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The Best Movies of 2001
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Movie: Zoolander ( 2001 )
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
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Movie: Zenon: The Zequel ( 2001 )
A mischievous fifteen-year-old girl living on a space station helps a group of homeless aliens.
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Movie: Y Tu Mamá También ( 2001 )
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
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Movie: Winning London ( 2001 )
When Chloe and Riley Lawrence are invited to London to participate in the International Model UN competition, they enjoy seeing the sights and find romance with cute British boys.
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Movie: Who Is Cletis Tout? ( 2001 )
This is a comedy about mistaken identities, a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies, and a twenty-year-old diamond heist.
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Movie: What's the Worst That Could Happen? ( 2001 )
A rich man catches a thief burglarizing his home and steals the thief's lucky ring, who then tries to get it back.
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Movie: Wet Hot American Summer ( 2001 )
Set on the last day of camp, in the hot summer of 1981, a group of counselors try to complete their unfinished business before the day ends.
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Movie: Wendigo ( 2001 )
George is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Manhattan advertising agency. Needing some time away from the city, George, his wife Kim, and their son Miles head to upstate New York to take in the winter sights, though the drive up is hardly relaxing for any of them. George accidentally hits and severely...Read all
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Movie: Waking Life ( 2002 )
A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.
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Movie: Vanilla Sky ( 2001 )
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
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Movie: Valentine ( 2001 )
Five women are stalked by an unknown assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
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Movie: Uprising ( 2001 )
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
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Movie: Two Can Play That Game ( 2001 )
An arrogant career woman plays a series of heartless mind-games with her boyfriend to "put him in line," only to discover that he has a few tricks up his own sleeve.
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Movie: Tremors 3: Back to Perfection ( 2001 )
The now famous Burt Gummer returns to his hometown of Perfection, Nevada for the first time in years, but the deadliest Graboid evolution yet forces him to save the town he swore to protect.
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Movie: Training Day ( 2001 )
On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the L.A.P.D. with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
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Movie: Town & Country ( 2001 )
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.
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Movie: Tomcats ( 2001 )
At the wedding of a friend, the remaining bachelors bet on staying single. 7 years later, one of the 2 remaining loses $51000 in Vegas. He must get the other guy married to cash in and pay his debt or die. A cute woman helps him.
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Movie: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing ( 2002 )
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
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Movie: Thir13en Ghosts ( 2001 )
When Cyrus Kriticos, a very rich collector of unique things, dies, he leaves his house, fortune, and his prized collection of ghosts.
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Movie: The Wedding Planner ( 2001 )
Mary Fiore is San Francisco's most successful supplier of romance and glamor. She knows all the tricks. She knows all the rules. But then she breaks the most important rule of all: she falls in love with the groom.
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Movie: The Wash ( 2001 )
With the rent due and his car booted, Sean (Dr. Dre) has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc (Snoop Dogg), suggests that Sean get a job busting suds down at the local car wash, the first order of business is impressing Mr. Washington (George Wallace) the gun-toting, dominoes-playing owner of The Wash. Unaware that the two are roomies, Mr. Washington hires Sean as Dee Loc's supervisor. Comic tensions flare between the two, especially when Dee Loc suspects Sean of trying to slow his roll with the side hustles he's got going on in the car wash parking lot...and with the ladies in the locker room. But there are bigger things to worry about at The Wash. One is the menacing phone calls from a disgruntled employee, and the other is figuring out how to get money to pay off the kidnappers who've snatched Mr. Washington! If Sean, Dee Loc, and the rest of the gang don't settle their differences and get Mr. Washington back, the good times at The Wash will soon come to an end
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Movie: The Tailor of Panama ( 2001 )
