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13 Going On 30
Jenna is thirteen and desperately wishes to be grown up. When she wakes up the day after her birthday she is 30 years old and a beautiful, successful woman. Jenna soon learns that having it all is not enough and takes a second chance at her first love.
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis, Sam Ball
Quotes: "Amusing, charming and pleasantly nostalgic." - USA Today
"So engaging and ultimately so sweet that it's difficult not to get swept up in the fun and sentimentality." - Apollo Guide
"A light-hearted, bright-hearted romantic fantasy." - The Today Show
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Across the Universe
Jude, a young dockworker from Liverpool, travels to America where he falls in love with Lucy, and together they join the Vietnam war protests, after Lucy's brother is drafted. Set to some of The Beatles' most popular songs.
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Bono, Eddie Izzard
Quotes: "Here is a bold, beautiful, visually enchanting musical where we walk INTO the theater humming the songs." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"'Across the Universe' captured my heart, and I realized that falling in love with a movie is like falling in love with another person." - New York Times
"All you need is love - for the Beatles, for psychedelic visuals, for ideas about being young in the '60s - to fully enjoy 'Across the Universe.'" - Variety
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget, a single career woman, is torn between her disreputable boss, Daniel Cleaver, and Mark Darcy, a disagreeable, but attractive acquaintance.
Director: Sharon Maguire
Starring: Hugh Grant, Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth
Quotes: "General audiences will love this winsome romantic comedy. Enthusiastically recommended." - Video Librarian
"It's chock-full of delights." - Chicago Tribune
"An extremely entertaining movie." - Charlotte Observer
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Chicago
Murderesses on death row, Velma Kelly and Roxy Hart vie for fame and freedom in Chicago during the 1920s
Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Taye Diggs, Renee Zellweger, Queen Latifah, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lucy Liu, John C. Reilly, Richard Gere
Quotes: "****Editor's Choice...quite simply, one of the best movie musicals..." - Video Librarian
"'Chicago' is everything a musical is supposed to be..." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Not since the 1972 'Cabaret' has there been a movie musical this stirring, intelligent and exciting." - Washington Post
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Daddy Day Care
When two fathers find themselves out of work, they start a day care run by men. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn, Anjelica Huston
Quotes: "A fine family flick..." - Cranky Critic
"Easy-on-the-sensibilities family film." - Washington Post
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Emma
Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
Director: Douglas McGrath
Starring: Alan Cumming, Ewan McGregor, Gwyneth Paltrow
Quotes: "***1/2...highly recommended." - Video Librarian
"Two Thumbs Up!" - Siskel and Ebert
"Devilishly Funny!" - Rolling Stone
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Florence Foster Jenkins
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success. Director: Stephen Frears Starring: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, Nina Arianda Quotes: "It would be easy to mine Jenkins' story for silly farce and 1940s set pieces and let it coast from there, but director Stephen Frears is too kind, and too nuanced, to do that." - Entertainment Weekly "There are no wrong notes in this: Frears remains entirely confident within the emotional range he has chosen." - Guardian "An audience picture first and foremost: one wholly sympathetic to its eponymous subject's delusional drive to delight crowds with or without the requisite artistry." – Variety
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Good Will Hunting
A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Robin Williams
Quotes: "***1/2 Highly recommended." - Video Librarian
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Hellboy
Born in the flames of hell and brought to Earth as an infant to perpetrate evil, Hellboy was rescued by the benevolent Dr. Broom, who raised him to be a hero. In Dr. Broom's secret Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, Hellboy creates an unlikely family consisting of the telepathic Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman, the woman he loves who can control fire. Hidden from the society they protect, they are the key line of defense against an evil madman who seeks to reclaim Hellboy and his power.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Rupert Evans
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The Infiltrator
U.S. Customs officer Robert Mazur goes undercover to expose Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's money laundering operation.
Director: Brad Furman
Starring: Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Olympia Dukakis, Juliet Aubrey
Quotes: "It sure is fun to watch Cranston at his best again, masterfully walking the tightrope between good and bad." - Entertainment Weekly
"The genuine success of The Infiltrator comes from the fact that Cranston seems to hate it, that his every second is full of dread and terror, and he can't wait for it to be over. And so he makes everyone in the audience a nervous wreck." - San Francisco Chronicle
"It's Cranston's most accomplished and subtly layered film performance to date." - Los Angeles Times
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Kate & Leopold
When Kate's ex-boyfriend inadvertently brings an 18th century Duke to 21st century New York through a portal in time, she falls in love with him and his gentlemanly ways.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Meg Ryan, Breckin Meyer, Hugh Jackman
Quotes: "It's a charmer." - Boston Globe
"Together, Jackman and Ryan really click." - Denver Post
"Flies on the sweet chemistry of Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman." - Rolling Stone
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Legally Blonde
When her boyfriend dumps her to go to Harvard Law School, Elle Woods leaves her sorority life in California, her couture clothes, and fabulous friends to follow him.
