Director:
Robert Schwentke
Writers (WGA):
Peter A. Dowling (written by)
Billy Ray (written by)
Release Date:
23 September 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Action | Mystery | Thriller
Cast :
* Jodie Foster: Kyle Pratt
* Peter Sarsgaard: Gene Carson
* Sean Bean: Captain Marcus Rich
* Kate Beahan: Stephanie
* Michael Irby: Obaid
* Assaf Cohen: Ahmed
* Erika Christensen: Fiona
* Greta Scacchi: Lisa
* Shane Edelman: Mr. Loud
* Mary Gallagher: Mrs. Loud
* Haley Ramm: Brittany Loud
* Forrest Landis: Rhett Loud
* Fred Tungulsten: Jordan
* Jana Kolesarova: Claudia
* Brent Sexton: Elias
* Marlene Lawston: Julia Pratt
* Judith Scott: Estella
* Tonje Larsgard: Flight Attendant
* Amanda Brooks: Irene
* Christian Berkel: Mortuary Director
* John Benjamin Hickey: David
* Matthew Bomer: Eric
* Gavin Grazer: FBI Agent
* Christopher Gartin: Mike
* Bess Wohl: Katerina
* Kirk B.R. Woller: Grunick
* Stephanie Faracy: Anna
* Christian Berkel: Mortuary Director
* Cooper Thornton: West
* Amanda Brooks: Irene
* Jesse Burch: Row 19 Male Passenger
* Greta Scacchi: Therapist
* Drake Johnston: Main Deck Kid
* Lois Hall: Main Deck Grandma
* Dirk Vahle: Helicopter Pilot
Original Sound Track :
01. LEAVING BERLIN
02. MISSING CHILD
03. THE SEARCH
04. SO VULNERABLE
05. CREATING PANIC
06. OPENING THE CASKET
07. CARLSON'S PLAN
08. MOTHER AND CHILD
Plot :
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a propulsion engineer based in Berlin, Germany. Her husband David died from falling off the roof of an avionic manufacturing building, and now Kyle and her six year-old daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) are flying home to Long Island to bury him and stay with Kyle's parents. They fly aboard a fictional Elgin E-474,[1] which Kyle helped design. After falling asleep for a few hours, Kyle wakes to find that Julia is missing. After trying to remain calm at first, she begins to panic, and Captain Marcus Rich (Sean Bean) is forced to conduct a search. Kyle walks the aisles, questioning people, but none of her fellow passengers remembers having seen her daughter either. Shockingly, one of the flight attendants calls in to the airport they just departed from, and the gate attendant says that they have no record of Julia boarding the flight. In addition, according to the passenger manifest, Julia's seat is registered empty. When Kyle checks for Julia's boarding pass, it is missing.
Marcus refuses to allow the cargo hold to be searched because he is afraid that the searchers could be hurt if the plane shifted due to turbulence. Both Marcus and the other crew members suspect that Kyle has become unhinged by her husband's recent death, and has imagined bringing her daughter aboard. Faced with the crew's increasing skepticism regarding her daughter's existence, Kyle becomes more and more desperate. Because of her increasingly erratic, panicked behavior, air marshal Gene Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) is ordered by Marcus to guard her.
Later on, Marcus receives a wire from the hospital in Berlin where David died. It says that Julia was with him when he fell off, and she also died of internal injuries. Kyle furiously denies that, consistently claiming that she brought Julia aboard. Kyle herself begins to doubt her own sanity, but then she notices the heart Julia had earlier drawn with her finger on the window by her seat. Because Kyle helped to design the engines used on the aircraft, she is able to make use of her knowledge of the aircraft's layout and escapes to hunt for her daughter. Making her way to the freight deck, she smashes a car windshield looking for Julia, and even opens her late husband's casket. Carson finds her, handcuffs her, and escorts her back to her seat after telling her she will be arrested for sabotage and presumably institutionalized.
Kyle makes one more desperate attempt to convince Carson that Julia is indeed on board the plane and that she needs to search it upon landing. Carson thinks for a moment, then "goes to speak to the captain." Instead, he sneaks back into the cargo hold to remove some small explosives and a detonator which were concealed in David's casket. He then climbs down to a part of the avionics section where Julia is sleeping with her coat and backpack that no one could seem to find. He attaches the explosives to the side of the platform and arms them. At this point, it is revealed that Carson and a coroner in Berlin (who had faked Julia's death) are the true villains. Carson tells the captain that Kyle has told him she is a hijacker and is threatening to blow up the aircraft with explosives hidden in the un-x-rayed casket unless the airline transfers $50,000,000 into a bank account. In fact, the villains had killed Kyle's husband and abducted Julia in order to frame Kyle. After the plane lands, Carson intends to blow up aircraft's avionics section, killing the unconscious Julia, and leave Kyle dead with the detonator in her hand.
After making an emergency landing in Goose Bay, Newfoundland, the passengers are evacuated as the plane is surrounded by FBI agents. As the captain starts to debark, Kyle talks to him and realizes Carson has to be behind the plot. Playing the role of the hijacker, Kyle demands that Carson stay on board, which he agrees, in order to cover his own exposure. As soon as the plane's door closes, Kyle knocks Carson unconscious with a fire extinguisher, then handcuffs him to a rail, takes the detonator from his pocket and goes in search of Julia. Carson regains consciousness and takes a concealed gun from his leg and shoots the handcuffs. Kyle locks herself in the cockpit. Carson has had enough of this and tells Kyle to open the door. She opens a hatch door to the upper level and throws out a binder to fool him into thinking she is escaping. Carson tries to head her off when he hears the thud, allowing Kyle to escape. Kyle encounters Carson's co-conspirator, flight attendant Stephanie (Kate Beahan), and knocks her down. Stephanie panics and flees to turn herself in to the FBI.
Kyle, realizing the avionics section is the one part of the plane she hasn't searched yet, finally finds the unconscious Julia. Carson soon follows, and while searching, tells her the story. Apparently while Kyle slept, he and Stephanie approached Julia, Carson grabbed Julia before she could do anything, bound and gagged her and placed her in the food bin. Because they were in a row of the passenger section with not many people near them, no one saw them do it. Carson points his gun to where Julia lay before, but she isn't there. He turns around and sees Kyle carrying Julia and escaping through a small door with the detonator in her hand. Carson shoots at her as she closes the door, but she detonates the explosives, killing Carson. The compartment she and Julia hid in was non-combustible, which kept them safe.
Kyle, carrying Julia, exits via a cargo door. Everyone watches in shock and amazement as Kyle carries her daughter out onto the tarmac. In the passenger waiting section of the airport, Marcus apologizes to Kyle and leads her to a van which has come to take them the rest of their way. Julia wakes up and sleepily asks "Are we there yet?" The two get in the van and drive away while Kyle is seen as a hero in front of the public.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Director:
Judd Apatow
Writers (WGA):
Judd Apatow (written by)
Steve Carell (written by)
Release Date:
19 August 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Comedy | Romance
Cast :
* Steve Carell as Andy Stitzer
* Catherine Keener as Trish Piedmont
* Paul Rudd as David
* Romany Malco as Jay
* Seth Rogen as Cal
* Elizabeth Banks as Beth
* Leslie Mann as Nicky
* Jane Lynch as Paula
* Gerry Bednob as Mooj
* Shelley Malil as Haziz
* Kat Dennings as Marla Piedmont
* Jonah Hill as eBay Customer
* Marika Dominczyk as Bernadette
* Mindy Kaling as Amy
* Elizabeth DeCicco as Bar Girl
* Wayne Federman as SmartTech Customer
* Mo Collins as Gina ('Gyna')
* Steve Bannos as Father at Restaurant
* Kevin Hart as SmartTech Customer
* Nancy Walls as Health Clinic Counselor
* David Koechner as Safe Sex Group Dad
* Cedric Yarbrough as Safe Sex Group Dad
Original Sound Track :
1. Life of Illusion, A - Joe Walsh
2. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Michael McDonald
3. Virgin Man - Smokey Robinson
4. Heat of the Moment - Asia
5. Just Got Lucky - Joboxers
6. I Got Ants in My Pants (And I Want to Dance) - James Brown
7. I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan
8. Hello - Lionel Richie
9. Sharing the Night Together - Dr. Hook
10. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock Of Seagulls
11. Joy - Apollo 100
12. Score - Lyle Workman
13. Theme From Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not) - Joey Scarbury
14. Never Surrender - Corey Hart
15. Search Is Over, The - Survivor
16. Aquarius - Cast Recording
17. First Time, The - Steve Carell
Plot :
Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) is the eponymous 40-year-old virgin. A very well-meaning, highly neurotic, somewhat stereotypical nerd, Andy lives alone, collects action figures, enjoys video games, framed a poster of eighties rock band Asia, and his social life seems to consist of watching Survivor with his elderly neighbors.
Andy works in the stockroom at an electronics store called SmartTech. His co-workers include the affable David (Paul Rudd), who is tormented by memories of his old girlfriend Amy (Mindy Kaling); the burly Cal (Seth Rogen), a novelist and stoner; and Jay (Romany Malco), a self-styled ladies' man. When a friend drops out of a poker game, they reluctantly invite the withdrawn Andy to join them. Andy turns out to be surprisingly good at poker due to his free-time of playing the game online, but when the conversations turn to past sexual exploits, they quickly realize Andy is still a virgin, and resolve to help him lose his virginity.
Andy is at first reluctant to go along with them, but after a heartfelt talk with David, he agrees to give it a try. The gang’s efforts prove to be unsuccessful. They take Andy to a bar, where Jay advises him to hit on drunk women, but this backfires when the girl Andy leaves with drives the two of them home drunk, wrecks the car, and vomits on him. Jay recommends that Andy get his chest waxed, but Andy finds it so painful that he leaves halfway through. (Steve Carell actually had his chest hair removed during the scene, and stated in an interview on Australia's Rove Live that the scene was unnecessarily painful because the waxers forgot to oil his nipples.[3]) David gives Andy his "big box of porn" to help him "loosen up" sexually, but to no avail. They later go to a speed dating lunch, with no success, and at which David encounters ex-girlfriend Amy, sending him into a downward spiral of depression. Later, Cal advises Andy to be questioning when talking to women, (which makes Andy seem mysterious) and results in Beth (Elizabeth Banks), a bookstore clerk, taking a liking to Andy. Andy starts to open up, and as true friendships begin to form with his co-workers, Andy impresses his boss, Paula (Jane Lynch), with his salesmanship and she promotes him to floor manager.
Eventually, Jay hires Andy a prostitute who turns out to be a transvestite. The reason for Jay doing this is explained previously when he says that Andy must practice on other girls. He refers to these girls as hoodrats. Andy tells them that he is taking matters into his own hands, and he lands a date with Trish Piedmont (Catherine Keener), a mother of three who works in a store across the street from SmartTech. It is later revealed that one of Trish's kids also has a kid, making Trish a "hot grandma" according to Cal. Andy and Trish's first date goes well, and they almost end up having sex, but they are stopped by the fact that Andy does not know how to use a condom and that they are interrupted by Trish’s teenage daughter Marla (Kat Dennings), outraged at the fact that her mother is allowed to have sex, yet she isn't. On their next date, Andy decides to tell Trish he is a virgin, but just before he does so, she suggests that they postpone having sex, to which Andy enthusiastically agrees; they decide they won’t have sex until their twentieth date. Meanwhile, David's brush with Amy prompts him to become unstable and eventually resort to celibacy, citing Andy as an inspiration, while Jay’s girlfriend breaks up with him when she finds out he’s been cheating on her, leading him to an argument with an obnoxious customer. Andy comforts Jay after he reveals his breakup with Jill and advises to Andy that sex can ruin a relationship.
Afterward, Jay's ex-girlfriend realizes she is pregnant and takes him back, and Cal hires an attractive young woman named Bernadette to work in the stockroom in order to lure David out of celibacy.
Andy and Trish’s relationship is a strong one, with Trish even convincing Andy to sell his precious collectible action figures in order to raise enough money to open his own store. Things are going well until Andy and Trish finally reach the twentieth date, at which point Andy panics and they have a big argument which ends with him storming out. He turns up at a nightclub where Jay is celebrating his girlfriend’s pregnancy, and Andy proceeds to get very drunk. Andy runs into Beth at the bar, and they leave for her apartment. Meanwhile, David finally relinquishes his celibacy and hooks up with Bernadette, and Trish’s daughter Marla (who found out that Andy is a virgin) convinces her to go and make up with Andy.
At Beth’s apartment, Andy sobers up and starts to have second thoughts. His three friends arrive at the apartment to talk him out of it, so he leaves with them to make up with Trish (although Cal stays behind to hook up with Beth). When Andy gets home, he finds Trish waiting for him; she has found the big box of porn given to him by David and a plastic vagina (obtained from a family planning clinic), and now considers Andy to be some sort of sexual deviant, and leaves in disgust. Andy chases her car on his bike (to the music of “Heat of the Moment” by Asia), and gets involved in an accident which results in him being thrown through a two sided billboard truck and landing on the road in front of traffic. She rushes to his side in concern, and he finally confesses to her that he is a virgin. She realizes this is why he has been acting so strangely, and they kiss.
They end up getting married with everyone in attendance, with a sidelong mention of Andy's action figures having sold for approximately half a million dollars, and finally consummate their relationship on their wedding night. Andy finally loses his virginity with Trish in their hotel room. The film ends with an over-the-top musical scene in which the cast of the film sing and dance to the song “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In.”
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Judd Apatow
Writers (WGA):
Judd Apatow (written by)
Steve Carell (written by)
Release Date:
19 August 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Comedy | Romance
Cast :
* Steve Carell as Andy Stitzer
* Catherine Keener as Trish Piedmont
* Paul Rudd as David
* Romany Malco as Jay
* Seth Rogen as Cal
* Elizabeth Banks as Beth
* Leslie Mann as Nicky
* Jane Lynch as Paula
* Gerry Bednob as Mooj
* Shelley Malil as Haziz
* Kat Dennings as Marla Piedmont
* Jonah Hill as eBay Customer
* Marika Dominczyk as Bernadette
* Mindy Kaling as Amy
* Elizabeth DeCicco as Bar Girl
* Wayne Federman as SmartTech Customer
* Mo Collins as Gina ('Gyna')
* Steve Bannos as Father at Restaurant
* Kevin Hart as SmartTech Customer
* Nancy Walls as Health Clinic Counselor
* David Koechner as Safe Sex Group Dad
* Cedric Yarbrough as Safe Sex Group Dad
Original Sound Track :
1. Life of Illusion, A - Joe Walsh
2. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Michael McDonald
3. Virgin Man - Smokey Robinson
4. Heat of the Moment - Asia
5. Just Got Lucky - Joboxers
6. I Got Ants in My Pants (And I Want to Dance) - James Brown
7. I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan
8. Hello - Lionel Richie
9. Sharing the Night Together - Dr. Hook
10. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock Of Seagulls
11. Joy - Apollo 100
12. Score - Lyle Workman
13. Theme From Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not) - Joey Scarbury
14. Never Surrender - Corey Hart
15. Search Is Over, The - Survivor
16. Aquarius - Cast Recording
17. First Time, The - Steve Carell
Plot :
Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) is the eponymous 40-year-old virgin. A very well-meaning, highly neurotic, somewhat stereotypical nerd, Andy lives alone, collects action figures, enjoys video games, framed a poster of eighties rock band Asia, and his social life seems to consist of watching Survivor with his elderly neighbors.
Andy works in the stockroom at an electronics store called SmartTech. His co-workers include the affable David (Paul Rudd), who is tormented by memories of his old girlfriend Amy (Mindy Kaling); the burly Cal (Seth Rogen), a novelist and stoner; and Jay (Romany Malco), a self-styled ladies' man. When a friend drops out of a poker game, they reluctantly invite the withdrawn Andy to join them. Andy turns out to be surprisingly good at poker due to his free-time of playing the game online, but when the conversations turn to past sexual exploits, they quickly realize Andy is still a virgin, and resolve to help him lose his virginity.
Andy is at first reluctant to go along with them, but after a heartfelt talk with David, he agrees to give it a try. The gang’s efforts prove to be unsuccessful. They take Andy to a bar, where Jay advises him to hit on drunk women, but this backfires when the girl Andy leaves with drives the two of them home drunk, wrecks the car, and vomits on him. Jay recommends that Andy get his chest waxed, but Andy finds it so painful that he leaves halfway through. (Steve Carell actually had his chest hair removed during the scene, and stated in an interview on Australia's Rove Live that the scene was unnecessarily painful because the waxers forgot to oil his nipples.[3]) David gives Andy his "big box of porn" to help him "loosen up" sexually, but to no avail. They later go to a speed dating lunch, with no success, and at which David encounters ex-girlfriend Amy, sending him into a downward spiral of depression. Later, Cal advises Andy to be questioning when talking to women, (which makes Andy seem mysterious) and results in Beth (Elizabeth Banks), a bookstore clerk, taking a liking to Andy. Andy starts to open up, and as true friendships begin to form with his co-workers, Andy impresses his boss, Paula (Jane Lynch), with his salesmanship and she promotes him to floor manager.
Eventually, Jay hires Andy a prostitute who turns out to be a transvestite. The reason for Jay doing this is explained previously when he says that Andy must practice on other girls. He refers to these girls as hoodrats. Andy tells them that he is taking matters into his own hands, and he lands a date with Trish Piedmont (Catherine Keener), a mother of three who works in a store across the street from SmartTech. It is later revealed that one of Trish's kids also has a kid, making Trish a "hot grandma" according to Cal. Andy and Trish's first date goes well, and they almost end up having sex, but they are stopped by the fact that Andy does not know how to use a condom and that they are interrupted by Trish’s teenage daughter Marla (Kat Dennings), outraged at the fact that her mother is allowed to have sex, yet she isn't. On their next date, Andy decides to tell Trish he is a virgin, but just before he does so, she suggests that they postpone having sex, to which Andy enthusiastically agrees; they decide they won’t have sex until their twentieth date. Meanwhile, David's brush with Amy prompts him to become unstable and eventually resort to celibacy, citing Andy as an inspiration, while Jay’s girlfriend breaks up with him when she finds out he’s been cheating on her, leading him to an argument with an obnoxious customer. Andy comforts Jay after he reveals his breakup with Jill and advises to Andy that sex can ruin a relationship.
Afterward, Jay's ex-girlfriend realizes she is pregnant and takes him back, and Cal hires an attractive young woman named Bernadette to work in the stockroom in order to lure David out of celibacy.
Andy and Trish’s relationship is a strong one, with Trish even convincing Andy to sell his precious collectible action figures in order to raise enough money to open his own store. Things are going well until Andy and Trish finally reach the twentieth date, at which point Andy panics and they have a big argument which ends with him storming out. He turns up at a nightclub where Jay is celebrating his girlfriend’s pregnancy, and Andy proceeds to get very drunk. Andy runs into Beth at the bar, and they leave for her apartment. Meanwhile, David finally relinquishes his celibacy and hooks up with Bernadette, and Trish’s daughter Marla (who found out that Andy is a virgin) convinces her to go and make up with Andy.
At Beth’s apartment, Andy sobers up and starts to have second thoughts. His three friends arrive at the apartment to talk him out of it, so he leaves with them to make up with Trish (although Cal stays behind to hook up with Beth). When Andy gets home, he finds Trish waiting for him; she has found the big box of porn given to him by David and a plastic vagina (obtained from a family planning clinic), and now considers Andy to be some sort of sexual deviant, and leaves in disgust. Andy chases her car on his bike (to the music of “Heat of the Moment” by Asia), and gets involved in an accident which results in him being thrown through a two sided billboard truck and landing on the road in front of traffic. She rushes to his side in concern, and he finally confesses to her that he is a virgin. She realizes this is why he has been acting so strangely, and they kiss.
They end up getting married with everyone in attendance, with a sidelong mention of Andy's action figures having sold for approximately half a million dollars, and finally consummate their relationship on their wedding night. Andy finally loses his virginity with Trish in their hotel room. The film ends with an over-the-top musical scene in which the cast of the film sing and dance to the song “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In.”
