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The Best Movies of 2009
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Movie: Invictus ( 2009 )
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
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Movie: Solomon Kane ( 2009 )
A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
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Movie: Mary and Max ( 2009 )
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
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Movie: The Taking of Pelham 123 ( 2009 )
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
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Movie: I Love You, Man ( 2009 )
Friendless Peter Klaven goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding. But, when his insta-bond with his new B.F.F. puts a strain on his relationship with his fiancée, can the trio learn to live happily ever after?
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Movie: Away We Go ( 2009 )
A couple expecting their first child travels the U.S. seeking the perfect "family home." They have misadventures and find fresh connections with relatives and old friends who help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
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Movie: Middle Men ( 2010 )
Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals, and struggles not to drown in a sea of con men, mobsters, drug addicts, and porn stars.
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Movie: Pirate Radio ( 2009 )
A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.
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Movie: The Time Traveler's Wife ( 2009 )
A Chicago librarian has a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, creating complications in his marriage.
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Movie: Fired Up! ( 2009 )
Two guys, Nick and Shawn decide a two week stint at a Cheerleaders' Camp is the perfect opportunity to score tons of meaningless romantic liaisons with lonely girls in tight-tops and short-short skirts. But their lusty plan to caress as many pom-poms as possible goes awry when one of the dudes fall in love.
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Movie: Hannah Montana: The Movie ( 2009 )
As Hannah Montana's popularity begins to take over her life, Miley Stewart, on the urging from her father takes a trip to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee to get some perspective on what matters in life the most.
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Movie: The Stepfather ( 2009 )
Michael returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend. As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand.
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Movie: American Pie Presents: The Book of Love ( 2009 )
Ten years after the first American Pie movie, three new hapless virgins discover the Bible hidden in the school library at East Great Falls High.
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Movie: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard ( 2009 )
Used-car liquidator Don Ready is hired by a flailing auto dealership to turn their Fourth of July sale into a majorly profitable event.
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Movie: Saw VI ( 2009 )
Agent Strahm is dead, and FBI agent Erickson draws nearer to Hoffman. Meanwhile, a pair of insurance executives find themselves in another game set by Jigsaw.
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Movie: Miss March ( 2009 )
Eugene believes in no sex before marriage. So DID his girlfriend, Cindi. His BFF loves sex. At Senior Prom, just before sex with Cindi, he falls into a coma. Waking up 4 years later, his Cindi is Miss March in Playboy. Can he get her back?
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Movie: A Perfect Getaway ( 2009 )
Two pairs of lovers on a Hawaiian vacation discover that psychopaths are stalking and murdering tourists on the islands.
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Movie: I Love You Phillip Morris ( 2010 )
A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with.
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Movie: My Sister's Keeper ( 2009 )
Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive.
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Movie: Funny People ( 2009 )
When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship causes him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.
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Movie: Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead ( 2009 )
When their transfer bus crashes in a West Virginia forest, a group of convicts and one a corrections officer meet a rafter who is on the run from cannibalistic hillbillies who have murdered her friends.
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Movie: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ( 2009 )
When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.
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Movie: Obsessed ( 2009 )
Derek Charles is a hard working man, employed as a asset manager in a private company. He is very happy with his beautiful wife, Sharon, and only son, and because of his hard work he just got a huge promotion. But suddenly he gets a temporary worker who is both attractive and smart, and Derek is understandably impressed with her and also finds himself physically drawn to her. However, this new girl is desperate to get close to him - at any cost.
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Movie: Paul Blart: Mall Cop ( 2009 )
When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered security guard to save the day.
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Movie: Crazy Heart ( 2010 )
A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.
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Movie: The Box ( 2009 )
A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.
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Movie: Brüno ( 2009 )
Flamboyant, gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.
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Movie: I Can Do Bad All by Myself ( 2009 )
When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
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Movie: Halloween II ( 2009 )
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
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Movie: Old Dogs ( 2009 )
Two friends and business partners find their lives turned upside down when strange circumstances lead them to be the temporary guardians of seven year-old twins.
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Movie: Notorious ( 2009 )
The life and death story of Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm.
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Movie: The Haunting in Connecticut ( 2009 )
After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, and uncover a sinister history.
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Movie: Into the Blue 2: The Reef ( 2009 )
Dreaming of unearthing the mythical treasure of the Spanish ship, San Cristobal, the financially pressed deep-sea diver, Sebastian, and his supportive girlfriend, Dani, run a snorkelling business in picturesque Honolulu to eke out a living. When the couple is hired by the secretive businessman, Carlton, and his beautiful companion, Azra, to search for the same undersea prize, things will take an unexpected turn for the better, as immense riches await the team. However, are Carlton and Azra who they claim to be? Are they truly interested in making a lucrative discovery or do they have an ulterior motive?
