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The Best Movies of 2007
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Movie: Anamorph ( 2008 )
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
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Movie: Control ( 2007 )
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
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Movie: You Kill Me ( 2007 )
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hitman befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
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Movie: The Air I Breathe ( 2008 )
A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star falls prey to a crime boss; a doctor must save the love of his life.
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Movie: The Gene Generation ( 2007 )
Michelle, an assassin to a new breed of killers (DNA Hackers), finds she has greater obstacles in her life... Family.
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Movie: Captivity ( 2007 )
A man and a woman awaken to find themselves trapped in a cellar. As their kidnapper drives them mad, the truth about their horrific abduction is revealed.
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Movie: House of Fears ( 2007 )
The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out. Their evening of fun rapidly turns into their worst nightmare as they begin to die and disappear in the most freakish of manners. With every effort to escape blocked, the survivors find themselves being driven deeper into the carnivalesque world of terror. Unable to tell what is real and what is counterfeit, they must trust one another, even if it kills them.
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Movie: 88 Minutes ( 2007 )
On the day that a serial killer that he helped put away is supposed to be executed, a noted forensic psychologist and college professor receives a call informing him that he has 88 minutes left to live.
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Movie: Who's Your Caddy? ( 2007 )
When a rap mogul from Atlanta tries to join a conservative country club in the Carolinas he runs into fierce opposition from the board President- but it's nothing that he and his entourage can't handle.
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Movie: License to Wed ( 2007 )
Sadie and Ben are in love, and although Ben suggests getting married in the Caribbean, Sadie has her heart set on a wedding at the family church, St. Augustine's. Ben says sure, and they meet with the pastor, Rev. Frank. The only date open for two years is three weeks away, and Frank insists the kids go through his marriage prep course. They're to write their own vows; he also demands chastity, bugs their apartment, initiates arguments, has them care for robot twins, creates friction between Ben and her family, and raises doubts in Sadie. Desperate, Ben looks for dirt on Frank. Can he undermine Frank's authority and keep Sadie's heart?
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Movie: Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy ( 2007 )
Gabriel Iglesias is one of the fastest rising comics today! With his unique brand of humor, loveable stage presence and a wide range of voices and impressions, it's no wonder he became an instant favorite on "Last Comic Standing." Now you can see Comedy Central's "Comic of the Year" in a sold out concert performance at the historic Fox Theater in Bakersfield, California.
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Movie: Hotel Chevalier (Short 2007) ( 2007 )
A prologue of one heart-breaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in The Darjeeling Limited (2007).
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Movie: I Think I Love My Wife ( 2007 )
A married man who daydreams about being with other women finds his will and morals tested after he's visited by the ex-mistress of his old friend.
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Movie: I'm Not There ( 2007 )
Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.
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Movie: Shrooms ( 2007 )
A group of friends are stalked and murdered whilst looking for psilocybin mushrooms in the Irish woods.
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Movie: Closure ( 2007 )
After surviving a gang rape and mugging, a middle aged businesswoman and her 23 year old boyfriend plot to murder their attackers, but find themselves conflicted about carrying out their plans.
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Movie: Cassandra's Dream ( 2007 )
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go badly and the two become enemies.
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Movie: The Ten ( 2008 )
10 stories, each inspired by one of the 10 Commandments.
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Movie: Joshua ( 2007 )
The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua (Kogan), an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.
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Movie: Postal ( 2007 )
In the ironically named city of Paradise, a recently laid-off loser teams up with his cult-leading uncle to steal a peculiar bounty of riches from their local amusement park; somehow, the recently arrived Taliban have a similar focus, but a far more sinister intent.
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Movie: A Mighty Heart ( 2007 )
Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband Daniel when he goes missing in Pakistan.
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Movie: I Know Who Killed Me ( 2007 )
A young woman who was missing reappears, but she claims to be someone else entirely.
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Movie: Weirdsville ( 2007 )
A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.
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Movie: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ( 2007 )
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
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Movie: Meet Bill ( 2008 )
A guy fed up with his job and married to a cheating wife reluctantly mentors a rebellious teen.
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Movie: Robot Chicken: Star Wars (TV Short 2007) ( 2007 )
The first of three Star Wars themed Robot Chicken parodies.
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Movie: Lucky You ( 2007 )
A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.
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Movie: Love in the Time of Cholera ( 2007 )
Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
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Movie: Mr. Woodcock ( 2007 )
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made middle school hell for generations of students.
