Crime Partners 2001  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Crime Partners 2000
Director: J. Jesses Smith
Cast: Ice-T, Snoop Dogg, Ja Rule, Tyrin Turner, John "B.J." Bryant, Steve Porcelli, Chino XL, Laz Alonso, Dorian Missick, Clifton Powell
Two young men at the lowest level of a crime ring get their chance to climb the ladder of success when a competing crime boss hires them to perform an assassination. Weak ghetto crime thriller.
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 Lucky Number Slevin 2006  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Paul McGuigan
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Stanley Tucci, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu, Michael Rubenfeld, Peter Outerbridge, Kevin Chamberlin, Mykelti Williamson, Dorian Missick, Sam Jaeger
Crime bosses The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman) are at war when a case of mistaken identity in the kidnapping of Slevin (Josh Hartnett), who captors believe is his friend Nick (Sam Jaeger), throws Slevin into the middle of the battle. Complications include assassin Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) and Nick's neighbor, coroner Lindsey (Lucy Liu), along with that relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) who is determined to uncover what is really happening.
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 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Kimberly Elise, Vera Farmiga, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Sakina Jaffrey, Ted Levine, Miguel Ferrer, Bruno Ganz, Simon McBurney, Pablo Schreiber, Dorian Missick, Anthony Mackie
In this updated version of "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), Gulf War veteran Captain Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) is still in the Army, but his squad sergeant, Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber), left the Army a hero and is now running for Vice President. Marco is having nightmares over what happened to their platoon while under the leadership of Shaw and tries to contact him. But, a big player in Shaw's campaign is his mother, Eleanor (Meryl Streep), who is determined to keep Marco away from her son. She wants him to be Vice President–no matter what!
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 Two Weeks Notice 2002  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Marc(2) Lawrence
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein, Dorian Missick, Heather Burns, David Haig, Veanne Cox, Jason Antoon, Joseph Badalucco Jr., Jonathan Dokuchitz, Katheryn Winnick, Janine LaManna, Charlotte Maier
Successful, Harvard-educated lawyer Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) and her self-absorbed, millionaire, real estate developer boss George Wade (Hugh Grant) have many differences and don't like each other. Could their opposite personalities possibly lead to attraction? What do you think?
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| 1. Crime Partners (2001)
aka: Crime Partners 2000
2. Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
3. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
4. Two Weeks Notice (2002)
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