Eight Below 2006  PG, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Frank Marshall
Cast: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, Gerard Plunkett, Panou, August Schellenberg, Wendy Crewson, Belinda Metz, Connor Christopher Levins, Brenda Campbell, Malcolm Stewart, Duncan Fraser
Loosely based on a true story, the focus is on the fate of Jerry Shepherd's team of sled dogs that are left behind in the Antarctic when explorers must evacuate the area during a severe storm. The dogs must survive alone over a six-month period while Jerry Shepherd fails in his attempts to rescue them. Survive they do, and their adventures provide good entertainment.
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Jumanji 1995 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Comedy
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Adam Hann-Byrd, Bonnie Hunt, David Alan Grier, Bebe Neuwirth, Patricia Clarkson, Jonathan Hyde, Malcolm Stewart, Laura Bell Bundy, James Handy, Gillian Barber, Brandon Obray, Cyrus Thiedeke
Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd) was often beaten up when he was in school in Brantford, New Hampshire, in 1969. Then one day he found a magical jungle board game, Jumanji, and played it with his friend, Sarah (Bonnie Hunt). Now we skip to 1995, and orphans Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) have moved into Alan's old house, find the Jumanji game, and conjure up Alan (Robin Williams) who has been sucked into the game and remained there for the last 26 years. They track down Sarah so they can end the game. Special effects are amazing as animatronic and computer-generated wild animals thunder through the house and town until the game is finished.
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Moon 2009  R, 97 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kaya Scodelario, Dominique McElligott, Kevin Spacey, Robin Chalk, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart, Benedict Wong, Rosie Shaw, Adrienne Shaw
Astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is finishing a three-year assignment of mining Helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. Because of a broken satellite, Sam cannot send nor receive live communications. While Sam does play taped video messages from his wife Tess (Dominique McElligott), Sam's only communication is with robotic computer "Gerty" (voice of Kevin Spacey). Now, Sam's health fails him, and he awakens in the sick bay. But, the awakening Sam is healthier and more temperamental than the injured Sam. How have these two "Sams" come to coexist?
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Screwed 2000  PG-13, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Cast: Norm MacDonald, Dave Chappelle, Elaine Stritch, Danny DeVito, Sherman Hemsley, Daniel Benzali, Malcolm Stewart, Lochlyn Munro, Brent Chapman, Brian Jensen
Threatened with being fired as the chauffeur, Willard Fillmore (Norm Macdonald) kidnaps his boss Miss Crock's (Elaine Stritch) pet dog, Muffin. But when Muffin escapes Fillmore's clutches and runs home, Miss Crock assumes that it is Fillmore who is the kidnap victim.
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| 1. Eight Below (2006)
2. Jumanji (1995)
3. Moon (2009)
4. Screwed (2000)
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