American Dreamz 2006  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore, Willem Dafoe, Chris Klein, Jennifer Coolidge, Sam Golzari, Marcia Gay Harden, Seth Meyers, John Cho, Judy Greer, Bernard White, Shohreh Aghdashloo
This satire aims at a variety of subjects, but the Presidency of George W. Bush and the reality show, American Idol, are the prime targets. Dennis Quaid takes on the role of recovering alcoholic President Staton who seldom reads the newspaper and relies on the advice of his Dick Cheney-like Chief of Staff (Willem Dafoe) who, to increase the President's ratings, books him as a guest judge on the popular reality show, American Dreamz. The TV show, featuring aspiring musical artists, is easily identified as a satirical view of American Idol with the popular program's self-absorbed Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant) preparing the season's new shows. Contestants include blonde redneck Sally Kendoo (Mandy Moore) and show-tune loving terrorist Omer Obeidi (Sam Golzari). The President agrees to a live presentation, and Omer prepares to assassinate him during his appearance on live TV.
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 Because I Said So 2007  PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Lehmann
Cast: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo, Stephen Collins, Ty Panitz, Matt Champagne, Colin Ferguson, Tony Hale, Sophina Brown
Daphne (Diane Keaton) is the loving mother of three daughters. Two of them–sensible psychologist Maggie (Lauren Graham) and smart and sexy Mae (Piper Perabo)–have settled down and married. However, charming but insecure Milly (Mandy Moore) has not found a husband, so Daphne steps in. She places an ad in the online personals, "older woman seeks younger man for her daughter..." and the interviews begin.
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 Chasing Liberty 2004  PG-13, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Andy Cadiff
Cast: Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Jeremy Piven, Annabella Sciorra, Mark Harmon, Beatrice Rosen, Stark Sands, Tony Jayawardena, Briony Glassco, Sam Ellis, Terence Maynard, Lewis Hancock
While on a trip with her family to the Czech Republic, Anna (Mandy Moore)–the daughter of U.S. President James Foster (Mark Harmon)–eludes her Secret Service protectors. While touring on her own, Anna falls in love with a stranger, Ben Calder (Matthew Goode), who just happens to be an undercover Secret Service agent assigned to protect her.
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Dedication 2007 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Justin Theroux
Cast: Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, Bob Balaban, Tom Wilkinson, Dianne Wiest, Bobby Cannavale, Christine Taylor, Peter Bogdanovich, Amy Sedaris, Cassidy Hinkle, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Jeremy Shamos, John Ellison Conlee, Martin Freeman
Henry Roth (Billy Crudup) suffers from depression but makes a living writing children's books, and his only friend is his illustrator Rudy Holt (Tom Wilkinson). But Rudy's health declines, and he dies of a brain tumor. Now, Henry's publisher Arthur Plank (Bob Balaban) wants Henry's latest book completed and assigns illustrator Lucy (Mandy Moore) to complete the job. As Henry lets go of Rudy through conversations with the dead man, he falls in love with Lucy and learns that life can be a gamble as he tries to win Lucy away from her former professor (Martin Freeman).
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 How to Deal 2003 PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clare Kilner
Cast: Mandy Moore, Allison Janney, Trent Ford, Alexandra Holden, Dylan Baker, Peter Gallagher, Nina Foch, Mackenzie Astin, Connie Ray, Mary Catherine Garrison, Sonja Smits, Laura Catalano
After her dad (Peter Gallagher) walks out on her mom (Allison Janney), Halley (Mandy Moore) begins to suspect that love is not all she had once believed it to be. Even as she begins to fall for a new guy, Macon (Trent Ford), her doubts continue.
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License to Wed 2007 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cast: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski, Eric Christian Olsen, Christine Taylor, Josh Flitter, DeRay Davis, Peter Strauss, Grace Zabriskie, Roxanne Hart, Mindy Kaling, Angela Kinsey, Rachael Harrris, Brian Baumgartner
Ben (John Krasinski) and Sadie (Mandy Moore) are engaged to be married and plan to have the wedding performed at Sadie's family's church. But there is one stipulation: Ben and Sadie must attend a marriage preparation course taught by the Reverend Frank (Robin Williams) and his minister-in-training Choir Boy (Josh Flitter). Will Ben's and Sadie's love survive the rigors of the exhausting pre-nuptial class?
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 The Princess Diaries 2001 G, 115 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Romance
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, Mandy Moore, Caroline Goodall, Robert Schwartzman, Erik von Detten, Sean O'Bryan, Sandra Oh, Patrick Flueger, Kathleen Marshall, Mindy Burbano, Kimleigh Smith, Beth Anne Garrison
Gangly 15-year-old Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) and her best friend Lilly (Heather Matarazzo) are high school misfits, but Mia has her eye on cute Josh (Erik von Detten). Mia's grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews), comes to town and informs Mia that she is the real-life Princess of Genovia, which is a small European nation between France and Spain. Queen Clarisse begins the difficult task of tutoring Mia in social graces to prepare her for her place on the throne, and Clarisse's security chief Joe (Hector Elizondo) also provides assistance in readying Mia for her position of royalty. Now, Mia must decide whether to leave the U.S. to take over her new role or stay in San Francisco.
