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Twisted
August 31, 2004
Newly promoted police inspector Jessica Shepard (Judd) is searching for a serial killer, and is shocked to discover that the men she has recently slept with are the victims. (Paramount)
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Videodrome
August 31, 2004
Sci-fi horror filmmaker David Cronenberg's diabolical invader is a television show that seduces and controls its viewers. Featuring rock star Deborah Harry (in her first major film) as a kinky hostess, James Woods as a cable programmer looking for the ultimate in viewing thrills, and special make-up effects by Oscar-winner Rick Baker, Videodrome is a pulsating science fiction nightmare about a world where video can control and alter human life. (Universal)
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The Apple
August 24, 2004
In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs.
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Clifford's Really Big Movie
August 24, 2004
Clifford hits the road with Cleo and T-Bone in a thrilling big screen adventure! They become stars in a traveling carnival show and meet amazing new friends on their journey. (Scholastic)
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Dogville
August 24, 2004
Lars von Trier explores the concept of goodness in this story of a fugitive hiding in a small town in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s.
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Ella Enchanted
August 24, 2004
A fairy Godmother granted Ella (Hathaway) the gift -- and curse -- of obedience at her birth. As a result of this unfortunate circumstance, Ella cannot refuse any command, and is often left at the mercy of unscrupulous personalities. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious curse. (Miramax)
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The Girl Next Door
August 24, 2004
Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Hirsch) is a straight-arrow over-achiever who has never really lived life, until he falls for his new neighbor, the beautiful and seemingly innocent Danielle (Cuthbert). When Matthew discovers this perfect "girl next door" is a one-time porn star, his sheltered existence begins to spin out of control. (20th Century Fox)
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Graffiti Bridge
August 24, 2004
The unofficial sequel to 'Purple Rain' (1984). The Kid is now club owner and rival to Morris (Morris Day) who get into a fight for the Glam Slam Nightclub.
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Highwaymen
August 24, 2004
Rennie Cray (Caviezel) embarks on a bloodthirsty rampage to avenge the death of his wife who was struck down by a serial killer - a man who hunts and kills women using his '72 El Dorado.
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I Vitelloni [re-release]
August 24, 2004
Federico Fellini's first international success, this 1953 film, based on memories of his youth in Rimini, focuses on five layabouts in a sleepy seaside town during the winter offseason. [Film Forum]
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Jim Brown: All American
August 24, 2004
Spike Lee directs this moving portrait of a complicated, charismatic man, one who has spent his life in the spotlight, first making football history as one of the 20th century's greatest athletes, and later as the star of numerous Hollywood features, where he pioneered a new kind of African-American hero. (Film Forum)
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The Komediant
August 24, 2004
A documentary on the life and career of Yiddish actor Pasach Burstein and his family.
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Lassie Come Home
August 24, 2004
After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie (Pal) escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.
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Laws of Attraction
August 24, 2004
High-powered New York divorce attorneys Daniel Rafferty (Brosnan) and Audrey Woods (Moore) have seen love gone wrong in all its worse case scenarios -- so how bad could their own chances be? (New Line Cinema)
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The Neon Bible
August 24, 2004
While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.
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The People That Time Forgot
August 24, 2004
In 1919, a British expedition in the Antarctica region is searching for a lost American explorer and finds a hidden prehistoric world instead.
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Roller Boogie
August 24, 2004
Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.
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Shaolin Soccer
August 24, 2004
At Kung Fu, they're masters. But when it comes to soccer, they're total disasters. Now, the only way to win...is to believe in Shaolin. [Miramax Films]
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Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
August 24, 2004
This documentary profiles the life and work of a man whose personal history reflects the evolution of modern music and recording technology: legendary producer/recording engineer Tom Dowd.
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Under the Cherry Moon
August 24, 2004
Two con artist brothers attempt to swindle a soon-to-be wealthy heiress but things get complicated when one falls in love with her.
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Witchboard
August 24, 2004
When his girlfriend becomes dangerously obsessed with a ghost she contacted using an ouija board, Jim reluctantly joins forces with her ex - his own estranged childhood best friend - to identify and exorcise the evil spirit.
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After Hours
August 17, 2004
A Manhattan Yuppie's night out becomes a comic nightmare. (Warner Bros.)
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
August 17, 2004
A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Ellen Burstyn won the "Best Actress" Oscar for her performance in this memorable comedy-drama about a widowed mother suddenly forced to take charge of her own life.
Director Martin Scorcese guides a wonderful cast including the very young future Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster, singer-actor Kris Kristofferson, Harvey Keitel and Oscar-nominee Diane Ladd.
In the early portions of the film, Alice works as a waitress at a diner owned by "Mel" (Vic Tayback), and these scenes served as the springboard for the popular Seventies' TV sit-com, Alice.
