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MirrorMask

MirrorMask

📅 Release: September 30, 2005
🎭 Genre: Fantasy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, Robert Llewellyn, Gina McKee
📖 Synopsis: "MirrorMask" centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, h...
Little Manhattan

Little Manhattan

📅 Release: September 30, 2005
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Charlie Ray, Bradley Whitford, Cynthia Nixon
📖 Synopsis: New York City is the most romantic place in the world - especially when you're falling in love for the first time. "Little Manhattan" is a romantic comedy about life, the Big Apple and that mysterious...
Into The Blue

Into The Blue

📅 Release: September 30, 2005
🎭 Genre: ActionThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Dwayne Adway, Scott Caan, Ramon Saunders, Ashley Scott, James Frain, Chris Taloa
📖 Synopsis: "Into the Blue" is a high-stakes thriller set in the deep, shark-infested waters of the Bahamas. When young divers discover the wreckage of a cargo plane at the bottom of the sea, they believe their...
Greatest Game Ever Played, The

Greatest Game Ever Played, The

📅 Release: September 30, 2005
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Peter Firth, Elias Koteas, Peyton List, Joshua Flitter
📖 Synopsis: From the studio that brought you "The Rookie" and "Miracle" and director Bill Paxton, comes a story of courage, passion and of the greatest American sports hero you have probably never heard of... A...
Duma

Duma

📅 Release: September 30, 2005
🎭 Genre: AdventureFamily
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Hope Davis, Campbell Scott, Eamon Ealker, Alex Michaeletos, Mary Makhatho, Nthabiseng Kenoshi
📖 Synopsis: Set against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of South Africa, this adventurous family drama follows a young boy named Xan, portrayed by [c=Alex Michaeletos], who discovers an orphaned cheetah cu...
History Of Violence, A

History Of Violence, A

📅 Release: September 30, 2005
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes, Sumela Kay
📖 Synopsis: A thriller from director David Cronenberg, "A History of Violence" stars Viggo Mortensen as a pillar of a small town community who runs a diner and lives a happy and quiet life with his wife (Maria ...
Flightplan

Flightplan

📅 Release: September 23, 2005
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean, Amanda Brooks
📖 Synopsis: Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer ("A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13") teams up with two-time Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster ("Silence of the Lambs," "The Accused") in the taut ps...
Dorian Blues

Dorian Blues

📅 Release: September 23, 2005
🎭 Genre: Comedy
🎬 Starring: Michael McMillian, Lea Coco, Charles Fletcher, Mo Quigley, Austin Basis, Ryan Kelly Berkowitz, Chris Dallman, Carl Dana, Leslie Elliard, Sian Heder, C
📖 Synopsis: Brimming with wit and originality, "Dorian Blues" magnificently proves that the coming-out genre is evergreen. First-time feature director Tennyson Bardwell reinvests the universal story form with n...
Daltry Calhoun

Daltry Calhoun

📅 Release: September 23, 2005
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Juliette Lewis, Elizabeth Banks, David Koechner, Kick Gurry
📖 Synopsis: The Knoxville, Tennessee-set film is a dark comedy about a father (Knoxville) struggling to keep his once lucrative Tennessee golfing empire intact when his estranged 14-year-old daughter (a gifted ...
Venom

Venom

📅 Release: September 16, 2005
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Method Man, Bijou Phillips, Jonathan Jackson, Meagan Good, Rick Cramer, D.J. Cotrona, Marcus Lyle Brown
📖 Synopsis: In the sweltering heat of the Louisiana bayou, a terrifying evil awakens in this gripping horror-thriller directed by [c=Jim Gillespie]. The story follows a group of young friends, including the resi...
Corpse Bride

Corpse Bride

📅 Release: September 23, 2005
🎭 Genre: Animation
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Albert Finney, Richard Grant, Joanna Lumley, Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks, Enn Reitel
📖 Synopsis: "Corpse Bride" carries on in the dark, romantic tradition of Tim Burton's classic films "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas." Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-...
Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker

📅 Release: September 16, 2005
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Lou Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Benjamin Bratt, Kelli Garner, Chase Offerle
📖 Synopsis: It's not easy growing up, no matter what age you are... Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci) still sucks his thumb at 17. He wants to stop and knows that his thumbsucking is disrupting his family, his love life...
Thing About My Folks, The

Thing About My Folks, The

📅 Release: September 16, 2005
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Peter Falk, Olympia Dukakis, Elizabeth Perkins, Mackenzie Connolly, Lydia Jordan
📖 Synopsis: "The Thing About My Folks" teams two singular talents - legendary actor Peter Falk ("The Inlaws," "Columbo") and writer/actor Paul Reiser ("Diner," "Mad About You") -- for a hilariously truthful loo...
Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated

📅 Release: September 16, 2005
🎭 Genre: AdventureComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Jonathan Safran Foer
📖 Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed, best-selling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Everything is Illuminated" tells the story of a young American Jewish man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather--in...
Cry Wolf

Cry Wolf

📅 Release: September 16, 2005
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki, Jon Bon Jovi, Krystal Browning, Antonio D. Charity, Ethan Cohn, Gary Cole, Zach Dulli, Aaron Fiore,
📖 Synopsis: In the new teen thriller "Cry_Wolf," eight unsuspecting high school seniors playing a game of lies come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar... even when they're telling th...
Dear Wendy

Dear Wendy

📅 Release: September 23, 2005
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano, Danso Gordon, Novella Nelson, Chris Owen, Alison Pill, Mark Webber
📖 Synopsis: "Dear Wendy" is a story about the young loner Dick who lives in the poor mining town of Estherslope. When he happens upon a small handgun one day, he finds himself strangely drawn to it, despite his...
Salaam Namaste

