Movie Releases by Genre
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The Five Senses
July 14, 2000
Five people, each representing one of the senses, feel their way toward love or reconciliation through five interconnected stories taking place over a three day period in Montreal.
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The Kid
July 7, 2000
Sent from the 1970's to the present to help his older self, a kid (Breslin), now an unhappy image consultant (Willis), gets in touch with who he used to be.
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I'm the One That I Want
July 7, 2000
Set in San Francisco's Warfield Theatre, this concert film starring comedienne Margaret Cho covers a wide variety of topics including her mother, drug and alcohol abuse, homosexuality, and the failure of "All-American Girl," a network television comedy starring Ms. Cho as the anti-stereoytypical daughter of an Asian-American family.
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Scary Movie
July 7, 2000
A comic spoof in the tradition of "Airplane," which pokes fun at teen slasher films such as the "Scream" series, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "The Blair Witch Project."
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But I'm a Cheerleader
July 7, 2000
Suspected of being a lesbian, an unsophisticated teenager is sent to rehab camp by her conventional parents and friends.
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Shower
July 7, 2000
Set in and around a traditional Chinese communal bathhouse, the film chronicles changing times that put the bathhouse's future in doubt, as the son of the owner comes home to visit when he receives a postcard from his mentally challenged brother informing him that their father has died.
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The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
June 30, 2000
Escaping the bounds of their two-dimensional cartoon world, Cold War spies Boris and Natasha are pursued by fearless heroes Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose.
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Trixie
June 28, 2000
Trixie (Watson), a security guard, advances from a dangerous job to cushy plainclothes duty at an upscale casino. Her perilous involvement with a well-connected patron puts her on track to her dream of becoming a private eye.
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Me, Myself & Irene
June 23, 2000
A state trooper (Carrey) has a split-personality, one of which is mild-mannered and one violently aggressive. Comedy ensues when both personalities fall in love with the same woman (Zellwegger).
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Chicken Run
June 21, 2000
A claymation spoof of classic prison-camp flicks like "The Great Escape." One of the birds hatches a plot to fly the coop at Tweedy's Chicken Farm.
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The Woman Chaser
June 16, 2000
Richard (Warburton) is a gifted used car salesman and women-chaser. One day he completes a cherished project, but forces beyond his control destroy it. A monstrous revenge is exacted on all who have crossed him.
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Boys and Girls
June 16, 2000
College students at Berkeley and longtime friends, Ryan (Prinze) and Jennifer (Forlani) learn that love sometimes finds you when you are least expecting it.
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BookWars
June 9, 2000
The lives of New York City street booksellers are chonicled in a fascinating story about their lives, loves and perspectives on living.
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Love's Labour's Lost
June 9, 2000
Branagh turned Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" into a 1930s-style romantic musical comedy, topped with retro dance numbers and classic songs.
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American Virgin
June 2, 2000
Unhappy with her father's double standards, a woman decides to lose her virginity.
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Big Momma's House
June 2, 2000
Disguised as an old lady, an FBI agent (Lawrence) attempts to protect a beautiful federal witness and her son.
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Kikujirô no natsu
May 26, 2000
It's summer and nine-year old Masao (Sekiguchi) has no one to play with. He decides to go in search of the mother he has never met. Kikujiro (Takeshi), a brash, loudmouthed and irresponsible adult, agrees to accompany him on his quest. Ultimately, the two of them end up at a destination that neither of them could have imagined. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Shanghai Noon
May 26, 2000
When Lo Fong (Roger Yuan) kidnaps the Emperor's daughter, Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu), and takes her to America, the Emperor sends his best Imperial Guardsman to find her. Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), one of the Emperor's least distinguished guards, insists on joining them. He feels responsible for the kidnapping and wants to make amends. However, while the rescue party scours the West, Chon Wang gets separated from the group and soon becomes lost. When he crosses paths with Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), a small-time outlaw, the two become unlikely allies.
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8 ½ Women
May 26, 2000
Two wealthy businessmen, a father and son, decide to set up their own brothel. . .an erotic fantasy (including father-son incest).
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Road Trip
May 19, 2000
Josh, a college student, videotapes an incident with a coed and someone actually mails the tape to his girlfriend, after which Josh tows two of his college buddies and one not-so-eager kid on a wild 1,800 mile road trip from Ithaca to Austin to save his lifelong romance.
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Small Time Crooks
May 19, 2000
A dumb crook, his wife and their gang of misfits strike it really big when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
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Held Up
May 12, 2000
Upon learning that her fiance Michael (Foxx) has spent their savings on a Studebaker, Rae (Long) dumps him. The car in question is then stolen and Michael is taken hostage.
