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The Best Movies Of 2002
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This is what came out in 2002. As with my other lists some movies may show a different year, but they did come out in 2002.


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Movie: Men in Black II ( 2002 )
Agent J is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory after the re-appearance of a case from K's past.
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Movie: Spider-Man ( 2002 )
After being bitten by a genetically-modified spider, a shy teenager gains spider-like abilities that he uses to fight injustice as a masked superhero and face a vengeful enemy.
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Movie: Catch Me If You Can ( 2002 )
Barely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.
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Movie: Minority Report ( 2002 )
John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.
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Movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 )
Harry Potter lives his second year at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione when a message on the wall announces that the legendary Chamber of Secrets has been opened. The trio soon realize that, to save the school, it will take a lot of courage.
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Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 )
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
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Movie: City of God ( 2004 )
Brazil, 1960s, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970s: Li'l Zé has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bené is the only one to keep him on the good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years, and he wants no part of it. he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980s: Things are out of control between the last two remaining gangs...will it ever end? Welcome to the City of God.
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Movie: Equilibrium ( 2002 )
In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.
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Movie: The Pianist ( 2003 )
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
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Movie: Scooby-Doo ( 2002 )
After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on.
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Movie: A Walk to Remember ( 2002 )
Two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is sentenced to perform community service.
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Movie: The Bourne Identity ( 2002 )
A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
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Movie: 28 Days Later ( 2003 )
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the United Kingdom, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
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Movie: Gangs of New York ( 2002 )
In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher; his father's killer.
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Movie: Die Another Day ( 2002 )
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
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Movie: Irreversible ( 2002 )
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order.
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Movie: Unfaithful ( 2002 )
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Movie: Signs ( 2002 )
A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
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Movie: Red Dragon ( 2002 )
A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.
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Movie: The Count of Monte Cristo ( 2002 )
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
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Movie: The Scorpion King ( 2002 )
A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy's key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.
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Movie: Chicago ( 2003 )
Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
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Movie: 8 Mile ( 2002 )
Follows a young rapper in the Detroit area, struggling with every aspect of his life; he wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
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Movie: Lilo & Stitch ( 2002 )
A young and parentless girl adopts a 'dog' from the local pound, completely unaware that it's supposedly a dangerous scientific experiment that's taken refuge on Earth and is now hiding from its creator and those who see it as a menace.
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Movie: Punch-Drunk Love ( 2002 )
Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones ( 2002 )
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.
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Movie: Ghost Ship ( 2002 )
A salvage crew discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea, and soon notices that its long-dead inhabitants may still be on board.
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Movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 )
Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly named villain Goldmember, who is working with Dr. Evil.
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Movie: The Ring ( 2002 )
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
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Movie: About a Boy ( 2002 )
Will, who attends single parent meetings to woo women, meets Marcus, a troubled 12-year-old boy. As they become friends, Will learns to be responsible while he helps Marcus with his studies.
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Movie: Secretary ( 2002 )
A timid young woman starts working for a demanding lawyer and finds a new way to deal with her self-harming urges.
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Movie: The Hours ( 2003 )
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
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Movie: The Sweetest Thing ( 2002 )
Christina Walters spent years avoiding men, then suddenly met her perfect match while hanging with her best friends, Courtney and Jane. When she finds out that he has left town, she and Courtney set out on a trip.
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Movie: We Were Soldiers ( 2002 )
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
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Movie: Resident Evil ( 2002 )
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
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Movie: Insomnia ( 2002 )
A Los Angeles detective chases a murder suspect in a remote Alaskan town.
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Movie: Road to Perdition ( 2002 )
A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
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Movie: Ice Age ( 2002 )
Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.
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Movie: Sweet Home Alabama ( 2002 )
A young woman who has reinvented herself as a New York City socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband after seven years of separation.
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Movie: Panic Room ( 2002 )
A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house's safe room when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune.
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Movie: Reign of Fire ( 2002 )
A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.
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Movie: Cabin Fever ( 2003 )
Five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
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Movie: The Time Machine ( 2002 )
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
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Movie: xXx ( 2002 )
The US government recruits extreme sports athlete Xander Cage to infiltrate a Russian criminal ring, which is plotting the destruction of the world.
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Movie: Blade II ( 2002 )
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
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Movie: The Transporter ( 2002 )
Frank Martin, who "transports" packages for unknown clients, is asked to move a package that soon begins moving, and complications arise.
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Movie: Treasure Planet ( 2002 )
Jim Hawkins is a teenager who finds the map of a great treasure hidden by a space pirate. Together with some friends, he sets off in a large spaceship, shaped like a caravel, on his quest.
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Movie: Bend It Like Beckham ( 2003 )
Jess Bhamra dreams of playing professional football, but her Sikh parents have plans for her: a law degree and a marriage. Jules, a white female striker, spots Jess playing football and invites her to join the local women's team.
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Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding ( 2002 )
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
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Movie: Mr. Deeds ( 2002 )
A sweet-natured small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way.
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Movie: Ken Park ( 2003 )
Ken Park is about several Californian skateboarders' lives and relationships with and without their parents.
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Movie: Phone Booth ( 2003 )
Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart's negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.
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Movie: The Hot Chick ( 2002 )
An attractive and popular teenager, who is mean-spirited toward others, finds herself in the body of an older man, and must find a way to get back to her original body.
