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Cape Fear
Cape Fear (1991)
Directed by Martin Scorssese
★★★★
"Same plot as Cape Fear (1962). But slightly different. Man who is chased by evil convict is guilty. He fixed the convict's case so he would loos..."
Henry Fool
Henry Fool (1998)
Directed by Hal Hartly
★★★★
"A garbage man writes an epic poem or is it pornography. He is inspired to write by a wandering ex-child molester. ..."
Microserfs (1995)
Directed by Douglas Coupland
★★★★
"Nerds at microsoft join a startup and regain their lives. Sad ending, unexpected and unneccessary...."
Requim for a Dream ()
Directed by
★★★★
"Several characters discover drugs, and loose too much to be described. Highlight: The split screen used perfectly to show the seperation of two ch..."
The Sun also Rises
The Sun also Rises ()
Directed by Ernest Hemingway
★★★★
"A crew of misfits visit Pampaloma for some bullfighting action...."
Junky
Junky ()
Directed by William S. Burroughs
★★★★
"A man develops a habit. A habit for heroin...."
Fight Club
Fight Club ()
Directed by Chuck Palahniuk
★★★★
"A man who can\\'t sleep becomes addicted to self help groups, then starts one of his own: Fight Club. You know the plot, you watched the movie...."
Basketball Diaries, The
Basketball Diaries, The ()
Directed by Jim Carroll
★★★★
"A story about the streets of New York. Mainly features a young man\\'s journey through basketball, drugs and sex...."

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Boxing Helena
Boxing Helena ()
Directed by Jennifer Lynch • Nov 30, 2001
★★
Plot: A crazed surgen dreams about "boxing helena", ie: Cutting off her arms and legs and keeping her locked up in his house. Pretty sick.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ()
Directed by J.K. Rowling • Nov 30, 2001
★★★
Plot: Harry is back at Hogwarts for Year 2. He and his friends fight another monster. They win.
Cape Fear
Cape Fear (1991)
Directed by Martin Scorssese • Nov 29, 2001
★★★★
Plot: Same plot as Cape Fear (1962). But slightly different. Man who is chased by evil convict is guilty. He fixed the convict's case so he would loose, and was cheating on his wife on multiple occas...
Winslow Boy, The
Winslow Boy, The ()
Directed by David Mamet • Nov 28, 2001
★★★
Plot: English. A young boy is kicked out of school for a crime he didn't commit. His family comes together and fights for his honor.
Thin Blue Line, The
Thin Blue Line, The ()
Directed by Errol Morris • Nov 28, 2001
★★★
Plot: Documentary. A man is falsely accused of murdering a police officer.
Spanish Prisoner, The
Spanish Prisoner, The ()
Directed by David Mamet • Nov 28, 2001
★★★
Plot: A man developing a process is caught in a complicated confidence scam. People try to steal the process. Lots of twists and turns.
Dead Man
Dead Man ()
Directed by Jim Jarmush • Nov 28, 2001
★★
Plot: William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels to the wild west and looses his job. He meets a girl and then gets in a gun fight with her boyfriend, kills him, the girl killed and he's on the run. Travels w...
Generation of Swine ()
Directed by Hunter S. Thompson • Nov 28, 2001
★★★
Plot: Collection of articles from the 80s. Mainly focusing on the 1988 presidential election, and the Iran Contra affair.
Spy Game
Spy Game (2001)
Directed by Tony Scott • Nov 28, 2001
★★
Plot: Old CIA agent trained young CIA agent. Young CIA agent ignores his teaching and falls for a girl and then puts his life on the line for her but he and she are saved by old CIA agent.
Urban Legends 2: Final Cut
Urban Legends 2: Final Cut ()
Directed by • Nov 28, 2001
★★
Plot: Film students making a film about urban legends get killed by their film proffessor who uses urban legends to kill them.
Luzhen Defence, The ()
Directed by Marleen Gorris • Nov 28, 2001
★★★
Plot: A brilliant withdrawn chess player falls in love and has to choose between chess and life. Sad ending: he committs suicide.
Henry Fool
Henry Fool (1998)
Directed by Hal Hartly • Nov 28, 2001
★★★★
Plot: A garbage man writes an epic poem or is it pornography. He is inspired to write by a wandering ex-child molester.
Cape Fear
Cape Fear (1962)
Directed by • Nov 28, 2001
★★★
Plot: A man released from jail seeks revenge. Gregory Peck tries to protect his family from this madman (Mitchum).
Bridget Jones: the edge of reason (1999)
Directed by Helen Fielding • Nov 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: Sequal to Bridget Jones' Diary. Jones, now with a boyfriend, manages to screw that up, get locked up in Thailand, but gets free and gets back together with boyfriend.
