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11:18am June 18th, 2008 By maskmanusa
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The Bridge on the River Kwai is an Academy Award-winning 1957 World War II film based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942-43 for its historical setting. It was directed by David Lean and stars Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins and William Holden.
In 1997, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.
Synopsis
Two prisoners of war are burying a corpse in the graveyard of a Japanese World War II prison camp in southern Burma. One, American Navy Commander Shears (William Holden), routinely bribes guards to ensure he gets sick duty, which allows him to avoid hard labour. A large contingent of British prisoners' arrives, marching in defiantly whistling the Colonel Bogey March under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness).
The camp commander, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), addresses them, informing them of his rules. He insists that all prisoners, regardless of rank, will work on the construction of a bridge over the Kwai River as part of a railroad that will link all Burma.
The next morning, when Saito orders everyone to work, Nicholson commands his officers to stand fast. He points out that the Geneva Conventions state that captured officers are exempt from manual labour. Saito is infuriated and backhands Nicholson in the face, but the latter refuses to back down, even after Saito has a machine gun set up. Saito is dissuaded from shooting by Major Clipton (James Donald), the medical officer; instead, the Japanese commander leaves Nicholson and his officers standing in the intense heat. As the day wears on, one of them collapses, but Nicholson and the rest are still standing defiantly at attention when the men return from the day's work. After Colonel Nicholson is beaten in Saito's quarters, the British officers are sent into a punishment cage and Nicholson into his own box for solitary confinement.
When Clipton requests to be allowed to check the officers, Saito agrees on the condition that Clipton persuade Nicholson to change his mind. Nicholson, however, refuses to budge, saying "if we give in now there'll be no end to it." In the meantime, construction falls far behind schedule, due in part to many "accidents" arranged by the British.
Saito has a deadline; if he should fail to meet it, it would bring him great shame and oblige him to commit seppuku (ritual suicide). So Saito reluctantly releases Nicholson, telling him that he has proclaimed an "amnesty" to commemorate the anniversary of Japan's great victory in the Russo-Japanese War, using it as an excuse to exempt the officers from work. Upon their release, Nicholson and his officers proudly walk through a jubilant reception. Saito for his part breaks down in tears in private.
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12:44pm February 10th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Fearless, known in Chinese as Huo Yuanjia (Chinese: 霍元甲; pinyin: Huò Yuánjiǎ) and Jet Li's Fearless in the United States is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Jet Li. It is loosely based on the life of Huo Yuanjia, a legendary Chinese martial artist who challenged foreign fighters in highly publicised events, restoring pride and nationalism to China at a time when Western Imperialism and Japanese manipulation were eroding the country. Jet Li stated in an interview that this film is his last wushu martial arts epic, a point also made in the movie's television promotions and other publicity. Fearless was released on June 23, 2006 in the United Kingdom, and on September 22, 2006 in the United States.
Plot
Jet Li loosely portrays the life of martial arts master Huo Yuanjia. The plot differs greatly from the actual life of Huo Yuanjia.
The movie starts off with Huo Yuanjia fighting 3 Westerners: a boxer, a spearfighter and a fencer. Huo Yuanjia beats them all, and makes it his habit to bow to the opponent. Just as he is about to fight Anno Tanaka, the final contestant, Huo Yuanjia has a flashback.
The story flashes back to when Huo Yuanjia was a small boy. His father, Huo Endi, was a great fighter but did not want his asthmatic son to follow in his footsteps, and hence refused to teach Yuanjia martial arts. Huo secretly watched his father's training and taught himself how to fight.
The young Yuanjia then witnesses his father "losing" a Lei tai match; in actuality, his father struck the winning blow of the match, because he delivered a fatal technique which he mercifully pulled short so that his opponent would not be killed. However, his opponent dishonorably struck back after Huo Endi's winning blow, causing Huo Endi to "lose" the match when he is knocked off the stage. Yuanjia is taunted by the son of the man who defeated his father and he steps up to defend the Huo family name. Yuanjia gets beaten up by the boy and he swears never to lose again.
As the years pass, Yuanjia grows into a powerful fighter, winning fight after fight on the Lei tai until he becomes known as one of the greatest fighters in Tianjin, China. However, as his success grows, he becomes arrogant and increasingly ruthless, unlike his late father. When a rival martial arts master named Qin Lei (Master Chin in the US version) apparently injures one of Huo's followers, Huo forces Qin to fight him to the death during Qin's birthday celebration. Yuanjia's businessman friend, Nong Jinsun, urges him to settle the matter later, but Yuanjia refuses, insulting Nong. After much effort, during which the fighters demolish a restaurant, Huo—unlike his father who had previously held off during the Lei tai match—kills Qin with a fatal blow. However, when he returns home, he realizes that his mother and daughter (Jade in the US version) have been killed in revenge. Guided by fury, he goes to Qin's home and finds Qin's Godson, who admits to slaughtering Huo's family, and that he alone was responsible. Qin's Godson then commits suicide before Huo can kill him.As he leaves, his pupils approach, and force the pupil that was injured by Qin to tell Huo that the reason Qin attacked his pupil was because the pupil had slept with Qin's concubine (in the American version he insults Qin's mistress). Crazed with grief and shame, Huo flees Tianjin and wanders aimlessly for many miles, no longer caring about himself. A disheveled, greying wanderer, he nearly drowns in a river, but is saved by Granny Sun (Grandma in the US version) and her blind granddaughter, Yueci (Moon in the US version). They bring him back to their village and guided by their simple acts of kindness, Huo begins to learn the value of kindness and mercy.
In 1907, Huo Yuanjia returns to a very different Tianjin than the one he had left. No longer a comfortable rural village, it is now a bustling city, crowded with foreign troops and merchants. There, he makes peace with his past—visiting the graves of his family and apologizing for his faults, and paying his respects to the family of Master Qin.
