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1. (2003) Juror #9, and his mysterious female companion manage to manipulate the jury, in a precedent-setting civil trial, to obtain the verdict they seek. But before they do that, they manage to score a cool fifteen million dollars, and ruin the career of a big-city jury consultant, in this movie loosely based on a John Grisham novel.
2. (2003) After a misunderstanding with a flight attendent, Dave Buznik finds himself sentenced to a course of anger management offered by the unorthodox Dr. Buddy Rydell. As Dave's problem escalates, through a series of not so random events, Buddy's treatment becomes both more intense and more bizarre, until Dave finally realizes that he was supressing a lot of rage after all.
3. (1997) Mel Gibson is incredible as a tormented man who sees conspiracies everywhere. He drives a cab to make ends meet, but his real passions are printing up a conspiracy newspaper, and watching over Alice Sutton, played by Julia Roberts, a young woman he feels compelled to protect at all costs. At first everyone believes him to be crazy, but soon it become obvious that someone really does want him dead.
4. (2003) Myles Massey, played by George Clooney, is a slick, rich, jaded, Beverly Hills divorce lawyer. Marilyn Rexroth, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, is the cool, ruthless gold digger who's about to give him his come-uppance.
5. (2002) She's a Harvard Law Grad, brilliant but neurotic. He's her incredibly wealthy boss, who can't even decide which suit to wear without her advice. Tired of being his nanny, she's handed in her notice. But when push comes to shove, she finds that she's just as dependent on him as he is on her.
6. (1975) When their car breaks down, newly engaged Janet and Brad wander into a castle belonging to Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who's just a 'sweet transvestite from transexual Transylvania'.
7. (2000) The Northern Lights can be very beautiful, but in this movie they also produce an atmospheric fluke that enables John Sullivan to connect with his father, a firefighter who had been killed in the line of duty thirty years ago. John is able to give his father advice which results in his not being killed in the fire, but the repercussions of that act are fast in coming. Before they know it, father and son are working together across time to identify a serial killer, before he murders their mother and wife.
8. (2000) Matthew Perry and Rosanna Arquette play a very unhappily married couple who are struggling to make enough money to divorce. When they discover that their new neighbour is a hit man, played by Bruce Willis, they decide to see if they can collect a reward from the mob boss who wants him dead.
9. (1983) She's a welder by day and a dancer by night. She wants to get into a respectable dance school, but lacks the formal training that they're looking for. Of course when her boyfriend/boss finally talks her into auditioning, she blows them away with the extent of her talent. 'What a feeling!'
10. (2003) Beck, played by the Rock, is a kind of recovery expert. This time he's off to the Amazon jungle, to retrieve the kid of a man he owes a debt to. Once he's there, he becomes entangled in the search for the legendary 'Gato del Diablo', a treasure that will help free the people of the region from near slavery.
11. (2001) It's been 10 years since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped, and he's living quite happily in Florence, and refraining from killing too many people. Unfortunately a revenge-seeking, former patient flushes him out, and he returns to America to reconnect with Clarice Starling, whose career isn't going the way she'd hoped it would.
12. (2000) Alice, played by Meg Ryan, is living in South America, where her husband Peter works for a subsidary of a large oil company. When Peter is kidnapped by guerillas, the company hires Terry Thorne, played by Russell Crowe, to get him back.
13. (2002) After a prank turns bad, Landon is sentenced to community service. He finds himself thrown together with the minister's daughter, a girl that he and his friends never associate with at school. Before too long, he realizes that he's in love with her, but of course she has leukemia, so he sets about making her last days as happy as he can.
14. (2000) David Dunn, played by Bruce Willis, and Elijah Price, played by Samuel Jackson, are opposites. One has great physical strength, and has never been injured or sick, the other is so terribly fragile that the slightest bump can result in a broken bone. It takes time, but slowly Price convinces Dunn that he really is a super-hero, just like in the comic books. Unfortunately Price's methods of discovering his powers are sickening.
15. (2001) Russell Crowe delivers a stunning performance as a brilliant, but troubled mathematician who has difficulty distinguishing between reality and his fantasy life. Based on the real life story of John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner, who suffers from schizophrenia.
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