Abandon 2002  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Cast: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel, Gabrielle Union, Fred Ward, Melanie Lynskey, Gabriel Mann, Will McCormack, Giancarlo Caltabiano, Mark Feuerstein
Co-ed Catherine Burke (Katie Holmes) appears to have it made; she has impressed the recruiters for a New York banking firm, and her professional future seems secure. The situation changes when Detective Wade (Benjamin Bratt) arrives on the scene to investigate the disappearance of Catherine's ex-boyfriend, Embry (Zooey Deschanel) who Catherine suspects is stalking her.
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American Virgin 2000  R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Live Virgin
Director: Jean-Pierre Marois
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Mena Suvari, Robert Loggia, Gabriel Mann, Sally Kellerman, Lamont Johnson, Bobbie Phillips, Rick Peters, O-Lan Jones, Michael Milhoan
High-school student Katrina (Mena Suvari) rebels against her porno-director father (Robert Loggia) and agrees to be photographed having sex on the pay cable show "Live Virgin." As if that's not bad enough, "Live Virgin" just happens to be produced by her father's rival (Bob Hoskins). No awards here.
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The Bourne Identity 2002  PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Action / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Clive Owen, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Julia Stiles, Gabriel Mann, Walton Goggins, Nicky Naude, Josh Hamilton, Orso Maria Guerrini, Tim Dutton, Denis Braccini, Anthony Green
Suffering from amnesia and riddled with bullets, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea. There is only one clue to his identity: a laser device, implanted under his skin, that identifies a Swiss bank account number. After locating the contents of the account, Bourne finds himself the target of the CIA and pays Marie (Franka Potente) to drive him to Paris on what turns out to be a breathtaking trip. Based on Robert Ludlum's novel.
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The Bourne Supremacy 2004 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann, Joan Allen, Marton Csokas, Tom Gallop, Karel Roden, John Bedford Lloyd, Ethan Sandler, Michelle Monaghan, Karel Roden, Tomas Arana
In this sequel to "The Bourne Identity," Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is living in India where he has been in hiding with Marie (Franka Potente). When he learns that he has been framed for the murders of two CIA agents in Berlin, the chase is on as Bourne traverses Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Russia in search of the truth.
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Buffalo Soldiers 2001  R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Gregor Jordan
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth McGovern, Gabriel Mann, Leon, Michael Pena, Brian Delate, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Kick Gurry
Set in West Germany during 1989, this is the story of a U.S. Army supply clerk, Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix), who solves his own problems with boredom by running a lucrative black market involving products ranging from Mop 'n' Glo to heroin.
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Cherry Falls 2000 R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Geoffrey Wright
Cast: Brittany Murphy, Michael Biehn, Jay Mohr, Gabriel Mann, Jesse Bradford, Douglas Spain, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Natalie Ramsey, Candy Clark, Amanda Anka
This horror/comedy begins with a killer murdering virgins at Cherry Falls High School. As the carnage increases, the remaining virgins arrange a sex party to make themselves ineligible as victims.
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Claudine's Return 1998 R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Kiss of Fire
Director: Antonio Tibaldi
Cast: Christina Applegate, Stefano Dionisi, Matt Clark, Tony Torn, Gabriel Mann, Perry Anzilotti, Torrie Gold, Ric Reitz, Maia Lien, Tom Nowicki
Bi-sexual Claudine (Christina Applegate) works as a laundress at a motel on Dolphin Island off the coast of Georgia; she also has a night job as a stripteaser. Along comes Italian Stefano (Stefano Dionisi) who takes a job as handyman at the motel, and a relationship with Claudine begins. But, he must deal with her major mood swings, as well as the baby that is now due.
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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist 2005  R, 116 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown, Israel Aduramo, Julian Wadham, Andrew French, Antonie Kamerling, Eddie Osei
Many years before Father Lankester Merrin saved Regan in "The Exorcist," he had doubted his faith. This story takes place when Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) takes a sabbatical and works on an archaeological dig where he confronts a demon, which turns out to be the same one who will try to take Regan's soul years later.
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Don't Come Knocking 2005 R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley, Fairuza Balk, Eva Marie Saint, Mike Butters, Julia Sweeney, Marley Shelton, Raymond O'Connor, Kurt Fuller
His days are long passed as a Western movie star when 60-year-old Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) sees the folly of his drug and alcohol lifestyle and sets out on a journey to reconnect with his past. To his surprise, he discovers that he fathered both a son, Earl (Gabriel Mann), and a daughter, Sky (Sarah Polley), during his early days of filmmaking in Montana.
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 Great Expectations 1998 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Josh Mostel, Kim Dickens, Nell Campbell, Gabriel Mann, Jeremy James Kissner, Raquel Beaudene, Stephen Spinella, Marla Sucharetza, Isabelle Anderson
Charles Dickens' classic is modernized in this story of Finnegan Bell's (Ethan Hawke and Jeremy James Kissner as young Finnegan) love for Estella (Gwyneth Paltrow and Raquel Beaudene as young Estella). He has loved Estella since childhood despite the differences in their upbringings and expectations. Now, Pip learns that a mysterious benefactor Lustig (Robert De Niro) has provided him with wealth, and Pip takes on the role of "gentleman" in the Victorian world of the social elite.
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 High Art 1998 R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson, Tammy Grimes, Gabriel Mann, Bill Sage, Anh Duong, David Thornton, Charis Michaelson, Helen Mendes
Recent college graduate Syd (Radha Mitchell) has landed a job as an assistant editor of a NYC photo magazine. She lives happily with good-looking boyfriend James (Gabriel Mann), UNTIL she meets the tenant upstairs; from the moment she sees the once-famous photographer Lucy Berliner (Ally Sheedy), Syd is drawn into Lucy's world of drugs and lesbianism.