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Coming Soon
May 12, 2000
When it becomes clear that one of three female college friends has never had an orgasm, they set out on sexual adventures (notice the punny title, a la "Porky's") to remedy the situation.
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Screwed
May 12, 2000
Working for a wealthy boss, a chauffeur kidnaps her dog and holds it for ransom. Accidentally the boss gets the dog back and thinks the chauffer has been kidnapped.
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Luminarias
May 5, 2000
Four women regularly get-together at an East Los Angeles restaurant called Luminarias to share information about their careers, love, family, and sex.
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Human Traffic
May 5, 2000
A group of best friends in downbeat, industrial Cardiff, Wales, sheds their dead-end jobs on Fridays for raves, clubs and a party scene where ecstasy and techno tunes abound.
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La Nouvelle Ève
May 5, 2000
A portrait of a restless, impulsive Parisiane who throws herself with abandon into relationships with men and women. When she falls madly in love with a man who is happily married with two children, it does not occur to her that breaking up his marriage might be wrong. When he resists, she literally throws herself into the arms of another man to make him jealous and to assuage her wounded pride.
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Adorenarin doraibu
May 5, 2000
Suzuki (Ando), a meek and indecisive car rental clerk, gets into a life changing car accident with a Japanese gangster. While Suzuki awaits his retribution in the mob's headquarters, comedic fate steps in with an explosion that rips through the building. Nurse Shizuko (Ishida), Suzuki's female counterpart, rescues him from the blast and the two find love running off with the mob's money, while being chased by the only surviving gangster. (Shooting Gallery)
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The Big Kahuna
April 28, 2000
Two veteran industrial lubricant salesmen (Danny DeVito and Kevin Spacey) attempt to break-in their enthusiastic young colleague (Peter Pacinelli) while sharing old stories in a hospitality suite at an annual manufacturer's convention in Wichita. All the while they hope they can persuade Dick Fuler, the "Big Kahuna," to place the mother of all orders which could revive their company's pitiful sales.
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Committed
April 28, 2000
A young woman goes in search of her husband who, suffering from a mid-life crisis, left her.
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The Idiots
April 28, 2000
At a home in a Copenhagen suburb, a group of people get together to break all the limitations and to bring out the inner idiots in themselves.
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The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
April 28, 2000
The Flintstones and the Rubbles go on vacation to Rock Vegas, where Wilma is pursued by a playboy. This is a live-action prequel to 1994's "The Flintstones."
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Bossa Nova
April 28, 2000
A struggling Brazilian lawyer (Fagundes) is surrounded by failed romance. Mary Ann (Irving) is an American English teacher still recovering from the loss of her husband two years earlier. Alone and unhappy, both have nearly given up hope of finding their lifelong soul-mate. (Sony Pictures)
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Where the Heart Is
April 28, 2000
Abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart, a pregnant 17 year-old (Portman) rebuilds her life.
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Keeping the Faith
April 14, 2000
Best friends since they were kids, Jake (Stiller), a rabbi, and Brian (Norton), a Catholic priest, are single, successful, handsome, and confident young men living on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna (Elfman), their childhood friend, returns to New York, she reenters their lives and hearts with a vengeance and a complicated love triangle is created. (Touchstone Pictures)
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East Is East
April 14, 2000
Set in England during the 1970's, a traditional Pakistani man (Om Puri) finds his family's actions are definitely taking on non-traditional qualities.
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Where the Money Is
April 14, 2000
A beautiful but bored small town nurse (Fiorentino) discovers one of her catatonic patients (Newman) was once a bank robber and has faked his paralysis to get out of prison. Together they pull a heist.
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Return to Me
April 7, 2000
A young man (Duchovny) falls in love with a woman (Driver) and later learns she is the one who received his former wife's heart. He must decide which woman it is who holds his heart.
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Ready to Rumble
April 7, 2000
An unscrupulous promoter removes a wrestler from his line-up, and two of the biggest wrestling fans are devasted by the ousting of their favorite character.
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Me Myself I
April 7, 2000
The story of a single career woman in her 30's (Griffiths), wondering if she's made all the wrong decisions in life. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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The Road to El Dorado
March 31, 2000
When they win a map to El Dorado, the famous City of Gold, Tulio (Kline) and Miguel (Branagh), two down-on-their-luck con men, believe they are on the road to riches.
