Mr Deeds (Dir. Steven Brill 2002): Small town guy Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) inherits a billion fortune from his deceased uncle. He promptly moves to the big city where he meets Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) a tabloid reporter who poses as a small town girl to uncover an expos'' on Mr Deeds. Conniving opportunists attempt to get their hands on his money while Deeds' sincere naivet'' has Babe falling in love with him. Ultimately Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things but it doesn't necessarily need to change him... Big Daddy (Dir. Dennis Dugan 1999): Thirty-two-year old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed...and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny! Anger Management (Dir. Peter Segal 2003): Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is usually a mild-mannered non-confrontational guy. But after an altercation aboard an airplane he is remanded to the care of anger management therapist Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who could probably use some anger management himself. Now Dave is really mad!
The foundation stone of the Troma label's trash-movie empire, The Toxic Avenger introduces the character of nerdy janitor Melvin, who suffers heaps of abuse from local bad-guys and is stuffed into a vat of toxic waste while dressed in a ballerina outfit. He emerges mutated into a Swamp Thing/Hulk-style monster hero who romps around the blighted township of Tromaville, New Jersey, offing the grotesque villains in nastily gruesome ways and mooning over his blind true love. The Troma style is unique, and perhaps predates the anything-gross-for-a-laugh approach of the Farrelly Brothers by a good 10 years, but it sometimes wavers between the good-natured gags and genuinely unpleasant plot images that somewhat spoil the tone. Entry-level filmmaking, but with surprisingly professional head-squashing effects and a degree of enthusiasm that breaks down most resistance. Several sequels have ensued, including The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie. -- Kim Newman
Deuce is tricked again into man-whoring in Amsterdam while other man-whores are being murdered in his midst.
You Me And Dupree: For newlyweds Carl (Matt Dillon) and Molly Peterson (Kate Hudson) life can't get any sweeter as they begin anew to settle down into married life. With a nice house and established careers in tow nothing seems to get in their way. However Carl is about find out just how much friendship means when Randy Dupree (Owen Wilson) his best friend has been displaced from his home and fired from his job because of attending their wedding. Taking his friend in what Carl and Molly are about to experience is that the fine line between a few days and whatever else after can be a lot more than they bargained for! Duece Bigalow: European Gigalow: Deuce Bigalow is seduced back into this unlikely pay-per-pleasure profession when his former 'pimp' T.J. Hicks (Eddie Griffin) is implicated in the murders of Europe's greatest gigolos. In order to clear his good friend's name Deuce will have to cross the pond and put himself at the mercy of Europe's wildest women! The Sweetest Thing: Christina's love life is stuck in neutral. After years of avoiding the hazards of a meaningful relationship she meets Peter her perfect match. Fed up with playing games she finally gets the courage to let her guard down and follow her heart only to discover that he has suddenly left town. So she sets out to capture the one that got away.
50 First Dates (Dir. Peter Segal 2004): Henry Roth (Sandler) the local marina veterinarian only dates tourists because he's afraid of commitment - that is until he meets Lucy (Barrymore). Unfortunately Lucy lost her short-term memory months ago in a car accident and for her each day is October the 13th. She follows the same routine every day - breakfast at the same restaurant pineapple-picking with her dad and eventually bed time where sleep wipes away her short-term memory. Henry however refuses to be forgotten and as his puppy love matures he embarks on a quest to restore her memory or at least be a part of her everyday routine. But vying for Lucy's attention isn't always easy. Henry explores various approaches before making a video for Lucy to watch every morning reminding her of who she is and what she's doing... Charlie's Angels (Dir. Joseph McGinty Nichol 2000): Cameron Diaz Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu are Charlie''s Angels - a trio of elite private investigators who with the latest in high-tech gadgets martial arts techniques and a vast array of disguises unleash their state of the art skills on land sea and air. Their goal to track down a kidnapped billionaire-to-be and keep his top-secret voice identification software out of his lethal hands. Aided by their faithful lieutenant Bosley (Bill Murray) and under the sure hand of their suave playboy boss notorious for his clever ways of avoiding face-to-face meetings the girls must foil an elaborate murder-revenge plot that could destroy individual privacy and corporate security worldwide. Adventure has never been more beautiful! Riding In Cars With Boys (Dir. Penny Marshall 2001): A fresh funny touching and unbelievably true story of writer Beverly Donofrio (Drew Barrymore who ages from 15 to 35 in the role) and her often irreverent always unique personal journey. From celebrated director Penny Marshall comes the true story of a girl who did everything wrong but got everything right. Make way for Beverly (Drew Barrymore) a smart beautiful young woman who can't wait to grow up much to the frustration of her police sergeant father (James Woods). Her life takes its first detour when she gets pregnant at age sixteen. The baby's father her husband (Steve Zahn) turns out to need more mothering than her newborn son. But through all the trouble Beverly makes a life that's more than she ever imagined and lives a story that's waiting to be told. Join the ride and watch Beverly kick life where it counts.