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Fun with Dick and Jane Movie
Directed by
Dean Parisot
Writing credits
(WGA)
Judd Apatow (screenplay)
Nicholas Stoller (screenplay)
Gerald Gaiser (story)
Judd Apatow (story)
Nicholas Stoller (story)
Gerald Gaiser (novel)
David Giler (1977 screenplay)
Jerry Belson (1977 screenplay)
Mordecai Richler (1977 screenplay)
Release Date:
21 December 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Comedy | Crime
Cast :
* Jim Carrey as Richard "Dick" Harper
* Téa Leoni as Jane Harper
* Alec Baldwin as Jack McCallister
* Richard Jenkins as Frank Bascombe
* Angie Harmon as Veronica Cleeman
* John Michael Higgins as Garth
* Richard Burgi as Joe Cleeman
* Carlos Jacott as Oz Peterson
* Stephanie Weir as Deborah "Debbie" Peterson
* Aaron Michael Drozin as Billy Harper
* Gloria Garayua as Blanca
* Jason Marsden as Clerk
Original Sound Track :
1. Ameribank Robbery
2. Job Calls
info: Short cover of The Turtles' 1968 song 'You Showed Me'
3. Office Chaos
4. Black Jack
5. Main Title
6. 51st Floor
7. Jane Quits
8. Quad Slide
9. Race for the Job
10. I.N.S.!
11. Illegal Immigration
12. Sleeping Beauty
13. Got the Yard Back
14. The Insects Are All Around Us - Money Mark
15. Need a Good Wheelman
16. Escape from the Headshop
17. Bank Plan
18. Grand Cayman Bank
19. The Big Stall
20. Gun Pull
21. Starbucks Hit
22. 400 Million Dollars
23. End Credits
Plot :
The year is 2000, and we are introduced to the Harper family. The family members are Dick Harper, who works for a company in Los Angeles called Globodyne. Jane Harper works at a local travel agency and is often stressed at work. They have a son named Billy, who speaks mostly Spanish, as he is good friends with the family's young Hispanic housekeeper, Blanca. They also have a dog, who liked to bark until he was fitted with a shock collar. Dick is 'promoted' to Vice-President of Communications by company CEO Jack McCallister and company CFO Frank Bascombe. He is also asked to appear on the show Money Life, where host Sam Samuels and then independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader dub him and all the company's employees as "perverters of the American dream" and claim that Globodyne helps the super rich get even wealthier. As they speak, the company's stock goes into a free-fall and is soon worthless, along with all the employees' pensions, which are in Globodyne's stock.
Dick arrives home to find an excited Jane, who informs him that she took his advice and quit her job in order to spend more time with Billy. Dick has to break the news over dinner, instantly alarming Jane. Dick tries to think positively, and tries for a few months to get a Vice Presidency at other corporations. After getting no job anywhere, Jane reveals that they'll end up declaring bankruptcy in the next couple of months due to their assets being comprised entirely of now-worthless Globodyne stock.
Dick still tries to look on the bright side; stating that their house is worth $600,000. Jane then informs him that, since the fall of Globodyne, the local property market crashed, and that if they were to sell their house, they would owe the bank $150,000. After coming to terms with the prospect of being poor, Dick applies for low paying, dead-end jobs. After being fired from all local businesses, (with Dick being mistakenly deported to the Mexican border because of his slurring from getting punched in the mouth by an illegal alien trying to catch a painting job) and finding out that they have 24 hours before being evicted from their home, he decides that it's time for the couple to turn to crime. Dick borrows Billy's surprisingly realistic squirt gun and decides to rob a local convenience store. He emerges and orders Jane to burn rubber, as he stole a slushy, much to Jane's amusement. After several failed attempts, they finally rob a head shop. Realizing that they get a thrill out of stealing, they make a profession out of this, going on nightly robbing sprees.
They climb their way up the crime ladder, becoming more professional with each passing night. Their last "job" is to rob a local bank by going undercover. All goes as planned, until another crime spree couple enters the bank, wearing Bill and Hillary Clinton masks (which Dick and Jane themselves used earlier) and armed with shotguns. They are revealed to be former employees of Globodyne; Dick's jealous co-worker Oz and his wife Debbie. Dick and Jane escape, unharmed. They decide to stop their "profession" but it's revealed that Dick is about to be indicted for his role in Globodyne's demise (as most of the other employees of Globodyne have also reverted to criminal lifestyles), thus he starts drowning his sorrows at the local bar. While there, he and Jane encounter a drunk Frank Bascombe, who tells them that the crooked Jack McCallister signed off all of Globodyne's assets (totaling $400 Million), dumped the entire stock, and that he paid Bascombe $10,000,000 to keep his mouth shut (as it was McCallister's plan from the beginning because he felt burnt-out).
After Frank sobers up, they make a team and, through a devious and well put together plan, dupe Jack McCallister into reimbursing all of his former employees' pensions.
Although McCallister catches them in the act, Dick is able to still reimburse all of the former employees because he got McCallister's signature. Thus his wife, an art major, was able to forge his signature. The next day, Dick informs Jack of the act as the press flock to him. The film ends with the wealthy Harper family driving along the highway and into the sunset, as another car drives up to them. In the car is Garth, his neighbor who tells Dick he's got a great new job at a company called Enron.
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Dean Parisot
Writing credits
(WGA)
Judd Apatow (screenplay)
Nicholas Stoller (screenplay)
Gerald Gaiser (story)
Judd Apatow (story)
Nicholas Stoller (story)
Gerald Gaiser (novel)
David Giler (1977 screenplay)
Jerry Belson (1977 screenplay)
Mordecai Richler (1977 screenplay)
Release Date:
21 December 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Comedy | Crime
Cast :
* Jim Carrey as Richard "Dick" Harper
* Téa Leoni as Jane Harper
* Alec Baldwin as Jack McCallister
* Richard Jenkins as Frank Bascombe
* Angie Harmon as Veronica Cleeman
* John Michael Higgins as Garth
* Richard Burgi as Joe Cleeman
* Carlos Jacott as Oz Peterson
* Stephanie Weir as Deborah "Debbie" Peterson
* Aaron Michael Drozin as Billy Harper
* Gloria Garayua as Blanca
* Jason Marsden as Clerk
Original Sound Track :
1. Ameribank Robbery
2. Job Calls
info: Short cover of The Turtles' 1968 song 'You Showed Me'
3. Office Chaos
4. Black Jack
5. Main Title
6. 51st Floor
7. Jane Quits
8. Quad Slide
9. Race for the Job
10. I.N.S.!
11. Illegal Immigration
12. Sleeping Beauty
13. Got the Yard Back
14. The Insects Are All Around Us - Money Mark
15. Need a Good Wheelman
16. Escape from the Headshop
17. Bank Plan
18. Grand Cayman Bank
19. The Big Stall
20. Gun Pull
21. Starbucks Hit
22. 400 Million Dollars
23. End Credits
Plot :
The year is 2000, and we are introduced to the Harper family. The family members are Dick Harper, who works for a company in Los Angeles called Globodyne. Jane Harper works at a local travel agency and is often stressed at work. They have a son named Billy, who speaks mostly Spanish, as he is good friends with the family's young Hispanic housekeeper, Blanca. They also have a dog, who liked to bark until he was fitted with a shock collar. Dick is 'promoted' to Vice-President of Communications by company CEO Jack McCallister and company CFO Frank Bascombe. He is also asked to appear on the show Money Life, where host Sam Samuels and then independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader dub him and all the company's employees as "perverters of the American dream" and claim that Globodyne helps the super rich get even wealthier. As they speak, the company's stock goes into a free-fall and is soon worthless, along with all the employees' pensions, which are in Globodyne's stock.
Dick arrives home to find an excited Jane, who informs him that she took his advice and quit her job in order to spend more time with Billy. Dick has to break the news over dinner, instantly alarming Jane. Dick tries to think positively, and tries for a few months to get a Vice Presidency at other corporations. After getting no job anywhere, Jane reveals that they'll end up declaring bankruptcy in the next couple of months due to their assets being comprised entirely of now-worthless Globodyne stock.
Dick still tries to look on the bright side; stating that their house is worth $600,000. Jane then informs him that, since the fall of Globodyne, the local property market crashed, and that if they were to sell their house, they would owe the bank $150,000. After coming to terms with the prospect of being poor, Dick applies for low paying, dead-end jobs. After being fired from all local businesses, (with Dick being mistakenly deported to the Mexican border because of his slurring from getting punched in the mouth by an illegal alien trying to catch a painting job) and finding out that they have 24 hours before being evicted from their home, he decides that it's time for the couple to turn to crime. Dick borrows Billy's surprisingly realistic squirt gun and decides to rob a local convenience store. He emerges and orders Jane to burn rubber, as he stole a slushy, much to Jane's amusement. After several failed attempts, they finally rob a head shop. Realizing that they get a thrill out of stealing, they make a profession out of this, going on nightly robbing sprees.
They climb their way up the crime ladder, becoming more professional with each passing night. Their last "job" is to rob a local bank by going undercover. All goes as planned, until another crime spree couple enters the bank, wearing Bill and Hillary Clinton masks (which Dick and Jane themselves used earlier) and armed with shotguns. They are revealed to be former employees of Globodyne; Dick's jealous co-worker Oz and his wife Debbie. Dick and Jane escape, unharmed. They decide to stop their "profession" but it's revealed that Dick is about to be indicted for his role in Globodyne's demise (as most of the other employees of Globodyne have also reverted to criminal lifestyles), thus he starts drowning his sorrows at the local bar. While there, he and Jane encounter a drunk Frank Bascombe, who tells them that the crooked Jack McCallister signed off all of Globodyne's assets (totaling $400 Million), dumped the entire stock, and that he paid Bascombe $10,000,000 to keep his mouth shut (as it was McCallister's plan from the beginning because he felt burnt-out).
After Frank sobers up, they make a team and, through a devious and well put together plan, dupe Jack McCallister into reimbursing all of his former employees' pensions.
Although McCallister catches them in the act, Dick is able to still reimburse all of the former employees because he got McCallister's signature. Thus his wife, an art major, was able to forge his signature. The next day, Dick informs Jack of the act as the press flock to him. The film ends with the wealthy Harper family driving along the highway and into the sunset, as another car drives up to them. In the car is Garth, his neighbor who tells Dick he's got a great new job at a company called Enron.
Pictures :
The Pacifier Movie
Director:
Adam Shankman
Writers (WGA):
Thomas Lennon (written by)
Robert Ben Garant (written by)
Release Date:
4 March 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Comedy | Action | Family | Thriller
Cast :
* Lieutenant Shane Wolfe: Vin Diesel
* Julie Plummer: Faith Ford
* Claire Fletcher: Lauren Graham
* Zoe Plummer: Brittany Snow
* Seth Plummer: Max Thieriot
* Lulu Plummer: Morgan York
* Peter Plummer: Kegan Hoover and Logan Hoover
* Baby Tyler Plummer: Bo and Luke Vink
* Captain Bill Fawcett: Chris Potter
* Helga: Carol Kane
* Vice Principal Dwayne Murney: Brad Garrett
* Howard Plummer: Tate Donovan
* Director: Scott Thompson
Original Sound Track :
-
Plot :
U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Shane Wolfe (Vin Diesel) is assigned to rescue Howard Plummer (Tate Donovan), a man working on a top-secret government project, from a group of Serbian rebels. Wolfe and his team manage to get Plummer off an enemy boat; moments later, Wolfe and Plummer are shot while boarding the escape helicopter. Plummer is killed in the attack. Wolfe spends two months in the hospital. Wolfe's commanding officer, Captain Bill Fanchette (Chris Potter), is assigned to escort Plummer's widow Julie (Faith Ford) to Zurich, where a safety-deposit box belonging to the Plummers has been discovered. Wolfe is assigned to stay at the Plummer residence, in Bethesda, Maryland to search for the secret project called GHOST, hidden somewhere in the house, and to look after the family's five children: Zoe (Brittany Snow), Seth (Max Thieriot), Lulu (Morgan York), Peter (Logan and Keegan Hoover), and Baby Tyler (Bo and Luke Vink).
The kids prove to be difficult to handle, even with the help of nanny Helga (Carol Kane): Zoe and Seth rebel against Wolfe's authority; Lulu is obsessed with the new houseguest; the pet duck, Gary, resents Wolfe; and Helga finally quits when one of Zoe and Seth's pranks go wrong.
Fanchette and Julie are forced to remain in Zurich longer when they learn that they must provide a password in order to access the box. Wolfe is left to drive the kids to school. There, he meets their strict, nearly-obnoxious vice principal Murney (Brad Garrett), and the beautiful principal Claire Fletcher (Lauren Graham), a former military trainee of whom Wolfe becomes enamored. After school, Wolfe saves Seth from a group of bullies, but later is led into the sewers when Zoe and Seth intentionally drop the tracking devices he put on them into the sewer.
When they finally reach home, they encounter an unexpected house party hosted by Zoe and her boyfriend, Scott. Wolfe forces all the guests to clean up the house before going home. Zoe yells at him. They are then attacked by a pair of masked ninjas, whom Wolfe eventually defeats. He explains the entire situation to the kids, who agree to co-operate with him.
A few days later, Murney brings the facts that Seth has cut and bleached his hair for no apparent reason, has a Nazi armband in his locker, and has skipped every wrestling practice for the past month, to Wolfe's attention. At home, Seth furiously yells that he only joined the wrestling team in obedience to his father's wish. He sneaks out of the house, tricking the alarm system with a freezer magnet. Wolfe, leaving Zoe in charge, follows him to the town theater, where he learns that Seth has secretly joined the production of The Sound of Music. The director quits when he believes the show will be a failure, whereupon Wolfe volunteers to take his place, and juggles this task with taking care of the house, giving Zoe driving lessons, and teaching Lulu and the Firefly Scouts martial arts to defend themselves against an obnoxious troop of rival boys that intimidate the girls and wreck their cookie display whenever they attempt to sell them at Costco.
Later, Seth quits the wrestling team at Wolfe's prompting, confessing that he is in the Sound of Music after Murney catches him under the bleachers, practicing his dancing. When Murney threatens the boy, Wolfe challenges him to a wrestling match in front of the entire school. Despite Murney's show of bluster, Wolfe easily wins.
The training Wolfe gives the Firefly Scouts becomes useful when they once again have a conflict with the Easter Bunny Scouts. The girls beat and tie up the boys, refusing to let them go until the thugs agree to stop bothering them.
Zoe and Wolfe share stories of their fathers, both of whom have died in similar circumstances. They are interrupted by a phone call from Julie, who has guessed the password ("My Angel"), retrieved the item in a box (a special key), and is on her way home. The kids immediately begin to plan a 'Welcome Home' party. Less than an hour later, Wolfe discovers a secret vault underneath the garage, which requires a key to open. Fanchette and Julie arrive. When mother and children are reunited, Fanchette and Wolfe go to the garage, where Wolfe says he is rethinking his career. The two ninjas seen earlier arrive armed, and pull off their masks, revealing themselves as the Plummers' North Korean neighbors, the Chungs. Fanchette suddenly knocks out Wolfe, proving that he is in fact a double agent. They tie up and gag Zoe, Seth, and Lulu, place Peter and Tyler in the play pen, and take Julie to the vault. They manage to open the door, but the dangerous security system prevents them from going any farther.
The children escape Mr. Chung, and awaken Wolfe, who goes to the vault to help Julie, sending the kids to summon the police. Mr. Chung follows them in his car; with Zoe at the wheel, the kids force him to crash. Wolfe figures out how to get past the security system, using a dance ("The Peter Panda Dance") used to make Peter go to sleep each night to avoid its traps. He, Julie, Fanchette, and Mrs. Chung engage in combat, and end the fight when Julie knocks out Mrs. Chung. Wolfe's voice activates the final vault, knocking out Fanchette with the door. By then, the children have lured a large crowd of police to the house. Mr. Chung, however, holds all of them at gunpoint. Wolfe notices Principal Claire Fletcher right behind him, having followed the chase when she saw it pass by the school. Wolfe, aided by Garry the duck, distracts Mr. Chung, whereupon Claire knocks him unconscious.
With their missions accomplished, Wolfe and the Plummers say their goodbyes, and Wolfe and Claire share a kiss. The family attends Seth's performance, where we learn that Wolfe has quit the Navy and joined the school staff as the new wrestling coach. Mr. Murney is shown briefly on stage, where he is singing Climb Ev'ry Mountain off-key while dressed in a nun's dress, as the film concludes.
Pictures :
Adam Shankman
Writers (WGA):
Thomas Lennon (written by)
Robert Ben Garant (written by)
Release Date:
4 March 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Comedy | Action | Family | Thriller
Cast :
* Lieutenant Shane Wolfe: Vin Diesel
* Julie Plummer: Faith Ford
* Claire Fletcher: Lauren Graham
* Zoe Plummer: Brittany Snow
* Seth Plummer: Max Thieriot
* Lulu Plummer: Morgan York
* Peter Plummer: Kegan Hoover and Logan Hoover
* Baby Tyler Plummer: Bo and Luke Vink
* Captain Bill Fawcett: Chris Potter
* Helga: Carol Kane
* Vice Principal Dwayne Murney: Brad Garrett
* Howard Plummer: Tate Donovan
* Director: Scott Thompson
Original Sound Track :
-
Plot :
U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Shane Wolfe (Vin Diesel) is assigned to rescue Howard Plummer (Tate Donovan), a man working on a top-secret government project, from a group of Serbian rebels. Wolfe and his team manage to get Plummer off an enemy boat; moments later, Wolfe and Plummer are shot while boarding the escape helicopter. Plummer is killed in the attack. Wolfe spends two months in the hospital. Wolfe's commanding officer, Captain Bill Fanchette (Chris Potter), is assigned to escort Plummer's widow Julie (Faith Ford) to Zurich, where a safety-deposit box belonging to the Plummers has been discovered. Wolfe is assigned to stay at the Plummer residence, in Bethesda, Maryland to search for the secret project called GHOST, hidden somewhere in the house, and to look after the family's five children: Zoe (Brittany Snow), Seth (Max Thieriot), Lulu (Morgan York), Peter (Logan and Keegan Hoover), and Baby Tyler (Bo and Luke Vink).
The kids prove to be difficult to handle, even with the help of nanny Helga (Carol Kane): Zoe and Seth rebel against Wolfe's authority; Lulu is obsessed with the new houseguest; the pet duck, Gary, resents Wolfe; and Helga finally quits when one of Zoe and Seth's pranks go wrong.
Fanchette and Julie are forced to remain in Zurich longer when they learn that they must provide a password in order to access the box. Wolfe is left to drive the kids to school. There, he meets their strict, nearly-obnoxious vice principal Murney (Brad Garrett), and the beautiful principal Claire Fletcher (Lauren Graham), a former military trainee of whom Wolfe becomes enamored. After school, Wolfe saves Seth from a group of bullies, but later is led into the sewers when Zoe and Seth intentionally drop the tracking devices he put on them into the sewer.
When they finally reach home, they encounter an unexpected house party hosted by Zoe and her boyfriend, Scott. Wolfe forces all the guests to clean up the house before going home. Zoe yells at him. They are then attacked by a pair of masked ninjas, whom Wolfe eventually defeats. He explains the entire situation to the kids, who agree to co-operate with him.
A few days later, Murney brings the facts that Seth has cut and bleached his hair for no apparent reason, has a Nazi armband in his locker, and has skipped every wrestling practice for the past month, to Wolfe's attention. At home, Seth furiously yells that he only joined the wrestling team in obedience to his father's wish. He sneaks out of the house, tricking the alarm system with a freezer magnet. Wolfe, leaving Zoe in charge, follows him to the town theater, where he learns that Seth has secretly joined the production of The Sound of Music. The director quits when he believes the show will be a failure, whereupon Wolfe volunteers to take his place, and juggles this task with taking care of the house, giving Zoe driving lessons, and teaching Lulu and the Firefly Scouts martial arts to defend themselves against an obnoxious troop of rival boys that intimidate the girls and wreck their cookie display whenever they attempt to sell them at Costco.
Later, Seth quits the wrestling team at Wolfe's prompting, confessing that he is in the Sound of Music after Murney catches him under the bleachers, practicing his dancing. When Murney threatens the boy, Wolfe challenges him to a wrestling match in front of the entire school. Despite Murney's show of bluster, Wolfe easily wins.
The training Wolfe gives the Firefly Scouts becomes useful when they once again have a conflict with the Easter Bunny Scouts. The girls beat and tie up the boys, refusing to let them go until the thugs agree to stop bothering them.
Zoe and Wolfe share stories of their fathers, both of whom have died in similar circumstances. They are interrupted by a phone call from Julie, who has guessed the password ("My Angel"), retrieved the item in a box (a special key), and is on her way home. The kids immediately begin to plan a 'Welcome Home' party. Less than an hour later, Wolfe discovers a secret vault underneath the garage, which requires a key to open. Fanchette and Julie arrive. When mother and children are reunited, Fanchette and Wolfe go to the garage, where Wolfe says he is rethinking his career. The two ninjas seen earlier arrive armed, and pull off their masks, revealing themselves as the Plummers' North Korean neighbors, the Chungs. Fanchette suddenly knocks out Wolfe, proving that he is in fact a double agent. They tie up and gag Zoe, Seth, and Lulu, place Peter and Tyler in the play pen, and take Julie to the vault. They manage to open the door, but the dangerous security system prevents them from going any farther.
