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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: The Last Kiss ( 2006 )
Michael, at 30, has a great job, still have his four best friends, and has a beautiful girlfriend, but his life seems predictable. Until he meets a college girl. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.
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Movie: The Ant Bully ( 2006 )
This is the story of a ten-year-old boy named Lucas Nickle (Zach Tyler), who has just moved to a new neighborhood, has no friends, and is the target for the local bully and his gang. His parents, Fred (Larry Miller) and Doreen (Cheri Oteri), are leaving for a honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, so they are too busy to attend to his problems. His sister, Tiffany (Allison Mack), is distracted by her cell phone, and grandmother Mommo (Lily Tomlin) is obsessed with U.F.O.s and aliens. Lucas is constantly being beat up by the neighborhood bully, Steve (Myles Jeffrey). Because he cannot fight back, he takes out his anger on an anthill in his front yard. He kicks it, stomps it, squirts it with his water gun, and floods it with a hose. This terrifies the ants, who call Lucas "The Destroyer". One wizard ant, known as Zoc (Nicolas Cage), being a hopeful and adventurous type, is trying to solve this dilemma. He tries to devise a magic potion that he believes will solve all their problems. As the plan to shrink Lucas down to their size with a magic potion and forcing him to live like an ant within the colony - an astonishing new world opens up to him. Lucas learns first-hand the value of friendship and teamwork, ultimately leading the ants in an effort to save their colony from annihilation. And in the process, Lucas obtains the things he wants most: friends, companionship, acceptance, and the courage to stand up for himself.
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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: Brother Bear 2 ( 2006 )
An old female friend of Kenai needs his help on a quest, much to Koda's growing consternation.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Black Sheep ( 2007 )
An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.
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Movie: The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines ( 2006 )
Librarian-turned-adventurer Flynn Carsen endeavors to find King Solomon's mines.
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Movie: The Shaggy Dog ( 2006 )
A man tries to live a normal life despite the fact that he sometimes turns into a sheepdog.
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Movie: Another Gay Movie ( 2007 )
Four gay high school friends make a pact to lose their virginity before they go to college.
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Movie: This Film Is Not Yet Rated ( 2006 )
Kirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board.
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Movie: The Butterfly Effect 2 ( 2006 )
Nick Larson and his best friends Trevor Eastman and Amanda are celebrating the twentieth-fourth birthday of his girlfriend Julie Miller in a beautiful lake on a Sunday morning. Nick is expecting to be promoted in the company where he works, and Julie is planning to move to his place instead of going to New York for her Master degree. However, Nick is called by his colleague Dave Bristol, who is disputing the promotion with Nick, for a meeting with a client. While on the road, Nick has an accident and Julie and his friends die. One year later, Nick finds that he can travel in time and tries to fix the past, with tragic consequences for the future.
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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: The Cheetah Girls 2 ( 2006 )
The girl group return for more adventures, this time traveling to Spain to take part in a music festival.
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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: 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: Big Nothing ( 2006 )
A frustrated, unemployed professor joins forces with a scammer and a friend of his in a blackmailing scheme.
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Movie: Fido ( 2007 )
Space radiation turns dead into Zombies. Zomcon fights zombies and finds ways to pacify and use them. On preteen Timmy's 1950s suburban street, all have a zombie doing menial chores. Timmy's zombie becomes his pet/friend and is named Fido.
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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: Art School Confidential ( 2006 )
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
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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: Wedding Daze ( 2007 )
A guy proposes to his girlfriend, who drops dead. His BFF tries to get him to date other women but he only talks about his dead big love. At a diner he proposes to a cute waitress just to get his BFF off his back. She says yes.
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Movie: Cow Belles ( 2006 )
The exasperated father of two wealthy teens forces them to work at the family business to learn how to be responsible. When company funds go missing, it's up to the girls to save the day.
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Movie: Everyone's Hero ( 2006 )
A boy (Jake T. Austin) begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.
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Movie: Breaking and Entering ( 2006 )
A landscape architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.
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Movie: Unknown ( 2006 )
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
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Movie: An Inconvenient Truth ( 2006 )
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
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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: Venus ( 2007 )
Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.
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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: Desperation ( 2006 )
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
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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: A Prairie Home Companion ( 2006 )
A final live variety show broadcast via radio becomes a metaphor for the natural order of life. A concept and script by Garrison Keilor uses every natural and technical element of working with a tight and close ensemble producing a weekly show to sooth us and guide us through the natural but difficult transitions of aging, becoming less relevant and then dying as new, young life develops and strengthens during our final "performances." This is a rare film for it's remarkable cast and crew and one wonders how the great Robert Altman was able to gather them all at the same place and time to shoot this film.
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Movie: Dr. Dolittle 3 ( 2006 )
Maya Doolittle can't fit in at school because of her special gift of being able to talk to animals, so her mother sends her to a ranch to find herself, but at first all she can find is lots of hard work.
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TV Show: Broken Trail ( 2006 )
Veteran cowboy Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte must run 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming. When they cross paths with a low-life trafficker and five innocent Chinese girls, a twist of fate makes the girls Print and Tom's responsibility.
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Movie: The Dead Girl ( 2007 )
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
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Movie: Wicked Little Things ( 2006 )
Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.
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Movie: Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior ( 2006 )
A Californian teenager learns that she is the reincarnation of a legendary female warrior destined to protect the world.