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High Fidelity
March 31, 2000
In this biting romantic comedy, Rob Gordon (Cusack) is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl. His needle, however, skips the love groove when his long-time girlfriend, Laura (Hjejle), walks out on him. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood. (Touchstone Pictures)
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All I Wanna Do
March 24, 2000
Set in 1963, the students at Miss Godard's School for Girls join together to protest the merging with a boy's school.
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Whatever It Takes
March 24, 2000
Based upon the classic Cyrano de Bergerac tale. A socially inept boy (West) teams up with an athletic type (Franco) to get their respective dream dates.
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Soft Fruit
March 17, 2000
A comical family drama about going home, letting go and finding acceptance in the most unlikely places. (20th Century Fox)
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Les convoyeurs attendent
March 17, 2000
In this Belgian comedy-drama, a father coerces his teenage son to pursue a world record in order to win a car. He urges his son to become the record holder by opening and closing the most doors in a twenty-four hour period.
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Soft Toilet Seats
March 10, 2000
A young man (Rosen) is tricked into buying a house from his best friend. Once he's moved in, he starts hearing rumors about the mysterious death of the previous owner.
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The Next Best Thing
March 3, 2000
A story about best friends, one a single straight woman (Madonna) the other a gay man (Everett). One night they get drunk...she gets pregnant...and the two decide to form a family despite their sexual preferences.
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What Planet Are You From?
March 3, 2000
An alien (Shandling) is assigned to Earth to save his planet. To do this he must breed with a woman on Earth; however, as an alien his "plumbing" isn't quite the same.
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Drowning Mona
March 3, 2000
When a woman named Mona (Midler) drives her son's car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a potential suspect.
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3 Strikes
March 1, 2000
Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail following his second offense. The state has adopted a three strikes rule and his next offense will possibly land him in prison for life.
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The Waiting Game
February 25, 2000
A fresh and funny look at struggling actors in New York, celebrating their unemployed status while waiting tables at an upscale eatery. (Seventh Art Releasing)
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The Closer You Get
February 25, 2000
A group of bachelors in a shrinking village on Ireland's craggy Donegal coast scheme to entice American beauties to the village. When their plan goes awry, the result is an unexpected round of romances with the least likely of women -- the one's who've been right in front of them all along. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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Judy Berlin
February 25, 2000
When the small suburban town of Babylon, Long Island, in engulfed in the darkness of a strange solar eclipse, two former classmates (Harnick and Falco) pass the day reminiscing. (Shooting Gallery)
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Wonder Boys
February 25, 2000
Grady Tripp (Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award-winning Great American Novel seven years ago. It's hardly surprising, then that his college's annual literary festival fills the former wonder boy with more than his usual quota of self-doubt and anxiety. This festival weekend, however, proves even worse than he could have imagined as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy, his most gifted writing student James Leer (Maguire). (Paramount Pictures)
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Mifune's Last Song
February 25, 2000
In this bittersweet comedy, a newlywed businessman who is faced with the death of his father returns to the family farm to care for his mentally disabled brother.
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Hanging Up
February 18, 2000
A trio of sisters (Ryan, Keaton, Kudrow) come together at the (possible) imminent death of their father (Matthau), to whom none of them was particularly close.
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Not One Less
February 18, 2000
In a remote mountain village, the teacher (Gao) must leave for a month to care for his mother. The mayor can find only a 13-year old girl (Wei) to substitute, even though she is only a few years older than her students.
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Beautiful People
February 18, 2000
Set in October 1993 in London, this film tells the story of four families and their encounters with refugees from the former Yugoslavia.
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The Whole Nine Yards
February 18, 2000
Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Perry) is a nice dentist living in suburban Montreal. His new next door neighbor, Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Willis), is a hit man hiding out from a dangerous Chicago crime family. Despite their differences, Oz and Jimmy have one thing in common: someone's trying to kill them both. (Warner Bros.)
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Snow Day
February 11, 2000
When a school in upstate New York is snowed in, a group of students steal a snow plow in an attempt to keep school closed indefinitely.
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The Tigger Movie
February 11, 2000
Tigger decides that being the one and only can be kind of lonely. He begins thinking that there must be other tiggers somewhere out there begins an amazing journey through the Hundred Acre Wood in search of the "biggest and most gigantical" family tree around. (Walt Disney Pictures)
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Gun Shy
February 4, 2000
On the verge of a career-induced mental breakdown, and in complete fear of trigger-happy Mafia leader Fulvio Nesstra (Platt), undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough (Neeson) seeks psychiatric help and finds himself relying on the support of an unstable therapy group and nurse Judy (Bullock) just to get through his work. (Hollywood Pictures)
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Scream 3
February 4, 2000
Stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox Arquette are back for more in the chilling final chapter of this phenomenally popular and frightfully entertaining trilogy. While Sydney Prescott (Campbell) lives in safely guarded seclusion, bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of "Stab 3," the latest movie sequel based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings.
