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The Best Movies of 1999
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Movie: Mystery, Alaska ( 1999 )
This comedy is about the residents of a small town who get over-excited when their hockey team gets chosen to host a televised event
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Movie: Johnny Tsunami ( 1999 )
A Hawaiian teenage surfer shows off his skills when he takes to the snow slopes in Vermont.
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Movie: Candyman: Day of the Dead ( 2000 )
The Candyman is back, trying to convince his descendent, an artist, to join him.
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Movie: Message in a Bottle ( 1999 )
A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.
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Movie: The Limey ( 1999 )
An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having an affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece.
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Movie: Titus ( 2000 )
Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
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Movie: Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm ( 1999 )
Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy and prepares to film a television special for HBO.
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Movie: Drive Me Crazy ( 1999 )
Nicole and Chase used to be BFFs, then junior high happened. The high school centennial dance is coming but Nicole gets dumped. So does Chase. They stage a relationship to get at their exes. They visit each other's worlds. Love in the air?
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Movie: Angela's Ashes ( 2000 )
Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the I.R.A., and when he does find money, he spends it on drink.
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Movie: Flawless ( 1999 )
An ultraconservative security guard suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons with the drag queen next door.
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Movie: Holy Smoke ( 1999 )
Ruth's been brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India. Her parents in Sydney hire a specialist in reversing this. Ruth is tricked to return to Australia and is isolated in an outback cabin with the specialist. It gets messy.
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Movie: Fantasia 2000 ( 2000 )
An update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music.
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Movie: True Crime ( 1999 )
Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?
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Movie: Universal Soldier: The Return ( 1999 )
Luc Devereaux, the only surviving member of the original Universal Soldier Team. He now works with Dylan Cotner, on a project to create and improve a new Universal Soldier. Their plan is for the Universal soldier or UNISOLS to be controlled by a computer they call SETH. When the government decides to terminate the project, which includes shutting down SETH. SETH, not wanting this to happen, takes steps to prevent this. He first kills Dylan. He then has himself transfered into a body. He then seeks out Luc Devereaux, who is the only person who knows the code that will stop his program from being deleted. So he sends out all the UNISOLS to get him. Luc must try and stay away until SETH program is deleted. But SETH has targeted his daughter as possible leverage.
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Movie: An Ideal Husband ( 1999 )
London 1895: Cabinet minister, Sir Chiltern, and bachelor, Lord Goring, are victims of scheming women.
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Movie: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ( 1999 )
A humourously musical retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph.
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Movie: The Astronaut's Wife ( 1999 )
After an explosion in space and subsequent two-minute radio-out period, two astronauts return home to their wives. Slightly it's revealed that they're not the same as they were.
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Movie: Ratcatcher ( 1999 )
A naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.
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Movie: My Favorite Martian ( 1999 )
A Martian lands on Earth and makes friends with a reporter.
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Movie: Dick ( 1999 )
Two girls wander away from a White House tour and meet President Nixon.
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Movie: The Best Man ( 1999 )
Just before best friend's wedding the life of Chicago writer becomes crazy when his friend guesses that new book's story based on his bride's fervent past.
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Movie: Brokedown Palace ( 1999 )
Two women are arrested for smuggling while vacationing in Thailand.
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Movie: The Rage: Carrie 2 ( 1999 )
A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.
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Movie: Pushing Tin ( 1999 )
A feud develops between two air traffic controllers: one cocky and determined while the other is restrained and laidback, which inevitably affects their lives.
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Movie: Pokémon the Movie 2000 ( 1999 )
Ash Ketchum must gather the three spheres of fire, ice and lightning in order to restore balance to the Orange Islands.
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Movie: Baby Geniuses ( 1999 )
Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.
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Movie: Sunshine ( 1999 )
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
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Movie: Ride with the Devil ( 1999 )
During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.
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Movie: The Story of Us ( 1999 )
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
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Movie: Simply Irresistible ( 1999 )
A magical crab works wonders for a terrible chef's culinary skills, leading her towards the man of her dreams.
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Movie: Instinct ( 1999 )
When noted anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who left society to live in the jungle is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychiatrist Theo Caulder (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) to get through to him.
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Movie: A Walk on the Moon ( 1999 )
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
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Movie: The End of the Affair ( 1999 )
A desperate man tries to find out why his beloved left him years ago.
