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The Best Movies of 2003
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Movie: Intolerable Cruelty ( 2003 )
A beautiful gold digger matches wits with a shrewd Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who is increasingly attracted to her.
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Movie: Looney Tunes: Back in Action ( 2003 )
The Looney Tunes search for a man's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey diamond.
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Movie: House of Sand and Fog ( 2004 )
An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her house's new owners.
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Movie: House of the Dead ( 2003 )
A group of college students travels to a mysterious island to attend a rave, which is soon taken over by bloodthirsty zombies.
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Movie: Tiptoes ( 2004 )
Two brothers - a dwarf (Rolfe) and one of typical size (Steve). When Steve's girlfriend Carol becomes pregnant, the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the dwarfism gene. Matters are complicated still further when she finds herself falling in love with Rolfe.
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Movie: Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior ( 2003 )
When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
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Movie: Runaway Jury ( 2003 )
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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Movie: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas ( 2003 )
A Persian sailor named Sinbad is on a quest to find the magical legendary Book of Peace, a mysterious artifact that Eris, the wicked Greek goddess of chaos, has ultimately framed him for stealing. If he fails on this quest, his childhood friend Prince Proteus of Syracuse will take Sinbad's death penalty while Eris gains a desired foothold of power in the world of mortals.
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Movie: Matchstick Men ( 2003 )
A phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
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Movie: Bad Santa ( 2003 )
Willie T. Stokes is a convicted con man who's led a miserable life. He drinks heavily and constantly embarrasses himself publicly. He only works once a year dressed as Santa. But then come Christmas Eve, he and his pint-sized helper dwarf Marcus stage elaborate robberies and take their department stores for everything they got. This time around, Willie gets distracted by large women, a bartender who is attracted to Santas, and a kid who's convinced he's the real deal. However, Marcus must once again put up with Willie's heavy drinking and a series of incidents that constantly shoot themselves in the foot. Will Willie and Marcus make it to next Christmas? Or will this be the year the dynamic duo finally face justice?
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Movie: Coffee and Cigarettes ( 2004 )
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
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Movie: Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde ( 2003 )
Elle Woods heads to Washington, D.C. to join the staff of a Representative in order to pass a bill to ban animal testing.
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Movie: In the Cut ( 2003 )
New York City writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective, who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in her neighborhood.
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Movie: Kangaroo Jack ( 2003 )
Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be musician, get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
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Movie: The Hunted ( 2003 )
An FBI deep-woods tracker attempts to capture a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans.
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Movie: The Fighting Temptations ( 2003 )
A New York advertising executive travels to a small Southern town to collect an inheritance but finds he must create a gospel choir and lead it to success before he can collect.
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Movie: The Animatrix ( 2003 )
The Animatrix is a collection of several animated short films, detailing the backstory of the "Matrix" universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the Matrix.
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Movie: View from the Top ( 2003 )
A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.
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Movie: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star ( 2003 )
A thirty-something former child star hires a foster family to re-create the childhood he never had.
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Movie: Darkness Falls ( 2003 )
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
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Movie: Malibu's Most Wanted ( 2003 )
A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
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Movie: Radio ( 2003 )
The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.
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Movie: Young Adam ( 2003 )
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
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Movie: Grind ( 2003 )
Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and become stars themselves.
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Movie: Cradle 2 the Grave ( 2003 )
A jewel thief's daughter is kidnapped after he steals a collection of prized black diamonds, which aren't at all what they seem.
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Movie: The Recruit ( 2003 )
A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.
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Movie: Stuck on You ( 2003 )
Conjoined twins from Martha's Vineyard move to Los Angeles so that one of them can pursue an acting career.
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Movie: A Mighty Wind ( 2003 )
Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.
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Movie: The Medallion ( 2003 )
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
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Movie: Bulletproof Monk ( 2003 )
For 60 years a mysterious monk with no name has zigzagged the globe to protect an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. Now the Monk must look for a new scrollkeeper. Kar is an unlikely candidate, a streetwise young man whose only interest is himself. But when he inadvertently saves the Bulletproof Monk from capture, the two become partners in a scheme to save the world from the scroll's most avid pursuer. Packed with spectacular special effects and martial arts action, the Monk, Kar, and a sexy Russian mob princess called Bad Girl must struggle to find, face, and fight the ultimate enemy.
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Movie: The Singing Detective ( 2003 )
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
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Movie: Shattered Glass ( 2003 )
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
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Movie: George of the Jungle 2 ( 2003 )
George, now a father, goes to Las Vegas, where he has to help out his brother.