Women have been MI.6. agent Andy Osnard's weakness. As punishment for being caught sleeping with the wrong woman on his last posting in Spain, Andy is relegated to the global backwater of Panama as his next field assignment. Although nothing is happening there on the surface, Panama is still seen as having global importance due to the canal, with something always possible to rock the boat as seen by the recent history of the corrupt regime of Manuel Noriega. The advice of his superior is to co-opt one of the only few hundred British nationals living there to act as an informant for pay. Who Andy chooses is Harry Pendel, a men's suits tailor with Savile Row credentials through his now deceased business partner Arthur Braithwaite. This choice is because of Harry's client list, he the tailor to the elite and powerful, including the Panamanian president, who may treat him like the proverbial "bartender" or "hairdresser" confidante, and because his American wife, Louisa, works in a senior managerial position within the canal authority. But what may have swayed Andy's choice the most is that he knows the truth about Harry: that he not only does not have Savile Row credentials, but is an ex-con, Arthur Braithwaite was his Uncle Benny, also a criminal, and that despite his tailor shop doing good business, he is deep in debt from a farming venture gone wrong, none of this about which Louisa knows. As such, Harry has no choice but to cooperate, the payment from Andy which at least gets him out of his farm debt. As a side, Harry also has some connections to people who actively worked in the opposition against Noriega: Mickie Abraxas, who has turned to the bottle to cope, and Harry's store manager Marta, the right side of her face which shows the physical scars of that war, the scars at the hands of Noriega's men. With Andy placing more and more pressure on Harry to provide intel of some importance, Andy eventually learns through Harry that the Panamanian government is planning on selling the canal to the Chinese. This intel is exactly what Andy was looking for to set in motion a plan to reach his ultimate goal with this Panamanian posting.
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Movie: The Shipping News ( 2001 )
An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
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Movie: The Score ( 2001 )
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth with his lover when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist that comes with a large payout.
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Movie: The Safety of Objects ( 2003 )
A series of overlapping stories about four suburban families dealing with different maladies. Esther Gold's life is consumed by caring for her comatose son; Jim Train is sent into a tailspin when he's passed over for a promotion; Annette Jennings' family is struggling in the wake of her divorce; Helen Christianson is determined to shake up her mundane life.
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Movie: The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2002 )
The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
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Movie: The Princess Diaries ( 2001 )
Mia Thermopolis has just found out that she is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia. With her friends Lilly and Michael Moscovitz in tow, she tries to navigate through the rest of her sixteenth year.
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Movie: The Pledge ( 2001 )
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
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Movie: The Piano Teacher ( 2001 )
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
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Movie: The Other Side of Heaven ( 2002 )
John Groberg, a farm kid from Idaho Falls, crosses an ocean to become a missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan islands during the 1950s.
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Movie: The Others ( 2001 )
A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.
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Movie: The Order ( 2001 )
A playboy criminal contacts his dad after stealing a Faberge egg. Later it seems his dad has gone missing in Israel so he heads there. His disappearance is linked to the religious sect: The Order. Lots of fight and chase scenes.
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Movie: The One ( 2001 )
A rogue Multiverse agent goes on a manhunt for versions of himself, getting stronger with each kill. With only one version remaining, he races against the clock to finish him and become "The One."
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Movie: The Musketeer ( 2001 )
Alexander Dumas' novel is updated with an eastern influence as D'Artagnan attempts to join the king's elite guards, the Royal Musketeers, and find the man who killed his parents.
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Movie: The Mummy Returns ( 2001 )
The mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror.
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TV Show: The Mists of Avalon ( 2001 )
The King is dead, long live the King, but who will it be? The answer is found on the battlefields and in the mystical and powerful manipulations of fate emanating from the women of the legendary isle of Avalon in this intrigue-filled retelling of the King Arthur/Camelot legend. Starring Julianna Margulies, Anjelica Huston, Joan Allen, Caroline Goodall, Edward Atterton, and Samantha Mathis.
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Movie: The Mexican ( 2001 )
Jerry Welbach is given two ultimatums. His mob boss wants him to travel to Mexico to get a priceless antique pistol called "The Mexican" or he will suffer the consequences. The other ultimatum comes from his girlfriend Samantha, who wants him to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures that being alive, although in trouble with his girlfriend is the better alternative so he heads south of the border. Finding the pistol is easy but getting it home is a whole other matter. The pistol supposedly carries a curse - a curse Jerry is given every reason to believe, especially when Samantha is held hostage by the gay hit man Leroy to ensure the safe return of the pistol.