The children escape Mr. Chung, and awaken Wolfe, who goes to the vault to help Julie, sending the kids to summon the police. Mr. Chung follows them in his car; with Zoe at the wheel, the kids force him to crash. Wolfe figures out how to get past the security system, using a dance ("The Peter Panda Dance") used to make Peter go to sleep each night to avoid its traps. He, Julie, Fanchette, and Mrs. Chung engage in combat, and end the fight when Julie knocks out Mrs. Chung. Wolfe's voice activates the final vault, knocking out Fanchette with the door. By then, the children have lured a large crowd of police to the house. Mr. Chung, however, holds all of them at gunpoint. Wolfe notices Principal Claire Fletcher right behind him, having followed the chase when she saw it pass by the school. Wolfe, aided by Garry the duck, distracts Mr. Chung, whereupon Claire knocks him unconscious.
With their missions accomplished, Wolfe and the Plummers say their goodbyes, and Wolfe and Claire share a kiss. The family attends Seth's performance, where we learn that Wolfe has quit the Navy and joined the school staff as the new wrestling coach. Mr. Murney is shown briefly on stage, where he is singing Climb Ev'ry Mountain off-key while dressed in a nun's dress, as the film concludes.
Pictures :
Walk the Line Movie
Directed by
James Mangold
Writing credits
(WGA)
Johnny Cash (book "Man in Black")
Johnny Cash (book "Cash: The Autobiography")
Patrick Carr (book "Cash: The Autobiography")
Gill Dennis (written by)
James Mangold (written by)
Release Date:
18 November 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Cast :
Actor Role
Joaquin Phoenix Johnny Cash
Reese Witherspoon June Carter Cash
Ginnifer Goodwin Vivian Cash
Robert Patrick Ray Cash
Dallas Roberts Sam Phillips
Dan John Miller Luther Perkins
Larry Bagby Marshall Grant
Shelby Lynne Carrie Cash
Tyler Hilton Elvis Presley
Waylon Payne Jerry Lee Lewis
Shooter Jennings Waylon Jennings
Sandra Ellis Lafferty Maybelle Carter
Dan Beene Ezra Carter
Clay Steakley W.S. "Fluke" Holland
Johnathan Rice Roy Orbison
Johnny Holiday Carl Perkins
Ridge Canipe Young Johnny Cash
Lucas Till Young Jack Cash
McGhee Monteith Reba Cash
Carly Nahon Young Reba Cash
Wyatt Entrekin Young Tommy Cash
Hailey Anne Nelson Rosanne Cash
Clare Grant Audrey Parks
Kerris Dorsey Kathleen "Kathy" Cash
Original Sound Track :
1. Get Rhythm - Joaquin Phoenix
2. I Walk The Line - Joaquin Phoenix
3. Wildwood Flower - Reese Witherspoon
4. Lewis Boogie Blues - Waylon Payne
5. Ring Of Fire - Joaquin Phoenix
6. You're My Baby - Johnathan Rice
7. Cry Cry Cry - Joaquin Phoenix
8. Folsom Prison Blues - Joaquin Phoenix
9. That's Allright Mama - Tyler Hilton
10. Jukebox Blues - Reese Witherspoon
11. It Aint Me Babe - Joaquin Phoenix/Reese Witherspoon
12. Home of the Blues - Joaquin Phoenix
13. Milkcow Blues Boogie - Tyler Hilton
14. I'm A Long Way From Home - Shooter Jennings
15. Cocaine Blues - Joaquin Phoenix
16. Jackson - Joaquin Phoenix/Reese Witherspoon
Plot :
The film details Johnny Cash's life from his growing up as the son of a cotton picker in Dyess, Arkansas, dealing with the death of his brother, his drug addiction, subsequent rescue by future wife June Carter, and his famous concert at Folsom State Prison.
The film opens in medias res with an exterior shot of Folsom State Prison in 1968. An audience of inmates cheer for Johnny Cash's band, which is playing a vamp. Johnny Cash is sitting near a table saw, reminding him of his youth and particularly of the death of his brother.
In 1944, Johnny (then known as "J.R.") and his brother Jack are listening to a young June Carter on the radio. The brothers discuss their respective strengths and weaknesses with regard to the Bible and hymns. Jack, who is training to become a pastor, and therefore "needs to know the Bible front to back," is much better at recalling the words and stories of the Bible. J.R., who can sing well like his mother, is adept with the hymns they sing at church. Jack is sawing wood on a job for a neighbor with J.R. when J.R. leaves to go fishing. He is later taken home by his father, Ray, and they find out Jack has been fatally injured in an accident with the saw. J.R.'s relationship with his father, already strained, becomes much more difficult after Jack's death.
In 1952, J.R. joins the Air Force and is posted to Germany. He seems not to enjoy his time there, but finds solace in playing a guitar he buys and writing songs - one of which will become "Folsom Prison Blues," inspired by a B-movie shown to the troops, Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison. Following his discharge, he marries his girlfriend Vivian Liberto. In 1955, Vivian and John (as he is now generally known) live in Memphis in relative poverty while John works as a door-to-door salesman to support his growing family (Cash's eldest daughter Rosanne is an infant, and Vivian mentions "another one on the way"). One day, he walks past a recording studio and has an inspiration to organize a band (made up of guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant, whom his wife describes as "two mechanics who can't hardly play") to play gospel music.
Cash's band auditions for Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records. As they play a pedestrian gospel song ("I Was There When It Happened"), Phillips interrupts and asks Cash to play a song that he really feels. As a result, Cash and his band play "Folsom Prison Blues," and Phillips accepts it. The performance results in a contract, in fulfillment of which Cash begins touring in 1955 (as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two) with other young Sun artists. Among those he meets on the tour - along with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Waylon Jennings and Elvis Presley - is June Carter, who performs as both a singer and a comedienne.
Cash's career expands, and he finds himself spending more time with June, who divorces her first husband, Carl Smith, at this time. Cash is offered drugs and alcohol after his romantic intentions backfire and soon begins to behave erratically. On a subsequent tour, in 1958, June tells him (and many of the other artists on the tour) at one point that they cannot "walk the line," prompting Cash to write "I Walk the Line." The erratic behavior peaks one night when Cash invites June on stage to sing a duet. Cash suggests a love song ("Time's A Wastin'") which June recorded with Smith. She feels uncomfortable performing it with Cash, but he ignores her protests and kisses her in the middle of the performance. She storms off the stage and they go their separate ways, despite Cash's protest that "it was only a song."
In 1964, Cash (Ray tells him that he would do well to start "sleeping at night...or eating...or both") takes Vivian to an awards program which June also attends. Despite his wife's objections to the level of interest he is paying her, Cash persuades June (who is divorcing her second husband, a stock car driver) to come out of semi-retirement and tour with him. The tour is a great success, but backstage, Vivian is critical of June's influence. After one Las Vegas performance in 1965, Cash and June sleep together in her hotel room. The next morning, as June is on the phone with one of her daughters, she notices Cash taking several pills and begins to doubt the wisdom of continuing the previous night's relationship. At that evening's concert, Cash, upset by Carter's apparent rejection, behaves erratically and eventually passes out. June disposes of Cash's drugs and begins to write "Ring of Fire", describing her feelings for Cash and her pain at watching him descend into addiction.
On his way home, Cash travels to Mexico to purchase more drugs and is arrested in El Paso, Texas. Vivian is upset and the tensions in Cash's marriage rise when he tries to put up his band's pictures at their house despite her objection. After a final violent dispute, the pair eventually separate and Cash moves to Nashville, where he shares living quarters with Waylon Jennings (played by Jennings' son Shooter) in 1966.
Cash attempts to reconcile with June, which involves a long walk to her house (his car is in the shop and he has no cash to reclaim it), but he collapses in the rain. Later, he sees a large house near a lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee and promptly buys it. His parents, and the extended Carter family (June, her daughters and her parents, Maybelle and Ezra) arrive for Thanksgiving, at which time Ray dismisses Cash's achievements and behavior, citing as an example of Cash's carelessness, an expensive tractor stuck in view of the house. After a tense meal, Cash decides to prove his father wrong by freeing the tractor. June and her family watch in concern as Cash struggles with the machine; June's mother, apparently aware of her daughter's true feelings toward Cash, encourages her to go help him, because "he's mixed up." June helps Cash when the tractor goes into the lake. After a long detoxification period, June sits with Cash. He wakes up and she gives him some fresh fruit. He then tells her that she's "an angel." June, however, admits that she's made mistakes as well. June then reveals that she has given Cash a second chance and he cleans himself up.
Cash notices in fan mail that many of his fans are prisoners, dresses in his customary black, visits his recording company (now Columbia Records) and makes a proposal to record an album live inside Folsom Prison. His record company is doubtful, arguing that the musical world has changed in the time Cash was rehabilitating, but he says bluntly that he will perform on a given date and the label can use the tapes if they think the music is any good.
While at Folsom Prison, the warden requests that Cash not play any more songs that would remind the inmates that they are in prison. Cash laughs wryly and replies, "You think they forgot?"
At the Folsom Prison concert Cash tells how he always admired prisoners, explaining that his brief prison stay after his drug bust really made him "feel like I'd seen a thing or two, you know?" But, he continues, he now realizes his experiences really can't compare because "I ain't never had to drink this yellow water you got here at Folsom!" Performing "Cocaine Blues" to great acclaim from the prisoners, the concert is a great success, and Cash embarks on a tour with June and his band.
While on a tour bus, Cash, disturbed by "bad dreams...memories," goes to see June in the back of the bus. (On his way he removes a cigarette from the mouth of a sleeping Luther Perkins, who in real life died around this time when his house caught fire; in his biography Cash said he believed Luther Perkins' house fire was caused by a cigarette.) Waking June at 2 AM, he proposes to her, but she turns him down. Cash tells her that that was the last time; June tersely replies, "Good." and that she doesn't like "re-runs". At the concert, June tells Cash that he is allowed to speak to her only on stage.
The concert, which is in London, Ontario, Canada, features "Ring of Fire", for which Cash acknowledges June. He then persuades her to join him in a duet of "Jackson". In the middle of the song, Cash breaks off; June looks concerned. Cash explains that he "just can't sing this song any more" unless she agrees to marry him. June is reluctant to give an answer, but after Cash proposes to her, June accepts. At his house, Cash watches his father interact with his newest daughters Rosie and Carlene. He jokes with his father, their tense relationship having apparently begun to heal. Cash continues down the stairs to the pier, looking up, and meeting June's eyes where she is fishing with her father. They look at each other and a smile from Cash closes the film.
Pictures :
James Mangold
Writing credits
(WGA)
Johnny Cash (book "Man in Black")
Johnny Cash (book "Cash: The Autobiography")
Patrick Carr (book "Cash: The Autobiography")
Gill Dennis (written by)
James Mangold (written by)
Release Date:
18 November 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Cast :
Actor Role
Joaquin Phoenix Johnny Cash
Reese Witherspoon June Carter Cash
Ginnifer Goodwin Vivian Cash
Robert Patrick Ray Cash
Dallas Roberts Sam Phillips
Dan John Miller Luther Perkins
Larry Bagby Marshall Grant
Shelby Lynne Carrie Cash
Tyler Hilton Elvis Presley
Waylon Payne Jerry Lee Lewis
Shooter Jennings Waylon Jennings
Sandra Ellis Lafferty Maybelle Carter
Dan Beene Ezra Carter
Clay Steakley W.S. "Fluke" Holland
Johnathan Rice Roy Orbison
Johnny Holiday Carl Perkins
Ridge Canipe Young Johnny Cash
Lucas Till Young Jack Cash
McGhee Monteith Reba Cash
Carly Nahon Young Reba Cash
Wyatt Entrekin Young Tommy Cash
Hailey Anne Nelson Rosanne Cash
Clare Grant Audrey Parks
Kerris Dorsey Kathleen "Kathy" Cash
Original Sound Track :
1. Get Rhythm - Joaquin Phoenix
2. I Walk The Line - Joaquin Phoenix
3. Wildwood Flower - Reese Witherspoon
4. Lewis Boogie Blues - Waylon Payne
5. Ring Of Fire - Joaquin Phoenix
6. You're My Baby - Johnathan Rice
7. Cry Cry Cry - Joaquin Phoenix
8. Folsom Prison Blues - Joaquin Phoenix
9. That's Allright Mama - Tyler Hilton
10. Jukebox Blues - Reese Witherspoon
11. It Aint Me Babe - Joaquin Phoenix/Reese Witherspoon
12. Home of the Blues - Joaquin Phoenix
13. Milkcow Blues Boogie - Tyler Hilton
14. I'm A Long Way From Home - Shooter Jennings
15. Cocaine Blues - Joaquin Phoenix
16. Jackson - Joaquin Phoenix/Reese Witherspoon
Plot :
The film details Johnny Cash's life from his growing up as the son of a cotton picker in Dyess, Arkansas, dealing with the death of his brother, his drug addiction, subsequent rescue by future wife June Carter, and his famous concert at Folsom State Prison.
The film opens in medias res with an exterior shot of Folsom State Prison in 1968. An audience of inmates cheer for Johnny Cash's band, which is playing a vamp. Johnny Cash is sitting near a table saw, reminding him of his youth and particularly of the death of his brother.
In 1944, Johnny (then known as "J.R.") and his brother Jack are listening to a young June Carter on the radio. The brothers discuss their respective strengths and weaknesses with regard to the Bible and hymns. Jack, who is training to become a pastor, and therefore "needs to know the Bible front to back," is much better at recalling the words and stories of the Bible. J.R., who can sing well like his mother, is adept with the hymns they sing at church. Jack is sawing wood on a job for a neighbor with J.R. when J.R. leaves to go fishing. He is later taken home by his father, Ray, and they find out Jack has been fatally injured in an accident with the saw. J.R.'s relationship with his father, already strained, becomes much more difficult after Jack's death.
In 1952, J.R. joins the Air Force and is posted to Germany. He seems not to enjoy his time there, but finds solace in playing a guitar he buys and writing songs - one of which will become "Folsom Prison Blues," inspired by a B-movie shown to the troops, Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison. Following his discharge, he marries his girlfriend Vivian Liberto. In 1955, Vivian and John (as he is now generally known) live in Memphis in relative poverty while John works as a door-to-door salesman to support his growing family (Cash's eldest daughter Rosanne is an infant, and Vivian mentions "another one on the way"). One day, he walks past a recording studio and has an inspiration to organize a band (made up of guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant, whom his wife describes as "two mechanics who can't hardly play") to play gospel music.
Cash's band auditions for Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records. As they play a pedestrian gospel song ("I Was There When It Happened"), Phillips interrupts and asks Cash to play a song that he really feels. As a result, Cash and his band play "Folsom Prison Blues," and Phillips accepts it. The performance results in a contract, in fulfillment of which Cash begins touring in 1955 (as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two) with other young Sun artists. Among those he meets on the tour - along with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Waylon Jennings and Elvis Presley - is June Carter, who performs as both a singer and a comedienne.
Cash's career expands, and he finds himself spending more time with June, who divorces her first husband, Carl Smith, at this time. Cash is offered drugs and alcohol after his romantic intentions backfire and soon begins to behave erratically. On a subsequent tour, in 1958, June tells him (and many of the other artists on the tour) at one point that they cannot "walk the line," prompting Cash to write "I Walk the Line." The erratic behavior peaks one night when Cash invites June on stage to sing a duet. Cash suggests a love song ("Time's A Wastin'") which June recorded with Smith. She feels uncomfortable performing it with Cash, but he ignores her protests and kisses her in the middle of the performance. She storms off the stage and they go their separate ways, despite Cash's protest that "it was only a song."
In 1964, Cash (Ray tells him that he would do well to start "sleeping at night...or eating...or both") takes Vivian to an awards program which June also attends. Despite his wife's objections to the level of interest he is paying her, Cash persuades June (who is divorcing her second husband, a stock car driver) to come out of semi-retirement and tour with him. The tour is a great success, but backstage, Vivian is critical of June's influence. After one Las Vegas performance in 1965, Cash and June sleep together in her hotel room. The next morning, as June is on the phone with one of her daughters, she notices Cash taking several pills and begins to doubt the wisdom of continuing the previous night's relationship. At that evening's concert, Cash, upset by Carter's apparent rejection, behaves erratically and eventually passes out. June disposes of Cash's drugs and begins to write "Ring of Fire", describing her feelings for Cash and her pain at watching him descend into addiction.
On his way home, Cash travels to Mexico to purchase more drugs and is arrested in El Paso, Texas. Vivian is upset and the tensions in Cash's marriage rise when he tries to put up his band's pictures at their house despite her objection. After a final violent dispute, the pair eventually separate and Cash moves to Nashville, where he shares living quarters with Waylon Jennings (played by Jennings' son Shooter) in 1966.
Cash attempts to reconcile with June, which involves a long walk to her house (his car is in the shop and he has no cash to reclaim it), but he collapses in the rain. Later, he sees a large house near a lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee and promptly buys it. His parents, and the extended Carter family (June, her daughters and her parents, Maybelle and Ezra) arrive for Thanksgiving, at which time Ray dismisses Cash's achievements and behavior, citing as an example of Cash's carelessness, an expensive tractor stuck in view of the house. After a tense meal, Cash decides to prove his father wrong by freeing the tractor. June and her family watch in concern as Cash struggles with the machine; June's mother, apparently aware of her daughter's true feelings toward Cash, encourages her to go help him, because "he's mixed up." June helps Cash when the tractor goes into the lake. After a long detoxification period, June sits with Cash. He wakes up and she gives him some fresh fruit. He then tells her that she's "an angel." June, however, admits that she's made mistakes as well. June then reveals that she has given Cash a second chance and he cleans himself up.
Cash notices in fan mail that many of his fans are prisoners, dresses in his customary black, visits his recording company (now Columbia Records) and makes a proposal to record an album live inside Folsom Prison. His record company is doubtful, arguing that the musical world has changed in the time Cash was rehabilitating, but he says bluntly that he will perform on a given date and the label can use the tapes if they think the music is any good.
While at Folsom Prison, the warden requests that Cash not play any more songs that would remind the inmates that they are in prison. Cash laughs wryly and replies, "You think they forgot?"
At the Folsom Prison concert Cash tells how he always admired prisoners, explaining that his brief prison stay after his drug bust really made him "feel like I'd seen a thing or two, you know?" But, he continues, he now realizes his experiences really can't compare because "I ain't never had to drink this yellow water you got here at Folsom!" Performing "Cocaine Blues" to great acclaim from the prisoners, the concert is a great success, and Cash embarks on a tour with June and his band.
While on a tour bus, Cash, disturbed by "bad dreams...memories," goes to see June in the back of the bus. (On his way he removes a cigarette from the mouth of a sleeping Luther Perkins, who in real life died around this time when his house caught fire; in his biography Cash said he believed Luther Perkins' house fire was caused by a cigarette.) Waking June at 2 AM, he proposes to her, but she turns him down. Cash tells her that that was the last time; June tersely replies, "Good." and that she doesn't like "re-runs". At the concert, June tells Cash that he is allowed to speak to her only on stage.
The concert, which is in London, Ontario, Canada, features "Ring of Fire", for which Cash acknowledges June. He then persuades her to join him in a duet of "Jackson". In the middle of the song, Cash breaks off; June looks concerned. Cash explains that he "just can't sing this song any more" unless she agrees to marry him. June is reluctant to give an answer, but after Cash proposes to her, June accepts. At his house, Cash watches his father interact with his newest daughters Rosie and Carlene. He jokes with his father, their tense relationship having apparently begun to heal. Cash continues down the stairs to the pier, looking up, and meeting June's eyes where she is fishing with her father. They look at each other and a smile from Cash closes the film.
