Movie Releases by Genre
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Dark Blue
February 21, 2003
Over the course of four days, a brutal murder and a racially charged trial trigger and explosive chain of events that resonate throughout Los Angeles. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., two of the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad officers (Russell, Speedman) must track down cold-blooded killers and also face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue. (MGM)
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The Life of David Gale
February 21, 2003
David Gale (Spacey) is a man who has tried to live by his principles, but in a bizarre twist of fate, this devoted father, popular professor and respected death penalty opponent finds himself on Death Row for the rape and murder of a fellow activist (Linney). He decides to confide in a reporter (Winslet) who quickly realizes that a man's life is in her hands. (Universal Pictures)
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Daredevil
February 14, 2003
Ben Affleck stars as the blind Marvel Comics character who is a lawyer by day and vigilante by night.
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Biker Boyz
January 31, 2003
An action-packed contemporary Western on wheels with desperados who live every day on the edge. Lawyers and city workers by day, they take to the streets in their leathers to race by night. (DreamWorks)
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Chaos
January 29, 2003
When a bourgeois French couple witnesses a young prostitute being violently attacked by a group of men just outside of their car, all three of their lives are changed.
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Amen.
January 24, 2003
Newly commissioned SS Lieutenant and respected civilian chemist, Kurt Gerstein, discovers that the Zyklon B pellets he has developed to disinfect soldiers' drinking water are being used to gas interred Jews by the thousands. Recruited to help streamline the death camp process by a team of SS officers, Gerstein secretly approaches the Swedish Consulate, the German Protestant community and finally Vatican representatives in the hopes of exposing this unspeakable crime. (Kino International)
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Kangaroo Jack
January 17, 2003
Two friends from Brooklyn are forced to deliver mob money to Australia. Their misadventures begin when a kangaroo hops off with the cash.
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National Security
January 17, 2003
Two L.A.P.D. rejects end up partnered as security guards and uncover a sophisticated smuggling operation.
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City of God
January 17, 2003
Welcome to the world's most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God.' A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where Police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20. This is the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and ultimately may be him only way out. [Miramax]
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WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3
January 10, 2003
This animated film, set in a future Tokyo, features bioengineered construction machines that cause a series of deadly accidents.
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Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
January 10, 2003
Corey (Alain Delon) is an aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté), a murderer, escapes from the custody of Mattei (Bourvil), a cat-loving police superintendent. Corey robs Rico (André Ekyan), his mob boss, then enlists Vogel and an ex-police sharpshooter, Jansen (Yves Montand), in a jewel heist. While Corey is harried by the vengeful Rico, Mattei pressures Santi, a nightclub owner and pimp, to help him trap the thieves.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
December 31, 2002
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. This is the story of the double life of legendary showman Chuck Barris -- television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. (Miramax)
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Chicago
December 27, 2002
A new interpretation that takes the award-winning Broadway show into fresh and expansive cinematic realms, Chicago shifts adroitly from the reality of intrigue, rivalry and betrayal to spectacular fantasies of music and dance, offering tongue-in-cheek commentary on the cult of celebrity and the scandalous lengths to which people will go to attain it. [Miramax]
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Sonny
December 27, 2002
The story of a young man, Sonny (Franco), living in New Orleans and trained to follow the family tradition as a paid male prostitute for wealthy women.
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Catch Me If You Can
December 25, 2002
Frank W. Abagnale (DiCaprio) worked as a doctor, a lawyer and as a co-pilot for a major airline -- all before his 21st birthday. A master of deception, he was also a brilliant forger, whose skill at check fraud had netted him millions of dollars in stolen funds. FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Hanks) has made it his prime mission to capture Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank is always one step ahead of him, baiting him to continue the chase. [DreamWorks]
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Narc
December 20, 2002
A fast-paced, hard-boiled tale of cops and scandal, drugs and deception.
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Gangs of New York
December 20, 2002
Set in New York City between 1840 and 1863, this is the story of a young man named Amsterdam (DiCaprio) who seeks vengeance against Bill "The Butcher" Poole (Day-Lewis), the man who killed his father as a result of warfare between the powerful Manhattan gangs.