He then reconciles with Nong Jinsun and challenges the American fighter, Hercules O'Brien, who was making headlines defeating Chinese fighters and dismissing them as the 'Weak men of the East'. To the astonishment of the foreigners, Huo not only wins the fight, but the admiration of O'Brien in the process by saving O'Brien's life. Huo Yuanjia's fame begins to spread with successive challenges with other foreign fighters, and with funding from Nong Jinsun, he sets up Jing Wu Men, a martial arts school in Shanghai.
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7:08pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Shaft is a 2000 movie that was directed by John Singleton. It is the remake of the 1971 original. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson (as John Shaft), Toni Collette, Busta Rhymes, Vanessa L. Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Mekhi Phifer and Christian Bale. The actor from the original movie, Richard Roundtree, also briefly reprises his role as John Shaft, the uncle to Jackson's character.
Plot
John Shaft is called in to investigate a racially motivated murder committed by Walter Wade (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy tycoon. However, eye witness Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette) disappears without a trace. Having been let off on bail, Wade flees to Switzerland. Two years later, he returns confident that his connections and wealth will acquit him, so long as the waitress witness doesn't testify against him. Wade then enlists the help of a Dominican drug lord, Peoples Hernandez (Jeffrey Wright), to do his dirty business for him. Shaft must, with the help of his fellow detective Carmen Vasquez (Vanessa L. Williams), find Diane whilst having to fight off Wade, Peoples, several shot guns, and a host of corrupt officers in order to bring Wade to justice.
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3:14pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Double Jeopardy is a film made in 1999 starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd, about a woman who is framed for the murder of her husband.
Plot
Elizabeth 'Libby' Parsons (Judd) holds the belief, subsequently proven correct, that her husband Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood) is still alive and staged his own death for the purpose of falsely convicting her of murder. She serves six years in prison before being paroled, and emerges bent on finding her husband and son so as to take her revenge on the former and rescue the latter.
The movie explores the ramifications of a misinterpretation of the legal doctrine of double jeopardy which is a constitutional right in the United States granted by the Fifth Amendment to the US constitution. A fellow prison inmate advises Libby she could kill her husband in the middle of Times Square and the police would be powerless to do anything about it because of double jeopardy, because she had already been convicted once for his murder and served time. Both Libby and Lehman (Jones) repeat this theory later in the movie in order to frighten Nick in the climactic confrontation scene.
Cast
* Tommy Lee Jones - Travis Lehman
* Ashley Judd - Elizabeth 'Libby' Parsons
* Bruce Greenwood - Nicholas Nick' Parsons
* Benjamin Weir - Matty Parsons age 4
* Jay Brazeau - Bobby Long
* John MacLaren - Rudy
* Ed Evanko - Warre
* Annabeth Gish - Angela 'Angie' Green
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3:08pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Dante's Peak is a 1997 action-adventure film starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton. It portrays the effect of a volcano erupting in a small town in the Pacific Northwest portion of the United States. It was released a few months before Volcano and received wider success. It has also been acclaimed for its scientific accuracy, which Volcano lacked.
Plot
The film is set in the fictional town of Dante's Peak, Washington, located in the northern Cascade Mountains, but was actually filmed in and around Wallace in northern Idaho. The film is somewhat based on the real-life eruptions of Mount St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991. The film is noted to have put emphasis on trying to accurately depict a volcanic eruption.[2] The film begins with the volcanic eruption of an unnamed volcano in Colombia (the script says this is Galeras, and the eruption is presumably the 1993 eruption which killed several volcanologists) where volcanologist Dr. Harry Dalton (Brosnan) attempts to evacuate with his fiancée Marianne. As they begin heading out of the town, large pieces of volcanic rocks begin to crash onto the small town, one of which penetrates the vehicle and kills Marianne.
Four years later, Harry is called in from vacation by his boss to investigate activity going on in the Northern Cascades region near the town of Dante's Peak. Meanwhile, a couple of backpackers went to the hot spring. A few minutes later, a small amount of volcanic activity had turned the hot spring sulfric, thus slowly chewing away and boiling the couple. At Dante's Peak, the town is receiving an award for being "The second most desirable place to live in the United States, population under 20,000" and celebrating its annual "Pioneer Days Festival". Harry meets with the town's mayor, Rachel Wando (Hamilton), who accompanies him with her two children, Graham (Foley) and Lauren (Smith), up to the mountain's "high lake" (high altitude lake located near the summit) to check the acidity in the water. After checking the acidity and picking up the mayor's ex-mother in law, Ruth (Hoffman), the five of them head to the town's hot springs where they discover the bodies of two dead backpackers, seared by the volcanic activity under the hot springs.
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3:02pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Never Die Alone is a 2004 crime thriller / drama film, directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Donald Goines.
Plot
Hardened criminal and drug dealer King David (played by DMX) is returning to New York, where he can find redemption by settling an old score with drug lord Moon (played by Clifton Powell) and always talking about a woman named Edna. As David walks through New York, he meets up with old acquitances and momentarily passes by Paul (David Arquette), a failing journalist.
Mike (Michael Ealy) is assigned to collect Moon's money from David, appearing to be very interested in him for some reason. He, Blue (Antwon Tanner) and his sister go to David and collect the money, but then Mike stabs David when he doesn't know who he is. David stabs Blue in the eye with an ice pick before they abandon him (King David)in a gutter. Paul, who was passing by at that moment, drives David, a total stranger, to the hospital.
Meanwhile, Moon tells Mike to bring everyone to a parking garage, where Blue and Mike's sister are killed. Mike kills the henchmen and goes to take revenge on Moon. Back at the hospital, Paul is informed that King has died, but that he left him all his personal possessions. These include jewelry, his car, and a collection of audio tapes, which turn out to be the audio journal of his life that was recorded on the drive from Los Angeles to New York.
By listening to the journal, the story of David's life is told: After a particularly bad drug experience in the east, David returned to the west in search of a second chance. He finds assistance with the Vietnamese and even a new girlfriend, Janet (Jennifer Sky). A television star, she turns to David's heroin and becomes sick and detached in the process. David abandons her as she presumably turns to selling his drugs to pay the bills and for her drug habit.