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 Racing Stripes 2005 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Director: Frederik Du Chau
Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Hayden Panettiere, Wendie Malick, M. Emmet Walsh, Frankie Muniz, Mandy Moore, Jeff Foxworthy, Joshua Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, Joe Pantoliano, David Spade, Steve Harvey, Snoop Dogg, Gary Bullock, Michael Clarke Duncan
A baby zebra has been left behind accidentally by a traveling circus during a thunderstorm and is rescued by Nolan Walsh (Bruce Greenwood). Nolan's daughter, Channing (Hayden Panettiere), loves the zebra and names him Stripes (voice of Frankie Muniz). Stripes dreams of being a racehorse, and, with help from his barnyard friends (voices of Dustin Hoffman, Snoop Dogg, Joe Pantoliano, and Whoopi Goldberg), the dream could become a reality–if Nolan will agree to train him.
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Romance & Cigarettes 2006 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: John Turturro
Cast: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Aida Turturro, Christopher Walken, Barbara Sukowa, Elaine Stritch, Eddie Izzard, Amy Sedaris, P.J. Brown, Adam LeFevre
In this off-beat musical, Kitty (Susan Sarandon) confronts her Queens construction worker husband, Nick (James Gandolfini), with evidence of pornography he has written. It turns out that Nick is having an affair with sexy underwear salesgirl Tula (Kate Winslet), and Kitty has the solution. With their three daughters–Rosebud (Aida Turturro), Constance (Mary-Louise Parker), and Baby (Mandy Moore)–supporting her, Kitty kicks Nick out of the house leaving him to make up his own mind of what he really should do. Throughout their trials, everyone seems to sing and dance in this down and dirty musical love story.
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Saved! 2004 PG-13, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Brian Dannelly
Cast: Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit, Heather Matarazzo, Eva Amurri, Chad Faust, Elizabeth Thai, Martin Donovan, Mary-Louise Parker, Kett Turton, Julia Arkos
This satire on the hypocrisy of religious pseudo-morality centers around students at American Eagle Christian High School. Sixteen-year-old Mary (Jena Malone) finds herself pregnant after talking her gay boyfriend (Chad Faust) into having sex with her. Meanwhile, Hilary (Mandy Moore)–when not griping about her wheelchair-bound brother, Roland (Macaulay Culkin)–is busy trying to get Mary kicked out of school.
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Southland Tales 2007 R, 144 min.
Genre: Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller
Director: Richard Kelly
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Curtis Armstrong, Joe Campana, Nora Dunn, Beth Grant, Wood Harris, John Larroquette, Bai Ling, Jon Lovitz, Christopher Lambert, Mandy Moore, Holmes Osborne, Lisa K. Wyatt
A nuclear strike on Texas has resulted in political and environmental disasters that have caused the United States to institute strict security measures to ward off terrorists. Action-movie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is married to Madeline (Mandy Moore) whose father, Senator Bobby Frost (Holmes Osborne), is a Republican vice-presidential candidate plotting a national takeover. But, Boxer is kidnapped under mysterious circumstances and now, after gaining freedom, suffers amnesia, can not remember Madeline, and has teamed up with porn princess Krysta (Sarah Michelle Gellar). He is also involved with a Hermosa Beach police officer (Sean William Scott) whose identity has split in two–resulting in twins, Roland and Ronald Taverner. Taverner's efforts to find himself just might provide the key to a dangerous conspiracy.
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Try Seventeen 2002 R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: All I Want
Director: Jeffrey Porter
Cast: Elijah Wood, Franka Potente, Mandy Moore, Chris Martin, Deborah Harry, Elizabeth Perkins, Aaron Pearl, Andrew Jackson, Malcolm Scott, Aloma Wright, Frank C. Turner, Daniella Evangelista
Young Jones Dillon (Elijah Wood) decides that college is not for him after a very short stay. He moves into an apartment building where he intends to become the writer he has always wanted to be, befriends the offbeat inhabitants of the building, and learns lessons about life.
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 A Walk to Remember 2002 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Al Thompson, Daryl Hannah, Lauren German, Clayne Crawford, Paz de la Huerta, Jonathan Parks Jordan, Matt Lutz
Set during the 1950s in North Carolina, this teen romance revolves around the ill-fated relationship of Landon Carter (Shane West), ne'er-do-well son of a wealthy father, and Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), Bible-thumping daughter of a Baptist minister. Will their love be strong enough to overcome major obstacles?
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| 1. American Dreamz (2006)
2. Because I Said So (2007)
3. Chasing Liberty (2004)
4. Dedication (2007)
5. How to Deal (2003)
6. License to Wed (2007)
7. The Princess Diaries (2001)
8. Racing Stripes (2005)
9. Romance & Cigarettes (2006)
10. Saved! (2004)
11. Southland Tales (2007)
12. Try Seventeen (2002)
aka: All I Want
13. A Walk to Remember (2002)
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