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Aadhityan
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{"Directed by": "V. L. Bashkaraaj", "Written by": "V. L. Bashkaraaj", "Produced by": "G. R. Ethiraj R. Achuthananthan Easwari Ulaganathan P. Sujatha E. Rajan C.Kumaran", "Starring": "R. Sarathkumar Sukanya", "Cinematography": "Devchand Ren", "Edited by": "Ganesh–Kumar", "Music by": "Gangai Amaran", "Production company": "Vellore Film Associates", "Release date": "14 January 1993 ( 1993-01-14 )", "Running time": "150 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil"}
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["Aadhityan is a 1993 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by V. L. Bashkaraaj. The film stars R. Sarathkumar and Sukanya . It was released on 14 January 1993. [ 1 ]", "Aadhityan is an orphaned village blacksmith, and the villagers consider him as a rude ruffian. The neighbouring zamindar forces the villagers to leave the village, and they land in Aadhityan's village. Aadhityan helps them and then clashes with the zamindar. In the meantime, Chinna Paandi, a Tamil teacher, is engaged to teach Tamil to the Telugu girl Manga. The zamindar finally accepts the villagers in his village. Vedachellam is a gambling addict who borrows money from the zamindar. The zamindar wants his son Vinod to marry Vedachellam's daughter Rasathi. Indebted, Vedachellam reluctantly accepts the zamindar's proposal. Chinna Pandi advises Vedachellam to save the village and to have Aadhityan marry Rasathi. The drunk Aadhityan ties the thaali around Rasathi's neck. Rasathi marries Aadhityan, but she hates him.", "The soundtrack was composed by Gangai Amaran who also wrote the lyrics. [ 2 ]", "K. Vijiyan of New Straits Times said, \"if more care had been taken with the acting, it would have been remarkable\". [ 3 ] The Indian Express called it \"yet another film that spins a puerile yarn and expects the audience to lap it up, insulting their intelligence in the bargain\". [ 4 ]"]
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57,902
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Aadhi Thaalam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhi_Thaalam
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{"Directed by": "Jayadevan", "Written by": "Jayadevan", "Screenplay by": "Jayadevan", "Produced by": "K. Prasannakumar", "Starring": "Jayarekha, Jayalalitha", "Cinematography": "S. Balraj", "Edited by": "C. Mani", "Music by": "Navas", "Production company": "Karthika Movies", "Distributed by": "Karthika Movies", "Release date": "1990 ( 1990 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aadhi Thaalam is a 1990 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Jayadevan and produced by K. Prasannakumar. The film has musical score by Navas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "The music was composed by Navas and the lyrics were written by Poovachal Khader ."]
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2025-06-27 22:38:46
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57,903
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Aadhi Raat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhi_Raat
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/Aadhi_Raat.jpg/250px-Aadhi_Raat.jpg", "Directed by": "S. K. Ojha", "Starring": "Ashok Kumar Nargis Jeevan Cuckoo Kuldip Kaur", "Music by": "Husnlal Bhagatram", "Release date": "1950 ( 1950 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Aadhi Raat is an Indian Hindi -language film of 1950, directed by S. K. Ojha and starring Ashok Kumar , Nargis , Jeevan , Cuckoo , Kuldip Kaur , Neelam and Tiwari. [ 1 ] The music was composed by Husnlal Bhagatram , while Geeta Dutt , Lata Mangeshkar and Meena Kapoor were the playback singers. [ 2 ]"]
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2025-06-27 22:38:46
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57,904
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Aadhi Mimansa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhi_Mimansa
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{"Directed by": "Apurba Kishore Bir", "Written by": "Apurba Kishore Bir", "Starring": "Ashok Kumar , Mohan Gokhale, Neena Gupta", "Cinematography": "Apurba Kishore Bir", "Edited by": "Dilip Panda", "Music by": "Bhavdeep Jaipurwale", "Release date": "1991 ( 1991 )", "Country": "India", "Languages": "Odia Hindi"}
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["Aadi Mimansa ( English : A Rare Solution) is a 1991 Indian Hindi and Odia -language film directed by Apurba Kishore Bir , starring Ashok Kumar , Mohan Gokhale , Neena Gupta , Gloria Mahanty , Bijainee Misra, Nargis and Lalatendu Rath. The film marked the directorial debut of cinematographer Apurba Kishore Bir and went on to win the 1991 \n Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration and Best Cinematography for Bir. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]"]
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16 Blocks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Blocks
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5b/16_Blocks_%28movie_poster%29.jpg/250px-16_Blocks_%28movie_poster%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Richard Donner", "Written by": "Richard Wenk", "Produced by": "Avi Lerner Randall Emmett John Thompson Arnold Rifkin Jim Van Wyck", "Starring": "Bruce Willis Mos Def David Morse Cylk Cozart", "Cinematography": "Glen MacPherson", "Edited by": "Steven Mirkovich", "Music by": "Klaus Badelt", "Production companies": "Alcon Entertainment Millennium Films Cheyenne Enterprises Emmett/Furla Films The Donners' Company Equity Pictures Nu Image Films", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros. Pictures", "Release date": "March 3, 2006 ( 2006-03-03 )", "Running time": "102 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$52 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$65.7 million [ 2 ]"}
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["16 Blocks is a 2006 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner and starring Bruce Willis , Mos Def , and David Morse . The film unfolds in the real time narration method. It marked the final directed film for Donner during his lifetime [ 3 ] [ 4 ] in addition to the last acting role for his cousin and frequent collaborator Steve Kahan .", "Jack Mosley is an alcoholic, burned-out NYPD detective. Despite a grueling late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Eddie Bunker, from local custody to the courthouse sixteen blocks away to testify on a police corruption case before a grand jury at 10 a.m. Bunker tries to be friendly with Mosley, telling him of his aspirations to move to Seattle and open a bakery with his sister who he has never met, but Mosley is uninterested and insists on stopping at a liquor store.", "Hired assassins shoot up the escort car, and Mosley drags Bunker to his favorite bar to take shelter and call for backup. Mosley's former partner, Frank Nugent, and several other officers arrive. Nugent admits that he is one of the officers named in the corruption case, and that out of loyalty, Mosley should let him kill him. The corrupt cops try to frame Bunker for firing at an officer, but Mosley intervenes, rescuing Bunker and fleeing.", "Mosley briefly stops at his sister Diane's apartment and learns that the police have already approached her about his activities earlier that day. He and Bunker take steps to further elude their pursuers, and Mosley is wounded in the process. They become cornered in a run-down apartment building as Nugent and his men search floor by floor. Mosley calls the district attorney's office, but purposely gives the wrong apartment number, suspecting there is a mole involved.", "Mosley and Bunker use the distraction to escape onto a passenger bus and as the police follow them, Mosley is forced to treat the passengers as hostages. The bus crashes into a construction site and is soon surrounded by the ESU . Not wanting the passengers to get caught up in crossfire, Mosley allows them to go free while enabling Bunker to escape in the chaos. Mosley finds a tape recorder while going through the passenger's luggage and prepares a farewell message to Diane.", "To his surprise, Bunker returns to the bus; Nugent lines up a shot but is ordered to stand down. Bunker has come to see Mosley as an ally and wants to be there for him to see this through. Bunker's tenacity convinces Mosley to keep fighting, and he manages to drive the bus into an alley, temporarily blocking the police from following them. He finds that Bunker has been wounded, and calls Diane, a paramedic , for help. Diane treats Bunker and arranges for a second ambulance to take them to the hospital. Bunker learns that Mosley is also due to be named in the investigation but is willing to testify in his place. Mosley gets off a block from the courthouse and wishes Bunker luck with his bakery, instructing the paramedic to take Bunker to the Port Authority and put him on a bus for Seattle. Bunker promises to send him a cake on his birthday.", "Mosley continues to the courthouse, where the police and ESU are waiting for him as well as the district attorney. Entering through the underground garage, he again refuses Nugent's pleas not to testify. Nugent then orders one of his men to gun down Mosley as he enters, but an ESU sniper intercepts and kills the shooter. Mosley informs the district attorney that he will testify in exchange for Bunker having his record expunged, also revealing that he had recorded the conversation with Nugent in the garage on the tape recorder, which he submits as evidence.", "Two years later, Mosley is freed from prison. He celebrates his birthday with Diane and other friends and is surprised to find that the cake had indeed come from Bunker, who has been successful in starting \"Eddie & Jack's Good Sign Bakery\" in Seattle.", "Willis originally wanted rapper Ludacris to play the part of Eddie Bunker. [ citation needed ] 16 Blocks is the second film in which David Morse plays the villain to Bruce Willis as the protagonist; the first was 12 Monkeys .", "The film, released by Warner Bros. , opened in the United States on March 3, 2006.", "The film was shot with the ending written for the screenplay (as described by Donner and writer Richard Wenk ), but they realized during filming that there was \"a better opportunity to have a little more empathy and wrap the picture up in a different way.