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Movie: The Mothman Prophecies ( 2002 )
A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.
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Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep ( 2003 )
When residents of their nursing home start dying of dubious causes, an aged Elvis and an African-American senior who claims to be President John F. Kennedy discover that the perpetrator is an Egyptian mummy with murderous intentions.
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Movie: Adaptation. ( 2003 )
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
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Movie: Eight Legged Freaks ( 2002 )
Venomous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.
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Movie: The Country Bears ( 2002 )
Beary Barrington goes on an adventure to save Country Bear Hall by getting the Country Bears back together for a reunion concert.
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Movie: Frida ( 2002 )
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
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Movie: Van Wilder ( 2002 )
The most popular kid on campus meets a beautiful journalist who makes him realize that maybe he's afraid to graduate.
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Movie: John Q ( 2002 )
John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant.
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Movie: Hero ( 2004 )
A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
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Movie: Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams ( 2002 )
The Cortez siblings set out for a mysterious island, where they encounter a genetic scientist and a set of rival spy kids.
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Movie: Dog Soldiers ( 2002 )
A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scottish wilderness.
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Movie: The Rules of Attraction ( 2002 )
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
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Movie: Queen of the Damned ( 2002 )
In this loose sequel to Interview with the Vampire (1994), the vampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the equally beautiful and monstrous queen of all vampires.
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Movie: Star Trek: Nemesis ( 2002 )
The Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan homeworld Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a peace treaty. Captain Picard and his crew discover a serious threat to the Federation once Praetor Shinzon plans to attack Earth.
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Movie: Blue Crush ( 2002 )
As a hard-core surfer girl prepares for a big competition, she finds herself falling for a football player.
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Movie: Big Fat Liar ( 2002 )
Fourteen-year-old Jason Shepherd has a reputation for stretching the truth. So, when big-time Hollywood producer Marty Wolf steals his class paper and turns it into a smash hit movie, no one believes Jason's latest tall tale.
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Movie: The New Guy ( 2002 )
A high school senior branded uncool in the ninth grade gets himself expelled so he changes his image to cool kid at the town's other high school.
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Movie: High Crimes ( 2002 )
A successful lawyer's husband is arrested for murdering nine villagers in El Salvador in 1988 as a US soldier under a different name. She decides to defend him in military court and find out the truth about what happened.
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Movie: Slackers ( 2002 )
When geeky Ethan discovers three fellow students scamming the examination system, he blackmails them to win over the college's most popular girl.
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Movie: One Hour Photo ( 2002 )
A mentally unstable photo developer targets an upper middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.
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Movie: Solaris ( 2002 )
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
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Movie: The Tuxedo ( 2002 )
A hapless chauffeur must take a comatose Secret Agent's place using his special gadget-laden tuxedo.
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Movie: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ( 2003 )
An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in which he purports to have been a C.I.A. hitman.
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Movie: The Sum of All Fears ( 2002 )
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to incite a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Movie: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron ( 2002 )
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
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Movie: K-19: The Widowmaker ( 2002 )
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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Movie: Crossroads ( 2002 )
Three childhood friends embark on a cross-country adventure to pursue dreams they once put aside, taking risks that are sure to change their lives forever.
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Movie: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ( 2002 )
After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
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Movie: Two Weeks Notice ( 2002 )
A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.
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Movie: 40 Days and 40 Nights ( 2002 )
After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.
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Movie: Killing Me Softly ( 2002 )
A young American woman living in London begins a passionate and kinky affair with a handsome stranger who may have a dark and dangerous past.
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Movie: Ali G Indahouse ( 2002 )
Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen) unwittingly becomes a pawn in evil Chancellor David Carlton's (Charles Dance's) plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain (Sir Michael Gambon). However, instead of bringing the Prime Minister down, Ali is embraced by the nation as the voice of youth and "realness", making the Prime Minister and his government more popular than ever.
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Movie: Femme Fatale ( 2002 )
A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
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Movie: May ( 2003 )
A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.
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Movie: Maid in Manhattan ( 2002 )
A Senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite, when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's dress.
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Movie: Boat Trip ( 2003 )
Two straight men mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise.
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Movie: 25th Hour ( 2003 )
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
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Movie: Spun ( 2003 )
A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a 'speed freak', to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues.
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Movie: Carrie ( 2002 )
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.
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Movie: The Good Girl ( 2002 )
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
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Movie: Friday After Next ( 2002 )
Working as security guards, Craig and Day-Day run into the thief who stole their Christmas presents.
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Movie: Enough ( 2002 )
After running away fails, a terrified woman empowers herself in order to battle her abusive husband.
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Movie: Like Mike ( 2002 )
A 13-year-old orphan becomes an NBA superstar after trying on a pair of sneakers with the faded initials "MJ" inside them.
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Movie: American Psycho II: All American Girl ( 2002 )
A girl named Rachael Newman has developed a taste for murder and will stand at nothing to become a college professor's assistant.
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Movie: Windtalkers ( 2002 )
Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect the Navajo Marines who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cipher.
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Movie: 24 Hour Party People ( 2002 )
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
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Movie: About Schmidt ( 2003 )
Newly retired from the insurance industry, Omaha native Warren Schmidt embarks on an RV journey to his estranged daughter Jeannie's wedding in Denver Colorado, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.