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Movie: Passport to Paris ( 1999 )
Sent to Paris to visit their grandfather, the twins fall in love with France, not to mention two French boys.
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Movie: Two Hands ( 1999 )
A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
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Movie: Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money ( 1999 )
More people are turned into vampires as they go around spreading their evil satanic hate.
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Movie: Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost ( 1999 )
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored be a witch.
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Movie: The Corruptor ( 1999 )
With the aid from a New York City policeman, a top immigrant cop tries to stop drug-trafficking and corruption by immigrant Chinese Triads, but things get complicated when the Triads try to bribe the policeman.
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Movie: Sweet and Lowdown ( 2000 )
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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Movie: The Other Sister ( 1999 )
A mentally challenged young woman seeks independence by obtaining her own apartment and attending college while her family plans her sister's wedding.
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Movie: The Deep End of the Ocean ( 1999 )
The Deep End of The Ocean is a film about a family's reaction when Ben, the youngest son is kidnapped and then found nine years later, living in the same town, where his family had just moved.
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Movie: Mulholland Dr. ( 1999 )
After a car wreck, an amnesiac woman sets out to learn what happened to her with the help of a wannabee actress.
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Movie: Gloria ( 1999 )
After serving three years in prison covering for her gangster boyfriend, Kevin, Gloria returns to New York City for the money she was promised. Inside Kevin's base of operations, she finds 7 year old Nicky, whose family has been killed.
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Movie: 200 Cigarettes ( 1999 )
A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
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Movie: Random Hearts ( 1999 )
A police sergeant and a congresswoman both lose their spouses in a plane crash, and they soon discover that their spouses were having an affair with each other.
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Movie: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland ( 1999 )
A tug-of-war between Elmo and his friend sends his blanket to faraway Grouchland, a place full of grouchy creatures and the villainous Huxley. Elmo embarks on a rescue mission, learning important lessons about sharing and responsibility.
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Movie: American Movie ( 2000 )
Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.
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Movie: Muppets from Space ( 1999 )
Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. But when the men in black kidnap him, it's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help him reunite with his long-lost family.
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Movie: The Wood ( 1999 )
On the wedding day of a writer's friend, things aren't looking good when the groom goes missing before the ceremony. During his and his other male friend's effort to retrieve him, that writer named Mike can't help but tell the story of his youth with his friends. Ever since he met them on his first day at a new school, they shared the common experiences of growing up and life's discoveries.
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Movie: From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter ( 1999 )
Set 100 years ago in Mexico, this horror/western is the story of the birth of the vampire princess Santanico Pandemonium.
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Movie: Crazy in Alabama ( 1999 )
An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
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Movie: Pirates of Silicon Valley ( 1999 )
History of Apple and Microsoft.
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Movie: Topsy-Turvy ( 1999 )
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
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Movie: Anywhere But Here ( 1999 )
A mother and daughter search for success in Beverly Hills.
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Movie: Teaching Mrs. Tingle ( 1999 )
The story of a girl who is willing to do anything to become Valedictorian, even if it means murdering the teacher that stands in her way.
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Movie: Mickey Blue Eyes ( 1999 )
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a Mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
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Movie: In Dreams ( 1999 )
A suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.
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Movie: Outside Providence ( 1999 )
After one too many run ins with the law, a punk teenager from a working class background is sent to prep school by his frustrated dad, and learns a thing or two.
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Movie: At First Sight ( 1999 )
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
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Movie: The Devil's Arithmetic ( 1999 )
A 16-year-old American girl with an apathetic view towards her Jewish family history finds herself pulled through time into 1941 to a small Polish village where the Nazi have just began their genocidal propaganda.
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Movie: Snow Falling on Cedars ( 2000 )
A Japanese-American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
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Movie: Mumford ( 1999 )
In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.
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Movie: The Bachelor ( 1999 )
A commitment-phobic man goes in search of a bride, including his fed-up girlfriend, to inherit his grandfather's one hundred million dollar inheritance.
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Movie: Three to Tango ( 1999 )
A rich businessman's assumption that his new colleague is gay leads him to ask the man to keep an eye on his mistress. However, the man is not gay, and begins to fall for the woman himself.
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Movie: Eye of the Beholder ( 2000 )
A private eye shadows a female serial killer of men all over the U.S. without her knowing as he, strangely enough, occasionally acts as her guardian angel.
