Artificial Intelligence: AI 2001   PG-13, 145 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt, Jack Angel, Ben Kingsley, Keith Campbell, April Grace, Ken Leung, Clark Gregg, Kevin Sussman
After Stanley Kubrick's death, Steven Spielberg inherited this story about a mid-21st century android, David (Haley Joel Osment), who has been programmed to love. Eleven-year-old David comes to the Swinton home as a replacement for the family's son, Martin (Jake Thomas), who is ill. But when Martin returns to his family, the Swinton's abandon David. He is set adrift in the world–dreaming of becoming a real boy and being loved by the Swintons. 1 User Review
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| | Ultimately, this film fails, but it is worth watching. | 1fatts 03/14/2007 | The story about the almost-collaboration of Spielberg and Kubrick is well known by now; and you can't help but see the seams throughout the film: the ethereal quality of Kubrick does not quite fit the moral fables of Spielberg. The movie is too long, too episodic, and, finally, too pat.
But there are ideas and images running through this film that should not be easily dismissed or discounted. Haley Joel Osment really is so good it hurts, but, more importantly, there is an attempt here at scope, at vision which is worth our attention even if it doesn't quite work. Spielberg tries to explain too much; Kubrick would have let it remain unresolved imaage. But you can forgive ambition a lot more easily than insufficiency.
I'm sorry it's not a better film. I'm glad someone serious tried. |
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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas 1997  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Andy Knight
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, Paul Reubens, Angela Lansbury, Haley Joel Osment, Frank Welker, Kath Soucie
This sequel to "Beauty and the Beast" takes place BEFORE Belle (voice of Paige O'Hara) and the Beast (voice of Robby Benson) fall in love and tells the story of how the Enchanted Objects bring Christmas back into the castle.
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Bogus 1996 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment, Denis Mercier, Nancy Travis, Andrea Martin, Al Waxman, Richard Portnow, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Bogus is a family movie about a little boy, Albert Franklin (Haley Joel Osment), who is orphaned when he loses his Las Vegas showgirl mother. Sent to live in Newark, N.J., with his mother's friend, Harriet Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg), Albert feels resentful and alone. To solve his dilemma, he invents a friend (Bogus is a happy face cartoon Albert draws); however, his invention comes to life in the form of Gerard Depardieu.
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The Country Bears 2002  G, 88 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Musical
Director: Peter Hastings
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Diedrich Bader, Candy Ford, James Gammon, Brad Garrett, Toby Huss, Kevin Michael Richardson, Stephen Root, Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, Daryl Mitchell, M.C. Gainey
Based on Disney World's "Country Bear Jamboree," this musical farce involves bears playing in a benefit concert to save their Country Bear retirement home.
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Edges of the Lord 2001 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Yurek Bogayevicz
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Willem Dafoe, Liam Hess, Richard Banel, Olaf Lubaszenko, Malgorzata Foremniak, Andrzej Grabowski, Chiril Vahonin, Ola Frycz, Dorota Piasecka
When the Nazis invade Poland during World War II, a Jewish family smuggles their son, Romek (Haley Joel Osment), out of the city in hopes of saving him. He ends up living with a Catholic, peasant farm family in a basically Catholic community. This is his story as he deals with his new surroundings.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame II 2002  G, 68 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Drama / Musical
Director: Bradley Raymond
Cast: Tom Hulce, Jason Alexander, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Charles Kimbrough, Kevin Kline, Michael McKean, Demi Moore, Haley Joel Osment, Jane Withers, Paul Kandel, Jim Cummings, Frank Welker, Joe Lala, April Winchell, Newell Alexander
Most of the original cast return in this animated Disney direct-to-video/DVD sequel. The son of Esmeralda and Phoebus, Zephyr (voice of Haley Joel Osment), now helps Quasimodo (voice of Tom Hulce) ring the cathedral bell. Zephyr and Quasimodo visit a traveling circus owned by the evil Sarousch (voice of Michael McKean), and Quasimodo falls for Sarousch's assistant Madellaine (voice of Jennifer Love Hewitt). But, Sarousch is plotting to steal the cathedral bell and forces Madellaine to help him. Quasimodo attempts to foil the plot and looks beyond the obvious in his quest to find true love with Madellaine. OK for the young ones.
