Funny People (2009) info

Funny People (2009)

Genres:
Comedy | Drama 

Director:
Judd Apatow

Cast:

Adam Sandler 

Seth Rogen 

Leslie Mann

Eric Bana 

Jonah Hill 

Jason Schwartzman 

Aubrey Plaza 

Maude Apatow 

 

Storyline

George is a very successful stand up comedian who learns that he has an untreatable blood disorder and is given less than a year to live. Ira is a struggling up-and-coming stand up comedian who works at a deli and has yet to figure out his onstage persona. One night, these two perform at the same club and George takes notice of Ira. George hires Ira to be his semi-personal assistant as well as his friend.

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Storm Warriors (2009) info

Storm Warriors (2009) 

Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Directors:

Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang

Cast:

Aaron Kwok 

Ekin Cheng 

Kenny Ho

Storyline

Wind and Cloud find themselves up against a ruthless Japanese warlord intent on invading China. 

 

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A Walk to Remember (2002) info

A Walk to Remember (2002) 

 

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Cast

 Shane West

Mandy Moore 

Peter Coyote 

Daryl Hannah

Director:

Adam Shankman

 

Plot Summary

In Beaufort, North Carolina, a prank on a student goes terribly wrong and puts the student in the hospital. Landon Carter, a popular student with no defined plans for the future, is held responsible and forced to participate in after-school community service activities as punishment, which include starring as the lead in the school play. Also participating in these activities is Jamie Sullivan, the reverend's daughter who has great ambitions and nothing in common with Landon. When Landon decides he wants to take his activities seriously, he asks Jamie for help and begins to spend most of his time with her. But he starts to develop strong feelings for her, something he did not expect to do. The two start a relationship, much to the chagrin of Landon's old popular friends and Jamie's strict reverend father. But when a heart-breaking secret becomes known that puts their relationship to the test, it is then that Landon and Jamie realize the true meaning of love and fate

 

 

 

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300 (2006) Information

300 (2006)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy | War 

Cast

Gerard Butler 

Lena Headey 

Dominic West

David Wenham 

Vincent Regan 

Michael Fassbender 

Director:

Zack Snyder

 

Plot Summary

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw left with no options he moved. The battle lasted for about 3 days and after which all 300 Spartans were killed. The Spartan defeat was not the one expected, as a local shepherd, named Ephialtes, defected to the Persians and informed Xerxes of a separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks 

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Shooter (2007/I)

Shooter 2007

Genre:

Action | Crime | Mystery

 

Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Michael Peña 

Danny Glover

Kate Mara 

Elias Koteas
Rhona Mitra

Jonathan Walker 

Director:

Antoine Fuqua

 

Trivia:

This was the final film to play the landmark Mann National Theater in Westwood, CA before it closed on April 20, 2007

Plot:

Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world's great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He's left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he's recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.  

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Angels & Demons (2009)

Angels & Demons (2009) 

Genre:

Mystery | Thriller

Cast

 Tom Hanks

Ewan McGregor 

Ayelet Zurer 

Stellan Skarsgård 

Pierfrancesco Favino

Nikolaj Lie Kaas 

Director:

Ron Howard
  

Trivia:

The production had to build a scale replica of St. Peter's Square since Vatican officers banned the movie from being filmed in its grounds

Plot Summary for
Angels & Demons

When a murder of a physicist, Leonardo Vetra, finds a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and Mr. Vetra's daughter, Vittoria, on an adventure for a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four alters of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An Assassin, working for the Illuminati, has captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions

 

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Vampire in Vegas (2009)

 Genre:

Horror 

Cast:
Tony Todd 

Delia Sheppard 

Edward Spivak 

Sonya Joy Sims 

Frankie Cullen 

Brandin Rackley 

Jonathan Conrad 

Ted Monte 

GiGi Erneta 

Director:
Jim Wynorski 

Plot:

In Las Vegas, the powerful three hundred year old vampire Sylvian hires Dr. van Helm to research a cure to survive in the sun. She uses three vampire women as guinea pigs to test the serum in the desert and a couple that is camping witnesses the failure and calls the police. Detective Stanton and his partner Detective O'Hara are assigned to investigate the case. Meanwhile, Jason, who is going to marry Rachel, and two friends travel to Las Vegas for his bachelor party with a couple of strippers, but the women are actually vampires that attack them. Out of the blue, Rachel and her friend Nikki decide to travel to Las Vegas to surprise her boyfriends. The group is captured by Sylvian that uses them to feed the pack vampires and test the new research.

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Avatar (2009)

 Genre:
Action | Sci-fi

Cast:
Sam Worthington
Zoe Saldana
Sigourney Weaver
Stephen Lang
Joel David Moore
Michelle Rodriguez

Giovanni Ribisi

Joel Moore

Director:
James Cameron

Avatar is a science fiction film written and directed by the top-caliber director, James Cameron (Aliens and Terminator). Avatar is a live action film with a new generation of special effects and revolutionary technology that made the film a cinematic masterpiece.

Plot Summary for
Avatar

When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora. Written by The Massie Twins

In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.

 

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