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The Best Movies of 2000
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Memento ( 2001 )
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Cast Away ( 2000 )
A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.
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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: 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: 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: Unbreakable ( 2000 )
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
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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: O Brother, Where Art Thou? ( 2001 )
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters--among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning governor and his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."
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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: 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: Traffic ( 2001 )
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Road Trip ( 2000 )
Four college buddies embark on a road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a female friend.
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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: 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: 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: 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: What Lies Beneath ( 2000 )
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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: What Women Want ( 2000 )
A cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking.
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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: 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: 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: The Replacements ( 2000 )
During a pro football strike, the owners hire substitute players.
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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: 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: Battlefield Earth ( 2000 )
It's the year 3000 A.D., and the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos. Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, who are unaware that their 'man-animals' are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.
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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: 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: Amores Perros ( 2000 )
A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.
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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: Psycho Beach Party ( 2001 )
Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.
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Movie: Center Stage ( 2000 )
A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Wonder Boys ( 2000 )
An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 100 Girls ( 2000 )
Matt spends the night with a girl in an elevator during power outage in a girls' college dorm. He never sees her. Waking up in the morning, panties are all that's left of her. How does he find her in a building with 100 girls?
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: U-571 ( 2000 )
A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine.
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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: Dungeons & Dragons ( 2000 )
Profion, a tyrant, attempts to overthrow a peaceful kingdom ruled by a tough empress.
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Movie: Where the Money Is ( 2000 )
Carol Ann MacKay is a fine, popular nurse at a retirement home, and spends her free time with her hunky athletic husband Wayne MacKay, who was the star of her school's football team when she was high school prom queen; he still would do anything for her, including cleaning up the messes her ideas get them in. When legendary bank robber Henry Manning, who had a major stroke in prison, is placed in the home, supposedly having lost all control over his body, she notices he must be in far better condition then he lets appear, and tries everything to find out- when she pushes his wheelchair in a canal at a picnic, Henry gives up. The McKays keep his secret and Henry doesn't actually run in Waynes car as his first impulse was; soon Carol gets his confidence and the two start planning how they three can commit another robbery on an armored money transport, which brings them together. It doesn't go quite according to plan, but they get the loot; however, before the money can be split some big surprises change everything...
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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: Dracula 2000 ( 2000 )
A group of thieves breaks into a chamber expecting to find paintings, but instead they release the count himself, who travels to New Orleans to find his nemesis' daughter, Mary Van Helsing.
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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: 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: The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea ( 2000 )
To protect her from a sea witch, Ariel's daughter is not allowed in the ocean; but when she becomes 12, she runs away to an adventure under the sea.
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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: 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: 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: 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 Yards ( 2000 )
Leo is released from prison after serving time for car theft. His plan to go straight falls apart when he meets his corrupt uncle for a job and later an old friend working there. It culminates at the (railroad) yards.
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Movie: The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas ( 2000 )
In this live-action prequel to the 1994 comedy hit, the Flintstones and the Rubbles go on a trip to Rock Vegas, where Wilma is pursued by playboy Chip Rockefeller.
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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: 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: 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: Love & Basketball ( 2000 )
In 1981 in L.A., Monica moves in next door to Quincy. They're 11, and both want to play in the NBA, just like Quincy's dad. Their love-hate relationship lasts into high school, with Monica's edge and Quincy's top-dog attitude separating them, except when Quincy's parents argue and he climbs through Monica's window to sleep on the floor. As high school ends, they come together as a couple, but within a year, with both of them playing ball at USC, Quincy's relationship with his father takes an ugly turn, and it leads to a break up with Monica. Some years later, their pro careers at a crossroads, they meet again. It's time for a final game of one-on-one with high stakes.
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Movie: Snow Day ( 2000 )
When a school in upstate New York is snowed in, a group of students hi-jack a plow to keep the school closed.
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Movie: Thirteen Days ( 2000 )
In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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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: Get Carter ( 2000 )
A Las Vegas mob enforcer travels back to his hometown to investigate his brother's mysterious death.
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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: Finding Forrester ( 2001 )
A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.
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Movie: 102 Dalmatians ( 2000 )
Cruella DeVil gets out of prison and goes after the puppies once more.
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Movie: Keeping the Faith ( 2000 )
Two friends, a priest and a rabbi, fall in love with the same woman they knew in their youth, but the religious position of both men denies them romance.
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Movie: Loser ( 2000 )
A college student, branded a loser by his roommates and booted from the dorm, falls in love with a coed who has eyes for their condescending professor.
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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: 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.