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The Best Movies of 2000
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Movie: Gladiator ( 2000 )
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
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Movie: Miss Congeniality ( 2000 )
An F.B.I. Agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.
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Movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou? ( 2001 )
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
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Movie: The Patriot ( 2000 )
Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.
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Movie: Requiem for a Dream ( 2000 )
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Movie: Cast Away ( 2000 )
A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.
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Movie: Me, Myself & Irene ( 2000 )
A nice-guy cop with Dissociative Identity Disorder must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his associates.
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Movie: Joseph: King of Dreams ( 2000 )
When Joseph receives a beautiful coat from his parents, his ten brothers hate him even more, and are driven to sell him to desert merchants, who take him to Egypt. There he is made the servant of a wealthy Egyptian who misunderstands him, and has him thrown into prison. He shows his God-given gift by interpreting the dreams of two other prisoners. Eventually, the Pharaoh begins to be plagued by dreams, and sends for Joseph, who interprets them and saves Egypt in the process. He is made second in command to Pharaoh, and has most of Egypt's grain stored. Eventually his brothers arrive in Egypt to buy food because of famine, and he must forgive them. Then the dreams that had angered his brothers, were in reality prophecies that had come from God.
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Movie: Pitch Black ( 2000 )
A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.
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Movie: Snatch ( 2001 )
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
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Movie: The Emperor's New Groove ( 2000 )
Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder.
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Movie: Almost Famous ( 2000 )
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
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Movie: American Psycho ( 2000 )
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
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Movie: Unbreakable ( 2000 )
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
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Movie: Titan A.E. ( 2000 )
A young man learns that he has to find a hidden Earth ship before an enemy alien species does in order to secure the survival of humanity.
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Movie: Next Friday ( 2000 )
Uncle Elroy and Day Day owe money on taxes so Craig finds a way to steal from the next door neighbors to pay off the taxes so Uncle Elroy's house doesn't get put up for auction.
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Movie: Final Destination ( 2000 )
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
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Movie: X-Men ( 2000 )
In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.
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Movie: Scary Movie ( 2000 )
A year after disposing of the body of a man they accidentally killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.
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Movie: How the Grinch Stole Christmas ( 2000 )
On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch (Jim Carrey), who plans on ruining Christmas for all of the citizens of the town.
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Movie: Pay It Forward ( 2000 )
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
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Movie: Remember the Titans ( 2000 )
The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
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Movie: The Perfect Storm ( 2000 )
An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.
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Movie: Sexy Beast ( 2001 )
Brutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them.
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Movie: Little Nicky ( 2000 )
After two of the devil's three sons escape Hell to wreak havoc on Earth, the devil must send his third son, the mild-mannered Nicky, to bring them back before it's too late.
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Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( 2000 )
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
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Movie: Men of Honor ( 2000 )
The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.
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Movie: Chocolat ( 2001 )
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
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Movie: Memento ( 2001 )
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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Movie: Bring It On ( 2000 )
A champion high school cheerleading squad discovers its previous captain stole all their best routines from an inner-city school and must scramble to compete at this year's championships.
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Movie: Space Cowboys ( 2000 )
When a retired engineer is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.
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Movie: Gone in 60 Seconds ( 2000 )
A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal fifty cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life.
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Movie: Coyote Ugly ( 2000 )
Aspiring songwriter Violet Sanford, after getting a job at a women-run NYC bar that teases its male patrons, comes out of her shell.
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Movie: Mission to Mars ( 2000 )
When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.
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Movie: The 6th Day ( 2000 )
A man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.
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Movie: Mission: Impossible II ( 2000 )
IMF agent Ethan Hunt is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera".
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Movie: The Cell ( 2000 )
An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.
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Movie: Battle Royale ( 2000 )
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
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Movie: The Road to El Dorado ( 2000 )
Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
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Movie: Hollow Man ( 2000 )
When the leader of a team of scientists volunteers to be the test subject for their experiment in human invisibility, he slowly unravels and turns against them, with horrific consequences.
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Movie: Boiler Room ( 2000 )
A college dropout, attempting to live up to his father's high standards, gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm which puts him on the fast track to success. But the job might not be as legitimate as it first appeared to be.
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Movie: Billy Elliot ( 2000 )
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
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Movie: Frequency ( 2000 )
An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.
