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13 Going On 30
It is 1987 and Jenna is a 13-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood. The problem is that adulthood is just not arriving
fast enough. She's suffocated by her dorky parents, ignored by the hip kids in school--and the cute guy she has a crush on
barely knows her name. No longer content to spend time only with her best friend and neighbor, Matt Flamhaff, Jenna invites
the cool kids to her 13th birthday party. But the party is a disaster. Jenna is humiliated when she's locked in the closet
for a game of "Seven Minutes in Heaven" and everyone deserts her. Alone in the closet, Jenna makes an earnest wish. If only
she could be all grown up, she'd have the life she's always wanted. Miraculously, her wish comes true. The next day, when
Jenna emerges from the closet, it's 2004 and she's 30 years old. What's more, she is a gorgeous successful woman with a great
job and a fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment. She is finally cool and popular. The only hitch? She has absolutely no id! ea how
she got there. Initially frightened but gradually enchanted by her new life, Jenna soon realizes there's something missing--Matt.
When she looks him up, she is horrified to discover that she and Matt are no longer in contact and, furthermore, he is engaged
to be married. Jenna learns that 'having it all' is not enough and decides to take a second chance at first love. Now her
biggest wish is that it's not too late.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Running Time: 1 hr. 37 min.
Release Date: April 23rd, 2004 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual content and brief drug references.
50 First Dates
Henry Roth (Sandler), a veterinarian at an aquarium in Hawaii, falls in love with a girl, Lucy (Barrymore), with short-term
memory loss, but he has to keep getting her to fall in love with him every time they meet in order for them to have a relationship,
since she never remembers the last time she met him.
Genres: Comedy and Romance
Running Time: 1 hr. 31 min.
Release Date: February 13th, 2004 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude sexual humor and drug references.
A Very Brady Sequel
Those polyester-clad Brady's are back, still deeply entrenched in the
styles and mores of the 1970s, in this sequel to 1995's THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE. Carol Brady's (Shelley Long) presumed-dead
husband Roy (Tim Matheson) re-appears and is taken in by the loving family. What they don't know is that Roy is actually a
deadly imposter, who wants a carved horse owned by the Bradys -- that unbeknownst to them is worth millions. Will Roy ever
get his hands on that artifact? Or will the blissfully clueless Bradys kill him with kindness instead?
Genres: Comedy
Running Time: 1 hr. 29 min.
Release Date:
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Addams Family
When long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd)
reappears after 25 years in the Bermuda Triangle, Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and Gomez (Raul Julia) ecstatically begin plans
for a celebration that will wake the dead. Meanwhile, an evil lawyer is plotting ways to get at the ghoulish family’s
fortunes--which are stashed somewhere within a secret vault inside the family mansion. Only the Addams’s daughter, Wednesday,
played by the brilliant and stunningly stoic Christina Ricci, and the Addams’s detached hand servant, Thing, suspect
that something rotten is afoot. But can they prove anything before the vault is found and the Addams family is plunged into
poverty? THE ADDAMS FAMILY is not only the cartoon and television family’s film premiere but is also the directorial
debut of talented cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld. It has a winningly dark sense of humor that manages to be both lighthearted
and macabre.
Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Suspense/Horror
Running Time: 1 hr. 39 min.
Release Date: .
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Addams Family Values
In ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES, Barry Sonnenfeld has performed the remarkable feat of making a sequel even more entertaining
than its predecessor. The charmingly creepy Addams family (based on characters originally created by the morbid Charles Addams)
have two new additions, mustachioed baby Pubert and sunny nanny Debbie Jellinsky. While Debbie (wonderfully played by Joan
Cusack) charms the adults of the family, particularly Uncle Fester, the children discover that she is actually a serial killer
called the Black Widow. The children are soon shipped off to summer camp as part of nanny dearest’s diabolical plot.
It’s at Camp Chippewa that some of the funniest scenes occur, particularly one in which Wednesday tells genuinely terrifying
ghost stories to the other campers and another that features both Addams children being sent the Harmony Hut as punishment
for trying to escape. Sonnenfeld and production designer Ken Adams (no relation) make sure that each minute is a pleasure
to look at by creating a feast of dark visions and macabre sight gags. ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES will be most enjoyed by those
with a taste for flip gallows humor.
Genres: Comedy and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Running Time: 1 hr. 34 min.
Release Date: .
MPAA Rating: PG-13
After The Sunset
After a successful last score, a master thief (Brosnan) retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty
FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he's making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse.
Genres: Comedy, Romance and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.
Release Date: November 12th, 2004 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexuality, violence and language.
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