In the present, Mike hunts down Moon while Moon hunts down Mike. Additionally, word of a white man that accompanied David to the hospital gets out, and Moon starts to hunt him down as well. Paul, meanwhile, listens some more: After Janet, David moved on to Juanita (Reagan Gomez-Preston), a college girl with a lot of talent. Their relationship goes well as David starts to make a lot of money, but then Juanita tries his drugs. She doesn't get addicted, but she does turn out to be very selfish by refusing to move in with David, insisting that $250,000 isn't enough to retire on. Angry, David secretly switches her cocaine with heroin, getting her addicted.
Paul realizes that the money David talked about might be in David's trunk. It is, but at the same time, Moon's henchman are sprawling all over New York in search of him. Mike finally hunts down Moon and kills him when he is in the tub with two blonde women.
Back with Paul, he listens to the last tape: David leaves Juanita, but she soon comes back, addicted to heroin and begging for help. He agrees to help her out in exchange for anal sex. This brings down her dreams and causes her severe emotional distress, thus making her addictions even stronger. After awhile, she demands that he pay for her entrance to rehab or else she'll call the police.
Enraged, David decides to do the same thing he did to Edna: Mix her heroin with car battery acid, resulting in a fatal seizure for her. Through a flashback, it is revealed that David is the father of Mike, who is also Edna's child, and that David brutally hit him before poisoning Edna. The tape ends with David speculating on how his return to New York will bring about his redemption with Moon and tie the loose end with Edna's child.
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2:58pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action film directed by John Woo and starring John Travolta and Christian Slater.
Plot
Major Vic 'Deak' Deakins (John Travolta) and Captain Riley Hale (Christian Slater) are pilots in the United States Air Force. Early in the film, Deakins and Hale take off from Whiteman Air Force Base in a B-3 Bomber (a fictional advanced version of the actual B-2 Spirit stealth bomber) carrying two live nuclear weapons on an evening exercise over Utah.
During the flight, Deakins goes rogue and fights with Hale inside the cockpit, attempting to shoot him with his sidearm. After momentarily stunning Hale, Deakins ejects Hale from the cockpit, then releases the two nukes. Deliberately sabotaging the plane, Deakins notifies Colonel Max Wilkins (Delroy Lindo) that Hale 'lost it' before ejecting himself.
Natural preserve ranger Terry Carmichael, played by Samantha Mathis, finds Hale after seeing the pilot eject from the stricken aircraft. She is suspicious at first and pulls a revolver on the pilot. After a brief scuffle, Terry gives in and accepts Hale's story.
Deakins' plan is to detonate one of the weapons deep in an abandoned copper mine, then demand a ransom of $250 million to return the other, otherwise he will destroy Denver.
The race is now on to recover the bombs and stop Deakins. Hale knows Deakins better than anyone, but matching wits with a major strategist may be easier said than done.
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2:54pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
The Godfather Part III (1990) is the third and final film in the Godfather trilogy written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, and directed by Coppola. It completes the story of Michael Corleone, a Mafia godfather who tries to legitimize his criminal empire. The movie also weaves into its plot a fictionalized account of real-life events — the mysterious 1978 death of Pope John Paul I and the Papal banking scandal of 1981-1982 — and links them with each other and with the affairs of Michael Corleone. The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, and Sofia Coppola.
Plot summary
The movie begins in 1979, with a brief flashback establishing the long and tragic history of criminal activity within, and by, the Corleone family. Much has changed. Michael Corleone is now approaching 60 and feels tremendous guilt for indulging in his ruthless ambition many years ago. Although his previous conquests have made him a very rich man, the thoughts of his children, their future, happiness, and his legacy are the only things keeping him going. His adopted brother Tom Hagen is now dead. The Corleone compound at Lake Tahoe is abandoned and in disrepair. Michael and Kay divorced in 1959, and Michael gave her custody of his children, Anthony and Mary.
Michael has returned to New York City, where he is using his enormous wealth and power to restore his dignity and reputation in the eyes of the public. The violent criminal element of the Corleone family has been largely abandoned, ostracized by Michael as well as the public, which no longer romanticizes the gangster lifestyle. Michael has embraced corporate America, which is now more tolerant of Michael's nihilism. He has rebuilt the Corleone interests as a legitimate enterprise using the blood money from his gangster years. The thugs and sociopathic soldiers from Michael's past have either gone into the underground, or have been relegated to the background, serving as bodyguards for Michael and his family. Michael now struggles between repairing his fragile relationships while trying to contain the violent sociopaths that are still a part of his decaying criminal empire. In an attempt to break with the past, Michael creates a charity, the Vito Corleone Foundation, in memory of his father. At a ceremony in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, presided over by Archbishop Gilday, Michael is named a Commander of the Order of St. Sebastian. Kay, who has remarried, sits with Michael's children at the ceremony.
At the lavish party following the ceremony, Kay and Michael have a somewhat uneasy reunion. Anthony tells his father that he is going to drop out of law school to pursue a career as an opera singer. Kay supports his choice, but Michael disagrees, wishing that his son would finish law school or join the family business. Michael eventually acquiesces to Anthony's wishes. Meanwhile, Vincent Mancini, Sonny Corleone’s illegitimate son, shows up at the party. He is embroiled in a feud with Joey Zasa, the Corleone family's mafioso muscle. What remains of the old Corleone criminal empire is now under Zasa's stewardship. However, the Corleones old neighborhood in New York City is in ruins, and has become lawless. In Michael's study, Vincent and Zasa tell him about their feud. The discussion grows violent, with Vincent accusing Zasa of being an out-of-control monster who mocks Michael behind his back. Michael makes it clear that he is not "a gangster" and that whatever bad blood exists between Vincent and Joey Zasa is none of his business, and must be settled between only them. He asks the two men to make peace with one another. The two men embrace, but Zasa insults Vincent by whispering "bastardo" in his ear. Enraged, Vincent bites off part of Zasa’s ear. Zasa is escorted out and Michael scolds Vincent for his violent ways. But impressed by Vincent's passionate loyalty to protect him, Michael agrees to take his nephew under his wing. The party concludes with a family picture where Michael asks Vincent to join the rest of the family.
