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MAFIA BLUES 2 / ANALYZE THAT with Lisa Kudrow (Friends TV-Series) (Friends) , Robert de Niro , Billy Crystal . Paul Vitti's life is threatened by assassins while incarcerated. He fakes insanity and starts singing showtunes from West Side Story. This draws the attention of Ben Sobel, who organises Vitti to be released into his custody, convinced he really needs help. But shortly after, Ben discovers Vitti's insanity is a ploy to get out of jail, which Vitti reveals. Needing some therapy himself after his father's death, a grieving Sobel talks Vitti into finding a regular job. Vitti attempts to find a legitimate job (he tries his hand at a car dealership, a jewelry store and a restaurant), but to no avail. |
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MARIAGE a la GRECQUE (Greek Wedding) A trente ans, Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos), visage ingrat et mine tristounette, est bien partie pour rester vieille fille, au désespoir de ses parents. Pourtant, lorsque le beau Ian (John Corbett) fait irruption dans le restaurant familial, Toula voit enfin l'avenir lui sourire. Mais séduire le... |
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MI-TEMP AU MITARD / THE LONGEST YARD starring Adam Sandler , Chris Rock , Nelly , Burt Reynolds . The Longest Yard is a remake of the 1974 film of the same name. The movie features inmates at a prison who play American football against their guards. Adam Sandler plays the hero, Paul Crewe, an ex pro-football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Burt Reynolds, the original Paul Crewe, plays a major role as Nate Scarborough, the head coach and a former Heisman Trophy winner from 1955, and Chris Rock as Crewe's cell neighbor and friend known as Caretaker. The rest of the cast includes James Cromwell, Nelly, William Fichtner and a number of current and semi-retired football players and professional wrestlers including Michael Irvin, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bill Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Bob Sapp, Terry Crews, Brian Bosworth, Bill Romanowski, and Dalip "The Great Khali" Singh Rana. |
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MONKEYBONE starring Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda . After falling into a coma following a freak accident, cartoonist Stu Miley becomes trapped in the fantasy land of his own imagination. In this land called Downtown, nestled somewhere between life and death, he must somehow find the means to return to reality. In order to escape Downtown, Stu must outwit Death herself... but the cartoonist's own comic creation, Monkeybone, has come to life, and is intent on wreaking havoc on Stu's plans. |
Mouse Hunt - Nathan Lane (1997) - A family film about a mouse that lives in an old house
where the geriatric owner dies, and Nathan Lane and Lee Evans (I) have plans
for, but they have trouble getting rid of the mouse. It's like Home Alone with
a mouse
Mr Deeds - Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder 2002 - Don't let the fancy clothes fool you
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My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson . "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" is a "romantic comedy with a superhero twist". It was directed by Ivan Reitman and stars Luke Wilson, Uma Thurman, Anna Faris, Wanda Sykes, Rainn Wilson, and Eddie Izzard. |
National Security - Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn (2003) - Earl and Hank have only one thing in common: they're both L.A.P.D. rejects. One just got kicked out, the other can't even get in
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NORBIT Hysteriquement Drole starring Eddie Murphy |
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NUIT AU MUSEE (Night at the Museum) starring Ben Stiller Larry Daley, nouveau gardien du musée d'histoire naturelle de New York, découvre que tous les squelettes, animaux empaillés et statues de cire s'animent durant la nuit : Attila, Sacagawea, Theodore Roosevelt, Christophe Colomb, Lewis et Clark, les cowboys, les soldats romains (dont Gaius Octavius), les soldats de la guerre de Sécession, les mayas, hommes de néanderthal, un tyrannosaure, des singes capucins et une statue de l'Île de Pâques. Plusieurs de ces êtres ont un passé de violence, et ne sont pas prêts à y renoncer. Daley sera mis au défi de trouver un modus operandi qui permettra à tous de fonctionner harmonieusement. Il pourra compter sur l'aide de Theodore Roosevelt, mais se buttera aux menées des anciens gardiens de nuit qui ont, au fil des ans, retrouvé une certaine jeunesse en travaillant dans le musée. |
Nutty Professor, The starring Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith (1996)
- For Professor Sherman Klump, being the big man on campus wasn't all it's cracked up to be. His body was disproportionate. His family was dysfunctional. And his love life was disastrous.
