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The Best Movies of 2008
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Movie: What Happens in Vegas ( 2008 )
A man and a woman are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
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Movie: Horton Hears a Who! ( 2008 )
Horton the Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists.
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Movie: Punisher: War Zone ( 2008 )
Frank Castle known as Punisher ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.
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Movie: The Oxford Murders ( 2008 )
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
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Movie: Street Kings ( 2008 )
An undercover cop, disillusioned by the recent murder of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself.
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Movie: The Spirit ( 2008 )
Rookie cop Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City.
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Movie: The Edge of Love ( 2008 )
Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.
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Movie: Babylon A.D. ( 2008 )
In a near future, the mercenary Toorop is hired by the powerful criminal Gorsky to take a woman named Aurora from a Noelite Convent in Central Asia to New York. In return, he will receive a large amount of money and a clear passport. Toorop joins Aurora and her guardian Sister Rebeka as they cross the dangerous Russian landscape chased by mercenaries that also want Aurora. On their journey, Toorop discovers that Aurora has special abilities and once in New York, they see on the news that the Noelite Convent has just been bombed. When Aurora discloses that she is a virgin and pregnant with twins, Toorop realizes that there is something sinister behind his mission and that he and Sister Rebeka are not part of Gorsky's plans.
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Movie: Starship Troopers 3: Marauder ( 2008 )
Johnny Rico is called back into action to defeat the bugs.
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Movie: Righteous Kill ( 2008 )
Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.
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Movie: City of Ember ( 2008 )
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.
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Movie: Superhero Movie ( 2008 )
Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.
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Movie: Saw V ( 2008 )
Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.
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Movie: Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay ( 2008 )
After being mistaken for terrorists and thrown into Guantánamo Bay, stoners Harold and Kumar escape and return to the U.S., where they proceed to flee across the country with federal agents in hot pursuit.
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Movie: Mirrors ( 2008 )
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
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Movie: Trick 'r Treat ( 2007 )
Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater.
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Movie: Meet the Spartans ( 2008 )
A spoof of 300 (2006) and many other movies, TV series/shows/commercials, video games and celebrities. King Leonidas of Sparta and his army of 12 go to war against Xerxes of Persia to fight to the death for Sparta's freedom.
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Movie: Inkheart ( 2009 )
Mortimer "Mo" "Silvertongue" Folchart has the special talent to bring characters out of books. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn (Andy Serkis) and Basta (Jamie Foreman), two villains, and Dustfinger (Paul Bettany), a fire-eater. Now, ten years later, Meggie (Eliza Bennett) discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp.
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Movie: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day ( 2008 )
Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
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Movie: Jolene ( 2008 )
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak. Based on E.L. Doctorow's story, "Jolene: A Life."
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Movie: The Brothers Bloom ( 2009 )
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
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Movie: The Women ( 2008 )
A wealthy New Yorker wrestles with the decision to leave her cheating husband, as she and her friends discover that women really can have it all.
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Movie: Che: Part One ( 2008 )
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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Movie: Traitor ( 2008 )
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
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Movie: Ghost Town ( 2008 )
Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
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Movie: Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging ( 2008 )
The story centers on a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing.
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Movie: Frost/Nixon ( 2009 )
Writer Peter Morgan's legendary battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the story of the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans (as well as a $600,000 fee). Likewise, Frost's team harbored doubts about their boss' ability to hold his own. But as cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.
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Movie: Cadillac Records ( 2008 )
Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.
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Movie: Passengers ( 2008 )
A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.
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Movie: The Rocker ( 2008 )
In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's high school rock band.
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Movie: Front of the Class ( 2008 )
Brad Cohen who, despite being challenged by Tourette's Syndrom at a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher.
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Movie: Appaloosa ( 2008 )
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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Movie: Rachel Getting Married ( 2008 )
A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years, returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
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Movie: Transporter 3 ( 2008 )
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
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Movie: Pontypool ( 2009 )
A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
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Movie: Another Cinderella Story ( 2008 )
Mary lives with her evil stepmom/sisters and slaves for them. At the high school masquerade ball, she gets to dance with her pop idol, Joey. Running home before midnight, she drops her Zune. Joey tries to find the girl who fits the Zune.