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2:51pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the events of the first film while also depicting the rise to power of the young Vito Corleone.
It is ranked as the third best movie of all time by the Internet Movie Database, with the movie's predecessor, The Godfather, ranked as #1, and the American Film Institute lists it as #32. The Godfather Part II is considered by many as the greatest sequel of all-time, being nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winning 6, including the Best Picture Award and the Best Supporting Actor Award. It is considered by some critics to be better than the original.
The Godfather Part II has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Plot
The Godfather Part II presents two parallel storylines. One involves Mafia chief Michael Corleone following the events of the first movie; the other is a series of flashbacks following his father, Vito Corleone, from his childhood in Sicily (1901) to his founding of the criminal Corleone Family in New York City while still a young man (1917-1925).
The film begins in 1901, in the town of Corleone in Sicily, at the funeral procession for young Vito's father, Antonio Andolini, who has been ordered killed by the local Mafia chieftain, Don Ciccio. During the procession, Vito's older brother Paolo is also murdered because he swore revenge on the Don. Vito's mother goes to Ciccio to beg him to let young Vito live. When he refuses, she holds a knife to his throat, sacrificing herself to allow Vito to escape, and Ciccio's gunmen shoot her. They scour the town for Vito, warning the sleeping townsfolk that they will regret harboring the boy. With the aid of a few of the townspeople, Vito finds his way by ship to New York. Arriving at Ellis Island, an immigration agent, mishearing Vito's hometown of Corleone as his surname, registers him as "Vito Corleone".
The film then moves into the late 1950s, to a scene similar to the opening of the first film, where Michael Corleone, Godfather of the Corleone Family, deals with various business and family problems at his Lake Tahoe, Nevada compound during an elaborate party celebrating his son's First Communion. He meets with Nevada Senator Pat Geary, who despises the Corleones, but has shown up with his wife to accept a large endowment to the state university from Michael in his son's name. During a tense negotiation, Senator Geary demands a grossly exaggerated price for a new gaming license and a monthly payment of 5% of the gross profits from all of the Corleone Family's Nevada gaming interests, to which Michael responds with a counter-offer of "nothing".
Michael also deals with his sister Connie, who, although recently divorced, is planning to marry a man with no obvious means of support, who Michael disapproves of. He also talks with Johnny Ola, the right hand man of Jewish gangster Hyman Roth, who is supporting Michael's move into the gambling industry. Finally, Michael meets with Frank "Five Angels" Pentangeli, who took over Corleone caporegime Peter Clemenza's territory after his death, and now has problems with the Rosato Brothers, who are backed by Roth. Michael refuses to allow Pentangeli to kill the Rosatos, due to his desire to prevent interruption of his business with Roth. Pentangeli leaves abruptly, after telling Michael "your father did business with Hyman Roth, your father respected Hyman Roth, but your father never trusted Hyman Roth."
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2:49pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
The Godfather is an Academy Award-winning 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and James Caan. The story spans ten years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the Corleone crime family.
The Godfather has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In addition, it is ranked as the second greatest film in American cinematic history, behind Citizen Kane, on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list by the American Film Institute. It is also the top movie on Internet Movie Database's Top 250 list, as well as #1 on Metacritic's top 100 list and in the top 10 on Rotten Tomatoes' all-time best list.
Two sequels followed The Godfather, The Godfather Part II in 1974 and The Godfather Part III in 1990.
Plot
At the wedding reception of Don Vito Corleone's daughter Connie and Carlo Rizzi in the late summer of 1945, Vito, the head of the Corleone Mafia family – who is known to his friends and associates as Godfather – and Tom Hagen, the Corleone family lawyer and consigliere (counselor), are hearing requests for favors from friends and associates, because "no Sicilian can refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day". Meanwhile, the Don's youngest son Michael, who has returned from World War II service as a decorated war hero, tells his girlfriend Kay Adams anecdotes about his father's criminal life, reassuring her that he is not like his family.
Among the guests at the celebration is the famous singer Johnny Fontane, Corleone's godson, who has come from Hollywood to petition for help in landing a movie role that will revitalize his flagging career. Jack Woltz, the head of the studio, will not give Fontane the part, but Don Corleone explains to Johnny: "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." Hagen is dispatched to California to fix the problem, but Woltz angrily tells him that he will never cast Fontane in the role, for which he is perfect, because Fontane seduced and "ruined" a starlet that Woltz favored. The next morning, Woltz wakes up to find the bloody severed head of his prize stud horse in the bed with him. Woltz gives in.
Upon Hagen's return, the family meets with Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, who is being backed by the rival Tattaglia family. He asks Don Corleone for financing and political and legal protection for the importation and distribution of heroin, but despite the huge amount of money to be made, Corleone refuses, explaining that his political influence would be jeopardized by a move into the narcotics trade. The Don's oldest son, hotheaded Sonny, who had earlier expressed to the Don his support of the family entering into the narcotics trade, breaks rank during the meeting and questions Sollozzo's assurances as to the Corleone Family's investment being guaranteed by the Tattaglia Family. His father, angry at Sonny's dissension in front of a non-family member, privately rebukes him later. Don Corleone then dispatches his top button man (hit man), Luca Brasi, to infiltrate Sollozzo's organization and report back with information.
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2:46pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Mission: Impossible III (abbreviated M:i:III) is the third film based on the television series Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise who reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt.
