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Movies Releasing: the Week of August 24, 2007 |
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The Last Legion |
DVD Release Date : ( France : April 10, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Doug Lefler. |
Starring : Colin Firth, Aishwarya Rai, Sir Ben Kingsley, Thomas Sangster, Peter Mullan, Iain Glen. |
Runtime : 101 minutes. Genre : Action, Adventure, War. |
Official Website : (Not English Website) http://www.ladernierelegion.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
"The Last legion" is a fantasy action-adventure in the vein of "The
Sword and the Stone" set against the fall of Rome and its last emperor, 12 year-old Romulus Augustus, the boy who would rule for a day before losing all that he loved: his family, his home, and an empire that once stood for truth and honor. Imprisoned on the island-fortress of Capri, Romulus searches for a means of escape. He discovers instead "excaliburnus," the legendary sword of Julius Caesar, and realizes that he must do all in his power to save Rome. Aided by the clever strategies of his teacher, Ambrosinus, and the heroic skills of his loyal legionnaire, Aurelius, Romulus escapes the island. Accompanied by his friends and a mysterious envoy from Constantinople, Romulus travels to Britannia in search of the last Roman Legion – the fabled Dragon Legion. There, Romulus will fight alongside his friends to make his last stand for Rome and take his first steps to becoming a man and he king who would father a legend. |
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Dedication |
Réalisateur : Justin Theroux. |
Starring : Amy Sedaris, Billy Crudup, Bob Balaban, Bobby Cannavale, Dianne Wiest, Mandy Moore, Martin Freeman, Peter Bogdanovich, Tom Wilkinson. |
Genre : Drama, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.dedicationmovie.net/ |
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Henry Roth is messed up. A New York children's book author who tells kids that Santa doesn't exist, he hates sleeping with- and next to- anyone, including his girlfriend and must lay on the floor, usually with heavy objects on top of him just to feel safe. His motto is "Life is nothing but the occasional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief."
"Dedication," a modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book series (Billy Crudup) is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator (Mandy Moore) after his best friend and creative collaborator (Tom Wilkinson) passes away marks the directorial debut of Justin Theroux. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that maybe all it takes is a little dedication. |
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Illegal Tender |
Réalisateur : Franc. Reyes. |
Starring : Rick Gonzalez, Wanda De Jesus, Dania Ramirez, Tego Calderon, Manny Perez, Gary Perez. |
Genre : Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.illegaltendermovie.net/ |
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After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers. Producer John Singleton ("Four Brothers," "Hustle & Flow") and writer/director Franc. Reyes ("Empire") join forces to tell the story of one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters in the new thriller "Illegal Tender."
Wilson De Leon, Jr. (Rick Gonzalez) is an exceptional college student with an adoring girlfriend, doting mother and a future full of promise. He has never wanted for anything, and he has never been forced to stand his ground. But when ghosts from his mother's past come back to haunt his present, he must defend his family...and quickly turn into the strong man his father prayed he'd become.
Nothing could stop Wilson's mother, Millie (Wanda De Jesus), from protecting her two boys. Forced to flee her home after gangsters killed her husband, she made an oath to give her children only the best. But all that change... |
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The Nanny Diaries |
DVD Release Date : ( France : January 08, 2009 ) |
Réalisateur : Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman. |
Starring : Alicia Keys, Chris Evans, Donna Murphy, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Scarlett Johansson. |
Runtime : 104 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.thenannydiariesmovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
"The Nanny Diaries" tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock (Johansson), a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling to understand her place in the world. Fresh out of college, she gets tremendous pressure from her nurse mother to find a respectable position in the business world although Annie would prefer to trade in her blackberry for an anthropologist's field diary. Through a serendipitous meeting, Annie ends up in the elite and ritualistic culture of Manhattan's Upper East Side -- as remote from Annie's suburban New Jersey upbringing as life in an Amazon tribal village. Choosing to duck out of real life, Annie accepts the position as a nanny for a wealthy family, referred to as simply "the X's." She quickly learns that life is not very rosy on the other side of the tax bracket, as she must cater to the every whim of Mrs. X (Linney) and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X (Giam... |
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War |
DVD Release Date : ( France : April 10, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Philip G. Atwell. |
Starring : Jet Li, Jason Statham, Nadine Velazquez, Andrea Roth, Kane Kosugi. |
Runtime : 102 minutes. Genre : Action. |
Official Website : http://lionsgate.com/war/ |
Plot Summary : |
After his partner is killed by "Rogue" (Li), the infamous assassin who has recently set off a bloody crime war between two rival Asian mobs, FBI agent Jack Crawford (Statham) starts a deadly game of cat and mouse to settle the score. |
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