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Movie: The Man Who Wasn't There ( 2001 )
A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
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Movie: The Man Who Sued God ( 2001 )
Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was 'an act of God'. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and the church under the guise of God, defending himself. The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna Redmond (Davis).
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Movie: The Majestic ( 2001 )
In 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
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Movie: The Luck of the Irish ( 2001 )
A teenager must battle for a gold charm to keep his family from being controlled by an evil leprechaun.
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Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 )
An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist of fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it. However, he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir, and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin, and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign.
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Movie: The Last Castle ( 2001 )
A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against the corrupt system that put him away.
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Movie: The Hole ( 2001 )
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
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Movie: The Glass House ( 2001 )
An orphaned teenager is taken in by a Malibu couple but discovers they aren't the caring friends they seemed to be.
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Movie: The Fast and the Furious ( 2001 )
Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Conner must decide where his loyalty really lies when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.
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Movie: The Devil's Backbone ( 2001 )
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover.
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Movie: The Curse of the Jade Scorpion ( 2001 )
An insurance investigator and an efficency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.
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Movie: The Château ( 2002 )
When two American brothers, Graham and Allen Granville, learn that they have inherited a chateau in France, they cannot believe their luck. However, when they arrive, the brothers find themselves completely ill-equipped to communicate with the chateau's staff (even with the help of a pocket dictionary). With no hope of paying off the chateau's enormous debt, the pair are forced to sell the chateau, leaving a bewildered staff resorting to desperate and hilarious measures to keep their home. Through a series of comedic misunderstandings, the film's stars not only uncover they're not as distant from the staff as they might think, they also discover something about the importance of family.
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Movie: The Caveman's Valentine ( 2001 )
A cave-dwelling man sets out to track down the killer of a homeless boy, and bring him to justice.
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Movie: The Cat's Meow ( 2002 )
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
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Movie: The Brothers ( 2001 )
Four friends begin to question women and relationships when one of them announces impending nuptials.
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Movie: The Believer ( 2001 )
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.
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Movie: The Anniversary Party ( 2001 )
Love is complex and relationships deteriorate.
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Movie: The Animal ( 2001 )
After receiving organ transplants from various animal donors, a man finds himself taking on the traits of those animals.
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Movie: The Affair of the Necklace ( 2001 )
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
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Movie: The Accidental Spy ( 2001 )
This action movie unfolds with the story of Bei, a salesman at a workout equipment store, who harbors dreams of adventures. It all starts when on one normal dull day, Bei follows his instincts to trail two suspicious looking men into an alley. When he realizes that these men are robbing a jewelry store, he jumps into action to foil their plans. Soon after Bei meets Liu, a private investigator who convinces Bei that he may be the long-lost son of a rich Korean businessman. In no time, Bei is on his way to fulfill his dreams of adventure and fortune traveling to Korea and even exotic Turkey. As Bei is drawn deeper into the game of cat and mouse, he realizes he has become the key to locating a new, highly addictive narcotic. With an assortment of characters fighting him along the way, will Bei succeed in finding the drug himself?
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Movie: Texas Rangers ( 2001 )
A ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the dangerous, ruthless duty of cleaning up the West.
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Movie: Tart ( 2001 )
After her only friend is expelled from their private school in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Cat Storm wants to get close to a boy she is attracted to and recreate herself with new friends. But her new friends are unreliable, her boyfriend is troubled, her parents are cold and indifferent, and she increasingly finds herself unloved.
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Movie: Tape ( 2002 )
Three old high school friends meet in a Michigan motel room to dissect painful memories from their past.
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Movie: Swordfish ( 2001 )
A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell led by Gabriel Shear wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away. Gabriel brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson to help him.
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Movie: Sweet November ( 2001 )
A workaholic executive, and an unconventional woman agree to a personal relationship for a short period. In this short period she changes his life.