\" The ending written for the film changed the scenario in which Frank after watching Jack get in the elevator, instructs Bobby to stand down, saying it's over. But Bobby's radio is off and he is still planning on ambushing Jack. In the lobby, Jack is approached by District Attorney McDonald who says he will testify in Eddie's place in return for Eddie's record being expunged. As Jack reaches into his pocket, Bobby appears and Frank, having run upstairs to stop Bobby, leaps in front of Jack to protect him and gets shot, causing them both to fall down the stairs. When they land at the bottom it's discovered the bullet went through Frank and fatally hit Jack. The tape recorder with Jack and Frank's conversation on it is heard playing in Jack's pocket. Frank tearfully listens and looks at Jack with sorrow. The tape is taken to the jury, Frank and Bobby are led away and a blanket is placed over Jack's body. Sometime later Diane receives a cake from Eddie, supposed to be for Jack's birthday along with a letter saying he sent the cake, hoping to hear from Jack but never did. He was then informed of what happened, he acknowledges Jack and wishes him a happy birthday.", "In its opening weekend, the film grossed $ 12.7 million, which was the second-highest-grossing film of the weekend. As of its May 15, 2006 closing date, the film grossed a total of $36.895 million in the U.S. box office. It made $65.7 million worldwide. [ 2 ] According to Box Office Mojo, production costs were around $55 million. [ 5 ] The film made $51.53 million on rentals and remained on the DVD top 50 charts for 17 consecutive weeks.", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film received an approval rating of 55% approval rating from 159 critics, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The site's consensus reads: \"Despite strong performances from Bruce Willis and Mos Def, 16 Blocks barely rises above being a shopworn entry in the buddy-action genre.\" [ 6 ] On Metacritic , it has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 34 reviews, which indicates \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 7 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B+\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 8 ]", "Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice commented that \"the clichés come thick on the ground\" and called it \"a small movie trying to seem epic, or a bloated monster trying to seem lean.\" [ 9 ] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars and called Willis and Mos Def \"a terrific team,\" concluding that \"Until Richard Wenk's script drives the characters into a brick wall of pukey sentiment, it's a wild ride.\" [ 10 ] Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars and commended Mos Def for his \"character performance that's completely unexpected in an action movie,\" while calling the film \"a chase picture conducted at a velocity that is just about right for a middle-age alcoholic.\" [ 11 ] Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe described the film as admirably old fashioned, praising Donner for his direction, but criticized the film for lacking originality, saying it feels like a remake of The Gauntlet directed by Clint Eastwood . [ 12 ]", "In May 2013, Original Entertainment confirmed to have sealed a five-picture deal with Millennium Films to produce Bollywood remakes of Rambo , The Expendables , 16 Blocks , 88 Minutes , and Brooklyn's Finest , with the productions for Rambo and The Expendables expected to start at the end of that year. [ 13 ]"]
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Aadhi Haqeeqat, Aadha Fasana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhi_Haqeeqat,_Aadha_Fasana
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{"Directed by": "Dilip Ghosh", "Written by": "Jill Misquitta", "Produced by": "Ravi Malik", "Cinematography": "K. U. Mohanan", "Release date": "1990 ( 1990 )", "Running time": "88 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi /English"}
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["Aadhi Haqeeqat, Aadha Fasana (English title – Children of the Silver Screen) is a 1990 Hindi/English language Documentary Feature film directed by Dilip Ghosh and produced by Ravi Malik in association with the National Film Development Corporation of India. [ citation needed ]", "While working in advertising, Dilip Ghosh had the opportunity to work with many child actors. He had observed them closely and was inspired to tell their story. This was expressed through his docu-feature film titled Children of the Silver Screen (Hindi: Aadhi Haqeeqat Aadha Fasana) . It was a unique exploration into the world of professional child actors. Children of the Silver Screen captures the price child stars pay for glory. This effort fetched him many honors and much recognition both national and international: including the National Film Award [Special Mention] and the Special Jury Prize at Cairo International Children Film Festival. The film was showcased in over 25 International Film Festivals. [ 1 ]", "In 1990, Children of the Silver Screen won the 38th National Film Award – Special Jury Award /Special Mention (Non-Feature Film). It also won the Jury prize at the second international film festival for children's films held in 1991 at Cairo. [ 2 ]"]
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Aadhi Raat Ke Baad
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhi_Raat_Ke_Baad
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{"Born": "( 1915-06-12 ) 12 June 1915 Porbandar , Porbandar State , Kathiawar Agency , British India (present-day Gujarat , India )", "Died": "24 April 1999 (1999-04-24) (aged 83) Mumbai , Maharashtra", "Nationality": "Indian", "Other names": "Yeshwant Bhatt Batuk Bhatt", "Occupations": "Film director Film producer", "Years active": "1942–1988", "Spouse": "Hemlata Bhatt", "Partner": "Shirin Mohammad Ali", "Children": "9 (including Mahesh Bhatt , Mukesh Bhatt & Robin Bhatt )", "Relatives": "See Bhatt family"}
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["Nanabhai Bhatt (12 June 1915 – 24 April 1999) was an Indian film director and producer who worked in Hindi and Gujarati cinema . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is known for making over a hundred fantasy and mythological films, [ 3 ] including Mr. X (1957), Zimbo Comes to Town (1960), Lal Qila (1960) and the blockbuster Kangan (1959) starring Nirupa Roy and Ashok Kumar . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His first film, Muqabala (1942), was the first to feature the double-role or \"twins\" phenomenon in Indian cinema , wherein lead actress Fearless Nadia alternated between the good sister and the gangster's moll . The formula was subsequently emulated in numerous Hindi films . [ 6 ]", "Bhatt, called Yeshwant Bhatt, was born in a Nagar Brahmin family [ 7 ] on 12 June 1915 in Porbandar , British India . [ citation needed ] [ 8 ] He started his early career in films as a sound recordist with Prakash Pictures, working under his brother Balwant Bhatt, and then by writing \"scripts and stories\" using the name Batuk Bhatt. [ 9 ]", "He began his directorial venture when he joined Homi Wadia's team at Basant Pictures [ 10 ] by co-directing two films with Babubhai Mistri , Muqabala (1942) and Mauj (1943), under the same name. [ 11 ] He directed two more films as Batuk Bhatt, Homi Wadia 's Hunterwali Ki Beti (1943) and Liberty Pictures Sudhar (1949). [ 12 ] Bhatt left Basant Pictures and started his own production company \"Deepak Pictures\" in 1946. [ 10 ]", "Bhatt was the patriarch of the Bhatt film family . [ 13 ] He was in a relationship with Shia Muslim actress, Shirin Mohammad Ali since 1939. The couple had six children – Sheila Bhatt, Purnima Bhasin, Kumkum Saigal, Mahesh Bhatt , Heena Suri and Mukesh Bhatt . [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Later, Nanabhai married Hemlata Bhatt, with whom he had three children – Robin Bhatt , Parmesh Bhatt, Mamta Bhatt. [ 16 ] [ 17 ]", "He had five daughters and four sons, including film director and producer Mahesh Bhatt , Mukesh Bhatt , and Robin Bhatt . [ 18 ]", "Bhatt died at Nanavati hospital in Mumbai from heart failure on 24 April 1999. [ 19 ] [ 20 ]"]
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The 15:17 to Paris
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/The_15.17_to_Paris.png", "Directed by": "Clint Eastwood", "Screenplay by": "Dorothy Blyskal", "Based on": "The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes by Jeffrey E. Stern Spencer Stone Anthony Sadler Alek Skarlatos", "Produced by": "Clint Eastwood Jessica Meier Tim Moore Kristina Rivera", "Starring": "Anthony Sadler Alek Skarlatos Spencer Stone Judy Greer Jenna Fischer William Jennings Bryce Gheisar Paul-Mikel Williams Thomas Lennon P. J. Byrne Tony Hale", "Cinematography": "Tom Stern", "Edited by": "Blu Murray", "Music by": "Christian Jacob", "Production companies": "Warner Bros. Pictures [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Village Roadshow Pictures [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Malpaso Productions [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros. Pictures [ 2 ]", "Release date": "February 9, 2018 ( 2018-02-09 ) (United States)", "Running time": "94 minutes [ 3 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$30 million [ 4 ]", "Box office": "$57.1 million [ 5 ]"}
