Movie Releases by Genre
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Time and Tide
May 4, 2001
An exciting thriller with an international cast, Time and Tide takes place in remote comers of the world and features intrigue, a breathless pace and a series of exhilarating action sequences staged with the explosive bravura that has become Tsui's signature. (Columbia Tristar)
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Under the Sand
May 4, 2001
For years, Marie (Rampling) and Jean (Cremer) have happily spent their vacation together in the Landes region of western France. But this summer, while Marie naps on the beach, her husband vanishes without a trace.
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Nora
May 4, 2001
The passionate and true story of James Joyce and his lifelong love Nora Barnacle. Without her, the world would be without his literary legacy. (Alliance Atlantis)
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Ed Gein
May 4, 2001
A film based closely on the life of the famed Wisconsin serial killer. (Overseas FilmGroup)
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Deuces Wild
May 3, 2001
Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 1958, the year the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, this is the story of a gang war in turbulent times.
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Green Dragon
May 1, 2001
Focusing on a young brother and sister, this is a story of the first wave of Vietnamese refugees who were housed in camps across the southwestern deserts of the United States in 1975.
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Mauvais Sang
April 27, 2001
Carax's 1986 film about a man who schemes to steal the cure for a new illness that only afflicts lovers who don't really care about each other.
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The Golden Bowl
April 27, 2001
An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal which tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower (Nolte) and his sheltered daughter (Beckinsale), both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat (Thurman and Northam), are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit. (Lions Gate Films)
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Driven
April 27, 2001
A high-tech action drama set in the dangerous, exhilarating world of open-wheel racing, Driven centers on the lives and careers of four drivers chasing the ultimate adrenaline rush. (Warner Brothers)
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The Luzhin Defence
April 20, 2001
Based on the Vladimir Nabokov novel of the same name, this film examines the effects of love and obsession, and how two passions could tear a man apart. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Harry Is Here to Help
April 20, 2001
A spiraling descent into fear and the perils of relationships in the tradition of Hitchcock. (Miramax Films)
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The Low Down
April 20, 2001
A wryly-perceptive drama about growing up - when you're not even sure that's what you want to do. It is a contemporary story about young adults and their relationships, on life, love and other four-letter words. (The Shooting Gallery)
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The Center of the World
April 18, 2001
An erotic drama about a young computer wizard (Sarsgaard) who persuades a beautiful stripper (Parker) to spend three days with him in Las Vegas. Their arrangement becomes a journey into the dark secrets of their sexuality. (Artisan Entertainment)
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States of Control
April 13, 2001
AA provocative journey deep into the world of a woman determined to break through the sterility of modern life. (Phaedra Cinema)
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The Body
April 13, 2001
When an archeological find in the Middle East reveals a crucified body from the first century, a catholic priest (Banderas) is chosen to investigate whether the man may be Jesus Christ.
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The Circle
April 13, 2001
This film tells the intertwining stories of a group of seven Iranian women, each of whom has a criminal past due to societal prejudices and oppressive laws.
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Brigham City
April 13, 2001
What happens when a perfect small Mormon town is rocked with the discovery of a dead body? Brigham City is a thrilling murder mystery which shows that no place on earth is really safe from the world. (Zion Films)
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Lakeboat
April 13, 2001
Based on David Mamet's comic play, this is a depiction of the lives of sailors on the shipping freighters of the Great Lakes seen through the perspective of a young sailor working his way through college.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
April 13, 2001
At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old Bridget (Zellweger) decides it's time to take control of her life -- and start keeping a diary. Now, the most provocative, erotic and hysterical book on her bedside table is the one she's writing. [Miramax]
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Kingdom Come
April 11, 2001
The best and the worst of the Slocumb family are on display when Woodrow "Bud" Slocumb keels over from a stroke. As the town swelters in the summer heat, family tensions reach a comedic boil as the Slocumb clan comes together to remember their dearly departed. (Fox Searchlight)
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Chopper
April 11, 2001
A bold, blackly comic character study about a self-proclaimed "national icon" Mark 'Chopper' Read. A multi-sided examination of the pathology of a complex and violent man, a man who becomes a cult figure thanks to a colourful imagination and a wicked, old-world sense of humour. [First Look Pictures]
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The Day I Became a Woman
April 6, 2001
An Iranian film about women whose problem is being who they are: women. (Shooting Gallery)
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Blow
April 6, 2001
A high-velocity look at George Jung's (Depp) spectacular rise and fall -- based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into America's biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. Ted Demme directs this riveting look at the manic allure -- and dangerous reality -- of a drug smuggler's everyday life, and unfolds one of the great untold stories from the recent annals of American crime and culture. (New Line Cinema)
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The Girl
April 6, 2001
Follows the spiraling affair between the film's narrator - a beautiful painter (de la Boulaye) - and a nightclub singer who she calls The Girl (Keim). (Artistic License)
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Shadow Magic
April 6, 2001
Set in 1902, this comedy centers around the arrival of a Westerner who introduces silent films to Imperial Peking.