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Movie: W. ( 2008 )
Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, chronicling from his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and role in the oil business, his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years, and his 2004 re-election campaign.
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Movie: Sunshine Cleaning ( 2009 )
A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out?
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Movie: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist ( 2008 )
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg when she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes.
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Movie: Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins ( 2008 )
Dr. RJ Stevens is a talk show host who visits his family in the deep south. While there he reunites with his brother Otis, his sister Betty, his cousin/rival Clyde and his childhood love interest Lucinda Allen.
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Movie: Tinker Bell ( 2008 )
Enter the land of Tinker Bell and her four best fairy friends.
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Movie: The Eye ( 2008 )
A woman receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.
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Movie: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People ( 2008 )
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City.
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Movie: The Secret Life of Bees ( 2008 )
In 1964, a teenage girl in search of the truth about her mother runs away to a small town in South Carolina and finds a family of independent women who can connect her to her past.
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Movie: Pride and Glory ( 2008 )
A family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
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Movie: Prom Night ( 2008 )
Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
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Movie: Mad Money ( 2008 )
Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
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Movie: Diary of a Nymphomaniac ( 2008 )
A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.
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Movie: Nim's Island ( 2008 )
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
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Movie: Choke ( 2008 )
Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom's hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer's disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends to choke on food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" him will feel responsible for Victor for the rest of their lives.
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Movie: My Best Friend's Girl ( 2008 )
Tank faces the ultimate test of friendship when his best friend hires him to take his ex-girlfriend out on a lousy date in order to make her realize how great her former boyfriend is.
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Movie: Transsiberian ( 2008 )
A Transsiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
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Movie: Splinter ( 2009 )
Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.
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Movie: New York, I Love You ( 2009 )
Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.
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Movie: The Love Guru ( 2008 )
Pitka, an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge is to settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
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Movie: The Hottie & the Nottie ( 2008 )
A woman agrees to go on a date with a man only if he finds a suitor for her unattractive best friend.
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Movie: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 ( 2008 )
Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.
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Movie: Chaos Theory ( 2008 )
The story of an obsessively organized efficiency expert whose life unravels in unexpected ways when fate forces him to explore the serendipitous nature of love and forgiveness.
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Movie: The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning ( 2008 )
In the kingdom of Atlantica where music is forbidden, the youngest daughter of King Triton, named Ariel, discovers her love of an underground music club and sets off to a daring adventure to bring restoration of music back to Atlantica.
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Movie: Baby Mama ( 2008 )
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
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Movie: Deception ( 2008 )
Cat and mouse. Jonathan McQuarry is an auditor in Manhattan, moving from office to office checking their books. While working late, a smooth and well-dressed man named Wyatt Bose chats Jonathan up, offers him a joint, and soon they're pals. When their cell phones are accidentally swapped, Jonathan answers Wyatt's phone to a series of women asking if he's free tonight. Jonathan discovers it's a sex club: busy powerful people meet each other anonymously in hotels. Jonathan falls for one of the club members, whom he knows only as "S," whom he's also seen on a subway. When she goes missing, patterns emerge and Jonathan faces demands involving violence and lots of money.
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Movie: Bottle Shock ( 2008 )
The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris".
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Movie: Repo! The Genetic Opera ( 2008 )
A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
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Movie: College ( 2008 )
A wild weekend is in store for three high school seniors who visit a local college campus as prospective freshmen.
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Movie: Zombie Strippers! ( 2008 )
A zombie epidemic spreads throughout a strip club in Nebraska.
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Movie: Drillbit Taylor ( 2008 )
Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully.
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Movie: Witless Protection ( 2008 )
When a small-town sheriff witnesses what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping, his effort to save the beautiful damsel in distress sets him down a wild path of comic mishap.
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Movie: What Just Happened ( 2008 )
Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.
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Movie: Nights in Rodanthe ( 2008 )
A doctor, who is travelling to see his estranged son, sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn.
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Movie: Be Kind Rewind ( 2008 )
Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars.
