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The Best Movies of 2004
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Movie: You Got Served ( 2004 )
In order to achieve their dream of opening a recording studio, two friends (Omarion, Houston) must first win their city's dance contest -- a fierce competition that pits them against a group of tough street dancers.
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Movie: Without a Paddle ( 2004 )
After their friend dies, three men decide to fulfill their childhood dream by going on a camping expedition for the lost D. B. Cooper bounty, with calamitous results.
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Movie: Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! ( 2004 )
A small-town girl wins a date with a male celebrity through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the male celebrity, and the girl's best friend.
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Movie: Wimbledon ( 2004 )
A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
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Movie: Wicker Park ( 2004 )
A young Chicago advertising executive believes a woman he sees in a café is his long-lost love. His belief leads to obsession, as he puts his life on hold in order to trail her.
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Movie: White Coats ( 2004 )
Follows the misadventures of a group of young interns at a hospital/medical school - dealing with the pressures of school and love.
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Movie: White Chicks ( 2004 )
After an unsuccessful mission, FBI agents Kevin and Marcus Copeland fall into disgrace at the agency. They decide to work undercover on an abduction case disguised as Brittany and Tiffany Wilson, the vain, spoiled white daughters of a tycoon.
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Movie: Welcome to Mooseport ( 2004 )
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate.
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Movie: We Don't Live Here Anymore ( 2004 )
An indiscretion between two close friends tears down their respective marriages.
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Movie: Walking Tall ( 2004 )
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
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Movie: Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie ( 2004 )
While Ron Burgundy's rivalry with Veronica Corningstone persists, a group of unprofessional thieves endeavor to make the truth known.
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Movie: Vera Drake ( 2004 )
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
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Movie: Vanity Fair ( 2004 )
The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon), the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for twenty years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes.
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Movie: Van Helsing ( 2004 )
The notorious monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for some sinister purpose.
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Movie: Two Brothers ( 2004 )
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
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Movie: Twisted ( 2004 )
Jessica, whose father killed her mother and committed suicide, is a police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start being murdered.
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Movie: Troy ( 2004 )
An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.
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Movie: Tremors 4: The Legend Begins ( 2004 )
A prequel to Tremors (1990), this movie tells us about how the town of Perfection, Nevada became founded and how they defended it against the Graboids with the help of Burt Gummer's ancestor, Hiram.
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Movie: Torque ( 2004 )
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey (Ice Cube), leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood.
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Movie: Thunderbirds ( 2004 )
When The Hood finds and invades International Rescue's secret base and traps most of the Tracy family, only young Alan Tracy and his friends can save the day.
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Movie: The Woodsman ( 2005 )
A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
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Movie: The Whole Ten Yards ( 2004 )
Jimmy the Tulip's (Willis) quiet new life is shaken up by his old pal Oz (Perry), whose wife (Henstridge) has been kidnapped by a Hungarian mob. The Tulip and his wife Jill (Peet) spring into action.
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Movie: The Village ( 2004 )
A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
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Movie: The Terminal ( 2004 )
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
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Movie: The Stepford Wives ( 2004 )
The secret to a Stepford wife lies behind the doors of the Men's Association.
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Movie: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ( 2004 )
SpongeBob takes leave from Bikini Bottom in order to track down, with Patrick, King Neptune's stolen crown.
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Movie: The Punisher ( 2004 )
Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner, he's a new kind of vigilante out to wage a one man war against those who have done him wrong.
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Movie: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement ( 2004 )
Princess Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) has just turned twenty-one and is supposed to succeed her grandmother as the Queen of Genovia. But Viscount Mabrey (John Rhys-Davies), who wishes that his nephew who is also in line to the throne to be the new ruler, reminds everyone of a law that states that an unmarried woman can't be made Queen, and with the backing of Parliament, he opposes Mia's coronation. Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Dame Julie Andrews) asks that Mia be allowed time to find a husband, and she is given thirty days, but Mabrey tries to do what he can to stop that: his nephew, Nicholas Devereaux (Chris Pine) has met Mia and they are both attracted to each other, but Mia, upon learning who he is, dislikes and doesn't trust him, but Queen Clarisse has invited him to stay with them for the thirty day period to keep an eye on him.
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Movie: The Prince and Me ( 2004 )
At college Paige meets Eddie, a fellow student from Denmark, whom she first dislikes but later accepts, likes, and loves; he proves to be Crown Prince Edvard. Paige follows him to Copenhagen, and he follows her back to school with a plan.
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Movie: The Polar Express ( 2004 )
On Christmas Eve, a young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express, while learning about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas.
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Movie: The Phantom of the Opera ( 2004 )
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
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Movie: The Perfect Score ( 2004 )
Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.
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Movie: The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 )
Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.
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Movie: The Notebook ( 2004 )
A poor yet passionate young man (Ryan Gosling) falls in love with a rich young woman (Rachel McAdams), giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.
