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Keanu Reeves stars as Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.
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Vantage Point |
Eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American...
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Eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American tourist who thinks he's captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for his kids back home. Also there, relaying the historic event to millions of TV viewers across the globe, is American TV news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver). As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place -- and it will become apparent that shocking motivations lurk just beneath the surface.
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The Air I Breathe |
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A businessman bets his life on a horse race, a gangster sees the future, a pop star falls prey to a crime boss, and a doctor must save the love of his life. Based on an ancient Chinese proverb, these four overlapping stories dramatize the four emotional cornerstones of life: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love.
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The Great Debaters |
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A controversial figure, challenging the social mores of the time, Professor Melvin Tolson (Washington) used unconventional and ferocious teaching methods to shape a debate team at Wiley College, a small African American university in Texas during the 1930s. Fighting against all odds and paving their way to success, the team reaches a pivotal moment when they are faced with one of their greatest challenges yet' going up against Harvard University's critically acclaimed national championship debate team.
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The Marsh |
Claire Holloway (Anwar) is the author of a series of successful children’s books. Her personal life, however, is far from a storybook tale. Visions of violence and death haunt her and she is tortured by a darkness that seems to seep from the corners of her subconscious.
In hopes of clearing her mind, Claire takes her doctor’s advice to go on a sabbatical. She decides to stay at the Rose Marsh Farmhouse, which looks suspiciously like the house she sees in her nightmares. Almost immediately upon arriving at the farmhouse, Claire...
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Claire Holloway (Anwar) is the author of a series of successful children’s books. Her personal life, however, is far from a storybook tale. Visions of violence and death haunt her and she is tortured by a darkness that seems to seep from the corners of her subconscious.
In hopes of clearing her mind, Claire takes her doctor’s advice to go on a sabbatical. She decides to stay at the Rose Marsh Farmhouse, which looks suspiciously like the house she sees in her nightmares. Almost immediately upon arriving at the farmhouse, Claire is shaken by a series of escalating and unexplained events and plunged into a frightening world controlled by the ghost of a ten year old girl (Wilson) - the very girl that Claire has seen in her dreams many nights before.
In a frantic attempt to save her sanity, Claire enlists the help of Geoffrey Hunt (Whitaker), a paranormal consultant who helps her unravel the mysterious village’s dark secret - as well as her own.
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The Last King of Scotland |
A Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world’s most barbaric figures: Idi Amin.
Impressed by Dr. Garrigan’s brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin’s savagery - and his own complicity in it.
Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and...
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A Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world’s most barbaric figures: Idi Amin.
Impressed by Dr. Garrigan’s brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin’s savagery - and his own complicity in it.
Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
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A Little Trip to Heaven |
When a scam artist dies with a million-dollar life insurance policy, his sister and her husband try to collect... but an insurance investigator has very different plans.
Insurance agent Abe Holt (Forest Whitaker) is investigating the suspicious death of the driver of a burned-out car. Holt has to work out whether the dead man, a con-man with a criminal record, could possibly have been the victim of an attempt to swindle the insurance company.
When he meets Isolde (Julia Stiles), the dead man's sister, whose face is...
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When a scam artist dies with a million-dollar life insurance policy, his sister and her husband try to collect... but an insurance investigator has very different plans.
Insurance agent Abe Holt (Forest Whitaker) is investigating the suspicious death of the driver of a burned-out car. Holt has to work out whether the dead man, a con-man with a criminal record, could possibly have been the victim of an attempt to swindle the insurance company.
When he meets Isolde (Julia Stiles), the dead man's sister, whose face is disfigured by severe scars, Holt slowly begins to lose his professional distance. Against the backdrop of a hostile, endless and harsh midwest winter, the characters reveal themselves to be multi-layered, involved in a curious yet balanced plot.
In the end Holt must decide if doing the right thing is worth doing something very, very wrong.
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The Fourth Angel |
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A London newspaper columnist loses his wife and two of his children during a botched airplane hijacking. Unable to find justice through the appropriate political channels, he takes matters into his own hands to get his revenge. He soon learns that there was much more going on that a failed hijacking attempt.
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Phone Booth |
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A slick New York entertainment publicist goes to a pay phone to call his mistress but before he can put his change in the slot, the phone rings. He answers and the voice on the other end tell him if he'll be shot if he hangs up the phone.
To make sure he knows this if for real, a red-dot from a gun laser shines right on his chest.
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Panic Room |
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A divorced woman and her little daughter buy a house to begin their new life together. What they think is a dream house soon becomes anything but when thieves break in shortly after they move in. But, mother and daughter make it to the steel-reinforced panic room and what they think is protection from the would be thieves. As it turns out, what they're after is in that room and they're not leaving without it.
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Green Dragon |
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In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus
of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai
arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. Jim Lance is the Marine
in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into
American life. Lance quickly commissions Tai, who speaks English, to translate for him.
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The Sasquatch Gang Movie Review
