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The Best Movies of 2008
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Movie: Che: Part Two ( 2009 )
In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.
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Movie: 100 Feet ( 2008 )
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.
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Movie: Man on Wire ( 2008 )
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
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Movie: Bangkok Dangerous ( 2008 )
A hitman who's in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs violates his personal code when he falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.
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Movie: The Express ( 2008 )
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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Movie: One Missed Call ( 2008 )
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves - messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
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Movie: Surfer, Dude ( 2008 )
A wave twisting tale of a soul searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis.
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Movie: Ong Bak 2 ( 2008 )
A young Thai boxer learns the skills and inner meaning of martial arts.
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Movie: The Wackness ( 2008 )
It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.
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Movie: Incendiary ( 2008 )
A woman's life is forever changed when tragedy strikes at a soccer match.
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Movie: College Road Trip ( 2008 )
When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father decides to accompany her to keep her on the straight and narrow.
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Movie: Stop-Loss ( 2008 )
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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Movie: Last Chance Harvey ( 2009 )
In London for his daughter's wedding, a rumpled man finds his romantic spirits lifted by a new woman in his life.
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Movie: The Great Buck Howard ( 2009 )
A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline.
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Movie: Open Season 2 ( 2008 )
After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is 'kidnapped' by his human owners. A rescue mission starts. Oh, and there's also a group of pampered pets.
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Movie: JCVD ( 2019 )
Jean-Claude Van Damme gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages situation and reflects about his life during it.
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Movie: Over Her Dead Body ( 2008 )
A ghost tries to sabotage her former boyfriend's current relationship with a psychic.
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Movie: Flash of Genius ( 2008 )
Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
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Movie: Tokyo Gore Police ( 2008 )
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
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Movie: Little Ashes ( 2009 )
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
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Movie: Mutant Chronicles ( 2008 )
28th century soldier Mitch Hunter leads a fight against an army of underworld Mutants.
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Movie: Smart People ( 2008 )
Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.
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Movie: Hell Ride ( 2009 )
Two rival bikers gangs, the Victors and the Six-Six-Six's, refuel their decades-old rivalry.
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Movie: Kit Kittredge: An American Girl ( 2008 )
Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.
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Movie: The Alphabet Killer ( 2009 )
Based on the true story of the double initial killings in Rochester, NY.
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TV Show: Comanche Moon ( 2008 )
Comanche Moon, the prequel to McMurtry's bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Lonesome Dove follows Texas Rangers Augustus "Gus" McCrae (Zahn) and Woodrow F. Call (Urban), now in their middle years, as they continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life--Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe (Cardellini), and Call with Maggie Tilton (Banks), the young prostitute who loves him and bears him his son, Newt (Joseph Castanon). Kilmer plays Captain Inish Scull, a Yankee aristocrat and hero of the recently concluded Mexican War. Griffiths plays Inez Scull, the Captain's sexy wife who doesn't hesitate to fill her time with other men when he's away from home. Wes Studi plays Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump.
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Movie: The Red Baron ( 2008 )
German biopic loosely based on the World War I fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, nicknamed the Red Baron by friend and foe alike.
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Movie: Amusement ( 2008 )
Three women are stalked by a killer with a grudge that extends back to the girls' childhoods.
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Movie: Far Cry ( 2008 )
An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island.
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Movie: The Lazarus Project ( 2008 )
A paroled former criminal is drawn into an endeavor that puts life with his family at risk and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.
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Movie: The Longshots ( 2008 )
The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
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Movie: Space Chimps ( 2008 )
Three chimps are sent into space to explore the possibility of alien life when an unmanned space shuttle crash lands on an uncharted planet.
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Movie: Killshot ( 2008 )
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer. The ensuing struggle will test Carmen to the limit.
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Movie: Igor ( 2008 )
An evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.
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Movie: CJ7 ( 2008 )
A poor Chinese laborer learns important lessons after his son gets a strange new toy.
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Movie: Management ( 2009 )
A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.
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Movie: Me and Orson Welles ( 2009 )
In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.
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Movie: Elegy ( 2008 )
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood", thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
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Movie: What Doesn't Kill You ( 2009 )
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
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Movie: Food, Inc. ( 2009 )
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
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Movie: The Lucky Ones ( 2008 )
Three different soldiers - a woman and two men - return from war and facing the peaceful life's problems of each other.
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Movie: The Children ( 2008 )
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
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Movie: Vacancy 2: The First Cut ( 2009 )
Three young people check into the Meadow View Inn for a night's rest, fully unaware of the inn's sick-minded employees and their nefarious intentions.
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Movie: Swing Vote ( 2008 )
In a remarkable turn-of-events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.
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Movie: Recount ( 2008 )
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
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Movie: Hamlet 2 ( 2008 )
A failed actor turned worse high school drama teacher rallies his Tucson, Arizona students as he conceives and stages a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
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Movie: One Week ( 2009 )
Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.
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Movie: Religulous ( 2008 )
Religulous is a movie starring Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, and Jonathan Boulden. Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
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Movie: Adam Resurrected ( 2008 )
In the aftermath of World War II, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.
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Movie: Dread ( 2009 )
Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.
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Movie: An American Carol ( 2008 )
An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.
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Movie: Cass ( 2008 )
An orphaned Jamaican baby is adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London and becomes one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. Based on a true story.
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Movie: Phoebe in Wonderland ( 2010 )
Confounded by her clashes with the seemingly rule-obsessed world, a troubled young girl seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher.
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Movie: The Onion Movie ( 2008 )
Satirical interpretations of world events and curious human behavior.
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Movie: Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead ( 2008 )
After their car breaks down in the desert, four friends try to find their way back to civilization while trying to escape Rusty Nail's bloody wrath.
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Movie: The Promotion ( 2008 )
Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
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Movie: Soul Men ( 2008 )
Though it's been about twenty years since they have spoken with one another, two estranged soul-singing legends agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.
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Movie: Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs ( 2008 )
The Planet Express crew discovers a tentacle-covered, planet-sized alien that wishes to copulate with it all the inhabitants of Earth.
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Movie: Henry Poole Is Here ( 2008 )
Henry Poole moves in to a house in his old neighborhood, to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a miracle by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
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Movie: Fly Me to the Moon 3D ( 2008 )
Three young houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the moon.
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Movie: Visioneers ( 2008 )
The Jeffers Corporation is a world success, endorsed by the U.S. President, pitching productivity and happy talk. George is a third level employee, supervising three or four others. Around the world, people are exploding as the stress of denying feelings takes its toll. The Jeffers' response: mind control. George and his wife are miserable: he's impotent with occasional fits of infantile pique. She's reading a book on happiness, trying everything. His brother, released from prison, starts of freedom-of-expression movement in George's backyard. Plus there's Charisma, a woman from Level Four who sends him paperwork - with smiley faces. Can George connect?
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Movie: Humboldt County ( 2008 )
A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself.
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Movie: Gonzo ( 2008 )
A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
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Movie: Smother ( 2008 )
What would you do if your mother moved in with you and just wouldn't leave? When NOAH COOPER, 29, is fired from his job as a therapist, he thinks his day can't possibly get worse. When he arrives home his already full house gets even crazier when MARILYN, Noah's overbearing mother arrives with her five dogs in tow needing a place to stay. Comedy ensues as Noah learns to deal with the pressures of finding a job, a wife who desperately wants a baby, and worst of all a mother who won't quit smothering!