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1. (2002) Teeny Last's (played by Jennifer Aniston) life isn't turning out at all the way she thought it would. Her job in the discount store is boring and her husband is boring too. To alleviate the boredom, she begins an affair with the strange and mysterious Thomas Worther (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), a stock clerk who believes himself to be Holden Caulfield, and sees Teeny as his soul mate.
2. (1999) Not good enough to get a football scholarship like his brother, Homer Hickam (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) is expected to follow his father's example and work in the mines. After the launch of Sputnik, Homer becomes very interested in rocketry, much to the disgust of his father. He and a few friends find encouragement in one of their teachers (played by Laura Dern) and they put together a project that ends up winning the National Science Fair in this fact-based movie.
3. (1993) Laura Dern plays Dr. Ellie Satler, one of the team of experts asked to spend a weekend at a new park to assess its viability and safety. Unfortunately things go horribly wrong, and the 'attractions', extinct animals that have been cloned back into existence, start eating the guests. Jeff Goldblum plays Dr. Ian Malcolm, another member of the team.
4. (1983) Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Kline are among a group of college friends who have reunited for the funeral of one of their number. As they spend the weekend together, they grapple to come to terms with who they were, who they'd become, and how one of their once close group could have taken his own life without any of them having realized how unhappy he was.
5. (1999) The evil Dr. Arliss Loveless has kidnapped the best scientific minds of the 1900's United States, and has diabolical plans to assassinate President U.S. Grant. By doing this he hopes to somehow rekindle the Civil War, and effect a huge land grab. It's up to U.S. Marshal Artemis Gordon and Captain Jim West (played by Kevin Kline and Will Smith) to stop him.
6. (1997) There are aliens living among us. The only reason that we know nothing about them is due to the efforts of people like Agents J and K (played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) and the agency they work for. They keep tabs on the alien population, and make sure that everyone is where they're supposed to be. However they do have a crisis on their hands, when an intergalactic bug arrives with the express purpose of starting a war by stealing the 'galaxy' that had been hidden on 'Orion's Belt'.
7. (1993) Dr. Richard Kimble (played by Harrison Ford) came home after surgery one night, to find his wife badly beaten. He briefly struggled with his wife's attacker, but the one-armed man got away, and Kimble's wife died in his arms. Of course no one believed his story, and Kimble was convicted of his wife's murder. After escaping, he became determined to find the man who killed his wife, while being pursued by the relentless U.S. Marshal, Samuel Gerard (played by Tommy Lee Jones).
8. (1997) Harrison Ford plays a New York cop who opens his home to an immigrant from Ireland, played by Brad Pitt. What he doesn't realize is that his new boarder is an IRA gunman, who is really in the States to purchase guns to take back home. When the gun deal goes bad and violence starts to threaten Ford's family, he must solve the problem while trying to keep his anger at bay.
9. (1995) Brad Pitt plays a young, gung-ho detective who has been paired with an older, more cynical partner (played by Morgan Freeman) who is counting down the days to retirement. Very soon after they begin working together, they are presented with a series of bizarre murders, each one based upon one of the deadly sins.
10. (2003) Television reporter Bruce Nolan gets caught in a run of bad luck and complains to God about never getting any breaks. God, played convincingly by Morgan Freeman, decides to give Bruce a chance at being in control. At first he uses his new powers to benefit himself, but soon he finds himself overwhelmed by all the prayers that are constantly coming in, and he soon learns how difficult it is to look after everyone. His girlfriend, played by Jennifer Aniston, becomes one of the many people that he lets down.
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