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New Flicks


Meet the Fockers

And you thought your parents were embarassing.

Genre: Comedy
Director: Jay Roach
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner

Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker (Stiller) to marry his daughter (Polo), ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes (De Niro) and his wife (Danner) travel to Detroit to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker (Hoffman and Streisand), who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gay M. Focker?

 

The Aviator

Some men dream the future. He built it.

Genre: Drama/ Adventure/Romance
Director: Martin Scorsese
Distributor: Miramax Films
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, Cate Blanchett

"The Aviator," directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan, tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul, famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful women. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying innovative aircrafts he designed and created.

 


Source: IMDB.com / YahooMovies

 

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