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Booye kafoor, atre yas
April 6, 2001
In this semi-autobiographical story, director Bahman focuses on a 55-year-old filmmaker, Bahman Farjami, played by Farmanara himself. Farjami's work has been banned by the Iranian Post-Revolutionary Censor Board, however, he decides to film his own funeral, which further complicates his situation with the authoritites.
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Beautiful Creatures
April 6, 2001
In this witty and daringly original contemporary thriller set in Glasgow, Scotland, Dorothy (Lynch) and Petula (Weisz) are two women brought together by extraordinary circumstances with only one thing in common -- they both have rotten taste in men. (Universal Focus)
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Faat Kiné
March 30, 2001
Set in Dakar, Senegal, the film features a forty-year-old woman who refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
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The Tailor of Panama
March 30, 2001
Ruthless, seductive British spy Andy Osnard (Brosnan) may have been banished to Panama, but he's got a secret weapon -- Harry Pendel (Rush), a Cockney ex-con who has reinvented himself as a popular tailor to the rich and powerful of the country. Harry is famous for his storytelling as well as his suits, but this time Harry's yarn will give the arrogant Osnard his comeuppance. (Sony Pictures)
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Amores Perros
March 30, 2001
A bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. (Lion Gate Films)
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The Brothers
March 23, 2001
Traces the hilarious journey of four African-American men as they take on love, sex, friendship and two of life's most terrifying prospects -- honesty and commitment. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
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Enemy at the Gates
March 16, 2001
While the Nazi and Russian armies hurl rank after rank of soldiers at each other and the world fearfully awaits the outcome of the battle of Stalingrad, the celebrated Russian sniper, Vassili Zaitsev (Law) quietly stalks his enemies one man at a time. His fame, however, soon thrusts him into a duel with the Nazi's best sharpshooter, Major Konig (Harris), and the two find themselves waging an intense personal war while the most momentous battle of the age rages around them. (Paramount Pictures)
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Exit Wounds
March 16, 2001
Seagal stars as maverick Detroit police detective Orin Boyd, whose take-no-prisoners approach to domestic terrorism gets him booted downtown to the city's toughest precinct. (Warner Bros.)
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American Desi
March 16, 2001
A fun-loving romantic comedy focusing on the lives of second generation Indians in America. The story is set on a college campus and follows the exploits of an Indian freshman whose path in life takes a sharp detour down a road to self-discovery. (Eros Entertainment)
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The Dish
March 14, 2001
Set on a sheep farm in the remote town of Parkes, Australia in 1969, this is the amusing story of a satellite interface that served as a relay between NASA and Apollo 11 during the historic mission to the moon.
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Kissing Jessica Stein
March 13, 2001
A modern romantic comedy that breaks all the rules -- it blurs the lines between friendship and romantic love, and finds the funny, surprising and ultimately poignant overlap between the two. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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15 Minutes
March 9, 2001
A thriller seen through an eye-popping new lens - that of the media's hunt for shocking imagery, no matter the cost. In 15 Minutes, as the cops chase the murderers, the media chases the cops, and the whole thing fuels an escalating firestorm. (New Line Cinema)
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Simon Magus
March 9, 2001
Set in a small 19th century European village on the verge of modernization, Simon Magus stars Noah Taylor as the visionary outcast who is the key to a struggle against the building a railway station.
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Biandan, guniang
March 9, 2001
Set in Shanghai, this is the story two migrants from the countryside who move to the big city and follow divergent paths toward what they hope will be happy lives -- one as a worker, the other as a crook.
