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The Best Movies of 1999
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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: 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: 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: 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: Mansfield Park ( 1999 )
At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomas's younger son. Fanny is soon possessed of beauty as well as a keen mind and comes to the attention of a neighbor, Henry Crawford. Thomas promotes this match, but to his displeasure, Fanny has a mind of her own, asking Henry to prove himself worthy. As Edmund courts Henry's sister and as light shines on the link between Thomas's fortunes and New World slavery, Fanny must assess Henry's character and assert her heart as well as her wit.
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Movie: Man on the Moon ( 1999 )
The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
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Movie: Magnolia ( 1999 )
An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
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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: 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: Light It Up ( 1999 )
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant. When a popular teacher is suspended, a few students protest. Jackson, a new security guard, gets tough. In a scuffle, Jackson's wounded with his own gun and a student takes him hostage. A few kids join in, for various reasons. An ineffective policewoman tries to mediate as the police plan an assault, the kids demand improvements to the school, the media pick up the story, and Jackson turns sympathetic. But are too many forces in motion for the students to stay in control?
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Movie: Life ( 1999 )
In 1932, two strangers are wrongfully convicted and develop a strong friendship in prison that lasts them through the 20th century.
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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: 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: Landspeed: CKY ( 1999 )
The first video in the CKY series. The movie is based around skateboarding thrills and spills, but it contains the insane and disgusting stunts that eventually blossomed into "Jackass".
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Movie: Lake Placid ( 1999 )
Three people attempt to stop a gigantic crocodile, who is terrorizing residents in Black Lake, Maine.
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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: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ( 1999 )
A humourously musical retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph.
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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: Jawbreaker ( 1999 )
Three of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jawbreaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong.
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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: Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang ( 1999 )
One day, a boy named Jacob Two-Two (aptly named because every phrase that he utters is repeated) decides to set out to prove himself to his parents that he can do things, so his father, who is tired of hearing his wife order him to do the shopping, sets Jacob out to buy two tomatoes. As Jacob makes his way to buy them, the greengrocer in the shop keeps telling an officer that Jacob was threatening him, so Jacob escapes, but only just, hitting his head rather hard and awaking in court where he is sentenced to two years, two months, two weeks, two days, two hours, two minutes, and five seconds to a children's prison run by not only a mad wrestler presumed lost, but also two (also aptly named) bird-like and fish-like cohorts as well as slimy humanoids that spray resisters with slime to stop them in their tracks. Helping Jacob in his mission are two young agents that aim to free all of the children kept prisoner in the swampy penitentiary. It is up to Jacob Two-Two to escape this heinous prison and free all of the other imprisoned children.
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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: 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: 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: Inspector Gadget ( 1999 )
A security guard's dreams come true when he is selected to be transformed into a cybernetic police officer.
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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: Idle Hands ( 1999 )
A teenage slacker's right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent.
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Movie: House on Haunted Hill ( 1999 )
An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
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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: 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: 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: Go ( 1999 )
Go! tells the story of the events after a drug deal, told from three different points of view.
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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: Girl, Interrupted ( 2000 )
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.
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Movie: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ( 1999 )
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Movie: Galaxy Quest ( 1999 )
The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.
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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: 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: For Love of the Game ( 1999 )
A Detroit pitcher Billy Chapel, reflects on his life in major league baseball, after he finds out his girlfriend moves to London for a job. Thus forcing the ball player to analyze his life and how his career as a player, and his life without her will change, thus altering his priorities between his career winding to a close, choosing what his path will be, the love of baseball or the love of his life?
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Movie: Forces of Nature ( 1999 )
A soon-to-be-married man encounters an exciting stranger after his plane suffers an accident on takeoff.
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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: Fight Club ( 1999 )
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
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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: Eyes Wide Shut ( 1999 )
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
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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: eXistenZ ( 1999 )
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
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Movie: Entrapment ( 1999 )
An insurance agent is sent by her employer to track down and help capture an art thief.
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Movie: End of Days ( 1999 )
At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him.
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Movie: Election ( 1999 )
A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.
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Movie: Edtv ( 1999 )
A video store clerk agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a television show.
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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: 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: Drop Dead Gorgeous ( 1999 )
A small-town beauty pageant turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win.
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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: Doug's 1st Movie ( 1999 )
Doug and his pal Skeeter set's out to find the monster of Lucky Duck Lake. Though things get really out of hand when some one blurts out that the monster is real.
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Movie: Double Jeopardy ( 1999 )
A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
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Movie: Dogma ( 1999 )
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.
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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: Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo ( 1999 )
An average aquarium cleaner house-sits for a gigolo, only to be forced to become one himself.
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Movie: Detroit Rock City ( 1999 )
In 1978, four rebellious teenagers try to scam their way into a KISS concert.
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Movie: Deep Blue Sea ( 1999 )
Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
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Movie: Cruel Intentions ( 1999 )
Two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster's daughter before the start of term.
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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: 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: Cookie's Fortune ( 1999 )
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
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Movie: Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker ( 1999 )
In his third HBO stand-up special, Chris Rock brings his critically acclaimed brand of social commentary-themed humor to this 1999 stand-up comedy presentation. Also released as an album, Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker features Rock on-stage extolling his razor-sharp wit and wisdom on such topics as gun control, President Clinton, homophobia, racism, black leaders, and relationships.
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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: 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: But I'm a Cheerleader ( 2000 )
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
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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: Brokedown Palace ( 1999 )
Two women are arrested for smuggling while vacationing in Thailand.
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Movie: Bringing Out the Dead ( 1999 )
Haunted by the patients he failed to save, an extremely burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three fraught and turbulent nights.
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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: Boys Don't Cry ( 2000 )
A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.
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Movie: Bowfinger ( 1999 )
When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.
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Movie: Bonanno: A Godfather's Story ( 1999 )
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.
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Movie: Blue Streak ( 1999 )
A former convict poses as a cop to retrieve a diamond he stole years ago.
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Movie: Blast from the Past ( 1999 )
A naive man comes out into the world after spending 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter.
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Movie: Big Daddy ( 1999 )
A lazy law-school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
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Movie: Bicentennial Man ( 1999 )
An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.
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Movie: Beyond the Mat ( 2000 )
A heartfelt documentary focusing on the day-to-day lives of professional wrestlers, some on the rise, some on the wane, and others fighting for their lives.
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Movie: Better Than Chocolate ( 1999 )
Two attractive young lesbians, Maggie and Kim, meet in Vancouver, develop a passionate romance, and move in together. Meanwhile, Maggie's well-meaning but naive mother Lila gets divorced and decides to move to Vancouver and join the household. Soon after, Lila is befriended by Judy, a transsexual about to undergo a sex-change operation. Complications ensue as the conservative Lila learns the truth about Maggie, Judy, and their diverse group of friends.
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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: Beowulf ( 1999 )
In a besieged land, Beowulf must battle against the hideous creature Grendel and his vengeance seeking mother.
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Movie: Being John Malkovich ( 1999 )
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ( 1999 )
Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".
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Movie: Audition ( 2000 )
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
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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: Arlington Road ( 1999 )
A man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be and their secrets could be deadly.
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Movie: Anywhere But Here ( 1999 )
A mother and daughter search for success in Beverly Hills.
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Movie: Any Given Sunday ( 1999 )
A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.
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Movie: Anna and the King ( 1999 )
This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.
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Movie: Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish ( 1999 )
The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) go on a quest to find a fallen wishing star.
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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: 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.