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The Best Movies of 2008
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Movie: JCVD ( 2019 )
Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! In JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States.
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Movie: Phoebe in Wonderland ( 2010 )
Confounded by her clashes with the seemingly rule-obsessed world, a troubled young girl seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher.
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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: Me and Orson Welles ( 2009 )
In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.
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Movie: The Alphabet Killer ( 2009 )
Based on the true story of the double initial killings in Rochester, NY.
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Movie: Dread ( 2009 )
Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.
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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: 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: What Doesn't Kill You ( 2009 )
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
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Movie: The Hurt Locker ( 2009 )
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
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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: Food, Inc. ( 2009 )
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
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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: Management ( 2009 )
A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.
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Movie: Little Ashes ( 2009 )
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
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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: 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.
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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: The Great Buck Howard ( 2009 )
A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline.
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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: Bronson ( 2009 )
In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to seven years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. During that time, Michael Petersen, the boy, faded away and 'Charles Bronson,' his superstar alter ego, took center stage. Inside the mind of Bronson - a scathing indictment of celebrity culture.
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Movie: One Week ( 2009 )
Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.
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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: Milk ( 2009 )
The story of American gay activist Harvey Milk, who fought for gay rights and was elected as California's first openly gay official.
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Movie: The Wrestler ( 2009 )
This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.
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Movie: Che: Part Two ( 2009 )
In 1965, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara resigns from his Cuban government posts to secretly make his latest attempt to spread the revolution in Bolivia. After arriving in La Paz, Bolivia late in 1966, by 1967, Che with several Cuban volunteers, have raised a small guerrilla army to take on the militarist Bolivian movement. However, Che must face grim realities about his few troops and supplies, his failing health, and a local population who largely does not share the idealistic aspirations of a foreign troublemaker. As the US supported Bolivian army prepares to defeat him, Che and his beleaguered force struggle against the increasingly hopeless odds.
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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: 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: Revolutionary Road ( 2009 )
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
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Movie: Vacancy 2: The First Cut ( 2009 )
In 2004, the managers of the Meadow View Motel Gordon and Reece use room 6 to videotape the intimacy of the guests to sell porn movies. When the mysterious Mr. Smith checks in with a young woman, they witness the sadistic psychopath guest stabbing and killing his mate. The footage is a success and they decide to make other snuff movies with Smith. When Caleb, who is traveling from Chicago with his fiancée Jessica and his best friend Tanner, decides to rest in Meadow View, they have a nightmarish night and try to survive from the sick intention of the gang.
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Movie: Hell Ride ( 2009 )
Two rival bikers gangs, the Victors and the Six-Six-Six's, refuel their decades-old rivalry.
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Movie: Last Chance Harvey ( 2009 )
In London for his daughter's wedding, a rumpled man finds his romantic spirits lifted by a new woman in his life.
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Movie: Defiance ( 2009 )
Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
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Movie: Gran Torino ( 2009 )
After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself.
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Movie: The Reader ( 2009 )
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
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Movie: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ( 2008 )
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.
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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: Doubt ( 2008 )
A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
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Movie: Valkyrie ( 2008 )
A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
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Movie: Marley & Me ( 2008 )
A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.
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Movie: Bedtime Stories ( 2008 )
A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.
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Movie: Seven Pounds ( 2008 )
A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
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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: Yes Man ( 2008 )
A man challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year.
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Movie: Let the Right One In ( 2008 )
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
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Movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still ( 2008 )
A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.
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Movie: Adam Resurrected ( 2008 )
In the aftermath of World War II, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.
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Movie: Ip Man ( 2008 )
During the Japanese invasion of 1937, when a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home and work to support his family, he reluctantly agrees to train others in the art of Wing Chun for self-defense.
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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: Cadillac Records ( 2008 )
Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.
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Movie: Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 )
A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
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Movie: The Children ( 2008 )
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
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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: Ong Bak 2 ( 2008 )
A young Thai boxer learns the skills and inner meaning of martial arts.
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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: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ( 2008 )
Bruno an eight-year-old boy from Berlin, Germany is moved with his mother, Elder sister, SS Commander father to a countryside in Europe where his father powers over a concentration camp for Jews. Bruno went "exploring" one day and befriended a child his age named Shmuel. Shmuel was a Jew. The boy became good friends until Bruno was scheduled to move to a new location.
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Movie: Australia ( 2008 )
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
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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: Twilight ( 2008 )
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire.
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Movie: Bolt ( 2008 )
The canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just as real.
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Movie: Synecdoche, New York ( 2008 )
A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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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: Quantum of Solace ( 2008 )
James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.
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Movie: Killshot ( 2008 )
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer. The ensuing struggle will test Carmen to the limit.
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Movie: Soul Men ( 2008 )
Though it's been about twenty years since they have spoken with one another, two estranged soul-singing legends agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.
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Movie: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa ( 2008 )
The Madagascar animals fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African nature reserve in Kenya, where they meet others of their own kind, and Alex especially discovers his royal heritage as prince of a lion pride.
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Movie: Role Models ( 2008 )
Wild behavior forces a pair of energy drink reps to enroll in a Big Brother program.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Changeling ( 2008 )
Los Angeles, 1928. Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) returns from work to find her nine-year-old son Walter (Gattlin Griffith) gone. She calls the L.A.P.D. to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description, and he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the L.A.P.D. reunite mother and son, but she insists he's not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the Police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power?
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Movie: Zack and Miri Make a Porno ( 2008 )
Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.
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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: Tinker Bell ( 2008 )
Enter the land of Tinker Bell and her four best fairy friends.
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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: 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: Incendiary ( 2008 )
A woman's life is forever changed when tragedy strikes at a soccer match.
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Movie: The Lazarus Project ( 2008 )
A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.
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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: High School Musical 3: Senior Year ( 2008 )
As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.
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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: 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: Max Payne ( 2008 )
Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective and an assassin, who will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
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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: Sex Drive ( 2008 )
A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.
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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: 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: The Express ( 2008 )
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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Movie: The Duchess ( 2008 )
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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Movie: Quarantine ( 2008 )
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
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Movie: Body of Lies ( 2008 )
A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.
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Movie: Amusement ( 2008 )
Three women are stalked by a killer with a grudge that extends back to the girls' childhoods.
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Movie: Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead ( 2008 )
After their car breaks down in the desert, four friends try to find their way back to civilization while trying to escape Rusty Nail's bloody wrath.
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Movie: Blindness ( 2008 )
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.
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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: Religulous ( 2008 )
Religulous is a movie starring Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, and Jonathan Boulden. Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
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Movie: An American Carol ( 2008 )
An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.
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Movie: Tokyo Gore Police ( 2008 )
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.