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Jun 10
The Other Boleyn Girl |
When rumors begin to circulate that King Henry VIII (Bana) is no longer intimate with his wife who has been unable to give him a male heir, Sir Thomas Boleyn concocts a plan to bring his family back to prominence: his daughter Anne (Portman) shall seduce the King and provide him with a son. However, the scheme goes off course when the King takes to the other Boleyn girl, Anne's younger sister and best friend Mary (Johansson). Although married already, Mary gives in to family pressure and reluctantly provides the King with a boy, but...
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When rumors begin to circulate that King Henry VIII (Bana) is no longer intimate with his wife who has been unable to give him a male heir, Sir Thomas Boleyn concocts a plan to bring his family back to prominence: his daughter Anne (Portman) shall seduce the King and provide him with a son. However, the scheme goes off course when the King takes to the other Boleyn girl, Anne's younger sister and best friend Mary (Johansson). Although married already, Mary gives in to family pressure and reluctantly provides the King with a boy, but along the way, she finds herself falling in love with the surprisingly tender
monarch. Of course, this love affair is no obstacle for Anne whose hunger for the throne now overpowers her sisterly love, and she enacts a plan that eventually tears her family and her country apart while leading to her legendary demise.
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The Nanny Diaries |
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...
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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 (Giamatti). Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Park Avenue Hottie (Evans), and she's forced to explore her identity as never before.
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The Prestige |
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Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) are rival magicians whose epic obsessive battle to out-do one another's illusions conjures danger and destruction.
Filled with unpredictable twists and turns, The Prestige is the riveting and uniquely twisted film that you can't watch just once. The exceptional cast also includes Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.
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The Black Dahlia |
From the acclaimed director of Scarface and the author of LA Confidential comes the mysterious, spellbinding thriller The Black Dahlia. In 1947, two ambitious cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), investigate the shocking and gruesome murder of an aspiring young starlet, Elizabeth Short, aka “The Black Dahlia.”
With a corpse so mutilated that photos are kept from the public, the case becomes an obsession for the men, and their lives begin to unravel. Blanchard’s relationship with his girlfriend...
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From the acclaimed director of Scarface and the author of LA Confidential comes the mysterious, spellbinding thriller The Black Dahlia. In 1947, two ambitious cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), investigate the shocking and gruesome murder of an aspiring young starlet, Elizabeth Short, aka “The Black Dahlia.”
With a corpse so mutilated that photos are kept from the public, the case becomes an obsession for the men, and their lives begin to unravel. Blanchard’s relationship with his girlfriend Kay (Scarlett Johansson) is threatened, while Bleichert finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Madeleine (Hilary Swank), a wealthy woman with a dark and twisted connection to the victim.
The Black Dahlia, a dark and gritty look at one of California's most notorious true-life unsolved murders. With an all-star cast that includes Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank, this DVD has over 45 minutes of engrossing featurettes that takes the viewer even deeper behind the gruesome murder that has fascinated the American public for decades.
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Scoop |
The late U.K. journalist Joe Strombel (played by Mr. McShane) is being mourned by his colleagues - even as, stuck in limbo, Joe remains committed to pursuing a hot tip on the identity of "the Tarot Card Killer" at large in London. But how can his legwork get done now? Via the very much alive Sondra Pransky (Ms. Johansson).
Sondra is an American journalism student visiting friends in London. During a stage performance by another American, magician Sid Waterman (Mr. Allen), Sondra is shocked to find herself able to see and hear...
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The late U.K. journalist Joe Strombel (played by Mr. McShane) is being mourned by his colleagues - even as, stuck in limbo, Joe remains committed to pursuing a hot tip on the identity of "the Tarot Card Killer" at large in London. But how can his legwork get done now? Via the very much alive Sondra Pransky (Ms. Johansson).
Sondra is an American journalism student visiting friends in London. During a stage performance by another American, magician Sid Waterman (Mr. Allen), Sondra is shocked to find herself able to see and hear Joe. From beyond, he gives her the scoop of a lifetime and urges her to pursue it. Sondra immediately starts chasing the big story, enlisting the aid of a reluctant Sid (a.k.a. Splendini).
That chase leads right to handsome British aristocrat Peter Lyman (Mr. Jackman). Soon, Sondra finds that the romance of her life may well be the dangerous scoop she's looking for.