Dave Berry's Complete Guide to Guys (1995)
Directed by Dave berry • Nov 18, 2001
★★★
Plot: Non fiction (Humor). Berry writes about guys through the ages, from medievil times until modern times (ex: using a trebuchet to launch a dead horse, or using a trebuchet to launch a buick).
Zen and the art of screenwriting (1996)
Directed by William Froug • Nov 15, 2001
★★★
Plot: Non fiction. Interviews with screen writers and advice from former UCLA proffessor William Froug.
Smith of Wooton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham (1969)
Directed by J.R.R. Tolkien • Nov 14, 2001
★★★
Plot: Two novella length stories. Wooton Major is about fairies and cooking. While Farmer Giles is about dragons and giants.
Glengarry Glen Ross (1982)
Directed by David Mamet • Nov 14, 2001
★★★
Plot: The troubles of salesmen are explored in this awesome play.
Adventures in a TV Nation (1998)
Directed by Michael Moore • Nov 14, 2001
★★★
Plot: Non fiction. The behind the scenes story of Michael Moore's television show TV Nation. Details several of their shows.
Downsize This! (1996)
Directed by Michael Moore • Nov 12, 2001
★★★
Plot: Non-fiction/humor. Collection of chapters ("essays") on various political issues.
Generation X (1991)
Directed by Douglas Coupland • Nov 11, 2001
★★★
Plot: Three disafected youths escape their lives to the desert to tell stories and try to figure life out.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998)
Directed by J.K. Rowling • Nov 11, 2001
★★★
Plot: A young boy discovers that he is the son of a great wizard (and witch) and joins a wizard school. Similar to Star Wars, Hitchhiker's Guide, and of course The Lord of the Rings.
Microserfs (1995)
Directed by Douglas Coupland • Nov 10, 2001
★★★★
Plot: Nerds at microsoft join a startup and regain their lives. Sad ending, unexpected and unneccessary.
Lord of the Rings, The (1954)
Directed by J.R.R. Tolkien • Nov 10, 2001
★★★
Plot: Mystical. A hobbit must travel far to destroy an evil ring. Many twists and turns.
Regulators, The (1996)
Directed by Richard Bachman • Nov 10, 2001
★★
Plot: An evil spirit enchants a kid, then uses the child\\'s heroes (cartoon characters and cowboys) to wreck havoc in a suburban setting.
Music for Chameleons (1975)
Directed by Truman Capote • Nov 10, 2001
★★★
Plot: Multiple plots. Collection of short stories, self interviews and jouranlistic fiction.
Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dikes (1995)
Directed by John Pierson • Nov 10, 2001
★★★
Plot: Non-Fiction. An overview of American Independant film from the 80s to the mid ninties.
The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: Two people who shouldn\\'t live together do. They fight, they fight and it\\'s hilarious.
Finding Forester
Finding Forester ()
Directed by Gus Van Sant • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: Good Will Hunting on racial lines. Sean Connery pretends to be J.D. Saldinger and teaches a young black man to write. Uplifting.
Paths of Glory
Paths of Glory ()
Directed by Stanley Kubrick • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A general is blamed for not forcing his men to committe suicide on the battlefield. Courtroom drama, three men are held accountable and tried of cowardess. They die.
Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A look at the homelife during the Blitz of WWII. Highlight: The gang of little boys bribes a girl to show them her privates, hilarious.
Muriel\\'s Wedding
Muriel\\'s Wedding ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: Wierd british woman wants to get married.
Simon Birch
Simon Birch ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A freakishly small boy helps foster belief in God for a young boy.
Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink ()
Directed by John Hughes • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: Cinderella. Teenage dating. Redhead wants rich boy, but she should date Ducky, the charming nerd character.
Magnificant Seven, The
Magnificant Seven, The ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★
Plot: Seven cowboys protect a small village.
Purple Rose of Cairo, The
Purple Rose of Cairo, The ()
Directed by Woody Allen • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A character from a movie jumps off the screen and falls in love with a real woman.
Hurricane, The
Hurricane, The ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: Here is the story of the hurricane. A man the authorities came to blame. For something he never done. Put in a prison cell, but one time he could have been, the champion of the world.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A wild west entrepuner falls in love with a Madam.
Evolution
Evolution ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
Plot: A gang of idiots fight aliens.
Nashville
Nashville ()
Directed by Robert Altman • Oct 27, 2001
★★
Plot: Several characters explore the music scene of Nashville, TN.
Unbreakable
Unbreakable ()
Directed by M. Night Shamlahan • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: Issue #0 for a comic book series. Genesis. A man who is incredibly strong discovers his powers and his enemy.
Coyote Ugly
Coyote Ugly ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★
Plot: A hot girl gets a job in a bar. She records a song and sings it at the bar to become a major songwriter. Horatio Alger exploitive.
The shop around the corner
The shop around the corner ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A young man (Stewart) falls in love with his co- worker. Ups and downs, he gets fired, he gets re- hired. Heartwarming.