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Movie: Willard ( 2003 )
A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.
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Movie: The Divorce ( 2003 )
French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her sister and French brother-in-law and niece in Paris.
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Movie: The Order ( 2003 )
Alex Bernier (Ledger) is a member of an arcane order of priests known as Carolingians. When the head of the order dies, Alex is sent to Rome to investigate mysterious circumstances surrounding the death. The body bears strange marks on the chest which may or may not be the sign of a Sin Eater (Furmann), a renegade who offers absolution, last rites and therefore a path to heaven outside the jurisdiction of the church. Alex enlists the aid of his old comrade Father Thomas (Addy) and of a troubled artist (Sossamon) upon whom he once performed an exorcism. He soon finds himself plunged into a mystery only to find himself at the heart of it.
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Movie: Dead End ( 2003 )
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
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Movie: Down with Love ( 2003 )
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
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Movie: The In-Laws ( 2003 )
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his future son-in-law's father is a free-wheeling international spy.
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Movie: Ned Kelly ( 2004 )
Though recognized for heroism as a lad, Ned Kelly can not escape the stigma of being the eldest of a brood sired by a known criminal. In days when an arrest equaled guilt and a conviction, his unfair imprisonment for horse thievery puts him steadfast, in the eyes of Victorian police, on the wrong side of things for life. With a sister unable to dissuade the unwanted advances of Constable Fitzpatrick, Ned, his brother Dan, and friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart soon find themselves labeled "an outlaw gang" by the less-than-honorable constable. It's a designation they're apt to live up to after Ned's mother is unfairly arrested and sentenced to three years hard labor. In retaliation, the Kelly Gang strikes out against the oppressive Victorian government, with ultimately tragic results and passage into Australian folklore.
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Movie: Party Monster ( 2003 )
Based on the true story of Michael Alig, a Club Kid party organizer whose life was sent spiraling down when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate.
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Movie: The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi ( 2003 )
Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. He's destined for violent showdowns when he stumbles on two beautiful geishas avenging their parents' murder... Duels, wit and a touch of zen! Cult anti-hero Zatoichi is back in a sword-fighting adventure written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano.
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Movie: American Splendor ( 2003 )
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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Movie: Cold Creek Manor ( 2003 )
A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant.
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Movie: Love Don't Cost a Thing ( 2003 )
A high school loser pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.
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Movie: A Guy Thing ( 2003 )
A soon-to-be husband wakes up on the morning after his bachelor party in bed with another woman.
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Movie: The Triplets of Belleville ( 2004 )
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
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Movie: Pieces of April ( 2003 )
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Movie: Confidence ( 2003 )
Jake Vig leads a small Los Angeles based team of grifters, each member who has his specific role in each con: Jake is the main man, Miles the adversary, Big Al the scared innocent bystander, and Gordo the dead shooting victim. He also has in his pockets crooked LAPD detectives Lloyd Whitworth and Omar Manzano who basically play themselves as needed. Beyond getting the money, the basic goal of each con is to ensure the mark is so scared by what has happened - usually being an accomplice in a "murder" - that he won't come back looking for the money. Jake learns the hard way that their latest mark, Louis Dolby, who they fleeced for $150,000, was carrying money for a criminal named King, who takes a no prisoners approach in getting even, he who knows who stole his money. Instead of returning the $150,000 to King, money which he no longer has anyway, Jake convinces King to parlay that money and a bit more into a bigger con against a mark of King's choice, that person being banker Morgan Price, a second generation mobster. The total take for this con is to be $5 million. Beyond co-opting a couple of inside people for this con, King wants one of his own men inserted - Lupus - and Jake also enlists the work of a female pickpocket he recently ran across named Lily, to who he is attracted. During the process, a small wrinkle occurs when they learn that Special Agent Gunther Butan with the US Customs Agency, an old adversary of Jake's, is currently after him, which means they either have to call off the international mission or watch more carefully their movements, with Jake not to be the one to carry any money across the border. But with a group of con artists working for the first time with new players, a question becomes are there any inside cons at play, especially in this case where Jake has more of a personal stake than usual.
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Movie: The Cooler ( 2004 )
In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.
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Movie: Beyond Borders ( 2003 )
The world's cruelty is confronted with the love of two different people who try to save humanity from poverty and war.
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Movie: The Cheetah Girls ( 2003 )
Four teens aim to take the world by storm with their music.
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Movie: From Justin to Kelly ( 2003 )
A waitress from Texas and a college student from Pennsylvania meet during spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and come together through their shared love of singing.