The film was directed by J. J. Abrams. It was first released on April 26, 2006 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and widely released in the United States on May 5, 2006. Filming began in Rome, Italy in July 2005. The film had been kept under extremely tight wraps, and very little was known of its plots or new featured characters during filming. Location filming took place in China (Shanghai, Xitang, and Zhouzhuang), Germany (Berlin), Italy (Rome and Caserta), the United States (California and Virginia), and Vatican City.
Synopsis
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has retired from being an IMF team leader, instead opting for a quiet life with his fiancée Julia (Michelle Monaghan), a hospital nurse. The film begins in medias res with Ethan and Julia held captive and threatened by an unnamed man. The narrative then rolls back five days. During his engagement party, Ethan is called in by IMF Operations Director Musgrave (Billy Crudup) for a mission. Though he initially refuses the mission, after viewing a video hidden in a disposable camera he finds out his mission is to rescue his protege, Agent Lindsey Farris (Keri Russell), who has been captured in Berlin by Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a prominent dealer in the international black market (and the apparent interrogator in the prologue). He agrees to participate in the mission and meets his team which had been selected for him consisting of Declan Gormley (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), Zhen (Maggie Q), and his partner from the first two films, Luther Stickel (Ving Rhames).
The team assaults an enemy stronghold and extract Agent Farris, but she dies when they fail to remove an explosive capsule placed inside her head prior to the rescue. At Lindsey's funeral, Ethan is notified of a "package" sent to him by Lindsey, and discovers that it is a microdot hidden in a blank postcard. Ethan discusses its possible importance with Luther and both decide to keep its existence a secret.
Using information recovered from a laptop in the Berlin mission, Ethan then decides to go after Davian himself, targeting him at a meeting in Vatican City, where a lucrative transaction involving a mysterious object, codenamed "The Rabbit's Foot", is apparently taking place. Neither of Ethan's superiors, directors Brassell (Laurence Fishburne) or Musgrave, have authorized the mission. Before leaving, Ethan reassures Julia of their relationship, and promptly marries her at the hospital in a small ceremony. The team then arrives in Rome and sets off their elaborate plan to abduct Davian, barely avoiding disaster in the process. The operation succeeds nonetheless. Ethan interrogates Davian on the flight home however he is angered by Davian's quiet but confident threats of killing his wife Julia, and attempts to throw him off the plane before being talked out of it by Stickel.
While transporting Davian across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in a convoy, Luther hands Ethan a laptop computer and plays the video message from the decoded microdot: Lindsey had discovered that Director Brassel is a mole, who has been leaking information to Davian about IMF operations. Suddenly, Ethan and his team are attacked by a squad of mercenaries who after attacking Ethan and his team using a UAV drone manage to extract Davian. Remembering Davian's threats to kill his wife, Ethan immediately rushes to the hospital where Julia works. He arrives barely moments too late and finds that Julia has already been abducted. At that moment of despair, Ethan receives a call from Davian with a proposition; he must retrieve the "Rabbit's Foot" from a facility in Shanghai within 48 hours, or his wife will be killed. Ethan, anxious to begin his mission to rescue his wife is abruptly taken into custody by the IMF (accused of masterminding the ambush). However, he manages escape with help from Musgrave who intercepted Ethan's call from Davian and instructs Ethan to go to Shanghai.
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2:43pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Mission: Impossible II, or M:I-2 as it is also known, is a 2000 film directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise, the film's producer. It is a sequel to Brian De Palma's 1996 film Mission: Impossible with Cruise returning as IMF agent Ethan Hunt.
The film finds Hunt teaming up with former partner Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton) and helicopter pilot Billy Baird (John Polson) in order to thwart the plans of former IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott). The film also stars Brendan Gleeson, Richard Roxburgh and Anthony Hopkins in an uncredited role as Hunt's overseer Swanbeck.
Plot
The movie's plot involves a virus which is named after the Chimera creature from Greek mythology. Sean Ambrose plans to release the virus and then make money from selling the antidote. Several characters use the mask disguises as in the first Mission Impossible film. The pre-title sequence involves a Boeing 747 seized over the Colorado Rockies where the virus is taken from the scientist bringing it to Atlanta. Hunt is recruited for the mission by helicopter after rock climbing to the top of a cliff. He later goes to Seville to recruit Nyah Nordoff-Hall, and sets up her false arrest so that Sean Ambrose will rescue her. The second half of the film takes place in Sydney with scenes at a race track and later at a research facility which Hunt must break into to take the virus. Ethan destroys the colture and two of three refined virus samples, before Ambrose catches him and wreaks havoc in the lab. In the end, Nyah injects herself with the virus so that she will become valuable. The finale involves a long motorcycle chase where Ethan races for the North Head where they have tracked Nyah on the GPS chip, and a final encounter in the beach with Ambrose, who is knocked unconscious after a short fight but reappears again and is shot to death by Ethan.
The plot of this film heavily borrows from the film Notorious (1946 film), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The plot of the movie and the scene at the race track bear close resemblances to Notorious. In MI:2, Tom Cruise recruits Thandie Newton to spy on Dougray Scott. Both Cruise and Dougray Scott are in love with her and Cruise is ridden with angst for putting her in such a position. The same happens in Notorious, with Cary Grant recruiting Ingrid to spy on the villian who is in love with her. and throughout the movie he is torn for doing that. Cruise and Newton exchange information at a racing track under the villian's eyes and in Notorious movie Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman do the same under similar circumstances.
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2:39pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Mission: Impossible (1996) is the first movie based on the television series Mission: Impossible. It was directed by Brian De Palma and starred Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. The movie was the third highest grossing of the year. It was followed by 2000's Mission: Impossible II and 2006's Mission: Impossible III.
