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‘Coach Carter’ is based on a true story of Coach Ken Carter, a controversial high school basketball coach played by Samuel L. Jackson. Coach Carter took the coaching job under his rules. He believed that the players must maintain good grades and become a united team or they would not play. All the team players signed his contract to do just that. The team was undefeated and on it’s way to the 1999 State Championship, when Coach Carter received the low grades of his players. Coach Carter received national attention when he locked the gym and benched the whole team for poor grades. Coach Carter received some praise and much more criticism for his decision.
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The title ‘White Noise’ refers to the phenomenon known as Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). People believe that you can hear voices of the dead in the white noise of a detuned radio and even see faces from the white noise on the television set. Michael Keaton stars in this thriller as Jonathan Rivers, a man who had just lost his wife in a freak accident. Raymond Price (Ian McNeice) meets with Jonathan and tells him that his wife Anna has contacted him from the other side. Jonathan doesn’t believe him until he hears Anna’s voice on his radio. Jonathan wants to talk to his wife, and he gets all the equipment. There is only one thing that Jonathan doesn’t know, there are also bad people on the other side.
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Venice, 1596. Melancholy Antonio loves the youthful Bassanio, so when Bassanio asks for 3000 ducats, Antonio says yes before knowing it’s to sue for the hand of Portia. His capital tied up in merchant ships at sea, Antonio must go to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender he reviles. Shylock wraps his grudge in kindness, offering a three-month loan at no interest, but if not repaid, Antonio will owe a pound of flesh. The Jew’s daughter elopes with a Christian, whetting Shylock’s hatred. While Bassanio’s away wooing Portia, Antonio’s ships founder, and Shylock demands his pound of flesh. With court assembled and a judgment due, Portia swings into action to save Bassanio’s friend.
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Tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples lead to a civil war, in a country where corruption and bribes are routine. Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), the manager of Sabena Hôtel des Mille Collines, is Hutu but his wife, Tatiana (Sophie Okonedo), is Tutsi. His marriage is a source of friction with Hutu extremists, most prominently George Rutaganda, a friendly supplier to the hotel who also is the local leader of Interahamwe, a brutal anti-Tutsi militia.
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In the opening scene there is an auction being held at the Opera Popularie in Paris in 1919. The vicomte de Changy, Raoul,an elderly man, buys a music box in the shape of a monkey wearing Persian robes and playing the cymbals which was found in the vaults of the theater where the Phantom had lived and used it. Then the shattered chandelier from the incident of the phantom of the opera is revealed and has been restored and fitted for electric lights. Then the main overture begins to play as we go from black and white to the full color of its 1870 days. We see the cast including Christine (Emmy Rosum), Carlotta (Minnie Driver) and Piangi practicing Hannibal by Chalemau, when the owner of the theater comes in and announces that he will indeed retire and move to Australia and he introduces the new owners, Gilles Andre and Richard Firmin. Carlotta throws a fit because a part of the set fell on her and she leaves and refuses to sing at the gala on that night when they were to announce that Raoul, (Patrick Wilson) will be their patron. Christine is put up to singing her part by Madame Giry. She sings (“Think Of Me”) and Raoul her, childhood sweetheart, sees her and meets her after the play. Before he takes her out the Phantom, played by Gerard Butler, locks her in her room and take her down to his lair. She takes off his mask and sees the facial disfigurment he was hiding. He takes her back. Andre and Richard are trying to convince Carlotta that they do need her(“Prima Donna”) and that they will not listen to the notes signed “O.G.”telling them that Christine should replace Carlotta permanently. They perform “Il Muto” with Carlotta as the star against the wishes of the phantom, so he makes her lose her voice by putting something in her throat spray and then hanging the stage crew man, Joseph Bouqet. Christine is supposed to take her place but she is afraid and escapes with Raoul to the rooftop(“All I Ask Of You”). At the Masquerade ball(“Masquerade”), after three months of no apperances, then phantom returns and gives then his new opera, “Don Juan” and gives them specific instructions on performing it. Christine goes to the graveyard to consult her dead father, Gustave Daae(“Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again”). Not knowing that the phantom was pretending to be the carriage driver. Raoul sees the carriage leave and rides there to stop Christine from getting taken. The Phantom and the vicomte have a sword fight and in the end the phantom drops his sword and Raoul kicks it away and almost kills him but Christine says “No! Not this way.” Raoul decides that the best way to capture the phantom once and for all is to perform his work and use Christine as bait knowing that if she sings he will definitely be there. As the play is performed the Phantom kills Piangi to take his part and be the love of Christine’s character(‘Point of No Return”). While on stage, Christine unmasks the Phantom, revealing him to be an ugly, disfigured man who wore a black toupee to hide his gray hair, in front of the audience so he kidnaps her and releases the immense chandelier onto the audience. Raoul has Madame Giry lead him to the Phantom’s lair where he enters and is put into a noose by the phantom. Christine’s choice is to have Raoul hung and go away free, or free Raoul and live with the Phantom forever. She kisses the Phantom and he lets her go with Raoul. Then escapes through his tunnels away from the people tracking him down for murder. The end scene shows the old vicomte putting the monkey music box on Christine’s, his wife’s, grave. Next to it he notices a single red rose with a black ribbon and the engagement ring the Phantom offered Christine on it.
