Movies Releasing: the Week of June 16, 2006 |
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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties |
DVD Release Date : October 10, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Tim Hill. |
Starring : Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly, Bill Murray. |
Runtime : 78 minutes. Genre : Animation, Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.garfieldmovie.com/ |
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America's favorite feline, Garfield, follows his owner, Jon, to England. The U.K. may never recover, as Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike, regal cat who has inherited a castle. Garfield savors the royal treatment afforded by his loyal "subjects," but his "reign" is in jeopardy. The nefarious Lord Dargis is determined to do away with Garfield, so he can turn the castle into a resort. Garfield's bigger, better, more purr-fect world is soon turned upside down in this tale of two kitties. |
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift |
DVD Release Date : September 26, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Justin Lin. |
Starring : Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Brian Tee, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Nathalie Kelly. |
Runtime : 104 minutes. Genre : Action, Crime. |
Official Website : http://www.thefastandthefurious.com/ |
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From the producer of the worldwide blockbuster hits "The Fast and the Furious" and its sequel, "2 Fast 2 Furious," comes the latest installment of the adrenaline-inducing series built on speed-"The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift". Set in the sexy and colorful underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most perilous courses in the world.
Sean Boswell (Black) is an outsider who attempts to define himself as a hot-headed, underdog street racer. Although racing provides a temporary escape from an unhappy home and the superficial world around him, it has also made Sean unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent to live with his gruff, estranged father, a career military-man stationed in Tokyo.
Now officially a gaijin (outsider), Sean feels even more shut out in a land of foreign customs and codes of honor. But it doesn't take long for him to find some action when a fellow American bu... |
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The Lake House |
DVD Release Date : September 26, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Alejandro Agresti. |
Starring : Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Plummer. |
Runtime : 99 minutes. Genre : Drama, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.thelakehousemovie.com/ |
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An independent-minded doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves). When they discover that they're actually living two years apart, they must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late. |
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Loverboy |
Réalisateur : Kevin Bacon. |
Starring : Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Dominic Scott Kay, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei, Matt Dillon, Spencer Treat Clark, Oliver Platt, Sosie Bacon. |
Runtime : 84 minutes. Genre : Drama, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.loverboymovie.com/ |
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A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much. |
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Nacho Libre |
DVD Release Date : October 24, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Jared Hess. |
Starring : Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jimenez, Richard Montoya, Peter Stormare. |
Runtime : 92 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.nacholibre.com/ |
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Jack Black stars as Ignacio (friends call him Nacho), a Mexican priest who moonlights as a lucha libre wrestler to raise money for his orphanage in this comedy from the creators of "Napoleon Dynamite" and the writer and star of "School of Rock." |
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Lower City (Cidade Baixa) |
Réalisateur : Sérgio Machado. |
Starring : Alice Braga, Harildo Deda, José Dumont, Ricardo Luedy, Olga Machado, João Miguel, Wagner Moura, Lazaro Ramos, Débora Santiago. |
Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.lowercitymovie.com/ |
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Deco and his best pal Naldinho are co-owners a small cargo boat. They give 20-year-old Karinna a ride down the coast, paying for her services along the way. At a cock fight in a coastal town, a brawl breaks out and Naldinho is nearly killed. Deco defends his friend, and, while nursing him back to health, falls hard for the ever-available Karinna. At first, Naldinho teases Deco about giving his heart to a whore, but in the end he finds himself just as infatuated. Jealousy separates the trio, then desire brings them back together. |
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Only Human |
Réalisateur : Teresa Pelegri, Dominic Harari. |
Starring : Norma Aleandro, Guillermo Toledo, Maria Botto, Marián Aguilera, Fernando Ramallo, Alba Molinero, Marion Martin. |
Runtime : 89 minutes. Genre : Comedy, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.magpictures.com/profile.aspx?id=9d86f709-c176-40d7-a6de-e41745a6d285 |
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Starring Oscar-nominated Norma Aleandro (Gaby), this gloriously irreverent family comedy fuses brilliant characterization and unrelenting humor to rework the age-old story of meeting the parents with a hilarious modern twist. With its astute blend of warmth and humor, "Only Human" is able to address head-on some of today's most salient issues: the meaning of family and community in an ever-shrinking world and the challenges and consequences at stake when cultures clash within our very homes...
When Leni comes home to introduce her fiancé Rafi to her idiosyncratic Jewish family, everything goes smoothly until the lovers belatedly reveal that Rafi is Palestinian. Amid the ensuing hysteria, Rafi escapes to the kitchen, ostensibly to help prepare the dinner. Unfortunately, he drops the soup he was meant to defrost out of the seventh floor window, hitting a pedestrian below, and as if the evening's not going badly enough, it turns out the pedestrian may be Leni's father... |
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