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Blow Dry
March 7, 2001
When the National Hairdressing Championships descend upon a small and unsuspecting Yorkshire town, no one is prepared for the glamour and the heartache, the scheming and the cheating which disrupt their lives. (Intermedia Films)
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The Caveman's Valentine
March 2, 2001
In this penetrating and touching neo-Gothic thriller, Samuel L. Jackson delivers a powerful performance as Romulus Ledbetter, a man caught on the sharp edge between genius and madness. (Universal Focus)
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Hit and Runway
March 2, 2001
In this comedy of culture clashes, a straight Italian restauranteur (Paducci) and a gay Jewish man (Jacobson) team up to write a screenplay about an undercover cop working in the fashion industry.
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Me You Them
March 2, 2001
Based on the true story of a woman who lived with her three husbands under the same roof in Ceara in northeastern Brazil. From this unusual situation, director Andrucha Waddington and screenwriter Elena Soarez created a fictitious plot that blends humor and passion and tells a story of an uncommon love quartet, led by Darlene, a strong intuitive woman full of the joy of living. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Last Resort
February 23, 2001
Abandoned by her fiance at the airport, a young Russian woman, with child in tow, applies for asylum in England. With her dreams of a better life dampened by the faded seaside resort she must live in during the processing, an unusual friendship develops that gives her hope. [Shooting Gallery]
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
February 23, 2001
An emotionally-charged romantic epic about an extraordinary woman poised between two extraordinary men at a pivotal moment in time. Set in 1850 on the desolate and intensely beautiful island of Saint-Pierre, a remote French territory off the coast of Newfoundland, the film is a powerful and provocative examination of grand passions and their consequences. (Lions Gate Films)
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The Price of Milk
February 16, 2001
A film about a man, a woman, and 327 cows. (New Zealand Film Commission)
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Sweet November
February 16, 2001
Nelson (Reeves) and Sara (Theron) have nothing in common except an hour spent in DMV hell. Intrigued by each other, but not quite ready to commit, they settle on a rather unconventional courtship: a one-month trial, after which they'll go their separate ways. No expectations. No pressure. No strings attached. What neither of them counts on is falling in love. (Warner Brothers)
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Yom Yom
February 16, 2001
A series of vignettes set in Haifa. Part of a trilogy of films about life in Israel's major cities.
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Signs & Wonders
February 9, 2001
Living in Athens, an American leaves his wife for another woman and then tries to return...too late... she has become involved with a Greek political activist.
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The Taste of Others
February 9, 2001
The story of a factory owner who meets an actress who is a friend of a waitress who meets a bodyguard who works with a chauffeur who drives for an interior decorator who is the wife of the factory owner who would like to befriend with some artists who... (Offline Releasing)
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Bad Company
February 9, 2001
Fourteen year-old Delphine is impressionable, introverted and completely under the spell of a new worldly girl in school. Influenced by her new friend, Delphine falls in love with a dangerous young man who turns her boring life into something quite different.
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Journey to the Sun
February 9, 2001
The story of two men who form an unlikely friendship while making the transition to city life in Istanbul.
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Love, Honor and Obey
February 9, 2001
A North London courier gets involved with a gang of criminals. Once inside, he brings grief to everyone, including himself.
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The Invisible Circus
February 2, 2001
Feeling disconnected from the world around her, a young girl (Brewster) decides to follow her dead sister Faith's (Diaz) path through Europe and discover the truth of what happened to her. (New Line Cinema)
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In the Mood for Love
February 2, 2001
Chow Mo-wan rents a room in a Hong Kong apartment building. It's sheer coincidence that he moves in the same day that Su Li-zhen moves in next door. They never have a real conversation until Mr. Chow realizes that their respective spouses are having an affair. This discovery shocks both of them. Mr. Chow, feeling hurt and wishing to understand how the affair happened, begins finding excuses to spend time with Mrs. Chan. [USA Films]
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Nico and Dani
February 2, 2001
A portrait of adolescent experience set against the blazing sun and azure sea of a small seaside town near Barcelona. During ten days of freedom, two best friends discover love, sex, jealousy and disenchantment and thus cross that vague border separating adolescence from manhood. [Avatar Films]
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The Million Dollar Hotel
February 2, 2001
Focusing on a gang of unique outcasts and misfits living in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, this is a story of friendship, betrayal and the overwhelming power of unconditional love. (Icon/Road Movies)
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Left Behind
February 2, 2001
In one chaotic moment, millions people around the world suddenly disappear. This is the rapture that God has planned as the first sign to begin the unraveling of the end of time. (Left Behind Productions)
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Amy
January 26, 2001
This extraordinary movie tells the story of a young mother whose idealistic lifestyle is shattered by a traumatic event. She is faced with the prospect of life as a single mother, as she struggles to reach out to her daughter, who has cut herself off from the world. (Cascade Films)
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Voyages
January 26, 2001
Explores the stories of three Jewish women whose lives were forever altered by the Holocaust.
