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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: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 )
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
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Movie: The Bourne Identity ( 2002 )
A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
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Movie: We Were Soldiers ( 2002 )
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
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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: 28 Days Later ( 2003 )
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
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Movie: Spider-Man ( 2002 )
After being bitten by a genetically-modified spider, a shy teenager gains spider-like abilities that he uses to fight injustice as a masked superhero and face a vengeful enemy.
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Movie: Reign of Fire ( 2002 )
A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.
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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: 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: Blade II ( 2002 )
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
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Movie: The Count of Monte Cristo ( 2002 )
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
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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: 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: Signs ( 2002 )
Preacher Graham Hess loses his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He lives with his children and brother in a farmhouse. Crop circles start to appear in their cornfields; Graham dismisses them as mischief by miscreants. After hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family grows suspicious of alien activities. Now they must stick together as a family and believe, to survive and escape the ordeal.
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Movie: Red Dragon ( 2002 )
A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.
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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: The Ring ( 2002 )
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
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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: Dog Soldiers ( 2002 )
A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness.
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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: 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: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones ( 2002 )
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.
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Movie: Resident Evil ( 2002 )
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
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Movie: Treasure Planet ( 2002 )
A Disney animated version of "Treasure Island". The only difference is that the film is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders.
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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: Secretary ( 2002 )
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
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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: The Santa Clause 2 ( 2002 )
Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for nearly ten years, but it might come to an end if he doesn't find a Mrs. Claus.
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Movie: Windtalkers ( 2002 )
Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Road to Perdition ( 2002 )
A mob enforcer's son witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
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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: Adaptation. ( 2002 )
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
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Movie: Spun ( 2003 )
A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a 'speed freak', to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues.
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Movie: xXx ( 2002 )
An extreme sports athlete, Xander Cage, is recruited by the government on a special mission.
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Movie: A Walk to Remember ( 2002 )
The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.
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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: 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: Bad Company ( 2002 )
When an Ivy League-educated C.I.A. Agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother (Chris Rock).
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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: The Sum of All Fears ( 2002 )
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Movie: The Scorpion King ( 2002 )
A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy's key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.
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Movie: Star Trek: Nemesis ( 2002 )
The Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan homeworld Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a peace treaty. Captain Picard and his crew discover a serious threat to the Federation once Praetor Shinzon plans to attack Earth.
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Movie: The Transporter ( 2002 )
Frank is hired to "transport" packages for unknown clients and has made a very good living doing so. But when asked to move a package that begins moving, complications arise.
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Movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 )
He's found his mojo, baby, and now Austin Powers is back again in this shagadelic comedy-adventure. The "sshhh!" hits the fan when Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin's father, master spy Nigel Powers, in a dastardly time-travel scheme to take over the world. Before you can say "Shake Your Booty", Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with sexy Foxxy Cleopatra to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem.
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Movie: The Tuxedo ( 2002 )
A hapless chauffeur must take a comatose Secret Agent's place using his special gadget-laden tuxedo.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Punch-Drunk Love ( 2002 )
A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.
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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: 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: 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: Sweet Home Alabama ( 2002 )
A young woman who's reinvented herself as a New York City socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, after seven years of separation.
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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: 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: Analyze That ( 2002 )
Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.
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Movie: The Pianist ( 2002 )
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
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Movie: The Time Machine ( 2002 )
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
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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: 8 Mile ( 2002 )
Follows a young rapper in the Detroit area, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
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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: Phone Booth ( 2003 )
Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart's negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Enough ( 2002 )
After running away fails, a terrified woman empowers herself in order to battle her abusive husband.
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Movie: Blood Work ( 2002 )
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
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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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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: The Mothman Prophecies ( 2002 )
A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.
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Movie: Queen of the Damned ( 2002 )
In this loose sequel to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), the vampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the equally beautiful and monstrous queen of all vampires.
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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.
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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: 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: 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: 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: The Hot Chick ( 2002 )
An attractive and popular teenager, who is mean-spirited toward others, finds herself in the body of an older man, and must find a way to get back to her original body.
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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: 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: I Spy ( 2002 )
A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.
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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: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron ( 2002 )
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Dragonfly ( 2002 )
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his deceased wife through his patients' near death experiences.
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Movie: The Laramie Project ( 2002 )
The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.
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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.