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Robots Movie
Directed by
Chris Wedge
Carlos Saldanha (co-director)
Writing credits
Ron Mita (story)
Jim McClain (story)
David Lindsay-Abaire (story)
David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay)
Lowell Ganz (screenplay)
Babaloo Mandel (screenplay)
Release Date:
11 March 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Cast :
Role Voiced by Robot Color
Rodney Copperbottom Ewan McGregor Blue
Fender Robin Williams Red
Bigweld Mel Brooks Black
Cappy Halle Berry Black
Ratchet Greg Kinnear Metal
Piper Pinwheeler Amanda Bynes Yellow
Crank Casey Drew Carey Orange
Madame Gasket Jim Broadbent Pink
Aunt Fanny Jennifer Coolidge Multicolor
Lug Harland Williams Green
Diesel Springer James Earl Jones
Chris Evans Blue
Lydia Copperbottom Dianne Wiest Green
Silver
Herb Copperbottom Stanley Tucci Silver
Loretta Geargrinder Cat Deeley (UK)/Natasha Lyonne (US) Pink
Supporting
* Paul Giamatti as Tim
* Chris Evans as Referee Voice Chip
* Dan Hedaya as Mr. Gunk
* Jay Leno as Fire Hydrant
* Lucille Bliss as Pigeon Lady
Cameos
* Ryan Seacrest as Watch
* Randy Jackson as Watch
* Paula Abdul as Watch
* Jaden Smith as Five-year-old Rodney
* Macaulay Culkin as Teen Rodney
* Will Reeve as Teen Rodney
* John Mahoney as Ratchet's Robots
* James Earl Jones as Darth Vader Voice Chip
* John Leguizamo as Robot Sid
British voices
* Jonathan Roberts as Lug
* Chris Moyles as voice introduction to Big Weld Show
* Terry Wogan as Ratchet's father
Original Sound Track :
1. Robots Overdrive
2. Rivet Town Parade
3. Bigweld TV/Creating Wonderbot
4. Wonderbot Wash
5. Train Station
6. Crosstown Express
7. Wild Ride
8. Madam Gasket
9. Chop Shop
10. Meet the Rustles
11. Bigweld Workshop
12. Phone Booth
13. Gathering Forces
14. Escape
15. Deciding to Fight Back
16. Attack of the Sweepers
17. Butt Whoopin'
18. Homecoming
19. Dad's Dream
Plot :
In the beginning of the movie, Herb Copperbottom races through the streets because he is elated that he is going to be a father. He and his wife, Lydia Copperbottom, after 12 hours of "labor", finally manage to construct the baby. His name is Rodney Copperbottom, who becomes a young inventor who dreams of making the world a better place for everyone. Rodney idolizes Bigweld, the master inventor and owner of Bigweld Industries. Rodney has invented a gadget that will help his father clean the dishes at the restaurant. Rodney takes his invention to Robot City to see Bigweld and get a job as an inventor at his company. Instead, Rodney gets to see Ratchet, the new head of the company. Ratchet sees to it that Rodney is removed from the premises. Cappy, a beautiful robot-executive of the company takes an interest in Rodney, and wants to help him. In the slums of Robot City, some old robots known as the Rusties, led by a robot named Fender, befriend Rodney. Ratchet believes the company can make a bigger profit if it stops making spare parts for older robots. Non-working robots are picked up and sent to and melted down by Ratchet's mother, queen of the 'Chop-shop'. Rodney, who remembers Bigweld's 'See a need, fill a need', begins fixing old robots. When Ratchet's mother orders him to stop Rodney, the fireworks begin.
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Chris Wedge
Carlos Saldanha (co-director)
Writing credits
Ron Mita (story)
Jim McClain (story)
David Lindsay-Abaire (story)
David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay)
Lowell Ganz (screenplay)
Babaloo Mandel (screenplay)
Release Date:
11 March 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Cast :
Role Voiced by Robot Color
Rodney Copperbottom Ewan McGregor Blue
Fender Robin Williams Red
Bigweld Mel Brooks Black
Cappy Halle Berry Black
Ratchet Greg Kinnear Metal
Piper Pinwheeler Amanda Bynes Yellow
Crank Casey Drew Carey Orange
Madame Gasket Jim Broadbent Pink
Aunt Fanny Jennifer Coolidge Multicolor
Lug Harland Williams Green
Diesel Springer James Earl Jones
Chris Evans Blue
Lydia Copperbottom Dianne Wiest Green
Silver
Herb Copperbottom Stanley Tucci Silver
Loretta Geargrinder Cat Deeley (UK)/Natasha Lyonne (US) Pink
Supporting
* Paul Giamatti as Tim
* Chris Evans as Referee Voice Chip
* Dan Hedaya as Mr. Gunk
* Jay Leno as Fire Hydrant
* Lucille Bliss as Pigeon Lady
Cameos
* Ryan Seacrest as Watch
* Randy Jackson as Watch
* Paula Abdul as Watch
* Jaden Smith as Five-year-old Rodney
* Macaulay Culkin as Teen Rodney
* Will Reeve as Teen Rodney
* John Mahoney as Ratchet's Robots
* James Earl Jones as Darth Vader Voice Chip
* John Leguizamo as Robot Sid
British voices
* Jonathan Roberts as Lug
* Chris Moyles as voice introduction to Big Weld Show
* Terry Wogan as Ratchet's father
Original Sound Track :
1. Robots Overdrive
2. Rivet Town Parade
3. Bigweld TV/Creating Wonderbot
4. Wonderbot Wash
5. Train Station
6. Crosstown Express
7. Wild Ride
8. Madam Gasket
9. Chop Shop
10. Meet the Rustles
11. Bigweld Workshop
12. Phone Booth
13. Gathering Forces
14. Escape
15. Deciding to Fight Back
16. Attack of the Sweepers
17. Butt Whoopin'
18. Homecoming
19. Dad's Dream
Plot :
In the beginning of the movie, Herb Copperbottom races through the streets because he is elated that he is going to be a father. He and his wife, Lydia Copperbottom, after 12 hours of "labor", finally manage to construct the baby. His name is Rodney Copperbottom, who becomes a young inventor who dreams of making the world a better place for everyone. Rodney idolizes Bigweld, the master inventor and owner of Bigweld Industries. Rodney has invented a gadget that will help his father clean the dishes at the restaurant. Rodney takes his invention to Robot City to see Bigweld and get a job as an inventor at his company. Instead, Rodney gets to see Ratchet, the new head of the company. Ratchet sees to it that Rodney is removed from the premises. Cappy, a beautiful robot-executive of the company takes an interest in Rodney, and wants to help him. In the slums of Robot City, some old robots known as the Rusties, led by a robot named Fender, befriend Rodney. Ratchet believes the company can make a bigger profit if it stops making spare parts for older robots. Non-working robots are picked up and sent to and melted down by Ratchet's mother, queen of the 'Chop-shop'. Rodney, who remembers Bigweld's 'See a need, fill a need', begins fixing old robots. When Ratchet's mother orders him to stop Rodney, the fireworks begin.
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Chicken Little Movie
Directed by
Mark Dindal
Writing credits
Mark Dindal (story)
Mark Kennedy (story)
Steve Bencich (screenplay)
Ron J. Friedman (screenplay)
Ron Anderson (screenplay)
Robert L. Baird (additional story material) (as Robert Baird)
Daniel Gerson (additional story material)
Sara Parriott (additional screenplay material)
Josann McGibbon (additional screenplay material)
David Reynolds (additional dialogue)
Sandra Tsing Loh (additional dialogue)
Release Date :
USA 30 October 2005 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
Genre:
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Cast :
* Zach Braff as Ace "Chicken Little" Cluck, a young rooster who suffers under a reputation for being crazy since he caused a panic saying the sky was falling. He makes up for his small size by being extremely creative, for example, using a roller blind to get into his high locker. Little is constantly trying to impress his Dad.
* Joan Cusack as Abby Mallard (aka the Ugly Duckling), a female duck (implied swan) with buckteeth, and wearing a purple shirt and some hairbands. A slight speech impediment and a long, asymmetrical face earned her an unfortunate nickname from the less polite children. She is accustomed to being teased for her appearance, and takes a generally optimistic approach to life. She is Chicken Little's best friend and harbors a secret crush on him.
* Dan Molina as Fish Out of Water, a goldfish who wears a scuba helmet filled with water and lives on the surface. He is unable to speak properly, instead making gurgling sounds and acting out what he feels. He isn't very shy around others and he will perform brave stunts without fear.
* Steve Zahn as Runt of the Litter, a large pig with a huge heart, Runt is much larger than the other children, but is far smaller than the other massive members of his family. Runt is easily frightened and prone to panic.
* Amy Sedaris as Foxy Loxy, a vixen who is a baseball star and the "home town hero", she is a tomboy and one of the "popular kids" at school. She bullies Little throughout the movie for causing the panic at the beginning of the film. Her mind is altered during the alien attack, turning her into a much nicer Southern belle, and she is later seen in a romantic relationship with Runt.
* Mark Walton as Goosey Loosey, a goose, and Foxy Loxy's best friend. Usually helps Foxy Loxy do her bullying. She speaks in quacks, honks and squawks. She usually teases Chicken Little, but becomes his friend when he wins the baseball game.
* Garry Marshall as Buck "Ace" Cluck, Chicken Little's widowed father, a former high school baseball star who has a hard time coming to terms with what it means being a good parent. Most of the time he tries instead to apologize for his son's behavior and encourage him to keep a low profile.
* Don Knotts as Turkey Lurkey, the city mayor. Sensible but not very intelligent.
* Sean Elmore, Matthew Michael Joston, and Evan Dunn as Kirby, a lost alien child whose parents, out of concern, trigger an alien invasion (which turned out to be a search party). In the end, he is returned to his family.
* Fred Willard as Melvin, Kirby's father and Tina's husband. He is the character that triggers an alien invasion and at the end is reunited with his son, and has something called the "Big Voice".
* Catherine O'Hara as Tina, Kirby's mother and Melvin's wife. She and Melvin land on Earth once a year on the way to her parents, and to collect acorns, but when Kirby went missing, Melvin triggered an invasion to retrieve their son.
* Mark Dindal as Morkupine Porcupine, one of the cool kids.
* Patrick Stewart as Mr. Woolensworth, a sheep teacher to the class, who is amazingly boring.
Additional Voices included Brad Abrell, Tom Amundsen, Steve Bencich, Greg Berg, Julianne Buescher, David Cowgill, Terri Douglas, Chris Edgerly, Amanda Fein, Caitlin Fein, Patrick Fraley, Eddie Frierson, Jackie Gonneau, Archie Hahn, Jason Harris, Brittney Lee Harvey, Brian Herskowitz, Amanda Kaplan, Nathan Kress, Anne Lockhart, Connor Matheus, Mona Marshall, Scott Menville, Rene Mujica, Jonathan Nichols, Paul Pape, Aaron Spann, and Pepper Sweeney.
In the Australian version of the film, Buck Cluck is voiced by an Australian, Mark Mitchell, who used an American accent.
Original Sound Track :
1) Stir It Up - Patti LaBelle and Joss Stone
2) One Little Slip - Barenaked Ladies
3) Shake a Tail Feather - The Cheetah Girls
4) All I Know - Five for Fighting
5) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
6) It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
7) We Are the Champions - Chicken Little
8) Wannabe - Abby Mallard and Runt of the Litter
9) Don't Go Breaking My Heart - The "Chicken Little" Cast
10) The Sky is Falling - Score
11) The Big Game - Score
12) Dad Apologizes - Score
13) Chase to Cornfield - Score
14) Dodgeball - Score
15) Driving with Dad - Score
Plot :
In the small town of Oakey Oaks, Chicken Little rings the school bell and cries for everyone to "run for your lives!" This sends the whole town into a frenzied panic that causes so much havoc that it destroys a small part of the town and Oakey Oaks Tower; eventually they calm down enough to ask him what's wrong, and Chicken Little explains that a piece of the sky shaped like a stop sign had fallen on his head when he was sitting under the big Oak tree in the town square. He's unable to find the piece now. His father, Buck Cluck, ashamedly assumes that this "piece of sky" was just an acorn that had fallen off the tree and had hit him on the head. Chicken Little becomes the laughing stock of the town.
A year later, Little has become infamous in the town for being crazy (his popularity continuing to a book, Compact Cassette audiobook, board game, spoons with pictures of his face on it, a website, a brand of commemorative places an upcoming movie entitled Crazy Little Chicken, billboards and bumper stickers), which has led to people avoiding him because of his supposed insanity, his only friends are outcasts like himself: Abby Mallard, who is called "Ugly Duckling" (who has a crush on Chicken Little); Runt of the Litter, who is extremely large despite being the smallest in the family; and Fish out of Water, who wears a helmet full of water and does not speak, except in gurgles. All have been mocked and teased by neighborhood bully Foxy Loxy and her friend Goosey Loosey.
While on the way to Elementary School, he misses to bus and tries to get to school by sticking a lollipop to a car. He manages to go to school, but loses his pants in the process.He replaces his pants with an origami pants made from his math homework.
During a dodgeball game, Abby tells Little to talk to his dad, when Little wants his dad to be proud of him. To help Little, Abby hands Little magazines about talking to your parents. Soon after, Abby is hit with a dodgeball thrown by Foxy Loxy. Little, fed up with being bullied, tries to stand up to Foxy. Goosey Loosey grabs Little, and flings him into a window. Little accidentally pulls the fire alarm while sliding down the window. The sprinkler system goes off and his paper pants fall off. He gets in trouble with the principal, and his father is more ashamed than ever.
Chicken Little joins his school's Little League baseball team in an attempt to recover his reputation and his father's pride, but is unfairly made last, while Foxy Loxy impresses spectators and the newspapers (headlines including "Foxy, our hero!" and "Foxy does it again!") with her pitches and "miracle catches"—until the ninth inning of the last game. Chicken Little is reluctantly called to bat by the coach, who tells him not to swing as he's certain that if Chicken Little tries to swing, he'll lose the game for them. Little scores an inside-the-park home run, and is hailed as a hero.
But that night back at home, while celebrating his victory by singing "We Are The Champions" in his own style, and his father's praise, he is hit on the head—by what appears to be a hexagon shaped chunk of the sky—only to find out that it is not a piece of the sky, but something else. It is a device which has chameleon characteristics—it's not invisible, but it blends into the background (which would thereby explain why Chicken Little was unable to find it last time). He calls his friends over to help figure out what it is.
When Fish pushes a button on the back of the hexagon, it flies back up into the sky, taking Fish with it. It turns out to be part of the camouflage of an invisible alien spacecraft. They chase the flying ship until it lands; they go inside, encounter a small orange alien, find Fish, and are about to escape when two aliens in robotic suits spot them. A chase ensues that goes outside the ship and into town (the orange alien still following in secret). Little manages to ring the bell to warn everyone, but the aliens see the crowds coming and manage to escape, leaving the orange one behind. No one believes the story of an alien invasion; Little is ridiculed all over again, and everything seems to be going down the tubes for him, until the next day. He and his friends discover the orange alien, and a few minutes later a whole fleet of alien ships descends on the town and start what appears to be an invasion staged to "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".
The invasion is actually a misunderstanding, as two aliens (who are red and yellow making their child orange) are looking for their lost child (whose name is Kirby) and attack only out of concern. It's not an invasion, it's a rescue mission. As the aliens rampage throughout Oakey Oaks, vaporizing people and objects (among them Foxy Loxy and the mayor) seemingly at random, Little realizes he must return Kirby to his parents to save the planet. At first he tries to do it covertly but once the aliens attack, he's forced to confront his father and regain his trust first. They share a caring moment in a movie theater until Abby interrupts them and requests that they hurry up. Little and Cluck are seen leaving the theater, but before leaving, Chicken Little straightforwardly admits his romantic feelings for Abby and kisses her.
In the invasion, Buck Cluck, now regaining his pride and trust in Little, defends him from the aliens, even going as far as deflecting an incoming vaporizer ray with a garbage can lid, throwing the lid at the creatures, and punching them away at the top of town hall. Abby, Runt and Fish also aid Chicken Little in his quest to return Kirby to his parents. It is then discovered that the aliens weren't vaporizing people, the ray guns teleported them aboard a spaceship. Afterwards, the aliens return everything to normal (though Foxy Loxy's mind was slightly scrambled after she was restored, making her more girly and kind), and Hollywood makes a heavily dramatized film about Chicken Little which ends up as, a cross of Star Trek and Star Wars with, a ship that resembles the Enterprise. At the end of the movie, Little and Abby are seen secretly holding hands in their popcorn bucket, and everyone cheers for Chicken Little's efforts to save the town.
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Mark Dindal
Writing credits
Mark Dindal (story)
Mark Kennedy (story)
Steve Bencich (screenplay)
Ron J. Friedman (screenplay)
Ron Anderson (screenplay)
Robert L. Baird (additional story material) (as Robert Baird)
Daniel Gerson (additional story material)
Sara Parriott (additional screenplay material)
Josann McGibbon (additional screenplay material)
David Reynolds (additional dialogue)
Sandra Tsing Loh (additional dialogue)
Release Date :
USA 30 October 2005 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
Genre:
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Cast :
* Zach Braff as Ace "Chicken Little" Cluck, a young rooster who suffers under a reputation for being crazy since he caused a panic saying the sky was falling. He makes up for his small size by being extremely creative, for example, using a roller blind to get into his high locker. Little is constantly trying to impress his Dad.
* Joan Cusack as Abby Mallard (aka the Ugly Duckling), a female duck (implied swan) with buckteeth, and wearing a purple shirt and some hairbands. A slight speech impediment and a long, asymmetrical face earned her an unfortunate nickname from the less polite children. She is accustomed to being teased for her appearance, and takes a generally optimistic approach to life. She is Chicken Little's best friend and harbors a secret crush on him.
* Dan Molina as Fish Out of Water, a goldfish who wears a scuba helmet filled with water and lives on the surface. He is unable to speak properly, instead making gurgling sounds and acting out what he feels. He isn't very shy around others and he will perform brave stunts without fear.
* Steve Zahn as Runt of the Litter, a large pig with a huge heart, Runt is much larger than the other children, but is far smaller than the other massive members of his family. Runt is easily frightened and prone to panic.
* Amy Sedaris as Foxy Loxy, a vixen who is a baseball star and the "home town hero", she is a tomboy and one of the "popular kids" at school. She bullies Little throughout the movie for causing the panic at the beginning of the film. Her mind is altered during the alien attack, turning her into a much nicer Southern belle, and she is later seen in a romantic relationship with Runt.
* Mark Walton as Goosey Loosey, a goose, and Foxy Loxy's best friend. Usually helps Foxy Loxy do her bullying. She speaks in quacks, honks and squawks. She usually teases Chicken Little, but becomes his friend when he wins the baseball game.
* Garry Marshall as Buck "Ace" Cluck, Chicken Little's widowed father, a former high school baseball star who has a hard time coming to terms with what it means being a good parent. Most of the time he tries instead to apologize for his son's behavior and encourage him to keep a low profile.
* Don Knotts as Turkey Lurkey, the city mayor. Sensible but not very intelligent.
* Sean Elmore, Matthew Michael Joston, and Evan Dunn as Kirby, a lost alien child whose parents, out of concern, trigger an alien invasion (which turned out to be a search party). In the end, he is returned to his family.
* Fred Willard as Melvin, Kirby's father and Tina's husband. He is the character that triggers an alien invasion and at the end is reunited with his son, and has something called the "Big Voice".
* Catherine O'Hara as Tina, Kirby's mother and Melvin's wife. She and Melvin land on Earth once a year on the way to her parents, and to collect acorns, but when Kirby went missing, Melvin triggered an invasion to retrieve their son.
* Mark Dindal as Morkupine Porcupine, one of the cool kids.
* Patrick Stewart as Mr. Woolensworth, a sheep teacher to the class, who is amazingly boring.
Additional Voices included Brad Abrell, Tom Amundsen, Steve Bencich, Greg Berg, Julianne Buescher, David Cowgill, Terri Douglas, Chris Edgerly, Amanda Fein, Caitlin Fein, Patrick Fraley, Eddie Frierson, Jackie Gonneau, Archie Hahn, Jason Harris, Brittney Lee Harvey, Brian Herskowitz, Amanda Kaplan, Nathan Kress, Anne Lockhart, Connor Matheus, Mona Marshall, Scott Menville, Rene Mujica, Jonathan Nichols, Paul Pape, Aaron Spann, and Pepper Sweeney.
In the Australian version of the film, Buck Cluck is voiced by an Australian, Mark Mitchell, who used an American accent.
Original Sound Track :
1) Stir It Up - Patti LaBelle and Joss Stone
2) One Little Slip - Barenaked Ladies
3) Shake a Tail Feather - The Cheetah Girls
4) All I Know - Five for Fighting
5) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
6) It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
7) We Are the Champions - Chicken Little
8) Wannabe - Abby Mallard and Runt of the Litter
9) Don't Go Breaking My Heart - The "Chicken Little" Cast
10) The Sky is Falling - Score
11) The Big Game - Score
12) Dad Apologizes - Score
13) Chase to Cornfield - Score
14) Dodgeball - Score
15) Driving with Dad - Score
Plot :
In the small town of Oakey Oaks, Chicken Little rings the school bell and cries for everyone to "run for your lives!" This sends the whole town into a frenzied panic that causes so much havoc that it destroys a small part of the town and Oakey Oaks Tower; eventually they calm down enough to ask him what's wrong, and Chicken Little explains that a piece of the sky shaped like a stop sign had fallen on his head when he was sitting under the big Oak tree in the town square. He's unable to find the piece now. His father, Buck Cluck, ashamedly assumes that this "piece of sky" was just an acorn that had fallen off the tree and had hit him on the head. Chicken Little becomes the laughing stock of the town.