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Trolösa
January 26, 2001
A deeply melancholy film about the hopelessness of modern relationships.
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Glamour
January 26, 2001
The chronicle of a Hungarian Jewish family during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century.
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The Pledge
January 19, 2001
Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson stars as Jerry Black, a Nevada homicide detective who volunteers for one final investigation on the eve of his retirement. He offers his expertise at a compromised crime scene and ends up making a promise to the young victim's mother that will change his life forever. (Warner Brothers)
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The Amati Girls
January 19, 2001
A warm, emotional story centered around four sisters and the relationship they share with their recently widowed mother. While trying to help her cope, each of the sisters begins to understand what is missing in their own lives and relationships, and the lessons they learn affect the entire family. (Providence Entertainment)
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Zheng hun qi shi
January 12, 2001
After placing an add in the personals, a young Taiwanese woman searches through the numerous replies in her quest for a husband.
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Save the Last Dance
January 12, 2001
Sara (Stiles) and Derek (Thomas) come from two different worlds, two different cultures. Yet for all their differences, they share one fervent passion - dance! (Paramount Pictures)
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Antitrust
January 12, 2001
A relentless suspense thriller that enters the hidden world where the rich and the brilliant collide, where a handful of bright, driven young men and women have the means to make or break the technology that will dominate the global economy. (MGM)
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Panic
January 12, 2001
Alex (Macy) is dissatisfied with his family life, and his work in the father's (Sutherland) business...as a professional hitman. When he seeks the help of a counselor (Ritter), an encounter with a troubled young woman (Campbell) in the waiting room changes his perspective.
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The Claim
December 29, 2000
A raw, romantic tale of stark beauty and primal authenticity about how dreams collided with greed in the making of California. [MGM]
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Shadow of the Vampire
December 29, 2000
A witty, atmospheric, and deliciously feverish tale inspired by the great German film director F. W. Murnau and the making of his unforgettable "Nosferatu." (Lions Gate Films)
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Chunhyangdyun
December 29, 2000
Set in 18th century Korea, this story of young lovers from different social castes is based on a Korean folk tale.
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Traffic
December 27, 2000
Traffic evokes the high stakes and high risks of the drug trade, as seen through a series of interrelated stories, some of which are highly personal and some of which are filled with intrigue and danger. (USA Films)
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Malèna
December 25, 2000
Malena (Bellacci), a beautiful young war widow, inspires the sensual awakenings of a group of adolescent boys in 1941 Sicily.
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All the Pretty Horses
December 25, 2000
A sweeping odyssey about a young man's (Matt Damon) encounters with responsibility, love, revenge and survival. [Miramax Films]
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Thirteen Days
December 25, 2000
A dramatization of what took place in the White House as John F. Kennedy (Greenwood) learns the news that Cuba has missiles. The film is seen through the eyes of the Chief of Staff (Costner).
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Vatel
December 25, 2000
Set during the reign of France's King Louis XIV (Sands), this film portrays the events of a three-day feast prepared and conducted by Vatel (Depardieu), the king's master of entertainment.
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Before Night Falls
December 22, 2000
A richly imagined joumey into the life and writings of the brilliant Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas. [Fine Line Features]
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Exhuming Mr. Rice
December 22, 2000
A mysterious man (Bowie) befriends a terminally ill 10-year-old boy (Switzer) who is obsessed with death.
