Nominate a Movie #1

I nominate "Theres Something About Mary"

Synopsis:

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Ted was a geek in high school, who was going to go to the prom with one of the most popular girls in school, Mary. The prom date never happened, because Ted had a very unusual accident. Thirteen years later he realizes he is still in love with Mary, so he hires a private investigator to track her down. That investigator discovers he too may be in love with Mary, so he gives Ted some false information to keep him away from her. But soon Ted finds himself back into Mary's life, as we watch one funny scene after another.

I nominate Reign Over Me

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Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until a terrible day that he lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City and the grief caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss.

Source of quote:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0490204/plotsummary

Nomination: Lean on Me

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An extraordinary situation calls for an extraordinary solution. At strife-torn Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, that solution had a name: Principal "Crazy Joe" Clark. With a bullhorn in one hand and a baseball bat in the other, he slammed the door on losers at Eastside. Brought in as a last resort to stop the state government from taking control of the school, Clark chained the doors shut to keep troublemakers OUT and strivers IN. Parents fought him. Teachers resented him. Even his own boss doubted him. But lots of kids loved him. Clark turned Eastside around, appearing on Time Magazine and becoming a national symbol of "toughlove" education. "If you don't succeed in life," Clark tells his students, "Don't blame your backgrounds. Don't blame the Establishment. Blame YOURSELVES." His message is simple: Don't lean on excuses, drugs, crime or anger. LEAN ON ME...and learn.

quote from:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097722/plotsummary

Lady In The Water

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The improbably named Cleveland Heep (Giamatti), a widowed doctor, has, since the murder of his family, been working rather mundanely as a building super in a generic Philadelphia apartment block. One evening, he finds a naked young woman (Howard) in the block’s tear-shaped swimming pool. She tells him that her name is Story, and that she is a Narf from The Blue World. Piecing together bits of information from various residents, and from Story herself, Heep works out that the Narfs are an aquatic people; once close to humans, the two kinds became estranged when humans stopped listening to the Narfs’ advice. Nonetheless, the Narfs occasionally send out messengers to interact with and inspire ‘vessels’, human beings of particular importance.

As it turns out, Story needs to spend time with a vessel in Heep’s building, she just doesn’t know his name. And she doesn’t have much time; she only has a few days before the Great Eaglon must come and take her home. And that’s only if she can get past the scrunt, a hyena-like animal made of twigs, with a taste for Narf flesh…

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

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A parody of numerous Robin Hood movies, the film spoofed the Kevin Costner version in particular. Robin returns from the Crusades to discover that his castle is gone, and all that is left is a blind servant

quote from http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/hood/rhstory.htm

Pride & Prejudice

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The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.

Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn
Director: Joe Wright

Plot summary from: IMDB <3

Cause people keep asking whats up with my avi and sig....

Labyrinth (1986)

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Young Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is left home alone by her parents and she has to babysit her little brother Toby. But the baby keeps crying and Sarah, while telling him a story to make him sleep, inadvertently conjures from a fantasy world the Goblin King (David Bowie) who steals the child and brings him to his castle in the middle of a labyrinth. Sarah has to rescue him before midnight, or the baby will became a goblin...

^^lame IMDB review
my fav review here

Recognizable people:
David Bowie as Jareth
Jennifer Connelly as Sarah
Frank Oz (yeah Yoda people) as The Wiseman
Warwick Davis as a Goblin Corps )

I nominate: Donnie Darko

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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

(Plot Summary from: IMDB.com)

Actors/Actresses in Movie:

Jake Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal
James Duval
Drew Barrymore
Patrick Swayze
Jena Malone
Noah Wyle

I nominate this movie because there is a lot of plot points that would be cause for a really good discussion. Also I would like to see what ideas everyone comes up with for the reason why everything happens and why he sees what he sees. Anyone who's seen the movie can tell you that they never give you a definite answer to why everything happens.

Hairspray

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Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she's going to integrate the show

John Travolta ... Edna Turnblad

Michelle Pfeiffer ... Velma Von Tussle

I nominate: Mirrormask

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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister.

plot summary from IMDB

Starring:
Stepahnie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee.

The movie is stunning to look at, appropriate for all ages, and just magical!

Ocean's Thirteen

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When senior Ocean member Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) gets double crossed by the scheming Willie Bank (Al Panico), the Ocean team decide it is time to get even, but this time, with the help of an old enemy.

Together, they decide that the goal here is not to take Bank's money, but make him loose it and his Five Diamond awards. Through a series of scams, they rig every game in the casino, making everything pay out to any player there. Underground, they create an earthquake, causing everyone in the casino to evacuate, removing Bank's chance of winning it back.

Snape Lover wrote:

Hairspray

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Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she's going to integrate the show

John Travolta ... Edna Turnblad

Michelle Pfeiffer ... Velma Von Tussle

can i second this nomination??

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