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Movie: Cargo ( 2013 )
In 2270, Earth is completely depleted and no one lives there anymore. Those that have money move to Rhea; but most of the population lives in orbit in space stations. Dr. Laura Portmann decides to work in the cargo ship Kassandra in an eight year travel to Station 42 that is in orbit of RH278 to raise money to meet her sister Arianne in Rhea. They keep in touch with each other, but their messages take three years to reach the other. Laura joins Captain Pierre Lacroix and his crew composed by the First Officer Anna Lindbergh; Communication Officer Miyuki Yoshida and Igor Prokoff and Claudio Vespucci. The Sky Marshall Samuel Decker joins the team since the terrorist group Luddites, led by Klaus Bruckner, is bombing the stations. Lacroix organizes shifts of eight and half months for each crew-member while the others rest in cryogenic sleep. Three years and eight months later, Laura finds that there is apparently a stowaway in the cargo compartments and Decker and Lacroix are awakened to investigate the incident with her; however, Lacroix has an accident and dies and the crew is woken up. Further, she finds that Arianne's transmission to her took only twenty minutes. What might be the secret of the cargo transported by Kassandra and where the spaceship is going?
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Movie: The Loved Ones ( 2010 )
When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.
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Movie: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ( 2009 )
After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse.
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Movie: Confessions of a Shopaholic ( 2009 )
Struggling with her debilitating obsession with shopping and the sudden collapse of her income source, Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) unintentionally lands a job writing for a financial magazine after a drunken letter-mailing mix-up. Ironically writing about the consumer caution of which she has not abided, Rebecca's innovative comparisons and unconventional metaphors for economics grants her critical acclaim, public success, and the admiration of her supportive boss Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy). But as she draws closer to her ultimate goal of writing for renowned fashion magazine Alette, she questions her true ambitions and must determine if overcoming her "shopaholic" condition will bring her real happiness.
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Movie: Sorority Row ( 2009 )
A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.
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Movie: Whiteout ( 2009 )
U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months.
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Movie: The Informant! ( 2009 )
The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.
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Movie: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day ( 2009 )
The MacManus brothers are living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, but when they learn that their beloved priest has been killed by mob forces, they go back to Boston to bring justice to those responsible and avenge the priest.
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Movie: I Love You, Beth Cooper ( 2009 )
A nerdy valedictorian proclaims his love for the hottest and most popular girl in school - Beth Cooper - during his graduation speech. Much to his surprise, Beth shows up at his door that very night and decides to show him the best night of his life.
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Movie: The Girl Who Played with Fire ( 2009 )
As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name.
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Movie: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant ( 2009 )
Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak and become a vampire.
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Movie: Brooklyn's Finest ( 2010 )
Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.
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Movie: The Grudge 3 ( 2009 )
A young Japanese woman who holds the key to stopping the evil spirit of Kayako, travels to the haunted Chicago apartment from the sequel, to stop the curse of Kayako once and for all.
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Movie: Imagine That ( 2009 )
A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.
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Movie: Fanboys ( 2009 )
Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release.
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Movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ( 2009 )
The world famous singing pre-teen chipmunk trio return to contend with the pressures of school, celebrity, and a rival female music group known as The Chipettes.
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Movie: In the Loop ( 2009 )
A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries.
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Movie: The International ( 2009 )
An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring.
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Movie: Road Trip: Beer Pong ( 2009 )
Three college roommates join a bus full of gorgeous models and travel the country to compete in a National Beer Pong Championship. With a busload of attractive women who knows how much fun they could have?
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Movie: I.C.U. ( 2009 )
A sadistic voyeuristic killer is stalking the city. 3 curious teenagers while spying on their neighbors believe they've discovered his identity. But when your holiday high rise apartment is filled with hidden CCTV cameras. WHO is really watching WHO?
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Movie: Echelon Conspiracy ( 2009 )
At first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world.
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Movie: Observe and Report ( 2009 )
Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective is recruited to close the case.
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Movie: The Rebound ( 2009 )
In New York City, a single mom captivates her new neighbor, a much younger man.
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Movie: G-Force ( 2009 )
A specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world.
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Movie: The Hills Run Red ( 2009 )
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
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Movie: All About Steve ( 2009 )
Convinced that a CCN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.
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Movie: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest ( 2010 )
Lisbeth Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With help from journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, she must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
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Movie: The Pink Panther 2 ( 2009 )
Insp. Jacques Clouseau teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts.
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Movie: After.Life ( 2010 )
After a car accident, a young woman caught between life and death meets a funeral director who claims to have the gift of transitioning the dead into the afterlife.
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Movie: Harry Brown ( 2009 )
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
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Movie: The Joneses ( 2010 )
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
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Movie: Duplicity ( 2009 )
Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one.
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Movie: A Christmas Carol ( 2009 )
An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
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Movie: Blood Creek ( 2009 )
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
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Movie: Extract ( 2009 )
Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.