Plot summary
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is an agent of an Impossible Missions Force team led by Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), which assembles for a mission in Prague to prevent an American diplomat from selling the Non-official cover (NOC) list, a comprehensive list of all IMF agents in Eastern Europe. The mission goes inextricably wrong, resulting in the deaths of the entire team, leaving Hunt the sole survivor. Fleeing the scene, Hunt meets with Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny), the CIA-based director of the IMF, at a café. Hunt, very much in shock, is disturbed to learn from Kittridge that a mole, codenamed Job, has infiltrated the IMF, and that the Prague operation was meant to ferret Job out by allowing him to acquire the NOC list and attempt to sell it to Max, an illegal arms dealer known for corrupting IMF agents. The NOC list in Prague was fake, the real list being held in CIA headquarters in Virginia. With Hunt the sole survivor, the CIA believes he is the mole. Hunt realizes this, and mounts a daring escape from the café, fleeing into Prague.
Ethan returns to the IMF safe house, where he discovers fellow IMF agent Claire Phelps (Emmanuelle Béart), Jim Phelps's wife, actually survived the mission. Ethan begins correspondence with "Max" (Vanessa Redgrave), explaining that the NOC list was a fake and offering to deliver the real NOC list in exchange for the identity of the mole. Max agrees to the deal and offers Ethan a cash advance, which Ethan uses to assemble a team of blacklisted or disavowed intelligence agents, including computer expert Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and pilot Franz Krieger (Jean Reno). The new team infiltrates the heavily fortified headquarters of the CIA in Langley and successfully steals a copy of the full NOC list before escaping to a safe house in London. Once there, Hunt discovers that his uncle and mother have been falsely arrested for drug trafficking. This infuriates Hunt, and he contacts Kittridge, who offers to drop the false charges the moment Hunt surrenders to authorities. Hunt hangs up, after allowing Kittridge to trace him to London, turns around and walks right into Jim Phelps.
Phelps, presumed dead in the Prague operation, reveals that Kittridge is the mole and is tying up loose ends by trying to apprehend Hunt. Hunt reflects on this, while in reality piecing together the clues he discovered leading up to his operation and realizes that Phelps is the mole, Job. Hunt pretends to accept the story while being uncertain about Krieger's and Claire's places in the conspiracy. The next day, Max and Ethan arrange to meet aboard the TGV en route to Paris, with Claire and Luther aboard to provide backup. Kittridge is also aboard, having recently arrived in London and received tickets for the TGV and a video watch from Hunt. In the train, Ethan delivers the supposed NOC list to Max, who directs him to the luggage compartment to find his money and Job. Max then attempts to transmit the NOC list to a server, an operation hindered by Luther, who activates a jamming device to prevent the upload. Claire, observing Kittridge's presence aboard the train, vacates her seat and meets with "Phelps" in the luggage car, confirming her part in the conspiracy. A silent "Phelps" slowly peels away his mask, revealing himself as Ethan. Suddenly, the real Phelps appears, armed and demanding the NOC list money. Ethan surrenders it before pulling out a pair of glasses. He slides them over his eyes, activating the camera inside and transmitting Phelps's image to Kittridge, proving beyond doubt that Phelps is still alive.
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1:29pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Dead Man's Shoes is a British crime thriller 2004 film directed by Shane Meadows and written by Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine.
As with all of Meadows' work, it is based in the Midlands, with the film being shot in Matlock, Derbyshire. The film stars Paddy Considine, who went on to win an Empire Award for his performance. Featuring many first-time and non-professional actors, Considine's two nephews also feature. It garnered mostly positive reviews, but did not attain any sizeable commercial success.
This movie was dedicated to the memory of Paddy Considine's father.
Plot
The story revolves around the character of Richard (Paddy Considine), a Paratrooper returning to his small home town of Matlock in the Peak District. Richard has returned home to exact revenge on his mentally disabled younger brother Anthony's (Toby Kebbell) tormentors. In the opening line of the film, Richard narrates: "God will forgive them. He'll forgive them and allow them into Heaven. I can't live with that."
Richard and Anthony camp at an abandoned farm near the town, their reminiscences of childhood interspersed with flashbacks to Anthony's ordeal at the hands of the gang youth, and Richard's subsequent revenge. This revenge starts when the gang and their leader Sonny find out about his presence. Sonny confronts Richard in a failed attempt to intimidate him. Richard's revenge begins with the older members of the gang. While they are asleep he sneaks into their house, wearing a green coat and a gas mask. He spray paints one of the two mens hair multi-coloured and paints a target on the back of the other's suit. On the same evening he enters Sonny's house and applies make up to Sonny's face.
However things soon turn nasty as Richard sneaks into a club where the gang are hiding out and playing cards and kills one of their members with an axe, using his blood to scribble the words "One Down" on the wall. The gang take their Citroën 2CV and go to the farm where Richard is staying with Anthony. Sending in Al (one of their members) to draw Richard out, Sonny prepares to shoot him with a rifle. However, he misfires and kills Al. With no bullets remaining in the gun he decides to quickly retreat and return back to town.
The surviving members return to a local petrol station where Tuff runs off, scared of Richard's revenge. The other three return home, they search the house expecting Richard to be there. However while they are upstairs Richard laces their kettle with a sizable amount of drugs taken from the gang earlier in the film. The three members become too high to be aware that Richard is in the house and he kills them one by one. He shoots Sonny in the head, punches Mark at such an angle that he is killed, and finally stabs Herbie. Before killing Herbie, he reveals having also already killed Tuff, producing his corpse in a suitcase, although it is not revealed how.
With one member of the gang left, Richard abducts him and takes him to an old outbuilding. It is now revealed that Anthony is dead, having hanged himself after being tormented by the gang. The Anthony that is seen with Richard throughout the film is in fact, a hallucination. Not wishing to kill the final member, due to his having children and not being directly responsible for Anthony's death (though not doing anything to prevent it), Richard then forces him to stab him, and dies with his revenge complete.
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1:25pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Bullet in the Head (traditional Chinese: 喋血街頭; simplified Chinese: 流血街角) is a 1990 Hong Kong action/drama co-written, produced and directed by John Woo.