Salaam Namaste

📅 Release: September 9, 2005
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
🎬 Starring: Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan, Tania Zaetta, Arshad Warsi, Christina Collard
📖 Synopsis: Nikhil Arora (Saif Ali Khan)... sorry, "Nick", hates being called Nikhil Arora. He also hates waking up in the morning, the sight of blood and architecture - his chosen line of study. Which is why he ...
Bob The Butler

Bob The Butler

📅 Release: August 28, 2005
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Tom Green, Brooke Shields, Genevieve Buechner, Benjamin B. Smith, Rob LaBelle, Valerie Tian, Simon Callow
📖 Synopsis: Bob Tree (Tom Green) is an extremely clumsy and accident prone guy, incapable of holding down a job. Bob has the best intentions with the worst luck but, he will not accept this as his destiny and dec...
Eight Crazy Nights

Eight Crazy Nights

📅 Release: November 27, 2002
🎭 Genre: AnimationComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Adam Sandler, Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, Tyra Banks, Kevin Nealon, Rob Schneider
📖 Synopsis: Adam Sandler invites you to share some holiday cheer in the new, no-holds-barred musical comedy Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights. Davey Stone, a 33-year old bully, finds himself in trouble with the...
Dirty Love

Dirty Love

📅 Release: September 23, 2005
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Carmen Electra, Jenny McCarthy, Kam Heskin, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Sum 41, Deryck Whibley, Victor Webster, Lochlyn Munro, Colby Donaldson, Kathy Griffin
📖 Synopsis: Sometimes a girl has to get a little down and dirty before she can find pure love. In this slapstick comedy, Jenny McCarthy is gorgeous, goofy, and gross all at once in this hilarious take on one wo...
Separate Lies

Separate Lies

📅 Release: September 16, 2005
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Linda Bassett, Rupert Everett, John Neville, Hermione Norris
📖 Synopsis: "Separate Lies," is written and directed by Academy Award winning screenwriter, Julian Fellowes and marks his directorial debut. Emily Watson ("Breaking The Waves," "Gosford Park") stars as Anne, wh...
Lord Of War

Lord Of War

📅 Release: September 16, 2005
🎭 Genre: ActionDramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ethan Hawke, Eamonn Walker, Ian Holm, Sammi Rotibi, Steve J. Termath, Nalu Tripician, Patrick Walton Jr.
📖 Synopsis: In the shadowy global marketplace of death, one man builds an empire from the world's most dangerous commodity. [c=Nicolas Cage] delivers a chilling performance as Yuri Orlov, a Ukrainian immigrant w...
Just Like Heaven

Just Like Heaven

📅 Release: September 16, 2005
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Heder, Donal Logue, Ivana Milicevic, Rosalind Chao, Caroline Aaron
📖 Synopsis: When David (Mark Ruffalo) sublet his quaint San Francisco apartment, the last thing he expected--or wante--was a roommate. He had only begun to make a complete mess of the place when a pretty young ...
HellBent

HellBent

📅 Release: September 16, 2005
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Dylan Fergus, Bryan Kirkwood, Hank Harris, Andrew Levitas, Matt Phillips, Wren T. Brown
📖 Synopsis: This original new feature from writer/director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts and Joseph Wolf, the co-creator of such horror classics as "Halloween," makes film history by bringing us the first-ever gay horro...
8 Mile

8 Mile

📅 Release: November 8, 2002
🎭 Genre: DramaMusical
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer
📖 Synopsis: In the gritty backdrop of Detroit, "8 Mile" tells the compelling story of Jimmy Smith Jr., known as B-Rabbit, played by the iconic [c:Eminem]. Struggling to escape the confines of his working-class n...
Guy Thing, A

Guy Thing, A

📅 Release: January 17, 2003
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, Thomas Lennon, Lochlyn Munro, James Brolin, Shawn Hatosy, David Koechner
📖 Synopsis: Paul (Jason Lee) is about to tie the knot with Karen (Selma Blair), the perfect fiancee. But after a completely unexpected encounter with Karen's cousin Becky (Julia Stiles), Paul tells Karen a teen...
Analyze That

Analyze That

📅 Release: December 6, 2002
🎭 Genre: ComedyCrime
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Anthony LaPaglia, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Viterelli, John Finn
📖 Synopsis: Infamous Mafioso Paul Vitti (De Niro) is suffering a nervous breakdown while serving time in prison. As a result, he is granted a conditional release into the custody and care of his psychotherapist...
Antwone Fisher

Antwone Fisher

📅 Release: December 19, 2002
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Derek Luke, Joy Bryant, Denzel Washington, Salli Richardson, Earl Billings, Kevin Connolly
📖 Synopsis: In a gripping tale of resilience and self-discovery, "Antwone Fisher" chronicles the life of a young man grappling with the scars of a troubled past. Portrayed by [c=Derek Luke], Antwone is a U.S. Na...
Bourne Identity, The

Bourne Identity, The

📅 Release: June 14, 2002
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Clive Owen, Judy Parfitt, Gabriel Mann
📖 Synopsis: Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, the first in his trio of international thrillers featuring master spy Jason Bourne, was a sensation when it was published in 1980. Now this potent novel gets an ...
Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

📅 Release: October 11, 2002
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Mos Def, Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe, Wendell Pierce
📖 Synopsis: Dre (Taye Diggs) and Sidney (Sanaa Lathan) can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single childhood moment - the day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. ...