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Brotherhood of the Wolf
In this hit French film set in 18th century France, a man and his Iroquois friend are sent to kill a beast that has been killing women and children for years. The movie combines the nature of monster movies with costume drama and martial arts action. Abandoned shooting title: Crouching Brotherhood, Hidden Wolf. At the Ronnie’s 20 Cinema.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Based on the book of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo is the tale of the young sailor Edmond Dantes. Dantes’s best friend has him wrongfully imprisoned so that the friend can marry Dantes’s fianc‚e. Eventually Dantes, with the help of a fellow inmate, escapes from prison and proceeds to deliver revenge to the men that put him there. Thirteen years of being unlawfully imprisoned can make a guy pretty cranky. At the Esquire.
I Am Sam
I Am Sam is the story of a mentally retarded man (Sean Penn) who fights to keep custody of his seven year old daughter (Dakota Fanning). When Lucy is taken away from Sam by DCFS because she is passing her father in mental development, Sam finds a lawyer (Michelle Pfeiffer) who takes on his case pro bono and goes through two court battles. The courts are hesitant to take Lucy out of foster care because they are afraid that green eggs and ham will not provide her with her daily nutritional requirements. At the Galleria.
Lantana
A detective starts cheating on his wife with a woman who is cheating on her husband with him. His wife goes to a therapist, but the therapist disappears and the detective investigates the case and his wife’s files in the therapist’s office. The therapist’s patients start meeting each other at Salsa classes. And that’s just the non-confusing part. At the Plaza Frontenac.
The Mothman Prophesies
Richard Gere and Debra Messing play happily married couple John and Mary in this movie based on John Keel’s non-fiction novel of the same name. John and Mary’s lives change drastically after a day spent house hunting. Mary’s life ends due to injuries from a car crash, but not before she sketches pictures of something that she saw. Mulder, .er.I mean John ends up going to West Virginia to investigate strange happenings and to find out what it was that Scully, .er.Mary, saw. At the Esquire.
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