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["The 15:17 to Paris is a 2018 American biographical drama film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Dorothy Blyskal, based on the 2016 autobiography The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes by Jeffrey E. Stern, Spencer Stone , Anthony Sadler , and Alek Skarlatos . The film stars Stone, Sadler, and Skarlatos as themselves and follows the trio through life leading up to and including their stopping of the 2015 Thalys train attack . Judy Greer and Jenna Fischer also star.", "Eastwood's intention to adapt the autobiography into a film was announced in April 2017, from a screenplay by Blyskal, a first-time screenwriter. Though professional actors such as Kyle Gallner and Jeremie Harris were considered, Eastwood decided by July to instead cast the real-life participants of the event, and filming began in the same month.", "The 15:17 to Paris was released in the United States on February 9, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures . It received negative reviews from critics and grossed $57 million worldwide.", "Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos are attending a suburban Christian middle school. They bond over their interest in guns, and are often sent to the principal's office for disciplinary action. Once, while sent to the principal's office, they meet another student, who often misbehaves in school, Anthony Sadler , and the three become friends. Spencer and Alek are from single-mother homes, and their mothers often stick up for them when called to the principal's office regarding their misconduct.", "While working part time at a smoothie shop, Spencer waits on a recruiter for the United States Marine Corps . He asks the recruiter what military branch he would select if he could go back. The recruiter replies that the Air Force pararescue save lives and \"seem to being doing fine work in the field.\" Spencer is intrigued and decides that he wants to join up, so he begins working out to lose weight. After several months of rigorous training and exercise, he gets into better shape and enlists in the Air Force in hopes of becoming a Pararescueman.", "Upon completing basic training, Spencer takes his exams to qualify for pararescue school but is turned down due to having poor depth perception. Upset, he chooses from the other Air Force options left to him, and is soon stationed abroad. Alek enlisted in the National Guard , and has been deployed to Afghanistan. On Skype, Alek tells him that he is planning to visit his girlfriend in Germany, and the two decide to rendezvous there for their next leave. Spencer skypes Anthony, now a college student, and talks him into coming to Europe for a vacation, starting in Italy. Next, the three meet in Germany and decide to go to Amsterdam. After a few days there, they finally decide to visit France. They depart from Amsterdam Centraal station on the 15:17 train to Paris.", "On the train, all seems well, until American-born Frenchman Mark Moogalian notices that one of the toilets has been occupied for an unusually long time. When he goes to investigate, a terrorist bursts out with an assault rifle. Another passenger, Damien A., grabs the terrorist by the neck and Moogalian manages to wrest the rifle from the terrorist but is then shot in the back with a 9mm pistol. Passengers begin to flee out of their seats and rush toward the forward cabins of the train, trying to escape. Eventually, the terrorist approaches the next car, where Spencer and his friends are sitting. The moment Spencer sees him, he springs into action. He decides that his only hope, and the only hope of the remaining passengers, is for him to try to defeat the terrorist. Spencer makes a desperate all-out sprint toward the terrorist in the hope of subduing him before being shot. By remarkable luck, the terrorist's weapon jams just as he is about to fire, and Spencer tackles and disarms him. Seeing Spencer's progress in subduing the terrorist, Alek, Anthony, and other passengers join the effort to try to overwhelm the terrorist. Spencer finally knocks him out by putting him in a choke hold. Spencer then stanches the bleeding by plugging the exit wound in Moogalian's neck with his fingers. The police at the next station enter the train fully armed, discovering that Spencer has subdued the terrorist, and the paramedics begin to treat his wounds and the more serious ones of the shot passenger. Paramedics take Moogalian to the emergency room at a local hospital and he survives.", "In a formal ceremony, Spencer, Alek and Anthony are recognized as heroes of France for their gallantry and bravery by the President François Hollande , who tells the public that the terrorist was armed with over 300 rounds of ammunition with the apparent aim of using all of it to wreak havoc on all those who boarded the train. The odds of the particular misfire and jam of the cartridge in the terrorist's weapon was estimated on the scene as being less than one out of a thousand, and highly unlikely to have been in Spencer's favor. French officials at the ceremony acknowledge their bravery and award them the French Legion of Honour in recognition of their act of courage. The film ends with a parade in honour of the three friends in the town they grew up in, Sacramento .", "Additionally, Paul-Mikel Williams, Max Ivutin, Bryce Gheisar , Cole Eichenberger, and William Jennings portray younger versions of Stone, Sadler, and Skarlatos. [ 6 ]", "On April 20, 2017, it was announced that Clint Eastwood would next direct The 15:17 to Paris from a screenplay by newcomer screenwriter Dorothy Blyskal based on the book The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes . It was announced that Eastwood would begin casting immediately for a principal production start date of later that year. [ 10 ] On June 21, 2017, it was announced that Eastwood had chosen Kyle Gallner , Jeremie Harris and Alexander Ludwig to star as Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone although offers had not yet been made. [ 11 ]", "On July 11, 2017, it was announced that Eastwood had cast Sadler, Skarlatos and Stone as themselves in the film which will \"begin during their childhood and show their friendship leading up to the moment that changed their lives\". [ 6 ] It was also announced that the film had commenced principal production. [ 12 ] On July 13, 2017, Tony Hale and Thomas Lennon joined the cast as staff members of a school the lead three men attended as children. [ 9 ] On August 1, 2017, Sinqua Walls was cast in the film for an unspecified role. [ 13 ] Mark Moogalian and Isabelle Risacher Moogalian were also cast as themselves in the film. Eastwood finished shooting in Atlanta , Georgia on August 2, 2017. [ 14 ]", "The film's release date of February 9, 2018 was announced by Warner Bros. on October 24, 2017. [ 15 ]", "The film was released in the United States on February 9, 2018. [ 16 ] The film was originally rated R by the MPAA for \"a sequence of violence and bloody images\", but received a PG-13 rating upon appeal. [ 17 ]", "The trailer for the film was released on December 13, 2017, two months before the film's general release. [ 18 ]", "The 15:17 to Paris was released on HD digital copies on May 1, 2018. [ 19 ] The film was then released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 22, 2018. [ 20 ]", "The 15:17 to Paris grossed $36.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $20.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $56.9 million, against a production budget of $30 million. [ 5 ]", "In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Peter Rabbit and Fifty Shades Freed , and was projected to gross $10–15 million from 3,042 theaters in its opening weekend. [ 21 ] It ended up making $12.6 million, finishing third at the box office behind its two fellow releases. [ 22 ] The film dropped 40% in its second weekend to $7.6 million ($8.9 million over the four-day Presidents Day weekend), finishing fifth. [ 23 ]", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 24% based on 167 reviews, and an average rating of 4.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \" The 15:17 to Paris pays clumsily well-intentioned tribute to an act of heroism, but by casting the real-life individuals involved, director Clint Eastwood fatally derails his own efforts.\" [ 24 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 45 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". [ 25 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B−\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 22 ]", "Kevin P. Sullivan of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a grade of D, praising the train attack scene as \"thrillingly shot and edited\" while criticizing the entire lead-up to it as filler. Sullivan emphasized that \"The entire script is replete with [clunky and unsubtle] dialogue... doing no favors for the inexperienced actors.\" [ 26 ] Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film two out of four stars, stating that \"[a] good 70% of [ The 15:17 to Paris ] is inert, its affable nothingness redeemed only by the laid-back charisma of three men\", although he praised the film's \"poker-faced sincerity\" and the \"superb\" climactic train scene. [ 27 ] A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave the film a positive review and wrote, \"[Eastwood's] workmanlike absorption in the task at hand is precisely what makes this movie fascinating as well as moving. Its radical plainness is tinged with mystery.\" [ 28 ]", "The 15:17 to Paris was nominated for Best Drama TV Spot (for a Feature Film) at the 2018 Golden Trailer Awards . [ 29 ] [ 30 ] At the Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2018 , it received a nomination for Best Worst Film. [ 31 ] [ 32 ]"]
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15 Lads
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/15_Lads_%282011%29_film_poster.jpg/250px-15_Lads_%282011%29_film_poster.jpg", "French": "Nos résistances", "Directed by": "Romain Cogitore", "Written by": "Romain Cogitore", "Produced by": "Tom Dercourt [ 1 ] Sophie Erbs [ 1 ]", "Starring": "François Civil Grégoire Colin Grégory Gatignol Jules Sitruk Jules Sadoughi Ralph Amoussou Juliette Lamboley Michel Vuillermoz", "Cinematography": "Thomas Ozoux [ 1 ]", "Edited by": "Nathalie Langlade [ 1 ]", "Music by": "Julien Lourau [ 1 ]", "Production company": "Cinéma Defacto [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Distributed by": "Shellac Distribution [ 1 ]", "Release date": "5 January 2011 ( 2011-01-05 ) (France) [ 3 ]", "Running time": "86 min [ 3 ]", "Country": "France [ 3 ]", "Language": "French [ 3 ]"}
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["15 Lads ( French : Nos résistances ) is a 2011 French World War II drama film [ 3 ] written and directed by Romain Cogitore in his feature film directorial debut, inspired by the real-life experiences of his grandfather, Antoine Cogitore, as a French Resistance fighter when he was a teenager. It stars François Civil as a 19-year-old carefree rescuer who joins a group of 15 young men from the French Resistance in 1944. [ 3 ] The film was released theatrically in France by Shellac Distribution on 5 January 2011. [ 3 ]", "For his performance in the film, François Civil was selected as one of the Revelations of the 2012 César Awards and was on the longlist for a pre-nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actor . [ 4 ]", "15 Lads was Romain Cogitore 's feature film directorial debut. [ 6 ] The film was inspired by the real-life experiences of Cogitore's grandfather, Antoine Cogitore, who was a resistance fighter during World War II in the Maquis of Grande Chartreuse when he was 17 years old. [ 7 ] Antoine's voice taken from a conversation between him with the director is featured at the end of the film. [ 7 ] \"I find his film very good. It was made by a young person for young people. I was overwhelmed, especially when I heard my voice at the end of the film. I didn't know that he had kept an extract of my conversation with him\", Antoine said of the film in 2011. [ 7 ]", "The film was shot in Alsace [ 8 ] and Vosges , [ 7 ] between August and September 2009. [ 9 ]"]