A year later, Little has become infamous in the town for being crazy (his popularity continuing to a book, Compact Cassette audiobook, board game, spoons with pictures of his face on it, a website, a brand of commemorative places an upcoming movie entitled Crazy Little Chicken, billboards and bumper stickers), which has led to people avoiding him because of his supposed insanity, his only friends are outcasts like himself: Abby Mallard, who is called "Ugly Duckling" (who has a crush on Chicken Little); Runt of the Litter, who is extremely large despite being the smallest in the family; and Fish out of Water, who wears a helmet full of water and does not speak, except in gurgles. All have been mocked and teased by neighborhood bully Foxy Loxy and her friend Goosey Loosey.
While on the way to Elementary School, he misses to bus and tries to get to school by sticking a lollipop to a car. He manages to go to school, but loses his pants in the process.He replaces his pants with an origami pants made from his math homework.
During a dodgeball game, Abby tells Little to talk to his dad, when Little wants his dad to be proud of him. To help Little, Abby hands Little magazines about talking to your parents. Soon after, Abby is hit with a dodgeball thrown by Foxy Loxy. Little, fed up with being bullied, tries to stand up to Foxy. Goosey Loosey grabs Little, and flings him into a window. Little accidentally pulls the fire alarm while sliding down the window. The sprinkler system goes off and his paper pants fall off. He gets in trouble with the principal, and his father is more ashamed than ever.
Chicken Little joins his school's Little League baseball team in an attempt to recover his reputation and his father's pride, but is unfairly made last, while Foxy Loxy impresses spectators and the newspapers (headlines including "Foxy, our hero!" and "Foxy does it again!") with her pitches and "miracle catches"—until the ninth inning of the last game. Chicken Little is reluctantly called to bat by the coach, who tells him not to swing as he's certain that if Chicken Little tries to swing, he'll lose the game for them. Little scores an inside-the-park home run, and is hailed as a hero.
But that night back at home, while celebrating his victory by singing "We Are The Champions" in his own style, and his father's praise, he is hit on the head—by what appears to be a hexagon shaped chunk of the sky—only to find out that it is not a piece of the sky, but something else. It is a device which has chameleon characteristics—it's not invisible, but it blends into the background (which would thereby explain why Chicken Little was unable to find it last time). He calls his friends over to help figure out what it is.
When Fish pushes a button on the back of the hexagon, it flies back up into the sky, taking Fish with it. It turns out to be part of the camouflage of an invisible alien spacecraft. They chase the flying ship until it lands; they go inside, encounter a small orange alien, find Fish, and are about to escape when two aliens in robotic suits spot them. A chase ensues that goes outside the ship and into town (the orange alien still following in secret). Little manages to ring the bell to warn everyone, but the aliens see the crowds coming and manage to escape, leaving the orange one behind. No one believes the story of an alien invasion; Little is ridiculed all over again, and everything seems to be going down the tubes for him, until the next day. He and his friends discover the orange alien, and a few minutes later a whole fleet of alien ships descends on the town and start what appears to be an invasion staged to "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".
The invasion is actually a misunderstanding, as two aliens (who are red and yellow making their child orange) are looking for their lost child (whose name is Kirby) and attack only out of concern. It's not an invasion, it's a rescue mission. As the aliens rampage throughout Oakey Oaks, vaporizing people and objects (among them Foxy Loxy and the mayor) seemingly at random, Little realizes he must return Kirby to his parents to save the planet. At first he tries to do it covertly but once the aliens attack, he's forced to confront his father and regain his trust first. They share a caring moment in a movie theater until Abby interrupts them and requests that they hurry up. Little and Cluck are seen leaving the theater, but before leaving, Chicken Little straightforwardly admits his romantic feelings for Abby and kisses her.
In the invasion, Buck Cluck, now regaining his pride and trust in Little, defends him from the aliens, even going as far as deflecting an incoming vaporizer ray with a garbage can lid, throwing the lid at the creatures, and punching them away at the top of town hall. Abby, Runt and Fish also aid Chicken Little in his quest to return Kirby to his parents. It is then discovered that the aliens weren't vaporizing people, the ray guns teleported them aboard a spaceship. Afterwards, the aliens return everything to normal (though Foxy Loxy's mind was slightly scrambled after she was restored, making her more girly and kind), and Hollywood makes a heavily dramatized film about Chicken Little which ends up as, a cross of Star Trek and Star Wars with, a ship that resembles the Enterprise. At the end of the movie, Little and Abby are seen secretly holding hands in their popcorn bucket, and everyone cheers for Chicken Little's efforts to save the town.
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Fantastic Four Movie
Directed by
Tim Story
Writing credits
(WGA)
Mark Frost (written by)
Michael France (written by)
Stan Lee (Marvel comic book)
Jack Kirby (Marvel comic book)
Release Date:
8 July 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Cast :
Actor/Actress Role
Ioan Gruffudd Dr. Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic
Jessica Alba Susan Storm / Invisible Woman
Michael Chiklis Ben Grimm / The Thing
Chris Evans Johnny Storm / Human Torch
Julian McMahon Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom
Hamish Linklater Leonard
Kerry Washington Alicia Masters
Laurie Holden Debbie McIlvane
David Parker Ernie
Kevin McNulty Jimmy O'Hoolihan
Maria Menounos Nurse
Michael Kopsa Ned Cecil
Stan Lee Willie Lumpkin
Original Sound Track :
01. Come In, Come On - Velvet Revolver
02. Error Operator - Taking Back Sunday
03. Relax - Chingy
04. Whatever Happened To The Heroes - Joss Stone
05. Waiting (Save Your Life) - Omnisoul
06. Always Come Back To You - Ryan Cabrera
07. Everything Burns - Ben Moody Featuring Anastacia
08. New World Symphony - Miri Ben-Ari Featuring Pharoahe Monch
09. Die For You (Fantastic Four Mix) - Megan McCauley
10. Noots - Sum 41
11. Surrender - Simple Plan
12. I'll Take You Down - T.F.F.
13. On Fire - Lloyd Banks
14. Reverie - Megan McCauley
15. Goodbye To You - Breaking Point
16. Shed My Skin - Alter Bridge
17. In Due Time - Submersed
18. Disposable Sunshine - Loser
19. Now You Know - Miss Eighty 6 Featuring Classic
20. Kirikirimai (Fantastic Four Remix) - Orange Range
Plot :
Dr. Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), a genius but timid and bankrupt physicist, is convinced that evolution is triggered by clouds of cosmic energy in space, and has calculated that one of these clouds is soon going to pass near Earth. Together with his friend, the gruff yet gentle astronaut Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis), Reed convinces his equally brilliant but conceited Massachusetts Institute of Technology classmate Dr. Victor von Doom (Julian McMahon), now CEO of Von Doom Industries, to allow him access to his privately-owned space station.
Von Doom agrees, in exchange for control over the experiment and a majority of the profits from whatever benefits it brings. He brings aboard his chief genetics researcher (and Reed's ex-girlfriend) Susan Storm (Jessica Alba), and her hot-headed brother Johnny Storm (Chris Evans), his private astronaut, who was Ben's subordinate at NASA but is his superior on the mission, much to Ben's disgust. The quintet travels to space to observe the cosmic energy clouds, but Reed has miscalculated and the clouds materialize well ahead of schedule.
Victor refuses Reed's plea to abort the mission, knowing he must produce results to justify his expenditure, no matter the human cost involved. Knowing Ben is space-walking to set up equipment, Reed, Susan and Johnny leave the shielded inner area of the station to rescue him, and Victor closes the shield behind them. Whilst Victor is seemingly safe, the others are exposed to the cloud. Ben receives full exposure out in space, while the others receive a more limited dose within the station.
The astronauts make it home intact; however, before long they begin to mutate, developing strange powers. Reed is able to stretch like rubber; Susan can become invisible (by bending light around objects) and create force fields, especially when angered; Johnny can engulf himself in fire at up to supernova-like temperatures, and is able to fly; and Ben is transformed into "The Thing", a large, rock-like creature with superhuman strength.
After Ben, brooding about his situation on the Brooklyn Bridge, accidentally causes a major traffic pile-up whilst attempting to stop a man from committing suicide, the four use their powers to prevent any loss of life and to rescue a fire truck and its crew from falling off the bridge. The media dubs the team the 'Fantastic Four'; whilst Johnny eagerly embraces his powers and new life, Ben - the only one whose transformed appearance is permanent - suffers.
His disfigurement has caused his fiancee, Debbie, to abandon him and has seen him shunned and feared by much of New York. Blaming himself, Reed vows to return Ben to his human form. Therefore he, Susan and Ben work on a cure, constructing a healing chamber in Reed's high tech Baxter Building loft-turned-laboratory. During this time, Reed and Susan begin to rekindle their attraction to one another. Susan admits that she is not interested in Victor, but had turned away from Reed because he feared to make a binding vow, thinking only in terms of variables.
His excessive caution was hard for Susan to deal with, and now it begins to test Ben's patience, as he is eager to return to his human form while Reed is taking his time on the machine. Unknown to the others, however, Victor's body is also mutating; he is turning into organic metal capable of absorbing and manipulating electrical energy. As a result of the disastrous expedition, his company is going bankrupt and he is losing public stature; blaming Reed for his misfortunes, Victor swears revenge.
After killing a bank chairman who had pulled out of the Von Doom Industries' IPO, Victor sees the opportunity to finish off his rival once and for all. Manipulating Ben's insecurity and anguish, Victor tricks Ben into thinking that his teammates are not working on a cure with due diligence; after a vicious argument between himself and Reed, Ben storms out of the Baxter Building. Reed experiments with the curative machine on himself and nearly dies in the process, but learns that the machine only needs more power to fully succeed. Victor, who has been spying on Reed, tricks Ben into entering the machine and provides the extra power.
Ben becomes normal again, while Victor's own mutation increases exponentially, increasing his power but also physically disfiguring him. When Ben realizes that Victor merely wanted the super-strong Thing out of the way so that no one could stop him, Victor immobilizes Ben. Reed discovers them and Victor attacks him, taking him prisoner, and sarcastically asks "What happens when you super-cool rubber?" while getting him frozen to prevent him using his powers of distention. When Susan and Johnny realize what has happened, Victor - now calling himself 'Doom' - fires a heat-seeker missile at the Baxter Building, intending it to target and kill Johnny.
Johnny uses his powers of heat and flight to lead the missile to open water, where he ignites a garbage scow to dispose of the missile. However, he is thrown into the water, and whether he remains alive is not shown. Meanwhile, Susan attempts to rescue Reed and confronts Doom. She soon proves no match for the powerful Doom, and he is on the verge of killing her when Ben - having activated Reed's machine and used it upon himself to restore his mutation - bursts into the room. Doom and Ben fight, until the battle spills onto the street below.
But no matter how hard Ben attacks him, he is unable to overpower Doom, and Doom knocks him flat on his back. He is about to deal the finishing strike, when a recovered Reed and Susan arrive to save Ben. Doom begins to scorn them, when he is blasted from behind with fire from none other than Johnny, who survived his encounter with the missile unharmed. Doom absorbs all the electricity in the area that he can to begin the final showdown. At first, it seems that Doom has the advantage, as the team struggles under his onslaught of electric blasts.
Reed manages to use his elastic body to temporarily restrain Doom, and then coordinates the team for an offensive attack, trusting his initial judgment for the first time. He starts by telling Johnny to unleash his supernova heat on Doom, despite the fact that even Johnny agreed this was dangerous. Johnny uses this to surround Doom in a vortex of fire, while Reed gets Susan to try to contain it (and its dangerous amount of heat) within a force field.
She manages to do so while Doom makes futile attempts to break free with his electric blasts. When Johnny and Susan give out, it looks as if Doom is just starting to melt, but he is still on his feet and merely sneers "Is that the best you can do? A little heat?". Reed responds "Time for your lesson - Chem 101. What happens when you rapidly cool hot metal?" Ben then kicks the top off of a fire hydrant, and he and Reed direct the water shooting out of it at Doom. The steam created as the water hits Doom forms a thick cloud, and when it settles, Doom is seemingly left as a statue of inert metal.
Ben informs Reed that he has accepted his condition with the help of Alicia Masters, a blind artist for whom he has developed feelings, and the team decide to embrace their roles as superheroes and unite officially as the Fantastic Four. Reed proposes marriage to Susan, who accepts. Doom's remains are being transported back to his homeland of Latveria when the ship carrying them experiences unusual electronic interference.
Pictures :
Tim Story
Writing credits
(WGA)
Mark Frost (written by)
Michael France (written by)
Stan Lee (Marvel comic book)
Jack Kirby (Marvel comic book)
Release Date:
8 July 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Cast :
Actor/Actress Role
Ioan Gruffudd Dr. Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic
Jessica Alba Susan Storm / Invisible Woman
Michael Chiklis Ben Grimm / The Thing
Chris Evans Johnny Storm / Human Torch
Julian McMahon Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom
Hamish Linklater Leonard
Kerry Washington Alicia Masters
Laurie Holden Debbie McIlvane
David Parker Ernie
Kevin McNulty Jimmy O'Hoolihan
Maria Menounos Nurse
Michael Kopsa Ned Cecil
Stan Lee Willie Lumpkin
Original Sound Track :
01. Come In, Come On - Velvet Revolver
02. Error Operator - Taking Back Sunday
03. Relax - Chingy
04. Whatever Happened To The Heroes - Joss Stone
05. Waiting (Save Your Life) - Omnisoul
06. Always Come Back To You - Ryan Cabrera
07. Everything Burns - Ben Moody Featuring Anastacia
08. New World Symphony - Miri Ben-Ari Featuring Pharoahe Monch
09. Die For You (Fantastic Four Mix) - Megan McCauley
10. Noots - Sum 41
11. Surrender - Simple Plan
12. I'll Take You Down - T.F.F.
13. On Fire - Lloyd Banks
14. Reverie - Megan McCauley
15. Goodbye To You - Breaking Point
16. Shed My Skin - Alter Bridge
17. In Due Time - Submersed
18. Disposable Sunshine - Loser
19. Now You Know - Miss Eighty 6 Featuring Classic
20. Kirikirimai (Fantastic Four Remix) - Orange Range
Plot :
Dr. Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), a genius but timid and bankrupt physicist, is convinced that evolution is triggered by clouds of cosmic energy in space, and has calculated that one of these clouds is soon going to pass near Earth. Together with his friend, the gruff yet gentle astronaut Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis), Reed convinces his equally brilliant but conceited Massachusetts Institute of Technology classmate Dr. Victor von Doom (Julian McMahon), now CEO of Von Doom Industries, to allow him access to his privately-owned space station.
Von Doom agrees, in exchange for control over the experiment and a majority of the profits from whatever benefits it brings. He brings aboard his chief genetics researcher (and Reed's ex-girlfriend) Susan Storm (Jessica Alba), and her hot-headed brother Johnny Storm (Chris Evans), his private astronaut, who was Ben's subordinate at NASA but is his superior on the mission, much to Ben's disgust. The quintet travels to space to observe the cosmic energy clouds, but Reed has miscalculated and the clouds materialize well ahead of schedule.
Victor refuses Reed's plea to abort the mission, knowing he must produce results to justify his expenditure, no matter the human cost involved. Knowing Ben is space-walking to set up equipment, Reed, Susan and Johnny leave the shielded inner area of the station to rescue him, and Victor closes the shield behind them. Whilst Victor is seemingly safe, the others are exposed to the cloud. Ben receives full exposure out in space, while the others receive a more limited dose within the station.
The astronauts make it home intact; however, before long they begin to mutate, developing strange powers. Reed is able to stretch like rubber; Susan can become invisible (by bending light around objects) and create force fields, especially when angered; Johnny can engulf himself in fire at up to supernova-like temperatures, and is able to fly; and Ben is transformed into "The Thing", a large, rock-like creature with superhuman strength.
After Ben, brooding about his situation on the Brooklyn Bridge, accidentally causes a major traffic pile-up whilst attempting to stop a man from committing suicide, the four use their powers to prevent any loss of life and to rescue a fire truck and its crew from falling off the bridge. The media dubs the team the 'Fantastic Four'; whilst Johnny eagerly embraces his powers and new life, Ben - the only one whose transformed appearance is permanent - suffers.
His disfigurement has caused his fiancee, Debbie, to abandon him and has seen him shunned and feared by much of New York. Blaming himself, Reed vows to return Ben to his human form. Therefore he, Susan and Ben work on a cure, constructing a healing chamber in Reed's high tech Baxter Building loft-turned-laboratory. During this time, Reed and Susan begin to rekindle their attraction to one another. Susan admits that she is not interested in Victor, but had turned away from Reed because he feared to make a binding vow, thinking only in terms of variables.
His excessive caution was hard for Susan to deal with, and now it begins to test Ben's patience, as he is eager to return to his human form while Reed is taking his time on the machine. Unknown to the others, however, Victor's body is also mutating; he is turning into organic metal capable of absorbing and manipulating electrical energy. As a result of the disastrous expedition, his company is going bankrupt and he is losing public stature; blaming Reed for his misfortunes, Victor swears revenge.
After killing a bank chairman who had pulled out of the Von Doom Industries' IPO, Victor sees the opportunity to finish off his rival once and for all. Manipulating Ben's insecurity and anguish, Victor tricks Ben into thinking that his teammates are not working on a cure with due diligence; after a vicious argument between himself and Reed, Ben storms out of the Baxter Building. Reed experiments with the curative machine on himself and nearly dies in the process, but learns that the machine only needs more power to fully succeed. Victor, who has been spying on Reed, tricks Ben into entering the machine and provides the extra power.
Ben becomes normal again, while Victor's own mutation increases exponentially, increasing his power but also physically disfiguring him. When Ben realizes that Victor merely wanted the super-strong Thing out of the way so that no one could stop him, Victor immobilizes Ben. Reed discovers them and Victor attacks him, taking him prisoner, and sarcastically asks "What happens when you super-cool rubber?" while getting him frozen to prevent him using his powers of distention. When Susan and Johnny realize what has happened, Victor - now calling himself 'Doom' - fires a heat-seeker missile at the Baxter Building, intending it to target and kill Johnny.
Johnny uses his powers of heat and flight to lead the missile to open water, where he ignites a garbage scow to dispose of the missile. However, he is thrown into the water, and whether he remains alive is not shown. Meanwhile, Susan attempts to rescue Reed and confronts Doom. She soon proves no match for the powerful Doom, and he is on the verge of killing her when Ben - having activated Reed's machine and used it upon himself to restore his mutation - bursts into the room. Doom and Ben fight, until the battle spills onto the street below.
But no matter how hard Ben attacks him, he is unable to overpower Doom, and Doom knocks him flat on his back. He is about to deal the finishing strike, when a recovered Reed and Susan arrive to save Ben. Doom begins to scorn them, when he is blasted from behind with fire from none other than Johnny, who survived his encounter with the missile unharmed. Doom absorbs all the electricity in the area that he can to begin the final showdown. At first, it seems that Doom has the advantage, as the team struggles under his onslaught of electric blasts.
Reed manages to use his elastic body to temporarily restrain Doom, and then coordinates the team for an offensive attack, trusting his initial judgment for the first time. He starts by telling Johnny to unleash his supernova heat on Doom, despite the fact that even Johnny agreed this was dangerous. Johnny uses this to surround Doom in a vortex of fire, while Reed gets Susan to try to contain it (and its dangerous amount of heat) within a force field.
She manages to do so while Doom makes futile attempts to break free with his electric blasts. When Johnny and Susan give out, it looks as if Doom is just starting to melt, but he is still on his feet and merely sneers "Is that the best you can do? A little heat?". Reed responds "Time for your lesson - Chem 101. What happens when you rapidly cool hot metal?" Ben then kicks the top off of a fire hydrant, and he and Reed direct the water shooting out of it at Doom. The steam created as the water hits Doom forms a thick cloud, and when it settles, Doom is seemingly left as a statue of inert metal.
Ben informs Reed that he has accepted his condition with the help of Alicia Masters, a blind artist for whom he has developed feelings, and the team decide to embrace their roles as superheroes and unite officially as the Fantastic Four. Reed proposes marriage to Susan, who accepts. Doom's remains are being transported back to his homeland of Latveria when the ship carrying them experiences unusual electronic interference.