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I Shot Andy Warhol 1996 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Tahnee Welch, Stephen Dorff, Martha Plimpton, Donovan Leitch, Danny Morgenstern, Michael Imperioli, Gabriel Mann
On 3 June 1968, radical feminist Valerie Solanis (Lili Taylor) walked into Andy Warhol's office and shot him. (Although he survived, he suffered the effects of the trauma for the rest of his shortened life.) This film depicts the collision of the homosexual world of Andy Warhol and the loathing of a lesbian feminist who wrote the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) manifesto. Nevertheless, one cannot help but like her rationality about her unique philosophy.
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 Josie and the Pussycats 2001 PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Gabriel Mann, Paulo Costanzo, Missi Pyle, Tom Butler, Breckin Meyer
Singer-guitarist Josie McCoy (Rachael Leigh Cook), bassist Valerie Brown (Rosario Dawson), and drummer Melody Valentine (Tara Reid) rise to pop superstardom as "Josie and the Pussycats." But with fame, problems arise in the form of manager Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming) who has his own sinister plans for his clients' popular music.
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 The Life of David Gale 2003 R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Gabriel Mann, Matt Craven, Leon Rippy, Rhona Mitra, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Beaver, Cleo King
A reporter, Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet), interviews convicted murderer Dr. David Gale (Kevin Spacey) just three days before his execution date. Her next step is to race against time to prove his innocence in this crime drama, which speaks for those against the death penalty.
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A Lot Like Love 2005 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Nigel Cole
Cast: Amanda Peet, Ashton Kutcher, Taryn Manning, Aimee Garcia, Lee Garlington, Birdie M. Hale, Tyrone Giordano, Melissa van der Schyff, Theresa Spruill, James Read, Molly Cheek, Gabriel Mann
For seven years after their first meeting on a plane, Emily and Oliver (Amanda Peet and Ashton Kutcher) experience chance meetings–usually at the wrong place and time–until one final moment when love, at last, conquers all.
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New Port South 2001 PG-13, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kyle Cooper
Cast: Blake Shields, Todd Field, Will Estes, Kevin Christy, Melissa George, Raymond J. Barry, Gabriel Mann, Brad Eric Johnson, Rusty DeWees, Nick Sandow
High-school student Maddox (Blake Shields) believes that schools aren't really out to teach but to mold students into followers of the state. Thus he talks other students into initiating a rebellion against school authorities.
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 Outside Providence 1999 R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Corrente
Cast: Shawn Hatosy, Alec Baldwin, Jon Abrahams, Tommy Bone, George Wendt, Amy Smart, Jack Ferver, Adam LaVorgna, Gabriel Mann, Jonathan Brandis, Timothy Crowe, Richard Jenkins, Robert Turano
Set in the drug era of the 1970s, this coming-of-age story begins when Timothy Dunphy (Shawn Hatosy) gets into trouble with the police and his father (Alec Baldwin) ships him off to a New England prep school. Once there, Timothy finds more dope fiends to hang around with. He also manages to attract the beautiful Jane Weston (Amy Smart) who just might be able to turn his life around.
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Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes 2000 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Matthew Irmas
Cast: Steven Weber, Swoosie Kurtz, Gail O'Grady, Gabriel Mann, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gregg Henry, Nina Siemaszko, Jack Johnson, Bonnie Somerville, Larry Cedar
Hutch Rimes (Steven Weber) is in the insurance business, a happily married man who also keeps a motel room for his affairs with other women. Things get dicey when one of these women wants him to help kill her husband. His problems continue after a 10-year jail sentence for that botched job. A sometimes-clever black comedy.
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Summer Catch 2001 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Tollin
Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, Bruce Davison, Fred Ward, Jason Gedrick, Brittany Murphy, Gabriel Mann, Matthew Lillard, Brian Dennehy, Zena Grey, Marc Blucas, Wilmer Valderrama, Corey Pearson
Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr.) dreams of becoming a major league baseball player and, at the same time, begins a romance with wealthy Tenley (Jessica Biel) whose lifestyle of spending summers on Cape Cod is far removed from his humble beginnings.
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Things Behind the Sun 2001 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Kim Dickens, Gabriel Mann, Don Cheadle, Alison Folland, Elizabeth Pena, Rosanna Arquette, Patsy Kensit, CCH Pounder, Eric Stoltz, Bill Cordell
Hard-drinking and hard-living Sherry (Kim Dickens) is an up-and-coming singer with a current hit song about rape–a song that reflects her despair over being raped as a child. Each year she gets drunk on the same lawn on the same day at the rape scene. Meanwhile, Owen (Gabriel Mann), who writes for a music magazine, is sent to get a story on Sherry. Owen knows much about her past, having been involved in the rape incident by his older brother, and must face up to his old demons. A powerful story based on Director Anders' rape at a young age.
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| 1. Abandon (2002)
2. American Virgin (2000)
aka: Live Virgin
3. The Bourne Identity (2002)
4. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
5. Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
6. Cherry Falls (2000)
7. Claudine's Return (1998)
aka: Kiss of Fire
8. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
9. Don't Come Knocking (2005)
10. Great Expectations (1998)
11. High Art (1998)
12. I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
13. Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
14. The Life of David Gale (2003)
15. A Lot Like Love (2005)
16. New Port South (2001)
17. Outside Providence (1999)
18. Parallel Sons (1995)
19. Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes (2000)
20. Summer Catch (2001)
21. Things Behind the Sun (2001)
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