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Movie: Firehouse Dog ( 2007 )
Rexxx, Hollywood's top canine star, gets lost and is adopted into a shabby firehouse. He teams up with a young kid to get the station back on its feet.
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Movie: Elvis and Anabelle ( 2007 )
Groomed by her overly ambitious mother, Anabelle is on the road to winning the Miss Texas Rose tiara when she dies tragically during a pageant. Her death lands her on the embalming table of Elvis, an embittered young man whose sense of family duty and love for his ailing father keep him from following his dreams. When Anabelle is miraculously resurrected on Elvis' embalming table, the two unexpectedly connect and sparks fly. With the help of each other and Elvis' father, they discover love, freedom and happiness as the real world and their own demons threaten to force them apart.
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Movie: Sleuth ( 2007 )
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
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Movie: In the Shadow of the Moon ( 2007 )
The crew members of NASA's Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.
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Movie: Things We Lost in the Fire ( 2007 )
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Movie: Two Days in Paris ( 2007 )
2 Jours - 2 Days follows two days in the relationship of a New York based couple - a French photographer Marion and American interior designer Jack - as they attempt to re-infuse their relationship with romance by taking a vacation in Europe. Their trip to Venice didn't really work out, - they both came down with gastroenteritis. They have higher hopes for Paris. But the combination of Marion's overbearing non-English-speaking parents, flirtatious ex-boyfriends, and Jack's obsession with photographing every famous Parisian tombstone and conviction that French condoms are too small, only adds fuel to the fire. Will they be able to salvage their relationship? Will they ever have sex again? Or will they merely manage to perfect the art of arguing?
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Movie: My Blueberry Nights ( 2007 )
A young lonely woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way.
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Movie: Eagle vs Shark ( 2007 )
Eagle vs Shark is the tale of two socially awkward misfits and the strange ways they try to find love; through revenge on high-school bullies, burgers, and video games.
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Movie: Sukiyaki Western Django ( 2007 )
A revolver-wielding stranger crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth.
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Movie: The Brothers Solomon ( 2007 )
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.
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Movie: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer ( 2008 )
A troubled young man still mourning the childhood loss of his family now has to deal with his professor being turned into a monster.
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TV Show: Killer Wave ( 2007 )
Suddenly the US east coast is hit by a type of natural disaster formerly reserved, except after a major earthquake, for the Pacific and Indian ocean rims: tidal waves of the destructive tsunami type. Scientist and fiction author John McAdams attends a national emergency conference which concludes the phenomenon must be man-made, quite possibly abusing the findings of John's secret former Sea Lion project, but who wants to and has the means?
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Movie: Croc ( 2007 )
A huge man-eating crocodile terrorizes people near Krabi, Thailand. Michael Madsen plays a hunter stalking the beast, while a local tries to blame a foreign crocodile-farm owner for the crocodile's rampage.
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Movie: The Jane Austen Book Club ( 2007 )
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships -- both old and new -- begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels.
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Movie: Descent ( 2007 )
A college co-ed is brutally raped and struggles alone to rebuild her life.
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Movie: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters ( 2008 )
Die-hard gamers compete to break world records on classic arcade games.
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Movie: Ten Inch Hero ( 2007 )
An artist gets a job at a beachside sandwich shop, where she hangs out with a techie, a flirt, a rocker, a hippie, and a Wiccan.
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Movie: The Landlord ( 2007 )
An angry landlord hassles her behind-in-rent tenant.
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Movie: Jump in! ( 2007 )
A teenager is pressured by his father to become a boxer - but a local girl introduces him to the very different sport of rope-jumping.
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Movie: The Comebacks ( 2007 )
A comedy that spoofs inspirational sports movies, this movie tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team".
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Movie: Murder Party ( 2007 )
A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.
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Movie: The Grand ( 2007 )
An improvisational comedy using a handful of actors playing characters competing in an actual poker tournament.
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Movie: The Rage ( 2007 )
A crazed scientist experiments with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.
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Movie: Boy A ( 2008 )
The story of a young Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a violent crime he committed as a child.
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Movie: Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron ( 2007 )
When Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien are assigned to investigate the ghost-infested mansion of a publicity-hound billionaire, they uncover a plot to resurrect a beautiful yet monstrous vampire from Professor Bruttenholm's past. But before they can stop her bloodbath, Hellboy will have to battle harpies, hell hounds, a giant werewolf, and even the ferocious goddess Hecate herself.