Pictures :
The Longest Yard Movie
Directed by
Peter Segal
Writing credits
(WGA)
Albert S. Ruddy (story)
Tracy Keenan Wynn (1974 screenplay)
Sheldon Turner (screenplay)
Release Date:
27 May 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Sport
Cast :
Cons
* Adam Sandler – Paul Crewe
* Burt Reynolds – Nate Scarborough
* Chris Rock – Farrell "Caretaker"
* Nelly – Earl Meggett
* Michael Irvin – Deacon Moss
* Bill Goldberg – Joey Battle
* Terry Crews – Cheeseburger Eddy
* Bob Sapp – Switowski
* Nicholas Turturro – Brucie
* Dalip Singh Rana (aka The Great Khali) – Turley
* Lobo Sebastian – Torres
* Joey Diaz – Big Tony
* Steve Reevis – Silent Bob
* David Patrick Kelly – Unger
* Tracy Morgan - Ms. Tucker
* Edward Bunker - Skitchy Rivers
Guards
* William Fichtner – Capt. Knauer
* Bill Romanowski – Guard Lambert
* Kevin Nash – Sgt. Engleheart
* Stone Cold Steve Austin – Guard Dunham
* Brian Bosworth – Guard Garner
* Michael Papajohn - Guard Papajohn
* Conrad Goode - Guard Webster
* Brandon Molale – Guard Malloy
* Todd Holland - Guard Holland
* James Cromwell – Warden Hazen
* Cloris Leachman – Lynette
* Rob Schneider – Punky
Cameos
* Chris Berman - himself
* Courteney Cox – Lena (uncredited)
* Jim Rome - himself
* Lauren Sánchez - herself
* D-12 (excluding Eminem) - Basketball convicts
Original Sound Track :
1. Errtime - Nelly
2. Shorty Bounce - Lil Wayne
3. Bounce Like This - T.I.
4. Let 'Em Fight - Ali/Gipp
5. Stomp - Murphy Lee/King Jacob
6. So Fly - Akon
7. U Should Know - 21G
8. Whip Yo Ass - W.C./Nelly
9. Talkin' That Talk - Chamillionaire/David Banner
10. Datz on My Mama - Taylor Made/Nelly
11. Infultrate - Trillville
12. My Ballz - D12/Eminem
13. Fly Away - Nelly
Plot :
The film starts with Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler), an ex-NFL player disgraced for shaving points in a big game, getting in an argument with his rich girlfriend Lena (Courteney Cox) regarding his failure. He locks her in a closet, gets drunk, and goes joy riding in her car throughout San Diego. After getting the car completely destroyed and disabling several police cruisers in the process, he gets arrested. He is found guilty of grand theft auto and is sentenced to three years in Allenville Penitentiary in Texas, as it was arranged by the prison's warden Hazen (James Cromwell).
In prison, the warden asks Paul to help with the prison guards' football team. After being roughed up a bit, Paul (under threat of an extra 5 years for blocking a guard's baton) decides to help him. He informs the warden that what his team needs is a tune-up game: a game where they play a team and "kick the living shit out of 'em, and get their spirits up". This gives the warden an idea: Paul, with the help of fellow immate Caretaker (Rock), will make a team out of the inmates for them to play as their tune-up game. He starts off with a poorly organized team before being noticed by another prisoner, former football player Nate Scarborough (Reynolds), and decides to help him by coaching the team.
Then Paul, Nate, and Caretaker find a rating system on the criminals (up to five stars, depending on how prone to violence they are). They all set out to find and recruit some five star inmates: linebacker Joey Battle (Goldberg); fullback Turley (Singh Rana); and at safety, Torres (Lobo Sebastian), a chain-smoking outsider. But after realizing their team is built on power and nastiness (primarily on defense) and there is no offensive threats on the team, Paul realizes he needs more players. Caretaker suggests that it is due to their lack of "brothers", as they only have one currently on their team: defensive lineman Switowsky (Sapp), an unintelligent, child-like, but large strongman.
They go to the black inmates and approach their leader Deacon Moss (Irvin), who declares that none of them want to play on his team because of Paul's point-shaving history. So Paul challenges them to a 1 on 1 basketball game where if Paul wins, the men will join the team. They play basketball and call their own fouls with Paul getting physically punished during the game. Despite Paul losing, one of the black immates, Earl Megget (Nelly), is impressed by Paul's resilience and joins the team. Megget becomes the team's running back in turn by impressing Paul with his running ability.
After a tip from Unger (David Patrick Kelly) that Paul and Megget are the only real offensive threats on the team, Captain Knauer (Fichtner), the guards' quarterback, decides that the guards should try to stop Megget by trying to get him to assault one of them and sticking them in solitary confinement. Three guards Dunham (Austin), Garner (Bosworth) and Engelheart (Nash) try to provoke Megget by using racial slurs and making him pick up books they dropped on the ground repeatedly. The guards give up on this after he stands through their harassment. Witnessing this was Moss and Cheeseburger Eddy (Crews), who align the rest of black inmates to join the football team. The warden and guards go to extreme lengths to stop Paul's squad, even flooding their field, but the team overcomes these obstacles.
Caretaker suggests that since the guards have been playing dirty that the inmates should start acting more like criminals, such as swapping Engelheart's anabolic steroids for estrogen pills, examining x-rays of guards with broken bones, and stealing tapes of the guards past games. The guards Garner, Engelheart, Holland and Lambert (Romanowski) then decide to do something about Paul, and have Unger plant a bomb, disguised as a radio, in his cell. After the final day of preparation for the big game, Caretaker leaves early and places a gift for Paul in his cell and accidentally sets the bomb (which was the radio) off, and is killed in the resulting explosion.
During game day, the immates (now calling themselves "Mean Machine" with gear provided by the late-Caretaker) overcome a rough start and end the first half with the score tied. The warden is angry, and informs Paul that if he doesn't lose then he would be framed for the murder of Caretaker (another 25 years). Paul says spitefully, "Fine, but you get a 2 touchdown lead and you coast". The warden agrees to Paul's face, but he tells the guards' quarterback to get ahead by three touchdowns and inflict as much pain as possible. After the guards score two touchdowns (and Paul steps out faking injury), they start injuring players before scoring a third touchdown. After the guards injure two of the players, Paul goes back in, but must regain the trust of the inmates. The inmates ignore Paul, letting him get sacked twice and forcing him to run the ball himself. After losing his helmet and still getting the first down, Paul admits his sabotage and they trust him again. They get back in it, but Megget gets hurt. Scarborough comes in for one play as replacement, and scores a touchdown off a trick play involving a fumble called a Fumblerooski. They decide to go for the two point conversion, and the win. They get up to the line and seem to be confused, and Paul and Coach start arguing. The play is really a trick, and then Moss gets the snap and passes it to Paul, who scores the winning conversion. Ultimately Captain Knauer respects Paul's move and lets him know he will testify that Paul had nothing to do with Caretaker's death.
The warden comes over and begins to admonish Captain Knauer for losing a fixed game and notices that Paul is heading towards the exit along with the fans. Pulling a sniper over, he demands that Paul be shot for attempting to escape. The sniper hesitates because of the numerous people near Paul, so the warden grabs the rifle and passes it to Knauer, demanding that he should take the shot. Knauer sights up Paul, but hesitates, calling out Paul's name several times to get him to stop. Paul does stop, but he was actually going to pick up the ball and head back. Knauer angrily hands the rifle back to the warden and leaves, while Paul gives the game ball to the warden, telling them to "Stick it in his trophy case." Paul and Scarborough head back towards the locker room and agree that they should tell the others where Unger is hiding.
As the warden watches them leave, Moss and Battle pour a cooler of Gatorade on Hazen in a mockery of a typical football game celebration. The Warden angrily shouts that they'll receive a week in the hotbox. Battle yells back "who gives a shit?"
Pictures :
Peter Segal
Writing credits
(WGA)
Albert S. Ruddy (story)
Tracy Keenan Wynn (1974 screenplay)
Sheldon Turner (screenplay)
Release Date:
27 May 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Sport
Cast :
Cons
* Adam Sandler – Paul Crewe
* Burt Reynolds – Nate Scarborough
* Chris Rock – Farrell "Caretaker"
* Nelly – Earl Meggett
* Michael Irvin – Deacon Moss
* Bill Goldberg – Joey Battle
* Terry Crews – Cheeseburger Eddy
* Bob Sapp – Switowski
* Nicholas Turturro – Brucie
* Dalip Singh Rana (aka The Great Khali) – Turley
* Lobo Sebastian – Torres
* Joey Diaz – Big Tony
* Steve Reevis – Silent Bob
* David Patrick Kelly – Unger
* Tracy Morgan - Ms. Tucker
* Edward Bunker - Skitchy Rivers
Guards
* William Fichtner – Capt. Knauer
* Bill Romanowski – Guard Lambert
* Kevin Nash – Sgt. Engleheart
* Stone Cold Steve Austin – Guard Dunham
* Brian Bosworth – Guard Garner
* Michael Papajohn - Guard Papajohn
* Conrad Goode - Guard Webster
* Brandon Molale – Guard Malloy
* Todd Holland - Guard Holland
* James Cromwell – Warden Hazen
* Cloris Leachman – Lynette
* Rob Schneider – Punky
Cameos
* Chris Berman - himself
* Courteney Cox – Lena (uncredited)
* Jim Rome - himself
* Lauren Sánchez - herself
* D-12 (excluding Eminem) - Basketball convicts
Original Sound Track :
1. Errtime - Nelly
2. Shorty Bounce - Lil Wayne
3. Bounce Like This - T.I.
4. Let 'Em Fight - Ali/Gipp
5. Stomp - Murphy Lee/King Jacob
6. So Fly - Akon
7. U Should Know - 21G
8. Whip Yo Ass - W.C./Nelly
9. Talkin' That Talk - Chamillionaire/David Banner
10. Datz on My Mama - Taylor Made/Nelly
11. Infultrate - Trillville
12. My Ballz - D12/Eminem
13. Fly Away - Nelly
Plot :
The film starts with Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler), an ex-NFL player disgraced for shaving points in a big game, getting in an argument with his rich girlfriend Lena (Courteney Cox) regarding his failure. He locks her in a closet, gets drunk, and goes joy riding in her car throughout San Diego. After getting the car completely destroyed and disabling several police cruisers in the process, he gets arrested. He is found guilty of grand theft auto and is sentenced to three years in Allenville Penitentiary in Texas, as it was arranged by the prison's warden Hazen (James Cromwell).
In prison, the warden asks Paul to help with the prison guards' football team. After being roughed up a bit, Paul (under threat of an extra 5 years for blocking a guard's baton) decides to help him. He informs the warden that what his team needs is a tune-up game: a game where they play a team and "kick the living shit out of 'em, and get their spirits up". This gives the warden an idea: Paul, with the help of fellow immate Caretaker (Rock), will make a team out of the inmates for them to play as their tune-up game. He starts off with a poorly organized team before being noticed by another prisoner, former football player Nate Scarborough (Reynolds), and decides to help him by coaching the team.
Then Paul, Nate, and Caretaker find a rating system on the criminals (up to five stars, depending on how prone to violence they are). They all set out to find and recruit some five star inmates: linebacker Joey Battle (Goldberg); fullback Turley (Singh Rana); and at safety, Torres (Lobo Sebastian), a chain-smoking outsider. But after realizing their team is built on power and nastiness (primarily on defense) and there is no offensive threats on the team, Paul realizes he needs more players. Caretaker suggests that it is due to their lack of "brothers", as they only have one currently on their team: defensive lineman Switowsky (Sapp), an unintelligent, child-like, but large strongman.
They go to the black inmates and approach their leader Deacon Moss (Irvin), who declares that none of them want to play on his team because of Paul's point-shaving history. So Paul challenges them to a 1 on 1 basketball game where if Paul wins, the men will join the team. They play basketball and call their own fouls with Paul getting physically punished during the game. Despite Paul losing, one of the black immates, Earl Megget (Nelly), is impressed by Paul's resilience and joins the team. Megget becomes the team's running back in turn by impressing Paul with his running ability.
After a tip from Unger (David Patrick Kelly) that Paul and Megget are the only real offensive threats on the team, Captain Knauer (Fichtner), the guards' quarterback, decides that the guards should try to stop Megget by trying to get him to assault one of them and sticking them in solitary confinement. Three guards Dunham (Austin), Garner (Bosworth) and Engelheart (Nash) try to provoke Megget by using racial slurs and making him pick up books they dropped on the ground repeatedly. The guards give up on this after he stands through their harassment. Witnessing this was Moss and Cheeseburger Eddy (Crews), who align the rest of black inmates to join the football team. The warden and guards go to extreme lengths to stop Paul's squad, even flooding their field, but the team overcomes these obstacles.
Caretaker suggests that since the guards have been playing dirty that the inmates should start acting more like criminals, such as swapping Engelheart's anabolic steroids for estrogen pills, examining x-rays of guards with broken bones, and stealing tapes of the guards past games. The guards Garner, Engelheart, Holland and Lambert (Romanowski) then decide to do something about Paul, and have Unger plant a bomb, disguised as a radio, in his cell. After the final day of preparation for the big game, Caretaker leaves early and places a gift for Paul in his cell and accidentally sets the bomb (which was the radio) off, and is killed in the resulting explosion.
During game day, the immates (now calling themselves "Mean Machine" with gear provided by the late-Caretaker) overcome a rough start and end the first half with the score tied. The warden is angry, and informs Paul that if he doesn't lose then he would be framed for the murder of Caretaker (another 25 years). Paul says spitefully, "Fine, but you get a 2 touchdown lead and you coast". The warden agrees to Paul's face, but he tells the guards' quarterback to get ahead by three touchdowns and inflict as much pain as possible. After the guards score two touchdowns (and Paul steps out faking injury), they start injuring players before scoring a third touchdown. After the guards injure two of the players, Paul goes back in, but must regain the trust of the inmates. The inmates ignore Paul, letting him get sacked twice and forcing him to run the ball himself. After losing his helmet and still getting the first down, Paul admits his sabotage and they trust him again. They get back in it, but Megget gets hurt. Scarborough comes in for one play as replacement, and scores a touchdown off a trick play involving a fumble called a Fumblerooski. They decide to go for the two point conversion, and the win. They get up to the line and seem to be confused, and Paul and Coach start arguing. The play is really a trick, and then Moss gets the snap and passes it to Paul, who scores the winning conversion. Ultimately Captain Knauer respects Paul's move and lets him know he will testify that Paul had nothing to do with Caretaker's death.
The warden comes over and begins to admonish Captain Knauer for losing a fixed game and notices that Paul is heading towards the exit along with the fans. Pulling a sniper over, he demands that Paul be shot for attempting to escape. The sniper hesitates because of the numerous people near Paul, so the warden grabs the rifle and passes it to Knauer, demanding that he should take the shot. Knauer sights up Paul, but hesitates, calling out Paul's name several times to get him to stop. Paul does stop, but he was actually going to pick up the ball and head back. Knauer angrily hands the rifle back to the warden and leaves, while Paul gives the game ball to the warden, telling them to "Stick it in his trophy case." Paul and Scarborough head back towards the locker room and agree that they should tell the others where Unger is hiding.
As the warden watches them leave, Moss and Battle pour a cooler of Gatorade on Hazen in a mockery of a typical football game celebration. The Warden angrily shouts that they'll receive a week in the hotbox. Battle yells back "who gives a shit?"
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Hitch Movie
Director:
Andy Tennant
Writer (WGA):
Kevin Bisch (written by)
Release Date :
Germany 14 February 2005 (Berlin International Film Festival)
Genre:
Comedy | Romance
Cast :
* Alex "Hitch" Hitchens - Will Smith
* Sara Melas - Eva Mendes
* Albert Brennaman - Kevin James
* Allegra Cole - Amber Valletta
* Casey Sedgewick - Julie Ann Emery
* Max - Adam Arkin
* Cressida Baylor - Robinne Lee
* Geoff - Nathan Lee Graham
* Ben - Michael Rapaport
* Vance Munson - Jeffrey Donovan
* Mandy - Paula Patton
Original Sound Track :
1. 1 Thing - Amerie
2. Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing - John Legend
3. This Is How I Feel - Earth, Wind & Fire/Kelly Rowland/Sleepy Brown
4. Ooh Wee - Mark Ronson/Ghostface Killah/Nate Dogg/Trife Da God/Saigon
5. Now That We Found Love - Heavy D & The Boyz
6. Happy - Meleni Smith
7. Love Train - The O'Jays
8. I Can't Get Next to You - The Temptations
9. You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff
10. It's Easy to Fall in Love (With A Guy Like You) - Martha Reeves/The Vandellas
11. Reasons - Earth, Wind & Fire
12. Never Gonna Let You Go (She's a Keepa) - Omarion
13. Turn Me On - Kevin Lyttle
Plot :
Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) is a professional "date doctor", or consultant as Hitch terms himself, who coaches other men in the art of having the perfect date with the woman of their dreams.
In a flashback scene, Hitch, a then-nerd, dated a girl in college that cheated on him and was heartbroken, which gave him the motive becoming a date doctor to help his fellow men who are the hopeless romantic he once was.
While coaching one of his clients, Albert Brennaman (Kevin James), who is smitten with celebrity Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta), Hitch finds himself falling for Sara Melas (Eva Mendes), a gossip columnist who is determined to unmask and ruin the so-called date doctor after one of his "clients" (with whom Hitch refused to work with, unknown to Sara) had a one night stand with her best friend. However, where Albert and Allegra's relationship continues to progress, Hitch finds that none of his tried and tested methods are working on himself, despite being a master of the art.
Sara finds out that Hitch is the date doctor and mistakenly concludes that he is the reason that he helps men have flings with women, which makes Albert look like he's just after sex. Hitch reveals to Sara and her friend that he helps men have a chance to do the impossible by dating the women of their dreams. Afterwards, Hitch is hesitant to speak to Sara and Albert is upset that the media thinks he really isn't in love with Allegra.
Hitch confronts Allegra and convinces her to reunite with Albert, before finally reconciling with Sara. In the process, he makes the startling discovery that he doesn't really do anything significant; while Hitch is able to give them the confidence boost to go after what they want, most of his customers (particularly Albert) really were successful by just being themselves.
In the end, Albert and Allegra get married and celebrate their marriage with Hitch and Sara, who are also back together again. Hitch, reflecting on love's unpredictability, addresses the audience in the last line: "Basic principles... There are none".
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Andy Tennant
Writer (WGA):
Kevin Bisch (written by)
Release Date :
Germany 14 February 2005 (Berlin International Film Festival)
Genre:
Comedy | Romance
Cast :
* Alex "Hitch" Hitchens - Will Smith
* Sara Melas - Eva Mendes
* Albert Brennaman - Kevin James
* Allegra Cole - Amber Valletta
* Casey Sedgewick - Julie Ann Emery
* Max - Adam Arkin
* Cressida Baylor - Robinne Lee
* Geoff - Nathan Lee Graham
* Ben - Michael Rapaport
* Vance Munson - Jeffrey Donovan
* Mandy - Paula Patton
Original Sound Track :
1. 1 Thing - Amerie
2. Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing - John Legend
3. This Is How I Feel - Earth, Wind & Fire/Kelly Rowland/Sleepy Brown
4. Ooh Wee - Mark Ronson/Ghostface Killah/Nate Dogg/Trife Da God/Saigon
5. Now That We Found Love - Heavy D & The Boyz
6. Happy - Meleni Smith
7. Love Train - The O'Jays
8. I Can't Get Next to You - The Temptations
9. You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff
10. It's Easy to Fall in Love (With A Guy Like You) - Martha Reeves/The Vandellas
11. Reasons - Earth, Wind & Fire
12. Never Gonna Let You Go (She's a Keepa) - Omarion
13. Turn Me On - Kevin Lyttle
Plot :
Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) is a professional "date doctor", or consultant as Hitch terms himself, who coaches other men in the art of having the perfect date with the woman of their dreams.
In a flashback scene, Hitch, a then-nerd, dated a girl in college that cheated on him and was heartbroken, which gave him the motive becoming a date doctor to help his fellow men who are the hopeless romantic he once was.
While coaching one of his clients, Albert Brennaman (Kevin James), who is smitten with celebrity Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta), Hitch finds himself falling for Sara Melas (Eva Mendes), a gossip columnist who is determined to unmask and ruin the so-called date doctor after one of his "clients" (with whom Hitch refused to work with, unknown to Sara) had a one night stand with her best friend. However, where Albert and Allegra's relationship continues to progress, Hitch finds that none of his tried and tested methods are working on himself, despite being a master of the art.
