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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: 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: 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: Panic Room ( 2002 )
A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house's safe room when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune.
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Movie: Paid in Full ( 2002 )
A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.
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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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Movie: One Hour Photo ( 2002 )
A mentally unstable photo developer targets an upper middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.
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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: 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: National Lampoon's Van Wilder ( 2002 )
The most popular kid on campus meets a beautiful journalist who makes him realize that maybe he's afraid to graduate.
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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: 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: My Big Fat Greek Wedding ( 2002 )
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
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Movie: Murder by Numbers ( 2002 )
Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.
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Movie: Mr. Deeds ( 2002 )
A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way.
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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.
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Movie: Minority Report ( 2002 )
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
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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: Men in Black II ( 2002 )
Agent J is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory after the re-appearance of a case from K's past.
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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: Maid in Manhattan ( 2002 )
A Senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite, when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's dress.
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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: 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: Lilo & Stitch ( 2002 )
A young and parentless girl adopts a 'dog' from the local pound, completely unaware that it's supposedly a dangerous scientific experiment that's taken refuge on Earth and is now hiding from its creator and those who see it as a menace.
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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: Life Without Dick ( 2002 )
By accident, Colleen Gibson shoots and kills her gold-digging cheating boyfriend, Dick, a private eye who happens to have a hitman on his tail. Danny the hitman works for his brother-in-law, a cheerful but nasty Irish mobster, hasn't actually killed anyone, and wants to be a singer. He falls for Colleen. she likes him, too. He can solve her problem (Dick's body), she can solve his (meeting the mobster's demands that he kill people like Dick). Danny has an ex-girlfriend, who might still hold the key to his heart, two cops are sniffing around for Dick, a junk yard owner gets a conscience, and a talent show is coming up. Bullets, music, and true love are set to collide.
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Movie: Life or Something Like It ( 2002 )
A reporter interviews a psychic, who tells her that she's going to die and her life is meaningless.
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Movie: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist ( 2002 )
A rough-around-the-edges martial arts master seeks revenge for his parents' death.
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Movie: Killing Me Softly ( 2002 )
A woman faces deadly consequences for abandoning her loving relationship with her boyfriend to pursue exciting sexual scenarios with a mysterious celebrity mountaineer.
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Movie: Ken Park ( 2003 )
Ken Park is about several Californian skateboarders' lives and relationships with and without their parents.
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Movie: K-19: The Widowmaker ( 2002 )
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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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: 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: 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: John Q ( 2002 )
John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant.
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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: I Spy ( 2002 )
A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.
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Movie: Irréversible ( 2002 )
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.
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Movie: Insomnia ( 2002 )
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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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: I'm with Lucy ( 2002 )
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her experiences with each one. As each date is told at the same time as the other four, the many ups and downs of new relationships are shown. So, while some dates start off terribly, but end well others are just the opposite. But which one of the five men is Lucy about to walk down the aisle with?
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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: Ice Age ( 2002 )
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
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Movie: Home Room ( 2002 )
A high school shooting has repercussions on the town and students.
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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: Highway ( 2002 )
After Jack gets caught with a Vegas mobster's wife in bed, he's gotta hit the road. Jack's best friend Pilot accompanies him, and the pair sets out on an adventure akin to Kerouac's "On the Road".
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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: Hey Arnold! The Movie ( 2002 )
Arnold and company must recover a stolen document needed in order to prevent the neighborhood from being bulldozed.
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Movie: Hero ( 2002 )
A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
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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: 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: 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: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 )
An ancient prophecy seems to be coming true when a mysterious presence begins stalking the corridors of a school of magic and leaving its victims paralyzed.
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Movie: Halloween: Resurrection ( 2002 )
Three years after he last terrorized his sister, Michael Myers confronts her again, before traveling to Haddonfield to deal with the cast and crew of a reality show which is being broadcast from his old home.
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Movie: Half Past Dead ( 2002 )
This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
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Movie: Gotta Kick It Up! ( 2002 )
A school dance team get a new lease of life thanks to a teacher who lets them in on the secret of Latin rhythms for a big competition.
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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: Ghost Ship ( 2002 )
A salvage crew discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea, and soon notices that its long-dead inhabitants may still be on board.
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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: 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: Gangs of New York ( 2002 )
In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.
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Movie: Full Frontal ( 2002 )
A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.
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Movie: Friday After Next ( 2002 )
Two cousins work nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they team up to track the robber down.
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Movie: Frida ( 2002 )
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
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Movie: Frank McKlusky, C.I. ( 2002 )
A clumsy insurance claims investigator goes undercover to expose a conspiracy.
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TV Show: Firestarter: Rekindled ( 2002 )
A young woman who has the ability to start fires with her mind, must now face the trauma of her childhood by battling with a group of very talented children and their cruel leader, John Rainbird.
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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: Feardotcom ( 2002 )
A New York City detective investigates mysterious deaths occurring 48 hours after users log onto a site named feardotcom.
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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: 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: Equilibrium ( 2002 )
In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.
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Movie: Enough ( 2002 )
After running away fails, a terrified woman empowers herself in order to battle her abusive husband.
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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: Eight Legged Freaks ( 2002 )
Venomous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.
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Movie: Eight Crazy Nights ( 2002 )
Davey Stone, an alcoholic with a criminal record, is sentenced to community service under the supervision of an elderly referee. Davey is then faced with trying to reform and abandon his bad habits.
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Movie: Dummy ( 2002 )
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
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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: Dragonfly ( 2002 )
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his deceased wife through his patients' near death experiences.
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Movie: Double Teamed ( 2002 )
Two sisters become world-famous basketball players.
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Movie: Dog Soldiers ( 2002 )
A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness.
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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: 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: 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: Death to Smoochy ( 2002 )
A kids show host, Rainbow Randolph, is fired in disgrace while his replacement, Sheldon Mopes, aka Smoochy the Rhino, finds himself a rising star. Unfortunately for Sheldon, the business of kids television isn't all child's play.
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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: 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: Daria in 'Is It College Yet?' ( 2002 )
Daria, Jane, and the rest of the Lawndale High seniors face graduation and college in this series finale TV-movie from MTV's "Daria."
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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: 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: 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: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ( 2003 )
An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.
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Movie: Collateral Damage ( 2002 )
After his family is killed by a terrorist act, a firefighter goes in search of the one responsible.
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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: City of God ( 2004 )
Brazil, 1960s, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970s: Li'l Zé has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bené is the only one to keep him on the good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years, and he wants no part of it. he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980s: Things are out of control between the last two remaining gangs...will it ever end? Welcome to the City of God.
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Movie: City by the Sea ( 2002 )
Vincent Lamarca, whose father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child, grew up to become a police officer, only to see his own son become a murder suspect.
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Movie: Chicago ( 2003 )
Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
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Movie: Changing Lanes ( 2002 )
The story of what happens one day in New York City, when a young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Drive, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.
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Movie: Catch Me If You Can ( 2002 )
Barely 21 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.
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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: Cadet Kelly ( 2002 )
A fashion-conscious youngster is horrified when she is forced to move to military school.
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Movie: Cabin Fever ( 2003 )
Five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.