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The Best Movies of 2008
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Movie: Zombie Strippers! ( 2008 )
A zombie epidemic spreads throughout a strip club in Nebraska.
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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: You Don't Mess with the Zohan ( 2008 )
An Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
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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: 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: Wild Child ( 2008 )
A rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Wanted ( 2008 )
A frustrated office worker discovers that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.
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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: WALL·E ( 2008 )
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
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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: Visioneers ( 2008 )
The Jeffers Corporation is a world success, endorsed by the U.S. President, pitching productivity and happy talk. George is a third level employee, supervising three or four others. Around the world, people are exploding as the stress of denying feelings takes its toll. The Jeffers' response: mind control. George and his wife are miserable: he's impotent with occasional fits of infantile pique. She's reading a book on happiness, trying everything. His brother, released from prison, starts of freedom-of-expression movement in George's backyard. Plus there's Charisma, a woman from Level Four who sends him paperwork - with smiley faces. Can George connect?
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Movie: Vicky Cristina Barcelona ( 2008 )
Two friends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
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Movie: Vantage Point ( 2008 )
The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
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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: 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: Untraceable ( 2008 )
FBI agent Jennifer Marsh is tasked with hunting down a seemingly untraceable serial killer who posts live videos of his victims on the Internet. As time runs out, the cat and mouse chase becomes more personal.
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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: Tropic Thunder ( 2008 )
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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.
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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 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 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: 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: The Wackness ( 2008 )
It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.
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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: The Strangers ( 2008 )
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.
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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 Spiderwick Chronicles ( 2008 )
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
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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: 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 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: The Ruins ( 2008 )
A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
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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: The Red Baron ( 2008 )
German biopic loosely based on the World War I fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, nicknamed the Red Baron by friend and foe alike.
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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 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: The Promotion ( 2008 )
Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
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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: The Onion Movie ( 2008 )
Satirical interpretations of world events and curious human behavior.
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Movie: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ( 2008 )
In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.
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Movie: The Midnight Meat Train ( 2008 )
A photographer's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable.
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Movie: The Lucky Ones ( 2008 )
Three different soldiers - a woman and two men - return from the war and facing the peaceful life's problems of each other.
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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 Longshots ( 2008 )
The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
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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: 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 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: The Incredible Hulk ( 2008 )
Bruce Banner, a scientist on the run from the U.S. Government, must find a cure for the monster he turns into whenever he loses his temper.
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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: The House Bunny ( 2008 )
After Playboy bunny Shelley is kicked out of the playboy mansion, she finds a job as the house mother for a sorority full of socially awkward girls.
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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 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 Happening ( 2008 )
Elliot Moore is a high school science teacher who quizzes his class one day about an article in the New York Times. It's about the sudden, mysterious disappearance of bees. Yet again Nature is doing something inexplicable, and whatever science has to say about it will be, in the end, only a theory. Scientists will bring out more theories, but no explanations, when a more urgent dilemma hits the planet.
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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: The Forbidden Kingdom ( 2008 )
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
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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: The Eye ( 2008 )
A woman receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.
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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 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: 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: 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: The Dark Knight ( 2008 )
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
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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 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: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ( 2008 )
The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian.
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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: 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 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 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: The Bank Job ( 2008 )
Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal.
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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: The Accidental Husband ( 2008 )
When talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend, the jilted ex sets about getting his revenge.
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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: Taken ( 2008 )
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
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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: Swing Vote ( 2008 )
In a remarkable turn-of-events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.
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Movie: Surfer, Dude ( 2008 )
A wave twisting tale of a soul searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis.
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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: 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: 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: Strange Wilderness ( 2008 )
With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed television show, two animal fans go to the Andes Mountains in search of Bigfoot.
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Movie: Stop-Loss ( 2008 )
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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Movie: Step Up 2: The Streets ( 2008 )
Romantic sparks occur between two dance students from different backgrounds at the Maryland School of the Arts.
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Movie: Step Brothers ( 2008 )
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are both about 40 when Brennan's mom and Dale's dad marry. The sons still live with the parents so they must now share a room. Initial antipathy threatens the household's peace and the parents' relationship. Dad lays down the law: both slackers have a month to find a job. Out of the job search and their love of music comes a pact that leads to friendship but more domestic disarray compounded by the boys' sleepwalking. Hovering nearby are Brennan's successful brother and his lonely wife: the brother wants to help sell his step-father's house, the wife wants Dale's attention, and the newlyweds want to retire and sail the seven seas. Can harmony come from the discord?
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Movie: Star Wars: The Clone Wars ( 2008 )
After the Republic's victory on Christophsis, Anakin and his new apprentice Ahsoka Tano must rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt. Political intrigue complicates their mission.
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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: 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: Speed Racer ( 2008 )
Young driver Speed Racer aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile.
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Movie: Space Chimps ( 2008 )
Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator. Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission at hand; ridding a far-away planet of their nefarious leader. Fortunately for Ham III, two of his simian peers are along for the ride.
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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: 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: Smother ( 2008 )
What would you do if your mother moved in with you and just wouldn't leave? When NOAH COOPER, 29, is fired from his job as a therapist, he thinks his day can't possibly get worse. When he arrives home his already full house gets even crazier when MARILYN, Noah's overbearing mother arrives with her five dogs in tow needing a place to stay. Comedy ensues as Noah learns to deal with the pressures of finding a job, a wife who desperately wants a baby, and worst of all a mother who won't quit smothering!