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The Best Movies of 2001
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Movie: Blow Dry ( 2001 )
In 2000, a small town hosts The British Hairdressing Championship, where a former 2-time winner, his son, his run-away wife and his runaway wife's lady lover reside (not all on speaking terms).
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Movie: August Underground ( 2001 )
Two serial killers go on a murdering rampage as one films the outcome from behind a video camera.
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Movie: The Man Who Sued God ( 2001 )
Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was 'an act of God'. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and the church under the guise of God, defending himself. The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna Redmond (Davis).
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Movie: Storytelling ( 2001 )
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
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Movie: The Order ( 2001 )
A playboy criminal contacts his dad after stealing a Faberge egg. Later it seems his dad has gone missing in Israel so he heads there. His disappearance is linked to the religious sect: The Order. Lots of fight and chase scenes.
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Movie: Zenon: The Zequel ( 2001 )
A mischievous fifteen-year-old girl living on a space station helps a group of homeless aliens.
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Movie: Replicant ( 2001 )
Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.
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Movie: The Other Side of Heaven ( 2002 )
John Groberg, a farm kid from Idaho Falls, crosses an ocean to become a missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan islands during the 1950s.
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Movie: My First Mister ( 2001 )
A 17-year-old girl has a troubled relationship with a 49-year-old man.
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Movie: Tape ( 2002 )
Three old high school friends meet in a Michigan motel room to dissect painful memories from their past.
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Movie: Daddy and Them ( 2002 )
When an uncle is charged with murder, the event reverberates throughout a poor Arkansas family, including a struggling musician and his wife, her mother, her sister, and his father.
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Movie: The Caveman's Valentine ( 2001 )
A cave-dwelling man sets out to track down the killer of a homeless boy, and bring him to justice.
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Movie: Don's Plum ( 2001 )
A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every week at their local diner to discuss their latest misadventures in their miserable lives.
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Movie: Lovely & Amazing ( 2002 )
Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
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Movie: On the Line ( 2001 )
A shy advertising employee meets his dream girl on the El train, but doesn't remember to get her phone number, resulting in an all-out search for the mystery girl
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Movie: The Safety of Objects ( 2003 )
A series of overlapping stories about four suburban families dealing with different maladies. Esther Gold's life is consumed by caring for her comatose son; Jim Train is sent into a tailspin when he's passed over for a promotion; Annette Jennings' family is struggling in the wake of her divorce; Helen Christianson is determined to shake up her mundane life.
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Movie: Perfume ( 2001 )
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.
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Movie: James Dean ( 2001 )
The man behind the legend and 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
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Movie: Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) ( 2001 )
Hit-man Felix has quit his criminal activities and found employment minding a rich man's adult son. Meanwhile, Felix's old criminal gang have issued a hit on Felix.
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Movie: The Anniversary Party ( 2001 )
Love is complex and relationships deteriorate.
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Movie: Chelsea Walls ( 2002 )
In New York's storied Chelsea Hotel, a novelist, a dancer, a painter, a poet, an aged jazz singer, and a young troubadour sort out their personal and artistic lives within walls haunted by the likes of Dylan Thomas, O. Henry, and Sarah Bernhardt. A boozy novelist balances wife, mistress, and stories. A dancer who's a waitress in the basement club chooses between a Hollywood jerk and a local painter. A youth from Minnesota who composes and sings may be the next Bob Dylan. A poet decides to give her feckless boyfriend another chance, even as her eyes tell us she knows what's ahead. An old jazz artist wants to place a bet and share his love for Lady Day. These walls do seem to talk.
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Movie: Focus ( 2002 )
In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
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Movie: The Château ( 2002 )
When two American brothers, Graham and Allen Granville, learn that they have inherited a chateau in France, they cannot believe their luck. However, when they arrive, the brothers find themselves completely ill-equipped to communicate with the chateau's staff (even with the help of a pocket dictionary). With no hope of paying off the chateau's enormous debt, the pair are forced to sell the chateau, leaving a bewildered staff resorting to desperate and hilarious measures to keep their home. Through a series of comedic misunderstandings, the film's stars not only uncover they're not as distant from the staff as they might think, they also discover something about the importance of family.