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1) Office space
Language
English
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Peter Gibbons is a cubicle slave at Initech Corporation, who tires of mind-numbing corporate life and actively tries to get fired. Instead, his "straight-shooting" attitude gets him promoted, where he can play out his grand embezzling scheme.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation,...
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English
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"In this vastly amusing, offbeat fantasy, Sayles takes a fresh look at our society through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial (Joe Morton) who crash-lands on Earth -- in Harlem -- and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his original and eye-opening journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?"...
11) Road to Utopia
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Bing and Bob get caught up in a race to stake their claim to the veins of a Klondike gold mine after nabbing the deed from a couple of vicious killers. Since the boys themselves are skipping town after a shady deal, they decide to adopt the murderers' identities and take the opportunity to get to know the beautiful and ambitious Dorothy Lamour.
13) Mr. Mom
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
[Standard version].
Language
English
Description
Michael Keaton plays a harried househusband and Teri Garr a rising business executive who encounter one problem after another.
14) North to Alaska
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
John Wayne and Stewart Granger strike it rich in this comedy-adventure set in the heyday of the Alaskan gold rush. When two prospectors hit the mother lode, they set off a plot of action, romance and comedy.
16) Ocean's twelve
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English
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Description
Three years after pulling a con over Las Vegas casino owner Terry Benedict, Danny Ocean and his cohorts have lived quietly out of the spotlight in retirement. But Benedict gives the group an ultimatum to come up with $190 million dollars or else, so Danny needs to pull one more heist, in the form of separate capers in Paris, Amsterdam and Rome. In addition to a tight deadline, the gang has to cope with an agent in pursuit as well as a rival thief...
18) Bruce Almighty
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English
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Description
Bruce Nolan is a discontented TV reporter who believes the entire universe is stacked against him. After a bad day, Bruce flies into a rage and blames God for making his life so miserable. God responds by endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers and challenges him to take on "The Big Job" to see if he can do it any better.
19) Underworld
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A war has been raging between the Vampires and the Lycans for centuries. Selene is a vampire Death Dealer who finds out that the Lycans have plans to capture Michael. As Selene begins to track Michael, she becomes more convinced that the Lycans are planning an attack against the Death Dealers. The vampire kingpin, Kraven, is certain the Lycans do not have that kind of intelligence. As Selene shadows Michael, she finds herself wanting to protect him,...
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English
Description
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the...
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