foretold that they would encounter trouble with a very nasty and protective Leprechaun.
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Movie: Piglet's Big Movie ( 2003 )
When the gang from the Hundred Acre Wood begin a honey harvest, young Piglet is excluded and told that he is too small to help. Feeling inferior, Piglet disappears and his pals Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger, Roo, and Winnie the Pooh must use Piglet's scrapbook as a map to find him. In the process they discover that this very small animal has been a big hero in a lot of ways.
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Movie: The Order ( 2003 )
Alex Bernier (Ledger) is a member of an arcane order of priests known as Carolingians. When the head of the order dies, Alex is sent to Rome to investigate mysterious circumstances surrounding the death. The body bears strange marks on the chest which may or may not be the sign of a Sin Eater (Furmann), a renegade who offers absolution, last rites and therefore a path to heaven outside the jurisdiction of the church. Alex enlists the aid of his old comrade Father Thomas (Addy) and of a troubled artist (Sossamon) upon whom he once performed an exorcism. He soon finds himself plunged into a mystery only to find himself at the heart of it.
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Movie: Owning Mahowny ( 2003 )
A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
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Movie: Looney Tunes: Back in Action ( 2003 )
The Looney Tunes search for a man's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey diamond.
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Movie: In Hell ( 2003 )
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens' entertainment.
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Movie: House of the Dead ( 2003 )
A group of college students travels to a mysterious island to attend a rave, which is soon taken over by bloodthirsty zombies.
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Movie: A Tale of Two Sisters ( 2003 )
A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family.
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Movie: Dogville ( 2004 )
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
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Movie: Kangaroo Jack ( 2003 )
Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be musician, get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
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Movie: Party Monster ( 2003 )
Based on the true story of Michael Alig, a Club Kid party organizer whose life was sent spiraling down when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate.
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Movie: Timeline ( 2003 )
A group of archaeologists become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve a friend. The group must survive in 14th century France before they can escape back to the 21st Century.
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Movie: National Security ( 2003 )
Two mismatched security guards are thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.
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Movie: Out of Time ( 2003 )
A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion.
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Movie: A Man Apart ( 2003 )
A man known as Diablo emerges to head a drug cartel after the previous leader is imprisoned.
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Movie: The Brown Bunny ( 2003 )
Professional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness, but only a certain woman from his past will truly satisfy him.
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Movie: The Fighting Temptations ( 2003 )
A New York advertising executive travels to a small Southern town to collect an inheritance but finds he must create a gospel choir and lead it to success before he can collect.
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Movie: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star ( 2003 )
A thirty-something former child star hires a foster family to re-create the childhood he never had.
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Movie: Battle Royale II ( 2003 )
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.
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Movie: My Boss's Daughter ( 2003 )
After a man is asked to house sit for his boss, he becomes determined to get closer to the boss's daughter, but events keep unfolding that stop him from achieving his goal.
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Movie: Calendar Girls ( 2003 )
A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.
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Movie: Luther ( 2003 )
During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther (Joseph Fiennes), disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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Movie: Radio ( 2003 )
The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.
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Movie: Agent Cody Banks ( 2003 )
A government agent trains Cody Banks in the ways of covert operations that require younger participants.
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Movie: Swimming Pool ( 2003 )
A British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics.
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Movie: George of the Jungle 2 ( 2003 )
George, now a father, goes to Las Vegas, where he has to help out his brother.
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Movie: Ned Kelly ( 2004 )
Though recognized for heroism as a lad, Ned Kelly can not escape the stigma of being the eldest of a brood sired by a known criminal. In days when an arrest equaled guilt and a conviction, his unfair imprisonment for horse thievery puts him steadfast, in the eyes of Victorian police, on the wrong side of things for life. With a sister unable to dissuade the unwanted advances of Constable Fitzpatrick, Ned, his brother Dan, and friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart soon find themselves labeled "an outlaw gang" by the less-than-honorable constable. It's a designation they're apt to live up to after Ned's mother is unfairly arrested and sentenced to three years hard labor. In retaliation, the Kelly Gang strikes out against the oppressive Victorian government, with ultimately tragic results and passage into Australian folklore.
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Movie: Uptown Girls ( 2003 )
In New York City, Molly Gunn is a spoiled, wealthy, immature young woman who lives as if she were a fairytale princess. Her father, a popular rock guitarist, died in a plane crash with her mother when she was little. In a nightclub on her birthday she meets Lorraine "Ray" Schleine, a nasty young girl with an adult attitude, who lives with her careless mother and a terminally-ill father in a fancy uptown apartment. When Molly's accountant vanishes with her US$ 100,000,000.00 inheritance, she is left with nothing but debts and must work to survive--with no previous experience or marketable skills. She is hired to be Ray's babysitter, and their close contact makes Molly reach maturity and Ray act like the 8-year-old she is.
