Movies
Comedy
Dumb and Dumber Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne are two intellectually-challenged best friends. Lloyd is working as a limo driver in Rhode Island when he picks up a beautiful and wealthy woman named Mary Swanson who is being taken to the airport. Lloyd immediately falls head over heels in love with Mary, and when she leaves a briefcase at the
airport, he's determined to return it in hopes of impressing her. Lloyd and Harry head out on a journey full of accidents to arrive in Aspen, Colorado and try to find her. But will they succeed? FridayRapper Ice Cube plays Craig, a frustrated teen who endures the ultimate humiliation: getting fired on his day off. Chris Tucker plays Smokey, a marijuana-worshiping homeboy whose love for the green stuff lands him in predicament after predicament. Sitting on the stoop of Craig's rundown home, the two hilariously confront a kaleidoscopic array of gang-bangers, weed dealers, crack heads, prostitutes, scheming girlfriends, and neighborhood bullies.
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Ferris Bueller's Day OffFerris is a street-wise kid who knows all the tricks. Today he decides to take the day off school. When Ferris takes the day off, so must his best friends,
Cameron and Sloane. Cameron is reluctantly persuaded to borrow his father's Ferrari, and together they hatch a plan to get Sloane out of class. It's Ferris' day off, he's out to enjoy himself, and he does! Tommy BoyBig Tom Callahan is the street-smart owner of a company that makes auto parts, and one day he'd like his son Tommy Callahan III to take over the business. Trouble is, Tommy Boy is a fat, dim-witted slob who took seven years to get a business degree and has no idea how to run a
business. His father's sudden death unexpectedly puts Tommy Boy in charge. However, what Tommy Boy lacks in smarts, he makes up for in determination, and he hits the road for a long sales trip in a last ditch effort to rescue his father's legacy. |
Drama
The Breakfast ClubThey were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7 a.m., they had nothing to say, but by 4 p.m., they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. To the outside world they were simply the Jock, the Brain, the Criminal, the Princess and the Kook, but to each other, they would always be the
Breakfast Club. HolesStanley Yelnats' is sentenced to a stay at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile correctional facility stuck in the middle of the desert. He finds himself sharing a tent with a gang of misfits. The Warden of Camp Green Lake
has her own ideas about rehabilitation, which consist of having the boys spend their days digging holes five feet deep under the desert sun. Stanley wonders if there's a good reason why the Warden seems so curious about what (if anything) the boys find during their digging, and in time he suspects there's something they haven't been told. It's Kind of a Funny StoryCraig checks himself into a mental health clinic citing exhaustion. Taken under the wing of fellow patient Bobby, the stressed-out 16-year-old attempts to endure his mandatory
five days' stay without completely losing his mind. His predicament is made somewhat more tolerable by the presence of Noelle, another teenage patient who's struggling to sort out her thoughts. The Perks of Being a WallflowerThis is about 15-year-old Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love,the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world.
Remember the TitansIn 1971, Coach Bill Yoast, longtime head coach of the T.C. Williams High School football team, is asked to step down, and Herman Boone is appointed to replace him as the school's first black faculty member. The new coach is hardly welcomed with open arms and the newly integrated team is full of players (both black and white) who have little trust or respect for one another. Against long odds, Boone helps his team overcome distrust and misunderstanding as they become a gridiron force to be reckoned
with. StepmomAnna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad. But Jackie, a full-time mother, regards Isabel's efforts as offensively insufficient. The conflict between them is deepened by the sudden diagnose of cancer, which might may be deadly for Jackie.
They all have to learn a little in order to grow together. Where the Heart IsPregnant 17-year-old Novalee Nation runs away from her Tennessee home accompanied by her
boyfriend, Willy Pickens. But Willy gets cold feet and abandons her at a Walmart in Sequoyah, OK. Novalee's life savings amount to $5.55, so she moves into the Walmart, sleeping there at night and venturing out during the day. With the help of the eccentric Sister Husband and Lexie Coop, a nurses' aide, Novalee tries to get her life in order for the sake of her expected child. |
A Cinderella StoryCute but geeky high-school student Sam Martin
is knocked off her feet by her father's untimely death, which leaves his diner and Sam's well-being in the care of Fiona, Sam's thoroughly wicked stepmother. Sam's life is irrevocably changed, however, by two events: a makeover of epic proportions and a sudden electronic correspondence with a mysterious young man. WIll Sam get her chance to meet her dream date? How to DealHalley Martin faces her senior year in high school as her parents split up, her sister gets engaged, her grandmother moves in, and her best friend becomes pregnant. Even though
Halley's problems seem big, she faces an even bigger challenge, learning "how to deal" with falling in love. My Family / Mi familiaFrom the beginnings of his father's journey from Mexico to California in the 1920s, to his brother Chucho's tragic rebellion of the 1950s, to the stark realities of modern day, the struggle to live the American dream is sometimes darkened but never diminished for Paco Sanchez and his family.
Pieces of AprilFamily outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts her good-girl status and brother Timmy captures it all on film.
Romeo Must DieRough-and-ready Han shares an attraction with Trish O' Day (Aaliyah) even though their families are rivals in a fierce Oakland turf battle. The two also share plenty of danger as they try to fine the real cause of the blood feud.
Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsCarmen, Bridget,Lena, and Tibby are four teenage girls who have been best friends since they were babies. However, for the first time the young women will be spending their summer apart.A few days before they leave, the four go shopping, and while at a thrift shop they discover an unusual pair of blue jeans that, despite the fact they're all of different
height and weight, fits all four women perfectly. The girls buy the jeans and pledge to each look after them for a week at a time, hoping they'll bring good luck as the girls deal with a variety of new life experiences, both good and bad. |