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Thorns
December 20, 2002
Six shady Indian residents of L.A. land in jail for questioning long enough for them to complain about ethnic stereotyping on the part of the cops, and to hatch a scheme to rob the bank that handles the LAPD payroll.
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25th Hour
December 19, 2002
The story of the last twenty-four hours Monty Brogan (Norton) gets to spend with his two best friends and his girlfriend before he goes to prison for seven years for pushing heroin.
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My Kingdom
December 6, 2002
Loosely based on Shakespeare's "King Lear," this film focuses on a power stuggle in a contemporary Liverpool crime family.
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Adaptation.
December 6, 2002
The lives of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage), author Susan Orlean (Streep) and orchid poacher John Laroche (Cooper) become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others' in this adaptation of the best-selling "The Orchid Thief." [Columbia Pictures]
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Empire
December 6, 2002
The story of gangster Victor Rosa's (Leguizamo) quest for the American Dream as he tries to escape his criminal past and free himself from the trapppings of easy money on the violent streets of the South Bronx. This is the first release Arenas Entertainment, the new Latino film label in partnership with Universal Pictures. (Arenas Entertainment)
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Analyze That
December 6, 2002
As mob boss Paul Vitti (De Niro) is nearing the end of his term in Sing Sing, his former psychotherapist Ben Sobel (Crystal) gets called in to consult on the case. (Warner Bros.)
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Dead or Alive: Final
November 29, 2002
The third film in Japanese director Takahi Miike's Triad trilogy.
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Half Past Dead
November 15, 2002
An undercover agent (Seagal) must try to stop a criminal mastermind (Chestnut) who plans to infiltrate a high-tech super-prison to persuade a man on death row to tell him where he hid $200 million in gold.
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'R Xmas
November 8, 2002
In this thriller, an idyllic Christmas is shattered by a bitter drug-related feud in upper-Manhattan.
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Femme Fatale
November 6, 2002
A contemporary film noir about an alluring seductress suddenly exposed to the world -- and her enemies -- by a voyeuristic photographer who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge. [Warner Bros.]
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Paid in Full
October 25, 2002
Amidst the 1980s drug scene in Harlem, a young native (Harris) builds an illegal empire only to have a crisis of conscience.
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Quai des Orfèvres [re-release]
October 25, 2002
Brilliantly transforming a classic whodunit plot, Gallic Master of Suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot takes us from the wings and dressing rooms of the Parisian music hall and circus worlds to the drab, airless corridors and holding cells of the Quai's Criminal Investigations Department, in a blend of social realism and psychological cruelty that became his trademark. One of the uncontested masterpieces of the postwar French cinema, but rarely seen here since its original 1947 U.S. release (as "Jenny Lamour"). (Film Forum)
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By Hook or by Crook
October 25, 2002
A romantic comedy set in the world of butch lesbians.
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Auto Focus
October 18, 2002
This absorbing glimpse into the colorful life, and mysterious death, of actor Bob Crane is also a fascinating chronicle of American male sexual identity in the 60's and 70's. [Sony Pictures Classics]
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Formula 51
October 18, 2002
Elmo McElroy (Jackson) is an American master chemist who heads to England to set up his last big deal, the introduction of a new designer drug to the European underworld. When he hooks up with a Liverpool local (Carlyle), his plans quickly go awry in this action-packed comedy.
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The Transporter
October 11, 2002
Dangerous complications ensue when a former U.S. Special Forces soldier-turned expatriate mercenary is hired to kidnap the feisty daughter of a lethal Chinese cook who's smuggling his fellow countrymen into France.
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Knockaround Guys
October 11, 2002
The four sons of well-known Brooklyn-based mobsters must team up to retrieve a bag of cash in a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
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Red Dragon
October 4, 2002
The first and most terrifying chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. (Universal Pictures)
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Welcome to Collinwood
October 4, 2002
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes unsuccessfully attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but wind up gaining more than they lose. (Warner Bros.)
