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The Best Movies of 2005
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Movie: Madagascar ( 2005 )
A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild.
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Movie: Hide and Seek ( 2005 )
As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace, at first, in her imaginary friend.
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Movie: The Weather Man ( 2005 )
A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
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Movie: Land of the Dead ( 2005 )
The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
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Movie: The Matador ( 2006 )
A globetrotting hitman and a crestfallen businessman meet in a hotel bar in Mexico City in an encounter that draws them together in a way neither expected.
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Movie: Lie with Me ( 2006 )
An outgoing, sexually aggressive young woman meets and begins a torrid affair with an equally aggressive young man in which their affair begins to bring a strain on their personal lives.
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Movie: The Protector ( 2005 )
A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.
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Movie: Everything Is Illuminated ( 2005 )
A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of an eccentric local.
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Movie: The Ballad of Jack and Rose ( 2005 )
A father and daughter isolated on an island off the East Coast and living on a once-thriving commune grapple with the limits of family and sexuality.
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Movie: Venom ( 2005 )
A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.
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Movie: The Ring Two ( 2005 )
6 months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
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Movie: Casanova ( 2006 )
The fabled romantic Giacomo Casanova, after failing to win the affection of the Venetian woman Francesca Bruni, strives to discover the real meaning of love.
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Movie: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit ( 2005 )
It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a "humane" pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon's hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her ...and our two heroes.
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Movie: The Upside of Anger ( 2005 )
When her husband unexpectedly disappears, a sharp-witted suburban wife and her daughters juggle their mom's romantic dilemmas and family dynamics.
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Movie: American Pie Presents: Band Camp ( 2005 )
Matt Stifler wants to be just like his big bro, making porn movies and having a good time in college. After sabotaging the school band, he gets sent to band camp where he really doesn't like it at first but then learns how to deal with the bandeez.
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Movie: Assault on Precinct 13 ( 2005 )
A police sergeant must rally the cops and prisoners together to protect themselves on New Year's Eve, just as corrupt policeman surround the station with the intent of killing all to keep their deception in the ranks.
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Movie: Cursed ( 2005 )
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill it in order to avoid becoming werewolves themselves.
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Movie: Kicking & Screaming ( 2005 )
Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating.
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Movie: Match Point ( 2005 )
At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
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Movie: Proof ( 2005 )
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.
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Movie: In Her Shoes ( 2005 )
Strait-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister knew existed.
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Movie: Rent ( 2005 )
This is the film version of the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical about Bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggling with life, love and AIDS, and the impacts they have on America.
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Movie: Cinderella Man ( 2005 )
The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.
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Movie: The Amityville Horror ( 2005 )
In December 1975, George and Kathy Lutz along with their three children move into an elegant Long Island house. What they don't know is that the house was the site of a horrific mass murder a year before. They decide to keep the house and attempt to keep the horror in the past, but are now haunted by a murderous presence. This is until, George starts to behave weirdly and their daughter, Chelsea starts to see people. What follows is 28 days of sheer, unbridled terror for the family with demonic visions of the dead. Based on the true story of George and Kathy Lutz, The Amityville Horror remains one of the most horrifying haunted house stories ever told - because it actually happened.
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Movie: Broken Flowers ( 2005 )
As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.
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Movie: Imagine Me & You ( 2006 )
Rachel is a nice girl who is going to marry Hector ('Heck'), her longtime boyfriend. While she is working on the wedding preparations she meets wedding-florist Luce and unexpectedly falls in love with her and discovers what having love feelings for another woman is like. Rachel meets Luce a few times, hiding it from her family, especially her mother Tessa who contracted Luce. At the same time Heck tries to win his in-laws' affections, especially father-in-law Ned, Rachel embarks on marriage and daily life with her husband, but her love and passion for Luce causes a secret affair between them and doubts in Rachel about the life she wants for herself.
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Movie: Derailed ( 2005 )
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families.
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Movie: Guess Who ( 2005 )
A young woman, Theresa, brings her boyfriend, Simon, home to meet her parents and surprise them with the news of their engagement. Another surprise: Simon is white.
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Movie: Man of the House ( 2005 )
A Texas Ranger must protect a group of cheerleaders who have witnessed a murder.
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Movie: The Producers ( 2005 )
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck Producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
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Movie: Yours, Mine & Ours ( 2005 )
A widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widow handbag designer fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of her 10 and his 8 children.
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Movie: Beauty Shop ( 2005 )
A determined hairstylist (Queen Latifah) competes with her former boss (Kevin Bacon) after opening her own business in Atlanta.
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Movie: The Wedding Date ( 2005 )
Single-girl anxiety causes Kat Ellis to hire a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding. Her plan, an attempt to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a couple years prior, proves to be her undoing.
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Movie: Herbie Fully Loaded ( 2005 )
Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Herbie, Number 53, the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own, puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.
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Movie: Sky High ( 2005 )
Set in an era where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young William Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.
