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Solas
September 8, 2000
When her husband becomes ill and needs an operation, a provincial Spanish woman moves in with her estranged adult daughter in an unfamiliar city.
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Turn It Up
September 6, 2000
In this semi-autobiographical film, Pras, a struggling rapper from Brooklyn, is trying to make it big.
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Titanic Town
September 1, 2000
In 1972, a Belfast mother (Walters) becomes involved in a woman's peace group which causes her family trouble with IRA sympathizers.
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Madadayo
September 1, 2000
In 1943 a beloved professor begins writing full-time. A series of events ensues including old students visiting and a fire that forces him to move.
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Wildflowers
September 1, 2000
A 17 year-old girl's life is changed forever when she becomes involved with a mysterious girl.
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Solomon & Gaenor
August 25, 2000
Set in the Welsh Valleys around 1911, Solomon & Gaenor tells the moving and ultimately tragic story of the love between a Welsh girl and a Jewish boy. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
August 25, 2000
Two lifelong friends hear a rumor that a childhood buddy with whom they've lost touch over the years, has been sighted, apparently insane, actually living out at the amusement park on Coney Island. Dubious at first, but looking for a reason to skip out on work, they decide that the only way to know for sure is to go and find him. (Phaedra Cinema)
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Waga jinsei saiaku no toki
August 25, 2000
The place is the down side of Yokohama. The atmosphere is international and the action fast. The hero is Maiku Hama - a delinquent turned private eye who operates out of the second floor of the local movie theater. (Tidepoint Pictures)
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God's Army
August 25, 2000
A movie about the experiences of a group of Latter-Day Saints missionaries working in Los Angeles.
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Love & Sex
August 25, 2000
Follows the romantic misadventures of a woman and a man in search of their own version of happily-ever-after. (Lions Gate Films)
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Orfeu
August 25, 2000
The re-telling of the Greek mythical love affair between Orfeu and EurÃdice transplanted to modern-day Brazil. (New Yorker Films)
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Place Vendôme
August 18, 2000
Catherine Deneuve is the alcoholic wife of a diamond merchant who must re-enter the secretive and glamorous world of the gem trade upon her husband's death.
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Steal This Movie
August 18, 2000
The story of Abbie Hoffman, one of the "Chicago Seven."
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Aimee & Jaguar
August 11, 2000
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. (Zeitgeist Films)
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Autumn in New York
August 11, 2000
A sweet, but terminally ill, young woman is seduced by an aging playboy.
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An Affair of Love
August 11, 2000
It began as a purely sexual arrangement between anonymous strangers. Now, some time after it has ended, a woman (Baye) and a man (Lopez) recall their unusual affair in separate interviews. (Fine Line Features)
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The Opportunists
August 11, 2000
An Irish immigrant (McDonald) comes to America to join a hometown friend (Walken) and auto mechanic that he believes is a crime lord. The two team up for one last heist to pay off their debts.
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Sunset Strip
August 11, 2000
It's 1972, and this comedy takes place during 24-hours on the Sunset Strip. It follows a group of young musicians and their friends.
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The Tic Code
August 4, 2000
A 10-year-old piano prodigy, against the wishes of his instructor, dreams of becoming a jazz pianist. This interest leads him to find a mentor in a famous jazz sax player who bonds with the boy because of their shared interest in jazz and because they each suffer from Tourette's Syndrome.
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The Tao of Steve
August 4, 2000
A former college ladies man and current "cool" kindergarten teacher who thinks he has discovered the secrets of dating known as The Tao of Steve falls for a woman who does not seem to be susceptible to his charms.
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Coyote Ugly
August 4, 2000
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford (Perabo) heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. (Touchstone Pictures)
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Girl on the Bridge
July 28, 2000
A girl on a bridge who contemplates suicide is met by a professional knife thrower. He recruits her to become the new human target in his travelling circus act in France, where the girl encounters a new sensual and suspenseful lifestyle.
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
July 28, 2000
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations. (Iron Hill Pictures)
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Wonderland
July 28, 2000
This drama follows the lives of three generations of a working-class London family during a weekend of the annual "Bonfire Night" festival in London, focusing on the tangled family ties of three sisters, their parents, and the men in their lives.