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The Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of the 1965 film of the same name starring James Stewart. Captain Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid) pilots a C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers who are returning home after shutting down an oil field in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The plane is overloaded on take off, and soon they hit a violent sandstorm that causes them to crash. They are now stranded over 200 miles off-course and in the harsh desert terrain. Frank must maintain order and ration the little food and water among the survivors and wait for someone to rescue them. As time goes by, they realize their chance of being rescued is zero. An odd man named Elliott (Giovanni Ribisi) who caught a ride with them suggested that they build a new plane out of parts from the undamaged cargo plane. He just happens to be a plane design engineer. They think he is crazy, but what else can they do. Under Elliott’s command, the survivors begin to construct the plane, which they name the Phoenix.
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When a Mexican mother and her daughter come to the United States, the mother, Flor Moreno, gets a job as a maid at the home of a successful chef John Clasky, his insecure wife Deborah, their two children, and Deborah’s mother. Despite Flor’s lack of an English language vocabulary, she tries the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has no choice but to bring her daughter, Christina along. Deborah, much to Flor’s disliking, treats Flor’s daughter much like her own and at the same time she hurts the feelings of her own daughter, Bernice, as well as Flor. When John’s dreams begin to unravel, he begins to feel like his whole world is coming down around him, but with the love of his children and with the help of Flor, he finds himself trying to get through it all. Flor’s daughter Christina, through which this story is told in a college letter to Princeton University, serves as a translator for the beginning of the film, but after Flor breaks the communication bridge by learning to speak English, Christina must learn that things come and go in life, but family is the most important thing a person can have.
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The Aviator has no opening credits other than the title. The film begins in 1914 with nine-year-old Hughes being bathed by his mother, who warns him of disease: “You are not safe.”
The film next shows him in 1927, as a 22-year old preparing to direct Hell’s Angels. Hiring Noah Dietrich (John C. Reilly) to run Hughes Tool Co, while he oversees the flight sequences for the film, Hughes becomes obsessed with shooting the film realistically, even re-shooting the dogfight himself. By 1929, with the film finally complete, when The Jazz Singer is released, Hughes re-shoots the film for sound, costing another year and $1.7 million. Nevertheless, Hell’s Angels is a huge hit, and Hughes makes Scarface and The Outlaw. However, there is one goal he relentlessly pursues: aviation. During this time, he also pursues Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett). The two go to nightclubs, play golf and fly together, and as they grow closer, move in together as well. During this time Hepburn becomes a major support and confidant to Hughes, and helps alleviate the symptoms of his obsessive-compulsive disorder. As Hughes’ fame grows, he is seen with more starlets.
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Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He’s volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he’s living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then “Splish Splash” puts him at the top of the charts and on “Bandstand.” He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it’s on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it’s balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn’t always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.
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While making a documentary, the famous oceanographer Steve Zissou loses his dear friend, eaten by a jaguar shark. He raises funds for an expedition in his ship Belafonte to hunt the shark and make a new film. The journalist Jane Winslett-Richardson and a pilot that claims to be his unknown son, Ned Plimpton, join his crew in their journey, planned by his wife Eleanor Zissou. While making the movie, they are attacked by pirates and left without any money to finish their work.
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