Movies Releasing: the Week of May 28, 2004 |
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The Day after tomorrow |
Réalisateur : Roland Emmerich. |
Starring : Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Arjay Smith, Tamlyn Tomita, Austin Nichols. |
Genre : Action, Science fiction. |
Official Website : http://www.thedayaftertomorrow.com |
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Quaid plays a climatologist who tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his young son (Gyllenhaal) in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age. Rossum will star as the love interest of Jake Gyllenhaal's character, a member of an academic decathlon team. |
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Raising Helen |
DVD Release Date : ( France : January 11, 2006 ) |
Réalisateur : Garry Marshall. |
Starring : Kate Hudson, Joan Cusack, John Corbett, Helen Mirren, Felicity Huffman. |
Runtime : 119 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.raising-helen.com/ |
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Centers on Helen (Hudson), a young woman who is an assistant to the head of a modeling agency (Mirren) and is about to be promoted. Her world is turned upside down when her sister (Huffman) and brother-in-law die in a car crash and she is left to care for their three children, ages 9-15. |
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Baadasssss! |
Réalisateur : Mario Van Peebles. |
Starring : Mario Van Peebles, Joan M. Blair, Penny Bae Bridges, Joy Bryant, T.K. Carter, Terry Crews. |
Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.sonyclassics.com/badass/ |
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The year was 1971 and the hot ticket at the box office was "The French Connection". Little did audiences and the film industry know that in the same year the birth of a new era was about to explode…Independent Black Cinema. The city was Detroit, and a weathered Melvin Van Peebles sat alone in the Grand Circus theatre watching only a few ticket buyers enter where his new film - his follow up to the successful comedy "Watermelon Man" - was about to play. After months of clawing, scheming and fighting to finish the film he wanted to make, the moment had arrived, and in a virtually empty theatre, Melvin sat with just a few curious onlookers. By the end of the screening, Melvin was alone. No one could have predicted what happened after that momentous end would be the beginning of history. Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time with his debut feature "The Story of a Three-Day Pass". Filmed in France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco Film Festival, Melvin'... |
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Saved! |
DVD Release Date : ( France : November 15, 2005 ) |
Réalisateur : Brian Dannelly. |
Starring : Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit, Heather Matarazzo, Eva Amurri, Martin Donovan, Mary Louise. |
Runtime : 92 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.savedmovie.com/ |
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"Good girl" Mary (Malone) and her popular, influential best friend, Hilary Faye (Moore), are starting their senior year at the top of the social structure at American Christian High School. But when Mary finds out she's pregnant, Hilary Faye and her devoted "disciples" turn against Mary and the school labels her an outcast. Her senior year quickly turns into a nightmare. It's as an outcast, however, that she finds true friends - other students the school doesn't quite know what to do with. In this sweetly subversive comedy, a group of strangers band together to navigate the treacherous halls and make it to graduation, ultimately learning more about themselves and finding out what it truly means to be Saved!. |
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The Mother |
Réalisateur : Roger Michell. |
Starring : Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Cathryn Bradshaw, Steven Mackintosh, Zelda Tinska, Peter Vaughan. |
Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.sonyclassics.com/comingsoon.php?filmid=48&page=1 |
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Anne Reid stars as May, an ordinary grandmother from the North of England. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old lady whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she embarks on a passionate affair with Darren (Craig), a man half her age who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter. |
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Soul Plane |
DVD Release Date : ( France : July 05, 2005 ) |
Réalisateur : Jessy Terrero. |
Starring : Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tom Arnold. |
Runtime : 86 minutes. Genre : Action, Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.soulplane.com/ |
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Why just fly when you can soar with soul! After a humiliating experience on an airplane, Nashawn Wade sues the airline and is awarded a huge settlement. Determined to make good with the money, he creates the full-service airline of his dreams, complete with sexy stewardesses, funky music, a hot onboard dance club, and a bathroom attendant. Departing from all-new Terminal X in Los Angeles, Soul Plane gives "fly" a whole new meaning, taking its passengers on a maiden voyage full of comedy. |
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The Burial Society |
Réalisateur : Nicholas Racz. |
Starring : Rob LaBelle, Jan Rubles, David Paymer, Allan Rich, Seymour Cassel, Bill Meilen. |
Genre : Drama, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.theburialsociety.com/ |
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Sheldon Kasner, a man of quiet desperation who works as a loan manager at the Hebrew National Bank is overworked and under-appreciated. He struggles to surpass the limitations of his mundane life. Sheldon, the most unlikely of criminals, is drawn into the underworld of money laundering in a desperate attempt to overcome his mediocre existence. Unfortunately for Sheldon, events don't unfold as he expects and the missing two million dollars has him begging for his life as he's dangled from a bridge in the opening sequence of "The Burial Society". Forced to reconsider his strategy, Sheldon concocts an elaborate plan involving the Chevrah Kadisha or Burial Society – devout Jewish men who prepare dead bodies for burial. Their quick, quiet, and anonymous nature is perfectly suited to Sheldon’s sophisticated plan. He offers his services to the Burial Society, with the idea of staging his own death. For the Burial Society, the inept businessman is the new blood that they’ve been looking for if... |
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Frankie and Johnny are married |
Réalisateur : Michael Pressman. |
Starring : Michael Pressman, Lisa Press, Jillian Armenante, Alan Rosenberg, Stephen Tobolowsky, Morgan Nagler. |
Genre : Comedy, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.frankiejohnny.com/ |
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A romantic comedy about Michael Pressman, a successful television director/producer and Lisa Chess, a talented struggling actress, who are married and decide to mount a production of "Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune" in equity-waiver in Los Angeles with the hopes of bringing some life and joy back into their marriage. They bring in Alan Rosenberg to play Johnny and Lisa plays Frankie and Michael directs. What starts off as a simple idea to revitalize the marriage turns into an utter nightmare. Alan becomes insanely difficult and the marriage becomes even more strained as the rehearsal process becomes tense and explosive. It reaches a point where after a devastatingly disastrous preview, Michael shuts the play down and loses his whole investment, and possibly his marriage. His only choice is to take over the role of Johnny himself and fire Alan Rosenberg. Now the stakes are truly high as to whether or not this couple can pull it off. |
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