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THE LONGEST YARD
Release Date: May 27, 2005
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Director: Peter Segal
Producers: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Van Toffler, & David
Gale, based on the 1974 comedy
Screenwriter: Sheldon Turner
Cast: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, James Cromwell, Cloris
Leachman, Nelly, Brian Bosworth, Nicholas Turturro, Bill Romanowski,
Michael Irvin, Eric 'Extreme' Goldberg, Steve Austin, Kevin Nash,
David Patrick Kelly, Terry Crews. “The Longest Yard”
is the story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) and former
college champion and coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds), who are
doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates
to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarborough to coach
the inmates to victory in a football game “fixed” to turn
out quite another way.
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MADAGASCAR
Release Date: May 27, 2005
Distributor: DreamWorks Pictures
Directors: Eric Darnell and Conrad Vernon
Screenwriters: Mark Burton, Billy Frolick
Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer,
Sacha Baron "Ali G" Cohen, Cedric "The Entertainer",
Gwen Stefani
Synopsis:
Ben Stiller (“Meet the Parents”), Chris Rock (“Chris
Rock Never Scared”), David Schwimmer (TV’s “Friends”)
and Jada Pinkett Smith (“Collateral”) star as the voices
of four zoo animals who hang up when they hear the call of the wild.
Alex the Lion (Stiller) is the king of the urban jungle, the main
attraction at New York’s Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends
Marty the Zebra (Rock), Melman the Giraffe (Schwimmer) and Gloria
the Hippo (Pinkett Smith) have lived their entire lives in blissful
captivity, with regular meals provided and an admiring public to adore
them. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty allows his curiosity
to get the better of him and, with the help of some prodigious penguins,
makes his escape to explore the world he’s been missing. Alex,
Melman and Gloria go after him, but before they can go wild in the
streets, they are captured, crated and put on a ship to Africa…to
be ultimately set free. When those plotting penguins sabotage the
ship, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria find themselves washed ashore
on the exotic island of Madagascar. Now, these native New Yorkers
have to figure out how to survive in the wild and discover the true
meaning of the phrase “It’s a jungle out there.”
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SAVING FACE
Release Date: May 27, 2005
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Directors: Alice Wu
Cast: Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Michelle
Synopsis: For 28-year old New Yorker Wilhelmina "Wil"
Pang (Michelle Krusiec), life is a juggling act between a promising
career as a surgeon and her responsibilities as a dutiful daughter.
Like the #7 train she takes to visit her Chinese family on a weekly
basis, Wil is perpetually in transit between two worlds. The expectations
of the Flushing, Queens society she is from and the desires that alienate
her from it have made Wil content to live below the surface -- even
if it means playing an inadvertent game of charades with her widowed
mother (Joan Chen) and the old world Ma represents. The masquerade
is comic even in its pain as Wil tolerates Ma's weekly set ups with
eligible Chinese-American boys at the Friday Chinese socials; but
it quickly becomes a farce when Ma's mask cracks first. One night,
Wil comes home to find Ma on her doorstep - pregnant. Disgraced by
the Chinese community, and with nowhere else to go, Ma moves in with
her daughter, making it difficult for Wil to nurture a budding relationship
with gorgeous dancer Vivian (Lynn Chen). As her carefully compartmentalized
worlds collide, Wil is forced to find her mother a husband, placate
her girlfriend, and choose between breaking a cycle of keeping up
appearances, or risk losing the girl she loves. SAVING FACE is a romantic
comedy about a daughter struggling to understand her mother's heart,
which ultimately allows her to understand her own. It is the story
of unspoken loves, contemporary and cultural taboos, and the journey
of two women towards living their lives honestly. |
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THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Director: Ken Kwapis
Screenwriters: Delia Ephron, Elizabeth Chandler
Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively, America Ferrara,
Jenna Boyd, Bradley Whitford, Nancy Travis, Michael Rady
Synopsis:
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants stars Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn,
America Ferrara and Blake Lively as four 16-year-old best friends
who are separated for the first time. On a last shopping trip together,
the girls find a pair of thrift-shop jeans that fits each of them
perfectly and they decide to use these "magic" pants as
a way of keeping in touch over the months ahead, each girl wearing
the jeans for a week to see what luck they bring her before sending
them on to the next. Though miles apart, the four friends still experience
life, love and loss together in a summer they'll never forget.