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The Wind Will Carry Us
July 28, 2000
With a strange mission, a group of people from the city come to a small village in Iran. They are awaiting the death of a 100+ year old woman, while pretending to be communication engineers.
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Les amants criminels
July 21, 2000
A grisly story in which teenager Alice convinces her boyfriend Luc to kill the man who orchestrated her rape. The two become lost while disposing of the body in the woods and fall into the hands of a hermit who takes them captive.
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$pent
July 21, 2000
This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends with very dysfunctional, yet interesting lives. (Regent Releasing)
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Two Women
July 21, 2000
A film about a brilliant young Iranian wife trapped and reduced to hopelessness in an Iranian society that accords her no right to equality and oppresses her.
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What Lies Beneath
July 21, 2000
A professor (Ford) investigates the murder of a beautiful college student who has been appearing to his wife (Pfeiffer).
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Rififi (re-release)
July 21, 2000
A reissue of a classic French caper thriller in which Tony, fresh out of prison, teams with three cohorts to pull off a major jewel heist which goes awry. The film's title is slang for "rough stuff," and it's robbery sequence is famous for its exciting, completely silent robbery scene.
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Alice et Martin
July 21, 2000
The story of the relationship between an attractive musician (Binoche) and her young husband (Loret) which is affected by the young man's troubling family history.
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The In Crowd
July 19, 2000
While working at a country club, a young woman is brought into a small group of wealthy college students. She begins dating a tennis pro, who happens to be the boyfriend of the girl who brought her into the group, and she then sees the darker side of their lifestyle.
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Water Drops on Burning Rocks
July 14, 2000
A 50 year old businessman falls in love with a boy of 19 in 70's Germany. They begin a love affair, but a difference of opinion ends their "we" status.
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The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
July 14, 2000
In nine inter-connected scenes, this film charts a course through the depths and shallows of the urban gay male experience while exposing the sexual, spiritual and political yearnings at the heart of gay America.
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Chuck & Buck
July 14, 2000
One of two childhood best friends who seems stuck in adolescence wants to become a big part of his old friend's life after his mother's death.
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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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Shadow Hours
July 14, 2000
A recovering alcoholic and expectant father is paid by a wealthy sensation seeker to hang out with him after hours in Los Angeles, observing and participating in many of the unreported shocking things that happen after dark.
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The Big Blue
July 14, 2000
Two young men who are deep-sea divers and long-time rivals come together again in competition with one having an advantage with his unusual trait (something to do with dolphins).
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All the Rage
July 7, 2000
A holdup at gunpoint affects the lives of a cross section of people in a variety of ways in this dark comedy.
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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 Perfect Storm
June 30, 2000
The film follows a sudden and violent storm -- the emotional ups and downs of the six stranded fishermen, the surviving families and the rescue crews. Based on a true story.
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The Patriot
June 28, 2000
In this story of the American Revolution, Gibson plays a pacifist turned warrior. Gibson joins his son (Ledger) in a bitter and personal battle for independence after experiencing the iron fist of a cold-blooded British officer.
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Praise
June 23, 2000
A sex-charged relationship between an unfocused, chain-smoking asthmatic and a nymphomaniac with eczema.
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Boricua's Bond
June 21, 2000
Story about a Latino pop star (Negron) growing up in a Puerto-Rican neighborhood in the Bronx.
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Jesus' Son
June 16, 2000
Stumbling across America in the 1970's, a young junkie (Crudup) searches for meaning in everything from sex and drugs to meetings with strangers.
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Butterfly Tongues
June 16, 2000
Explores the extraordinary relationship between a shy young boy, Moncho (Lozano), and his incredibly compassionate teacher, Don Gregorio (Gomez), who teaches Moncho to find his way in a world that is increasingly frightening. (Miramax Films)
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Humanité
June 16, 2000
A police detective with unusual methods investigates the murder of an 11-year-old girl; the film is about his daily life, including the yearning he has for his neighbor.
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Marcel Proust's Time Regained
June 16, 2000
Based on the last book of Proust's saga "a la recherche du temps perdu."
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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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Sunshine
June 9, 2000
The story of three generations of scions during the tragic and turbulent history of Hungary in the 20th century. Fiennes plays all three leads.