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Movie: View from the Top ( 2003 )
A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.
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Movie: Madea's Class Reunion ( 2003 )
Class is in session- and Madea's gonna teach you a lesson!
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Movie: Scorched ( 2003 )
By chance 3 employees rob their bank the same weekend.
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Movie: Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd ( 2003 )
Set back in the 80s when Harry met Lloyd in high school where they cross paths with a mean principal and a bunch of other outcasts much like themselves.
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Movie: Girl with a Pearl Earring ( 2004 )
A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
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Movie: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer ( 2003 )
The wife of an oil tycoon becomes engrossed in the sinister evil residing within her Seattle mansion home.
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Movie: Stuck on You ( 2003 )
Conjoined twins from Martha's Vineyard move to Los Angeles so that one of them can pursue an acting career.
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Movie: Bringing Down the House ( 2003 )
When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.
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Movie: Tiptoes ( 2004 )
Two brothers - a dwarf (Rolfe) and one of typical size (Steve). When Steve's girlfriend Carol becomes pregnant, the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the dwarfism gene. Matters are complicated still further when she finds herself falling in love with Rolfe.
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Movie: Beyond Re-Animator ( 2003 )
Left to rot in prison for the past thirteen years after the blood-drenched events in Re-Animator (1985) and Bride of Re-Animator (1990), the misunderstood virtuoso of mayhem, Dr Herbert West, finds an unexpected ally in the person of the young medical doctor, Howard Phillips. Behind the thick walls of the impenetrable Arkham State Penitentiary, the blasphemous duo of dreamers set up a secret laboratory to test an entirely new reanimating serum, which--when combined with West's original phosphorescent reagent--can work miracles on the prison's inmates. Now, the stage seems set for the ultimate experiment; however, once more, this is easier said than done. Can the good doctors escape from this concrete pit of death?
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Movie: S.W.A.T. ( 2003 )
An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody, and only the L.A.P.D.'s Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it.
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Movie: Pauly Shore Is Dead ( 2003 )
Hollywood's Pauly Shore loses everything, fakes his own death, and gets caught.
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Movie: A Guy Thing ( 2003 )
A soon-to-be husband wakes up on the morning after his bachelor party in bed with another woman.
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Movie: Head of State ( 2003 )
When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam is unexpectedly picked as his replacement.
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Movie: The Even Stevens Movie ( 2003 )
The Stevens think that they've won an all-expenses-paid trip to an island that's halfway around the world. When their house is destroyed, their food stolen, and their bacon eaten, the Stevens family breaks apart in front of all their friends on live national television, while the island itself is only a short distance away from Sacramento!
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Movie: Beyond Borders ( 2003 )
The world's cruelty is confronted with the love of two different people who try to save humanity from poverty and war.
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Movie: Stitch! The Movie ( 2003 )
Stitch, an alien living on Earth disguised as a dog with his human family, continues his adventures when he discovers that the alien family he never knew he had is now in Hawaii, being hunted down by galactic forces.
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Movie: Duplex ( 2003 )
A young couple has a chance to move into a gorgeous duplex in the perfect New York neighborhood. All they have to do is bump off the current tenant, a cute little old lady.
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Movie: A Mighty Wind ( 2003 )
Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.
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Movie: It Runs in the Family ( 2003 )
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.
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Movie: Twelve Mile Road ( 2003 )
Divorced farmer Stephen Landis has girlfriend Leah and her daughter Roxanne move in with him. His wild and unpredictable 16 year old daughter Dulcie comes for a summer visit. Stephen believes his ex-wife Angela is exaggerating Dulcie's troubles, but comes to worry about her. Dulcie and Roxanne form a friendship, and with the time spent over the summer, grows closer to her father, and the wounds between all three are healed.
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Movie: Rugrats Go Wild ( 2003 )
The Rugrats get tangled in an exotic adventure, where they're helped by the Thornberrys, a family that travels the world making nature documentaries.
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Movie: The Jungle Book 2 ( 2003 )
Mowgli, missing the jungle and his old friends, runs away from the man village unaware of the danger he's in by going back to the wild.
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Movie: Veronica Guerin ( 2003 )
An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
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Movie: Cold Creek Manor ( 2003 )
A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant.