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CINDERELLA MAN
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Director: Ron Howard
Screenwriters: Cliff Hollingsworth, C. Gaby Mitchell, and Akiva Goldsman
Cast: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig
Bierko, Bruce McGill, Paddy Considine
Synopsis:
Crowe stars in the story inspired by the life of legendary athlete
Jim Braddock, a once-promising light heavyweight boxer forced into
retirement after a string of losses in the ring. As the nation enters
the darkest years of the Great Depression, Braddock accepts a string
of dead-end jobs to support his wife, Mae (Renée Zellweger),
and their children, while never totally abandoning his dream of boxing
again. Thanks to a last minute cancellation, Braddock finds himself
back in the ring against the second-ranked world contender--and to
everyone's amazement, Braddock wins in the third round. Despite being
pounds lighter than his opponents and repeated injuries to his hands,
Braddock continues to fight against challengers and win. Carrying
on his shoulders the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised masses,
Braddock, dubbed the "Cinderella Man," faces his toughest
challenger in Max Baer (Craig Bierko), the heavyweight champion of
the world, renowned for having killed two men in the ring.
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THE LORDS OF DOGTOWN
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Director: Catherine Hardwicke :
Screenwriter: Catherine Hardwicke & Stacy Peralta
Cast: Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael
Angarano, Nikki Reed, Jeremy Renner, Eddie Cahill, Shea Whigham
Synopsis:
In Venice, California in the mid '70's, the sport of surfing brought
together a group of teenagers from a rough neighborhood. Riding the
waves at the Pacific Ocean Park pier, a graveyard of a former amusement
park, the boys from "Dogtown" joined the Zephyr skate team
(or Z-boys). Known for their aggressive style, awe-inspiring moves
and hard street attitude, the Z-Boys spent mornings and afternoons
skateboarding. Taking the death-defying moves of surfing and applying
them to skateboarding, the Z-Boys became overnight sensations - local
legends - and revolutionized the art of skateboarding, transforming
youth culture forever.
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HIGH TENSION
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Distributor: Lions Gate Films
Director: Alexandre Aja
Cast: Philippe Nahon, Cecile de France
Synopsis:
Formerly known as Switchblade Romance, this relentlessly cuts between
two plotlines that are destined to collide. A brutish man barrels
a rusted delivery van through a cornfield as Alex and Marie get ready
for bed in Alex's parents' country house, where the two girls have
escaped for the weekend, far from the bustle of Paris. As the girls
close their eyes, an intruder is about to turn their innocent dreams
into a relentless and bloody nightmare. |
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5 X 2
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Distributor: THINKFilm
Director: Francois Ozon
Screenwriters: Francois Ozon
Cast: Valeria Bruni - Trudeschi, Stephane Freiss, Geraldine Pailhas,
Francoise Fabian, Michael Lonsdale
Synopsis:
5x2 is a haunting and realistic evocation of the evanescence of love,
and how adult relationships evolve over time. Returning to a more
intimate scale following his international smash, SWIMMING POOL, Ozon’s
chamber drama is an anatomy of a failed marriage told in reverse chronology,
starting with the finalization of the couple1s divorce and concluding,
literally, as they walk off into the sunset for their first encounter.
Subverting the conventions of cinema romance along with audience expectations
of happy endings, Ozon focuses on five key chapters in these two people's
lives--including the first blush of sexual attraction, the wedding
night, and the birth of their first child--that reveal the inextricable
emotional ties between them, at the same time they expose the inevitable
seeds of discord.
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THE HONEYMOONERS
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Company: Paramount Pictures
Director: John Schultz
Producers: Julie Durk, David T. Friendly, and Marc Turtletaub
Screenwriters: Don Rhymer, David Sheffield, and Barry W. Blaustein
Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall,
Eric Stoltz and John Leguizamo
Synopsis: "The Honeymooners," a feature-length comedy,
is the story of two best friends - bus driver Ralph Kramden (Cedric
the Entertainer) and sewer worker Ed Norton (Mike Epps) - who hatch
a get-rich-quick scheme to get them out of Brooklyn and onto easy
street. Standing by their husbands are devoted wives Alice (Gabrielle
Union) and Trixie (Regina Hall), who help their guys make ends meet
by waitressing at a neighborhood diner.
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MR. AND MRS. SMITH
Release Date: June 10
Director: Doug Liman
Written by: Simon Kinberg
Producers: Arnon Milchan, Akiva Goldsman, Lucas Foster, Patrick Wachsberger,
Eric McLeod
Cast: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody, and Kerry WashingtonSynopsis:
A sexy action adventure. John and Jane Smith are an ordinary
suburban couple with an ordinary, lifeless suburban marriage. But
each of them has a secret: They are legendary assassins working for
competing organizations. When the truth comes out, John and Jane end
up in each other's cross-hairs.
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