Movies Releasing: the Week of March 18, 2005 |
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Ice Princess |
Réalisateur : Tim Fywell. |
Starring : Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall, Michelle Trachtenberg, Hayden Panettiere. |
Genre : Comedy, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.iceprincessmovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan in Walt Disney Pictures' "Ice Princess." Brainy Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother (Joan Cusack), who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen (Hayden Panettiere) - three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US Figure Skating circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen's mother (Kim Cattrall), she must dash her own mother's hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen's teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver (Trevor Blumas), Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real "ice princess." |
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Melinda and Melinda |
DVD Release Date : ( France : September 14, 2005 ) |
Réalisateur : Woody Allen. |
Starring : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell, Amanda Peet, Chloë Sevigny, Wallace Shawn. |
Runtime : 100 minutes. Genre : Comedy, Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.foxsearchlight.com/melindaandmelinda/ |
Plot Summary : |
Melinda and Melinda combines romantic comedy and drama in a way that Woody Allen, unique among filmmakers, likes to contrast. It takes place in Manhattan and chronicles a pair of crises that give great reign to the funny and serious talents of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell, Amanda Peet, Chloë Sevigny and Wallace Shawn. All the usual Allen areas are explained - the fragility of love, marital infidelity, sophisticated romance, the inability to communicate. As a character in the movie puts it, "He's despondent, he's desperate, he's suicidal. All the comic elements are in place." |
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The Ring Two |
DVD Release Date : ( France : October 04, 2005 ) |
Réalisateur : Hideo Nakata. |
Starring : Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Simon Baker, Emily VanCamp, Sissy Spacek, Elizabeth Perkins. |
Runtime : 110 minutes. Genre : Horror, Action. |
Official Website : http://www.ring2-themovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Naomi Watts, who starred in the smash hit horror thriller "The Ring," returns to star as investigative reporter Rachel Keller in the sequel, "The Ring Two." |
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Steamboy |
DVD Release Date : ( France : April 06, 2005 ) |
Réalisateur : Katsuhiro Ôtomo. |
Starring : Kiyoshi Kodama, Manami Konishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Ikki Sawamura, Anne Suzuki, Susumu Terajima, Masatane Tsukayama. |
Runtime : 126 minutes. Genre : Animation. |
Official Website : http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/steamboy/ |
Plot Summary : |
A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England, "Steamboy" features an inventor prodigy named Ra Stim who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. This young boy must use it to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction. The lush Victorian interiors and the elegance of the era's mechanical design allows Otomo to create dazzling visual backgrounds and machines for this film. With more than 180,000 drawing and 400 CG cuts, "Steamboy" is sure to be one of the most elaborate animated features of 2004. |
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Kung Fu Hustle |
DVD Release Date : ( France : December 06, 2005 ) |
Réalisateur : Stephen Chow. |
Starring : Wah Yuen, Stephen Chow, Leung Siu Lung. |
Runtime : 107 minutes. Genre : Comedy, Kung-fu. |
Official Website : http://www.sonyclassics.com/comingsoon.php?filmid=93&page=2 |
Plot Summary : |
A hapless wanna be gangster, Sing, must overcome his inability to wield a knife and demonstrate his mettle in order to become a member of the notorious Axe Gang. The Axe Gang, meanwhile, want to reign supreme by occupying the most coveted territory, which is a sacred street protected by an unlikely cast of characters, many of whom are highly skilled kung fu masters disguised as ordinary people. After several encounters with thugs and a fearsome adversary known as the Beast, Sing overcomes his inadequacy and realizes he is the greatest kung fu master of them all, destined to protect the sacred street. |
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