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NUTTY PROFESSOR II THE KLUMPS starring Janet Jackson, Eddie Murphy . Professor Sherman Klump is getting married. And the Klump family could not be more delighted for him. But Buddy Love, his Mr. Hyde alter-ego from the first film, is back and trying to make it on his own. Buddy keeps resurfacing in untimely outbursts, and threatening the portly professor's marriage plans to colleague Denise Gaines. Utilizing Denise's cutting-edge DNA research, Sherman decides to rid himself of his monstrous nemesis -and his disruptive outbursts-once and for all by extracting Buddy's DNA from his system. But Buddy bursts full-bodied into Sherman's world and lays claim to the professor's astounding invention - a revolutionary youth serum. Desperate to keep it from Buddy, Sherman hides the serum in the Klump family home, thinking it will be safe. Buddy correctly divines where Sherman has placed the serum, but to get it, he has to deal with the entire Klump family first. |
One Night at McCool's - Liv Tyler, Matt Dillion (2001) - After another hard night at McCool's, bartender Randy runs into Jewel. The seductive lady seems to have evaded a rape pretty closely, and when the man comes back, she puts a bullet in his head.
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OPERATION ANTISECHE / CHEATS starring Mary Tyler Moore. Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years. Everything had been going along smoothly until the gang entered their final year of high school and the stakes were upped by the school's principal |
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La saga raconte les désastreuses aventures des Orphelins Baudelaire. |
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PHAT GIRLZ / ZERO COMPLEXE starring Monique |
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL - Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley . Pirates of the Caribbean is a sweeping action-adventure story set in an era when villainous pirates scavenged the Caribbean seas |
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST with Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley The East India Trading Company arrives in Port Royal, Jamaica, to extend its monopoly in the Caribbean and purge piracy from its waters. Leading the expansion is Lord Cutler Beckett, a powerful and ruthless EITC agent who arrests Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner as they are about to be married. Beckett threatens to execute them and the absent ex-Commodore James Norrington for aiding Captain Jack Sparrow's escape, but he offers clemency if Will agrees to hunt for Sparrow and his magical compass which points to what its possessor wants most. An informant in Tortuga leads Will to the Black Pearl run aground on Pelegosto, a cannibal-inhabited island where Jack and his crew are captive. Jack hid there after "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, Jack's former crewmate and now an indentured sailor aboard Captain Davy Jones' ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, delivered Jack the Black Spot, a mark signifying his debt to Jones is due. Thirteen years before, Jones raised the Pearl from the ocean depths and made Jack its captain. In exchange, Jack must now serve aboard the Dutchman for 100 years. |
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UN PLAN BETON / KING'S RANSOM starring Anthony Anderson, Kellita Smith . Malcolm King (played by Anderson) is a wealthy, selfish, obnoxious businessman who is about to divorce from his wife Renee (played by Smith). She plans to ruin him financially during the court proceedings, and King is willing to do anything to protect his fortune.
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Eddie Murphy as the owner of a lunar nightclub investigating who was behind the arson that destroyed his club. It was one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. |
Polar Express with Tom Hanks, Leslie Harter Zemeckis (2004) - "The Polar Express" Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis ("Forrest Gump," "Cast Away") reunite for "The Polar Express," an inspiring adventure based on the beloved children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg. When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe. Sony Pictures Imageworks and visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston, Oscar winners for their innovative work, help bring this enchanting holiday story vividly to life in full CG animation through Imageworks’ next-generation motion capture process, which allows live-action performances to drive the emotions and movements of the digital characters
Preacher's Wife, The - Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston (1996) - They needed help. What they got was a miracle.
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Rat Race (2001) - Donald Sinclair (John Cleese) owns the biggest, snazziest, flashiest, high rolling-est casino in Las Vegas. And to entertain some of his wealthiest patrons, he's staged the most original high stakes game that Sin City has ever seen! The contestants? Six teams. The jackpot? Two million dollars stuffed in a locker hundreds of miles away
| SA MERE OU MOI / MONSTER IN LAW starring Jennifer Lopez , Jane Fonda , Wanda Sykes . |
| SAVE THE LAST DANCE 2 starring Izabella Miko , Jacqueline Bisset . |
School of Rock, The - Jack Black - Down and out rock star Dewey Finn (Black) gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight.