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Movie: Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby ( 2000 )
A teenage prostitute escapes from a juvenile prison with a 16-year-old serial killer and both go on a destructive road trip to Mexico in this twist on the "Hansel and Gretel" fairy tale.
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Movie: Tea with Mussolini ( 1999 )
An orphaned Italian boy is raised among a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during the Second World War.
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Movie: Music of the Heart ( 1999 )
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
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Movie: The Out-of-Towners ( 1999 )
The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.
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Movie: Dudley Do-Right ( 1999 )
The inept Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-Right chases after villain Snidely Whiplash and woos girlfriend Nell Fenwick.
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Movie: Buena Vista Social Club ( 1999 )
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
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Movie: Wing Commander ( 1999 )
Blair, a fighter pilot, joins an interstellar war to fight the evil Kilrathi who are trying to destroy the universe.
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Movie: Jakob the Liar ( 1999 )
During World War II, an ordinary inhabitant of a ghetto fakes news about Allied offensives to inspire hope for other victims of the Nazi regime.
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Movie: Tuesdays with Morrie ( 1999 )
A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.
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Movie: Best Laid Plans ( 1999 )
A botched robbery leads two crooks and an unwitting buddy into a web of passion, crime and murder in this twist-laden film noir.
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Movie: Cradle Will Rock ( 2000 )
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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Movie: Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies ( 1999 )
The evil Djinn is awakened once more, and must collect 1001 souls to begin the Apocalypse.
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Movie: Bats ( 1999 )
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
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Movie: Onegin ( 1999 )
In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous girl, she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer and professes her love for him.
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Movie: Grey Owl ( 1999 )
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
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Movie: Breakfast of Champions ( 1999 )
A portrait of a fictional town in the midwest that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealership owner that's on the brink of suicide, and is losing touch with reality.
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Movie: Love Stinks ( 1999 )
Seth Winnick has it all: a successful career in television, good friends, and a passionate relationship with beautiful Chelsea. However, when he fails to make a timely marriage proposal, Chelsea tries to make his life hell.
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Movie: In Too Deep ( 1999 )
Jeff Cole is a recent graduate of the Cincinnati police academy who dreams of working undercover. His wish is granted and through success is given the task of taking down state-wide crack dealer Dwayne Gittens aka "God". Gittens is known as a family man and a man of the people, contributing to his community and helping those in need. However, there is another side to him, a ruthless leader of a criminal empire who will torture or kill anyone without question. Over time, Cole develops a close friendship with Gittens. Cole's superiors worry that the line between cop and bad guy is getting blurred and that both identities are becoming one. Cole's loyalties are put to the ultimate test just as there is enough evidence to take Gittens down for good.
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Movie: The Mod Squad ( 1999 )
Three problem teens sent to jail are offered a deal to work with an undercover cop, uncover an intricate drug ring and are caught in a deadly set-up. With cops on their trail, they have little time to solve the case and clear their names.
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Movie: Play It to the Bone ( 2000 )
Two best friends and former middleweight contenders travel to Las Vegas to fight each other for the first time.
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Movie: Liberty Heights ( 1999 )
Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and rock and roll is pushing the Four Lads off the Hit Parade. Ben, a high school senior, and his older brother Van are exploring "the other": in Ben's case, it's friendship with Sylvia, a Black student; with Van, it's a party in the WASP part of town and falling for a debutante, Dubbie. Sylvia gives Ben tickets to a James Brown concert; Dubbie invites Van to a motel: new worlds open. Meanwhile, their dad Nate, who runs a numbers game, loses big to a small-time pusher, Little Melvin; a partnership ensues.
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Movie: The Muse ( 1999 )
What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to satisfy this goddess, especially when her advice gets him going again on a sure-fire script. However, this is not the limit of her help, she also gets the writer's wife (MacDowell) going on her own bakery enterprise, much to the chagrin of Brooks, who has already had to make many personal sacrifices for his own help.
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Movie: Introducing Dorothy Dandridge ( 1999 )
This biography of Dorothy Dandridge follows her career through early days on the club circuit with her sister to her turn in movies, including becoming the first black actress to win a Best Actress Nomination in 1954 for "Carmen Jones", to her final demise to prescription drugs, which was debated whether it was suicide or accidental. Brent Spiner plays her faithful manager who stood beside her through all of the roller coaster of her career. The film also examines her love affair with director Otto Preminger, which is shown to have probably initially helped her career, but later probably led her to some wrong decisions. The film also examines 50's racism as the black star is not permitted to use white bathrooms or the Vegas pool. In the first situation, she was given a bathroom cup to pee in. In the second situation, the hotel drained the pool and scrubbed it after she dared put her foot in the water.
