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The Best Movies Of 2002
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This is what came out in 2002. As with my other lists some movies may show a different year, but they did come out in 2002.


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Movie: Hart's War ( 2002 )
A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.
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Movie: Solaris ( 2002 )
Grieving psychologist Chris Kelvin is sent to investigate a lonely space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris, where terrified crewmembers are experiencing a host of strange phenomena, including impossibly halcyon visitors that seem all too human. Once aboard, he confronts an unfathomable power that could hold the key to mankind's deepest dreams and darkest nightmares.
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Movie: Die Another Day ( 2002 )
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
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Movie: Jackass: The Movie ( 2002 )
Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time.
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Movie: About Schmidt ( 2002 )
A man upon retirement, embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
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Movie: Antwone Fisher ( 2003 )
Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.
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Movie: The Rules of Attraction ( 2002 )
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
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Movie: Clockstoppers ( 2002 )
A teenager accidentally activates a machine that enables him to speed up his body so that other people seem to be standing still.
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Movie: Eye See You ( 2002 )
A lead detective being stalked by a serial killer is asked to check into a clinic treating law enforcement officials who can't face their jobs.
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Movie: Poolhall Junkies ( 2003 )
A talented pool hustler who has stayed out of the game for years, must go back to his old ways when his little brother gets involved with his enemy, the very man who held him back from greatness.
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Movie: Ju-on: The Grudge ( 2003 )
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
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Movie: Auto Focus ( 2002 )
The life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry Carpenter.
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Movie: Showtime ( 2002 )
A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm.
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Movie: 40 Days and 40 Nights ( 2002 )
After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.
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Movie: Men with Brooms ( 2002 )
Four men take time from their personal problems to reunite as a curling team and compete in a bonspiel that will restore their honour.
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Movie: They ( 2002 )
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her...
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Movie: Ripley's Game ( 2003 )
A dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.
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Movie: Cadet Kelly ( 2002 )
A fashion-conscious youngster is horrified when she is forced to move to military school.
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Movie: S1m0ne ( 2002 )
A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.
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Movie: Whale Rider ( 2003 )
A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
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Movie: All About the Benjamins ( 2002 )
Bounty hunter Bucum chases bail-jumper Reggie, who runs right into the scene of a diamond heist and murder and gets shot at as well. Later they become partners in their pursuit of the $20M in diamonds and lottery ticket. Their women join.
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Movie: Cypher ( 2003 )
Hoping for a more exciting life than the suburban drawl he currently inhabits, nerdy salary man Morgan Sullivan takes a job as an industrial spy at Digicorp, a global computer corporation. Digicorp assigns him the duty of flying to various conventions around America, recording the speeches that are made. But when Sullivan meets a mysterious woman he begins to realize that his job may not be what it seems, as he descends into a dark underworld of brainwashing and struggles to maintain his own identity.
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Movie: The Adventures of Pluto Nash ( 2002 )
In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the mafia.
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Movie: Cube²: Hypercube ( 2002 )
Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.
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Movie: Barbershop ( 2002 )
A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop.
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Movie: Far from Heaven ( 2002 )
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
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Movie: Two Weeks Notice ( 2002 )
A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.
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Movie: Snow Dogs ( 2002 )
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
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Movie: The Master of Disguise ( 2002 )
An Italian waiter fights off a criminal mastermind with his inherited powers of disguise.
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Movie: Repli-Kate ( 2002 )
A scientist and his sidekick accidentally clone a journalist and decide to turn the mistake into Repli-Kate, their idea of the perfect woman, who loves beer, football, and frat parties.
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Movie: Juwanna Mann ( 2002 )
Juwanna Mann follows the story of Jamal Jeffries, the reigning 'bad boy' of basketball, whose undisciplined on-court antics land him out of the league and without any prospects. Financially strapped and untrained in anything but basketball, Jamal comes up with a plan so outrageous it just might work: dress up like a woman and try out for the woman's basketball league. To his surprise, he makes it, but now the real challenge begins - to cease being Jamal and start new life as Juwanna. Matters become even more complicated when Juwanna realizes that he is falling for his teammate Michelle, who shows him that there is more to women than meets the eye.
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Movie: Serving Sara ( 2002 )
A process server tries to serve an elusive female target.
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Movie: May ( 2003 )
A lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood and unsuccessful attempts to connect with the people around her is sent into a murderous tailspin.
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Movie: Drumline ( 2002 )
A fish-out-of-water comedy about a talented street drummer from Harlem who enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top.
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Movie: People I Know ( 2002 )
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
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Movie: Slackers ( 2002 )
When geeky Ethan discovers three fellow students scamming the examination system, he blackmails them to win over the college's most popular girl.
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Movie: The Guru ( 2002 )
A young man leaves India to find fame and fortune in America where he unexpectedly becomes a sex guru.