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15: The Movie
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/15film.jpg", "Directed by": "Royston Tan", "Written by": "Royston Tan", "Produced by": "Tan Fong Cheng Eric Khoo", "Starring": "Shaun Tan Melvin Chen Erick Chun Vynn Soh Melvin Lee", "Cinematography": "Lim Ching Leong", "Edited by": "Jeff Stevens Nigel Fernandez", "Music by": "Yellowbox", "Distributed by": "Zhao Wei Films", "Release date": "27 April 2003 ( 2003-04-27 )", "Running time": "96 minutes", "Country": "Singapore", "Languages": "Hokkien Mandarin"}
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["15 is a 2003 Singaporean coming-of-age black comedy-drama film about teenage gangsters in the Singapore suburbs. Directed by Royston Tan , the film is an expanded version of Tan's 2002 award-winning short film, also titled 15 . It is one of the few Singaporean films to feature brief full-frontal male nudity, together with the Singaporean-Thai film Pleasure Factory and the Singaporean-Hong Kong film Bugis Street .", "The film stars three real-life juvenile gangsters, all aged 15, giving an accurate depiction of Chinese teenage gang-life in the Singapore suburbs. The 2003 film features two more gangsters as characters as well as a fight sequence with more affluent English-educated Singapore youths. Rather than scripting the movie or employing professional actors, Tan attempted to capture the troubled lives of his characters in realistic fashion, apparently without much prior scripting.", "In Singapore, the film premiered during the 2003 Singapore International Film Festival . [ 1 ] \nIn 2003, it premiered in Canada during the Montreal World Film Festival , [ 1 ] and in Britain during the London Film Festival . [ 1 ] In 2004, it premiered in the United States during the Sundance Film Festival , [ 1 ] and in Australia during the Sydney Film Festival . [ 1 ] The film also saw its first US theatrical release in New York City on 13 April 2005. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "In Singapore, the film is distributed by Zhao Wei Films. In North America, it is distributed by Picture This! Entertainment. [ 3 ]", "While the Media Development Authority (MDA) ruled that the film should be passed uncut under the then R(A) rating, the Singapore Police Force was concerned that fights could break out given the use of real gang names, locations and secret society chants in the movie, requesting cuts/edits to be made through the MDA for law and order reasons. [ 4 ] Under pressure, Royston Tan ended up making reportedly 27 cuts to the film. [ 5 ] Opposition was also raised against the heavy use of Hokkien in the film, [ citation needed ] which is discouraged by the Singapore government in favour of Mandarin and English . These restrictions infuriated Tan, and later led him to create his satirical short film Cut . [ 5 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 50% based on 10 reviews. [ 6 ] On Metacritic the film has a score of 47% based on six reviews, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. [ 7 ]", "The film has been advertised outside of Singapore in gay publications, due to the heavy homoerotic tension between the characters. However, in an interview segment of the DVD Royston's Shorts , a collection of Tan's short films, Tan affirms that the boys whose lives he portrayed do not identify as gay."]
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15 August (2019 film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/13/15_August_%282019_film%29.jpg/250px-15_August_%282019_film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Swapnaneel Jaykar", "Produced by": "Madhuri Dixit", "Starring": "Mrinmayee Deshpande Adinath Kothare", "Distributed by": "Netflix", "Release date": "29 March 2019 ( 2019-03-29 )", "Running time": "124 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Marathi"}
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["15 August is a 2019 Indian Marathi-language drama film directed by Swapnaneel Jaykar and produced by Madhuri Dixit . The film features Rahul Pethe, Mrinmayee Deshpande and Adinath Kothare in the lead roles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "The film was released on 29 March 2019 on Netflix .", "In Mumbai, [ 4 ] a crazy accident sets in motion a love story between Raju and Jui on India's Independence Day. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Also, the residents of the chawl where the action takes place unite to help a little boy in trouble. [ 7 ]", "The reception of Bucket List , in which Dixit appeared, prompted her to make a film in Marathi language . Instead of opening the movie in theaters, 15 August was shown to Netflix, who liked the idea. [ 8 ] It was released on 29 March 2019. [ 9 ]"]
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15 Minutes
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/15_Minutes_%28movie_poster%29.jpg/250px-15_Minutes_%28movie_poster%29.jpg", "Directed by": "John Herzfeld", "Written by": "John Herzfeld", "Produced by": "Keith Addis David Blocker John Herzfeld Nick Wechsler", "Starring": "Robert De Niro Edward Burns Kelsey Grammer Avery Brooks Melina Kanakaredes", "Cinematography": "Jean-Yves Escoffier", "Edited by": "Steven Cohen", "Music by": "Anthony Marinelli J. Peter Robinson [ 1 ]", "Production companies": "TriBeCa Productions New Redemption Pictures", "Distributed by": "New Line Cinema (Overseas) Kinowelt Filmverleih (Germany)", "Release date": "March 9, 2001 ( 2001-03-09 )", "Running time": "120 minutes", "Countries": "United States [ 2 ] Germany [ 2 ]", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$42 million [ 3 ]", "Box office": "$56.4 million [ 4 ]"}
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["15 Minutes is a 2001 satirical buddy cop action thriller film directed and written by John Herzfeld and starring Robert De Niro and Edward Burns . Its story revolves around a homicide detective (De Niro) and a fire marshal (Burns) who join forces to apprehend a pair of Eastern European murderers ( Karel Roden and Oleg Taktarov ) videotaping their crimes in order to become rich and famous. The title is a reference to the Andy Warhol quotation, \" In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes .", "Ex-convicts Emil Slovak and Oleg Razgul arrive in the United States to claim their part of a bank heist in eastern Europe . Oleg steals a video camera from an electronics store. At the rundown apartment of their old partner, they are denied their share of the spoils, so Emil fatally stabs the partner and his wife as Oleg tapes it with the camera. Czech immigrant Daphne Handlova witnesses the murders from the bathroom, then escapes before Emil and Oleg can kill her as well. To hide the crime, Emil burns down the apartment.", "Jordy Warsaw is a New York City arson investigator assigned to the case. Also at the scene is Eddie Flemming, a high-profile detective who is followed by his girlfriend Nicolette Karas, a reporter from the tabloid TV show Top Story . Flemming and Warsaw agree to work the case together. While checking out the crowd, Warsaw spots Daphne trying to get his attention, but she disappears. Meanwhile, Emil calls an escort service and asks for a \"Czech girl.\" Oleg tapes Emil as he kills the escort and learns the address of the escort service. Oleg continually films everything, claiming he wants to be the next Frank Capra .", "Flemming and Warsaw investigate this murder and visit the escort service. The madam, Rose Hearn, tells them that the girl Warsaw described doesn't work for her but rather a hairdresser. She mentions a couple of other guys having just asked her the same questions. Flemming and Warsaw arrive at the hair salon just after Emil and Oleg have warned Daphne to keep quiet. Flemming notices Oleg filming them from across the street. In the ensuing foot chase, Flemming's regular partner Leon Jackson is hit with a glass bottle and his wallet and gun are stolen. Emil finds a card with Flemming's name and address. He becomes jealous of Flemming's celebrity status and is convinced that anyone in America can get away with anything.", "On the night Flemming plans to propose to Nicolette, Oleg and Emil sneak into his apartment and bind Flemming to a chair. While Oleg is recording, Emil explains that he plans to kill Flemming and sell the tape to Top Story . After getting himself committed to an insane asylum , Emil will declare that he is actually sane. Since he can't be tried again, he will get off, collecting royalties from books and movies based on his crimes. Flemming attacks them with his chair (while still taped to it), but Emil gets the upper-hand and stabs him in the chest, mortally wounding him. Emil then suffocates and kills Flemming with a pillow.", "The entire city is in a state of mourning. Emil sells the tape of Flemming's murder to Top Story anchor Robert Hawkins in exchange for $1 million, outraging Warsaw and the entire police force. Emil and Oleg watch the tape's broadcast on Top Story inside a Planet Hollywood ; customers realize that Emil and Oleg are sitting with them and panic. Police arrive and arrest Emil, while Oleg escapes. Warsaw takes Emil to an abandoned warehouse to kill him, but other police arrive just in time and take Emil into custody. Everything goes as planned for Emil, now a celebrity who is pleading insanity. His lawyer Bruce Cutler agrees to work for 30% of the royalties Emil will receive for his story. Meanwhile, in hiding, Oleg becomes jealous of the notoriety that Emil is receiving.", "While Cutler is leading Emil away out of court to be transferred to a mental institution, Warsaw provokes an argument, with the Top Story crew recording the whole thing. Oleg quietly approaches Hawkins and hands him the tape of Emil explaining his plan to Flemming, proving he was sane the whole time. Hawkins shouts out to Emil about the evidence in his possession. Ticked off for not getting any praise, Oleg pulls out a gun and opens fire at Emil, only hitting Cutler and a policeman. Emil then grabs the policeman's gun, shoots and mortally wounds Oleg and grabs Nicolette, threatening to kill her unless the police drop their weapons. Against orders, Warsaw shoots Emil a dozen times in the chest, killing him and avenging Flemming's murder. Hawkins rushes to Oleg's side as he dies. He attempts to get a comment from Warsaw, who punches him and walks away as the police all smile with approval.", "The film was shot on location in New York City and Los Angeles from May to July 1999. It was originally slated to be released by New Line Cinema in the spring of 2000, with theatrical trailers appearing in late 1999. For reasons unknown, the film was pulled from the spring 2000 schedule and then delayed until the following year, on March 9, 2001.", "The film grossed $24,403,552 domestically in the United States and Canada. It made a further $31,956,428 internationally, for a worldwide total of $56,359,980 against a production budget of $42 million; it was a box office bomb . [ 4 ]", "Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 32% based on reviews from 125 critics, with an average rating of 4.42/10. The site's consensus reads, \"As critical as it is about sensationalism in the media, 15 Minutes itself indulges in lurid violence, and its satire is too heavy-handed to be effective.