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The Big Tease
January 28, 2000
Scottish hairdresser Crawford Mackenzie (Ferguson), Glasgow's finest, has come to compete in The World Freestyle Hairdressing Championship, where fashion is queen and the perfect "do" will make you king. (Warner Brothers)
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The Cup
January 28, 2000
World Cup fever has reached the Indian Himalayas in this comedy about the lighter side of life in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. This touching story tackles the issues of winning and losing, life in exile and the impact of the modern world on a highly traditional lifestyle. (Palm Pictures)
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Isn't She Great
January 28, 2000
Andrew Bergman's campy biopic about Jacqueline Susann (Midler), the struggling acress of stage and screen who quit acting to write her first novel, the enormously successful and salacious "Valley of the Dolls."
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Santitos
January 28, 2000
Alejandro Springall directs this Spanish-language film about a pious widow Esperanza (Heredia) who uses magic to try and locate her lost and presumed dead daughter who she believes was the victim of a mysterious virus and all kinds of other lurid happenings.
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Down to You
January 21, 2000
A young man (Prinze) wins and loses his first serious love (Stiles) and looks back three years after they broke up.
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Wirey Spindell
January 21, 2000
A look back at the life of a 36 year-old bisexual man (Schaeffer) who is going straight and is nervous about his upcoming wedding in nine days.
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Next Friday
January 12, 2000
Takes up where "Friday" left off with the action switching from South Central L.A. to suburbia. (New Line Home Video)
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Play It to the Bone
December 25, 1999
Two best friends and former boxers (Banderas, Harrelson) travel to Las Vegas to fight in a big match for the first time. The only problem is that they will have to fight each other.
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Galaxy Quest
December 25, 1999
Nearly twenty years after their hit TV seriers was canceled, the five stars of "Galaxy Quest" are still in costume, making appearances at science fiction conventions for their legions of die-hard fans. They unexpectedly find themselves back in action when a group of aliens arrive at a convention and whisk Commander Taggart (Allen) and his crew into space to help them in their all-too-real war against a deadly adversary. (Dreamworks)
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Man on the Moon
December 22, 1999
Jim Carrey stars as the late Andy Kaufman, who was considered one of the most innovative, eccentric and enigmatic performers of his time. [Universal Pictures]
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Simpatico
December 17, 1999
At first glance, Lyle Carter (Bridges) seems to have it all. Then he receives a collect call from Vinnie (Nolte), and a dark event from the past threatens to destroy his current success. [Fine Line Features]
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Topsy-Turvy
December 17, 1999
When their latest play fails and they threaten to disband, Gilbert and Sullivan are inspired to create their masterpiece, "The Mikado."
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Anna and the King
December 17, 1999
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (Yun-Fat) and the widowed British governess Anna Leonowens (Foster) in the 1860's
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Stuart Little
December 17, 1999
Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) is a little guy with a big heart, not to mention whiskers, a little pink nose and a really dapper wardrobe. When he's adopted by the Littles (a human family played by Davis, Lipnicki and Laurie) he embarks on adventures with a variety of characters -- including his nemesis, family cat Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane) -- and learns the true meaning of family, loyalty and friendship. (Columbia Tristar)
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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
December 10, 1999
A fish tank cleaner (Schneider) becomes a male gigolo after being mistaken for one while housesitting a male gigolo's house.
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Diamonds
December 10, 1999
As three generations of the Agensky family attempt to track down a set of long-lost diamonds, they must navigate through a maze of intrigue and indiscretion that ultimately leads them to find one another's love. (Miramax Films)
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Clouds of May
December 10, 1999
This is a movie within movie, which is almost recursive, i.e., the movie inside looks like director Ceylan's previous movie, Kasaba. It is about the movie director, Muzaffer, going back to his hometown to make a movie using a cast of local people. While Muzaffer is around, his mother complains about simple health problems, his father is in a legal fight against the government for his land, his cousin gets out of his job to help Muzaffer who promises him to find a job in Istanbul, and his little cousin Ali tries to carry an egg in his pocket for 40 days so that he'll get the watch of his dreams. In the meantime, they get to form the cast for Muzaffer's movie as well.
