 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003  R, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Marcus Nispel
Cast: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey, David Dorfman, Lauren German, Terrence Evans, Marietta Marich, Heather Kafka, Big Rig Bob, Mamie Meek, Kathy Lamkin
Five Texas teens (Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, and Eric Balfour) pick up a hitchhiker who proceeds to blow her brains out. In an attempt to contact the Sheriff, they enter a run-down mansion and ask to use the telephone. Not a good idea–inside is a chainsaw-wielding psychopath (Andrew Bryniarski)–and the massacres continue.
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Three Days of Rain 2005  R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: 3 Days of Rain
Director: Michael Meredith
Cast: Peter Falk, Michael Santoro, Don Meredith, Joey Bilow, Merle Kennedy, Erick Avari, Lyle Lovett, Penelope Allen, Bruce Bohne, Blythe Danner, Robert Carradine, Heather Kafka, Bill Stockton
Loosely based on six short stories by 19th-century Russian author Anton Chekhov, this film changes the locale to Cleveland, Ohio, and interweaves a number of tales involving ordinary residents. Among the characters are an alcoholic father (Peter Falk) who manipulates his son (Bill Stockton), a cab driver (football great Don Meredith who in real-life is the director's father), and a disabled janitor (Joey Bilow) being forced out of his job. All have their unique sets of problems and now must endure a three day rain storm.
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The Wendell Baker Story 2005 PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Andrew Wilson, Luke Wilson
Cast: Luke Wilson, Seymour Cassel, Eddie Griffin, Kris Kristofferson, Eva Mendes, Harry Dean Stanton, Owen Wilson, Jacob Vargas, Will Ferrell, Buck Taylor, Jo Harvey Allen, Heather Kafka, Billy Joe Shaver, Angela Alvarado
As a result of selling fake IDs to illegal Mexican immigrants, Wendell Baker (Luke Wilson) is arrested and jailed. His girlfriend Doreen (Eva Mendes) leaves him, and Wendell now has time to figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. As a condition of his parole, Wendell takes a job at the Shady Grove retirement home, which is run by Neil King (Owen Wilson) and McTeague (Eddie Griffin) who run a scam that involves stealing residents' medications and selling them on the black market. A reformed Wendell enlists the aid of the residents–including Boyd (Seymour Cassel), Skip (Harry Dean Stanton), and L.R. Nasher (Kris Kristofferson)–in a plan to end the scam and, maybe, get Doreen back in the process. As they join forces in Wendell's cause, the residents learn that they still have a lot more living to do.
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| 1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
2. Three Days of Rain (2005)
aka: 3 Days of Rain
3. The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
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