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Movie: Red Eye ( 2005 )
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in a political assassination.
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Movie: Are We There Yet? ( 2005 )
To impress a foxy divorcee, ladies' man Nick offers to take her kids on an extended road trip, unaware of the torture he's in for.
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Movie: Brick ( 2006 )
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
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Movie: Kinky Boots ( 2006 )
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
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Movie: Dark Water ( 2005 )
A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building. Adding further drama to their plight, they are targeted by the ghost of former resident.
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Movie: Chicken Little ( 2005 )
After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.
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Movie: Must Love Dogs ( 2005 )
Preschool teacher Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane), divorced for eight months, is still grieving the end of her marriage. Although she didn't see it as being perfect, she probably would have stuck it out as what she saw as the "for better or worse" obligation of the wedding vows, that is if her ex-husband, Kevin, didn't end it for what ended up being leaving her for a younger woman. She is urged by her over-supportive family, comprised of her many siblings, their partners, and her widowed father, to get back into the dating scene, something she has been reluctant to do in not feeling ready. As such, her most proactive sister in the matter, Carol (Elizabeth Perkins), sets her up on an Internet dating site. Within her less than prepared state, Sarah does go along with meeting men by the means offered to her. Beyond especially her female siblings, Sarah is given unique perspectives on the whole issue of dating and commitment by her father, Bill (Christopher Plummer), who is exploring dating after losing who was the love of his life in Sarah's mother, thrice divorced Dolly (Stockard Channing), one of Bill's conquests, who he meets on-line, and Sarah's gay teaching colleague, Leo (Brad William Henke), who she sees as being in the most committed loving relationship with his partner Eric (Victor Webster) of anyone she knows. Of the men she meets, Sarah makes what she believes is a connection with two, albeit awkward in both cases. One is Bob Connor (Dermot Mulroney), the divorced father of one of her students, her hesitance in dating him only because of crossing the professional/personal line. The other is custom wooden boat builder Jake Anderson (John Cusack), who too was pushed into trying on-line dating by his best friend/divorce lawyer Charlie (Ben Shenkman), who wants Jake solely to get some action despite Jake wanting his love life to be more like Lara and Yuri in Doctor Zhivago (1965). Much of what happens between Sarah and the two men is based on what stage they are in post-divorce dating life, but is also dependent on how much Sarah is willing to take a chance on each, which may also include her and the respective man just not meshing at a given point in time, and her making a wrong decision in the process based on what she sees as the prospects.
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Movie: xXx: State of the Union ( 2005 )
Darius Stone, a new agent in the xXx program, is sent to Washington, D.C. to stop a coup attempt against the President of the United States.
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Movie: Roll Bounce ( 2005 )
In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.
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Movie: Factotum ( 2005 )
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
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Movie: The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse ( 2005 )
The notorious fictional town of Royston Vasey is under threat and its inhabitants are forced to leave.
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Movie: Color Me Kubrick ( 2006 )
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
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Movie: Where the Truth Lies ( 2005 )
Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
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Movie: Rebound ( 2005 )
An acclaimed college basketball coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
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Movie: Stay ( 2005 )
This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality.
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Movie: Manderlay ( 2005 )
A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.
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Movie: Because of Winn-Dixie ( 2005 )
A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.
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Movie: Ice Princess ( 2005 )
With the help of her coach, her mom, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey (Trachtenberg) from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.
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Movie: The Chumscrubber ( 2005 )
A darkly satiric story about life crumbling in the midst of a seemingly idyllic suburbia.
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Movie: Hellraiser: Hellworld ( 2005 )
Gamers playing a MMORPG based on the "Hellraiser" films find their lives endangered after being invited to a rave, the host of which intends to show them the truth behind the Cenobite mythos.
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Movie: Hellraiser: Deader ( 2005 )
A journalist uncovers an underground group who can bring back the dead and slowly becomes drawn into their world.
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Movie: Hard Candy ( 2006 )
A teenage girl raids a man's home in order to expose him under suspicion that he is a pedophile.
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Movie: Tristram Shandy ( 2006 )
Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."
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Movie: Oliver Twist ( 2005 )
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
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Movie: Three Burials ( 2005 )
Ranch hand Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
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Movie: Strangers with Candy ( 2006 )
A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a forty-six-year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.
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Movie: Two for the Money ( 2005 )
After suffering a career-ending knee injury, a former college football star aligns himself with one of the most renowned touts in the sports-gambling business.
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Movie: Alone in the Dark ( 2005 )
A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results.
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Movie: Pooh's Heffalump Movie ( 2005 )
When Roo sets off on his own into the Hundred Acre Wood, he discovers a friendly and playful Heffalump named Lumpy.
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Movie: A Lot Like Love ( 2005 )
Unacquainted Emily and Oliver join the mile-high club together on the way from LAX to NYC--end of story. Except that they keep meeting constantly over the next seven years..
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Movie: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story ( 2005 )
The maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers that his future image is not what he has anticipated because of a near death experience.
