ABCD 2001  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Krutin Patel
Cast: Madhur Jaffrey, Faran Tahir, Sheetal Sheth, Aasif Mandvi, David Ari, Jennifer Dorr White, Adriane Forlana Erdos, Rex Young, Gil Grail, Bob Bonnet, Alexander Lasky, David Mann, Vince Byrne Sr., Janan Raouf, Nicki Cochrane
Widow Anju (Madhur Jaffrey) wishes for only one thing: her children stick to their cultural roots and marry into respectable Indian families. But, son Raj (Faran Tahir) and daughter Nina (Sheetal Sheth) have assimilated into American culture and have their own ideas about how to live their lives.
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Anywhere But Here 1999 PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Wayne Wang
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Shawn Hatosy, Bonnie Bedelia, Hart Bochner, Eileen Ryan, Corbin Allred, Ray Baker, John Diehl, Faran Tahir, Shawn Hatosy, Shishir Kurup, Samantha Goldstein, Caroline Aaron, Bebe Drake
Adele (Susan Sarandon) decides to take her daughter Ann (Natalie Portman) and flee Wisconsin looking for an exciting life in Beverly Hills, California. Adele leaves her husband Ted (Ray Baker) behind, and the women leave in their Mercedes Benz on their adventure. They arrive in California where, away from the bonds of family, they must rely on each other–no matter how difficult that may be, and Adele constantly tries to convince Ann that they have made the right decision.
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Iron Man 2008  PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir, Clark Gregg, Bill Smitrovich, Sayed Badreya, Tim Guinee, Will Lyman, Kevin Foster, Garrett Noel, Marco Khan
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a billionaire inventor of U.S. weapons who is kidnapped by terrorists in Afghanistan. His captors order him to build a super weapon, Jericho; Tony secretly builds a super-powered armored suit that he wears to escape. Now he is free and discovers that there is a power out there that plans to destabilize the world. Despite objections from his business partner Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) and assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), Tony puts on his armored suit and, as Iron Man, vows to protect the world from his weapons that had fallen into the hands of the U.S. enemies.
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 The Jungle Book 1994 PG, 108 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Romance
aka: Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese, Jason Flemyng, Stefan Kalipha, Faran Tahir, Ron Donachie, Anirudh Agarwal, Sean Naegeli, Liza Walker, Rachel Robertson, Joanna Wolff, Natalie Morse
As a young Indian boy, Mowgli (Jason Scott Lee) was raised by wolves. The movie begins with an older Mowgli falling in love with Kitty (Lena Headey). Together, Mowgli, Kitty, and Kitty's boyfriend Capt. Boone (Cary Elwes) set off to find a lost city. Along the way they encounter Mowgli's animal friends. Good Disney fare.
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| 1. ABCD (2001)
2. Anywhere But Here (1999)
3. Iron Man (2008)
4. The Jungle Book (1994)
aka: Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book
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