A radical assault on the senses, Bullet in the Head portrays the distressing escapades of several friends cajoled, through a random act of violence, into sacrificing the idyllic innocence of youth to fanaticism and injustice of the Vietnam war. Some critics note the similarities between Woo's Bullet in the Head and Michael Cimino's 1978 Vietnam epic, The Deer Hunter
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1:19pm February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
The Departed is the 2006 Academy Award Best Picture winner and crime drama directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg. It is an American remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs. The plot of the movie is said to be partially inspired by a famous Bollywood flick Don (1978 film).
This film takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, where notorious Irish Mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello (Nicholson) plants his protégé Colin Sullivan (Damon) as an informant within the Massachusetts State Police. Simultaneously, the police assign undercover cop William Costigan, Jr. (DiCaprio) to infiltrate Costello's crew. When both sides of the law realize the situation, each man attempts to discover the other's true identity before being found out.
The film begins in South Boston and Charlestown during the Boston riots featuring a montage of documentary footage with voice-over narration by Irish mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello (Jack Nicholson). While in a local store to collect his pay-off from the owner, Costello recognizes and speaks with a young neighborhood boy named Colin Sullivan (played by Conor Donovan). Costello has the store owner give Sullivan two bags of groceries, and tells Sullivan to come around when he wants to "earn" some extra money. Sullivan later takes Costello up on the offer, and is introduced to Costello's criminal underworld at a tender age. While in his company, Costello indoctrinates Sullivan with beliefs that "a man makes his own way", and "no one gives it to you... you have to take it". Costello points out that when people tell him what to do, he makes sure "something happens to them".
Many years later, an older Colin Sullivan, (now played by Matt Damon) is finishing his training for the Massachusetts State Police with fellow classmate Barrigan (James Badge Dale). In another class are cadets Brown (Anthony Anderson) and William Costigan, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio). All four men graduate to become state troopers. Sullivan makes sergeant, and also passes the state trooper detective test. Shortly afterward, Sullivan meets with the calm and collected Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen) and the aggressive and cynical Staff Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg), and is assigned to the Special Investigations Unit ("S.I.U.") of the State Police Department. Queenan and Dignam also interview Costigan, but with a different assignment in mind. Queenan and Dignam ask Costigan Costigan, whose family had ties with the Boston underworld, to join the undercover division of S.I.U., and be placed as a mole in Costello's crew. To make his new identity believable, S.I.U. creates a false assault conviction for Costigan. Costigan then serves a four month jail sentence to comply with the sham conviction, and is placed on probation requiring psychiatry sessions with staff psychiatrist Madolyn Madden (Vera Farmiga). Costigan's police academy record and file are concealed from the department, leaving only Queenan and Dignam with any knowledge as to Costigan's true identity.
Sullivan, in the meantime, is fortuitously placed in organized-crime division of S.I.U., in an "elite unit" headed by the sardonically humorous Captain Ellerby (Alec Baldwin). The unit's only target is mob boss Frank Costello, on whom the unit gathers surveillance and information on through enhanced coordination with the FBI. Although Staff Sergeant Dignam agrees to assist Ellerby's unit, he illustrates his distrust of other department bureaus by refusing to reveal whether there are currently any police moles inside Costello's gang. Dignam instead provides only trivial information to Ellerby's unit about advanced weapon micro-processors that are believed to have been stolen by Costello.
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11:48am February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
After police officer Paio is murdered, his soul cannot be at rest for his murder has been written off as a suicide. Therefore the heavens send him back to Earth as a spirit to find his 'savior' who will help him clear his name. Hsing (Stephen Chow), a rookie officer, is the saviour and in return for finding Paio's killer, Piao must get him a girlfriend and a promotion.
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11:27am February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
All for the Winner (Chinese: 賭聖 Literal translation: "Saint of Gambling") is a 1990 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Jeff Lau and Corey Yuen.
This is the movie that launched Stephen Chow to stardom. It is a parody of the original Dou San or God of Gamblers movie which starred Chow Yun-Fat in 1989.
Plot
Sing (Stephen Chow) is a mainland China country boy who arrives in Hong Kong to visit his Uncle "Blackie Tat" (Ng Man-Tat). When Sing stays with his uncle and his friends in their apartment, Blackie soon learns of Sing's supernatural ability to see through objects and, later on, his ability to change playing cards by rubbing them. He takes advantage of this and turns Sing into the Dou Seng or the "Saint of Gamblers". After getting into a fight with several alleyway gamblers he meets the lovely Yee-Mong (lit. trans: Beautiful Dream, but euphemistically as wet dream), a henchman for the "King of Gamblers", and becomes infatuated with her. Sing quickly becomes a rival to the King and must win his way through a world competition to prove his skill.
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10:56am February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
God of Gamblers II (賭俠) (Dou Hap, literally "Knight of Gamblers") is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Wong Jing. It stars Andy Lau as Little Knife, Stephen Chow as the Saint of Gamblers, and Ng Man Tat as Blackie Tat. This movie is a sequel to both God of Gamblers, which included Andy Lau's character, and to All for the Winner, which starred Stephen Chow and Ng Man Tat. This film should not be confused with God of Gamblers Returns, also released as God of Gamblers 2, and in essence the true sequel to the original God of Gamblers.
Summary
In this movie, down on his luck, Sing (Stephen Chow), seeks out the God of Gamblers, in hopes of becoming his disciple. Unfortunately, the God of Gamblers is unreachable and out of the country, last heard to be in Brazil, and the Knight of Gamblers (Andy Lau) replaces the God of Gamblers. When a phony attempts to impersonate the Knight of Gamblers in a huge scam, it's up to the real Knight and Saint of Gamblers to team up and defeat their formidable challenger. The film combines intricate action sequences with sharp comedic timing.
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10:41am February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (traditional Chinese: 賭俠2之上海灘賭聖; simplified Chinese: 赌侠2之上海滩赌圣; pinyin: Dǔxiá èr Shànghǎi tān Dǔshèng; lit. Knight of Gamblers II: Shanghai Beach's Saint of Gamblers) is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy film, a sequel to the film God of Gamblers II. The film is directed by Wong Jing, and stars Stephen Chow and Ng Man Tat. The film does not feature the Knight of Gamblers, or the God of Gamblers. "God of Gamblers III" continues the story of the Saint of Gamblers (Chow).