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Sweet and Lowdown
December 3, 1999
Woody Allen's latest film is the fanciful biography of a legendary jazz guitarist, Emmet Ray, who clashed with lovers, gangsters, musicians and success itself in the 1930's Jazz scene. Sean Penn stars as the fictional musical genius who during the Swing Era was on his way up but could never settle down. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Agnes Browne
December 3, 1999
This is the story of a widow (Huston), living in Dublin in 1967, coping with the emotional turmoil and financial crisis of raising seven children, ages 2-14.
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Holy Smoke
December 3, 1999
An Australian family is trying to rescue their daughter (Winslet) who has been lured into a cult. Her family introduces her to an American deprogrammer (Keitel) who finds himself falling in love with her in the process.
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Tumbleweeds
November 24, 1999
A mother (McTeer) and a daughter (Brown) constantly run from town to town to escape failed relationships.
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Toy Story 2
November 24, 1999
The sequel to the landmark 1995 computer-animated blockbuster from Disney and Pixar. This time around, the fun and adventure continue when Andy goes off to cowboy camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody -- who hasn't the slightest clue that he's a greatly valued collectible. (Disney/Pixar)
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Flawless
November 24, 1999
After suffering a stroke, an ultraconservative security guard (DeNiro) is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons. As a twist of fate, his teacher is his next-door neighbor, who is also a drag queen (Hoffman).
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Mansfield Park
November 17, 1999
Rozema's progressive interpretation of Jane Austen's novel finds Fanny Price (O'Connor) as a poor relation who at the age of 12 is "rescued" to begin a life in Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband. Fanny's beauty and bold intelligence become apparent as she attracts suitors and becomes troubled by the class system and the fact that slavery was the source of much of the family's wealth.
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Where's Marlowe?
November 12, 1999
Experience the extraordinary true story of the documentary that's a mockumentary that became a real life mystery...of passion...of murder...and things that can only happen in the movies. (Paramount Classics)
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Dogma
November 12, 1999
The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century. In Kevin Smith's comic fantasia Dogma, angels, demons, apostles and prophets (of a sort) walk among the cynics and innocents of America and duke it out for the fate of humankind. (Lions Gate Films)
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Anywhere But Here
November 12, 1999
A comedy-drama about the evolving relationship between a mother and daughter who leave a small town behind and try to make a new life for themselves in Beverly Hills. (Twentieth Century Fox)
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A Moment of Innocence
November 10, 1999
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film is based on his own experience as a young Islamic radical in 1974 when he attemped to stab a policeman and landed himself in prison for the act. Five years after his release from prison, the same policeman, then unemployed turned up to audition for one of Makhmalbaf's films. Makhmalbaf and the policeman each play themselves in the film.
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Portraits chinois
November 5, 1999
A group of artistically inclined Parisian friends fall in love and out of love while trying to set their skewered priorities straight. (Phaedra Cinema)
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The Bachelor
November 5, 1999
A tale of love and its motivating factors, The Bachelor is a contemporary update of the 1925 Buster Keaton classic "Seven Chances." Jimmie Shannon (O'Donnell) is a confirmed bachelor who has 24 hours to find a bride and get married in order to collect a $100 million inheritance. (New Line Cinema)
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Train of Life
November 5, 1999
This haunting and powerful comedy is both the story of a village's dream and a suspenseful tale of great escape. (Paramount Classics)
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The Suburbans
October 29, 1999
An 80's one-hit wonder band named The Suburbans reform for a special performance at one of the ex-member's wedding. At the wedding, a young record company talent scout happens to be in the audience and decides to give the now 40-ish performers a comeback push.
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Man of the Century
October 29, 1999
A fast-paced, fast talking, farcical comedy starring Johnny Twennies (Frazier), a young newspaper reporter in modern day Manhattan who is absolutely convinced that he is living in the 1920's. (Fine Line Features)
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Being John Malkovich
October 29, 1999
An out-of-work puppeteer takes a filing clerk job on the cramped 7 ½ floor of an office building where he discovers a hidden tunnel allowing him to enter the mind and life of actor John Malkovich for 15 mintues before being ejected onto the New Jersey Turnpike.
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Terror Firmer
October 29, 1999
The crew on a low budget movie has the power to stop a homicidal maniac on the loose.
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The Best Man
October 22, 1999
A revealing look at the more intimate side of life for a group of successful friends who are reunited when one of their college buddies gets married. (Universal Studios)
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