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Movie: Havoc ( 2005 )
Two affluent suburban girls clash with the Latino gang culture of East Los Angeles.
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Movie: Man with the Screaming Brain ( 2005 )
The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.
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Movie: Ellie Parker ( 2006 )
A hilarious comic portrait of a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness and a Hollywood acting career.
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Movie: Thumbsucker ( 2005 )
Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
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Movie: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ( 2005 )
The movie is based on the young adult book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Anne Brashares. As four best friends spend their first summer apart from one another, they share a magical pair of jeans. Despite being of various shapes and sizes, each one of them fits perfectly into the pants. To keep in touch they pass these pants to each other as well as the adventures they are going through while apart.
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Movie: Stoned ( 2005 )
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
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Movie: Coach Carter ( 2005 )
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
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Movie: The Man ( 2005 )
Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner, but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fiddler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vann's way.
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Movie: Dirty Love ( 2006 )
A jilted photographer sets off on a mission to get back at her philandering model boyfriend and along the way discovers that not all love is created equal.
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Movie: The Perfect Man ( 2005 )
A lonely mother begins receiving romantic e-mails from a secret admirer, unaware that this perfect man is really a creation of her daughter who is trying to cheer her up.
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Movie: Kronk's New Groove ( 2005 )
Kronk desperately tries to find ways to impress his Dad, whom he can never please. But when things go wrong, Kronk kicks into comical gear and discovers the true riches in life are his friends and being "true to your groove."
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Movie: Twitches ( 2005 )
Two teen witches who were separated at birth and were adopted by two different families meet on their 21st birthday and must use their powers to save the world in which they were born, where their birth mother still lives.
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Movie: 2001 Maniacs ( 2006 )
Eight college students travelling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia, where they are set upon by the residents.
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Movie: Diary of a Mad Black Woman ( 2005 )
A couple's seemingly solid marriage begins to crumble when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her.
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Movie: Happy Endings ( 2005 )
Happy Endings weaves multiple stories to create a witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictability of life itself.
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Movie: The Squid and the Whale ( 2005 )
Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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Movie: Elizabethtown ( 2005 )
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should bring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life.
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Movie: Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 )
A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.
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Movie: Pretty Persuasion ( 2006 )
Manipulative high school sophomore Kimberly Joyce leads her friends Brittany Wells and Randa Azzouni in bringing charges of sexual assault against Percy Anderson, their English and drama teacher at an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile, local reporter Emily Klein, originally assigned to do an insignificant piece on the school, hopes that the scandal will launch her into celebrity in the television news business, while Kimberly's bigoted father, Hank, is concerned primarily with the effect that his daughter's accusations may have on his business.
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Movie: Bad News Bears ( 2005 )
A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.
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Movie: Fever Pitch ( 2005 )
Lindsay is stuck in the middle of her relationship with Ben and his passion for the Boston Red Sox.
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Movie: Winter Passing ( 2006 )
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
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Movie: The Dukes of Hazzard ( 2005 )
Cousins Bo, Luke, and Daisy Duke, and their uncle Jesse, egg on the authorities of Hazzard County, Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane.
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TV Show: Category 7: The End of the World ( 2005 )
Category 7: The End of the World picks up where "Category 6: Day of Destruction" left off. The city of Chicago has been destroyed by a monstrous storm and as the storm gathers strength, it threatens to ravage the rest of the world. A television evangelist and his wife prey on the nation's fears by broadcasting warnings of biblical plagues. As his predictions come true, the mega-storm culminates in a record Category 7 superstorm over Washington, D.C.
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Movie: Harsh Times ( 2006 )
A tough-minded drama about two friends in South Central Los Angeles and the violence that comes between them.
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Movie: The Crow: Wicked Prayer ( 2005 )
On his way to becoming an immortal demon, a gang leader orchestrates the murder of an ex-con and his girlfriend.
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Movie: Breakfast on Pluto ( 2006 )
In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
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Movie: The Notorious Bettie Page ( 2006 )
The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation due to her risqué bondage photos.
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Movie: Racing Stripes ( 2005 )
An abandoned zebra grows up believing he is a racehorse, and, with the help of his barnyard friends and a teenage girl, sets out to achieve his dream of racing with thoroughbreds.
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Movie: The Proud Family Movie ( 2005 )
Penny and her family are lured on an all expenses paid vacation where a mad scientist captures them, refusing to let them go because Oscar won't reveal his one of his secret Proud Snacks formulas.
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Movie: Tarzan 2: Who Am I? ( 2005 )
The tale of Tarzan's misadventures as a boy as he searches for his true identity and the meaning of family.
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Movie: Supercross ( 2005 )
Faced with the suspicious death of their father, two brothers must motivate one another to get back on their bikes and take the Las Vegas Motocross Championships by storm.
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Movie: Syriana ( 2005 )
A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.
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Movie: The Ice Harvest ( 2005 )
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.