Plot
After the events in God of Gamblers II, Tai-Kun who lost his ESP powers has regained the abilities again and decides to strike revenge towards Sing, the Saint of Gamblers. When Tai-Kun, with his condisciples as aids, is exerting ESP powers under full force against Sing who are doing the same, the spacetime becomes distorted and sends Tai-Kun and Sing to the 1937 Shanghai.
Meeting Sing's own grandfather Chow Tai Fook and the benign millionaire Ding Lik, Sing, in the meantime, must face the forthcoming crises arose from Ding Lik's foes and Japanese military forces, deal with his "mistaken" crush on one of a twin sisters, get to see for himself that who is the one that defeated the French "God of Gamblers" Pierre Cashon in that era - the mysterious "Comment allez-vous", and finally find out how to travel back to year 1991 Hong Kong...
Cast
* Stephen Chow - Chow Sing Cho "Saint of Gamblers"
* Ng Man Tat - Uncle Tat/Chow Tai Fook
* Gong Li - Miss Yu-San/Yu-Mong (Yu-San means "fairy-like" while Yu-Mong means "dream-like")[1]
* Sandra Ng - Spring
* Ray Lui - Ding Lik
* Chan Lung - Tiger Lui
* Cheung Man - Yee Mong
* John Ching - Tai-Kun, Devil of Gamblers
* Billy Chow - Japanese Soldier
* Charles Heung - Ng Loong "God of Guns"
* Dion Lam - One of Tai Kun's men
* Lau Shun - Eunuch Wei
* Indra Leech - Prince Of Gamblers
* Lung Fong - Wong Kam-Kwai
* Tien Feng - Mayor of Shanghai
* Barry Wong - H.K. Police Chief
* Declan Wong - Pierre Cashon, French "God of Gamblers"
* Wong Jing - H.K. Cop
* Wong Wan-Si - Japanese Officer
* Yeung Ching-Ching - Ding's Female Bodyguard
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10:37am February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Fight Back To School (simplified Chinese: 逃学威龙; traditional Chinese: 逃學威龍) is one of the more successful films Stephen Chow was able to make during his more prolific years, arguably due to the commercial and critical success of 1990s All For The Winner. The talented cast features many of Chow's would-be long-term collaborators, such as Cheung Man and Ng Man-Tat, who both starred in All For The Winner. Owing to this success, the film spawned two successful sequels and a spin-off which retained much of the cast.
Plot
Star Chow (Stephen Chow) is about to be kicked out of the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit (SDU). But a senior officer decides to give him one last chance: Star must go undercover as a student at the Edinburgh High School in Hong Kong to recover the senior officer's missing revolver.
The undercover operation is made complicated when Star is partnered with Tat - an aging, incompetent police detective (Ng Man-Tat). However, Star still manages to fall in love with Ms Ho (Cheung Man), the school's guidance counselor, as well as disrupting a gang involved in arms-dealing.
Cast and roles
* Stephen Chow - Star Chow / Chow Sing Sing
* Cheung Man - Miss Ho
* Ng Man-Tat - Tso Tat-Wah / 'Uncle' Tat
* Roy Cheung - Brother Teddy Big
* Barry Wong - Police Commissioner
* Gabriel Wong - Turtle Wong
* Paul Chun - Lam
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10:22am February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Tricky Brains (整蠱專家) is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy film written and directed by Wong Jing starring Stephen Chow, Andy Lau and Rosamund Kwan.
Summary
Stephen Chow plays the "Handsome Tricky Expert", a man who has a wide range of tricks at his disposal, including many practical jokes and some more serious tricks. When he is hired to break up a young couple, Lucy (Rosamund Kwan) and Kit (Andy Lau) he goes undercover as the long lost brother of Kit.
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* Stephen Chow
* Andy Lau
* Rosamund Kwan
* Ng Man Tat
* Chingmy Yau
* Waise Lee
* Hon Lam Baau
* Chan Pak-Cheung
* John Ching
* Charlie Cho
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10:15am February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
King of Beggars is a 1992 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Gordon Chan and David Lam, starring Stephen Chow, Cheung Man and Ng Man Tat.
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* Stephen Chow
* Cheung Man
* Ng Man Tat
* Norman Chu
* Wai Lam
* Peter Lai
* Yuen King-Tan
* Chan Pak-cheung
* Lawrence Cheng
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10:12am February 9th, 2008 By maskmanusa
Fight Back to School 2 (逃學威龍2) is a Hong Kong comedy film produced in 1992, starring Stephen Chow and Cheung Man. It was directed by Gordon Chan (Chan Car-Seung 陳嘉上).
Plot
Star Chow (Stephen Chow) is an officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit (SDU). During a meeting with his senior officer, Inspector Yip (Deannie Yip), Star jokingly suggests he wishes to be reassigned to the traffic unit.
Star immediately finds himself demoted to Constable engaging in traffic duty on the streets of Hong Kong. After being made the scapegoat for a failed high school firearms investigation, Star hastily resigns from the police.
He decides to enroll at the high school to launch his own private investigation. But Star realises the investigation won't be easy when he discovers that the bumbling, incompetent CID detective Tat (Ng Man-Tat) is also undercover at the high school.
Cast and roles
* Stephen Chow - Chow Sing Sing
* Cheung Man - Miss Ho
* Ng Man-Tat
* Athena Chu - Sandy Lai
* Deannie Yip
* Michael Chow Man-Kin - Undercover student
* Cheung Chi-Kwong - Maths teacher
* Michael Dingo - Peter
* Mark Houghton - Terrorist
* Jonathan Isgar - Terrorist
* Mark King - Terrorist
* Sau Leung 'Blacky' Ko - Belligerent hood
* Spencer Lam - Judo Teacher
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