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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: 25th Hour ( 2003 )
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
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Movie: Undercover Brother ( 2002 )
A white faceless corporate despot known only as "The Man", has the power to unleash a terrifying top-secret weapon: an irresistibly packaged psycho-hallucinogenic drug that will reduce the entire population to mindless zombies. but black folks have soul. But with enough funky sense of style, a smooth way with the ladies and an absolute hunger for justice, with his Bruce Lee moves, Cadillac attitude and an arsenal of outrageous disguises and gadgets, Undercover Brother is recruited by the group of Good Guys, know as the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. an all-black justice league to foil the Man's plan to derail a Colin Powell-like presidential candidate, and Undercover Brother's undercover exploits keep the slim plot moving. But while he and his sassy cat-fighting partner known as Sistah Girl tries to find out what's going on, the leader's ruthless right arm, Mr. Feather, discovers the conspiracy's sexy secret weapon, Penelope Snow.
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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: The Master of Disguise ( 2002 )
An Italian waiter fights off a criminal mastermind with his inherited powers of disguise.
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Movie: Analyze That ( 2002 )
Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.
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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: 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: The Collingswood Story ( 2002 )
A young girl staying in touch with her boyfriend via a webcam discovers an unimaginable horror linked to the house she just moved into.
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Movie: About a Boy ( 2002 )
A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy.
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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: 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: 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: 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: The Four Feathers ( 2002 )
A British officer resigns his post just before battle and subsequently receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they believe to be his cowardice.
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Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep ( 2003 )
Elvis and JFK did not die, and today they're roommates in an East Texas nursing home whose residents are being killed by an ancient Egyptian Soul Sucker named Bubba Ho-Tep. This movie is endearing and vulgar in about the right proportion.
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Movie: The Hours ( 2003 )
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
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Movie: Boat Trip ( 2003 )
Two straight men mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Bowling for Columbine ( 2002 )
Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
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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: Tuck Everlasting ( 2002 )
A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.
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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: The Salton Sea ( 2002 )
After a tragic incident, a man drifts into a world populated by thugs and speed junkies.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Trapped ( 2002 )
When their daughter is abducted and taken for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor and his wife find themselves held hostage while a 24-hour plan to extort their money is set into motion. Now, with time running out and the health of their asthmatic daughter at serious risk, they find themselves in a life-and-death race against the clock as the "perfect crime" begins spiraling towards an unthinkable, terrifying and deadly conclusion.
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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: 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: Stuart Little 2 ( 2002 )
Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.
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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: Cadet Kelly ( 2002 )
A fashion-conscious youngster is horrified when she is forced to move to military school.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Peter Pan 2: Return to Never Land ( 2002 )
In London during World War II, this is the story of Wendy's daughter, Jane, who is kidnapped by Captain Hook and Peter Pan must come to the rescue.
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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: 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: 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: American Psycho II: All American Girl ( 2002 )
A girl named Rachael Newman has developed a taste for murder and will stand at nothing to become a college professor's assistant.
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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: 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: 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: No Good Deed ( 2002 )
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: 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: 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: Serving Sara ( 2002 )
A process server tries to serve an elusive female target.
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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: 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: 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: The Powerpuff Girls Movie ( 2002 )
After destroying the city of Townsville in a game of tag, a trio of super-powered little girls must redeem themselves by stopping a vengeful monkey's plot for world domination.
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Movie: Robin Williams Live on Broadway ( 2002 )
The fourth HBO stand-up special by Robin Williams.
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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: Swimfan ( 2002 )
A high school senior with a promising swimming career has a one-night stand with consequences.
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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: 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: Big Trouble ( 2002 )
The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results.
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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: 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: Possession ( 2002 )
A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.
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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: 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: 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: Swept Away ( 2002 )
A snooty socialite is stranded on a Mediterranean island with a communist sailor.
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Movie: Double Teamed ( 2002 )
Two sisters become world-famous basketball players.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Stark Raving Mad ( 2002 )
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
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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: Sorority Boys ( 2002 )
Three rowdy college students are kicked out of their dorm and dress up in drag to live in the DOG house, where the girls deemed unattractive live.
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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: The Importance of Being Earnest ( 2002 )
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
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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: 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: The Banger Sisters ( 2002 )
Lavinia and Suzette, former rock groupies and best friends, reconnect after twenty years; one is still as wild as ever, while the other has adopted a more conservative lifestyle.
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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: 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: Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled ( 2002 )
This time, the Djinn unleashes his undying love for a beautiful woman in his final attempt to unleashe his brethren from hell.
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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: 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 Truth About Charlie ( 2002 )
A woman returns from holiday to find her husband has been murdered, and several groups of people are pressuring her to unravel the mystery of his true identity and activities during his final days.
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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: 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: 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: The Skulls II ( 2002 )
After a college student is tapped to join the elite secret Skulls fraternity, he witnesses a girl's death and his life starts falling apart.
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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: 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.