Shanghai Knights, Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson (2003) - When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds
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Sing (Stephen Chow), a master of Shaolinquan kung fu, whose goal in life is to let the world know about the benefits of the ancient art, experiments with various methods to inform the modern world about shaolin kung fu, some of which include comedic song and dance routines; all bear no positive results. He then meets Fung (Ng Man Tat), a legendary soccer star in his days, until his teammate Hung, now a rich businessman, paid him off. After missing the game-winning penalty kick, Fung's “golden leg” was broken by an angry baseball bat-wielding mob (who was actually hired by Hung), forcing him to retire from active play, due to his disability. On the day Fung learns of Hung's treachery, he meets Sing while in a drunken state in front of a shopping centre |
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Alan, son of a Toy Store owner, tries out some new action figures: The Commando Elite vs. The Gorgonites. What he does not know, is that both sets of toys were designed to move, talk and play back. The Commando Elite's purpose is to destroy the Gorgonites. Unfortunately, the toy designer who was responsible for the programming, bought highly intelligent military computer chips that are usually used for steering missiles - and are able to learn. Now, the Commando Elite, led by Major Chip Hazard, is up to destroying the Gorgonites, led by peaceful Archer, who hide in Alan's parent's house. Now, a battle, in which the destructive ability of creative computer chips against creative computer chips with a different attitude comes to light, is about to begin. |
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Snow Day - Chevy Chase, Mark Webber (II), Schuyler Fisk 2000 - Roads closed. Schools shut. Rules were made to be frozen! |
Soul Food - Vanessa L. Williams, Vivica A. Fox (1997) - Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart. Two of the sisters feud continuously: Teri is jealous of Maxine's marriage and irritated that everyone assumes her corporate salary is open to the rest of the family's uses. Maxine resents Teri's bossiness and insensitivity to family tradition. Bird, the youngest, newly married to an ex-con, accepts a favor from an old lover that leads to her husband's arrest. Mama Joe's grandson Ahmad cooks up a scheme to bring the family together, back to the table
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Quatre garnements ont reussi a assister a la projection d'un film canadien de Terance et Phillip interdit au moins de dix-huit ans. Tetanises de bonheur et transportes au septieme ciel, Stan, Kyle, Kenny et Cartman n'ont plus qu'une idee: transmettre leur savoir a leurs copines et copains verts d'envie. Bientot les enseignants sont impuissants face a l'anarchie qui s'installe. Alertees, les meres s'unissent pour que leurs rejetons se calment mais par leurs methodes expeditives provoquent la guerre entre le gouvernement canadien et la Maison-Blanche. |
A Space Travesty, Leslie Nielsen, Ophelie Winter, Verona Feldbusch - Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix. When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the United States is being held captive on a secret international moon base called Vegan and that he has been replaced on Earth by a clone, the US Marshall Service immediately sends their 'best' man, Dix, on the mission
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Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of several of their old colleagues forces the Cortez' return from retirement. What they didn't count on was Carmen and Juni joining the "family business." |
Stir Crazy
(Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor) - Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robery and end up
in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to
the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural tallent for riding
broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
Stuck On You - Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Eva Mendes (2003) Bob and Walt Tenor are small-town legends who excel at sports, and who are the proud owners of a fast-food restaurant where their four hands work the grill at lightning speed. When the acting bug bites Walt, he convinces Bob to honor their childhood pact to never hold back the other, and the brothers head west for the bright lights of Hollywood. Bob and Walt make fast friends with their sexy neighbor, who helps Walt land a grizzled agent whose idea of a prime gig for Walt is a porn film
Tais-toi - Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno (2003) - A prison psychiatrist pairs a thief with a brute
Taxi 2, Samy Naceri, Luc Besson (2000) The Japanese ambassaor is visiting Marseilles to view the city police's anti-gang tactics. During the visit, however, he is kidnapped by a group working for the Japanese yakuza. Young officer Emilien is determined to rescue the ambassador and officer Petra (his girlfriend), who was also kidnapped, and restore the honor of his department. Once again, speed demon taxi-driver Daniel (from the first Taxi movie) is called upon to save the day with his high-speed driving skills.
