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The Best Movies of 2006
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I realize a lot of these say 2007, but I checked different sources that say 2006.


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Movie: Shortbus ( 2006 )
A group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
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Movie: She's the Man ( 2006 )
When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguised as him, and proceeds to fall for his school's star soccer player, and soon learns she's not the only one with romantic troubles.
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Movie: Sherrybaby ( 2007 )
Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.
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Movie: Severance ( 2006 )
During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.
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Movie: Seraphim Falls ( 2007 )
At the end of the Civil War, a colonel hunts down a man with whom he has a grudge.
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Movie: See No Evil ( 2006 )
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain - a group that includes the cop who put a bullet in Goodnight's head four years ago - band together to survive against the brutal killer.
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Movie: Scoop ( 2006 )
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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Movie: School for Scoundrels ( 2006 )
A young guy short on luck, enrolls in a class to build confidence to help win over the girl of his dreams, which becomes complicated when his teacher has the same agenda.
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Movie: Scary Movie 4 ( 2006 )
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
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Movie: Saw III ( 2006 )
Jigsaw abducts a doctor in order to keep himself alive while he watches his new apprentice put an unlucky citizen named Jeff through a brutal test.
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Movie: RV ( 2006 )
Bob Munro and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies, where they ultimately have to contend with a bizarre community of campers.
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Movie: Running with Scissors ( 2006 )
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
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Movie: Running Scared ( 2006 )
A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his crime boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things get out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.
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Movie: Rocky Balboa ( 2006 )
Thirty years after the ring of the first bell, Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement and dons his gloves for his final fight; against the reigning heavyweight champ Mason 'The Line' Dixon.
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Movie: Road House 2: Last Call ( 2006 )
While he's deep undercover in New York, DEA agent Shane Tanner, the son of a legendary cooler named Dalton, learns that his uncle Nate Tanner got beat up by a group of men because he doesn't want to sell the Black Pelican, his bar in Tyree, Louisiana. Shane takes off for Louisiana to find out who attacked Nate. Shane decides to stay in Nate's house for the time being, and run the Black Pelican in Nate's absence, much to the dismay of former Black Pelican cooler Bill "Wild Bill" Decarie. Wild Bill wants to buy the Black Pelican since it's located in a prime location for running drugs. The Black Pelican is close to the border, it's between Florida and Texas, and it's in an area where drugs can be smuggled pretty much undetected. But Shane doesn't want to sell, and damages the numerous thugs that Bill sends his way. Also, Dalton was murdered years ago, and Shane still wonders who killed Dalton. When Shane was a rookie state trooper in Tyree, Shane had come home from work one night, and found Dalton fatally shot. After that, Shane left town and became a DEA agent. Now, Wild Bill's boss, Miami crime syndicate kingpin Victor Crost, decides that it's time to handle matters personally, because Wild Bill's men are not doing a good job of it. Shane is soon faced with impossible odds and a low number of staff members at the Black Pelican. To rid Louisiana of Victor, Wild Bill, and their organization, Shane teams up with local school teacher Beau Hampton, who is a regular at the Black Pelican.
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Movie: Right at Your Door ( 2006 )
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
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Movie: Return to Halloweentown ( 2006 )
Marnie and Dylan are going to follow their dreams to go to college, at Halloweentown University, which is also known as Witch University.
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Movie: Rescue Dawn ( 2007 )
A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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Movie: Pulse ( 2006 )
When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
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Movie: Poseidon ( 2006 )
On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.
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Movie: Pledge This! ( 2007 )
At South Beach University, a beautiful sorority president takes in a group of unconventional freshman girls seeking acceptance into her house.
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Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ( 2006 )
Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
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Movie: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ( 2007 )
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.
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Movie: Penelope ( 2007 )
A modern romantic tale about a young aristocratic heiress born under a curse that can only be broken when she finds true love with "one who will accept her as one of their own."
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Movie: Peaceful Warrior ( 2006 )
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
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Movie: Payback: Straight Up ( 2007 )
Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.
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Movie: Paprika ( 2006 )
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
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Movie: Pan's Labyrinth ( 2007 )
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
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Movie: Over the Hedge ( 2006 )
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself.
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Movie: Open Water 2: Adrift ( 2006 )
When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.
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Movie: Open Season ( 2006 )
Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear, finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.
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Movie: Notes on a Scandal ( 2007 )
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
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Movie: Night of the Living Dead 3D ( 2006 )
Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!