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Cast Away
December 22, 2000
Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. (Twentieth Century Fox)
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The Family Man
December 22, 2000
In this romantic comedy drama about life's possibilities, Jack Campbell (Cage) must choose between a his glamorous, fast-paced career or life as a suburban husband and father. (Universal Pictures)
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The House of Mirth
December 22, 2000
Lily Bart (Anderson) is a ravishing socialite at the height of her success who quickly discovers the precariousness of her position when her beauty and charm start attracting unwelcome interest and jealousy. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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State and Main
December 22, 2000
A big-budget movie crew descends upon a quaint New England village, sowing a bumper crop of corruption, vanity and greed. (Fine Line Features)
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Finding Forrester
December 20, 2000
An uplifting story about the unusual dynamic between an isolated author (Connery) and the confident teenager (Brown) who changes his life. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
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South of Heaven, West of Hell
December 15, 2000
In the Tucson territory of the early 1900's, Valentine Casey (Yoakam) must confront his sinister past. When the outlaw family who raised him comes back and threatens his new love (Fonda), Valentine and his partner (McIlvain) journey through the desert to a small town in order to save her.
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The Visit
December 15, 2000
A timeless story of one man's search for understanding and redemption. (Urbanworld Films)
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Chocolat
December 15, 2000
When Vianne (Binoche), a mysterious stranger, and her child arrive in a tranquil French town in the winter of 1959, nobody could have imagined the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on this community stubbornly rooted in tradition. (Miramax Films)
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Pollock
December 15, 2000
A look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Strippers
December 8, 2000
Alan is having an horrendous day...he loses his job, money is missing from his bank account, he is evicted from his apartment, misses a date with his girlfriend and much more.
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Proof of Life
December 8, 2000
Peter Bowman (Morse), an American engineer in a Latin American country, is kidnapped for a $3 million dollar ransom. Abandoned by her husband's employer and insurance company, his wife Alice (Ryan) refuses to give up on his life. She takes on the task of bringing him home but quickly realizes she can't do that without help. An expert in "K & R" (Kidnap & Ransom), Terry Thorne (Crowe) is Alice's best and only hope for saving Peter. (Warner Bros.)
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The Day Silence Died
December 8, 2000
Abelardo (Grandinetti), a handsome entrepeneur arrives in the village of Villaserena, Bolivia, bringing with him a "radio station" that is just four loudspeakers set up about town that blast out news, local gossip, and music. This, of course, stirs up old rivalries and secrets.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
December 8, 2000
In 19th century China, a magical sword given by a warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) to his lover (Michelle Yeoh) is stolen and the quest to find it ensues. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story travels in a different direction with the introduction of a mysterious assassin and another love story.
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A Good Baby
December 1, 2000
In rural North Carolina, an abandoned baby becomes a pawn in a complicated relationship involving a young man (Thomas) who finds her, a thick-skinned woman who takes a liking to him, and a traveling salesman (Strathairn) who claims the baby is his lost child.
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Boys Life 3
December 1, 2000
A collection of short films with gay themes.
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Spring Forward
December 1, 2000
Upon release from prison, a young man (Schreiber) begins working for a small town's park departmant. He forms a friendship with a co-worker, an older man (Beatty).
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Moon Shadow
December 1, 2000
An Italian physicist returns to his small Sicilian hometown after a twenty year absence.
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Quills
November 22, 2000
Quills boldly enters the debate surrounding the Marquis De Sade by imagining his final days as a blistering black comedy thriller, a battle between lust and love - and between the brutality of censorship and the unpredictable consequences of free expression. (Fox Searchlight)
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Unbreakable
November 22, 2000
David Dunn (Bruce Willlis) is the sole survivor of a devastating train wreck. Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), a mysterious stranger, offers a bizarre explanation as to why David escaped without a single scratch, an explanation that threatens to change David's family and life forever. [Touchstone Pictures]
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The Trench
November 22, 2000
Focusing on an idealistic group of young World War One soldiers, this film dramatizes the forty-eight hours preceding the 1916 Battle of the Somme.
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Lies
November 17, 2000
In South Korea, an affair begin between two individuals who meet through a personal ads. J (Lee) is 38-year-old married man and Y (Kim) is a young girl of 18 who wants to lose her virginity. As things progress, the two find themselves in the realms of obssession and sadomasochism.
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Bounce
November 17, 2000
A romantic drama about two strangers, a hot shot urban ad exec (Affleck) and a struggling single mom (Paltrow), who fall in love -- only one of them knows it wasn't by chance. (Miramax Films)
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