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Little asteroid chunks hurtle toward Earth, and make a really deep impact. Wait, that's another movie. (Or is it?) The government looks up in the sky, realizes there's more where that came from — "about the size of Texas," — and if it hits, the planet's in trouble: "Basically," as Billy Bob Thornton's character says, "the worst parts of the Bible."
Bruce Willis, apparently the world's greatest oil rigger, is enlisted to be shot into space in order to blow up the big rock with a thermonuclear weapon. He brings along a trusty team of crusty guys, who go through instant astronaut training school and wisecrack lines like "beam me up, Scotty." Mucho macho, and special effects galore, like asteroid-roving vehicles and space shuttle launches. The team reaches its goal, but along the way there's a little mishap involving a Russian space station, and the climax of the film rests on the shoulders of its hero, who has to make a choice between his life and the future of the planet.
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Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) is the ultimate master of ceremonies... until he is left at the alter at his own wedding. Devastated, Robbie becomes a newlywed's worst nightmare -- an entertainer who destroys other people's weddings.
It's not until he meets a warm-hearted waitress named Julia (Drew Barrymore), that he starts to pick up the pieces of his heart. The only problem is Julia is about to marry a stooge, and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a lifetime, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever.
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John Travolta soldified his position as the most versatile and magnetic screen presence of the decade in this film version of the smash hit play Grease. Recording star Olivia Newton-John made her American film debut as SAndy, Travolta's naive love interest. The impressive supporting cast reads like a "who's who" in this quintessential Fifties musical. Grease is not just a nostalgic look at a simpler decade - it's an energetic and exciting musical homage to the age of rock 'n' roll!
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With the help of one loyal collegue and one outrageous client, JERRY MAGUIRE learns that loving well is the best revenge.
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It is the Fourth of July, and Helen (Sarah Michelle< Gellar) has just earned the coveted Croaker Queen beauty contest, to the delight of her boyfriend Barry (Ryan Phillippe), a wealthy, cocky, handsome jock; her best friend, the smart and ambitious Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt); and Julie's boyfriend, Ray (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), an ambitious working class young man. In the Fall, Helen will go New York to pursue her dream of becoming an actress; Ray is heading there too, to become a writer. Barry and Julie are off to Boston, he to play football and she to pursue law. With high school behind them and knowing that the fall will separate them, perhaps forever, the four friends make a pact to always be there for each other, no matter what happens.
That night, the four celebrate, partying at Oscar's Oyster Bar and driving out in Barry's new BMW to an isolated and romantic beach. After regaling each other with scary stories about what happens to trysting teens in remote places, and reveling in each other's company, they realize it's time to head home. Barry's had way too much to drink, and Ray insists on driving them back. Barry's antics in the car, tossing cheap bourbon around, leads to a crash on notorious Reaper's Curve - they've hit something large in the middle of the road. It's a man.
The accident quickly shatters their party mood. Scared and confused, they struggle with each other and their consciences over what to do with their victim, knowing that calling the police, with their alcohol levels up and the car covered in booze, will undoubtedly lead to a conviction for vehicular manslaughter -- meaning no Boston, football, law school, or New York dreams come Fall. They finally make an uneasy decision to hide the body in the ocean, keep the secret to themselves and continue on as if nothing happened.
A year passes. Julie has gone to Boston but has not become the college success she expected to be. Back home for the summer, Julie's mom hands her a letter that has just arrived. Inside is a single sentence - "I know what you did last summer." Someone outside their circle knows their secret -- a clever and vicious tormenter who seems to know their weakest points, their deepest insecurities, attacking them where they are psychologically most vulnerable. Someone is determined to make sure that these four golden teens do not get away with their crime.
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The killer in SCREAM apparently has seen too many scary movies, and can quote chapter and verse from Halloween, Psycho and the Silence of the Lambs while terrorizing the teens in California town. Top of the killer's list if Sidney, still grieving her mother's brutal death, too depressed to grant sexual favors to her boyfriend, and angry at a tabloid-TV reporter "Gale" whose book claims that Sidney fingered the wrong guy for her mom's murder.
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Two Households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
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Will Hunting (Matt Damon - Courage Under Fire and the upcoming Rounders) is only twenty years old, but already stands out in his rough, working-class neighborhood in South Boston. Like his friends, he does menial jobs between stints at the local bar - and run-ins with the law. He's never been to college, except to scrub floors as a janitor at MIT. Yet he can summon obscure historical references from a photographic memory, and almost instantly solve math problems that frustrate Nobel Prize winning professors.
The one thing this remarkably bright, impossibly angry young man can't do - after his latest bar fight - is talk his way out of a pending jail sentence. His only hope is Sean McGuire (Robin Williams), a college professor-turned-therapist with an admiration for his emotional struggles, and a keen understanding of what it's like to fight your way through life.
Directed by Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, To Die For) and produced by Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction), GOOD WILL HUNTING also stars Stellan Skarsgard (Breaking the Waves) as Lambeau, the professor who brings Will and Sean together; Ben Affleck (CHASING AMY) as Will's best friend Chuckie, and Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank, Sleepers) as Skylar, the young Harvard girl who catches his eye, and maybe even his heart.
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Based on a real life story, "Dangerous Minds" is a Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer production which stars acclaimed actress Michelle Pfeiffer as former Marine LouAnne Johnson, who leaves an officer's commission and a nine-year military career to pursue her dream of becoming an English teacher. But while earning her credentials at a Northern California high school, she is assigned to a group of students who change her life forever. And she changes theirs.
Although each of her charges exhibits a seemingly impenetrable facade, these kids are desperate to connect with someone who cares about them. However, life has already taught them to trust no one and count on nothing. As their new instructor, the feisty Ms. Johnson defies all the rules, creates her own curriculum and instructs this class of tough, inner-city teenagers from college- level texts.
Frustrated that her students, whose standardized test scores range from average to excellent, have come to accept failure as a way of life, she cajoles and tricks them, even bribes them, into learning. More important, she loves them and helps them to believe in themselves, in their spirit and in their potential.
One teacher's account of the education crisis in America, and her effort to make a difference, "Dangerous Minds" is a Hollywood Pictures presentation of a Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer production, in association with Via Rosa Productions. Directed by John N. Smith, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, the screenplay is by Ronald Bass, based upon My Posse Don't Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson. Executive producers are Sandra Rabins and Lucas Foster. Buena Vista Pictures distributes.
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