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 The Jungle Book 2 2003 G, 75 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Musical
Director: Steve Trenbirth
Cast: John Goodman, Haley Joel Osment, Mae Whitman, Tony Jay, Phil Collins, John Rhys-Davies, Jim Cummings, Connor Funk, Bob Joles, Jeff Bennett, Veena Bidasha, Brian Cummings, Bobby Edner, Jess Harnell
When Mowgli (Voice of Haley Joel Osment) misses his jungle friends and returns to the jungle, troubles await.
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Last Stand at Saber River 1997 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Drama
Director: Dick Lowry
Cast: Tom Selleck, Suzy Amis, Rachel Duncan, Haley Joel Osment, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Harry Carey Jr., David Dukes, Tracey Needham, Chris Stacy, Patrick Kilpatrick, Eugene Osment, Denis Forest, Lumi Cavazos, Raymond Cruz
This made-for-TV Western is based on Elmore Leonard's novel about Confederate soldier Paul Cable's (Tom Selleck) struggles to adapt to a peaceful life in Arizona following the Civil War. Upon his return to Arizona with his family–wife Martha (Suzy Amis) and children Clare and Davis (Rachel Duncan and Haley Joel Osment)–Cable finds that his homestead has been taken over by Union sympathizers. He teams up with Vern Kidson (Keith Carradine) to gain peace in the community for his family to enjoy.
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Pay It Forward 2000 PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Angie Dickinson, James Caviezel, Jay Mohr, Jon Bon Jovi, David Ramsey, Gary Werntz, Rusty Meyers, Colleen Flynn, Marc Donato, Kathleen Wilhoite, Alexandra Kotcheff, Hannah Werntz
When Social Studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) assigns an extra-credit project, 11-year-old Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) takes it to heart. The assignment: find a way to make the world a better place. Trevor's solution: a chain letter involving good deeds and asking those on the receiving end to "pay it forward." The acting is very good in this upbeat story.
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Secondhand Lions 2003  PG, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tim McCanlies
Cast: Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, Kyra Sedgwick, Nicky Katt, Josh Lucas, Michael O'Neill, Deirdre O'Connell, Eric Balfour, Christian Kane, Kevin Haberer, Emmanuelle Vaugier
Shy, 14-year-old Walter (Haley Joel Osment) spends the summer in Texas with his cranky great-uncles–Garth (Michael Caine) and Hub (Robert Duvall). Despite a less-than-promising beginning, the three bond and learn about life from each other. 2 User Reviews
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| | banker1 04/04/2009 | | Great movie about living one's life to the fullest! |
| | great acting | Anonymous 02/22/2007 | | |
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 The Sixth Sense 1999 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Trevor Morgan, Donnie Wahlberg, Mischa Barton, Jeffrey Zubernis, Bruce Norris, Glenn Fitzgerald, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Greg Wood, Angelica Torn, Lisa Summerour, Firdous Bamji
This great psychological thriller features Haley Joel Osment in the role of Cole Sear, a young boy who sees and hears dead spirits. These facts are finally revealed when his mother, Lynn (Toni Collette), takes him to a child psychologist, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), who has demons of his own. By such questions as, "What are they trying to tell you?" Crowe is able to break through, but the question of whether or not the ghosts are real still remains. The film received six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actress (Toni Colette) and Supporting Actor (Osment).
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| 1. Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
aka: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
2. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
3. Bogus (1996)
4. The Country Bears (2002)
5. Edges of the Lord (2001)
6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)
7. The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
8. Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
9. Pay It Forward (2000)
10. Secondhand Lions (2003)
11. The Sixth Sense (1999)
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