Truman
Truman ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: Details the life of President Harry S. Truman
Crimes and Misdemenors ()
Directed by Woody Allen • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A man (Landau) has his mistress murdered and feels bad. Another man (Allen) looses the girl he loves to a pompous ass (Alda). Highlight: Allen makes a film within a film where he compairs Alda\\...
Shadows and Fog
Shadows and Fog ()
Directed by Woody Allen • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A man is chased by death througout the city of New York. (based on the play: Death)
Dear God
Dear God ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★
Plot: Mailmen start answering mail sent to God and doing good deeds.
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★
Plot: An evil man eating plant goes wild in this MUSICAL.
Requim for a Dream ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★★
Plot: Several characters discover drugs, and loose too much to be described. Highlight: The split screen used perfectly to show the seperation of two characters when they\\'re incredibly close.
I shot Andy Warhol
I shot Andy Warhol ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A look inside the life of the woman who wrote the S.C.U.M. Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol (hence the catchy title).
I know what you did last summer
I know what you did last summer ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★
Plot: Stupid teenagers run over a stranger with their car and are \\"haunted\\" by him, one year later.
Marty
Marty ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A guy who can\\'t seem to get a date, but is such a nice guy. He takes care of his family and he always makes sacrifices. But in the end, he gets a date, and she likes him and all is well. Uplif...
The day of the jackel ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: The President of France is to be assassinated by The Jackel. Dramatic game of cat and mouse. Unfortuately the cop succeeds and the Jackel fails, but it\\'s exciting.
The Hustler
The Hustler ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A pool shark gets on a bad streak, falls in love, gets on a hot streak and his girl kills herself.
Outbreak
Outbreak ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A bad monkey spreads a bad virus. The world\\'s only hope is a rouge scientist named Rainman.
Bait
Bait ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★
Plot: A black ex-con is used as bait for a \\"genius\\" thief.
Sugar and Spice ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★
Plot: Idiotic cheerleaders decide to rob a bank.
Saving Silverman
Saving Silverman ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: An idiot is getting married to a woman who is bad for him. His friends try to save him by kidnapping his fiance.
Girl Interupted ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A girl pretends to be a boy. Later killed by rednecks. Based on a true story.
Save the last dance
Save the last dance ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★
Plot: A white girl in the ghetto falls in love with a black guy. She also learns how to hip hop dance and uses her new found ghetto-sense to win a ballet scholarship.
The Family Man
The Family Man ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: Have you seen It\\'s a Wonderful Life? It\\'s pretty much the same thing.
Proof of Life
Proof of Life ()
Directed by • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A man (Dennis Quad) is kidnapped. A proffessional negoatior is sent to negoiate for his release. He falls in love with the man\\'s wife (Meg Ryan).
The Sun also Rises
The Sun also Rises ()
Directed by Ernest Hemingway • Oct 27, 2001
★★★★
Plot: A crew of misfits visit Pampaloma for some bullfighting action.
Junky
Junky ()
Directed by William S. Burroughs • Oct 27, 2001
★★★★
Plot: A man develops a habit. A habit for heroin.
Queer
Queer ()
Directed by William S. Burroughs • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: While taking some time off from heroin, Bill Lee (burroughs) discovers his sex drive and has a serious of not so great affairs with men in Mexico.
Timequake
Timequake ()
Directed by Kurt Vonnegut • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A mix between fiction and non fiction. A timequake occurs, making the world repeat, but then the timequake ends and the world awakes. Kilgore Trout is needed to make them wake up.
Another Roadside Attraction ()
Directed by Tom Robbins • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: The mummfied body of Christ is found and set up in a roadside circus. So much more than just another roadside attraction.
Riding the Rap ()
Directed by Elmore Leonard • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A cop tracks down a killer or something.
 Faust
Faust ()
Directed by Goethe • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A man sells his soul to the devil. Obviously a mistake.
Carrie
Carrie ()
Directed by Stephen King • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: A young girl is made fun of, until she develops supernatural powers and kicks everyones fucking ass.
Even Cowgirls get the Blues
Even Cowgirls get the Blues ()
Directed by Tom Robbins • Oct 27, 2001
★★★
Plot: The story of a female hitchhiker. A woman with extraordinary thumbs. The tale of a cowgirl and her ranch. Attempting to describe the plot of a Tom Robbins book is like trying to explain the con...
On Writing
On Writing ()
Directed by Stephen King • Oct 26, 2001
★★★
Plot: Non Fiction. King discusses how he writes, why he writes and touches on the time he got run over by a car.
Survivor : A Novel ()
Directed by Chuck Palahniuk • Oct 26, 2001
★★★
Plot: A refugee from a religious cult starts a suicide promotion hotline. Twists and turns, then a SUPRISE ENDING.