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Heaven
October 4, 2002
A luminous and haunting love story, layered, in the tradition of Kieslowski, over a probing exploration of the modern world and its moral choices. (Miramax)
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Wasabi
September 27, 2002
A French police inspector (Reno) with a tender heart and a tough manner pursues the killer of an old flame in Tokyo.
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Biggie and Tupac
September 27, 2002
This documentary investigates the still unsolved murders of rap superstars Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G.) and Tupac Shakur. (Roxie Releasing)
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Skins
September 27, 2002
In the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, one of America's favorite tourist attractions lies one of her poorest counties, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly Indians, which frequently includes his own alcoholic brother, Mogie. (First Look Features)
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8 Women
September 20, 2002
When a wealthy French family gathers for Christmas, their country estate is thrown into an uproar when the father of the family is murdered. The only possible suspects are the eight women in the house, each of whom has secrets and a motive to kill him.
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Trapped
September 20, 2002
When Will and Karen Jennings (Townsend and Theron) are held hostage and their daughter is abducted, a relentless 24-hour plan is set in motion that will challenge everything they took for granted. (Sony)
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Stealing Harvard
September 13, 2002
A man (Lee) turns to a life of crime to pay for his niece's first year at Harvard College.
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Ted Bundy
September 13, 2002
A film told from the point of view of the notorious serial killer of the 1970's.
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Alias Betty
September 13, 2002
As novelist Betty Fisher (Kiberlain) starts becoming darkly depressed after the death of her young son, her plotting mother arranges to have another little boy kidnapped to take his place.
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City by the Sea
September 6, 2002
The gripping story of a dedicated police officer who discovers that the chief suspect in his current murder investigation is his own son. (Warner Bros.)
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FeardotCom
August 30, 2002
A brash young police detective (Dorff) joins forces with a beautiful, ambitious Department of Health researcher (McElhone) to find the answers behind the mysterious deaths of four people who each died 48 hours after logging on to the Internet site Feardotcom. (Warner Bros.)
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Undisputed
August 23, 2002
The story of an undefeated world champion prize fighter (Rhames) who is convicted of rape and sent to prison, where he must confront and ultimately fight the reigning prison boxing champion (Snipes). (Miramax)
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Long Time Since
August 16, 2002
Porizkova plays an illustrator whose quiet life is disturbed by memories of a long ago car accident.
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The City of Lost Souls
August 9, 2002
A violet thriller set in Japan from splatter director Takashi Miike.
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Blood Work
August 9, 2002
A retired FBI profiler is brought back into service under unusual circumstances involving his own blood analysis to track a ruthless serial killer. (Warner Bros.)
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xXx
August 9, 2002
Vin Diesel stars as former extreme sports athlete Xander "XXX" Cage, notorious for his death defying public stunts. Betting he can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Xander is recruited by NSA Agent Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) to become a different kind of undercover agent.
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Merci Pour Le Chocolat
July 31, 2002
A mystery thriller set on the lakeside of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Who Is Cletis Tout?
July 26, 2002
A prison escapee (Slater) assumes the identity of a deceased man named Cletis Tout. He soon discovers that someone had a contract out on Cletis' life, so now the escapee has to deal with not only the police, but a hitman (Allen) as well.
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Austin Powers in Goldmember
July 26, 2002
It's been three years since Austin Powers, that swinging international man of mystery, has faced his arch-nemesis, Dr. Evil. But after Dr. Evil and his accomplice Mini Me escape from a maximum-security prison, Austin is called to action once more in this third installment of the highly successful "Austin Powers" movie franchise. (New Line Cinema)
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Road to Perdition
July 12, 2002
A portrayal of two families whose fates are determined by the complex and often combative relationships between fathers and their sons. (DreamWorks Pictures)
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
July 12, 2002
An epic story of a Japanese teenager's life in the age of the Internet.
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Read My Lips
July 5, 2002
This French thriller is an absorbing character study of two lonely outsiders (a deaf secretary and an ex-con), who gradually recognize their mutual dependency.
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Rocco and His Brothers (re-release)
July 5, 2002
A re-release of Luchino Visconti's 1960 epic of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed.