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Movie: Night at the Museum ( 2006 )
A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc.
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Movie: Nacho Libre ( 2006 )
Berated all his life by those around him, a monk follows his dream and dons a mask to moonlight as a Luchador (Mexican wrestler).
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Movie: My Super Ex-Girlfriend ( 2006 )
When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell.
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Movie: Mulberry St ( 2006 )
A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control.
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Movie: Monster House ( 2006 )
Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.
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Movie: Miss Potter ( 2007 )
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
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Movie: Mission: Impossible III ( 2006 )
IMF Agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiancee in response.
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Movie: Mini's First Time ( 2007 )
A rebellious girl hooks up with an escort agency, where her stepfather is a client.
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Movie: Miami Vice ( 2006 )
Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
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Movie: Material Girls ( 2006 )
The silver spoon daughters of the late cosmetics empire founder Victor Marchetta, Avan and Tanzie, never even took an interest in the business, happy to let it be run by their and the firm's administrator, Tommy Katzenbach, while they lead socialite lives, aiming at a marriage with soap star Mic Rionn. Suddenly a scandal wrecks the firm's stock and their family reputation. Their credit cards are canceled, one of them torches the mansion, the other hands their sports-car to a thief mistaken for a parking valet. So they end up living with their Latina former cleaning lady. Help to investigate whether the firm is really best sold to competitor Fabiella, as Tommy claims, comes from hunky lab technician Rick, whom the previously mistook for the inexistent firm parking lot attendant, and Henry Baines, whose free law for the poor charity they didn't even consider for sponsoring.
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Movie: Marie Antoinette ( 2006 )
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
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Movie: Man of the Year ( 2006 )
A comedian who hosts a news satire program decides to run for president, and a computerized voting machine malfunction gets him elected.
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Movie: Man About Town ( 2006 )
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
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Movie: Madea's Family Reunion ( 2006 )
While planning her family reunion, a pistol-packing grandma must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her love-troubled nieces.
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Movie: Madea Goes to Jail ( 2006 )
Madea returns in another comedy in which she gets sent to "the big house". Regardless of the circumstances, she gives her trademark advice and wisdom to her friends and family as they learn the importance of letting go, moving on, and forgiveness.
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Movie: Lucky Number Slevin ( 2006 )
A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.
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Movie: Love and Other Disasters ( 2007 )
An American intern at U.K. Vogue helps her friends find love.
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Movie: Lonely Hearts ( 2006 )
Based on the true story, two homicide detectives track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" who lured their victims through the personals.
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Movie: Little Miss Sunshine ( 2006 )
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
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Movie: Little Man ( 2006 )
A wannabe dad mistakes a vertically challenged criminal on the lam as his newly adopted son.
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Movie: Little Children ( 2006 )
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.
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Movie: Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 )
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Movie: Let's Go to Prison ( 2006 )
When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.
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Movie: Last Holiday ( 2006 )
Upon learning of a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to sell off all her possessions and live it up at a posh European hotel.
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Movie: Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector ( 2006 )
A slovenly cable repairman becomes a big city Health Inspector, and is tasked with uncovering the source of a food poisoning epidemic.
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Movie: Lady in the Water ( 2006 )
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
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Movie: Kidulthood ( 2006 )
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
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Movie: Karla ( 2006 )
Based on real events, Paul Bernardo and his wife, Karla Homolka, kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
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Movie: Just My Luck ( 2006 )
In Manhattan, Ashley Albright is a lucky woman and very successful in the agency where she works. The clumsy Jake Hardin is an unlucky aspirant manager of the rock band McFly, who is unsuccessfully trying to contact the entrepreneur Damon Phillips to promote his band. When Ashley meets Jake in a masquerade party, they kiss each other, swapping her fortune with his bad luck.
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Movie: John Tucker Must Die ( 2006 )
Three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.
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Movie: Jackass Number Two ( 2006 )
Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.
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Movie: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With ( 2006 )
About a man who has trouble with his job, trouble with women, and uses food to deal with it all.
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Movie: It's a Boy Girl Thing ( 2006 )
Sworn enemies find themselves in each other's bodies, and use this to ruin each other's lives.
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Movie: Invincible ( 2006 )
Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.
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Movie: Inside Man ( 2006 )
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
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Movie: Inland Empire ( 2007 )
As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
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Movie: Infamous ( 2006 )
While researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
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Movie: I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer ( 2006 )
A group of teenagers in Colorado find themselves being stalked and killed one by one by a mysterious figure with a hook, exactly one year after they covered up a friend's accidental death.
