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1. David Wenham is Carl (who's a friar, not a monk). He is travelling with Gabriel, (Hugh Jackman), a legendary vampire hunter, who enlists Carl to join him on his journey across Eastern Europe to do battle with Count Dracula.
2. Hugh Jackman, as Wolverine, teams up with Anna Paquin (Rogue) in this tale of a futuristic world where mutants with special powers have become undesirable to normal people. Magneto is the head of the terrorist mutants, whose plan is to cause mutation in all humans, making them all equal. Wolverine's mentor, Professor X, believes in a peaceful solution, putting him at odds with his old friend Magneto.
3. Anna Paquin plays Flora, who arrives in New Zealand along with her mother Ada for an arranged marriage to Alisdair Stewart, played by Sam Neill. Alisdair earns Ada's ire when he sells her most prized possession, which causes an undesired result.
4. After the loss of their child, John and Rae (Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman) are on their sailboat for a lengthy trip at sea. They encounter Hughie, who miraculously is the only survivor of a sinking ship. When John boards the other boat to investigate Hughie's story, he realizes, too late, that Hughie is a psychotic killer. Now Hughie has taken control of John's boat and kidnapped Rae. Against great odds, Rae must use her wits against Hughie and rescue John before the boat he is on sinks.
5. Nicole Kidman plays Virginia Woolf, who is battling depression as she tries to write a novel, "Mrs. Dalloway". Depression is a common theme in three separate, yet linked tales. Toni Collette plays Kitty, the friend of a woman who is preparing for a dinner party being given for her dying friend, the same plot which is in "Mrs. Dalloway".
6. Toni Collette is a young woman from a small town in Australia who feels she can only be someone if she were married. After years of being put down by her father and her friends, she meets up with a friend from school, Rhonda, played by Rachel Griffiths. She and Rhonda move to Sydney where she blossoms, but it's not until after jumping into a marriage of convenience does she realize that she already was someone.
7. Rachel Griffiths and Geoffrey Rush were in this movie about a famous outlaw in Australia. Heath Ledger stars in the title role of a young man forced to go on the run with his brother and two friends. They proceed to rob banks to survive, and to obtain funds to free his falsely-imprisoned family.
8. Geoffrey Rush is Nigel, a seagull, and Bill Hunter is the dentist, in this cute fish tale. A young fish from the sea is captured by a dentist and placed in an aquarium to await his destiny with a known fish killer. Meanwhile, his frantic dad must overcome his fear of the ocean to find his son, with the help of a fish who suffers from short-term memory loss (but is a natural blue).
9. Vicki arrives at her older sister Beth's house in Australia, after an affair in Italy ends. Vicki's arrival seems to liven up Beth's family which includes her husband J.P., and her teenage daughter, Annie (Miranda Otto). Vicki's laid-back attitude and vibrance highlights Beth's uptight and responsible attitude. While Beth is away on a trip with her father (Bill Hunter), with whom she has a distant relationship, her husband J.P. finds himself attracted to Vicki.
10. Miranda Otto and David Wenham, as Eowyn and Faramir, both battle on the side of good, as a young hobbit attempts to save the races of men, elves, dwarves and hobbits from a force that would destroy them all.
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