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Harvard Man
June 28, 2002
Alan (Grenier) is a Harvard student indulging in all of life's more interesting vices - illicit sex, drugs and high-stakes gambling, with a little Heidegger thrown in for good measure. (Cowboy Pictures)
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Dahmer
June 21, 2002
This film seeks to recast a modern symbol of evil as a man driven by very real weaknesses and needs and, in so doing, to broaden our sense of what it is to be human. (Peninsula Films)
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Gangster No. 1
June 14, 2002
The brutal, mesmerizing story of a deadly battle of wills between a gangland leader and his apprentice, a young man who emulates him to the point of psychosis and beyond. (IFC Films)
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Virgil Bliss
June 12, 2002
Virgil Bliss is a man obsessed with living a normal life, finding a good job, marrying a decent woman, and building a family of his own. The only problem, however, is that Virgil is a recently paroled career thief with a hair-trigger temper and the social skills of a child. (P-Kino Films)
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Insomnia
May 24, 2002
From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan ("Memento") comes the story of Will Dormer (Pacino), a veteran LAPD detective who travels to a small Alaskan town with his partner Hap (Donovan) to investigate the disturbing murder of a seventeen year-old girl. (Warner Bros.)
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A Man's Gotta Do
May 6, 2002
Set in Australia, this is the story of Eddie (Howard), a fisherman with some shady business dealings who is on a quest to try and improve his relationship with his daughter Chantelle (McClelland).
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Sade
April 26, 2002
Based on the novel by Serge Bramly, this film chronicles the later years of the infamous Marquis De Sade (Auteuil).
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Vulgar
April 26, 2002
The misadventures of Will, a struggling professional clown, determined to make a living performing at kids' parties. Downtrodden in every respect, Will reinvents himself as Vulgar, the transvestite clown, improving his fortunes with his shock performances at bachelor parties. (Lions Gate Films)
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The Salton Sea
April 26, 2002
After witnessing the murder of his wife, a man (Kilmer) goes undercover to avenge her death.
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Murder by Numbers
April 19, 2002
Faced with the challenge of solving a "perfect murder," homicide detective Cassie Mayweather (Bullock) is forced to face and free herself from the tormented past she buried long ago. (Warner Bros.)
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Murderous Maids
April 19, 2002
The true story of the most sensational crime in French history. (Rialto Pictures)
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Nine Queens
April 19, 2002
Set in Buenos Aires, this is the story of two small-time swindlers who team up after meeting in a convenience store and become involved in a half million-dollar deal. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Outta Time
April 12, 2002
After a devastating knee injury causes him to lose his soccer scholarship to the prestigious San Diego University, David Morales (Lopez) must find a way to pay for college. He quickly accepts a well-paying job delivering packages across the Mexican border, but the job turns out to be more complicated than it appears. (Filmstar Films)
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Big Trouble
April 5, 2002
Based on the novel by Dave Barry, this is an ensemble comedy about how a bomb in a suitcase changes the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two teenagers, two hit men, two street thugs, two FBI men, and a psychedelic toad.
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Lucky Break
April 5, 2002
A comedy about a prison escape with a musical twist. (Paramount Pictures)
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High Crimes
April 5, 2002
A young San Francisco attorney (Judd) gets help from a former military attorney (Freeman) when she defends her husband in a top-secret military court.
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Death to Smoochy
March 29, 2002
A dark comedy set in the dog-eat-dog world of children's television programming.
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Shot in the Heart
March 27, 2002
HBO Films presents the true story of two men torn apart by a tortured family legacy -- and brought together by a notorious execution, as the eyes of the world looked on. (HBO Films)
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Showtime
March 15, 2002
In this spoof of cop buddy movies, a no-nonsense LAPD detective (De Niro) is forced to star on a reality-based TV show with a frustrated actor-turned-LAPD patrolman (Murphy).
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All About the Benjamins
March 8, 2002
A Miami bounty hunter (Ice Cube) and the fast-talking bail jumper (Epps) he is pursuing end up in the middle of a major diamond heist.
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Pépé le Moko (re-release)
March 1, 2002
A re-release of Julien Divivier's 1937 romantic crime classic.