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Movie: Idlewild ( 2006 )
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
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Movie: Idiocracy ( 2007 )
Corporal Joe Bauers, a decidedly average American, is selected for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten and left to awaken to a future so incredibly moronic that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
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Movie: Ice Age: The Meltdown ( 2006 )
Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths.
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Movie: How to Eat Fried Worms ( 2006 )
The Forrester family - father Mitch Forrester, mother Helen Forrester, their pre-teen son Billy Forrester and their pre-school son Woody Forrester - have just moved to a new town where Mitch is starting a new job. Both Mitch and Billy are worried about fitting into their new environment. It's worse for Billy as Woody, who is not worried about the move, is at that stage in his life where everything is simple and easy. Billy's first day in the fifth grade at his new school does not go well when he gets into an altercation with the class bullies, led by Joe Guire. The altercation involves worms and Billy stating that he eats worms all the time, which leads to all the bullies calling him "Wormboy". As such, Joe bets Billy that he can't eat ten worms (without vomiting), the bet to take place this upcoming Saturday, with the last worm to be consumed by 7pm. Despite having a notoriously weak stomach, Billy takes him up on the bet. As the bet starts, the only classmate on Billy's side is Erika Tansy, a girl with a mind of her own. All the other boys follow Joe if only out of fear, especially as legend has it that the ring that Joe wears contains poison which will lead to a slow death if injected. The boys get into one misadventure after another as they try to find different places and increasingly disgusting ways to cook the worms before Billy consumes them. But by the end of the day, they all learn that there is strength in numbers in dealing with fear.
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Movie: Hoot ( 2006 )
The story of a young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls, and that a tough girl at his school named Beatrice has some connection with the barefoot boy, who has some connection with vandalism at the construction site. When they realize that a population of endangered burrowing owls is threatened by new construction the kids decide to take on crooked politicians and bumbling cops in the hope of saving their new friends.
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Movie: Home of the Brave ( 2007 )
Three soldiers struggle to readjust to life at home after returning home from a lengthy tour in Iraq.
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Movie: Hollywoodland ( 2006 )
A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).
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Movie: Hollow Man II ( 2006 )
A Seattle detective and a biologist are on the run from a dangerous invisible assassin gone rogue.
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Movie: High School Musical ( 2006 )
A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.
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Movie: Happy Feet ( 2006 )
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
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Movie: Happily N'Ever After ( 2007 )
An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.
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Movie: Half Nelson ( 2006 )
An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
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Movie: Half Light ( 2006 )
Rachel Carlson, a successful novelist moves to a small Scottish village to move on with her life after the death of her son. Strange things start to happen when she is haunted by ghosts and real life terror.
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TV Show: H2O: Just Add Water ( 2006 )
H2O: Just Add Water is a story about three normal teenage girls stumble upon a ancient cave they undergo a transformation that wll change their lives forever. H2O - Just Add Water, sees three very different girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist - they're mermaids with incredible powers over water.
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Movie: Gridiron Gang ( 2006 )
In the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, the supervisor and former football player Sean Porter sees the lack of discipline, self-esteem, union and perspective in the teenage interns and proposes to prepare a football team to play in one league. He is supported by his superiors and his successful experience changes the lives of many young kids.
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Movie: Grandma's Boy ( 2006 )
A thirty-five-year-old video game tester has to move in with his grandma and her two old lady roommates.
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Movie: Goya's Ghosts ( 2006 )
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
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Movie: Glory Road ( 2006 )
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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Movie: Garfield 2 ( 2006 )
Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
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Movie: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus ( 2006 )
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century.
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Movie: Funny Money ( 2006 )
Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man, to find out that there's five million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does. Soon they're joined by their best friends, a cop on the take, a cop on the hunt, and the dreaded Mr. Big, who has come to claim his million dollars.
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Movie: Friends with Money ( 2006 )
After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
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Movie: Freedomland ( 2006 )
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
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Movie: For Your Consideration ( 2006 )
Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.
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Movie: Flyboys ( 2006 )
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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Movie: Flushed Away ( 2006 )
The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.
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Movie: Flicka ( 2006 )
Coming-of-age story set in the mountain vistas, A headstrong 16-year-old Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. Katy then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.
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Movie: Flags of Our Fathers ( 2006 )
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.
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Movie: Firewall ( 2006 )
A security specialist is forced into robbing the bank that he's protecting, as a bid to pay off his family's ransom.