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A Good Woman |
Set in the 1930s on the beautiful shores of the Italian Riviera, "A Good Woman" follows the seductive Mrs. Erlynne (Hunt), scorned by many as a ‘woman of ill repute,’ leaves New York for the Amalfi coast, where she hopes to find a new ‘patron’ among the vacationing aristocrats. The mean-spirited gossip stirred up by Mrs. Erlynne’s arrival isn’t enough to dissuade the jovial, kind-hearted Lord Augustus (Wilkinson) from falling in love with her.
But Mrs. Erlynne has already set her sights on the married Robert Windermere (Mark...
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Set in the 1930s on the beautiful shores of the Italian Riviera, "A Good Woman" follows the seductive Mrs. Erlynne (Hunt), scorned by many as a ‘woman of ill repute,’ leaves New York for the Amalfi coast, where she hopes to find a new ‘patron’ among the vacationing aristocrats. The mean-spirited gossip stirred up by Mrs. Erlynne’s arrival isn’t enough to dissuade the jovial, kind-hearted Lord Augustus (Wilkinson) from falling in love with her.
But Mrs. Erlynne has already set her sights on the married Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), a wealthy young American who falls quickly under her spell. Windermere’s faithful wife, Meg (Johansson), is herself distracted by the flirtatious overtures of Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore), a notorious playboy. But when she learns of her husband’s blossoming affair, Meg resorts to drastic measures, with unexpected consequences for everyone involved.
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Match Point |
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Chris, a former tennis pro, social-climbs into the world of the British upper crust when he gets engaged to one of his wealthy tennis students. But Chris is not the type to leave well enough alone, and he soon falls for Nola, a sexy American actress who is dating his rival Tom, Chris' soon-to-be brother-in-law.
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The Island |
Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the The Island, reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet.
But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones whose only purpose is to provide spare parts for their original human counterparts.
Realizing it is...
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Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the The Island, reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet.
But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones whose only purpose is to provide spare parts for their original human counterparts.
Realizing it is only a matter of time before he is harvested, Lincoln makes a daring escape with a fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta. Pursued by the forces of the institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers.
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In Good Company |
When his company is bought, a middle-aged ad sales executive is demoted and finds that his new boss is a young college prodigy barely half his age. Unable to quit due to his wife's newly disclosed pregnancy, the executive is forced to make the best of a bad situation.
The young new boss has his own problems to confront as he takes over a job in which he has no experience while dealing with his new wife's decision to leave him. Their conflict spills over into their personal lives as the young boss starts dating the older...
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When his company is bought, a middle-aged ad sales executive is demoted and finds that his new boss is a young college prodigy barely half his age. Unable to quit due to his wife's newly disclosed pregnancy, the executive is forced to make the best of a bad situation.
The young new boss has his own problems to confront as he takes over a job in which he has no experience while dealing with his new wife's decision to leave him. Their conflict spills over into their personal lives as the young boss starts dating the older employee's teenage daughter.
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A Love Song for Bobby Long |
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When her mother dies unexpectantly, a young woman returns home to New Orleans ready to claim her childhood home. Upon arriving at the house, she discovers that two of her mother's friends are still living in it.
Unable to force them out, the daughter begins to form a bond with the men as they talk about her mother.
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The Perfect Score |
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Six high school students band together and develop a plan to heist the SAT exam in order to prevent the test from unfairly defining who they'll become. Each in the group has his or her own set of circumstances that leads to the conclusion that the only way to truly decide one's own fate is to beat the system.
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Girl With A Pearl Earring |
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Delft, Holland, 1665. Seventeen-year-old Griet must work to support her family and becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she gradually attracts the master painter's attention. Johannes and Griet must hid their inspiration of each other from his volatile wife Catharina. The weatlthy and troublemaking Master van Ruijven senses the intimacy between the artist and his maid contrives a commission for Vermeer to paint Griet alone. The result will be one the greatest paintings ever created, but at what cost?
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Lost In Translation |
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Bob Harris and Charlotte are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband. Unable to sleep, Bob and Charlotte cross paths one night in the luxury hotel bar. This chance meeting soon becomes a surprising friendship. Charlotte and Bob venture through Tokyo, having often hilarious encounters with its citizens, and ultimately discover a new belief in life's possibilities.
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My Brother, The Pig |
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Cathy knew her brother George was a pest, but some ancient hocus-pocus has made him a real pig! Now, they're off on a madcap Mexican adventure, chased by a bacon-loving bad guy as they try to muster up the magic that can change George back into a boy.
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The Man Who Wasn't There |
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A dissatisfied barber in the 1940s decides to blackmail his wife's lover in order to get startup capital for a new dry cleaning business. The scheme begins to unravel and, in the end, everyone gets what's coming to them.
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The Sasquatch Gang Movie Review
