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1) The goonies
Author
Summary
The film follows a group of misfit kids as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Publication Date
c2002
Summary
Lately, FLoyd is experiencing more than his fair share of hard times. The Blue Water Grill, his Gulf Coast cafe, is about to be seized for back taxes owed to the government. His wife disappears without a trace, leaving behind her father, who lives in and out of senility. And a potential buyer won't give up until the cafe is his. As Floyd begins to accept his new way of life, in walks Louise, a beautiful, smart woman who has big plans for the Blue...
3) Black knight
Publication Date
[2002], ©2001
Summary
Jamal is an employee at Medieval World amusement park when he is magically transported back to 14th century England. Now he must do battle with an evil king, deadly assassins - and really bad plumbing.
4) Jennifer8
Publication Date
2002
Summary
They are the unidentified victims of an unsolved death spree, women linked by a killer's handiwork ... and by police files giving them the code name 'Jennifer'. Police make a breakthrough when they uncover a witness, a young blind women. Yet, who can rely on the testimony of a witness who cannot see?
Publication Date
[2008]
Summary
"Light Yagami, a college law student, comes into the possession of the Death Note - a special notebook with the power to kill. With it he decides to create a perfect world by killing all the criminals. Soon the world's greatest detective, known only as "L", is on the case. Now the chase begins to find the ultimate serial killer.--Container.
Publication Date
2001
Summary
A shining example of the magic that's created when two of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars join forces in one special film. Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep play Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's just one thing standing between Frank and Molly's intense, newfound love: both are already married. Oscar Winners De Niro, Streep and a fine supporting cast including Harvey Keitel...
Publication Date
2007
Summary
A 1984 East Berlin simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler, a Stasi officer and a specialist in surveillance, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert Jerska, a known dissident, Dreymanś record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this...
Publication Date
1994
Summary
Convinced that a recently burned-down structure harbors ghosts, young Matthew Mackay and Siluck Saysanasy decide to investigate the ruins. In true "urban legend" fashio, what Mackay sees inside the structure causes him to go bald on the spot! His distress is mollified when a pair of friendly ghosts whip up a "peanut butter solution" that will obstensibly restore his hair. So hirstute does Mackay become that he is kidnapped by a paint-brush manufacturer....
11) Cadillac man
Publication Date
c2002, 1989
Summary
Whether he's pitching himself, or his high-priced luxury cars at Turgeon Auto Sales, Joey O'Brien never lets a day go by without "doing" someone good. But Joey's schmoozed through life on cruise control...and now he's riding in the hot seat.
12) Bring it on
Publication Date
[2000]
Summary
The Toro cheerleading squad has spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain, Torrance, the Toros' road to cheer glory stumbles when she discovers their perfectly choreographed routines were stolen from a hot hip-hop squad across town. Now the squad must scramble to find a new routine to compete in this year's competition.
Publication Date
c2003
Summary
When a high school student unwittingly activates a mysterious alien weapon, he is transformed into The Guyver, a powerful mechanized warrior. He must now defend mankind against the Zoanoids, devastating creature created by an ancient alien race as a result of a DNA experiment gone terribly wrong.
Publication Date
[2006]
Summary
Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but Ben's daughter, Cale, persuades Ben to buy the horse, which causes him to lose his job. Rehabilitating the horse is almost too much for Crane's nearly bankrupt farm, but it proves to be the perfect salve in mending a broken family.
15) Best men
Publication Date
2002
Summary
Fresh out of jail, the groom is met by his friends to escort him to the altar. But on the way, one friend decides to stop and rob a bank, forcing the angry bride to join them in the stand-off.
16) Ray
Summary
Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. 'Ray' follows as he overcomes drug addiction while becoming one of the country's most beloved performers.
17) 28 days later
Summary
An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come.
19) The kid
Publication Date
[2000?]
Summary
International superstar Bruce Willis (Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense) along with Lily Tomlin (9 to 5, Tea with Mussolini), Emily Mortimer (Scream 3, The Newsroom), and newcomer Spencer Breslin star in the hilarious and heartwarming comedy Disney's The Kid. Successful, high-powered Russ Duritz (Willis) has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the child he used to be -- until one day, he meets him face-to-face! Thinking this kid is a hallucination,...
20) One-eyed jacks
Publication Date
c2001
Summary
Two criminals rob a bank. One escapes, the other is captured by police. Eventually one criminal becomes a sheriff in Monterey; the other, after having been jailed in a brutal Mexican prison for five years, comes looking for revenge...