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Movie: Stan Helsing ( 2010 )
It's Halloween night, and slacker video clerk Stan Helsing along with his insanely sexy ex-girlfriend , best buddy and an exotic dancer/'massage therapist' - detours into a town cursed by the biggest monsters in movie history: Freddy, Jason , Pinhead , Leatherface , Chucky , & Michael Myers.
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Movie: Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever ( 2009 )
A high school prom faces a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled water.
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Movie: S. Darko ( 2009 )
Donnie Darko's little sister Samantha and her best friend Corey are on a cross-country road trip, but soon find themselves entangled in a dangerous glitch in the time-space continuum.
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Movie: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ( 2009 )
When a child, Chun-Li sees her father being captured by wealthy gangster Bison. When she grows up, she goes into a quest for justice and bring down the criminal organization Shadaloo which is led by Bison.
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Movie: The New Daughter ( 2010 )
A single father moves his two children to rural South Carolina, only to watch his daughter exhibit increasingly strange behavior.
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Movie: Hotel for Dogs ( 2009 )
Two kids secretly take in stray dogs at a vacant hotel.
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Movie: The Disappearance of Alice Creed ( 2010 )
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
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Movie: New in Town ( 2009 )
A Miami, Florida businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a small Minnesota town.
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Movie: Astro Boy ( 2009 )
When an android replica of a boy is rejected by his aggrieved creator, he goes off to find his own identity in an adventure that would make him the greatest hero of his time.
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Movie: Love Happens ( 2009 )
A widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru, falls for the hotel florist where his seminar is given, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.
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Movie: Planet 51 ( 2009 )
An alien civilization is invaded by Astronaut Chuck Baker, who believes that the planet was uninhabited. Wanted by the military, Baker must get back to his ship before it goes into orbit without him.
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Movie: Everybody's Fine ( 2009 )
A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.
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Movie: Youth in Revolt ( 2010 )
While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity.
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Movie: [Rec] 2 ( 2009 )
In order to ascertain the current situation inside, a supposed medical officer and a GEO team step into the quarantined and ill-fated apartment building.
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Movie: The Messenger ( 2009 )
An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.
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Movie: Dance Flick ( 2009 )
Street dancer Thomas Uncles is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White might help the duo realize their dreams as they enter in the mother of all dance battles.
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Movie: Taking Woodstock ( 2009 )
A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
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Movie: Fame ( 2009 )
An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
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Movie: Did You Hear About the Morgans? ( 2009 )
In New York City, an estranged couple who witness a murder are relocated to small town Wyoming as part of the Witness Protection Program.
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Movie: Fighting ( 2009 )
In New York City, a young counterfeiter is introduced to the world of underground street fighting by a seasoned scam artist, who becomes his manager on the bare-knuckling brawling circuit.
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Movie: Van Wilder: Freshman Year ( 2009 )
Van Wilder starts his freshman year at Coolidge College and embarks on an adventure to land the campus hottie and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction.
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Movie: Crossing Over ( 2009 )
Crossing Over is about illegal aliens of many nationalities in the Los Angeles area and the authorities and individuals dealing with them.
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Movie: The Secret of Kells ( 2016 )
A young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids is beckoned to adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives with an ancient book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers.
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Movie: Aliens in the Attic ( 2009 )
A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.
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Movie: My Life in Ruins ( 2009 )
A travel guide rediscovers her romantic side on a trip around Greece.
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Movie: Solitary Man ( 2010 )
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
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Movie: Still Waiting... ( 2009 )
On the last night of the fiscal quarter, Dennis, Shenanigan's manager, will be promoted to district manager if they have a $9000 day. To motivate the crew, he tells them the restaurant will close if they don't meet this goal. His competition is next door: Ta-Ta's, a bar with scantily clad waitresses, managed by the newly self-confident Calvin. At Ta-Ta's, it's Allison's first day; she's nervous. At Shenanigan's, Mason, a cook, is trying his best to be cool, without success. As the shift wears on, each employee faces his worst fears, and Dennis tries to learn how to attract women. Next door, Calvin and Allison make self discoveries. It all ends at the post-shift party.
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Movie: The Slammin' Salmon ( 2009 )
The owner of a Miami restaurant indebted to the mob institutes a contest to see what waiter can earn the most money in one night.
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Movie: World's Greatest Dad ( 2010 )
Lance Clayton is a man who has learned to settle. His son, Kyle's an insufferable jerk. Lance is dating Claire, the school's art teacher, but she doesn't want to get serious or even acknowledge publicly they're dating. In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy -- and greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of all the fame, fortune and popularity he ever dreamed of; if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got it.
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Movie: Gentlemen Broncos ( 2010 )
A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
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Movie: 12 Rounds ( 2009 )
Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by an ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release.
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Movie: Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel ( 2009 )
The script, written by Jamie Mathieson, follows three social outcasts -- two geeks and a cynic -- as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.