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Carter (Adam Brody) has been dumped by Elena (Sofia Bunuel) and so retreats to his grandmother’s house in Michigan to work on his screenplay. Across the street lives Sarah Hardwicke (Meg Ryan) and daughter Lucy (Kristen) who take a liking to the pensive, doe eyed young man from Los Angeles.

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Rollo Lee (John Cleese) runs a zoo which has been taken over by the Rod McCain (Kevin Kline) corporation. Rod soon dispatches his son Vince (also Kevin Kline) and a new employee Willa (Jamie Lee Curtis) to monetize the zoo. The zoo keepers are not pleased with the new focus on crass capitalism.

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The cast of the sadly sub-par movie Home For Purin mistakenly believes they will all be nominated for Academy Awards.

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Criminals Joe Blake (Bruce Willis) and Terry Lee Collins (Billy Bob Thornton) escape from prison and launch a crime spree. Dubbed the “Sleepover Bandits” for some odd pre-heist behavior, they’re joined by distressed runaway Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchette). An odd love triangle develops.

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Extraterrestrial robots voyage to Earth to recover a powerful alien artifact. They initially masquerade as common human vehicles until all-out war ensues. Teenagers Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) are inadvertently caught up in the conflict, which involves the military and government.

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Semi-true story of John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer), dispatched to 1890s Africa to build a railway. Unfortunately, the project goes awry when two lions (the “Tsavo maneaters”) begin lunching on the workers. Professional hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas) helps Patterson hunt down the predators.

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Superman has abandoned humanity for five years, and returns to find resentment, Lois Lane married with a young son, and Lex Luthor with yet another plot at world domination.

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In Hawaii, Rick Richards (Elvis Presley) runs a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny Kohana (James Shigeta). Unfortunately his many woman problems threaten to derail everything.

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That Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a box office success and launched a film franchise is hard to believe in retrospect. The jab “Star Trek: The Motionless Picture” is all too true. There are many reasons: in the late seventies, Paramount was working on Star Trek: Phase Two, a new television series that was prematurely aborted. A one-hour television episode V’Ger story was hurriedly expanded into a feature film after the unexpected success of Star Wars. The rest of the movie’s running time is filled with a large, nebulous cloud of pointlessness.

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Fifteen year old Helena (Stephanie Leonidas) has parents who are circus entertainers. Her mother (Gina McKee) falls ill and Helena has a dream / nightmare in which she meets all sorts of imaginatively design creatures and gains a new perspective on her life.

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