Chuck & Buck 2000  R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Miguel Arteta
Cast: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz, Maya Rudolph, Mary Wigmore, Paul Sand, Gino Buccola, Doug Keifer, Annette Murphy, Glory Simon
Boyhood friends reunite when Buck (Mike White) moves to L.A. to resume his interrupted friendship with Chuck (Chris Weitz). This presents an immediate problem: Chuck has become a responsible adult, but Buck seems emotionally stuck at the fourth-grade level.
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Gentelmen Broncos 2009  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jered Hess
Cast: Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell, Jermaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge, Mike White, Hector Jimenez, John Baker, Robin Ballard, Rod Decker, Halley Feiffer, Johnny Hoops, Suzanne May, Josh Pais, Edgar Oliver, Clive Revill
Teen-aged Benjamin (Michael Angarano) is home-schooled by his mother Judith (Jennifer Coolidge) and is a loner who has written a manuscript "Yeast Lords" featuring a hero, Bronco (Sam Rockwell). While attending a writers camp, Benjamin meets Tabatha (Halley Feiffer) and Lonnie (Hector Jimenez). They offer Benjamin $300 for the manuscript so Lonnie can make a film of it. Meanwhile, at a sci-fest, Benjamin submits his manuscript to Dr. Chevalier (Jermaine Clement) who steals it for himself. Chevalier changes the name of Bronco to Brutus (also Sam Rockwell) and alters many of the details. Interspersed with the story, the three versions of Benjamin's story are shown, and then, finally, Benjamin confronts Chevalier and accuses him of plagiarism.
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 The Good Girl 2002  R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Miguel Arteta
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson, Zooey Deschanel, Mike White, Deborah Rush, John Carroll Lynch, John Doe, Roxanne Hart, Jacquie Barnbrook, Annie O'Donnell, Jon Shere, Jean Rhodes, Alice Amter
Thirty-year-old Justine (Jennifer Aniston) works at the Retail Rodeo department store and is married to her slacker husband Phil (John C. Reilly). She makes a BIG mistake when she has an illicit affair with the mysterious stock boy, Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal). The affair becomes an obsession, and now Justine's marriage is threatened as trouble looms in this dark comedy.
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 The School of Rock 2003 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman, Joey Gaydos Jr., Kevin Alexander Clark, Maryam Hassan, Miranda Cosgrove, Rebecca Brown, Caitlin Hale, Robert Tsai, Aleisha Allen, Adam Pascal, Lucas Papaelias, Chris Stack
Failed rocker Dewey Finn (Jack Black) is kicked out of his band. Needing employment, Dewey pretends to be his roommate, Ned Schneebly (Mike White), and takes a job as a substitute teacher at an elite elementary school. Lacking a lesson plan, Dewey discovers that he has students with musical talents, and, to the consternation of the school's uptight Principal Rosalie Mullins (Joan Cusack), Dewey grooms his students as members of a rock band. Dewey's goal is to beat his former band in competition at the "Battle of the Bands" and make a name for themselves in the show business world.
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Sonic Impact 1999  R, 94 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Rodney McDonald
Cast: James Russo, Ice-T, Michael Harris, Mel Harris, Brittany Daniel, Sam Anderson, Heath Lourwood, Justin Lauer, Mike White, J. Kenneth Campbell
Criminal Jeremy Barrett (Michael Harris), while taken to prison aboard an airliner, breaks free from his captors and hijacks the plane. He blows a hole in the cockpit, and threatens to crash into the center of a city unless his demands are met. But wait, is that ex-SEAL and current FBI agent Nick Halton (James Russo) being lowered from a helicopter to the plane to save the day? Yes, and that's just one of the implausible goings-on in this film.
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Under Pressure 2000 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Escape Under Pressure
Director: Jean Pellerin
Cast: Rob Lowe, Craig Wasson, Larissa Miller, Harry Van Gorkum, Scott Anthony Viscomi, Stanley Kamel, Mike White, Michael E. Rodgers, Tommy Hinkley, Joseph Patrick Kelly, Adoni Maropis, Ravil Issyanov
On board a Greek ocean liner, American tourists John (Rob Lowe) and Chloe Spencer (Larissa Miller) find themselves caught in the middle of a plot by international thieves to steal a valuable Greek artifact.
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 We Were Soldiers 2002 R, 138 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Randall Wallace
Cast: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Sam Elliott, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein, Josh Daugherty, Barry Pepper, Keri Russell, Edwin Morrow, Mike White, Duong Don, Ryan Hurst, Robert Bagnell, Marc Blucas, Jsu Garcia
This film is based on a book co-written by Lt. Gen. Harold Moore, who led the First Battalion into the first all-out battle in Vietnam, and UPI reporter Joseph L. Galloway who was also present. While the action scenes of battle are fierce, the characters are well developed. Both U.S. and enemy troops have personal sides apart from that of soldiering. An insightful story.
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Year of the Dog 2007 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Mike White
Cast: Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, Thomas McCarthy, Josh Pais, John C. Reilly, Peter Sarsgaard, Amy and Zoe Schlagel, Dale Godboldo, Inara George, Liza Weil, Jon Shere, Brenda Canela
Lonely Peggy (Molly Shannon) relies on animals for her friends. When she loses her beagle friend Pencil, her previous fascination turns into an obsession, and she turns into an animal-rights activist pressuring those around her to adopt orphaned animals.
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Zombieland 2009 R, 81 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Horror
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard, Bill Murray, Derek Graf, Mike White
A plague has infested Earth and has turned most of the population into zombies. College student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), who has spent his life as a loner staying away from problems, joins forces with zombie slayer Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), and they set out on a mission to destroy the zombies. Along the way, they encounter con artists Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) in a grocery store. Reluctantly, the four of them head west to a deserted, California theme park that is believed to be free of zombies and along the way begin to question their decisions to survive together.
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| 1. Chuck & Buck (2000)
2. Gentelmen Broncos (2009)
3. The Good Girl (2002)
4. The School of Rock (2003)
5. Sonic Impact (1999)
6. Under Pressure (2000)
aka: Escape Under Pressure
7. We Were Soldiers (2002)
8. Year of the Dog (2007)
9. Zombieland (2009)
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