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You, Me and Dupree

Everybody has a friend who never quite got the hang of being an adult. It seems they got stuck somewhere in high school and can’t quite find the rhythm of being a grown-up. Randy Dupree (Owen Wilson) is just such a lad. He’s kind, gracious and fumbling. He has trouble distinguishing what’s privacy and what isn’t. He seems to find all of the push buttons to seem like a wounded bunny when hurt yet able to alienate his buddies by his obliviousness to the mores of relationships. Filling the crapper with noxious emissions isn’t going to help.


Director:  Anthony Russo; Joe Russo
Writer:  Mike LeSieur
Cast:
Owen Wilson -  Randy Dupree
Kate Hudson -  Molly Peterson
Matt Dillon -  Carl Peterson
Michael Douglas -  Mr. Thompson
Seth Rogen -  Neil
Ralph Ting -  Toshi
Keo Knight -  Carl’s Brother-In-Law
Todd Stashwick -  Rod
Bill Hader -  Mark
Lance Armstrong -  Himself
Jason Winer -  Eddie
Sidney S. Liufau -  Paco
Billy Gardell -  Bartender Dave
Eli Vargas -  Aaron
Houston McCrillis -  Dougie
Bob Larkin -  Army Veteran









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16 Blocks

Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed. All you want to do is your job, check out and go home. But sometimes you find yourself in a time and place that allows you to become more than you’ve become. Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) is a witness against some bad cops and his courthouse driver gets caught in traffic. Frank Nugent (David Morse) comes by the bar where they are recuperating after one attempt on Eddie’s life and starts in on persuading Frank to give up the witness. About to kill Eddie, Frank kneecaps the shooter and thereby declares which side he’s on.


Director:  Richard Donner
Writer:  Richard Wenk
Cast:
Bruce Willis -  Jack Mosley
Mos Def -  Eddie Bunker
David Morse -  Frank Nugent
Jenna Stern -  Diane Mosley
Casey Sander -  Captain Gruber
Cylk Cozart -  Jimmy Mulvey
David Zayas -  Robert Torres
Robert Racki -  Jerry Shue
Patrick Garrow -  Touhey
Steve Nuke -  FBI Agent
Sasha Roiz -  Kaller
Conrad Pla -  Ortiz
Hechter Ubarry -  Maldonado
Richard Fitzpatrick -  Deputy Commissioner Wagner
Peter McRobbie -  Mike Sheehan
Mike Keenan -  Ray Fitzpatrick









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Last Holiday

The attention paid to someone else is always an allure to those who are being paid less. Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) orders all of the menu specials prompting Chef Didier (Gérard Depardieu) to drop by her table to chat about cooking and ingredients. This makes the boss Matthew Kragen (Timothy Hutton) envious as he wants to impress his guests and associates—Senator Dillings (Giancarlo Esposito), Congressman Stewart (Michael Nouri)—with his capacity to demand respect and feels slighted when the chef doesn’t scamper like a puppy to his side to have his belly rubbed.


Director:  Wayne Wang
Writer:  Jeffrey Price; Peter S. Seaman; J.B. Priestley
Cast:
Queen Latifah -  Georgia Byrd
LL Cool J -  Sean Matthews
Timothy Hutton -  Matthew Kragen
Giancarlo Esposito -  Senator Dillings
Alicia Witt -  Ms. Burns
Gérard Depardieu -  Chef Didier
Jane Adams -  Rochelle
Mike Estime -  Marlon
Susan Kellermann -  Gunther
Jascha Washington -  Darius
Matt Ross -  Adamian
Ranjit Chowdhry -  Dr. Gupta
Michael Nouri -  Congressman Stewart
Jaqueline Fleming -  Tanya
Kendall Mosby -  Anton
Chloe Bailey -  Angie









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Scoop

If you’re going to kill someone, you really should make sure that your victim is a corpse when you call it in as an accident. It is so embarrassing when the police find them hale and hearty. Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman) takes Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) out for a pleasant afternoon excursion on his lake and, thinking her a non-swimmer, drops her in the drink and sets it up as if she went out alone. Distraught, he calls the local constabulary and tells them that she wanted some time away. Unfortunately for him, Sondra wanders in, soaked to the skin, adding that she feigned her inability to swim to meet Peter.


Director:  Woody Allen
Writer:  Woody Allen
Cast:
Hugh Jackman -  Peter Lyman
Scarlett Johansson -  Sondra Pransky
Ian McShane -  Joe Strombel
Woody Allen -  Sid Waterman
Romola Garai -  Vivian
Anthony Head -  Detective
Julian Glover -  Lord Lyman
Geoff Bell -  Strombel’s Co-Worker #2
Christopher Fulford -  Strombel’s Co-Worker #3
Nigel Lindsay -  Strombel’s Co-Worker #4
Fenella Woolgar -  Jane Cook
Doreen Mantle -  Joe’s Co-Passenger #1
David Schneider -  Joe’s Co-Passenger #2
Meera Syal -  Joe’s Co-Passenger #3
Kevin McNally -  Mike Tinsley
Robyn Kerr -  Tinsley’s Fan #1









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X-Men: The Last Stand

Why do some believe there is a nobility and graciousness to bad guys? Most are venal, unworthy of their reps. For example, we all hate Mystique (Rebecca Romijn), the toady of Magneto (Ian McKellen). But when she steps in front of him and takes a dart in the shoulder, we think what a nice thing to do. But then we see that she has been stripped of her shape-shifting ability and she ends up lying naked on the floor of the prison truck van. Most of us think, oh dear, what is going to happen to her now? Me, I’m thinking she’s naked. Magneto seems to be surprised at how vulnerable she appears. Then, in reaching out to him (after her most callous disregard for all things not Magneto), he turns away shunning her, leaving her discarded like any other piece of broken equipment.


Director:  Brett Ratner
Writer:  Simon Kinberg; Zak Penn
Cast:
Hugh Jackman -  Logan/Wolverine
Halle Berry -  Ororo Munroe/Storm
Ian McKellen -  Eric Lensherr/Magneto
Famke Janssen -  Jean Grey/Phoenix
Anna Paquin -  Marie/Rogue
Kelsey Grammer -  Dr. Hank McCoy/The Beast
Rebecca Romijn -  Raven Darkholme/Mystique
James Marsden -  Scott Summers/Cyclops
Shawn Ashmore -  Bobby Drake/Iceman
Aaron Stanford -  John Allerdyce/Pyro
Vinnie Jones -  Cain Marko/Juggernaut
Patrick Stewart -  Professor Charles Xavier
Ben Foster -  Warren Worthington III/Angel
Ellen Page -  Kitty Pryde
Michael Murphy -  Warren Worthington II
Josef Sommer -  President