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Movie: In Hell ( 2003 )
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens' entertainment.
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Movie: The Jungle Book 2 ( 2003 )
Mowgli, missing the jungle and his old friends, runs away from the man village unaware of the danger he's in by going back to the wild.
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Movie: Hollywood Homicide ( 2003 )
Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group.
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Movie: Scorched ( 2003 )
By chance 3 employees rob their bank the same weekend.
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Movie: It Runs in the Family ( 2003 )
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.
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Movie: Anything Else ( 2003 )
Jerry Falk learns a lesson the hard way when he falls head over heels in love with a beautiful but flighty girl, Amanda.
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Movie: Capturing the Friedmans ( 2003 )
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
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Movie: Beyond Re-Animator ( 2003 )
Left to rot in prison for the past thirteen years after the blood-drenched events in Re-Animator (1985) and Bride of Re-Animator (1990), the misunderstood virtuoso of mayhem, Dr Herbert West, finds an unexpected ally in the person of the young medical doctor, Howard Phillips. Behind the thick walls of the impenetrable Arkham State Penitentiary, the blasphemous duo of dreamers set up a secret laboratory to test an entirely new reanimating serum, which--when combined with West's original phosphorescent reagent--can work miracles on the prison's inmates. Now, the stage seems set for the ultimate experiment; however, once more, this is easier said than done. Can the good doctors escape from this concrete pit of death?
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Movie: Veronica Guerin ( 2003 )
An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
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Movie: Good Boy ( 2003 )
An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.
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Movie: How to Deal ( 2003 )
A teenager (Moore), disillusioned by too many examples of love gone wrong, refuses to believe that true love exists. Then this new guy (Ford) comes along...
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Movie: My Boss's Daughter ( 2003 )
After a man is asked to house sit for his boss, he becomes determined to get closer to the boss's daughter, but events keep unfolding that stop him from achieving his goal.
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Movie: Dorm Daze ( 2004 )
Set during a crazy afternoon in the lives of a dozen college students at a co-ed dorm that starts with the arrival of two very different women with the same name of Dominique.
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Movie: The Shape of Things ( 2003 )
A quiet, unassuming man begins to change in a major way as a result of meeting a new, art-student girlfriend, and his friends are unsettled by the transformation.
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Movie: Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure ( 2003 )
A holiday to the South Pacific turns awry, when Cousin Eddie's family and a tour guide are shipwrecked on an island.
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Movie: Luther ( 2003 )
During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther (Joseph Fiennes), disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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Movie: Inspector Gadget 2 ( 2003 )
Inspector Gadget returns in this sequel to his 1999 hit; a glitched Gadget once again has to fight his arch nemesis, Claw, with the aid of a female Gadget: G2.
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Movie: Leprechaun 6: Back 2 Tha Hood ( 2003 )
When Emily Woodrow and her friends happen on a treasure chest full of gold coins, they fail to heed the warnings of a wise old psychic, who had foretold that they would encounter trouble with a very nasty and protective Leprechaun.
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Movie: The Music Man ( 2003 )
A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results, in this contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and lively 1962 film, updated to reflect several early-21st-century sensibilities.
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Movie: Ghosts of the Abyss ( 2003 )
James Cameron and Bill Paxton, director and actor of the 1997 film Titanic, travel to the final undersea resting place of the ill-fated ship of dreams.
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Movie: Foolproof ( 2003 )
Kevin, Sam and Rob are founding members of a theoretical group which pulls off heists. Leo, a gangster, blackmails them into pulling off a real multi-million dollar heist. Now it's up to them to get out alive.
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Movie: Head of State ( 2003 )
When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam is unexpectedly picked as his replacement.
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Movie: Stitch! The Movie ( 2003 )
Stitch, an alien living on Earth disguised as a dog with his human family, continues his adventures when he discovers that the alien family he never knew he had is now in Hawaii, being hunted down by galactic forces.
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Movie: Pauly Shore Is Dead ( 2003 )
Hollywood's Pauly Shore loses everything, fakes his own death, and gets caught.
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Movie: Nobody Knows Anything! ( 2003 )
In this comedy about Hollywood, Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she meets crazy studio execs, insane producers and a gangster who agrees to finance her film - for a price...
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Movie: Deliver Us from Eva ( 2003 )
Eva doesn't let her 3 sisters' men push them around. She's always butting in. How to pacify Eva? Find her a man. The men pay a playboy to be that man. The problem is - he falls in love with Eva.
