PLOT
SUMMARY "The Most Eye-Popping and
imaginative Movie of the Year." - Gannet. Breaking box office records as the
biggest Easter opening ever, this special effects-driven tale follows Keanu
Reeves ("Speed,""Devil's Advocate") and Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominee
Laurence Fishburne ("What's Love Got to Do with it?") on an explosive
futuristic sci-fi adventure about a man who comes to believe that his everyday
world is the product of a complex computer-driven digital matrix that feeds on
humans. In his dangerous quest to find out the truth, he must figure out who is
real and who he can trust. From the producer of the top boxoffice franchise,
"Lethal Weapon." "...one of the most visually dazzling and surrealistically
plotted sci-fi films ever made." - Mr. Showbiz
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THE USUAL
SUSPECTS
PLOT
SUMMARY
"A gruesome scene is left at a pier in San Pedro,
south of Los Angeles. Twenty-seven dead bodies. A burned-out ship smoldering in
the harbor. An FBI agent assesses the carnage and learns of two survivors: one
in the hospital, the other a cripple from New York being held in the DA's
office. He heads to the hospital in search of answers." -
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THE GREAT ESCAPE
PLOT
SUMMARY
"In 1943,
the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp,
designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, the Nazis
unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history. The first
half focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly
digging an escape tunner. The second half follows the German Gestapo's massive
effort to track down the escaped prisoners; now scattered throughout the Third
Reich, as they attempt to make their way to England and various neutral
countries. Based on a true story." - iTunes
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TOY
STORY
PLOT SUMMARY
"Set in
a world where toys have a life of their own when people are not present, Toy
Story takes moviegoers on a fantastic fun-filled journey, viewed mostly through
the eyes of two rival toys - Woody (Tom Hanks), a pull-string talking cowboy,
and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), a superhero space action-figure. The
comically-mismatched due eventually learn to put aside their differences when
circumstances separate them from their owner, Andy, and they find themselves on
a hilarious adventure-filled mission where the only way they can survive is to
form an uneasy alliance. Toy Story was the first full-length motion picture to
be created entirely through the use of computer animation." -
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CHINATOWN
PLOT SUMMARY
'"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me,
you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth
cop-turned-private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around
Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to ben the omnious lesson of
Chinatown, Roman Polanski's critically lauded 1974 revision of 1940's film noir
detective movies. In 1930s Los Angeles, "matrimonial work" specialist Gittes is
hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Fay Dunaway) to tail her husband, Water Department
engineer Hollis Mulwray (Darrel Zwerling). Gittes photographs him in the
company of a young blonde and figures the case is closed, only to discover that
the real Mrs. Mulwray had nothing to do with hiring Gittes in the first place.
When Hollis turns up dead, Gittes decides to investigate further, encountering
a shady old-age home, corrupt bureaucrats, angry orange farmers, and a
nostril-slicing thug (Polanski) along the way. By the time he confronts Cross,
Evelyn's father and Mulwray's former business partner Jake thinks he knows
everything, but an even more sordid truth awaits him. When circumstances force
Jake to return to his old beat in Chinatown, he realizes just how impotent he
is against the wealthy, depraved Cross. "Forget it, Jake," his old partner
tells him. "It's Chinatown." Reworking the somber underpinnings of detective
noir along more pessimistic lines, Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne
convey a '70s-inflected critique of capitalist and bureaucratic malevolence in
a carefully detailed period piece harkening back to the genre's roots in the
1930's and '40s. Gittes always has a smart comeback like Humphrey Bogart's Sam
Spade and Philip Marlowe, but the corruption Gittes finds is too deep for one
man to stop. Other noir revisions, such as Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye
(1973) and Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975), also centered on the detective's
inefficacy in an uncertain '70's world, but Chinatown's period sheen renders
this dilemma at once contemporary and timeless, pointing to larger implications
about the effects of corporate rapaciousness on individuals. Polanski and Towne
clashed over Chinatown's ending; Polanski won the fight, but Towne won the
Oscar for Best Screenplay. Chinatown was nominated for ten other Oscars,
including Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Cinematography, Art Direction,
Costumes, and Score.' - iTunes