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Titles Comprise: The Reef: When Pi an ordinary fish from Boston arrives at the exotic reef to live with his Aunt Pearl he is immediately attracted to Cordelia the fish of his dreams. There's just one big problem in the form of Troy the meanest shark in the ocean who not only patrols the reef keeping its community in fear of becoming his next meal but also has his eye on Cordelia and wants her for himself. Pi must join up with his new group of friends if he stands any chance of outwitting Troy and his henchmen save the reef and win Cordelia! TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tech-industrialist Max Winters is amassing an army of ancient monsters to take over the world. Only one super-ninja fighting team can stop them - those heroes in a half shell; Leonardo Michelangelo Donatello and Raphael! With the help of their rat sensei Master Splinter and old allies April O'Neil and Casey Jones the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are in for the fight of their lives in this all new CG-animated action adventure movie. The Ant Bully: Misfit Lucas (Zach Taylor Eisen) doesn't have any friends and suffers daily at the hands of the neighborhood bully. Lucas's mother (Cheri Oterie) might call her 10-year-old Peanut but to the ants inhabiting the colony in his front yard Lucas is the Destroyer. Lonely and frustrated by his small stature Lucas repeatedly takes his aggressions out on the colony leaving the ants running for their lives. Tired of the unprovoked attacks Zok (Nicolas Cage) an ant wizard devises a potion that will shrink the Destroyer down to their size so that he can stand trial for his actions. Soon Lucas is ant-sized and sentenced to live among the ants where he has to learn their ways in order to earn his freedom. Zok's ever cheerful girlfriend Hova (Julia Roberts) becomes Lucas's mentor teaching him the ways of the ant world and helping him gain a whole new perspective. He begins to understand the meaning of teamwork and how working with others can help an individual accomplish great things. He also learns that danger lurks everywhere for an ant: killer wasps hungry frogs even sunlight reflected off a mirror can mean certain death. Even worse before being shrunk Lucas was tricked into signing a contract with a slimy exterminator Stan Beals (Paul Giamatti) who will soon be returning to destroy the colony unless Lucas can find a way to stop him. An amusing smart script and likeable characters are hallmarks of this pleasant romp through a secret underground world.