\" [ 5 ] It currently holds a 34 out of 100 rating on Metacritic , based on 32 critical reviews, indicating \"generally unfavorable\" reviews. Audiences gave a C+ CinemaScore . [ 6 ]", "Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave it three out of four stars, calling it \"a cynical, savage satire about violence, the media and depravity.\" Ebert felt \"It doesn't have the polish of \" Natural Born Killers \" or the wit of \" Wag the Dog ,\" but it's a real movie, rough edges and all, and not another link from the sausage factory.\" [ 7 ]", "On the negative side, Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post wrote:", "Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly stated: \"At the movies, we're now bamboozled into expecting not drama but sensation, and so it's no surprise that the plot of a movie like 15 Minutes is less an end in itself than an excuse, a jumping-off point for showy, contrived, borderline-exploitation sequences that fail to tie together because they're not really there to do anything but sell themselves as money-shot thrills. ... 15 Minutes is a glum and sadistic mess.\" [ 9 ]"]
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/1492film.jpg", "Directed by": "Ridley Scott [ 1 ]", "Written by": "Roselyne Bosch", "Produced by": "Alain Goldman Ridley Scott", "Starring": "Gérard Depardieu Armand Assante Sigourney Weaver", "Cinematography": "Adrian Biddle", "Edited by": "William M. Anderson Françoise Bonnot Les Healey Armen Minasian Deborah Zeitman", "Music by": "Vangelis", "Production companies": "Gaumont Légende Entreprises France 3 Cinéma Due West CYRK Films", "Distributed by": "Gaumont Distribution (France) Lauren Films (Spain) Guild Film Distribution (United Kingdom)", "Release dates": "8 October 1992 ( 1992-10-08 ) ( Spain ) 12 October 1992 ( 1992-10-12 ) ( France ) 23 October 1992 ( 1992-10-23 ) ( United Kingdom )", "Running time": "156 minutes", "Countries": "France Spain United Kingdom", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$47 million", "Box office": "$7.191 million (US) [ 2 ] $59 million [ 3 ] (worldwide) [ 4 ]"}
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["1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott , produced by Alain Goldman , written by Roselyne Bosch and starring Gérard Depardieu , Armand Assante , and Sigourney Weaver . It portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on Indigenous peoples .", "The film was released to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage. [ 5 ] The premiere debuted less than two months after Christopher Columbus: The Discovery by John Glen , often leading to confusion between the two films. The film received mixed to negative reviews, with particular criticism aimed at the film's historical inaccuracies, though the music score composed by Vangelis has garnered praise on its own merit.", "Aware that the world is round, Christopher Columbus lobbies for a trip westward to Asia, but lacks a crew and ship. The Catholic theologians at the University of Salamanca heavily disapprove of Columbus's plan, not being keen on ideas that go against the writings of Ptolemaeus . Columbus is approached by Martín Pinzón , a shipowner from Palos , who introduces him to the banker Santángel , to whom Queen Isabella I owes money. Columbus meets with the queen, who grants him his journey in exchange for his promise to bring back sufficient amounts of riches in gold.", "Columbus deceives many crewmen by telling them that the voyage will only last seven weeks. Three ships pass. Nine weeks go by with no sign of land. The crew becomes restless and edges toward mutiny . He tries to reinvigorate them with an inspiring speech, coinciding with a fast wind, which goads the men to return to their duties. At night, Columbus notices mosquitoes on the deck, indicating that land is not far off. Suddenly, out of the mist they see the lush vegetation and sandy beaches of Guanahani .", "The Europeans befriend the local natives, who show them gold they have collected. Columbus teaches one of them Spanish so that they are able to communicate. He then informs them that he will return to Spain, which will be followed by the arrival of many more Europeans. Columbus leaves behind a group to begin the colonisation of the Americas . Back in Spain, he receives a high honour from the queen and has dinner with the council. They express disappointment with the small amount of gold he brought back, but the queen approves of his gifts. On the second expedition, Columbus takes 17 ships and over 1,000 men with him to the island; however, all the crewmen left behind are found to have been killed. When the tribe is confronted by Columbus and his troops, they tell him that another tribe came and killed them. Columbus chooses to believe them, but his arrogant aristocratic subordinate Moxica is not convinced. They begin to build the city of La Isabela and eventually manage to hoist the town bell into its tower.", "Four years later, the natives are being forced to mine for gold. Moxica punishes one who fails to find any gold by cutting off his hand. The word of this act of violence spreads throughout the native tribes and they all disappear into the forest. Columbus begins to worry about a potential war, with the natives heavily outnumbering them. Upon return to his home, he finds his house set ablaze by Moxica and his followers, confirming his unpopularity among a certain faction of the settlers. Soon, the tribes arrive to fight the Spaniards and the island becomes war-torn. The settlers fight among themselves; Columbus' faction eventually prevails over Moxica's. Rather than be captured, Moxica commits suicide. Columbus' governorship is reassigned with orders for him to return to Spain.", "Columbus is accused of nepotism and offering administrative positions to his personal friends, thereby injuring the pride of the nobles such as Moxica; he is replaced by de Bobadilla . Columbus returns to Castile to be imprisoned, but is bailed out by his sons. When he is summoned by the queen, she is reluctantly convinced to allow him to make another voyage, with the proviso that he neither take his brothers nor return to the colonies. As an old man, Columbus is virtually forgotten in Spain, with the discovery of the New World being credited to Amerigo Vespucci . Columbus's son Ferdinand asks his father to tell him his story so he can transcribe it.", "Renowned Greek composer Vangelis composed the score. Its main theme, \" Conquest of Paradise \", was used by former Portuguese Prime-Minister António Guterres at his 1995 election and it was used by the Portuguese Socialist Party as its campaign and rally anthem, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] although it was replaced by the main theme from Gladiator (another Ridley Scott film) since the first José Sócrates legislative elections campaign, [ 9 ] which doesn't prevent the theme from still being deeply associated with the Socialist Party. [ 10 ] Despite the film's dismal box office intake in the United States, the film's score became a successful album worldwide.", "Russia used it in the 2nd round of the 1996 Russian presidential election . [ 11 ] [ clarification needed ]", "The theme is also used at the starting line of the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc ultramarathon. The German boxer Henry Maske (former world champion ( IBF ) in the Light heavyweight category) used the main theme as his official entry theme during his professional career.", "Other usages of the theme include New Zealand Super 15 Rugby franchise the Canterbury Crusaders , as they run onto the field, often accompanied by actors dressed as knights and riding on horseback, the Northampton Saints rugby team for their entrance into the Franklins Gardens stadium and rugby league team Wigan Warriors who play in the Super League , as well as being played before the start of every match in the 2010 and 2014 cricket World Twenty20 championships as well as the 2011 Cricket World Cup . In these events the theme was played right before the national anthems of the two competing nations, as the flags of the two nations were carried into the ground, accompanied by the players of the two teams.", "The theme was also played in the Top Gear: US Special and became a signature piece for World Professional Champion figure skaters Anita Hartshorn and Frank Sweiding. In Lebanon it has been used almost at every wedding since its release until now, mostly used as starter music before the arrival of the bride and the groom.", "1492: Conquest of Paradise opened on 66 screens in Spain, grossing $1 million in its first five days [ 12 ] ($2.2 million today). [ 4 ] In the United States and Canada, it was released by Paramount Pictures on 9 October 1992 in 1,008 theaters. The version released there was edited to 150 minutes, with some violence and brutality removed in order to achieve a PG-13 rating. [ 13 ] The film was a flop in the United States, debuting at number 7 with a gross of $3,002,680 (about $6.7 million today), [ 4 ] worse than the opening of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery earlier in the year, and went on to gross just $7 million [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] ($15.7 million today). [ 4 ] It opened in France on 12 October 1992, grossing $1.46 million for the weekend ($3.3 million today) [ 4 ] from 264 screens. [ 12 ] In its second week in Europe, it was the highest-grossing film with a gross of over $7.7 million ($17.3 million today), [ 4 ] including $1.77 million in its opening week in Germany ($4 million today) [ 4 ] from 213 screens. It did not open well in Italy, with only $261,800 in its opening weekend ($586,600 today) [ 4 ] from 33 screens. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] By the end of 1992, it had grossed $40 million internationally ($89.6 million today), [ 4 ] , including $17 million in France and €3 million in Spain, [ 19 ] [ 20 ] for a worldwide total of $47 million [ 21 ] ($105.3 million today). [ 4 ] It went on to gross $59 million [ 22 ] ($132.2 million today). [ 4 ]", "Director Ridley Scott later blamed the movie's failure on Americans not understanding European accents: \"They don't hear shit unless it's from Texas or America, right?\" and reflected: \"It's one of my favorite films. What's interesting, they didn't know how to release it in America. But in Europe, it clocked $57 million.\" [ 23 ] In 2024, he give a similar statement: \"I'm very proud of 1492 , with Gérard Depardieu. The problem with Gérard is he doesn't speak very good English and I didn't have the heart to say, 'Gérard we need to [re-record all your lines].' I'm trying to resurrect 1492 because it's so beautifully shot and acted and scored. I'm trying to resurrect it as a four-hour [movie] for a streaming platform. Now if I asked, 'Gérard, can we ADR you with Kenneth Branagh?' he'd probably say, 'Yeah, of course. ' \" [ 24 ]", "Overall, 1492: Conquest of Paradise received mixed to negative reviews from critics, with the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a 30% rating based on 23 reviews with the critical consensus: \"Historically inaccurate and dramatically inert, Ridley Scott's retelling of Christopher Columbus' exploits is an epic without grandeur or insight\". [ 25 ] However, film critic Roger Ebert said that the film was satisfactory, and that \"Depardieu lends it gravity, the supporting performances are convincing, the locations are realistic, and we are inspired to reflect that it did indeed take a certain nerve to sail off into nowhere just because an orange was round.\" [ 26 ] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of \"B+\" on scale of A+ to F. [ 27 ]", "In a more typical review of the day, Desson Howe of The Washington Post said that \"despite Scott's trademark, spectacular imagery, the story's dead in the water. Actually, there's no story. It's all eye-dizzying hyperbole, with astounding camerawork, fancy editing and a moody flamenco guitar-meets-synthesizer soundtrack by avant-garde musician Vangelis.\" [ 28 ] A reviewer for Variety wrote that \"Ridley Scott's vaunted visuals can't transform 1492 from a lumbering, one-dimensional historical fresco into the complex, ambiguous character study that it strives to be.\" [ 29 ] Chris Hicks of the Salt Lake City -based Deseret News wrote that \"Scott, the accomplished director of ' Alien ,' ' Blade Runner ' and ' Thelma & Louise ,' among others, has imbued this film with great visual style, and the sets, costumes and general atmosphere are fascinating. In fact, there is much to recommend on a technical level. But '1492' is, unfortunately, plagued with narrative problems that make it a less than successful cinematic voyage.\" [ 30 ] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that \"at 2.5 hours, 1492 is even harder to sit through than last month’s schlock extravaganza Christopher Columbus: The Discovery . In each case the filmmakers have fallen into a similar trap. Out of some vague mixture of historical 'duty' and commercial myopia, they’ve presented Columbus as the same cardboard visionary we learned about in school. Whether or not that image has a core of truth, are there really many people who want to experience it all over again at the movies? Watching 1492 is about as exciting as doing your homework.\" [ 31 ]", "The film was accused of promoting the Spanish black legend . [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/1408poster.jpg/250px-1408poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Mikael Håfström", "Screenplay by": "Matt Greenberg Scott Alexander Larry Karaszewski", "Based on": " 1408 \" by Stephen King", "Produced by": "Lorenzo di Bonaventura", "Starring": "John Cusack Samuel L. Jackson Mary McCormack Tony Shalhoub", "Cinematography": "Benoît Delhomme", "Edited by": "Peter Boyle", "Music by": "Gabriel Yared", "Production companies": "Dimension Films Di Bonaventura Pictures", "Distributed by": "The Weinstein Company [ 1 ] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer", "Release date": "June 22, 2007 ( 2007-06-22 )", "Running time": "104 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$25 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$133 million [ 1 ]"}
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["1408 is a 2007 American psychological horror film based on Stephen King 's 1999 short story . It was directed by Mikael Håfström , written by Matt Greenberg , Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski , and stars John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson .", "The film follows Mike Enslin, an author who investigates allegedly haunted locales . Enslin receives an ominous warning not to enter room 1408 at a fictional New York City hotel, The Dolphin. Although skeptical of the paranormal , he is soon trapped in the room, where he experiences bizarre and frightful events.", "1408 was released in the United States on June 22, 2007, by The Weinstein Company and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Reviews were generally positive and it was a box-office success, grossing $133 million against a production budget of $25 million.", "Mike Enslin is a cynical and skeptical author of niche books about supernatural events, in which he has no belief. While promoting his latest book in Hermosa Beach, California , he receives an anonymous postcard depicting The Dolphin, a hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City , bearing the message: \"Don't enter 1408.\" Viewing this as a challenge, Mike travels to The Dolphin and requests room 1408. The hotel manager , Gerald Olin, attempts to discourage him. He explains to Mike that in the last 95 years, no one has lasted more than an hour inside of 1408; the latest count is 56 deaths. Olin repeatedly and impassionately attempts to dissuade and even bribe Mike, but at Mike's insistence and threat of legal action against the hotel, preparations are reluctantly made.", "While Mike describes the room's boring appearance and absence of supernatural behavior on his mini-cassette recorder as the \" banality of evil \", the clock radio suddenly starts playing The Carpenters ' \" We've Only Just Begun \", and the digital display changes to a countdown starting from 60:00. Mike begins to see ghosts of the room's past victims, along with flashbacks of his deceased daughter Katie and his terminally ill father. Mike makes numerous attempts to leave the room, all in vain. As the temperature in the room starts to rapidly increase, Mike uses his laptop to contact his estranged wife Lily and ask for help. The heat activates the sprinkler system , short-circuiting the laptop, which starts to work again when the temperature drops to subzero. A doppelgänger of Mike appears in a video chat window, urging Lily to come to the hotel room herself and giving Mike a sly wink.", "The room starts to shake violently, causing Mike to crash into a picture of a ship in a storm, from which water floods the room. He finds himself reliving a surfing accident from before he entered the room. Recovering in the hospital, he reconciles with Lily and assumes his experience in 1408 was just a nightmare; Lily encourages him to write a book about it. When visiting the post office to send the manuscript to his publisher, he recognizes members of a construction crew as Dolphin Hotel staff, who start destroying the walls, revealing that Mike is still trapped inside 1408. Katie's ghost confronts him, and when the countdown ends, the room restores itself and the clock radio resets to 60:00.", "A female voice calling herself \"hotel operator\" calls Mike. Mike asks why he has not been killed yet and she informs him that guests enjoy free will: he can relive the past hour over and over again, or use their \"express checkout system\". A hangman's noose appears, but he refuses to give in. Mike improvises a Molotov cocktail and sets the room on fire. He then lies down and laughs in victory upon destroying the room. The hotel is evacuated and Olin, in his office, praises Mike for his actions.", "There are three endings to this film. In addition to the ending that appears in the theatrical release (also the default ending of the DVD), two other alternative endings were shot.", "This is the default ending of the theatrical release and its theatrical release DVD.", "Mike survives and reconciles with Lily, though Lily is skeptical of his experience. She finds a box of Mike's possessions that were rescued from 1408 and Mike takes the damaged mini-cassette recorder from it, saying: \"Sometimes you can't get rid of bad memories. You've just got to live with them.