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Movie: The Family Man ( 2000 )
A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
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Movie: Charlie's Angels ( 2000 )
Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal.
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Movie: Ginger Snaps ( 2001 )
Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.
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Movie: The Replacements ( 2000 )
During a pro football strike, the owners hire substitute players.
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Movie: U-571 ( 2000 )
A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine.
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Movie: The Whole Nine Yards ( 2000 )
A struggling dentist's life is turned upside down when a famous gangster moves in next door, and his wife convinces him to inform a notorious mob boss about the gangster's whereabouts.
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Movie: The Legend of Bagger Vance ( 2000 )
A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy.
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Movie: Dinosaur ( 2000 )
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
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Movie: The Crow: Salvation ( 2000 )
Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of.
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Movie: Romeo Must Die ( 2000 )
In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton's Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approves of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah.
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Movie: The Beach ( 2000 )
On vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise.
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Movie: Meet the Parents ( 2000 )
Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.
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Movie: Erin Brockovich ( 2000 )
Erin Brockovich-Ellis is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.
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Movie: Shanghai Noon ( 2000 )
A Chinese man travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped Princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss.
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Movie: Chicken Run ( 2000 )
When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.
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Movie: The Gift ( 2001 )
A fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared.
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Movie: Proof of Life ( 2000 )
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
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Movie: Scream 3 ( 2000 )
While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.
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Movie: In the Mood for Love ( 2001 )
Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates.
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Movie: Where the Heart Is ( 2000 )
A pregnant 17-year-old rebuilds her life after being abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.
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Movie: The Contender ( 2000 )
Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for U.S. Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to derail her confirmation.
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Movie: Bedazzled ( 2000 )
Hopeless dweeb Elliot Richards is granted seven wishes by the Devil to snare Allison, the girl of his dreams, in exchange for his soul.
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Movie: Big Momma's House ( 2000 )
In order to protect a beautiful woman and her son from a robber, a male FBI agent disguises himself as a large grandmother.
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Movie: The Watcher ( 2000 )
David is a serial killer of young women. Joel was in charge of catching him in LA. He moved to Chicago a broken man. So did David and sends him photos of his next victims 24 hours before the murders.
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Movie: Shadow of the Vampire ( 2000 )
The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.
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Movie: High Fidelity ( 2000 )
Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
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Movie: Dungeons & Dragons ( 2000 )
Profion, a tyrant, attempts to overthrow a peaceful kingdom ruled by a tough empress.
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Movie: Cecil B. DeMented ( 2000 )
An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.
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Movie: Heavy Metal 2000 ( 2000 )
After surviving an invasion on her peaceful homeworld, a beautiful avenger must stop a powerful psychopath from gaining immortality and rescue her kidnapped sister.
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Movie: The Art of War ( 2000 )
UN's secretary general uses covert operations to help diplomacy along. Shaw's called back 6 months after one such operation. He witnesses the murder of Chinese UN ambassador at UN, NYC, chases the assassin and ends up a suspect.
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Movie: Dancer in the Dark ( 2000 )
An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
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Movie: Finding Forrester ( 2001 )
A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.
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Movie: Vertical Limit ( 2000 )
A climber must rescue his sister on top of K2, one of the world's biggest mountains.
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Movie: Return to Me ( 2000 )
A man who falls in love with the woman who received his wife's heart must decide which woman it is who holds his heart.
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Movie: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust ( 2000 )
When a girl is abducted by a vampire, a legendary bounty hunter is hired to bring her back.
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Movie: Chopper ( 2000 )
Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.
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Movie: Rules of Engagement ( 2000 )
An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country.
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Movie: Leprechaun 5: In the Hood ( 2000 )
He's been in the country side, he's been downtown, he's been to Las Vegas, he's even been in space, now that evil Leprechaun is in DA HOOD! Three young rap artists are looking for a break. They need money to buy some music equipment so they can go to Las Vegas and enter a contest. They meet up with a local pimp named Mack Daddy who agrees to "hook them up", but later declines. The rappers want to get even with him so one night they break into Mack's place and steal a lot of his jewelry, gold, and even the medallion from an ugly looking statue. Shouldn't have done that! Because without the medallion, the statue transforms into the Leprechaun, who goes on a killing spree looking for his missing gold, once again! And the song says it all, "there's nothing' scarier than a Lep' in the hood!"