There Is Something About Mary - Cameron Diaz , Matt Dillon (1998) There's something about Mary that still bewitches Ted. Although he hasn't seen her in over a dozen years, since that shameful prom night, his heart still flutters at the recollection of her. He's still crazy about her after all these years, and curious as to her whereabouts. At the insistence of his good friend Dom, he hires private eye Pat Healy to track her down in Miami.
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TOI ET MOI ET DUPREE / YOU ME AND DUPREE with Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas . The film revolves around newlyweds Carl and Molly Peterson (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson), inviting the best man of their wedding, Randolph Dupree (Wilson), to move in with them, after he has lost his job and apartment. But Dupree inevitably overstays his welcome. |
| Tour du Monde en 80 Jours, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ceclie de France, Michael Youn |
| TREIZE A LA DOUZAINE / CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN starring Steve Martin, Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo . |
Uncle Buck,
John Candy (1989) - Uncle Buck has a reputation for being unreliable and a
bit of a house wrecker. It is therefore with reluctance, his sister-in-law agrees
to leave Buck looking after the kids (two harmless youngsters and a rebelious
teenager) when she visits her sick father.
National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation - Chevy CHase, Beverly D'Angelo (1997) - The Griswolds head off for Las Vegas, as Clark got an extra bonus for developing a food preservative. In the city of fortune, the family ties are once again tested by forces of nature: Ellen finds herself tempted by Wayne Newton, Clark manages to lose all the money the Griswolds own, Rusty, not being 21 years of age yet, hits a lucky streak as Mr. Pappagiorgio and Audrey teams up with Cousin Eddie's daughter Vickie to dance at very interesting night clubs. Also, the Griswolds nearly cause the breaking of Hoover Dam, Clark meets some of Siegfried and Roy's white tigers up close and Cousin Eddie, who now owns some land right out of Las Vegas, gladly offers his helping hand. But the feeling of love and family will bring them all back together again, be it richer or poorer than before - what does money matter anyway?
VEGAS JACKPOT - Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher In New York City, high-strung stockbroker Joy (Cameron Diaz) is dumped by her fiancee at his surprise birthday she threw for him in front of all their friends, and easy-going carpenter Jack (Ashton Kutcher) is fired from his job by his father. Both become emotionally distraught and travel to Las Vegas with their best friends. They meet by chance when they are given the same hotel room because of a computer error. After clearing up the misunderstanding and receiving and upgraded rooms and coupons to various clubs, they party and drink together and Joy and Jack end up getting married. The next morning, they realize it was a mistake and decide to divorce. Before they do so, Jack uses a quarter Joy gave him in a slot machine. He hits a $3,000,000 USD jackpot and Joy reminds Jack they are married and is entitled to some of the money... |
WATERBOY Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates
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Welcome to Mooseport with Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Maura Tierney, Marcia Gay Harden - former president (Gene Hackman) retires to a small New England town. His neighbors convince him to run for mayor, but, in an effort to keep things honest, the owner of the local hardware store (Ray Romano) opts to run against him. Naturally, what should have been a fair race turns into an all-out war.
Wild Wild West - Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek (1999) - Jim West is a guns-a-blazing former Civil War hero. Artemus
Gordon is an inventive U.S. Marshal who excels in disguise. When the United
States is threatened by psychotic Confederate Arliss Loveless, President Ulysses
Grant teams the duo up to bring him to justice. On a hazard-packed train journey
from Washington to Utah, West and Gordon must combine their skills to best
Loveless and his diabolical machines.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Gene Wilder 1971 - The story of Charlie Bucket, a little boy with no money and a good heart, who dreams wistfully of being able to buy the candy that other children enjoy. Charlie enters into a magical world when he wins one of five "Golden Tickets" to visit the mysterious chocolate factory owned by the eccentric Willy Wonka and run by his capable crew of Oompa-Loompas. Once behind the gates, a cast of characters join Charlie and Grandpa Joe on a journey to discover that a kind heart is a far finer possession than a sweet tooth.
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This is the second part of the best Family movies available on DVD, the first part of the Family movie section is here
