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1. (1997) Gibson plays a paranoid taxi driver who publishes his own newspaper with a small, disturbed readership. He's very much in love with a federal government employee, played by Julia Roberts, and feels an overwhelming need to keep her safe. It turns out that some his delusions are real, and that there are some very bad men out there who have messed with his head, and now want him dead.
2. (2001) Julia Roberts plays Tess, part of the prize that Danny hopes to win back when he and ten of his friends, including Brad Pitt, decide to rob three Las Vegas Casinos, all owned by the same man, and all on the same night.
3. (2004) Brad Pitt helps brings Greek history and mythology to life, as he follows the King of Sparta into battle. King Menelaus seeks to recover his wife Helen, who has been stolen by a prince of Troy, played by Orlando Bloom.
4. (2001) Orlando Bloom and Sean Bean play two out of a group of nine companions who set out to transport a very powerful object to Mount Doom where it can be destroyed, thereby saving Middle Earth from the designs of an evil wizard.
5. (2001) Sean Bean plays a nasty crook who has kidnapped the daughter of a psychiatrist, played by Michael Douglas. In order to secure his daughter's release, Douglas must get through to a catatonic girl, who holds the secret of where a very precious jewel is hidden.
6. (1985) When his girlfriend, who is a romance writer, is lured away by the promise of an opportunity to do some serious writing for an enigmatic dictator, Jack Colton, played by Michael Douglas, decides that he wants her back. Together they become involved in rescuing a kidnapped religious leader, and stopping a tyrant on his rise to power. Danny DeVito also stars.
7. (1987) Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal play characters who arrange to commit each other's murder, in this parody of an old film by Alfred Hitchcock. One wants to dispose of his overbearing mother, while the other seeks revenge on his ex-wife.
8. (2001) Billy Crystal plays a publicist who must bring Gwen Harrison, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Eddie Thomas back together for a press junket to promote a movie that the director is holding hostage.
9. (1999) Catherine Zeta-Jones is one of a group of people invited to participate in what they believe to be a sleep study, by Dr. David Marrow, played by Liam Neeson. What they don't realize is that the doctor is really conducting a test on fear, and the old mansion where they have to spend the night is haunted. Who knows how many of them will actually survive the night.
10. (1984) Mutiny at sea has often made for good cinema, especially when the man who inspires the rebellion is as cruel as Captain Bligh. Liam Neeson plays a Seaman under Fletcher Christian's (played by Mel Gibson) command, in this remake of one of the most widely know mutinies.
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