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Groove
June 9, 2000
This film is set during one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
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Running Free
June 2, 2000
The film reveals the story of how herds of wild horses came to Namibia's vast desert -- and what it says about humans in their relationship to animals.
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Better Living Through Circuitry
May 26, 2000
Documentary about the rave phenomenon, going deeper than you'll want to go unless you are already a fan of electronic dance music.
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Passion of Mind
May 26, 2000
The story about a woman who must choose between love and illusion.
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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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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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Luminous Motion
May 19, 2000
A mother and her 10-year old son, who has an active fantasy life, drive across the country on the proceeds of the mother's trick-turning; that is, until her car dies. She temporarily moves in with a hardware store owner, and the boy's father tries to track them down.
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Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
May 19, 2000
In between the birth of a guileless boy and his rediscovery in old age of his childlike sense of wonderment, performers demonstrate incredible feats of coordination and physical boldness.
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Young Dr. Freud
May 19, 2000
Corti's 1976 biography of Sigmund Freud delves into the mind of the father of psychoanalysis, focusing on the highlights of his emotional and intellectual development and projecting their impact on the legend's life and his theories.
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The Well
May 19, 2000
Hester (Rabe) brings a young woman, Katherine (Otto) in to live with her and her father and to help with chores on their farm in the Australian Outback. The two women form an atypical relationship as one is older and more conservative while the other is younger and energetic. They must come to terms after a tragic night on the town puts them at odds.
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Center Stage
May 12, 2000
A drama that follows the hopes and dreams of a tight-knit group of young dance students as they try to make a name for themselves and become stars in the fiercely competitive world of professional dance.
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Hamlet
May 12, 2000
Michael Almereyda's update of the Shakespeare play, starring Ethan Hawke as the young prince of the Denmark Corporation film empire.
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Kadosh
May 12, 2000
The son of a rabbi is pressured to end his childless marriage, but his wife is still hopeful they can conceive. Her sister is enamored with a musician but betrothed to a scholar.
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Gladiator
May 5, 2000
Before Maximus (Crowe), the heroic Roman General, can honor the wishes of his dying emperor Marcus Aurelius (Harris) by assuming the emperor's role, the emperor's cruel and corrupt son Commodus (Phoenix) orders the execution of Maximus and his family. Escaping death, Maximus assumes the life of an anonymous gladiator, fighting his way back to the Roman Colosseum where he seeks revenge and a return to justice for Rome.
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Dream of Light
May 5, 2000
A lovely portrait of celebrated Spanish painter Antonio Lopez Garcia as he paints the quince tree growing in his courtyard. The two and a half hour film offers perspectives on everything from artistic vision, realism, painting and film to life, mortality and possibility of eternal rebirth.
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I Dreamed of Africa
May 5, 2000
Based on the story of a privileged Italian woman named Kuki Gallmann, who lives with her young son and new husband on a 100,000-acre cattle ranch called Ol Ari Nyiro in Africa.
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Into My Heart
May 5, 2000
Two old friends go to Cambridge University together and meet a woman (Forlani) at a pub. One (Weber) marries her. After several failed relationships and a bad marriage, the other (Morrow) has an affair with his friend's wife.
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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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The Basket
May 5, 2000
Shortly after World War I, a new teacher (Coyote) brings basketball to a school in a small Pacific Northwest town. He helps to unite the town during a tense period which includes the immigration to the United States of German citizens.
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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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Up at the Villa
May 5, 2000
Adapted from a Somerset Maugham novella, the film is set in a 1938 Florence provincial town struggling to maintain its equilibrium as Mussolini's Fascists are consolidating their power.
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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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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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Frequency
April 28, 2000
In this mind-bending thriller, director Gregory Hoblit presents a fresh and original take on time travel with the gripping human story of a father (Quaid) and a son (Caviezel) who reach out to one another across parallel universes to stop a terrible crime. (New Line Cinema)
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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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Timecode
April 28, 2000
Mike Figgis's boldly innovative movie, using entirely improvised dialogue, simultaneously shows the audience four separate digital "movies," directing the audience's attention by manipulating the volume within the shots. The four individual movies, each shot simultaneously in 93 minutes of "real time" and synchronized by a series of earthquakes, tell the story of the casting of a bizarre movie in a Hollywood film production company.