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Movie: Bartok the Magnificent ( 1999 )
The lovable bat Bartok (Hank Azaria) goes on his own adventure and meets a pink snake, a dapper bear, Prince Ivan Romanov (Phillip Van Dyke), and evil witch Baba Yaga (Andrea Martin) trying to rule all of Russia.
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Movie: Chill Factor ( 1999 )
A new biological chemical weapon that explodes up to temperatures over fifty degrees Fahrenheit, falls into the hands of two men who try to make sure that it doesn't get stolen by a terrorist.
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Movie: Trailer Park Boys ( 1999 )
Two petty felons have a documentary made about their life in a trailer park.
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Movie: Lost & Found ( 1999 )
In order to impress his beautiful French neighbor, Dylan Ramsey dognaps her pet pooch so he can return him and become a hero. Unfortunately, things do not work out as planned.
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Movie: The Big Kahuna ( 2000 )
Two veteran salesmen dissect a sales pitch to a particular client, through their young protégé.
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Movie: The King and I ( 1999 )
Traveling to the exotic kingdom of Siam, English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens soon discovers that her most difficult challenge is the stubborn, imperious King himself.
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Movie: K-911 ( 1999 )
Mike Dooley has been teamed up with Jerry Lee, a German Shepherd dog, for nearly ten years, but Jerry Lee isn't as young as he once was, and Dooley's superiors suggest that maybe it's time that Jerry Lee was retired from the force. But there is a stalker who wants Dooley dead. The stalker, disgruntled crime novelist Devon Lane, became obsessed with Dooley's wife after she rejected his book, and he blames Dooley for her death. When Jerry Lee can't keep up with chasing Devon during a shootout, Captain Byers teams Dooley and Jerry Lee with a younger K9 team -- aggressive female detective Welles and her dog Zeus, a young, strong Doberman Pincher. After Dooley futilely investigates a convict he once busted, the dogs get him back on track by sniffing out Devon's storage locker. The room reveals Devon's identity to Dooley, and one of Devon's manuscripts reveals that he intends to make Dooley suffer for his words. When Devon makes a bold move by invading the precinct and taking Welles hostage, it's Dooley and Jerry Lee to the rescue. But can Jerry Lee pull off this rescue?
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Movie: Held Up ( 2000 )
While they're on vacation in the Southwest, Rae finds out her man Michael spent their house money on a classic car, so she dumps him, hitching a ride to Vegas for a flight home. A kid promptly steals Michael's car, leaving him at the Zip & Sip, a convenience store. Three bumbling robbers promptly stage a hold up. Two take off with the cash stranding the third, with a mysterious crate, just as the cops arrive. The robber takes the store hostage. As incompetent cops bring in a SWAT team and try a by-the-book rescue, Michael has to keep the robber calm, find out what's in the crate, aid the negotiations, and get back to Rae. The Stockholm Syndrome asserts its effect.
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Movie: Happy, Texas ( 1999 )
3 prisoners escape. 2 end up in Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple expected there to help with the small girls beauty pageant. As the 2 are paid $1000, they decide to stay until the heat is gone.
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Movie: The '60s ( 1999 )
The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the...
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Movie: Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas ( 1999 )
A Christmas themed, three-part anthology-style video. The first part, "Donald Duck: Stuck on Christmas", is essentially a retelling of Groundhog Day (1993), with Huey, Dewey, and Louie reliving Christmas ad infinitum. Next is "A Very Goofy Christmas", in which Goofy tries to overcome his son's skepticism about Santa Claus. Finally, "Mickey & Minnie's Gift Of The Magi" recreate the classic tale of ironic Christmas selflessness. The stories are linked together by narration by Kelsey Grammer.
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Movie: The Suburbans ( 2000 )
A 1980s one-hit wonder band named "The Suburbans" reform for a special performance at one of the ex-member's wedding. At the wedding, a young record company talent scout happens to be in the audience and decides to give the now forty-ish performers a comeback push. The film attempts to take a satirical look at the music business of the 1990s, and compare it to the simpler 1980s scene.