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Benji
August 17, 2004
A stray dog saves two kidnapped children.
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Blind Shaft
August 17, 2004
This film tells the story of two itinerant Chinese miners who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. (Kino International)
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Bon voyage
August 17, 2004
A sophisticated farce set at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux at the start of World War II.
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Chopping Mall
August 17, 2004
Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high-tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control.
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Connie and Carla
August 17, 2004
Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Colette) are two small-town girls whose dreams of stardom have taken them nowhere. In a new place, with new identities, they create a cover (with a lot of cover-up) that makes them the toast of the town -- headlining in a local drag club, they soon find the acclaim that has always eluded them, singing the show tunes they've always loved. (Universal Pictures)
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Godsend
August 17, 2004
Paul and Jessie Duncan (Kinnear, Romijn-Stamos) have lost their beloved eight year-old son Adam (Bright) in a tragic accident. As they are arranging for his burial, Dr. Richard Wells (De Niro) approaches with the incredible offer to clone, and bring back their boy. (Lions Gate Films)
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The Mangler
August 17, 2004
A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon from Hell, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.
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Mayor of the Sunset Strip
August 17, 2004
A musical documentary about the Homeric journey of rock impresario Rodney Bingenheimer. (First Look Pictures)
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Mean Streets
August 17, 2004
Charlie (Harvey Keitel) is working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Teresa (Amy Robinson) is the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro) is a small-time gambler in big-time debt to loan sharks. This is a story Martin Scorsese lived, a semi-biographical tale of the first-generation sons and daughters of New York's Little Italy. [Warner Bros.]
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Millennium Mambo
August 17, 2004
Set in Taipei, this is the story of a young woman trapped in several bad relationships.
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New York Minute
August 17, 2004
This action comedy starring Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, follows 17-year-old sisters Jane and Roxanne Ryan on a wild romp through the streets, subways and sewers of Manhattan during one unforgettable day. (Warner Bros.)
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The Octagon
August 17, 2004
A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.
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Seeing Other People
August 17, 2004
Just months before their wedding, a couple agrees to see other people.
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Showboy
August 17, 2004
When Christian Taylor, a writer on HBO's wildly popular Six Feet Under, agrees to let a British Television crew follow him for a series about Brits working in Hollywood, he finds that his true calling may be in the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas' Stage and not in the harsh world of Hollywood show business. (Squeak Pictures)
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The Sugarland Express
August 17, 2004
Based on a true story, a desperate mother (Goldie Hawn) attempts to reunite her family by any means necessary including helping her husband escape prison, kidnapping a Texas state trooper and leading the police on a wild chase across the state in an effort to save her son from adoption. Winning the hearts of many fans that followed her story on the news, this film conveys the true story of a girl who took on all of Texas... and almost won. [Universal Pictures]
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Taking Lives
August 17, 2004
FBI profiler Special Agent Illeana Scott (Jolie) suddenly finds herself on a twisted and terrifying journey, surrounded by suspects in a case that has become chillingly personal. (Warner Bros.)
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Who's That Knocking at My Door?
August 17, 2004
J.R. (Harvey Keitel) is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he falls for a girl (Zina Bethune), he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic guilt than Scorsese's later work, we see what happens to J.R. when his religious guilt catches up with him.
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The Bad Seed
August 10, 2004
A housewife suspects that her seemingly perfect eight-year-old daughter is a heartless killer.
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Crossroads
August 10, 2004
Ralph Macchio is Lightning Boy. A kid who can make a slide guitar sing. Blind Dog is an old pro who knows it. Together, they're headed to a place where deals are made. And legends are born.
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Dead Ringer
August 10, 2004
The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
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Freaks
August 10, 2004
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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Johnson Family Vacation
August 10, 2004
Nate Johnson (Cedric the Entertainer) sets out on a cross-country trek from California to Missouri, with three unruly kids and one unsatisfied wife in tow, in order to attend the Johnson clan's annual reunion/grudge match. Not since the Griswolds headed to California has a family excursion veered so hysterically astray. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
August 10, 2004
An epic tale of one woman's quest for justice presented in two installments. (Miramax)
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The Prince and Me
August 10, 2004
Paige, a pre-med student from Wisconsin, is on the fast track toward her lifelong goals. Edward, the Crown Prince of Denmark, is trying to escape a life he never chose. Needing an escape from his royal life, Edward treks to Wisconsin and poses as "Eddie," a college student. Now they've fallen in love and Edward is in line to become King. Paige has to choose between two dreams -- becoming a princess or the doctor she's always wanted to be. (Paramount Pictures)
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Village of the Damned
August 10, 2004
In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.
