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We Don't Live Here Anymore

We Don't Live Here Anymore

πŸ“… Release: August 13, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts, Sam Charles, Haili Page, Jennifer Bishop, Jim Francis, Amber Rothwell
πŸ“– Synopsis: In the quiet, leafy suburbs, two marriages quietly unravel in this intense domestic drama directed by [c=John Curran]. English professors Jack Linden ([c=Mark Ruffalo]) and Hank Evans ([c=Peter Kraus...
Danny Deckchair

Danny Deckchair

πŸ“… Release: August 13, 2004
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon, John Batchelor, Alan Flower, Julie Sobotta
πŸ“– Synopsis: When the long awaited holiday of cement truck driver Danny (Rhys Ifans) goes south thanks to Trudy (Justine Clarke), his scheming girlfriend, he escapes his suburban prison and blasts into the skies...
Mean Creek

Mean Creek

πŸ“… Release: August 20, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck, Carly Schroeder
πŸ“– Synopsis: "Set in a small Oregon town where secrets are hard to keep and lies even harder, Mean Creek flows with a simple elegance of truth and consequences as it follows a crisis in the lives of its teen cha...
Suspect Zero

Suspect Zero

πŸ“… Release: August 27, 2004
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Carrie-Anne Moss, Ben Kingsley, Julian Reyes, Frank Collison, Kevin Chamberlin, William Mapother
πŸ“– Synopsis: It's 4 a.m. and torrents of rain pour down on a dusty roadside New Mexico diner. Inside, an innocuous looking salesman sips coffee while catching up on his fishing magazines. After the front door cr...
Taxi

Taxi

πŸ“… Release: October 8, 2004
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Gisele Bundchen, Ana Cristina De Oliveira
πŸ“– Synopsis: In this high-octane comedy from director [c=Tim Story], a down-on-her-luck taxi driver named Belle, played with infectious charm by [c=Queen Latifah], finds her routine life turned upside down when s...
Raise Your Voice

Raise Your Voice

πŸ“… Release: October 8, 2004
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Hilary Duff, Oliver James, John Corbett, Dana Davis, Rebecca De Mornay, Jason Ritter, Rita Wilson, David Keith
πŸ“– Synopsis: Hillary Duff plays Terri Fletcher, star of her small town church choir and a girl with a special gift... and extraordinary voice. When a personal tragedy interrupts her steady life, Terri searches f...
Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights

πŸ“… Release: October 8, 2004
🎭 Genre: Action
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Garrett Hedlund, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Lee Thompson Young, Connie Britton, Tim McGraw
πŸ“– Synopsis: As darkness descends over the flatlands of West Texas every Friday from September through December, a dazzling, disorienting glow, visible on the stark horizon for miles around, ignites the blackene...
Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland

πŸ“… Release: November 12, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Nick Roud, Radha Mitchell, Joe Prospero, Freddie Highmore, Dustin Hoffman
πŸ“– Synopsis: In the heart of Edwardian London, celebrated playwright [c=Johnny Depp] finds himself trapped by the expectations of high society and a string of commercial flops. His creative spark is unexpectedly ...
Mr 3000

Mr 3000

πŸ“… Release: September 17, 2004
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Evan Jones, Amaury Nolasco, Michael Rispoli, Paul Sorvino, Brian White, Dondre T. Whitfield
πŸ“– Synopsis: Funnyman Bernie Mac brings his irreverent comedy to the big screen to star in this hysterical movie about an over-the-hill ballplayer who gets his comeuppance after assuming that his Hall of Fame pl...
Wimbledon

Wimbledon

πŸ“… Release: September 17, 2004
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Austin Nichols, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, Bernard Hill, James McAvoy, Eleanor Bron, Nikolaj Coster Waldau
πŸ“– Synopsis: Peter Colt (Bettany) is an unlucky guy, scoring "love" both professionally and personally. Seeded near the bottom of the world tennis ranks, he manages to score a wild card, allowing him to play in ...
Dirty Shame, A

Dirty Shame, A

πŸ“… Release: September 17, 2004
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: NC-17
🎬 Starring: Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, Patricia Hearst, Mink Stole, Susan Allenback, Jeffrey Auerbach
πŸ“– Synopsis: The fight for carnal liberation is under way! Lust is in the air on Harford Road and Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman), a grumpy, repressed middle-aged Baltimorean, doesn't like it. Though Sylvia's ...
I Heart Huckabees

I Heart Huckabees

πŸ“… Release: October 1, 2004
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jonah Hill
πŸ“– Synopsis: Convinced that a series of coincidences hold some secret to life's largest riddles, Albert Markovski (JASON SCHWARTZMAN) seeks the help of a detective agency unlike any other ... which leads him down ...
Around The Bend

Around The Bend

πŸ“… Release: October 8, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Michael Caine, Josh Lucas, Christopher Walken, Jonah Bobo, Glenne Headly
πŸ“– Synopsis: "Around the Bend" is inspired by the relationship between writer-director Jordan Roberts and the absentee father he barely knew. It tells the story of four generations of men who are suddenly broug...
Final Cut, The

Final Cut, The

πŸ“… Release: October 15, 2004
🎭 Genre: Sci-FiThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Robin Williams, James Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Genevieve Buechner, Leanne Adachi, Stephanie Romanov, Thom Bishops, Mimi Kuzyk
πŸ“– Synopsis: A ZoΓ« Chip is a chip placed in your brain at birth to record your entire life. When you die, the footage from your life is edited into a "Rememory"-- a film shown at your funeral pieced together by...
Stage Beauty

Stage Beauty

πŸ“… Release: October 15, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Ben Chaplin, Hugh Bonneville, Richard Griffiths, Edward Fox, Tom Hollander, Zoe Tapper
πŸ“– Synopsis: It's the 1660s, and Edward 'Ned' Kynaston is England's most celebrated leading lady. Women are forbidden to appear on stage and ned profits, using his beauty and skill to make the great female roles...
Riding The Bullet