Sara finds out that Hitch is the date doctor and mistakenly concludes that he is the reason that he helps men have flings with women, which makes Albert look like he's just after sex. Hitch reveals to Sara and her friend that he helps men have a chance to do the impossible by dating the women of their dreams. Afterwards, Hitch is hesitant to speak to Sara and Albert is upset that the media thinks he really isn't in love with Allegra.
Hitch confronts Allegra and convinces her to reunite with Albert, before finally reconciling with Sara. In the process, he makes the startling discovery that he doesn't really do anything significant; while Hitch is able to give them the confidence boost to go after what they want, most of his customers (particularly Albert) really were successful by just being themselves.
In the end, Albert and Allegra get married and celebrate their marriage with Hitch and Sara, who are also back together again. Hitch, reflecting on love's unpredictability, addresses the audience in the last line: "Basic principles... There are none".
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005
Director:
Doug Liman
Writer (WGA):
Simon Kinberg (written by)
Release Date :
USA 7 June 2005 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
Genre:
Action | Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Cast :
* Brad Pitt as John Smith
* Angelina Jolie as Jane Smith
* Adam Brody as Benjamin "The Tank" Danz
* Vince Vaughn as Eddie
* Kerry Washington as Jasmine
* Keith David as Father
* Angela Bassett as Atlanta
* Chris Weitz as Martin Coleman
* Rachael Huntley as Suzy Coleman
* Michelle Monaghan as Gwen
* Stephanie March as Julie
* Jennifer Morrison as Jade
* Theresa Barrera as Janet
* Perrey Reeves as Jessie
* Melanie Tolbert as Jamie
* William Fichtner as Dr. Wexler (voice)
Original Sound Track :
01 - the j. geils band - love stinks 03:37
02 - poison - nothin' but a good time 03:45
03 - soft cell - tainted love 02:42
04 - alana d - baby, baby 03:15
05 - charles wright & the watts 103rd street 04:32
rhythm band - express yourself (mocean work
06 - joe strummer & the mescaleros - mondo 06:13
bongo
07 - magnet - lay lady lay (feat. gemma hayes) 04:39
08 - nouvelle vague - i'll melt with you 04:03
09 - smm - nobody does it better 04:57
10 - pink martini - let's never stop falling 03:02
in love
11 - john powell - assassin's tango 04:02
12 - voodoo glow skulls - used to love her 02:37
(but i had to kill her)
13 - stine j. - you are my sunshine 02:22
14 - the righteous brothers - you've lost that 03:42
lovin' feelin'
15 - air supply - making love out of nothing 05:42
at all
16 - atreyu - you give love a bad name 03:18
17 - captain & tennille - love will keep us 03:23
together
Plot :
The film opens with John and Jane Smith answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple who have been married for "five or six" years, but their sex life is so poor that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they met while both were secretly on the run from Colombian authorities. They quickly fell in love and were married. John later states that Jane "looked like Christmas morning" to him on the day they met.
In reality, however, John and Jane are both skilled assassins working for different firms, both among the best in their field, but both with very different methods of assassination with Jane working out thorough plans and John taking a less analytical approach. Each are concealing their true profession from their spouse. Under these cover stories, John and Jane balance their apparently mundane marriage—which both of them find after a few years to be growing dull and suffocating—with their secretive work. When both are assigned to kill a man named Benjamin Danz (nicknamed "The Tank"), they encounter each other on the job and botch the hit. Believing each had been sent to stop the other from completing their mission, their employers order one Smith to eliminate the other.
After a few "mild" attempts on each other's lives, fueled by a mutual sense of betrayal, the marital spat culminates in an elaborately choreographed, high-octane fight in the Smith house. After a long, evenly-matched fight, with their house shot to shambles, they wind up with guns in each other's faces. John balks, and lays his gun down; Jane finds she cannot shoot her spouse either, and both succumb to their love instead. Mr. and Mrs. Smith reunite and rediscover each other.
However, the newly-rekindled Smith partnership is quickly threatened by their employers, who have now decided to eliminate the couple. John's best friend and coworker, Eddie, turns down a bounty of $400,000 for each Smith, but John and Jane find themselves under fire from an army of assassins. Fending off an attack which blows up their house, the Smiths "borrow" their neighbor's minivan and successfully destroy three pursuing armored cars of attackers, all while bickering over their fighting styles and newly-discovered personal secrets.
After meeting with Eddie, the Smiths decide to fight together to preserve their marriage. They kidnap Danz from his high-security prison in order to give their employers something they want more than the Smiths. However, Danz reveals that he was merely bait, hired jointly by their employers after it was discovered that the Smiths were married, in the hopes of having one Smith kill the other.
John and Jane forgo their separate contingency plans and make their stand together. In the final fight scene of the film, the Smiths — now working smoothly together as a team — defeat an extended attack by a large number of armed forces during a long shoot-out inside a department store.
The film ends with the couple meeting the marriage counselor, where the happy Smiths state how much their marriage has thrived, realizing how happy they really are.
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Doug Liman
Writer (WGA):
Simon Kinberg (written by)
Release Date :
USA 7 June 2005 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
Genre:
Action | Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Cast :
* Brad Pitt as John Smith
* Angelina Jolie as Jane Smith
* Adam Brody as Benjamin "The Tank" Danz
* Vince Vaughn as Eddie
* Kerry Washington as Jasmine
* Keith David as Father
* Angela Bassett as Atlanta
* Chris Weitz as Martin Coleman
* Rachael Huntley as Suzy Coleman
* Michelle Monaghan as Gwen
* Stephanie March as Julie
* Jennifer Morrison as Jade
* Theresa Barrera as Janet
* Perrey Reeves as Jessie
* Melanie Tolbert as Jamie
* William Fichtner as Dr. Wexler (voice)
Original Sound Track :
01 - the j. geils band - love stinks 03:37
02 - poison - nothin' but a good time 03:45
03 - soft cell - tainted love 02:42
04 - alana d - baby, baby 03:15
05 - charles wright & the watts 103rd street 04:32
rhythm band - express yourself (mocean work
06 - joe strummer & the mescaleros - mondo 06:13
bongo
07 - magnet - lay lady lay (feat. gemma hayes) 04:39
08 - nouvelle vague - i'll melt with you 04:03
09 - smm - nobody does it better 04:57
10 - pink martini - let's never stop falling 03:02
in love
11 - john powell - assassin's tango 04:02
12 - voodoo glow skulls - used to love her 02:37
(but i had to kill her)
13 - stine j. - you are my sunshine 02:22
14 - the righteous brothers - you've lost that 03:42
lovin' feelin'
15 - air supply - making love out of nothing 05:42
at all
16 - atreyu - you give love a bad name 03:18
17 - captain & tennille - love will keep us 03:23
together
Plot :
The film opens with John and Jane Smith answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple who have been married for "five or six" years, but their sex life is so poor that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they met while both were secretly on the run from Colombian authorities. They quickly fell in love and were married. John later states that Jane "looked like Christmas morning" to him on the day they met.
In reality, however, John and Jane are both skilled assassins working for different firms, both among the best in their field, but both with very different methods of assassination with Jane working out thorough plans and John taking a less analytical approach. Each are concealing their true profession from their spouse. Under these cover stories, John and Jane balance their apparently mundane marriage—which both of them find after a few years to be growing dull and suffocating—with their secretive work. When both are assigned to kill a man named Benjamin Danz (nicknamed "The Tank"), they encounter each other on the job and botch the hit. Believing each had been sent to stop the other from completing their mission, their employers order one Smith to eliminate the other.
After a few "mild" attempts on each other's lives, fueled by a mutual sense of betrayal, the marital spat culminates in an elaborately choreographed, high-octane fight in the Smith house. After a long, evenly-matched fight, with their house shot to shambles, they wind up with guns in each other's faces. John balks, and lays his gun down; Jane finds she cannot shoot her spouse either, and both succumb to their love instead. Mr. and Mrs. Smith reunite and rediscover each other.
However, the newly-rekindled Smith partnership is quickly threatened by their employers, who have now decided to eliminate the couple. John's best friend and coworker, Eddie, turns down a bounty of $400,000 for each Smith, but John and Jane find themselves under fire from an army of assassins. Fending off an attack which blows up their house, the Smiths "borrow" their neighbor's minivan and successfully destroy three pursuing armored cars of attackers, all while bickering over their fighting styles and newly-discovered personal secrets.
After meeting with Eddie, the Smiths decide to fight together to preserve their marriage. They kidnap Danz from his high-security prison in order to give their employers something they want more than the Smiths. However, Danz reveals that he was merely bait, hired jointly by their employers after it was discovered that the Smiths were married, in the hopes of having one Smith kill the other.
John and Jane forgo their separate contingency plans and make their stand together. In the final fight scene of the film, the Smiths — now working smoothly together as a team — defeat an extended attack by a large number of armed forces during a long shoot-out inside a department store.
The film ends with the couple meeting the marriage counselor, where the happy Smiths state how much their marriage has thrived, realizing how happy they really are.
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Madagascar Movie
Directors:
Eric Darnell
Tom McGrath
Writing credits
Mark Burton (written by)
Billy Frolick (written by)
Eric Darnell (written by)
Tom McGrath (written by)
Release Date:
27 May 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Cast :
* Ben Stiller as Alex
* Chris Rock as Marty
* Andy Richter as Mort
* David Schwimmer as Melman
* Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria
* Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien
* Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice
* Tom McGrath as Skipper
* John DiMaggio as Rico
* Chris Miller as Kowalski
* Christopher Knights as Private
* Conrad Vernon as Mason
* Bob Saget as (animal unclear)
1.Alex the Lion is the most popular animal at the Central Park Zoo. Nicknamed The King of New York, he is very happy with life in the zoo. When the characters first arrive in Madagascar, he is the loudest proponent of trying to return to the zoo. He is extremely fond of eating steaks but has no idea that they come from animals until he goes into withdrawal after 2 days of not eating after reaching Madagascar.
2.Marty the Zebra is the instigator behind escaping from the zoo. He constantly dreams about the wild (which he interprets as Connecticut) and wonders what life would be like beyond the zoo. One night, following the successful escape of the penguins, he leaves the zoo too, causing his friends to attempt a rescue at Grand Central Station. After they are recaptured from the train station, animal rights activists hold a rally, leading the zoo to have them and the rest of the animals shipped to a wildlife preserve in Kenya. But the penguins hijack the ship and accidentally cause the crates containing Marty and his friends to fall off. The crates float on the ocean until they reach Madagascar.
3.Melman the Giraffe is a hypochondriac who was transferred to the Central Park Zoo as a young adult. Because of his previous stay in the Bronx Zoo, Melman believes that he's a real worldly guy, the most experienced in his circle of friends. He's also on a lot of medication and has lots of experience in MRI machines.
4.Gloria the Hippo serves as the mediator and the nurturer of the group who takes care of the others and tends to take charge when needed and loves to eat and live the good life.
5.The Penguins, a group of four consisting of Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, and Private, spend their days planning an escape that will take them back to Antarctica. When the penguins do make it to Antarctica, they are surprised to see a cold, barren land that they do not like and so, decide to take the ship to what they consider "paradise": Florida. However, having run out of fuel, they beach the ship in Madagascar. Skipper is the leader of the group. Kowalski, the smartest and tallest of the penguins, thinks of plans and takes notes for Skipper. Private is distinguishable by his googly eyes and soft English accent; he is the youngest of the group. Rico is good with knives, has a fondness for explosives, and is the only one of the four seen swimming. He also regurgitates useful objects (a variation of the "magic satchel") such as a piece of wire for picking locks with. Alex describes the penguins as psychotic (while they say the same of him). Skipper calls Marty their "monochromatic friend", amusing since both kinds of animals are "black and white".
6.King Julien XIII the Ring-tailed Lemur is the self-proclaimed King of the Madagascar lemurs. Julien speaks with an Indian accent and loves to sing, dance, and be the center of attention. Julien is annoyed by the lemur Mort and even suggests feeding him to Alex in order to help him get over his addiction to steak. He wears a crown made out of leaves, and later a larger one that features a gecko. The other lemurs hang on his every word. He is slightly deranged and overly impressed by his modest intellect. Julien is also very weird and dramatic. He contrives a plan to use Alex to protect the lemurs from their natural enemies, the fossa, as long as Alex doesn't overshadow his own glory. Also, according to the song "I Like to Move It" King Julien XIII is about 68 years old. According to a May 26, 2005 interview with Director Tom McGrath in the Seattle Post Intelligencer [1], "We had this two-line character, Julian [sic], and we got a tape of the show 'Ali G' with Sacha Baron Cohen. He came in and he invented this Indian accent. We gave him a couple of lines and he turned them into eight minutes of dialogue. We were just in tears on the floor and thought, 'This guy has to be the king.' So that was just a two-line part that he invented and it turned into that role."
7.Maurice the Aye-aye is Julien's assistant and second in command of the lemurs. He is in charge of announcing Julien to his court, though he finds this task tedious. He is generally less impressed by Julien than the other lemurs. Maurice shows the most intelligence in Julien's court, and is the only one to recognize Alex as a potentially greater threat than the fossa.
8.Mort is a Goodman's Mouse Lemur, animals find him adorable, but King Julien is highly annoyed by him, eventually shouting "Oh, shut up, you're so annoying!" in response to his inane chatter but Mort responds to this by giggling and looking flattered. In the commentary for the film, the director mentioned that Mort was actually 35.
9.The Fossas are predators native to Madagascar, who look like hyenas or half-cat half-dog creatures in appearance. Known as the top predators in the island of Madagascar, the fossa are the villains of the movie, constantly trying to kill and eat the lemurs. According to Julien, "they're always annoying us by trespassing, interrupting our parties, and ripping our limbs off". They are cowards, however, and always flee when confronted by a bigger predator, such as Alex. They also use foreign objects such as salt and pepper shakers.
Original Sound Track :
01. Hans Zimmer/Heitor Pereira/Ryeland Allison/James S. Levine - Best Friends
02. Sacha Baron Cohen - [Madagascar OST #2/12] I Like To Move It
03. The Ventures - [Madagascar OST #3/12] Hawaii Five-O
04. Earth, Wind & Fire - [Madagascar OST #4/12] Boogie Wonderland
05. James Dooley - [Madagascar OST #5/12] Whacked Out Conspiracy
06. Vangelis - [Madagascar OST #6/12] Chariots Of Fire
07. The Bee Gees - [Madagascar OST #7/12] Stayin' Alive
08. Hans Zimmer - [Madagascar OST #8/12] Zoosters Breakout
09. Hans Zimmer - [Madagascar OST #9/12] Born Free
10. Heitor Pereira - [Madagascar OST #10/12] The Foosa Attack
11. Hans Zimmer and James S. Levine - [Madagascar OST #11/12] Beacon Of Liberty
12. Louis Armstrong - [Madagascar OST #12/12] What A Wonderful World
Plot :
At the Central Park Zoo, Marty the zebra (Chris Rock) is celebrating his tenth birthday, but longs to see the rest of the world from outside their pampered life at the zoo. Believing that he can find wide-open spaces to run in Connecticut, he joins with the zoo's penguins who are trying to escape the zoo. Marty's friends, Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer), realize Marty's folly and try to follow him. The four, along with the penguins (consisting of Skipper (McGrath), Rico (John DiMaggio), Kowalski (Chris Miller), and Private (Christopher Knights)) and two monkeys, Mason (Conrad Vernon) and Phil, eventually find themselves at Grand Central Station, but are quickly sedated by tranquilizer darts. The zoo, under protest of animal-rights activists, are forced to ship the animals by sea to Kenya. During their travels, the penguins manage to escape and take over the ship, intent on taking it to Antarctica. Their antics on the bridge cause the crates containing Marty, Alex, Gloria, and Melman to fall off the boat and wash ashore on Madagascar.
The animals are soon able to regroup, initially believing themselves to be in San Diego, California. Upon exploring, however, they come across a pack of lemurs lead by King Julien XIII (Sacha Baron Cohen), and quickly learn of their location. Alex blames Marty for their predicament and attempts to signal for help to get back to civilization, while Marty finds the wild to be exactly what he was looking for, with Gloria and Melman soon joining him in enjoying the island. Alex eventually comes around, though his hunting instincts begin to return after being away from the pampered zoo life for so long. The group is accepted by the lemurs, though King Julien's adviser, Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer), cautions them about Alex being a predator. King Julien ignores Maurice's concerns and persuades the group to help the lemurs fend off the fossa who hunt the lemurs as prey. When Alex begins to turn on his friends and the lemurs, unable to overcome his instincts, King Julien bans him to the far side of the island with the fossa. Marty begins to regret seeing what Alex has turned into.
The penguins, having been to Antarctica and finding it not to their liking, land the boat on Madagascar. Seeing this as a chance to return Alex to New York, Marty, with Gloria and Melman, goes to find Alex but become trapped by the fossa. Alex suddenly appears and approaches Marty as if he were prey, but then turns on the fossa to scare them away from the lemur territory forever, showing Marty he has overcome his predatory nature, and satisfy his meat craving through sushi instead of steak. As lemurs throw a bon voyage celebration for the foursome, the penguins decide not to break the news that the ship has run out of fuel and that they are still stuck on the island, setting the stage for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Pictures :
Eric Darnell
Tom McGrath
Writing credits
Mark Burton (written by)
Billy Frolick (written by)
Eric Darnell (written by)
Tom McGrath (written by)
Release Date:
27 May 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Cast :
* Ben Stiller as Alex
* Chris Rock as Marty
* Andy Richter as Mort
* David Schwimmer as Melman
* Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria
* Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien
* Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice
* Tom McGrath as Skipper
* John DiMaggio as Rico
* Chris Miller as Kowalski
* Christopher Knights as Private
* Conrad Vernon as Mason
* Bob Saget as (animal unclear)
1.Alex the Lion is the most popular animal at the Central Park Zoo. Nicknamed The King of New York, he is very happy with life in the zoo. When the characters first arrive in Madagascar, he is the loudest proponent of trying to return to the zoo. He is extremely fond of eating steaks but has no idea that they come from animals until he goes into withdrawal after 2 days of not eating after reaching Madagascar.
2.Marty the Zebra is the instigator behind escaping from the zoo. He constantly dreams about the wild (which he interprets as Connecticut) and wonders what life would be like beyond the zoo. One night, following the successful escape of the penguins, he leaves the zoo too, causing his friends to attempt a rescue at Grand Central Station. After they are recaptured from the train station, animal rights activists hold a rally, leading the zoo to have them and the rest of the animals shipped to a wildlife preserve in Kenya. But the penguins hijack the ship and accidentally cause the crates containing Marty and his friends to fall off. The crates float on the ocean until they reach Madagascar.
3.Melman the Giraffe is a hypochondriac who was transferred to the Central Park Zoo as a young adult. Because of his previous stay in the Bronx Zoo, Melman believes that he's a real worldly guy, the most experienced in his circle of friends. He's also on a lot of medication and has lots of experience in MRI machines.
4.Gloria the Hippo serves as the mediator and the nurturer of the group who takes care of the others and tends to take charge when needed and loves to eat and live the good life.
5.The Penguins, a group of four consisting of Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, and Private, spend their days planning an escape that will take them back to Antarctica. When the penguins do make it to Antarctica, they are surprised to see a cold, barren land that they do not like and so, decide to take the ship to what they consider "paradise": Florida. However, having run out of fuel, they beach the ship in Madagascar. Skipper is the leader of the group. Kowalski, the smartest and tallest of the penguins, thinks of plans and takes notes for Skipper. Private is distinguishable by his googly eyes and soft English accent; he is the youngest of the group. Rico is good with knives, has a fondness for explosives, and is the only one of the four seen swimming. He also regurgitates useful objects (a variation of the "magic satchel") such as a piece of wire for picking locks with. Alex describes the penguins as psychotic (while they say the same of him). Skipper calls Marty their "monochromatic friend", amusing since both kinds of animals are "black and white".
6.King Julien XIII the Ring-tailed Lemur is the self-proclaimed King of the Madagascar lemurs. Julien speaks with an Indian accent and loves to sing, dance, and be the center of attention. Julien is annoyed by the lemur Mort and even suggests feeding him to Alex in order to help him get over his addiction to steak. He wears a crown made out of leaves, and later a larger one that features a gecko. The other lemurs hang on his every word. He is slightly deranged and overly impressed by his modest intellect. Julien is also very weird and dramatic. He contrives a plan to use Alex to protect the lemurs from their natural enemies, the fossa, as long as Alex doesn't overshadow his own glory. Also, according to the song "I Like to Move It" King Julien XIII is about 68 years old. According to a May 26, 2005 interview with Director Tom McGrath in the Seattle Post Intelligencer [1], "We had this two-line character, Julian [sic], and we got a tape of the show 'Ali G' with Sacha Baron Cohen. He came in and he invented this Indian accent. We gave him a couple of lines and he turned them into eight minutes of dialogue. We were just in tears on the floor and thought, 'This guy has to be the king.' So that was just a two-line part that he invented and it turned into that role."