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13 Going on 30
August 3, 2004
It is 1987 and Jenna is a 13-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood. The problem is that adulthood is just not arriving fast enough. She makes a wish on her birthday: If only she could be all grown up, she'd have the life she's always wanted. Miraculously, her wish comes true. (Columbia Pictures)
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
August 3, 2004
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
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Hidalgo
August 3, 2004
Based on the story of long distance rider Frank T. Hopkins, Hidalgo is an epic action-adventure and one man's journey of personal redemption. (Touchstone Pictures)
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Human Resources
August 3, 2004
Franck (Lespert), a Parisian business school student, takes an internship in the Human Resources department at the factory where his father (Vallod) has labored for 30 years. Franck's efforts lead to the firing of many employees, including his father. [Shooting Gallery]
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Jack
August 3, 2004
Jack (Williams) has a disease that accelerates his growth. It causes confusing situations to the fifth grader who outwardly appears to be nearly forty.
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Lady on a Train
August 3, 2004
In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.
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The Reckoning
August 3, 2004
This murder mystery, set in the Middle Ages, is steeped in moral dilemmas about the power of art, the temptations of evil and the search for justice that continue to haunt us in modern times. (Paramount Classics)
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
August 3, 2004
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
August 3, 2004
[Also known as "A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court"] Astronaut Tom Trimble and his robot companion are unexpectedly hurled backward in time during a routine space flight and end up prisoners at the Court of King Arthur in sixth-century England. Adding to Tom's plight is his discovery of a sinister plot to overthrow the King, with the outcome resting on the flash-and-dazzle of the equipment at hand – from the 20th century. [Disney]
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The Watcher in the Woods
August 3, 2004
An American family moves into a spooky manor house located within a wooded area in the English countryside. Before long they start to see some odd things, like mirrors that don't reflect, and the ghost of a blindfolded girl. The new tenants learn that 30 years ago, a teenage girl, who bears an uncanny resemblance to their daughter Jan, disappeared nearby. Soon, the supernatural presence starts contacting both sisters.
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Goodbye Lenin!
July 27, 2004
A human story of the reunification not only of an entire nation, but of a family living in East Berlin. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Hellboy
July 27, 2004
A supernatural action-adventure based on Mike Mignola's acclaimed Dark Horse Comic series of the same name. [Sony]
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High Art
July 27, 2004
An award-winning romantic drama about a photo magazine editor (Mitchell) and the heroin-addicted former photo prodigy (Sheedy) with whom she falls in love.
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How I Killed My Father
July 27, 2004
Deals with the complex and fascinating relationship between 40 year-old Jean-Luc (Berling), a successful gerontologist living in a wealthy Parisian suburb, and his long estranged father (Bouquet).
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
July 27, 2004
With this film, Martina Kudlacek has fashioned not only fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. (Zeitgeist Films)
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Ned Kelly
July 27, 2004
Based on the book by Roberts Drewe, this is the story of Australian gunslinger and outlaw, Ned Kelly and his Kelly Gang, famous for their many robberies from 1878-1880.
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Pennies from Heaven
July 27, 2004
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
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Quest for Camelot
July 27, 2004
An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit, and a goofy two-headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.
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The Whole Ten Yards
July 27, 2004
Retired hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Willis) is living the quiet life in a beachfront bungalow in Mexico, miles away from his former life. Suddenly, an uninvited and most unwelcome connection to their past shows up on the Tudeskis' doorstep. It's Oz (Perry), their former neighbor, breathless and desperate, begging them to help rescue his wife, Cynthia (Henstridge), from the Hungarian mob. (Warner Bros.)
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The Big Bounce
July 20, 2004
A comedy caper based on the novel by legendary crime writer Elmore Leonard. Wilson stars as Jack Ryan, a likeable drifter who heads for the North Shore of Oahu, where he soon discovers that whether he is looking for a new con or a little romance, temptation is everywhere. (Warner Bros.)
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
July 20, 2004
Lola (Lohan) feels her life is simply not worth living when she moves with her family from every single thing on the planet that she loves (read: the Big Apple) and is plunked down in the middle of the cultural wasteland that is suburban New Jersey. How will this New York doll ever make it as a Jersey girl? (Disney)
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Crimson Gold
July 20, 2004
A murder and a suicide occur early one morning in a jewelry store. Behind this headline lies the story of a desperate man's feelings of humiliation in a world of social injustice.
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Early Summer
July 20, 2004
A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.