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Movie: Saving Grace ( 2000 )
A widow discovers after her husband's suicide that he has mortgaged everything they own and the banks are ready to foreclose. Faced with impending doom and little working knowledge except her ability to grow plants, she struggles to save her home. Enter her gardener, who is struggling to make a few marijuana plants grow in a hidden location and suggests that she use her green house to help grow the plants and sell them to make the money both need. He is wanting to get married, but needs capital. What he doesn't know is that his girl friend is pregnant and thus fears that they will be busted for growing marijuana. While supposedly working, the whole village is well aware of the endeavor and is hoping for their success. When the plants come in, Grace takes the crop to London and tries to sell it to a ruthless, but charming drug dealer. Everything busts loose from there.
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Movie: The Way of the Gun ( 2000 )
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
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Movie: What Women Want ( 2000 )
A cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking.
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Movie: Cruel Intentions 2 ( 2001 )
A few years before the events depicted in the 1999 film. It follows the lives of rich step siblings Sebastian Valmont and Kathryn Merteuil as they playfully manipulate the people surrounding them at their exclusive New York prep school.
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Movie: Reindeer Games ( 2000 )
After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with the other man's girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself a reluctant participant in a casino heist.
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Movie: Quills ( 2000 )
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
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Movie: 28 Days ( 2000 )
A big-city newspaper columnist is forced to enter a drug and alcohol rehab center after ruining her sister's wedding and crashing a stolen limousine.
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Movie: Drowning Mona ( 2000 )
When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.
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Movie: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker ( 2000 )
The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Gotham's newest Dark Knight needs answers as he stands alone to face Gotham's most infamous Clown Prince of Crime.
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Movie: Best in Show ( 2000 )
A colorful array of characters compete at a national dog show.
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Movie: Red Planet ( 2000 )
Astronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
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Movie: The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle ( 2000 )
35 years after The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show's cancellation, our two TV heroes have been living off the finances of their reruns on TV. To make matters worse, Rocky has lost his ability to fly, and the trees in Frostbite Falls have all been cut down. Meanwhile, over in Pottsylvania, home of Rocky and Bullwinkle's arch enemies Fearless Leader, Boris, and Natasha, the Iron Curtain has fallen, leading the villains to leave Pottsylvania, and dig through a tunnel all the way to the TV of a Hollywood Producer, Minnie Mogul. She signs a contract, giving her the rights to produce the Rocky and Bullwinkle Movie, and accidentally pulls the three villains out of the TV, turning them into humans! Now, they have an evil plan to hypnotize America, using RBTV (Really Bad TeleVision), making everyone's mind mush, so he can go on to the TV, and get everyone to vote him President of the USA! However, new FBI Agent Karen Sympathy has an assignment--get the only ones who could ever defeat the villains- Rocky and Bullwinkle. Using a green light lighthouse, Rocky and Bullwinkle (and their Narrator) are sucked out of the TV world, and to real life as 3D computer-generated characters! With all of America being hypnotized, and Fearless Leader's evil speech in 48 hours, and Boris and Natasha giving chase, planning to use a computer laser to send destroy moose and squirrel, it's Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Karen on a hilarious, pun-filled, and cameo-filled adventure to New York by plane, car, truck, hoof, flying squirrel, and yes, e-mail, to stop Fearless Leader and save America!
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Movie: The Original Kings of Comedy ( 2000 )
A concert film featuring four major African American stand up comedians.
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Movie: Shaft ( 2000 )
New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.
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Movie: Highlander: Endgame ( 2000 )
Immortals Connor and Duncan MacLeod must join forces against Kell, an evil immortal who has become too strong for anyone to face alone.
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Movie: The Kid ( 2000 )
An unhappy and disliked image consultant gets a second shot at life when he is mysteriously confronted by an eight-year-old version of himself.
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Movie: The Ladies Man ( 2000 )
The Saturday Night Live (1975) character gets a big screen treatment.
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Movie: Dude, Where's My Car? ( 2000 )
Two potheads wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.
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Movie: The Little Vampire ( 2000 )
A lonely American boy living in Scotland makes a new best friend, a fellow nine year-old who happens to be a vampire.