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Movie: The Motorcycle Diaries ( 2004 )
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.
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Movie: The Merchant of Venice ( 2004 )
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
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Movie: The Manchurian Candidate ( 2004 )
In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.
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Movie: The Machinist ( 2004 )
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
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Movie: The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata ( 2004 )
Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog retell the story of The Lion King, from their own unique perspective.
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Movie: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ( 2004 )
With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, Oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
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Movie: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear ( 2004 )
A bookworm becomes the librarian. Same night a magical spear gets stolen and he's off to get some real life experience around the globe on his quest for the spear - starting with being thrown off a plane over Amazonas by his cute helper.
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Movie: The Libertine ( 2006 )
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
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Movie: The Last Shot ( 2004 )
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.
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Movie: The Ladykillers ( 2004 )
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a classical ensemble in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting but sharp old landlady.
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Movie: The Incredibles ( 2004 )
While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are forced into action to save the world.
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Movie: The Grudge ( 2004 )
An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
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Movie: The Girl Next Door ( 2004 )
A teenager's dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door and they fall in love.
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Movie: The Forgotten ( 2004 )
After being told that their children never existed, a man and woman soon discover there is a much bigger enemy at work.
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Movie: The Five People You Meet in Heaven ( 2005 )
An elderly amusement park maintenance man, Eddie, is trapped in purgatory and the only way out is to confront five people from his past. Unfortunately, dark secrets from his service in the Philippines begin to haunt him.
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Movie: The Final Cut ( 2004 )
Set in a world with memory recording implants, Alan Hakman is a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
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Movie: The Day After Tomorrow ( 2004 )
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
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Movie: The Chronicles of Riddick ( 2004 )
The wanted criminal Riddick arrives on a planet called Helion Prime, and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe.
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Movie: The Butterfly Effect ( 2004 )
Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.
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Movie: The Bourne Supremacy ( 2004 )
When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
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Movie: The Big Bounce ( 2004 )
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischevious, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
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Movie: The Aviator ( 2004 )
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.
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Movie: The Assassination of Richard Nixon ( 2004 )
Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.
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Movie: The Alamo ( 2004 )
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas.
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Movie: Team America: World Police ( 2004 )
Popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston is recruited by the elite counter-terrorism organization Team America: World Police. As the world begins to crumble around him, he must battle with terrorists, celebrities and falling in love.
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Movie: Teacher's Pet ( 2004 )
Spot (Lane) is a dog who can talk and read. Posing as a human, he sneaks into school with his master Leonard (Flemming). Educational adventures ensue.
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Movie: Taxi ( 2004 )
A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
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Movie: Taking Lives ( 2004 )
An FBI profiler is called in by French Canadian police to catch a serial killer who takes on the identity of each new victim.
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Movie: Suspect Zero ( 2004 )
A mysterious serial killer is hunting other serial killers, and one F.B.I. Agent suspects there may be more to the vigilante than they imagine.
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Movie: Surviving Christmas ( 2004 )
Wealthy Chicago ad executive Drew Latham has long avoided the family traditions of Christmas, but has dreaded being alone on the actual day. So when his tropical Christmas vacation with girlfriend Missy Vangilder falls through and Missy breaks up with him in the process, a self-therapy session leads Drew to decide to relive his best childhood Christmases. With his loved ones long-gone, he decides to rent a family: the Valcos, the current owners of his childhood home in suburban Chicago. Tom Valco wants nothing to do with Drew until an exorbitant amount of money is involved; they draw up a contract which expires at the end of Christmas night. What Drew doesn't (or refuses to) realize is that the Valcos are having their own problems, which his presence exacerbates. Can the Valcos endure their unexpected guest? If they can, will the money solve their problems? Meanwhile, will Drew come to realize what he wants in life and how to achieve it?
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Movie: Super Size Me ( 2004 )
While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.
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Movie: Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 ( 2004 )
Shortly after the funny adventure of Sly and Whit in Baby Geniuses (1999), a new batch of intellectual toddlers, Archie, and his friends, Finkleman, Alex, and Rosita, find themselves entangled in a nefarious scheme devised by the powerful media mogul, Bill Biscane. However, this time, the babies have an ally in their battle against evil: the ultra-cool super-hero spy, Kahuna. As he joins forces with the baby-team, a race against the clock begins, to stop villainous Biscane from using his state-of-the-art satellite system to control the minds of the kids all over the world. Can the team of super-baby geniuses save the day?
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Movie: Starsky & Hutch ( 2004 )
Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red and white Ford Gran Torino, with the help of a police snitch called "Huggy Bear".
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Movie: Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation ( 2004 )
In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.
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Movie: Spider-Man 2 ( 2004 )
Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a former brilliant scientist named Otto Octavius.
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Movie: Species III ( 2004 )
As her species decays succumbing to infections and illnesses, an alien seductress immunologically stronger becomes the only hope for them to live on.