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Croupier
April 21, 2000
A struggling writer (Clive Owen) finds a job at a casino to support his craft and to collect material for his novel, but he becomes embroiled in the temptations that come with his new life.
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U-571
April 21, 2000
A team of American seamen, disguised as soldiers on a German rescue submarine, sneak aboard a disabled German U-Boat in an attempt to capture the Enigma machine, a master encryption device which has enabled Axis forces to execute maritime attacks without fear of interference or interception by the Allies.
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Gossip
April 21, 2000
Sex, deception and rumor detonate when fellow university students and roommates Derrick (Marsden), Jones (Headey) and Travis (Reedus) collaborate on their new journalism class assignment: identifying the link between news and gossip. (Warner Brothers)
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From the Edge of the City
April 21, 2000
17-year-old Sasha (Papadopolous) is the center of a gang of hustling kids who live on the drug infested fringes of Athens society. Kazakhstan refugees, they are shunned in their new homeland, even though they are ethnic Greeks.
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The Virgin Suicides
April 21, 2000
After the suicide death of their youngest sister, the surviving daughters of the Lisbon family descend into a deep melancholy and eventually become isolated socially and physically by their parents (Woods, Turner) within their small-town Michigan house. Their only contact with the outside world is a group of neighborhood boys who become obsessed with watching and attempting to communicate with the girls.
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The Last September
April 21, 2000
An elderly couple reside over a country estate in 1920s Ireland. They have living with them a niece, a nephew and a couple who are homeless and trying to hide this fact. All of these individuals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives.
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Love & Basketball
April 21, 2000
Two college basketball players (Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan) have known each other since childhood. Their love of basketball sometimes conflicts with their love for each other.
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J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
April 21, 2000
Morgue workers Ben (Barr) and Boris (Catalifo) find themselves experimenting with acts of sexual deviancy and thrill-seeking during their off-hours.
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28 Days
April 14, 2000
For Gwen Cummings (Bullock), a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane, life is just an exercise in debauchery. That is, until Gwen's ungraceful display at her sister Lily's (Perkins) wedding, when she gets drunk, commandeers the limo and earns herself a DUI and 28 days in court-ordered rehab. (Columbia Tristar)
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American Psycho
April 14, 2000
Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis and featuring the sounds of Huey Lewis and other classic early 80s gems, this satire set in 1980s Manhattan follows the dual life of Patrick Bateman (Bale), zealously materialistic and misogynisitc Wall Street executive by day, murdering sociopath by night.
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Set Me Free
April 14, 2000
Set in 1963 Montreal, Lea Pool's coming-of-age story examines the life of a 13-year-old girl (Vanasse) who escapes her life as the illegitimate daughter of a struggling Jewish writer and a Catholic seamstress through her love of films. She adopts an unlikely role model in the prostitute heroine of Godard's "Vivre sa vie."
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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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Third World Cop
April 14, 2000
Set in Kingston, Jamaica, a cop goes back to his old hood.
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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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Restaurant
April 7, 2000
Restaurant spins the tale of a group of young friends struggling to keep their dreams alive in Hoboken, New Jersey. The stories of these twenty-somethings intersect at J.T. McClure's, an upscale bar and grill where most of them make a living while chasing their ambitions on their days off. (Palisades Pictures)
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Rules of Engagement
April 7, 2000
Retired Marine Colonel and attorney Hays Hodges (Jones) defends his old friend and comrade-in-arms Col. Terry Childers (Jackson), a highly decorated 30-year Marine veteran, who has been court-martialed for ordering his troops to fire on a hostile crowd storming the U.S. embassy in Yemen which results in the deaths of many civilians.
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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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Est - Ouest
April 7, 2000
In 1946, Stalin invites Russian expatriates to return to the motherland. A promise of open arms turns into a situation where many of them are shot or imprisoned. This film follows the story of a young family from France.
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Joe Gould's Secret
April 7, 2000
Filmmaker Stanley Tucci takes viewers into the poignant and sometimes humorous world of New York City in the 1940s. This is the true story of two men, one of whom would tell the other's story: famed "The New Yorker" writer Joseph Mitchell and New York bohemian Joe Gould. [USA Films]
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Black and White
April 5, 2000
A searing, comedic and exhilarating look at race, sex and hip hop in the melting pot that is Manhattan at the turn of the 21st century. (Screen Gems)
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