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Release Date: January 26, 2001
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No one understands love and romance like Mary Fiore. After all, she's the most prestigious wedding planner in San Francisco. Specializing in making everyone else's dreams of love come true, she's too busy to have a love life of her own. While celebrating her newest and most lucrative account - the wedding of internet tycoon Fran Donolly - Mary is rescued from a near-fatal collision with a runaway dumpster by handsome Dr. Steve Edison. After spending the most enchanting evening of their lives together, Mary thinks she's finally found a reason to believe in love. Think again. Mary's world is thrown upside down when she discovers Steve is actually Fran Donolly's groom-to-be, and Mary is their wedding planner. Career and cupid have collided head on. Just when Mary thinks things can't get any worse, her father, Salvatore, takes it upon himself to fix Mary's limp love life by pre-arranging her marriage to Massimo Lanzetta, who just arrived from Sicily. It's a showdown between love and logic, and the future of Mary's heart is at stake. Will she abandon her cynicism and embrace romance? Will she learn to believe in the one event she has so diligently planned yet so emphatically eschewed? Will Mary be true to her work or true to her heart?
Starring:
Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Justin Chambers, Judy Greer
Directed by:
Adam Schankman
Rating: PG-13 (for language and some sexual humor)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Runtime: 100 min
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Up in the Air
From director Jason Reitman, who has brought us both Juno and Thank You For Not Smoking, an outstanding third outing with a cast that features three actors all Oscar-nominated for their roles here. George Clooney plays a “downsizing expert,” a man who has no real roots as he constantly flys all around the country firing people from their jobs. He meets his match in Vera Famiga, also a downsizing expert. Hot on their heels is the up & coming young Anna Kendrick, who wants to do the same job via video conferencing rather than racking up all of the frequent flier miles. The movie manages to capture perfectly our current economic crisis – a film for our time.
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March 9th, 2010
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Saphire
Two major Academy Awards nominations for the lead actresses here. The film takes an unsparing look at the life of a Harlem teenager, circa 1987, played by newcomer Gabourey Sidibe. She’s illiterate, overweight, and pregnant for the second time by her own father. This is tough stuff. Her monster of a mother is played by Mo'Nique in an electrifying, Oscar-winning performance. Also included in the film is Mariah Carey as a social worker and Lenny Kravitz as a male nurse. An interesting variety in the cast and we see the same eclectic variety in the way the story is told. Director Lee Daniels has made a strong film that is at times dramatic, humorous, and warm – a film of many emotions. Nonetheless, a film that, as Oprah Winfrey has said, people might not “enjoy” but would “appreciate this experience.” An Oscar also went to Geoffrey Fletcher for his adapted screenplay.
Old Dogs
John Travolta and Robin Williams star in this tired comedy about two business partners whose lives are turned upside down when one of them discovers they have two 7-year-old twin kids they didn’t know about. Seth Green co-stars in this unfunny comedy.
Planet 51
Light animated fare that is very much in the classic, 1950s Hollywood movie tradition where an alien ship lands on the home planet. However, in this case, the home planet is inhabited by little green men and a human is the invading alien! Dwayne Johnson, Justin Long, and Jessica Biel are among the voice talents.
Capitalism: A Love Affair
Light animated fare that is very much in the classic, 1950s Hollywood movie tradition where an alien ship lands on the home planet. However, in this case, the home planet is inhabited by little green men and a human is the invading alien! Dwayne Johnson, Justin Long, and Jessica Biel are among the voice talents.
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