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Movie: Prey for Rock & Roll ( 2004 )
Prey For Rock & Roll is the story of Jacki and her all-girl rock and roll band, Clam Dandy, who are trying to make it in the LA club scene of the late 1980s. After ten years of being ignored by record producers, Jacki and the band find hope in one producer who promises to see them play and consider them for a contract. Jacki resolves to play this one last gig and then throw in the towel if she does not find success. Personal tragedies, however, threaten to rip the band apart, rocking the foundation of friendship and trust the women have built together. Ultimately, the band must find its strength in the music that is their passion and the thread that holds them together, inspiring them to prevail.
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Movie: Coffee and Cigarettes ( 2004 )
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
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Movie: Honey ( 2003 )
Honey is a sexy, tough music video choreographer who shakes up her life after her mentor gives her an ultimatum: sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry.
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Movie: Ghosts of the Abyss ( 2003 )
James Cameron and Bill Paxton, director and actor of the 1997 film Titanic, travel to the final undersea resting place of the ill-fated ship of dreams.
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Movie: The Lizzie McGuire Movie ( 2003 )
Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And what was supposed to be only a normal trip, becomes a teenager's dream come true.
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Movie: The Divorce ( 2003 )
The differences in legalities and cultural mores of French and Americans regarding sex, love, marriage, religion, and family bonds are presented through the interactions of two families related by marriage. American Isabel Walker (Kate Hudson) heads to Paris to visit her half-sister, poet Roxeanne de Persand (Naomi Watts), who is early in the pregnancy of her second child. Isabel arrives to find that Roxy's French husband, Charles-Henri de Persand (Melvil Poupaud), has just left Roxy, the sisters both eventually further learning that it is because he has fallen in love with another woman, who is married. Roxy and Charles-Henri deal with their break-up, which Roxy does not want, but must face the legal consequences of, including determining the ownership of what may be a valuable French painting that has been casually in the Walker family for years, but which Roxy has had in her possession since she got married. Meanwhile, Isabel begins to explore all that France has to offer, which includes concurrently embarking on sexual relationships with two men, including one with Charles-Henri's older maternal uncle, the wealthy and well-appointed Edgar Cosset (Thierry Lhermitte), who is already married and who is using the same playbook on her that he has on countless women before her. As groups and individuals within the two families disagree and argue about certain issues they are facing, it does not necessarily affect other issues and relationships between the two families based on their priorities and those cultural and legal standards.
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Movie: Daddy Day Care ( 2003 )
Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs. This inspires them to open their own day-care center.
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Movie: The Battle of Shaker Heights ( 2003 )
Two high school boys, reenacting historic battles, use learned strategy and team up for war on a school bully. One falls for the other's sister.
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Movie: Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie ( 2003 )
The comedic stylings of four sort-of famous funnymen are brought to the big screen courtesy of this 2002 documentary.
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Movie: Masked and Anonymous ( 2003 )
A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.
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Movie: Grind ( 2003 )
Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and become stars themselves.
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Movie: Deliver Us from Eva ( 2003 )
Eva doesn't let her 3 sisters' men push them around. She's always butting in. How to pacify Eva? Find her a man. The men pay a playboy to be that man. The problem is - he falls in love with Eva.
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Movie: Anything Else ( 2003 )
Jerry Falk learns a lesson the hard way when he falls head over heels in love with a beautiful but flighty girl, Amanda.
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Movie: The Cat in the Hat ( 2003 )
Two bored children have their lives turned upside down when a talking cat comes to visit them.
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Movie: Alex & Emma ( 2003 )
A writer must turn out a novel in thirty days or face the wrath of loan sharks.
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Movie: Tupac: Resurrection ( 2003 )
Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop M.Cs. of all time.
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Movie: Inspector Gadget 2 ( 2003 )
Inspector Gadget returns in this sequel to his 1999 hit; a glitched Gadget once again has to fight his arch nemesis, Claw, with the aid of a female Gadget: G2.
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Movie: Confidence ( 2003 )
Jake Vig leads a small Los Angeles based team of grifters, each member who has his specific role in each con: Jake is the main man, Miles the adversary, Big Al the scared innocent bystander, and Gordo the dead shooting victim. He also has in his pockets crooked LAPD detectives Lloyd Whitworth and Omar Manzano who basically play themselves as needed. Beyond getting the money, the basic goal of each con is to ensure the mark is so scared by what has happened - usually being an accomplice in a "murder" - that he won't come back looking for the money. Jake learns the hard way that their latest mark, Louis Dolby, who they fleeced for $150,000, was carrying money for a criminal named King, who takes a no prisoners approach in getting even, he who knows who stole his money. Instead of returning the $150,000 to King, money which he no longer has anyway, Jake convinces King to parlay that money and a bit more into a bigger con against a mark of King's choice, that person being banker Morgan Price, a second generation mobster. The total take for this con is to be $5 million. Beyond co-opting a couple of inside people for this con, King wants one of his own men inserted - Lupus - and Jake also enlists the work of a female pickpocket he recently ran across named Lily, to who he is attracted. During the process, a small wrinkle occurs when they learn that Special Agent Gunther Butan with the US Customs Agency, an old adversary of Jake's, is currently after him, which means they either have to call off the international mission or watch more carefully their movements, with Jake not to be the one to carry any money across the border. But with a group of con artists working for the first time with new players, a question becomes are there any inside cons at play, especially in this case where Jake has more of a personal stake than usual.