Hard Target (1993): The thrill of the hunt. It's the ultimate drug and the more intense the rush the higher the price. International superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme teams up with world-famous action director John Woo for this electrifying thriller that WGN Radio hails as 'Easily one of the year's best films!' Van Damme is the target of an evil mercenary (Lance Henriksen) who recruits homeless combat veterans for the 'amusement' of his clients - bored tycoons who will pay a half a million dollars to stalk and kill the most challenging prey of them all: Man. Laced with dark humour and slam-packed with electrifying action Hard Target is a must see for action fans. Nowhere To Run (1993): Action superstar Jean Claude Van Damme has nowhere to run and nothing to lose! An escaped prisoner hiding from the authorities Sam Gillen (Van Damme) always manages to be in the wrong place at the right time. Risking his hard-fought freedom he aids a beautiful young widow Clydie (Rosanna Arquette) and her children against a ruthless developer who's trying to drive them off their land. Hunted by both the police and the developer's hired killers Sam pulls no punches in his furious fight for survival - he'll do anything to protect the family who are protecting him. The result is more hard-hitting high kicking Van Damme action than you've ever seen! Knock Off (1998): Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in an explosive thriller set in Hong Kong's shady manufacturing scene during the 1997 handover to China. When a shipment of jeans to the US proves counterfeit Marcus Ray the ""King of the Knock-Offs"" (Van Damme) finds himself at the centre of a Russian Mafia plot to hold the United States' security for ransom. Thousands of tiny micro-bombs disguised within other manufactured goods are schedules for departure from Hong Kong to America. When Ray's company's jeans are found to be the housing for the explosives he's the one man the CIA can count on to prevent certain disaster! In a territory where loyalty can change hands overnight Marcus Ray's survival will depend on him knowing the fakes from the real thing!
The Longest Yard: It was hard to put a team together... until they found out who they were playing. Director Peter Segal and comedian Adam Sandler join forces once more for a fun remake of the 1974 classic The Longest Yard. In the role of Paul ""Wrecking"" Crewe first immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough) Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving. Fed up he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife's (an uncredited Courtney Cox Arquette) luxury car and drives it into a multi-car pileup. This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary. His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship. Crewe timorously agrees suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season. To the ragtag inmates this is the chance they've been waiting for and they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards. (Dir. Peter Segal 2005) The Benchwarmers: Get off the bench and get into the game. Gus and his geeky buddies Richie and Clark are scouted by a millionaire geek Mel who wants to form a baseball team and compete with the meanest Little League teams in the state. A stellar ballplayer Gus becomes a role model for geeks and outcasts everywhere. But when his fans learn that Gus himself was once a school bully they feel outraged and betrayed until Gus takes extraordinary steps to win back their admiration and trust... (Dir. Dennis Dugan 2006)
The Vienna version of Alceste was Gluck's second reform opera after Orfeo ed Euridice. The libretto and music revolve around a self-sacrificing main character, and it is quite probable that the courageous bearing of Empress Maria Theresia while mourning her husband provided Gluck with the impetus for this material.Alceste is reminiscent of Beethoven's subsequent Fidelio as a pure anthem to conjugal love. As Orfeo before it, Alceste did not achieve major success at the first performance of the Vienna version on 20 December 1767, but instead became widely-known when performed as a tragedie opera nine years later in Paris, after the addition of ballet music in French, the version we see performed here.This production from 2006 was acclaimed as the Opera Production of the Year, by German magazine Opernwelt. The title role is played by Catherine Naglestad, voted Female Opera Singer of the Year 2006.
A double bill of bad taste comedies starring Rob Schneider including Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and The Hot Chick. Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo (Dir. Mike Mitchell 1999): The hit-making producers of Big Daddy now deliver Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo - a hilarious must-see smash starring the always outrageous Rob Schneider in one of his funniest role yet! A professional fish tank cleaner Deuce (Schneider) finds himself in desperate need of cash to quickly repair the damage hes done to a clients luxurious Malibu apartment! Then the fun really takes off when Deuce decides the only way out of this jam is to switch to the worlds oldest profession - and offer his services to ladies everywhere as a lover for hire! A wild and raunchy comedy that always aims to please - you wont be able to resist this sidesplitting laugh riot! The Hot Chick (Dir. Tom Brady 2002): Jessica a stuck-up high school prom queen wakes up one morning trapped in the body of an unattractive 30-year-old man (Rob Schneider). Thanks to a curse attached to some ancient earrings Jessica has changed bodies and now must convince hot chick pals April (Anna Faris) and Keecia (Maritza Murphy) of her true identity before their long giggly underwear-filled sleepovers can continue. Meanwhile Clive the displaced male wakes up in Jessica's body (Rachel McAdams) and quickly parlays his hot new form into a lucrative career as a prostitute/stripper. While working to restore her original svelte form in time for the big cheerleader competition Jessica helps save her parents' fading marriage and develops a sense of compassion for the social outsiders she'd previously scorned...