\" Mike briefly tampers with the recorder, making it work again. Suddenly, they both hear Katie's voice coming from it, confirming Mike's account.", "An alternative version of this ending has the same events but Lily doesn’t acknowledge hearing Katie's voice on the tape and only Mike's reaction is shown.", "Director Mikael Håfström said the ending of 1408 was reshot because test audiences felt the original was a \"downer\". [ 2 ]", "The original discarded ending had Mike dying in the fire, but happy to see the room destroyed. He spitefully laughs as the room screams in agony, and everything burns and crashes on top of him. At Mike's funeral, Olin approaches Lily and Mike's publisher Sam Farrell. He unsuccessfully attempts to give her a box of Mike's possessions, including the tape recorder. Olin claims that the room was successfully destroyed and that it will no longer hurt anyone else. He later listens to the recording in his car and is saddened when he hears Katie's voice on the tape. He sees a little girl in a dress walking on the cemetery grass behind the car, calling out as if she is lost. He then sees Mike's burnt corpse in the backseat. Then he sees the same girl holding hands with her father as they walk away. Olin places the tape recorder back in the box and drives off. The final scene is of the gutted room, where an apparition of Mike assesses the death of the entity while smoking a cigarette. He hears his daughter calling for him and disappears as he walks toward the door. A door is heard closing and the scene fades, indicating that in death, Mike has freed all of the souls.", "This ending is the default ending on the Blu-ray release and two-disc collector's edition. Canadian networks Space and The Movie Network , and U.S. network FX broadcast this version of the film. Space broadcast the theatrical ending on July 23, 2012. This ending is also used on the U.K. and Australian DVDs, and the U.S. iTunes and Netflix versions of the film.", "Mike dies in the fire. Instead of the funeral scene from the director's cut, the sounds of a funeral are dubbed over shots of Los Angeles . Lily and Sam sort through Mike's effects. Sam returns to his New York office and discovers the manuscript that Mike wrote while he was in room 1408. As Sam reads the story, audio from Mike's experiences in the room is heard. In a final scene, Sam's office doors slam shut and Mike's father's voice says: \"As you are, I was. As I am, you will be.", "In November 2003 and 2004, Dimension Films optioned the rights to the 1999 short story \" 1408 \" by Stephen King . The studio hired Matt Greenberg to adapt the story into a screenplay. [ 3 ] In October 2005, Mikael Håfström was hired to direct, with the screenplay being rewritten by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski . [ 4 ] In March 2006, John Cusack was cast to star in the film, [ 5 ] joined by Samuel L. Jackson the following April. [ 6 ] In July, Kate Walsh was cast to star opposite Cusack as the protagonist's ex-wife, [ 7 ] but she was forced to exit in August due to scheduling conflicts with her role on Grey's Anatomy . She was replaced by Mary McCormack. [ 8 ]", "According to Cusack, the Roosevelt Hotel in New York was used for some of the exterior shots of the Dolphin. [ 9 ] The lobby scenes were filmed at the Reform Club in London. [ 10 ]", "The DVD was released on October 2, 2007, by Genius Products with a standard 1-Disc Edition (widescreen or fullscreen), and a 2-Disc Collector's Edition that contains both versions of the ending and an unrated edition which restored six minutes of the film. [ 11 ]", "In its opening weekend, 1408 opened in second place at the box office, grossing US$20.6 million in 2,678 theaters. [ 12 ] 1408 had a production budget of US$25 million. [ 1 ] The film went on to gross US$132 million, of which US$71.9 million was from Canada and the United States. [ 1 ]", "On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , 1408 holds a rating of 79% based on 175 reviews, with the site's critical consensus reading: \"Relying on psychological tension rather than overt violence and gore, 1408 is a genuinely creepy thriller with a strong lead performance by John Cusack.\" [ 13 ] On Metacritic , the film has an average score of 64 out of 100, based on 27 reviews. [ 14 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B−\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 15 ]", "James Berardinelli awarded the film three out of four, calling it \"the best horror film of the year\". He offered significant praise for Cusack's performance as Mike Enslin, writing: \"This is John Cusack's movie to carry, and he has no problem taking it where it needs to go.\" He found the film \"reminds us what it's like to be scared in a theater rather than overwhelmed by buckets of blood and gore\". [ 16 ] Some critics called the film far superior to other adaptations of Stephen King novels and stories. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle described it as \"one of the good Stephen King adaptations, one that maintains its author's sly sense of humor and satiric view of human nature\" and \"more genuinely scary movie than most horror films\". [ 17 ]", "Several critics found the film underwhelming. Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe wrote a mixed review, describing the film as \"a lot of consonants and no vowels\". He compared it unfavorably to The Shining , a similar King adaptation, believing 1408 lacked that film's \"lunging horror and dramatic architecture\". He wrote that it \"conjures a wonderful anticipatory mood of dread in the first 30 minutes, then blows it to stylish smithereens\". [ 18 ] Rob Salem of the Toronto Star gave the film two out of four for seeming a predictable \"hit and miss\" production. Like Morris, Salem wrote: \"Even as haunted hotel King movies go, 1408 is certainly no Shining . Not even the TV-movie version .\" [ 19 ]"]
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14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/14_Peaks-_Nothing_Is_Impossible.jpg/250px-14_Peaks-_Nothing_Is_Impossible.jpg", "Directed by": "Torquil Jones", "Written by": "Gabriel Clarke Torquil Jones", "Produced by": "John McKenna Barry Smith Drew Masters Catherine Quantschnigg Mark Webber", "Starring": "Nirmal Purja", "Edited by": "Ian Grech", "Music by": "Nainita Desai", "Production company": "Noah Media Group", "Distributed by": "Netflix", "Release date": "29 November 2021 ( 2021-11-29 )", "Running time": "101 minutes", "Countries": "United Kingdom United States", "Languages": "Nepali English"}
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["14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible is a 2021 documentary film directed by Torquil Jones, and produced by Noah Media Group, Little Monster Films and Torquil Jones with Nirmal Purja , Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Vasarhelyi as executive producers. The film follows Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja and his team as they attempt to climb all 14 eight-thousander peaks within a then record time of under seven months. The previous record was over seven years.", "A significant portion of the footage was taken by the expedition team, while additional images and interviews were added later by the director, including interviews with Reinhold Messner (who called the feat \"a unique statement in the history of mountaineering\"), and other major high-altitude mountaineers, [ 1 ] and Purja's family (including his wife and brothers). The film premiered at the DOC NYC Film Festival , and was released on Netflix on 29 November 2021.", "The documentary is about Project Possible , a plan by Nepali high altitude climber Nirmal Purja to climb all of the world's 14 highest peaks with an altitude greater than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) (called eight-thousanders ) inside 7 months (i.e. from early spring to late summer, before the winter season begins). The actual climbing took 6 months and 6 days between April 2019 to October 2019. The first person to climb the 14 eight-thousanders was Italian climber Reinhold Messner who took 16 years between 1970 and 1986 and completed the feat without using supplementary oxygen. [ 2 ] By 2013, the feat had been achieved in 7 years and 310 days by South Korean climber Kim Chang , who also did not use supplementary oxygen. [ 3 ] Purja decided to use oxygen above 7,500 metres (24,600 ft) for Project Possible based on prior experiences when not using oxygen on past eight-thousander climbs would have stopped him from saving the lives of stricken climbers (something he ended up doing several times during the project). [ 4 ] In 2021, when leading a larger all-Nepali team to complete the first winter ascent of K2 , Purja did not use oxygen. [ 5 ]", "Messner appears several times in the film talking about eight-thousanders and what Purja was trying to do; Purja met Messner after suffering a bad fall on Nanga Parbat but Messner gave him encouragement to keep going, with Purja recounting: \"He looked into my eyes and said, 'You can do it'. He told me to my face, and he hadn't even seen my climb. When he did the 8000-ers, the whole mountaineering community was against him, but he proved the concept. He did it when the world couldn't see his vision\". [ 4 ] He set the record of climbing 14 peaks.", "The documentary begins on April 23, 2019, with Purja attempting Annapurna , statistically, the most dangerous eight-thousander . Purja joins with Canadian climber Don Bowie who has failed several times on Annapurna. However, Purja encourages Bowie to come with his team and they are successful summiting on 23 April, with Bowie saying \"This guy believed they were gonna do it, and they pushed thru\". [ 6 ] The following day, Purja returns up the mountain to rescue a stricken climber (later identified as Malaysian climber Wui Kin Chin) which is successful (although Chin would die days later in Singapore). [ 7 ] The rescue meant Purja lost his \"weather window\" for Dhaulagiri , which his team summits in bad weather on 12 May. [ 4 ] Purja then summits Kanchenjunga on 15 May in a single 22-hour push passing all camps. While descending from the summit, at 8,450 m (27,720 ft) and still in the death zone , Purja and his team encounter two stricken Indian climbers (later identified as Kuntal Karar and Biplab Baidya); [ 8 ] despite giving them all their oxygen and waiting for 12 hours for help which never arrives, one dies in Purja's arms, while the other succumbs at camp 4 – Purja suffers HACE helping a third lost climber. [ 4 ] [ 8 ]", "Behind schedule and questioning himself after the deaths on Annapurna and Kanchenjunga, Purja summits the three neighboring eight-thousanders of Everest on 22 May, Lhotse on 22 May, and Makalu on 24 May, in a record 48-hour push, taking a photograph of a large queue that had formed at the Hillary Step on Everest, which went viral and was re-printed on the front of the New York Times . [ 4 ] The film breaks back to the period before the climbing started, with interviews from Purja's wife and brothers about his early life and career in the Gurkas and the Special Boat Squadron (SBS), and the sacrifices and financial risks that Purja took to create Project Possible . We also learn that his mother is unwell, and of a near-death experience from a sniper bullet to the face while on duty with the SBS. [ 6 ]", "Purja then moves to the Karakoram eight-thousanders summiting Nanga Parbat on 3 July, but taking a 100 m (300 ft) fall while descending that was only arrested when he managed to grab hold of a random fixed rope that had been left behind. