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Genre:
Action / Drama / War
Director: Edward Zwick
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Cast:
Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Koyuki, Tony Goldwyn
(and more)
Set
in the late 1870s, this epic film depicts the beginnings
of the modernisation of Japan, as the island nation evolved
past a feudal society, as symbolised by the eradication
of the samurai way of life. We see all this happen from
the point of view of an alcoholic Civil War veteran turned
Winchester guns spokesman, Captain Woodrow Algren (Cruise),
who arrives in Japan to train the troops of the emperor,
Meiji, as part of a break away from the long-held tradition
of relying on employed samurai warriors to protect territories,
as the emperor's new army prepares to wipe out the remaining
samurai warriors. When Algren is injured in combat and captured
by the samurai, he learns about their warrior honour code
from their leader, Katsumoto, which forces him to decide
which side of the conflict he actually wants to be on.
Check
your pulse at the door... if you have one.
Genre:
Comedy / Family / Horror
Director: Rob Minkoff
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
Cast:
Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Jennifer Tilly, Marsha Thomason,
Nathaniel Parker (and more)
Realtor
Jim Evers and his wife and business partner Sara get a call
late one night from mansion owner Edward Gracey, who is
looking to sell his property. Smelling the biggest deal
of their career, Jim, Sara and their two children pay a
visit to the mansion, located on a remote bayou. A torrential
thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands the Evers family
in the old mansion with the brooding, eccentric Gracey,
his mysterious butler, Ramsley, and a variety of residents
both seen and unseen. At first Jim scoffs at Gracey's stories
about ghosts and hauntings, until he unearths the mystery
of the mansion and finds that his wife Sara has unexpected
connections to its haunted past.
Source: IMDB.com/Hollywood.com//YahooMovies.com
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