Agent Cody Banks 2003  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Family / Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Harald Zwart
Cast: Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Keith David, Cynthia Stevenson, Arnold Vosloo, Daniel Roebuck, Ian McShane, Darrell Hammond, Martin Donovan, Connor Widdows, Marc Shelton, Chris Gauthier, Harry Van Gorkum, Eliza Norbury
After the CIA recruits and trains teenager Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz), he is ready to perform covert operations but must still deal with his problem of becoming tongue-tied around girls. Wouldn't you know it! His first case involves befriending Natalie (Hilary Duff) and then spying on her scientist father Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan).
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 Epic Movie 2007  PG-13, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Cast: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune A. Chambers, Crispin Glover, Tony Cox, Hector Jimenez, Darrell Hammond, Carmen Electra, Fred Willard, David Carradine, Kevin McDonald, George Alvarez
Orphans Edward (Kal Penn), Peter (Adam Campbell), Lucy (Jayma Mays), and Susan (Faune A. Chambers) are invited to tour Willy's (Crispin Glover) candy factory, and, too late, they realize that they are there to be ingredients in the candy. They escape that fate by stumbling into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the fantasy land of Gnarnia where they have been brought to defeat the evil White Bitch (Jennifer Coolidge) and restore Aslo (Fred Willard) to the throne. And the film goes on–continuing to make fun of "epic" movies made over the last few years.
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 The King and I 1999 G, 87 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Musical
Director: Richard Rich
Cast: Miranda Richardson, Christiane Noll, Martin Vidnovic, Ian Richardson, Darrell Hammond, Adam Wylie, Allen D. Hong, David Burnham, Armi Arabe, Tracy Venner Warren, Sean Smith, Ed Trotta
This is the animated version of the 1956 film classic in which Anna (voice of Miranda Richardson and singing voice of Christiane Noll) and her son Louis (voice of Adam Wylie) arrive in Siam where the King (voice of Martin Vidnovic) has hired her to teach his children. As she teaches the children about Western culture, lessons are learned by both the King and Anna.
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 New York Minute 2004  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Dennie Gordon
Cast: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Andy Richter, Riley Smith, Jared Padalecki, Drew Pinsky, Andrea Martin, Darrell Hammond, Alannah Ong, Mary Bond Davis, Bob Saget
Overachiever, 17-year-old Jane (Ashley Olsen) is trying to win the Callahan Fellowship at Oxford. Meanwhile, her twin, Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen), has taken a different road: she skips school regularly and dreams of making it big singing with her band. All plans appear to be in jeopardy when, in the course of one day, the sisters find themselves in the middle of a black market deal, chased by a truant officer (Eugene Levy), accused of stealing a senator's (Andrea Martin) dog, and pursued by music pirates. A good movie for the 12-year-old set.
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| 1. Agent Cody Banks (2003)
2. Epic Movie (2007)
3. The King and I (1999)
4. New York Minute (2004)
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