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The Human Stain
July 20, 2004
The story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a distinguished professor at a prestigious New England college whose professional life is shattered by allegations of racism and whose personal life is infected with cancer of a lie he has been living with for fifty years. (Miramax)
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Knafayim Shvurot
July 20, 2004
An intimate and universal coming of age story set within a dysfunctional, mourning family. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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People I Know
July 20, 2004
Smart, resourceful and uncommonly devoted seasoned publicist Eli Wurman (Pacino) has smoothly managed the public lives of the rich, the famous and the incredibly powerful throughout his long career. There has never been a crisis he couldn't handle...until now. (Miramax)
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Seaside
July 20, 2004
A microcosm of French society, including Bulle Ogier as a woman with a gambling problem, stuck in a once fashionable coastal resort town in Northern France.
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Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
July 20, 2004
This documentary depicts the stories of a small number of Jewish children who were saved from the Nazis by non-Jews who hid these children in their homes despite great personal danger.
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Starsky & Hutch
July 20, 2004
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson star as the buddy-cop team of Starsky and Hutch from the wildly popular 70's television drama.
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Against the Ropes
July 13, 2004
Meg Ryan stars as Jackie Kallen, the most successful female manager in boxing history. A smart, gutsy woman who wants to break out of a dead-end job, Kallen gets her chance when she sees Luther Shaw (Epps) in a brawl and knows he is a champion in the raw. (Paramount Pictures)
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
July 13, 2004
Frankie Muniz returns as Agent Cody Banks on an undercover mission to recover a stolen min-control device from a rogue CIA agent.
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The Barbarian Invasions
July 13, 2004
Director Denys Arcand revisits the situations and relationships that informed his international breakthrough The Decline of the American Empire. Set 17 years after Decline, this film, like its predecessor, examines the varying politics -- economic, personal and sexual -- at play among a group of friends, lovers and ex-spouses. [Miramax]
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The Dreamers
July 13, 2004
The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 is the backdrop as three young cineastes are drawn together through their passion for film. Matthew, an American exchange student, discovers in French twins Theo and Isabelle a relationship unlike anything he has ever experienced or will ever encounter again -- and he longs to be a part of it. (Fox Searchlight)
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The Legend of Leigh Bowery
July 13, 2004
This documentary examines the life of the Australian-born fashion designer, performance artist and gay nightclub icon.
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Love Object
July 13, 2004
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki," an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.
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Never Die Alone
July 13, 2004
A richly literate film noir about King David (DMX), a hard-boiled, stylish criminal who returns to his hometown seeking redemption and finding only violent death. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
July 13, 2004
This documentary provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. (MoveOn.org / Center for American Progress)
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Target
July 13, 2004
When American Donna Lloyd is kidnapped during a trip to Europe, her son Chris and her husband Walter start searching for her.
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Ayurveda: Art of Being
July 6, 2004
Pan Nalin's Documentary on Ayurveda, revealing how the revitalised holistic discipline, based on the most ancient of techniques, can be applied in this age of nuclear power, the internet and instant everything. (Kino International)
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Big Top Pee-wee
July 6, 2004
Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.
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The Butterfly Effect
July 6, 2004
Evan Treborn (Kutcher) has lost track of time. From an early age, crucial moments of his life have disappeared into a black hole of forgetting, his boyhood marred by a series of terrifying events he can't remember. Determined to do something now that he was incapable of doing then, Evan purposely travels back in time, his present-day mind occupying his childhood body, in an attempt to re-write history and spare his friends and loved ones these traumatic experiences. By altering the events of the past, Evan hopes to transform the present. (New Line Cinema)
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Crazy People
July 6, 2004
A bitter ad executive (Dudley Moore) who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
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A Foreign Affair
July 6, 2004
When their mother dies, two brothers (Arquette, Nelson) go on a "romance tour" of Russia to meet prospective brides.
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Garage Days
July 6, 2004
Acclaimed director Alex Proyas puts his visionary spin on the story of an Australian garage band that is willing to do just about anything to make it to the top -- or at least a stage. (Fox Searchlight)
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Goyangileul butaghae
July 6, 2004
Five young women living in the Korean port city of Inchon, best friends in high school, find their lives drifting apart as they follow their own paths into adulthood.
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Heartburn
July 6, 2004
An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
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Monsieur Ibrahim
July 6, 2004
In a working class Paris neighborhood in the early 60's, two unlikely characters -- a young Jew and an elderly Muslim -- begin a friendship. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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My Voyage to Italy
July 6, 2004
A four-hour odyssey through the history of Italian cinema and its influences on Scorsese's work.
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The Name of the Rose
July 6, 2004
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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Out of the Past
July 6, 2004
A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.
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Red Sonja
July 6, 2004
A vengeful woman sets out to retrieve a magic orb from an evil queen whom she vows vengeance upon after the evil queen slain her family and her loyal warriors raped her.
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Spiral
July 6, 2004
A horror film about the residents of a small Japanese village that become obsessed with spiral-shaped objects.
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