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Movie: Super Troopers ( 2002 )
Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.
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Movie: Summer Catch ( 2001 )
A rich girl whose family summers on Cape Cod has a romance with a local poor boy who hopes to become a major league baseball player.
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Movie: Suicide Club ( 2001 )
A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
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Movie: Sugar & Spice ( 2001 )
A popular high-school cheerleader becomes pregnant by the star quarterback and turns to crime to support her desired lifestyle.
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Movie: Storytelling ( 2001 )
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
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Movie: Spy Kids ( 2001 )
Using high tech gadgets, two kids have to save their reactivated OSS top spy parents when they're taken by an evil, high tech enemy.
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Movie: Spy Game ( 2001 )
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
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Movie: Spirited Away ( 2001 )
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
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Movie: Soul Survivors ( 2001 )
A co-ed is caught between the world of the living and the dead.
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Movie: Someone Like You... ( 2001 )
After being jilted by her boyfriend, a talk show talent scout writes a column on the relationship habits of men which gains her national fame.
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Movie: Sidewalks of New York ( 2001 )
The interlocking lives and loves of six New Yorkers.
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Movie: Shrek ( 2001 )
A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.
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Movie: Shaolin Soccer ( 2001 )
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
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Movie: Shallow Hal ( 2001 )
Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only women who are physically beautiful. One day, however, he runs into self-help guru Tony Robbins, who hypnotizes him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal thereafter meets Rosemary, a largely obese woman whom only he can see as a vision of loveliness. But will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis?
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Movie: Sex and Lucía ( 2001 )
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
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Movie: Session 9 ( 2001 )
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
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Movie: Serendipity ( 2001 )
A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.
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Movie: See Spot Run ( 2001 )
A mailman takes care of a dog that, unbeknownst to him, is an FBI drug-sniffing superdog that has escaped from the witness protection program after becoming the target of an assassination.
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Movie: Scary Movie 2 ( 2001 )
Four teens are tricked by Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) into visiting a haunted house for a school project.
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Movie: Say It Isn't So ( 2001 )
Jo and Gilly date. They find out they're brother and sister. Jo moves away. Gilly finds out that he's not Jo's brother and that Jo's getting married. Can he stop the wedding in time?
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Movie: Saving Silverman ( 2001 )
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman.
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Movie: Save the Last Dance ( 2001 )
A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
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Movie: Rush Hour 2 ( 2001 )
Carter and Lee head to Hong Kong for a vacation, but become embroiled in a counterfeit money scam.
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Movie: Rock Star ( 2001 )
Lead singer of a tribute band becomes lead singer of the real band he idolizes.
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Movie: Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 )
A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
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Movie: Replicant ( 2001 )
Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.
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Movie: Recess: School's Out ( 2001 )
TJ and company must save summer vacation from disappearing forever.
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Movie: Rat Race ( 2001 )
A Las Vegas casino magnate, determined to find a new avenue for wagering, sets up a race for money.
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Movie: Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy ( 2001 )
A light-hearted look at the life and career of porn star Ron Jeremy, from his devoted fanbase to his unlikely status as a sex symbol and his goal to achieve mainstream success.
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Movie: Pootie Tang ( 2001 )
"The Man" is baffled by a chill hero's invincible weapon: gibberish.
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Movie: Planet of the Apes ( 2001 )
In 2029, an Air Force astronaut crash-lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking apes dominate a race of primitive humans.
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Movie: Perfume ( 2001 )
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.
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Movie: Pearl Harbor ( 2001 )
A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
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Movie: Osmosis Jones ( 2001 )
A policeman white blood cell, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.
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Movie: Original Sin ( 2001 )
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, prostitute, and actress, who teams with a fellow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking.
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Movie: On the Line ( 2001 )
A shy advertising employee meets his dream girl on the El train, but doesn't remember to get her phone number, resulting in an all-out search for the mystery girl
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Movie: One Night at McCool's ( 2001 )
Every man has a different recollection of the beautiful young woman who wreaked havoc on their lives during one heated night.
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Movie: Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 )
Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.