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Movies Releasing: the Week of July 21, 2006 |
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Azumi |
DVD Release Date : ( France : August 31, 2006 ) |
Réalisateur : Ryuhei Kitamura. |
Starring : Yuma Ishigaki, Kenji Kohashi, Shun Oguri, Aya Ueto, Hiroki Narimiya, Joe Odagiri. |
Runtime : 137 minutes. Genre : Action, Adventure, Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.asiavisionfilms.com/films/azumi/ |
Plot Summary : |
Orphaned in 19th century war-torn Tokugawa Shogun period of Japan, Azumi is found and raised along with nine other orphans by Ji, the mentor. The Shogun, sickened by innocent lives lost in senseless warfare, had commissioned Ji to cultivate assassins that could eliminate warlords before they could strike.
After 10 years of inconceivably harsh training and discipline, Azumi and her comrades, who have been molded into invincible warriors, excitedly await instructions from Ji. "An assassin has no choice but to fulfill his mission, however cruel or extreme," says their mentor. "This is your ultimate test. You must kill your partner, or be killed."
Azumi is stupefied. She and her partner, Nachi, who have developed a special relationship, have no choice but accept their terrible fate - only one of them can survive. With heavy hearts, Azumi, along with the four other survivors of the "test," Ukiha, Hyuga, Amagi, aand Nagara, venture into the vast world outside of their secluded valley.
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My Super Ex-Girlfriend |
DVD Release Date : December 19, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Ivan Reitman. |
Starring : Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Rainn Wilson, Wanda Sykes, Mark Consuelos, Mike Iorio, Stelio Savante, Ilona Alexandra, Richard Brevard, Fallon Brooking. |
Runtime : 97 minutes. Genre : Action, Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.mysuperex.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Breaking up is hard to do, but sometimes it can be downright dangerous. In the Ivan Reitman comedy "My Super Ex-Girlfriend," Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) thinks he's finally found the perfect girlfriend, the beautiful Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman) - who just so happens to be a superhero. When Jenny/G-Girl becomes overly possessive, Matt wants to call it quits – but how do you break up with a superhero? A scorned woman, Jenny/G-Girl unleashes on her ex the full fury of her super-powered wrath as she sets out on a no-holds-barred mission to bust up Matt's budding romance with his co-worker Hannah (Anna Faris). |
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Monster House |
DVD Release Date : October 24, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Gil Kenan. |
Starring : Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Matthew Fahey, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jon Heder, Kevin James, Jason Lee, Ryan Newman, Catherine O'Hara, Kathleen Turner, Fred Willard. |
Runtime : 91 minutes. Genre : Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Horror. |
Official Website : http://www.monsterhouse-movie.com/ |
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"Monster House" is an exciting and hilarious thrill-ride tale about three kids (Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner and Spencer Locke) who must do battle with a mysterious home that is determined to eat every trick or treater in sight on Halloween. |
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Lady in the Water |
DVD Release Date : December 19, 2006 |
Réalisateur : M. Night Shyamalan. |
Starring : Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Freddy Rodriguez, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury, Mary Beth Hurt, Cindy Cheung, Joe Reitman. |
Runtime : 109 minutes. Genre : Fantasy, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.ladyinthewatermovie.com/ |
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In "Lady in the Water," a story originally conceived by Shyamalan for his children, a modest building manager named Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) rescues a mysterious young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) from danger and discovers she is actually a narf, a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent her from returning home. |
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The Amateurs |
Réalisateur : Michael Traeger. |
Starring : Jeff Bridges, Tim Blake Nelson, Joe Pantoliano, William Fichtner, Ted Danson, Patrick Fugit, John Hawkes, Brad William Henke, Glenne Headly, Tom Bower, Dawn Didawick, Jayne Taini, Lauren Graham, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Alex D. Linz. |
Runtime : 100 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : Not Available |
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An independent comedy about a small town that bands together to make a porno film. Bridges plays a guy dealing with a midlife crisis who hatches the scheme. |
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Clerks II |
DVD Release Date : November 28, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Kevin Smith. |
Starring : Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Jennifer Schwalbach, Trevor Fehrman, Rosario Dawson, Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halleron. |
Runtime : 98 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.clerks2.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
At the age of 33, New Jersey mini-mart clerks and best friends Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halleron) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) have it made. They work with each other, slack off all day, and get paid for it. But when the local Quick Stop that has been their entire life and livelihood suffers a cataclysm, Dante and Randal have to do the unthinkable: find new minimum-wage jobs. Now, they're bringing their rapid-fire one-liners, bad attitudes and unbridled love of fun at the customer's expense to Mooby's burger joint, where the only other employees are an uber-nerd (Trevor Ferhman) and an entirely too sexy manager (Rosario Dawson). But when Dante announces that he's going to leave Jersey forever and marry Emma Bunting (Jennifer Schwalbach Smith), his co-workers plan one last send-off that quickly goes awry. As unbridled debates rage over such burning matters as Return of the King v. Return of the Jedi; George Lucas v. Peter Jackson v. Jesus; and how far is too far in every area from teen... |
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Wondrous Oblivion |
Réalisateur : Paul Morrison. |
Starring : Delroy Lindo, Emily Woof, Stanley Townsend, Sam Smith. |
Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : Not Available |
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Eleven year old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit but none of the skill, and he's a laughing stock at school. So when a Jamaican family moves in next door and builds a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven. But this is 1960's England, and when the neighbors start to make life difficult for the new arrivals, David's family is caught in the middle, and he has to choose between fitting in and standing up for the new friends who have turned his world upside down. |
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