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Movie: Piglet's Big Movie ( 2003 )
When Piglet comes up missing his Hundred Acre Wood friends use Piglet's own Book of Memories to find him, discovering along the way just how big a role he's played in their lives.
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Movie: Battle Royale II ( 2003 )
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.
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Movie: Undead ( 2003 )
A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.
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Movie: Twelve Mile Road ( 2003 )
Divorced farmer Stephen Landis has girlfriend Leah and her daughter Roxanne move in with him. His wild and unpredictable 16 year old daughter Dulcie comes for a summer visit. Stephen believes his ex-wife Angela is exaggerating Dulcie's troubles, but comes to worry about her. Dulcie and Roxanne form a friendship, and with the time spent over the summer, grows closer to her father, and the wounds between all three are healed.
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Movie: Alex & Emma ( 2003 )
A writer must turn out a novel in thirty days or face the wrath of loan sharks.
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Movie: August Underground's Mordum ( 2003 )
Two friends bring along a newcomer to go on a killing spree.
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Movie: Masked and Anonymous ( 2003 )
A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.
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Movie: Owning Mahowny ( 2003 )
A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
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Movie: The Even Stevens Movie ( 2003 )
Dream vacation Dream on! Ren, Louis, and the entire Stevens family battle ferocious squirrels, angry natives and one another on the adventure of a lifetime.
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Movie: Blossoms & Blood ( 2003 )
A collection of alternate takes and deleted material from the Paul Thomas Anderson film Punch-Drunk Love (2002) are compiled and matched with the Jon Brion song "Here We Go" in this plot-less but very interesting short film. This short piece also features more Jeremy Blake artwork that was not included in the film.
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Movie: Tupac: Resurrection ( 2003 )
Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop M.Cs. of all time.
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Movie: Rugrats Go Wild ( 2003 )
The Rugrats get tangled in an exotic adventure, where they're helped by the Thornberrys, a family that travels the world making nature documentaries.
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Movie: Haggard ( 2003 )
After she breaks up with Ryan, Glauren is rumored to have been hooking up with heavy metal Hellboy. Ryan enlists the help of his friends Valo and Falcone to find out the truth.
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Movie: The Battle of Shaker Heights ( 2003 )
Two high school boys, reenacting historic battles, use learned strategy and team up for war on a school bully. One falls for the other's sister.
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Movie: Grand Theft Parsons ( 2004 )
There are times when it's right and proper to simply bury the dead. This is not one of those times... Gram Parsons was one of the most influential musicians of his time; a bitter, brilliant, genius who knew Elvis, tripped with the Stones and fatally overdosed on morphine and tequila in 1973. And from his dying came a story. A story from deep within folklore; a story of friendship, honour and adventure; a story so extraordinary that if it didn't really happen, no one would believe it. Two men, a hearse, a dead rock star, five gallons of petrol, and a promise. And the most extraordinary chase of modern times.
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Movie: Ju-On: The Grudge 2 ( 2003 )
As their curse spreads on, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman.
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Movie: Marci X ( 2003 )
A Jewish-American Princess is forced to take control of a hard-core hip-hop record label and tries to rein the one of the label's most controversial rappers.
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Movie: Prey for Rock & Roll ( 2004 )
Prey For Rock & Roll is the story of Jacki and her all-girl rock and roll band, Clam Dandy, who are trying to make it in the LA club scene of the late 1980s. After ten years of being ignored by record producers, Jacki and the band find hope in one producer who promises to see them play and consider them for a contract. Jacki resolves to play this one last gig and then throw in the towel if she does not find success. Personal tragedies, however, threaten to rip the band apart, rocking the foundation of friendship and trust the women have built together. Ultimately, the band must find its strength in the music that is their passion and the thread that holds them together, inspiring them to prevail.
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Movie: The Hebrew Hammer ( 2004 )
An orthodox Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus' evil son.
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Movie: Hope Springs ( 2003 )
A brokenhearted English artist travels to Hope, USA, hoping to get on with his life. He starts by drawing faces there. He befriends the cute Mandy. But then his scheming ex shows up and wants him back.
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Movie: Sol Goode ( 2003 )
Sol Goode, a charismatic L.A. twenty-something, has always relied on charm, good looks, and fast talk to glide through life. But his luck may have run out; faced with eviction from his house, losing his car, and the threat of having to find a real job, Sol realizes that maybe the life he's been leading is no longer making him happy. Through this self-examination, he finds that being a womanizing hustler is an unfulfilling life and he will truly be happy with his best friend Chloe, who, unfortunately, knows him all too well. The result is a wickedly funny, heart-felt story as Sol tries to win her over.