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Movie: Hollywood Homicide ( 2003 )
Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group.
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Movie: The Hebrew Hammer ( 2004 )
An orthodox Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus' evil son.
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Movie: Rolling Kansas ( 2003 )
An independent film about a road trip to find a magical forest of marijuana.
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Movie: Young Adam ( 2003 )
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
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Movie: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer ( 2003 )
This documentary looks at Aileen Wuornos convicted of killing 7 men while working as a prostitute in Florida. This is actually the second Wuornos documentary made by this group the first being Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992). With her execution now on the horizon Nick Broomfield returns to Florida to complete the story. Her argument has always been that the killings were in self-defense but she eventually pleaded no contest or guilty to most of the murders. Broomfield was able to film several interviews which reveals her state of mind and puts into question her mental competence.
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Movie: Gigli ( 2003 )
Larry Gigli is assigned by a crime boss to kidnap the brother of a prominent district attorney. A beautiful woman known only as Ricki is sent to stay with him to make sure he doesn't mess up the job.
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Movie: Hope Springs ( 2003 )
A brokenhearted English artist travels to Hope, USA, hoping to get on with his life. He starts by drawing faces there. He befriends the cute Mandy. But then his scheming ex shows up and wants him back.
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Movie: Spy Kids 3: Game Over ( 2003 )
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
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Movie: The Music Man ( 2003 )
A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results, in this contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and lively 1962 film, updated to reflect several early-21st-century sensibilities.
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Movie: Love Don't Cost a Thing ( 2003 )
A high school loser pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.
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Movie: Nobody Knows Anything! ( 2003 )
In this comedy about Hollywood, Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she meets crazy studio execs, insane producers and a gangster who agrees to finance her film - for a price...
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Movie: How to Deal ( 2003 )
A teenager (Moore), disillusioned by too many examples of love gone wrong, refuses to believe that true love exists. Then this new guy (Ford) comes along...
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Movie: The Singing Detective ( 2003 )
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
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Movie: Bookies ( 2003 )
Centers on four college friends who become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.
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Movie: Undead ( 2003 )
A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.
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Movie: The Room ( 2004 )
Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored with him and decides to seduce his best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again.
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Movie: Dorm Daze ( 2004 )
Set during a crazy afternoon in the lives of a dozen college students at a co-ed dorm that starts with the arrival of two very different women with the same name of Dominique.
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Movie: Pieces of April ( 2003 )
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Movie: Ju-On: The Grudge 2 ( 2003 )
As their curse spreads on, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman.
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Movie: Good Boy ( 2003 )
Owen Baker is a 12-year-old loner who has been working as a neighborhood dog-walker so he can earn the privilege of getting a dog of his own. His hard work pays off when his parents let him adopt a scruffy mutt he names Hubble. Both boy and dog get more than they bargained for when Owen wakes up one morning to discover he can understand every word Hubble says, including the ominous phrase: "Take me to your leaders." Owen learns that dogs came to Earth thousands of years ago to colonize and dominate the planet. Hubble (who is really named Canid 3942) has been sent by the powerful Greater Dane on a mission from the Dog Star Sirius to make sure dogs have fulfilled this destiny. Despite the best efforts of Owen's rag-tag group of neighborhood dogs to convince him otherwise, Hubble soon discovers the awful truth about Earth dogs: "You're all pets!" Now Owen (a boy who never had a friend) and Hubble (a dog who never needed one) must work together to prepare the neighborhood dogs for a visit from The Greater Dane--or all dogs will be removed from the planet! The fate of Earth dogs hangs in the balance, and it's up to Owen, Hubble, and their canine companions to save man's best friend.
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Movie: Haggard ( 2003 )
After she breaks up with Ryan, Glauren is rumored to have been hooking up with heavy metal Hellboy. Ryan enlists the help of his friends Valo and Falcone to find out the truth.
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Movie: Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade ( 2003 )
Wow - fifth grade. But what good is practically being a grown-up when the teacher's a big sourpuss?
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Movie: From Justin to Kelly ( 2003 )
A waitress from Texas and a college student from Pennsylvania meet during spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and come together through their shared love of singing.