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Two Muslim women, married to the same man, foster a friendship that lasts more than 10 years against the backdrop of war in Afghanistan.
The Egyptian queen Cleopatra, a firm ruler and military tactician, embarks on a ruthless rise to power. She twice marries brothers, killing each of them as well as a sister. Romantic alliances with the much-older Roman honchos Julius Caesar and Marc Antony help her solidify power, but her dalliance with Antony undoes both of them.
A couple in a semi-historical Medieval Britain venture forth across a war-ravaged landscape in search of a son they haven't seen in years.
Three generations of a highly dysfunctional Midwestern family meet at the family home for what will be the last Christmas gathering there.
An LAPD cop who becomes a mole investigating a crime against the head of the Mexican mafia. He and his partner soon become involved in web of corruption and retribution involving gang bangers, dirty cops and the mexican mob.
A Thanksgiving dinner in New York's Chinatown encompasses grief and reckoning in a post-9/11 world.
Ignatius J. Reilly is 30 years old and lives at home with his mother in New Orleans. When he's not working on a writing project, he's complaining about virtually everything and insulting everyone, to the point that he alienates all those around him. Eventually, when left with no other options, he has to find a job. This film adaptation of the John Kennedy Toole novel has been rumored for years, but it now looks to be under way at Miramax. The author never lived to see the book's publication; he committed suicide in 1969. The book went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.
The project is described as a farce in the vein of "Office Space" in which the protagonist attempts a seemingly mundane task, but mishaps snowball and turn his life upside down.
Rival factions develop within a union of professional Santa Clauses when they become arch enemies during a Santa Claus civil war.
A dystopian society in a perpetual state of war and a state of paranoia.
In 1990, Nintendo has a virtual monopoly on the video game industry while Sega is just a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But that changes with the arrival of Tom Kalinske, a man who knows nothing about videogames and everything about fighting uphill battles. His unconventional tactics, combined with the blood, sweat and bold ideas of his renegade employees, transforms Sega and eventually leads to a ruthless David-and-Goliath showdown with rival Nintendo.
A terribly indecisive and underachieving 28-year-old ingests an experimental drug then heads off to Ecuador to track down a high school flame.
The film is based on David Schickler's short story, published in the "New Yorker" magazine's 2000 summer fiction issue, about a student at a private high school who falls for her teacher and invites him to dinner at her parents' house, where they ask him to marry their daughter.
After spending time in prison in London, Morten Storm converts to Islam and moves to Yemen in 2001 to study the Quran. There, he meets and works with extremists, but he eventually realizes how dangerous the groups are and is recruited to be a double agent for the CIA, as well as British and Danish intelligence.
A young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined, dangerous city of the near future. The city is littered with discarded experiments from the Company — a bio-tech firm now seemingly derelict. From one of her scavenging missions, Rachel brings home Borne, who is little more than a green lump, but exudes a strange charisma. And yet, little as she understands what or who Borne may be, she cannot give him up, even as Borne begins to grow and change in unexpected ways.
Two teens, left alone in Manhattan for Christmas, develop a connection when she leaves a notebook full of literary clues at the Strand bookstore and he follows the clues and leaves some of his own. There are dares in the book that lead the characters to crowded places like Macys and FAO Schwartz. Along the way, they reveal information about themselves, leading to an inevitable meeting.
The story of an ordinary family coming to grips with extraordinary pain.
Set in the 1960s, working-class couple James & Florida Evans raise three kids while struggling with hard financial times, unemployment and keeping their kids away from temptations that come with living in a Chicago housing project.
Two childhood friends order a bunch of novelty toys, such as X-ray glasses, Sea-Monkeys and transforming robots, from the back pages of their late-'70s comic books. Thirty years later, the toys begin living up to their wild advertising claims, forcing the pair to save their town from the ensuing chaos.
A depressed middle-aged man is a volunteer police officer living in the shadow of his mother, a highly decorated retired officer. When she dies, her continued influence forces him to become a real police officer, which is something he never wanted to be.