Riding The Bullet

πŸ“… Release: October 15, 2004
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Barbara Hershey, Erika Christensen, Chris Gauthier, Adam Battrick, Matt Frewer, Nicky Katt
πŸ“– Synopsis: October 1969. The Summer of Love is over and a winter of hate is about to paint the ideals of the Flower Power Generation black. ALAN PARKER (Jonathan Jackson) is a young, struggling artist studyin...
Being Julia

Being Julia

πŸ“… Release: October 15, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Maury Chaykin, Jeremy Irons, Catherine Charlton, Shaun Evans, Bruce Greenwoo, Jeremy Irons, Rosemary Harris
πŸ“– Synopsis: BEING JULIA based on W. Somerset Maugham's "Theatre" and adapted by Academy Award Winner Ronald Harwood (The Pianist), is an intoxicating combination of wicked comedy and smart drama, starring Annette...
Surviving Christmas

Surviving Christmas

πŸ“… Release: October 22, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Ben Affleck, Christina Applegate, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Josh Zuckerman, Bill Macy, Danielle Panabaker, Bryan Fisher
πŸ“– Synopsis: Facing another Christmas alone, Drew Latham (Affleck) decides to go back to his idyllic childhood home to spend the holidays with family. There is, however, one problem: the people living there now ...
Alfie

Alfie

πŸ“… Release: November 5, 2004
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jude Law, Julienne Davis, Omar Epps, Nia Long, Jane Krakowski, Sienna Miller, Susan Sarandon, Marisa Tomei
πŸ“– Synopsis: In this slick 2004 comedy directed by [c=Charles Shyer], [c=Jude Law] stars as Alfie, a charming but emotionally detached London limousine driver living in New York City who navigates a whirlwind of ...
Undertow

Undertow

πŸ“… Release: October 22, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, Devon Alan, Kristen Stewart, Shiri Appleby, Robert Longstreet, Eddie Rouse, Patrice Johnson
πŸ“– Synopsis: In the atmospheric Southern drama [m=Undertow], directed by [c=David Gordon Green] and produced by [c=Terrence Malick], [c=Lisa Muskat], and [c=Edward R. Pressman], two brothers find their lives upen...
Ray

Ray

πŸ“… Release: October 29, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Harry J. Lennis, Bokeem Woodbine, Aunjanue Ellis, Sharon Warren, C.J. Sanders, Larenz Tate
πŸ“– Synopsis: "Ray" is the never-before-told, musical biographical drama of American legend Ray Charles. Born in a poor town in Georgia, Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven shortly after witnessing his you...
Kinsey

Kinsey

πŸ“… Release: November 12, 2004
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker, Lynn Redgrave
πŸ“– Synopsis: Academy Award winner Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS) turns the microscope on Alfred Kinsey in a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a ...
Birth

Birth

πŸ“… Release: October 29, 2004
🎭 Genre: DramaMystery
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare, Arliss Howard
πŸ“– Synopsis: Ten years after the sudden death of her beloved husband Sean, Anna (Nicole Kidman) is finally ready to emerge from the shadow of grief and begin a new chapter in her life. She has agreed to marry Jo...
Seed Of Chucky

Seed Of Chucky

πŸ“… Release: November 12, 2004
🎭 Genre: Horror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, John Waters, Billy Boyd, Hannah Spearritt, Redman
πŸ“– Synopsis: The killer doll is back! The all-new film is the fifth in the popular series of Chucky ("Child's Play") horror comedies. Making his directorial debut is the franchise creator and writer of all five ...
After The Sunset

After The Sunset

πŸ“… Release: November 12, 2004
🎭 Genre: Action
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle
πŸ“– Synopsis: The high-stakes action comedy After The Sunset begins where most great heist movies end - with a pair of master thieves escaping to a tropical paradise to enjoy the spoils of their labor. But when a...
National Treasure

National Treasure

πŸ“… Release: November 19, 2004
🎭 Genre: Adventure
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Nicolas Cage, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Justin Bartha, David Dayan Fisher, Christopher Plummer
πŸ“– Synopsis: A secret from US nation's past will lead to the greatest adventure in history. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Jon Turteltaub team up to bring you "National Treasure" Academy Award winner ...
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason

πŸ“… Release: November 12, 2004
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jacinda Barrett, Jim Broadbent, James Callis, Shirley Henderson, Gemma Jones
πŸ“– Synopsis: Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth join together again for the romantic comedy BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON. In this follow-up to BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, we find Bridget where we left h...
Christmas With The Kranks

Christmas With The Kranks

πŸ“… Release: November 24, 2004
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Gonzalo
πŸ“– Synopsis: After faithfully and happily celebrating Christmas their entire lives, and with their daughter Blair (Julie Gonzalo) in Peru to serve a stint in the Peace Corps, Luther (Tim Allen) and Nora (Jamie L...
Blade: Trinity

Blade: Trinity

πŸ“… Release: December 8, 2004
🎭 Genre: ActionHorror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds, Parker Posey, Dominic Purcell, Ashley Scott, Steve Braun
πŸ“– Synopsis: Deep in a remote desert, vampire leaders are resurrecting Dracula, the horrific creature who spawned their race. Now known as Drake, this awesome vampire has unique powers which allow him to exist i...
In Good Company

In Good Company

πŸ“… Release: December 29, 2004
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer, Clark Gregg, Philip Baker Hall, Selma Blair
πŸ“– Synopsis: Filmmaker and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Paul Weitz ("About a Boy") turns his complex sense of humor on In Good Company, an insightful comedy about the relationship between a 50-year-old b...