Invisible Monsters
Invisible Monsters ()
Directed by Chuck Palahniuk • Oct 26, 2001
★★★
Plot: A fashion model goes a bit whacked. Interesting plot twists and a TYPICAL PALAHNIUK suprise ending.
Fight Club
Fight Club ()
Directed by Chuck Palahniuk • Oct 26, 2001
★★★★
Plot: A man who can\\'t sleep becomes addicted to self help groups, then starts one of his own: Fight Club. You know the plot, you watched the movie.
Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City ()
Directed by Jay McInerney • Oct 26, 2001
★★★
Plot: An un-named character (you) journeys through depression in New York City. Through sex and joblessness, love and despair. Similar to The Catcher in the Rye. Side note: Great supporting character...
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the sex-drugs-and-rock\\'n\\'roll generation saved hollywood
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the sex-drugs-and-rock\\'n\\'roll generation saved hollywood ()
Directed by Peter Biskind • Oct 26, 2001
★★★
Plot: Non Fiction. An excellent account of Hollywood\\'s rising directors of the 1970s and how they failed.
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World ()
Directed by Bruce Schneider • Oct 26, 2001
★★★
Plot: Non Fiction. Schneider details the ins and outs of computer security. Highlights: The Chapter on Users is hilarious, and the opening in which Schneider admits that total security is impossible du...
Basketball Diaries, The
Basketball Diaries, The ()
Directed by Jim Carroll • Oct 26, 2001
★★★★
Plot: A story about the streets of New York. Mainly features a young man\\'s journey through basketball, drugs and sex.
Driven
Driven (2001)
Directed by Renny Harlin • Oct 06, 2001
Plot: A young driver needs help from an old driver to be all he can be.
Party Girl
Party Girl (1995)
Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer • Oct 06, 2001
★★★
Plot: A young Party Girl grows up and gets a job without loosing her party roots.
Dial 'M' for Murder
Dial 'M' for Murder (1954)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • Oct 06, 2001
★★★
Plot: A man wants his wife dead. He blackmailes another man to do it, but everything goes wrong.
Bounce
Bounce (2000)
Directed by Don Roos • Oct 06, 2001
★★
Plot: A guy dies on a plane crash with someone else's ticket. Someone else feels bad about it and goes and fucks, falls in love with that dead guy's wife.
Little Nicky
Little Nicky (2000)
Directed by Steven Brill • Oct 06, 2001
Plot: The devil's son returns to earth to stop the other devil's sons from causing the devil to die. And he falls in love.
Shrek
Shrek (2001)
Directed by Andrew Adamson • Oct 06, 2001
★★★
Plot: An ogre rescues a princess and they fall in love.
Story of Us, The
Story of Us, The (1999)
Directed by Rob Reiner • Oct 06, 2001
★★
Plot: A married couple on the rocks. Will they split or not. Do they have a history? Are they an us? Who gives a fuck?
AntiTrust
AntiTrust (2001)
Directed by Peter Howitt (II) • Oct 06, 2001
Plot: A Bill Gates character is triumphing in the software market by stealing code from kids in garages and occasionally killing them. But it all goes wrong when a young silly programmer double crosses h...
House of Yes, The
House of Yes, The (1997)
Directed by Mark S. Waters • Oct 06, 2001
★★★
Plot: Parker Posey plays an insane woman who has a serious Jackie-O obsession. Her brother returns home with a finace and leaves in pine box.
Speechless
Speechless (1994)
Directed by Ron Underwood • Oct 06, 2001
★★★
Plot: Based on James Carville and Mary Madson, two speech writers, one republican, one democrat, fight, fuck and fall in love.
Absence of Malice
Absence of Malice (1981)
Directed by Syndey Pollack • Oct 06, 2001
★★★
Plot: Paul Newman plays a son of a mobster who is being invesigated in the disaperance of another mobster. The kicker is he's only being investigated because the feds are trying to get him to help them f...
Legend of Bagger Vance, The
Legend of Bagger Vance, The (2000)
Directed by Robert Redford • Oct 06, 2001
★★
Plot: Matt Damon, a golfer returns from WWI with a broken spirit. Will Smith (Bagger Vance), a black caddy, Jesus/God type figure appears and helps Damon regain his game. Because after all, golf is life?...
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Directed by Mamoru Oshii • Oct 06, 2001
★★★
Plot: Humans, cyborgs, the future. Plot deals with AI & Consciousness. Do the cyborgs have souls? Follows the trail of a few cyborg cops from Section 9. Film is Japanese Animation.
Object of My Affection, The
Object of My Affection, The (1998)
Directed by Nicholas Hytner • Oct 06, 2001
★★
Plot: Chasing Amy, reversed. Aniston falls in love with a gay guy. Mildly interesting plot twist, she's pregnant, they're going to raise the baby together...