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Laura Garrety (Cameron Diaz) wants the wedding other dreams and Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) wants to marry the woman he loves. But before that, his buddies (Christian Slater, Daniel Stern, Jeremy Piven and Leland Orser) decide to throw him an unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas.

Kyle s last night of freedom involves booze, gambling, drugs and even a visit from a young stripper. When the stripper accidentally gets hilled, the boys get led by Boyd into disposing of the '105 pound problem' in the desert instead of calling the police. Thus begins a darkly comic homicidal trail, dropped like lethal breadcrumb by writer-director Peter Berg in this audacious, sure handed motion picture debut.

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When a night at the opera turns to murder, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee) and the illustrious Dr. Watson (Patrick Macnee) once again find themselves embroiled in a spell-binding mystery in Sherlock Holmes and The Leading Lady.

In 1910 Vienna, a horrible explosive device has just been invented...and stolen. The possessor of such a weapon could bring the world to it's knees. The great Sherlock Holmes is summoned by the British Prime Minister to go to Austria to solve the case. But Holmes never suspects the mystery will reunite him with the one love of his life, Irene Adler (Morgan Fairchild). At last Holmes meets his match and succumbs to romance! The beautiful opera singer joins Holmes and Dr. Watson on a harrowing race across Europe to stop an intricate spy network from carrying out their deadly plans. From the foggy London streets to breathtaking Vienna and the alluring opera world. From a grand costumed ball and romantic sleigh rides in the Australian countryside to the dens of decadence in the exotic land of Algiers. Each step of the trail leads the trio closer to the solution...and to a brutal murder. Soon no one can be trusted not even the world renowned Sigmund Freud (John Bennett) and George Bernard Shaw. Even the one lady of Holmes's life becomes a suspect. Ultimately Holmes and Watson enter a desperate race against the clock when they discover the deadly weapon will be put to it's first test on the opening night of the opera, a test that will alter the course of history forever!

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From Manga, creators of high-octane animation, comes their first live-action feature that will leave fans of butt-kicking karate, scintillating swordplay and nitro-injected action encounters of the hyper-realistic kind, gasping for more.

A lethal samurai assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death if their leader. They soon realise the fatal mistake of underestimating the deadly skills of the Crying Freeman.

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When special agent Toby Wong (Mark Dacascos) is fitted with an advanced bio device giving him superhuman powers he fears that he and the new technology will be exploited for ill gain when the Chinese government takes back control of Hong Kong.

Fleeing to San Francisco he plans to sell the device to a company in Los Angeles but when he teams up with down on his luck singer Malik (Kadeem Hardison) he finds himself being pursued by ruthless assassin Madison and his band of mercenaries.

John Cassavetes veteran Seymour Cassel stars as George Manning, a family man whose perfect life is turned into a nightmare of sex and torture when he allows himself to be seduced by two nubile young strangers (Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp) who show up at his door on a rainy night.

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Get ready for a rough-and-tumble comedy that knows how to kick some serious puck! When a ragtag youth team is on the verge of losing it, their only hope lies with the most outrageous players to ever hit the ice - The Hanson Brothers! Featuring comedy legend Leslie Nielsen and hockey greats Mark

Messier and Doug Gilmour, 'Slap Shot 3' adds an all-new, hilarious chapter to the hardest-hitting, most irreverent sports comedy franchise!

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Two dogs, Snitter and Rowf, escape from a research institute and go on the run after being deliberately infected with a deadly virus.

As they pose a threat to the human population, the two dogs are hunted down whilst searching for their original owner and a place where they no longer have to suffer human cruelty.

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Get set for more hard-charging action and laughs than you can shake a stick at - in the uproarious, star-powered sequel to Slap Shot, the original classic hailed as "one of the top ten sports movies ever!".

Sean Linden (Stephen Baldwin) is the long-suffering captain and coach of Charlestown Chiefs. The Chiefs are a team whose glory days are a distant memory. However the team's new millionaire owner (Academy Award Nominee Gary Bussey) has a new game plan: to turn the Chiefs into the bumbling, underdog losers in a bogus made-for-TV hockey league! And to add insult to injury, their new coach... is a woman! Now, it's going to take a stone-cold miracle - and some high-sticking action from Sean and the team - to show the world they've got what it takes to win back their passion for the game!

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Set in the 1930's this intricate comedy caper deals with an ambitious small time crook (Robert Redford) and a veteran con man (Paul Newman) who seeks revenge on the vicious crime lord (Robert Shaw) who murdered one of their gang.

How this group of charlatans puts "the sting" on their enemy makes for the greatest double-crosses in movie history, complete with an amazing surprise finish.

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Out of nowhere, a gaunt man in a dark suit and a red baseball cap appears tn the burning heat of the desert between the US and Mexico. Travis (Harry Dean Stanton).

He drinks the last sip from his water bottle, then he moves on, doggedly, into the inhospitable area that the locals call "The Devil's Playground". Travis might seem to be mute and amnesiac, but he's driven by the desire to reconnect with his family.

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A teenage farm boy looking for excitement finds himself on a collision course with his smooth-talking gang leader father in this powerfully disturbing tale based on the story of real-life killer Bruce Johnston.

Oscar nominee Sean Penn and Oscar winner Christopher Walken star in this "hot, horrifying saga of an American criminal family. Juvenile delinquent Brad Whitewood, Jr. (Penn) knows about petty theft, but he wants big money - enough to blow the lid off his boring life, enough to get out of town and to find his ol' man. He wants to be like his dad, a big-time thief, who knows the business. Seductive and sinister, Brad's father is full of toxic wisdom that makes his illicit life appear eerily sexy. But when Brad witnesses his father deliberately killing someone, he realizes he may not only be in over his head...he may also lose it for good.

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Deborah Kerr (in the performance of her career) plays the emotionally repressed vicar's daughter who takes up a job as a governess to two seemingly angelic orphans.

Gradually coming to believe that the children are possessed by the perverse spirits of their former governess and her sadistic lover, she begins to see manifestations of the ghosts prowling the huge gothic mansion of Bly House. Director Jack Clayton sustains a superbly haunting atmosphere throughout the film, and like James' original work, cleverly retains the ambiguity of wether the ghosts are real or the products of the governess's fevered imagination. Aided by Freddie Francis's exquisitely inventive and atmospheric CinemaScope photography, we, like the governess, are never quite sure what unspoken horrors are lurking beyond the edge of the frame and are kept guessing until the film's tragic conclusion.

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Three chilling words, spoken repeatedly by a sadistic exiled Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier), become a nightmare catchphrase for Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman), a Manhattan graduate student who is innocently swept into a deadly international conspiracy involving a renegade U.S.

government agent and a fortune in stolen diamonds. Director John Schlesinger builds terror and suspense in this thrilling adaptation of William Goldman's best-selling novel. The film's acclaimed cast also includes Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller; Olivier garnered a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination' for his terrifyingly unforgettable role of Christian Szell, a former concentration camp dentist.

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Adapted by Paul Meyersberg from the novel by Laurens Van der Post, the film is a riveting exploration of racism, brutality and the sparks that fly when cultures collide, concentrating on a war of wills between enigmatic and rebellious POW Jack Celliers (David Bowie) and camp commandant Capt Yonoi

(Ryuichi Sakamoto). Intelligently exploring the psychology of its characters, 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' also hints at a sexual attraction between Celliers and Yonoi, and as such is an audacious and original addition to the POW genre.

A troubled young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and religious cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his bloodcraving urges after he falls for a lonely housewife, all the while his hostile cousin becomes convinced that the young man is actually Nosferatu.