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Super Troopers
February 15, 2002
Thorny, Rabbit, Mac, and Foster are Vermont State Troopers stationed in the boonies on the Canadian border. When they find out that the state has targeted their low-volume station for a potential budget cut, the guys attempt to straighten up their act but find it's not so easy to change their brazen ways. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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John Q
February 15, 2002
John Q. Archibald (Washington) is an ordinary man who must face the fact that his health insurance will not pay for the emergency heart transplant that is his son's only hope. Vowing to do whatever it takes to keep his son alive, John Q decides his only hope is a desperate gamble, and he takes the emergency room hostage. (New Line Cinema)
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Swiri
February 8, 2002
Spies from North and South Korea are pitted against each other amid the backdrop of reunification plans.
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Scotland, Pa.
February 8, 2002
A black comedy retelling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," set against the backdrop of a fast food restaurant in early 70's, rural Pennsylvania. (Lot 47 Films)
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Birthday Girl
February 1, 2002
A thriller about a mild-mannered banker (Chaplin) who takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride (Kidman) arranged via the internet. (Miramax Films)
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The Count of Monte Cristo
January 25, 2002
Alexandre Dumas's classic story of an innocent man wrongly but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him. (Touchstone Pictures)
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Metropolis
January 25, 2002
This Japanese anime, set in the future, depicts a grand city-state populated by humans and robots, the cohabitants of a strictly segmented society. (Sony)
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Wannabes
January 25, 2002
Two brothers from Brooklyn, working as waiters, decide to try their hand at loan-sharking and extortion in a comedy about mobsters.
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State Property
January 18, 2002
An urban crime drama. Frustrated with being broke, "Beans" (Sigel) decides that the only way to grasp the "American Dream" is to take it. State Property follows Beans and his crew, the "ABM" as they take over the city, creating mayhem as their empire builds. (Lions Gate Films)
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Lantana
December 14, 2001
This ensemble mystery set in Australia examines the stories of four married couples, each touched by the discovery of a murdered woman.
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Ocean's Eleven
December 7, 2001
In this remake of the 1960 Rat Pack heist movie, Clooney plays Danny Ocean, a man of action attempting to orchestrate the most sophisticated, elaborate casino heist in history.
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Bangkok Dangerous
November 23, 2001
The story of a deaf-mute Bangkok assassin who seeks redemption in the love of an innocent young woman.
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In the Bedroom
November 23, 2001
Set in a tranquil town on the coast of Maine, In the Bedroom tells the story of a couple whose only child is involved in a love affair with a single mother. When the relationship comes to a sudden and tragic end, each person must face the intensely difficult decision of how to respond. [Miramax]
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Spy Game
November 21, 2001
On the brink of retirement, a veteran CIA agent (Redford) takes on his most dangerous and personal mission ever when he must organize the rescue of his one-time protégé (Pitt) who has been captured by the Chinese while on a rogue mission.
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Novocaine
November 16, 2001
An edgy, unpredictable crime thriller, starring Steve Martin as a prosperous dentist whose well-ordered existence is thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient draws him into a seedy underworld of sex, drugs and murder. (Artisan Entertainment)
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Heist
November 9, 2001
A smart, complex ensemble about a masterfully-minded gold robbery. (Warner Bros.)
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King of the Jungle
November 9, 2001
When his mother is slain by a neighborhood thug as a result of her work as a vocal social activist, Seymour (Leguizamo), a mentally-challenged man, is shattered. The only witness to the murder, he goes looking for revenge. (Urbanworld Films)
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Domestic Disturbance
November 2, 2001
When a divorced father (Travolta) discovers that his ex-wife's new husband (Vaughn) is not what he claims to be, he realizes that his son's life may be in danger and is determined to save him.
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The Man Who Wasn't There
October 31, 2001
Set in 1949, this film from Joel and Ethan Coen is a tale of passion, crime and punishment, all presented in glorious black-and-white. (USA Films)
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Bones
October 24, 2001
Over 20 years after his violent death in 1979, Jimmy Bones (Dogg) returns as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his crime and drug filled neighborhood.
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