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Movie: 24 Hour Party People ( 2002 )
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
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Movie: Hellraiser: Hellseeker ( 2002 )
A shady businessman attempts to piece together the details of the car crash that killed his wife, rendered him an amnesiac, and left him in possession of a sinister puzzle box that summons monsters.
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Movie: Waking Up in Reno ( 2002 )
A romantic comedy about two trashy couples travelling to Reno to see a monster truck show.
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Movie: Bend It Like Beckham ( 2003 )
A kaleidoscope of color and culture clash humorously as an Indian family in London tries to raise their soccer-playing daughter in a traditional way. Unlike tarty elder sister Pinky, who is preparing for an Indian wedding and a lifetime of cooking the perfect chapatti, Jess' dream is to play soccer professionally like her hero David Beckham. Wholeheartedly against Jess' unorthodox ambition, her parents eventually reveal that their reservations have more to do with protecting her than with holding her back. When Jess is forced to make a choice between tradition and her beloved sport, her family must decide whether to let her chase her dream...and a soccer ball.
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Movie: Crossroads ( 2002 )
Three childhood best friends, and a guy they just met, take a road trip across the country, finding themselves and their friendship in the process.
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Movie: Heaven ( 2002 )
A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.
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Movie: Boat Trip ( 2003 )
Two straight men mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise.
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Movie: Below ( 2002 )
Strange happenings occur on a WW II submarine.
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Movie: Dark Water ( 2002 )
A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.
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Movie: The Sweetest Thing ( 2002 )
A girl finds she is forced to educate herself on the etiquette of wooing the opposite sex when she finally meets Mr. Right.
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Movie: The New Guy ( 2002 )
A high school senior branded uncool in the ninth grade gets himself expelled so he changes his image to cool kid at the town's other high school.
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Movie: Nicholas Nickleby ( 2003 )
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.
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Movie: Bowling for Columbine ( 2002 )
Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
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Movie: Run Ronnie Run ( 2002 )
A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.
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Movie: Welcome to Collinwood ( 2002 )
Cosimo gets a plan for a huge job from his cellmate. He asks his woman to find a patsy for his bungled car theft, offering $15,000. Suddenly, 7 are involved.
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Movie: Big Fat Liar ( 2002 )
After a young boy's school essay erroneously finds its way into the hands of a Hollywood producer who turns the idea into a hit film, the boy travels to Los Angeles to claim his credit.
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Movie: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ( 2002 )
After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
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Movie: Tadpole ( 2002 )
Coming-of-age story about a suave 15-year-old prep school student who falls in love with his stepmother. When her best friend responds to his advances, he suddenly finds himself in way over his head.
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Movie: The Rookie ( 2002 )
A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.
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Movie: The Good Girl ( 2002 )
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
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Movie: Scooby-Doo ( 2002 )
After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on.
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Movie: Darkness ( 2002 )
A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
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Movie: Like Mike ( 2002 )
Calvin and his friends, who all live an in orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA.
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Movie: The Quiet American ( 2002 )
An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
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Movie: Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams ( 2002 )
The Cortez siblings set out for a mysterious island, where they encounter a genetic scientist and a set of rival spy kids.
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Movie: Carrie ( 2002 )
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.
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Movie: Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie ( 2002 )
When the singing Veggies encounter some car trouble, they're stranded at old, rundown seafood joint where nothing is quite as it seems. As Bob the Tomato and the kids settle in to wait for a tow truck to help get their van back on the road, the "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" share a little story about a guy named Jonah. Jonah was kind of like a mailman except his messages came straight from God. Jonah loves his job, until the day comes when he has to deliver a message to the people of Nineveh. Instead of carrying out his mission, Jonah turns and sets sail in the opposite direction onboard a pirate ship. Soon Jonah embarks on an adventure that leads him into the belly of a whale, and to the heart of Nineveh for a hilarious showdown.
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Movie: Paper Soldiers ( 2002 )
Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn (Kevin Hart) through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career. Already on parole but faced with the power being turned off and his child forced to eat nothing but cereal, Shawn convinces an older thief (Derrick "Capone" Lee) to train him. He soon finds himself caught between his angry girlfriend (Tiffany Withers), his incompetent would-be-criminal friends, and a neighborhood sociopath with a hair-trigger temper (Beanie Sigel).
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Movie: Rollerball ( 2002 )
The big thing in 2005 is a violent sport which can have some pretty serious consequences... like dying.
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Movie: Narc ( 2003 )
When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman, an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.
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Movie: High Crimes ( 2002 )
High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the military justice system, she'll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire's sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died.
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Movie: Empire ( 2002 )
A successful South Bronx drug dealer turns his back on his roots and gives money to a Wall Street broker to invest for him.
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Movie: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys ( 2002 )
A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.
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Movie: Avenging Angelo ( 2004 )
A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman. She's aided by his faithful bodyguard, with whom she soon falls in love.
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Movie: Femme Fatale ( 2002 )
A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
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Movie: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever ( 2002 )
Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be injected into victims in order to kill them at will.