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Movie: Deck the Halls ( 2006 )
Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.
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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: Ask the Dust ( 2006 )
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
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Movie: Fast Food Nation ( 2006 )
An ensemble piece examining the health risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.
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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: The Ex ( 2007 )
A slacker is forced to work for his father-in-law after his pregnant wife steps away from her high-paying job.
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Movie: .45 ( 2006 )
A story of how obsession, addiction and abuse cause a young woman to execute an elaborate plan of revenge.
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Movie: Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America ( 2006 )
A highly contagious, rapidly killing hemorrhagic mutation of bird flu slaughters people in Hongkong. Preventing its spread is virtually hopeless, as soon is proved in a US country village, which is strictly quarantined by the military. The White House prefers to 'prevent panic', even overrules zealous governor Mike Newsome and reneges earlier emergency plans.
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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: 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: Waist Deep ( 2006 )
An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
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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: Doogal ( 2006 )
This is the story of Doogal, an adorable candy-loving mutt who goes on a mission to save the world. Doogal must prevent the evil sorcerer Zeebad from freezing the Earth forever with the power of the three mysterious legendary diamonds. Joining Doogal on his big quest are pals Dylan, a guitar-playing rabbit, Ermintrude, an opera-singing cow, and Brian, a bashful snail. Hopping on a magic train, they travel over ice-capped mountains, navigate fiery pits of lava, and sail across vast oceans on the perilous journey of a lifetime. Along the way, they learn that the most powerful weapon of all is their friendship, which even Zeebad's magic cannot destroy.
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Movie: The Nativity Story ( 2006 )
A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.
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Movie: Unaccompanied Minors ( 2006 )
A group of unaccompanied minors bond while snowed in at the midwestern Hoover International Airport during the holiday season and ultimately create a makeshift holiday themselves.
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Movie: American Dreamz ( 2006 )
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal (Moore) and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County (Golzari). Recently awakened President Staton (Quaid) even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.
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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: The Astronaut Farmer ( 2007 )
A NASA astronaut, forced to retire years earlier so he could save his family farm, has never given up his dream of space travel and looks to build his own rocket, despite the government's threats to stop him.
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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: Dark Ride ( 2006 )
A group of six friends on a road trip stop off at an amusement park attraction named 'Dark Ride', unaware that a psychopath who brutally murdered two girls, has just escaped a mental institution and is seeking refuge there.
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Movie: The Fox and the Hound 2 ( 2006 )
In this midquel to The Fox and the Hound (1981), Copper the hound dog, here still just a pup, joins a canine music band, and spends less and less time with his best friend Todd the fox. Is their friendship in danger?
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Movie: The Hoax ( 2006 )
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
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Movie: Beer League ( 2006 )
An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game so they won't get kicked out of the local league.
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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: End Game ( 2006 )
A secret Service agent and a news reporter investigate the conspiracy behind the assassination of the President.
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Movie: Trailer Park Boys: The Movie ( 2006 )
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles come up with a scheme to steal large amounts of untraceable coins.
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Movie: The Night Listener ( 2006 )
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
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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: 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: Sherrybaby ( 2007 )
Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.
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Movie: Air Buddies ( 2006 )
When dad BUDDY and mom MOLLY are dognapped, their five adorable pups, the AIR BUDDIES, must save the day...
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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: 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: Snow Cake ( 2006 )
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
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Movie: The Darwin Awards ( 2006 )
To investigate bizarre insurance claims that transpired in either accidents, death or both, a former cop and an insurance investigator travel throughout the country to look at the cases up close.
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Movie: 10 Items or Less ( 2007 )
An actor (Freeman) prepping for an upcoming role meets a quirky grocery clerk (Vega), and the pair hit the road to show one another their respective worlds.
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Movie: The Return ( 2006 )
Joanna Mills, a traveling business woman, begins having nightmares of a murder that occurred 15 years ago. Soon she is drawn to an old farmhouse, where the murder took place.
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Movie: El cantante ( 2007 )
The life story of Hector Lavoe who started the salsa movement in 1975 and brought it to the United States.
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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: Fay Grim ( 2007 )
A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromises the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them ...
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Movie: Who Killed the Electric Car? ( 2006 )
With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption and adoption of the hybrid electric car (more than 140,000 Prius' sold this year), this story couldn't be more relevant or important. The foremost goal in making this movie is to educate and enlighten audiences with the story of this car, its place in history and in the larger story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil. This is an important film with an important message that not only calls to task the officials who squelched the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, but all of the other accomplices, government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen as well as consumers, who turned their backs on the car and embrace embracing instead the SUV. Our documentary investigates the death and resurrection of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in our country's future; issues which affect everyone from progressive liberals to the neo-conservative right.
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Movie: Delirious ( 2007 )
Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the hottest pop star of the moment, Les grows jealous and plots revenge.
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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: 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: Farce of the Penguins ( 2007 )
A mockumentary that illuminates penguin survival and mating rituals, as well as one bird's search for love while on a seventy-mile trek with his hedonistic buddies.
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Movie: TV: The Movie ( 2007 )
A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society, it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials.
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Movie: Shut Up & Sing ( 2006 )
A documentary on the Dixie Chicks in the wake of singer Natalie Maines' anti-George W. Bush statement at a 2003 concert.