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Movie: Spartan ( 2004 )
The investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official.
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Movie: Spanglish ( 2004 )
A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
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Movie: Soul Plane ( 2004 )
Things get raucously funny aboard the maiden flight of a black-owned airline, thanks to some last-minute passenger additions.
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Movie: Sleepover ( 2004 )
On the last day of 8th grade before their freshman year in high school, Julie has a slumber party with three best friends: Hannah, Farrah, and Yancy; and they have the time of their lives. To win the legendary high-school lunch spot by the fountain, they must win an all-night scavenger hunt against their popular-girl rivals. Unfortunately, Julie's mom has firm rules about the party. First rule: Don't leave the house. But Julie and her friends won't let a little thing like parental authority stand in the way of social domination, and they sneak out of the house, steal a car, snatch a cute boy's boxer shorts, crash a high-school dance, and torment an egomaniac security guard. Aong the way, some of the girls might just find love. Because anything is possible at Julie's sleepover.
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Movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ( 2004 )
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
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Movie: Sideways ( 2005 )
Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
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Movie: Shrek 2 ( 2004 )
Shrek and Fiona travel to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where Fiona's parents are King and Queen, to celebrate their marriage. When they arrive, they find they are not as welcome as they thought they would be.
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Movie: She Hate Me ( 2004 )
Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
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Movie: Shaun of the Dead ( 2004 )
The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
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Movie: Shark Tale ( 2004 )
When a son of a gangster shark boss is accidentally killed while on the hunt, his would-be prey and his vegetarian brother decide to use the incident to their own advantage.
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Movie: Shall We Dance ( 2004 )
A romantic comedy where a bored, overworked Estate Lawyer, upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.
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Movie: Seed of Chucky ( 2004 )
Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their innocent son, Glen, and hit Hollywood, where a movie depicting the killer dolls' murder spree is underway.
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Movie: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed ( 2004 )
The Mystery Inc. gang must save Coolsville from an attack of past unmasked monsters brought to life by an evil masked figure trying to "unmask" the gang.
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Movie: Saw ( 2004 )
Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.
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Movie: Saved! ( 2004 )
When a girl attending a Christian high school becomes pregnant, all of her former friends turn on her and she is ostracized and demonized.
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Movie: Riding the Bullet ( 2005 )
When a man finds out his mother is dying and tries to hitchike his way to the hospital, he is picked up by a stranger with a deadly secret.
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Movie: Resident Evil: Apocalypse ( 2004 )
Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.
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Movie: Ray ( 2004 )
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Movie: Raising Helen ( 2004 )
Helen Harris (Kate Hudson) is living the life she's always dreamed of: her career at a top modelling agency is on the rise; she spends her days at fashion shows and her nights at the city's hottest clubs. But her carefree lifestyle comes to a screeching halt when one phone call changes everything. Helen soon finds herself responsible for her sister's children: fifteen-year-old Audrey (Hayden Panettiere), ten-year-old Henry (Spencer Breslin), and five-year-old Sarah (Abigail Breslin). No one doubts that Helen is the coolest aunt in New York City, but what does this glamor girl know about raising kids? The fun begins as Helen goes through the transformation from super-hip to super-mom, but she quickly finds that dancing at 3a.m. doesn't mix with getting kids to school on time, advice that Helen's older sister, Jenny Portman (Joan Cusack), is only too quick to dish out. Along the way, Helen finds support in the most unusual place, with Dan Parker (John Corbett), the handsome young pastor and principal of the kids' new school, and realizes the choice she has to make is between the life she's always loved and the new loves of her life.
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Movie: Raise Your Voice ( 2004 )
A girl from a small town heads to the big city of Los Angeles to spend the summer at a performing arts high school.
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Movie: P.S. ( 2005 )
An unfulfilled divorced woman gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who appears to be her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
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Movie: Primer ( 2005 )
Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
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Movie: Pixel Perfect ( 2004 )
A teen uses a holograph to create a pop star for his friend's band.
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Movie: Paparazzi ( 2004 )
A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy involving his wife and son.
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Movie: Ocean's Twelve ( 2004 )
Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's Eleven (2001).
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Movie: Night Watch ( 2004 )
A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
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Movie: New York Minute ( 2004 )
One day in New York City, as Jane Ryan tries out for an overseas college program and her sister Roxy schemes to meet her favorite punk rockers, a series of mishaps throws their day into chaos. In order for them both to accomplish their goals, the normally adversarial sisters decide to unite against the forces around them.
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Movie: New Police Story ( 2004 )
A hero cop accidentally leads his team into a trap from which he is the only survivor. Drowning his guilt in booze, he is eventually assigned a new younger partner who turns out to have his own secrets.
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Movie: National Treasure ( 2004 )
A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.
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Movie: Napoleon Dynamite ( 2004 )
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.