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Movies Releasing: the Week of May 13, 2005 |
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Layer Cake |
DVD Release Date : ( France : January 25, 2006 ) |
Réalisateur : Matthew Vaughn. |
Starring : Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Dexter Fletcher, Jamie Foreman, Michael Gambon, Burn Gorman, Tom Hardy. |
Runtime : 106 minutes. Genre : Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.sonyclassics.com/layercake/ |
Plot Summary : |
"Layer Cake," a riveting thriller set in the drug underworld of the UK, marks the directorial debut of producer Mathew Vaughn ("Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch") and stars Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman, Sienna Miller and Michael Gambon.
Sleek, well dressed and polite, our unnamed hero (Daniel Craig) is a consummate professional. Treating cocaine and ecstasy like any other commodity, he has made a fortune for himself by keeping his hands clean and staying under the radar. Having made the decision to retire, his aim is to break free from the world of crime, drugs and violence and live a simple, quiet life with the money he has amassed.
But before this can happen, crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) wants two last favors from him. First, he must track down the missing, drug addict daughter of powerful criminal Eddie Temple (Michael Gambon). Second, he must negotiate the sale of a huge shipment of ecstacy with The Duke (Jami... |
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Kicking & Screaming |
Réalisateur : Jesse Dylan. |
Starring : Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Mike Ditka, Kate Walsh, Jim Turner, Jarrad Paul. |
Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.kickingandscreamingmovie.com/ |
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Will Ferrell ("Elf," "Old School") and Robert Duvall ("Secondhand Lions," "A Civil Action") star in a lively comedy about the cutthroat, hyper-competitive world of little league soccer. Ferrell stars as Phil Weston, an average Joe who's had to put up all his life with his overly competitive father, Buck (Duvall). When Phil decides to coach his 10-year-old son's soccer team, he goes head-to-head for the league championship against Buck, who coaches his own young son on the preeminent team of the league. Old scores come into play as Phil and Buck find themselves going to extreme measures to win the championship trophy. |
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Kings and Queen |
Réalisateur : Arnaud Desplechin. |
Starring : Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve. |
Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.wellspring.com/movies/movie.html?movie_id=61 |
Plot Summary : |
Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a 35-year-old art gallery director and single mother struggling to rise above tragic circumstances—a late husband, a failed second marriage and a lover’s suicide—through her successful career and marriage to a wealthy businessman. Ismaël (Mathieu Amalric), her ex-husband, is a disheveled, neurotic musician who descends into a comic nightmare when he is mistakenly committed to a mental hospital. He faces off against the steely clinic psychiatrist (Catherine Deneuve, in a scene-stealing cameo), but his eccentric antics—including an in-house pharmacy raid with his drug-addicted lawyer–earn a ten-day stay that may leave him worse off than when he entered. On discovering that her father is terminally ill and fearing for the future of her young son, Nora tracks down Ismaël at the institution to enlist his help. A series of intimate revelations and reversals further connects these disparate lives, offering several enigmas, as well as a rich examination of love, memo... |
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