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Movie: Igby Goes Down ( 2002 )
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
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Movie: Hollywood Ending ( 2002 )
A director is forced to work with his ex-wife, who left him for the boss of the studio bankrolling his new film. But the night before the first day of shooting, he develops a case of psychosomatic blindness.
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Movie: Blue Crush ( 2002 )
As a hard-core surfer girl prepares for a big competition, she finds herself falling for a football player.
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Movie: Infernal Affairs ( 2002 )
A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.
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Movie: White Oleander ( 2002 )
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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Movie: Gerry ( 2002 )
A friendship between two young men is tested when they go for a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them.
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Movie: Stealing Harvard ( 2002 )
A middle-class man turns to a life of crime in order to finance his niece's first year at Harvard University.
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Movie: The Wild Thornberrys Movie ( 2002 )
Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when Debbie's life is in danger, and Eliza might have to give up her power to talk to animals....
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Movie: The Scream Team ( 2002 )
Eccentric Frank Carlyle owned a hardware store in small town Steeple Falls which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower son Richard begrudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids including the bright Ian and bratty Claire to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just - as legend holds - by Zachariah Kull who was burned at the stake.
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Movie: Gleason ( 2002 )
The story begins at the height of Gleason's career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary power. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood. Gleason spends his formative years entering amateur contests, performing in sleazy night spots. Along the way, he steals gags from the best comics in town and finds love with Genevieve, a dancer whom he marries. But Gleason isn't the ideal husband or even a responsible father as he abandons his family to answer the call of Hollywood. Brash, arrogant, and egotistical, he alienates his directors and the man who discovers him. When he ends up back in New York, Gleason gets one of those rare second chances in the new medium of television, creating some of its most unforgettable characters. But even as Gleason becomes the talk of the tube, his life - ruled by demons of rage, booze, and insecurity - unravels.
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Movie: My Little Eye ( 2002 )
Five people are offered one million dollars to spend six months together in an isolated mansion, with cameras watching their every move.
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Movie: Lone Star State of Mind ( 2003 )
A young Texas mechanic (Jackson) tries to save a dim-witted relative from the mob. There's also something about the murderer of the mechanic's father, who's been in prison for 20 years, thanks to histestimony as a child.
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Movie: When in Rome ( 2002 )
Leila and Charli Hunter are in Rome to participate in a Summer Intern Program. After they begin their jobs, they are immediately fired due to careless mishaps. But Derek Hammond, who owns the company, decides to re-instate Leila and Charli. But while in Rome, Leila and Charli find true romance that will take them joyriding to see the sights throughout the city of Rome.
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Movie: Abandon ( 2002 )
An investigation of a college student's missing boyfriend becomes quite strange when she begins to see him periodically.
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Movie: Buying the Cow ( 2002 )
A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.
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Movie: Orange County ( 2002 )
A guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcripts to Stanford University under the name of an over-achieving high schooler.
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TV Show: Tipping the Velvet ( 2002 )
A tempestuous love story between Victorian women, adapted from the novel by Sarah Waters. A naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in London.
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Movie: Double Teamed ( 2002 )
Two sisters become world-famous basketball players.
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Movie: Atomic Twister ( 2002 )
The staff of a nuclear reactor must struggle to avert a disaster when tornadoes cause damage that threatens to start a meltdown.
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Movie: Deuces Wild ( 2002 )
Bobby, a member of The Deuces, and the sister of the rival Vipers member fall in love, promoting a street war between the two factions.
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Movie: Pinocchio ( 2002 )
Despite guidance from the Blue Fairy and the love of his father, a wooden puppet's curious spirit leads him into one wild adventure after another.
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Movie: Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice ( 2002 )
With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem Globetrotters-like team.
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Movie: Get a Clue ( 2002 )
A wealthy student with too much fashion sense, her equally rich friends, and her rival/superior from the school paper work together to solve the case when their teacher goes missing.
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Movie: The Reckoning ( 2004 )
In 14th-century England, a young monk breaks his vow of chastity and flees the wrath of his bishop and fellow monks. A fugitive priest, he then witnesses the murder of a traveling performer--and subsequently, the mourning of actor by his fellow troupe members. He eventually becomes initiated into the troupe as a player, replacing the murdered man. They travel from town to town performing their standard morality play. They arrive in a town where a boy has been killed and a young deaf-mute girl has been imprisoned for the crime--sentenced to death for witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover that the townspeople know the young woman did not, in fact, commit the murder. The stage becomes a place where vital human truth is told. Thus, simultaneously, the fugitive priest comes to terms with his own crime and makes a powerful sacrifice, thereby redeeming himself.
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Movie: No Good Deed ( 2014 )
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.
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Movie: Love Liza ( 2003 )
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, a web designer turns to gasoline fumes and remote-control airplanes while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.
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Movie: Moonlight Mile ( 2002 )
As he copes with the death of his fiancée, a young man befriends her parents and must figure out what he wants out of life.