Starring: Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Reese Witherspoon
Quotes: "Well-crafted, good-natured silliness." - Houston Chronicle
"A yummy confection." - Reel.com
"Two Thumbs Up!" - Ebert & Roeper And The Movies
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Mona Lisa Smile
An independent-minded woman accepts a teaching position at Wellesley, an all women's college in 1953, and tries to help her students see the opportunities available to them.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Topher Grace, Julia Roberts
Quotes: "A 'Dead Poets Society' for girls, substituting Roberts' luminosity for Robin Williams' mania." - Houston Chronicle
"...I enjoyed 'Mona Lisa Smile' enormously, in large part because of the sheer virtuosity of the largely female cast." - New York Observer
"...alot of people said this thing looks a lot like a 'Dead Poets Society,' well, so what? 'Dead Poets Society' was a really good film and this is a good film as well." - Ebert & Roeper
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Next
FBI agents track a Las Vegas magician who can see the future, hoping to use his abilities to prevent a terrorist attack.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Julianne Moore, Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel
Quotes: "...thoroughly entertaining thriller." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Irresistible..." - Newsday
"...lives from one brilliantly executed chase sequence to the next..." - LA Weekly
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The One
In The One, parallel universes collide when a rogue agent assigned to monitor these universes begins eliminating versions of himself in each alternate reality. Assuming more energy and power with each version he destroys, he must finally confront the one man standing between himself and his ultimate goal...to be The One.
Starring: Jet Li, Carla Gugino, Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham, Steve Rankin
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Perfect Stranger
When an investigative reporter learns that her friend's murder may be connected to a powerful businessman, she poses as a temp at his agency and pretends to be a girl he flirts with online to get to the truth.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Halle Berry, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Dourdan
Quotes: "...much to be admired..." - Detroit News
"...one of the most satisfying films [Berry] has ever made." - San Francisco Chronicle
"...the kind of polished diversion that the big studios should deliver twice a month, but don't." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Radio
Based on a true story, a mentally-challenged student helps a school football team realize their potential.
Starring: Ed Harris, Debra Winger, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Quotes: "Every once in a while human nature expresses itself in a way we can feel good about, and this is one of those times." - Chicago Sun-Times
"As entertaining as it is heartfelt." - Jam! Movies
"...a stellar work of poignant cinema." - The Badger Herald
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She's All That
After his girlfriend dumps him, Zack bets a classmate that he can turn the school's nerdiest girl into the prom queen.
Director: Robert Iscove
Starring: Kevin Pollak, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard
Quotes: "Hip, smart and hilarious!" - NBC-TV
"Sexy, Fun And Entertaining!" - CBS Radio
"Everyone Will Love This Movie!" - UPN-TV
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Tears of the Sun
Navy S.E.A.L. A.K. Waters is sent into war torn Africa in order to save Dr. Lena Hendricks, the leader of a mission; when she refuses to leave her refugees, they all begin a dangerous trek through the jungle in hopes of safety.
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Bruce Willis
Quotes: "'Tears of the Sun' is just as remarkable as a drama as it is intense as an action flick." - Jam! Movies
"A really, really strong work by Willis." - Ebert & Roeper
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Virgin Suicides
In a quiet Michigan community in the mid-1970s, neighborhood boys try to piece together the lives of the five Lisbon sisters, kept isolated by their over-protective parents.
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Hanna Hall, Leslie Hayman, Chelse Swain
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The Water Horse
After a young boy discovers a strange egg on the shores of Loch Ness, he discovers that the creature inside is the legendary Water Horse.
Director: Jay Russell
Starring: Brian Cox, Ben Chaplin, Alex Etel
Quotes: "...exciting, instructive, cheerfully absurd and genuinely affecting." - Wall Street Journal
"A rich, mostly tender fairy tale." - Washington Post
"An enchanting tale of friendship and evolving relationships..." - Los Angeles Times
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XXX
Xander Cage is a rebellious extreme sports star who is recruited by a top secret government agency to bring down an enemy spy bent on destroying the world.
Director: Rob Cohen
Starring: Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Asia Argento
Quotes: "If you like an extreme action packed film with a hint of humor, then triple X marks the spot." - Talking Pictures
"...XXX is as good as a good Bond movie, and that's saying something." - Chicago Sun Times
"If you're looking for a great summer action film that is pure enjoyment, XXX is absolutely your film." - DVDTALK.com
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Yentl
In turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe where women are denied higher education, Yentl disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to an orthodox Jewish school.
Director: Barbra Streisand
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Miriam Margolyes
Quotes: "***1/2...most engaging performance this side of Funny Girl..." - USA Today
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Zodiac
Based on a true story, follows the obsessive investigations of detectives and reporters trying to discover the identity of a serial killer who becomes known as the Zodiac.
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Jake Gyllenhaal, Anthony Edwards, Mark Ruffalo, Chloe Sevigny
Quotes: "Two thumbs up!" - Roeper & Michael Phillips
"***1/2...One of the year's best films to date...highly recommended." - Video Librarian
"...grips you by the throat and doesn't let go." - USA Today
"Unique and unmissable" - Rolling Stone
"This movie sends you into the night thinking, maybe even a little afraid. Bravo..." - New York Post
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