The Waterboy: (Dir. Frank Coraci) (1998): Just an oddball mama's boy who grew up on a farm Bobby Boucher (Sandler) never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt! But when Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) makes the call that allows Bobby to finally stand up for himself it unleashes a torrent of bottled-up frustration and exposes a talent for defense that transforms him from a meek ""water distribution engineer"" to the hardest hitter ever to roam the athletic playing field!Hollywood's wild and zany funnyman Adam Sandler scores big laughs in a smash comedy hit where the laughs never run dry! Just an oddball mama's boy who grew up on a farm Bobby Boucher (Sandler) never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt! But when Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) makes the call that allows Bobby to finally stand up for himself it unleashes a torrent of bottled-up frustration and exposes a talent for defense that transforms him from a meek ""water distribution engineer"" to the hardest hitter ever to roam the athletic playing field! Holy Man: (Dir. Stephen Herek) (1998): A stressed out senior executive at the Good Buy home shopping channel Ricky Hayman (Goldblum) is praying for a miracle that will lift the network's lousy ratings and save his job. Then from out of nowhere ""G"" (Murphy) walks into his life! An outrageous self-styled inspiration guru with a knack for showing up where he isn't exactly wanted ""G"" proceeds to wander in front of the cameras just long enough to exude the irresistible star quality that will make him the sales-boosting saviour Ricky's network has been looking for!
Knock Off (1998): When a shipment of jeans to the US proves counterfeit Marcus Ray the King of the Knock-Offs (Van Damme) finds himself at the centre of a Russian Mafia plot to hold the United States' security for ransom. Thousands of tiny micro-bombs disguised within other manufactured goods are schedules for departure from Hong Kong to America. When Ray's company's jeans are found to be the housing for the explosives he's the one man the CIA can count on to prevent certain disaster! In a territory where loyalty can change hands overnight Marcus Ray's survival will depend on him knowing the fakes from the real thing! Double Team (1997): Though he's the nation's top counter-terrorist Jack Quinn (Jean-Claude Van Damme) wants to get out of the spy game. But on his final mission he misses his target and wakes up in a place they call the Colony a think tank for spies who are too dangerous to roam the world but too valuable to be killed. With his target the dangerous enigmatic terrorist Stavros (Mickey Rourke) still on the loose and out to get his family. Quinn's only hope is the flamboyant but deadly gun dealer Yaz (Dennis Rodman). Desert Heat (1999): Desperate to flee the inner demons raging inside him mysterious loner Eddie Lomax (Van-Damme) rides to the last outpost of an abandoned desert highway prepared to end it all. But when a savage gang steals his prized cycle and leaves him for dead Eddie's life is saved by a soulmate from his past. Burning with a new reason to live Eddie sets off on a one-man search-and-destroy mission against his attackers. Fuelled by Van Damme's powerful performance Desert Heat is an explosive and sensational adventures from first to last. Nowhere To Run (1993): Action superstar Jean Claude Van Damme has nowhere to run and nothing to lose. An escaped prisoner hiding from the authorities Sam Gillen (Van Damme) always manages to be in the wrong place at the right time. Risking his hard-fought freedom he aids a beautiful young widow Clydie (Rosanna Arquette) and her children against a ruthless developer who's trying to drive them off their land. Hunted by both the police and the developer's hired killers Sam pulls no punches in his furious fight for survival - he'll do anything to protect the family who are protecting him. The result is more hard-hitting high kicking Van Damme action than you've ever seen!.
Teen comedy starring Rob Schneider and Jenna Dewan. After involuntarily over-indulging and becoming drunk for the first time in her life, a freshman college girl (Dewan) discovers her sinful shenanigans have been caught on camera by a shoddy video producer (Schneider). With her scholarship for college coming from an abstinence group which believes in no sex before marriage, it is a race against time and across country as she and her friends attempt to retrieve the potentially damaging footage.
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