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Movie: Rocket Science ( 2007 )
Coming of age in Plainsboro, New Jersey. High school student Hal Hefner stutters. On the evening his parents stop arguing and separate, 43 miles away at the state tournament, his school's legendary debater, Ben Wekselbaum, goes blank mid-sentence, Ben's teammate Ginny Ryerson doesn't get a first-place trophy, and the world changes. That fall, to Hal's amazement, Ginny recruits him for the debate team, mentors him, and will be his partner. He still has his stutter, but he works hard and he falls in love with Ginny. On the day of the first debate of the season, the world changes again. From then until the day of the state tournament, Hal has a lot to sort out. Is love rocket science?
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Movie: King of California ( 2007 )
An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia.
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Movie: The Tracey Fragments ( 2008 )
15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog.
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Movie: Year of the Dog ( 2007 )
A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
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Movie: The Good Night ( 2008 )
A former pop star who now writes commercial jingles for a living experiences a mid-life crisis.
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Movie: Bordertown ( 2007 )
A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.
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Movie: Mama's Boy ( 2007 )
A twenty-nine year-old slacker who lives with his mom realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru beau.
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Movie: Son of Rambow ( 2008 )
During a long English summer in the early 1980s, two schoolboys from differing backgrounds set out to make a film inspired by First Blood (1982).
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Movie: Delta Farce ( 2007 )
Three bumbling Army reservists bound for Iraq are accidentally dropped at Mexican village besieged by hostile forces.
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Movie: Chapter 27 ( 2007 )
A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.
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Movie: The Sandlot: Heading Home ( 2007 )
Sucessful, arrogant baseball superstar Tommy "Santa" Santorelli travels back in time to 1976 and relives his boyhood days on the sandlot baseball team, and has the chance to this time choose friendship over glory.
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Movie: He Was a Quiet Man ( 2007 )
An office worker inadvertently becomes a hero after he saves a woman's life.
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Movie: Kaw ( 2007 )
A small town is attack by ravens and doesn't know why the ravens are working together.
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Movie: Martian Child ( 2007 )
A science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
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Movie: Margot at the Wedding ( 2008 )
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is marrying less-than-impressive Malcolm.
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Movie: Daddy Day Camp ( 2007 )
Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood day care center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.
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Movie: The Savages ( 2008 )
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Movie: The Final Season ( 2007 )
Kent Stock disrupts his life to become coach of the Norway High School baseball team and try to lead them to victory.
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Movie: Interview ( 2007 )
After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.
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Movie: Redacted ( 2007 )
The devastating reconstruction of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl by American soldiers in Samarra in 2006.
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Movie: Kickin' It Old Skool ( 2007 )
A young breakdancer hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years. Waking up in 2006, he looks to revive his and his team's career with the help of his girlfriend and his parents.
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Movie: Evening ( 2007 )
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) and her daughters, Constance Haverford (Natasha Richardson) and Nina Mars (Toni Collette). As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life fifty years ago, when she was a young woman. Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson) is the ...Read all
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Movie: Homo Erectus ( 2008 )
The hapless Ishbo, a philosophical caveman, yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones, and raw meat. Determined to single-handedly, advance the human race, Ishbo continually irritates his fellow Neanderthals with ridiculous inventions like the toothbrush, the spoon, and pants. The rest of his tribe, including his exasperated parents, write off his absurd gizmos and forward thinking ideas as the ravings of an idiot, something that doesn't help his efforts to impress the beautiful Fardart, the cave girl he loves from afar. Fardart only has eyes for Ishbo's studly but dimwitted brother, Thudnik. As if things couldn't get any worse, the enemy tribe on the other side of the hill is readying for war. Will Ishbo ever win Fardart's love? Can he possibly survive a man-eating wooly mammoth or a man-hating tribe of beautiful but deadly Amazons? Can he finally pull his species out of the primordial doldrums before he's history?
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Movie: Resurrecting the Champ ( 2007 )
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
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Movie: Kabluey ( 2007 )
Inept Salman comes to help his sister-in-law tend to his holy terror nephews while Salman's brother is off fighting in Iraq. Salman must take a humiliating job as a giant blue corporate mascot in order to help make ends meet and hold the family together.
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Movie: The Pixar Story ( 2007 )
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.
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Movie: Ratatoing ( 2007 )
Marcelle Toing, owner of the best restaurant in Rio de Janeiro, must go on missions to steal ingredients from human restaurants to keep his meals the best.