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Movie: The Tale of Despereaux ( 2008 )
An unusually brave mouse helps to restore happiness to a forlorn kingdom after making friends with a gentleman rat.
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Movie: Lake Mungo ( 2010 )
Strange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake.
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Movie: The Family That Preys ( 2008 )
Two families from different walks of life learn to work together.
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Movie: Felon ( 2008 )
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
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TV Show: Tess of the D'Urbervilles ( 2008 )
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
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Movie: Shutter ( 2008 )
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
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Movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe ( 2008 )
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
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Movie: The Burning Plain ( 2008 )
A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.
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Movie: The Cottage ( 2008 )
A tough, cute woman is kidnapped for ransom and brought to a rural English cottage. David and two morons have way more to worry about than her crime boss stepdad, his two Asian killers and her.
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Movie: Four Christmases ( 2008 )
A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas.
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Movie: The Secret of Moonacre ( 2009 )
A 13-year-old girl (played by The Golden Compass' Dakota Blue Richards) discovers that she is the only hope for banishing an ancient curse from a magical kingdom in director Gabor Csupo's adaptation of author Elizabeth Goudge's 1946 children's book The Little White Horse.
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Movie: The Informers ( 2009 )
One week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.
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Movie: Meet Dave ( 2008 )
A spaceship shaped like a human lands face first on Liberty Island. Its crew (of tiny, intelligent, and unemotional beings) is looking for an orb sent from its planet to extract the oceans' salt, which will ruin Earth. The orb is in the possession of Josh, the fifth-grade son of a single mom whose car strikes the ambulatory alien spaceship and cripples its power supply. The crew has 48 hours to recover the orb, throw it in the Atlantic, and leave Earth. Over the course of two days, the ship's crew experiences chaos and emotion in New York. Do Earth's giants - Josh and his mom - have anything to teach these brainy aliens? Meanwhile, mutiny is afoot and the cops are closing in.
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Movie: Lakeview Terrace ( 2008 )
Based on a true story, a troubled and racist African-American L.A.P.D. Officer will stop at nothing to force out a friendly interracial couple who just moved in next door to him.
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Movie: First Sunday ( 2008 )
Durell Washington and LeeJohn Jackson are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When Durell learns that his ex-girlfriend plans to move to another state with their son Durell Jr.--unless they can get her $17,000 to pay off a debt-- and so Durell and LeeJohn ultimately comes up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. But when the duo fumbles their way through the break-in, they discover someone has beaten them to the punch. In order to get their hands on the money, Durell and LeeJohn are forced to spend the night in the presence of the Lord and his followers--and end up getting a lot more than they bargained for.
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Movie: Extreme Movie ( 2009 )
A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.
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Movie: The Haunting of Molly Hartley ( 2008 )
A girl with PTSD attempts to refresh her life at a new school, but soon finds it impossible when she's afflicted by not only bullying and bad memories, but also the supernatural.
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Movie: The Ramen Girl ( 2008 )
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
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Movie: Easy Virtue ( 2008 )
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
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Movie: Waltz with Bashir ( 2008 )
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
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Movie: Beverly Hills Chihuahua ( 2008 )
While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe, a ritzy Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home.
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Movie: Miracle at St. Anna ( 2008 )
Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
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Movie: My Mom's New Boyfriend ( 2008 )
Henry Durand is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves.
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Movie: Fireflies in the Garden ( 2008 )
The Taylor family is devastated by an accident that takes place on the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college -- decades after leaving to raise her children.
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Movie: Brideshead Revisited ( 2008 )
A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
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Movie: Snow Buddies ( 2008 )
In this spin-off of the Air Bud franchise, five pups follow an ice cream transport truck to a plane and end up flying with the ice cream shipment to Alaska. There they find a pup friend and a boy who needs five dogs for a big race.
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Movie: Meet the Browns ( 2008 )
A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father -- a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown family.
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Movie: Day of the Dead ( 2008 )
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
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Movie: Forever Strong ( 2008 )
A rugby player is put up in a juvenile detention center. There he plays for the Highland Rugby team and ultimately plays against his father in the National Championships.
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Movie: Good ( 2009 )
John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.