7.Maurice the Aye-aye is Julien's assistant and second in command of the lemurs. He is in charge of announcing Julien to his court, though he finds this task tedious. He is generally less impressed by Julien than the other lemurs. Maurice shows the most intelligence in Julien's court, and is the only one to recognize Alex as a potentially greater threat than the fossa.
8.Mort is a Goodman's Mouse Lemur, animals find him adorable, but King Julien is highly annoyed by him, eventually shouting "Oh, shut up, you're so annoying!" in response to his inane chatter but Mort responds to this by giggling and looking flattered. In the commentary for the film, the director mentioned that Mort was actually 35.
9.The Fossas are predators native to Madagascar, who look like hyenas or half-cat half-dog creatures in appearance. Known as the top predators in the island of Madagascar, the fossa are the villains of the movie, constantly trying to kill and eat the lemurs. According to Julien, "they're always annoying us by trespassing, interrupting our parties, and ripping our limbs off". They are cowards, however, and always flee when confronted by a bigger predator, such as Alex. They also use foreign objects such as salt and pepper shakers.
Original Sound Track :
01. Hans Zimmer/Heitor Pereira/Ryeland Allison/James S. Levine - Best Friends
02. Sacha Baron Cohen - [Madagascar OST #2/12] I Like To Move It
03. The Ventures - [Madagascar OST #3/12] Hawaii Five-O
04. Earth, Wind & Fire - [Madagascar OST #4/12] Boogie Wonderland
05. James Dooley - [Madagascar OST #5/12] Whacked Out Conspiracy
06. Vangelis - [Madagascar OST #6/12] Chariots Of Fire
07. The Bee Gees - [Madagascar OST #7/12] Stayin' Alive
08. Hans Zimmer - [Madagascar OST #8/12] Zoosters Breakout
09. Hans Zimmer - [Madagascar OST #9/12] Born Free
10. Heitor Pereira - [Madagascar OST #10/12] The Foosa Attack
11. Hans Zimmer and James S. Levine - [Madagascar OST #11/12] Beacon Of Liberty
12. Louis Armstrong - [Madagascar OST #12/12] What A Wonderful World
Plot :
At the Central Park Zoo, Marty the zebra (Chris Rock) is celebrating his tenth birthday, but longs to see the rest of the world from outside their pampered life at the zoo. Believing that he can find wide-open spaces to run in Connecticut, he joins with the zoo's penguins who are trying to escape the zoo. Marty's friends, Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer), realize Marty's folly and try to follow him. The four, along with the penguins (consisting of Skipper (McGrath), Rico (John DiMaggio), Kowalski (Chris Miller), and Private (Christopher Knights)) and two monkeys, Mason (Conrad Vernon) and Phil, eventually find themselves at Grand Central Station, but are quickly sedated by tranquilizer darts. The zoo, under protest of animal-rights activists, are forced to ship the animals by sea to Kenya. During their travels, the penguins manage to escape and take over the ship, intent on taking it to Antarctica. Their antics on the bridge cause the crates containing Marty, Alex, Gloria, and Melman to fall off the boat and wash ashore on Madagascar.
The animals are soon able to regroup, initially believing themselves to be in San Diego, California. Upon exploring, however, they come across a pack of lemurs lead by King Julien XIII (Sacha Baron Cohen), and quickly learn of their location. Alex blames Marty for their predicament and attempts to signal for help to get back to civilization, while Marty finds the wild to be exactly what he was looking for, with Gloria and Melman soon joining him in enjoying the island. Alex eventually comes around, though his hunting instincts begin to return after being away from the pampered zoo life for so long. The group is accepted by the lemurs, though King Julien's adviser, Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer), cautions them about Alex being a predator. King Julien ignores Maurice's concerns and persuades the group to help the lemurs fend off the fossa who hunt the lemurs as prey. When Alex begins to turn on his friends and the lemurs, unable to overcome his instincts, King Julien bans him to the far side of the island with the fossa. Marty begins to regret seeing what Alex has turned into.
The penguins, having been to Antarctica and finding it not to their liking, land the boat on Madagascar. Seeing this as a chance to return Alex to New York, Marty, with Gloria and Melman, goes to find Alex but become trapped by the fossa. Alex suddenly appears and approaches Marty as if he were prey, but then turns on the fossa to scare them away from the lemur territory forever, showing Marty he has overcome his predatory nature, and satisfy his meat craving through sushi instead of steak. As lemurs throw a bon voyage celebration for the foursome, the penguins decide not to break the news that the ship has run out of fuel and that they are still stuck on the island, setting the stage for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Batman Begins Movie
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Writing credits
(WGA)
Bob Kane (characters)
David S. Goyer (story)
Christopher Nolan (screenplay)
David S. Goyer (screenplay)
Release Date:
15 June 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Action | Crime | Thriller
Cast :
1.Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman: Born in 1976, Wayne is a billionaire industrialist whose parents were killed by a mugger when he was eight years old. Traveling the world for several years to seek the means to fight injustice, he returns to Gotham. At night, Bruce becomes Batman, Gotham City's vigilante protector.
2.Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth: The trusted butler to Bruce Wayne's parents, who continues his loyal service to their son after their deaths. He is Bruce Wayne's closest confidant. Nolan felt Caine would effectively portray the foster father element of the character
3.Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard: In reality the true Ra's al Ghul in disguise, Ducard trains Bruce in ninjutsu, a form of martial arts. Writer David Goyer said he felt Ra's was the most complex of all the Batman villains, comparing him to Osama bin Laden as, "He's not crazy in the way that all the other Batman villains are. He's not bent on revenge; he's actually trying to heal the world. He's just doing it by very draconian means."
4.Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes: Bruce's childhood friend who serves as Gotham City's assistant district attorney, fighting against the corruption in the city. Nolan found a "tremendous warmth and great emotional appeal" in Holmes, and also felt "she has a maturity beyond her years that comes across in the film and is essential to the idea that Rachel is something of a moral conscience for Bruce"
5.Gary Oldman as Sgt. James Gordon: One of the few uncorrupted Gotham City police officers. He was the officer on duty the night of the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents. In this way, he shares a special bond with the adult Bruce and thus with Batman. Nolan originally wanted to cast Oldman as a villain,
6.Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow: A psychopharmacologist who works at Arkham Asylum and has developed fear-inducing toxins. He takes on the persona of the Scarecrow to use during his experiments, in which he uses his patients as human guinea pigs for his toxins. Nolan decided against Murphy for Batman, before casting him as Scarecrow
7.Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox: A high-ranking Wayne Enterprises employee who was demoted to working in the company's Applied Science Division, where he conducts advanced studies in biochemistry and mechanical engineering. Fox supplies Bruce with much of the gear necessary to carry out Batman's mission and is promoted to CEO when Bruce repossesses the company by the end of the film. Freeman was Goyer's first and only choice for the role.
Original Sound Track :
1. Vespertilio
2. Eptesicus
3. Myotis
4. Barbastella
5. Artibeus
6. Tadarida
7. Macrotus
8. Antrozous
9. Nycteris
10. Molossus
11. Corynortinus
12. Lasiurus
Plot :
The film opens with eight-year-old Bruce Wayne playing with his friend Rachel Dawes. Through the course of their game, Bruce falls into a well, where he encounters a swarm of bats and develops a fear of them. The film then cuts to the present, showing Bruce in his late twenties languishing in a Bhutanese prison. Following a prison brawl, Bruce is approached by Henri Ducard, who invites him to join an elite vigilante group, the League of Shadows, led by Ra's al Ghul. Freed the next day, Bruce travels to the league's headquarters on a snowy mountaintop to begin his martial arts training. Cutting back to the beginning of the film, the young Bruce Wayne accompanies his parents to a production of Mefistofele, which features actors dressed as bats. Frightened by these bat-like portrayals, he urges his father to leave the opera. Outside the theater, a man named Joe Chill mugs and kills Bruce's parents. Although Chill is later arrested that same night, Bruce blames himself for his parents' death.
Back in the present, Bruce continues to train with the League of Shadows. Having heard the tragedy of Bruce's parents, Ducard asks Bruce why he never avenged their deaths. Cutting back several years, an adult Bruce returns to Gotham City from Princeton University, intent on killing Chill, whose prison sentence is being suspended in exchange for testifying against crime boss Carmine Falcone. Before he can act, however, one of Falcone's assassins kills Chill. When Bruce tells Rachel about his foiled plan, she is disgusted and tells him that his father would be ashamed of him. Bruce confronts Falcone, who tells him that he is ignorant of the nature of crime, so Bruce decides to travel the world for nearly seven years to understand the criminal mind. He is eventually detained for theft (ironically of Wayne Enterprises products), wrapping up to the beginning of the film. In the present, Bruce finally completes his training, culminating in overcoming his childhood phobia of bats. Ra's states that he plans to have Bruce lead his men to destroy Gotham, which he claims to have become a breeding ground for criminals and the corrupt and is beyond saving. As a final test, Bruce is asked to execute a criminal. Bruce refuses, and instead turns on the league, setting the temple on fire and killing Ra's in the process. Bruce rescues an unconscious Ducard from the wreckage and leaves him at a nearby village.
Bruce returns to a Gotham City ruled by Carmine Falcone, and plots his war against the city's corrupt system. He seeks the help of Rachel, now an assistant district attorney, and police sergeant Jim Gordon, who consoled him after his parents' death and one of the few good cops left in Gotham. After reestablishing his connections to Wayne Enterprises, Bruce acquires, with the help of former board member Lucius Fox, a prototype armored car and an experimental armored suit. In his first night, he disrupts a drug shipment, and leaves Falcone tied to a searchlight, forming a makeshift Bat-Signal. He also disrupts an assassination attempt on Rachel, leaving her with evidence against a judge on Falcone's payroll. While investigating the drugs in the shipment, Batman is stunned by Dr. Jonathan Crane, an Arkham Asylum psychiatrist on Falcone's payroll, who sprays him with a powerful hallucinogen. Bruce's butler Alfred Pennyworth rescues him, using an anti-toxin developed by Fox to save him. Crane later poisons Rachel after showing her that the toxin, which is lethal in vapor form, is being piped into the city water supply. Batman saves her and attacks Crane with his own poison. Batman interrogates Crane, who claims to be working for Ra's al Ghul. Before Batman can ask further, the police swarm Arkham to arrest Crane, and Batman escapes with Dawes in the Batmobile. After administering the antidote to her in the Batcave, he gives her two vials of it for Gordon — one for inoculating himself and the other for mass production.
Later at Wayne Manor, Bruce is confronted at his birthday celebration by a group of League of Shadows ninjas led by Ducard, who reveals himself to be the true Ra's al Ghul, and that the man killed earlier was a decoy. Ra's, who had been conspiring with Crane the entire time, plans to destroy Gotham by distributing the toxin via the city's water supply, and vaporizing it with a microwave-emitter stolen from Wayne Enterprises. Bruce dismisses his guests by insulting them while pretending to be drunk, and fights briefly with Ra's while the League lights the Manor on fire. At the last minute, Bruce escapes the inferno with Alfred's help. Batman arrives at the Narrows section of Gotham to aid the police in battling psychotic criminals — including Crane, now calling himself "Scarecrow" — whom the League set free. Rachel is briefly confronted by Crane, but quickly wards him off with a taser before being chased by more inmates. After saving her, Batman reveals his identity to her, and leaves Gordon in control of the Batmobile to stop the elevated train used to transport the weapon to the city's central water-hub at Wayne Tower. Batman battles Ra's aboard the train, then escapes just as Gordon topples the elevated line using the Batmobile's missiles, leaving Ra's to crash to the ground and die in the explosion.
Following the battle, Batman becomes a public hero in Gotham. Bruce gains control of Wayne Enterprises and installs Fox as the new CEO. However, he is unable to hold onto Rachel, who cannot reconcile her love for Bruce with his dual life as Batman. Newly-promoted Lieutenant Gordon unveils a Bat-Signal for Batman. Gordon mentions that they will have their hands full finding all of the psychopaths released from Arkham by Ra's, as well as the possibility that Batman's presence could actually result in an escalation of crime. Gordon also mentions a criminal, who has "a taste for theatrics," that leaves Joker playing cards (The Joker) at all of his crime scenes. Batman promises to investigate it. As Batman prepares to leave, Gordon mentions he never thanked Batman for all he's done. Batman replies that he'll never have to, and flies off into the night.
Pictures :
Christopher Nolan
Writing credits
(WGA)
Bob Kane (characters)
David S. Goyer (story)
Christopher Nolan (screenplay)
David S. Goyer (screenplay)
Release Date:
15 June 2005 (USA)
Genre:
Action | Crime | Thriller
Cast :
1.Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman: Born in 1976, Wayne is a billionaire industrialist whose parents were killed by a mugger when he was eight years old. Traveling the world for several years to seek the means to fight injustice, he returns to Gotham. At night, Bruce becomes Batman, Gotham City's vigilante protector.
2.Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth: The trusted butler to Bruce Wayne's parents, who continues his loyal service to their son after their deaths. He is Bruce Wayne's closest confidant. Nolan felt Caine would effectively portray the foster father element of the character
3.Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard: In reality the true Ra's al Ghul in disguise, Ducard trains Bruce in ninjutsu, a form of martial arts. Writer David Goyer said he felt Ra's was the most complex of all the Batman villains, comparing him to Osama bin Laden as, "He's not crazy in the way that all the other Batman villains are. He's not bent on revenge; he's actually trying to heal the world. He's just doing it by very draconian means."
4.Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes: Bruce's childhood friend who serves as Gotham City's assistant district attorney, fighting against the corruption in the city. Nolan found a "tremendous warmth and great emotional appeal" in Holmes, and also felt "she has a maturity beyond her years that comes across in the film and is essential to the idea that Rachel is something of a moral conscience for Bruce"
5.Gary Oldman as Sgt. James Gordon: One of the few uncorrupted Gotham City police officers. He was the officer on duty the night of the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents. In this way, he shares a special bond with the adult Bruce and thus with Batman. Nolan originally wanted to cast Oldman as a villain,
6.Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow: A psychopharmacologist who works at Arkham Asylum and has developed fear-inducing toxins. He takes on the persona of the Scarecrow to use during his experiments, in which he uses his patients as human guinea pigs for his toxins. Nolan decided against Murphy for Batman, before casting him as Scarecrow
7.Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox: A high-ranking Wayne Enterprises employee who was demoted to working in the company's Applied Science Division, where he conducts advanced studies in biochemistry and mechanical engineering. Fox supplies Bruce with much of the gear necessary to carry out Batman's mission and is promoted to CEO when Bruce repossesses the company by the end of the film. Freeman was Goyer's first and only choice for the role.
Original Sound Track :
1. Vespertilio
2. Eptesicus
3. Myotis
4. Barbastella
5. Artibeus
6. Tadarida
7. Macrotus
8. Antrozous
9. Nycteris
10. Molossus
11. Corynortinus
12. Lasiurus
Plot :
The film opens with eight-year-old Bruce Wayne playing with his friend Rachel Dawes. Through the course of their game, Bruce falls into a well, where he encounters a swarm of bats and develops a fear of them. The film then cuts to the present, showing Bruce in his late twenties languishing in a Bhutanese prison. Following a prison brawl, Bruce is approached by Henri Ducard, who invites him to join an elite vigilante group, the League of Shadows, led by Ra's al Ghul. Freed the next day, Bruce travels to the league's headquarters on a snowy mountaintop to begin his martial arts training. Cutting back to the beginning of the film, the young Bruce Wayne accompanies his parents to a production of Mefistofele, which features actors dressed as bats. Frightened by these bat-like portrayals, he urges his father to leave the opera. Outside the theater, a man named Joe Chill mugs and kills Bruce's parents. Although Chill is later arrested that same night, Bruce blames himself for his parents' death.
Back in the present, Bruce continues to train with the League of Shadows. Having heard the tragedy of Bruce's parents, Ducard asks Bruce why he never avenged their deaths. Cutting back several years, an adult Bruce returns to Gotham City from Princeton University, intent on killing Chill, whose prison sentence is being suspended in exchange for testifying against crime boss Carmine Falcone. Before he can act, however, one of Falcone's assassins kills Chill. When Bruce tells Rachel about his foiled plan, she is disgusted and tells him that his father would be ashamed of him. Bruce confronts Falcone, who tells him that he is ignorant of the nature of crime, so Bruce decides to travel the world for nearly seven years to understand the criminal mind. He is eventually detained for theft (ironically of Wayne Enterprises products), wrapping up to the beginning of the film. In the present, Bruce finally completes his training, culminating in overcoming his childhood phobia of bats. Ra's states that he plans to have Bruce lead his men to destroy Gotham, which he claims to have become a breeding ground for criminals and the corrupt and is beyond saving. As a final test, Bruce is asked to execute a criminal. Bruce refuses, and instead turns on the league, setting the temple on fire and killing Ra's in the process. Bruce rescues an unconscious Ducard from the wreckage and leaves him at a nearby village.
Bruce returns to a Gotham City ruled by Carmine Falcone, and plots his war against the city's corrupt system. He seeks the help of Rachel, now an assistant district attorney, and police sergeant Jim Gordon, who consoled him after his parents' death and one of the few good cops left in Gotham. After reestablishing his connections to Wayne Enterprises, Bruce acquires, with the help of former board member Lucius Fox, a prototype armored car and an experimental armored suit. In his first night, he disrupts a drug shipment, and leaves Falcone tied to a searchlight, forming a makeshift Bat-Signal. He also disrupts an assassination attempt on Rachel, leaving her with evidence against a judge on Falcone's payroll. While investigating the drugs in the shipment, Batman is stunned by Dr. Jonathan Crane, an Arkham Asylum psychiatrist on Falcone's payroll, who sprays him with a powerful hallucinogen. Bruce's butler Alfred Pennyworth rescues him, using an anti-toxin developed by Fox to save him. Crane later poisons Rachel after showing her that the toxin, which is lethal in vapor form, is being piped into the city water supply. Batman saves her and attacks Crane with his own poison. Batman interrogates Crane, who claims to be working for Ra's al Ghul. Before Batman can ask further, the police swarm Arkham to arrest Crane, and Batman escapes with Dawes in the Batmobile. After administering the antidote to her in the Batcave, he gives her two vials of it for Gordon — one for inoculating himself and the other for mass production.
Later at Wayne Manor, Bruce is confronted at his birthday celebration by a group of League of Shadows ninjas led by Ducard, who reveals himself to be the true Ra's al Ghul, and that the man killed earlier was a decoy. Ra's, who had been conspiring with Crane the entire time, plans to destroy Gotham by distributing the toxin via the city's water supply, and vaporizing it with a microwave-emitter stolen from Wayne Enterprises. Bruce dismisses his guests by insulting them while pretending to be drunk, and fights briefly with Ra's while the League lights the Manor on fire. At the last minute, Bruce escapes the inferno with Alfred's help. Batman arrives at the Narrows section of Gotham to aid the police in battling psychotic criminals — including Crane, now calling himself "Scarecrow" — whom the League set free. Rachel is briefly confronted by Crane, but quickly wards him off with a taser before being chased by more inmates. After saving her, Batman reveals his identity to her, and leaves Gordon in control of the Batmobile to stop the elevated train used to transport the weapon to the city's central water-hub at Wayne Tower. Batman battles Ra's aboard the train, then escapes just as Gordon topples the elevated line using the Batmobile's missiles, leaving Ra's to crash to the ground and die in the explosion.
Following the battle, Batman becomes a public hero in Gotham. Bruce gains control of Wayne Enterprises and installs Fox as the new CEO. However, he is unable to hold onto Rachel, who cannot reconcile her love for Bruce with his dual life as Batman. Newly-promoted Lieutenant Gordon unveils a Bat-Signal for Batman. Gordon mentions that they will have their hands full finding all of the psychopaths released from Arkham by Ra's, as well as the possibility that Batman's presence could actually result in an escalation of crime. Gordon also mentions a criminal, who has "a taste for theatrics," that leaves Joker playing cards (The Joker) at all of his crime scenes. Batman promises to investigate it. As Batman prepares to leave, Gordon mentions he never thanked Batman for all he's done. Batman replies that he'll never have to, and flies off into the night.
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