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] Purja tells the camera: \"I always say to myself, I'm not going to die today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today\". [ 4 ] He then summits Gasherbrum I on 15 July and Gasherbrum II 18 July. [ 6 ] When Purja arrives at K2 (also one of the most dangerous eight-thousanders), spirits at Base Camp are very low, and high levels of avalanches meant that most teams are preparing to abandon their climbs. Purja's team breaks out some bottles and has a party to lift spirits. The next day, Purja and his team begin climbing K2 and lay down fixed ropes in the dangerous Bottleneck section of the climb at 1 am (when the snow is hardest and at its most stable). Purja summits K2 on 24 July, and over the next two days, 24 other climbers use the fixed ropes laid down by his team to summit the mountain. [ 6 ] Two days later, Purja summits Broad Peak on 26 July, thus completing a 23-day push to climb the 5 eight-thousanders in the Karakoram. [ 6 ]", "Purja rushes back to Kathmandu to be with his mother who has suffered a heart attack. He then returns to summit Cho Oyu on 23 September, and Manaslu on 27 September. [ 6 ] He then spends a few weeks lobbying Nepali politicians to help him secure a permit from the Chinese to climb Shishapangma in Tibet , which he successfully summits on 29 October 2019. [ 6 ] Purja calls his now dying mother from the summit \"we did it\". [ 6 ] Later we see Purja reunited with his mother and the world's media to celebrate the conclusion of his Project Possible . [ 4 ]", "The documentary features: [ 10 ]", "Purja told Climbing that Project Possible was a way of countering the constant skepticism he encountered before starting, and particularly raising sponsorship for the project, as he struggled to convince investors that his goals were realistic and that he was the climber to achieve them. When he summited the first peak, Annapurna I on 23 April 2019, Purja had only locked down 15 percent of the financing he needed, and most of this money had come from remortgaging his own UK house. [ 5 ] However, as the climbing developed, Purja was able to raise funds both through GoFundMe campaigns, and corporate sponsorship (e.g. rebranding the project as Bremont Project Possible ). [ 5 ] [ 4 ] Purja told Redbull, \"It's been one financial risk after the other\", and \"I always say this project has been 'horrifically amazing'\". [ 4 ]", "During the project, Purja was supported by a rotating team of Nepalese climbers, several of whom are introduced in the film, including Mingma David Sherpa , Geljen Sherpa, Lakpa Dendi Sherpa, and Gesman Tamang, however, only Purja would complete the summit of all 14 eight-thousanders during the film. [ 10 ]", "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible was compiled from the 100 hours of footage taken by Purja and the Nepalese climbing team from April to October 2019. [ 11 ] Director Torquil Jones combined Purja's footage, archive footage, animation, and interviews. [ 12 ] British-Indian composer Nainita Desai composed the film's score . [ 13 ] [ 14 ] 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible is produced by Torquil Jones, and executively produced by Nirmal Purja , Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi under the banner of Noah Media Group, Little Monster Films. [ 15 ]", "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible 's trailer was released on 2 November 2021. [ 15 ] [ 18 ] The film was first premiered at the DOC NYC Film Festival . [ 19 ] It was released worldwide on 29 November 2021 on Netflix streaming. [ 20 ] [ 21 ]", "On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 90% based on 10 reviews. [ 22 ] Lisa Kennedy of The New York Times praised the film writing, the film \"expands a genre often focused on the feats of individuals to celebrate lessons about vast dreams and communal bonds\". [ 10 ] The Los Angeles Times 's Gary Goldstein noted that 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible is a \"uniquely stirring journey\". [ 12 ] Nell Minow writing for RogerEbert.com gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and penned that Nirmal Purja and his team \"deserve to be as renowned as Sir Edmund Hillary , maybe more\". [ 23 ] Gary M. Kramer of Salon enthused over the film as it \"motivates viewers to get off the couch and go climb a mountain\". [ 24 ] Pasang Dorjee of The Kathmandu Post said that he was awestruck \"by the wonders that lie within your own country is a uniquely mesmerising feeling\" and praised Nirmal Purja for his \"courage, perseverance, and tenacity\". [ 25 ] Abhishek Srivastava of The Times of India applauded the film for carrying \"a very strong message of teamwork, perseverance, dedication and national pride\". [ 26 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/13thwarriorposter.jpg/250px-13thwarriorposter.jpg", "Directed by": "John McTiernan", "Screenplay by": "William Wisher Jr. Warren Lewis", "Based on": "Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton", "Produced by": "John McTiernan Michael Crichton Ned Dowd", "Starring": "Antonio Banderas Diane Venora Omar Sharif", "Cinematography": "Peter Menzies Jr.", "Edited by": "John Wright", "Music by": "Jerry Goldsmith", "Production company": "Touchstone Pictures", "Distributed by": "Buena Vista Pictures Distribution", "Release date": "August 27, 1999 ( 1999-08-27 )", "Running time": "103 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$85–160 million [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "Box office": "$61.7 million [ 2 ]"}
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["The 13th Warrior is a 1999 American historical fiction action film based on Michael Crichton 's 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead , [ 5 ] which is a loose adaptation of the tale of Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan 's historical account of the Volga Vikings .", "It stars Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan , as well as Diane Venora and Omar Sharif . It was directed by John McTiernan ; Crichton directed some uncredited reshoots. The film was produced by McTiernan, Crichton, and Ned Dowd , with Andrew G. Vajna , James Biggam and Ethan Dubrow as executive producers.", "Production and marketing costs reportedly ranged from $100–$160 million, [ 6 ] but it grossed $61 million at the box office worldwide, becoming the biggest box-office bomb of 1999, with losses of up to $129 million. [ 7 ] Despite its critical and box office failure, the film has since cultivated a devoted cult following , and is credited with pioneering a Muslim hero in Hollywood blockbusters. [ 8 ]", "Ahmad ibn Fadlan is a court poet of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir of Baghdad until his amorous encounter with the wife of an influential noble gets him exiled as an \"ambassador\" to the Volga Bulgars . Traveling with his father's old friend, Melchisidek, his caravan is saved from Tatar raiders by the appearance of Norsemen . He takes refuge at their settlement on the Volga River , and communications are established through Melchisidek and Herger, one of the Norsemen, who happens to speak Latin . From Herger, both learn that the celebration being held by the Norsemen is in fact the precursor to a funeral for their recently deceased king. Herger also introduces them to one of the king's sons, Buliwyf. Ahmad and Melchisidek witness a fight in which Buliwyf kills his brother in self-defense, which establishes Buliwyf as heir apparent . That is followed by the funeral of the dead king, who is traditionally cremated on a Viking ship , set adrift with a female slave who offers to sacrifice herself and accompany him to Valhalla , the Norse afterlife (or \" heaven \").", "The next day, the young Prince Wulfgar enters the camp to request Buliwyf's aid; his father, King Hrothgar, has asked for assistance, as his lands in the far north are under attack from an ancient evil so frightening that even the bravest warriors dare not name it. The \"angel of death\", a völva (wisewoman), says that the mission will be successful but only if thirteen warriors face this danger, and the thirteenth must not be a Norseman. Ahmad is automatically and unwillingly recruited.", "Ahmad is initially treated indifferently by the Norsemen, but they mock his smaller Arabian horse . However, he earns a measure of respect by quickly learning their language as he starts mentally translating it into Arabic, demonstration of horsemanship , and his ability to write. Buliwyf, already himself a polyglot , asks Ahmad to teach him the Arabic script , which cements their mutual goodwill. Buliwyf sees Ahmad's analytic ways as an asset to their quest.", "Reaching Hrothgar's kingdom, they confirm that their foe is indeed the ancient \" Wendol \", fiends who come with the mist to kill and take human heads. While the group searches through a raided cabin, they find a Venus figurine , which is said to represent the \" Mother of the Wendol \". On the first night, the warriors Hyglak and Ragnar die. After a string of clashes, Buliwyf's band determine that the Wendol are human cannibals , who are clad to appear like bears , live like bears , and think of themselves as bears .", "The warriors' numbers dwindling, having also lost Skeld, Halga, Roneth, and Rethel, and their positions all but indefensible, they consult another völva of the village. She tells them to track the Wendol to their lair and destroy their leaders, specifically the \" Mother of the Wendol \", and their warlord, who wears \"the horns of power\". Buliwyf and the remaining warriors infiltrate the Wendol caves and kill the Mother but not before Buliwyf is scratched deeply across the shoulder by a claw attached to her hand, dipped in poison.", "Ahmad and the last of the Norse warriors escape the caves but without the injured Helfdane, who opts to stay behind and fight. They return to the village to prepare for a last stand . Buliwyf staggers outside before the battle and inspires the warriors with a Viking prayer for the honored dead who will enter Valhalla . Buliwyf succeeds in killing the Wendol warlord, defeats them, and succumbs to the poison.", "Ahmad witnesses Buliwyf's royal funeral alongside the four surviving members of the 13 (Herger, Weath, Edgtho, and Haltaf) before returning to his homeland , grateful to the Norsemen for helping him to \"become a man and a useful servant of God\".", "Originally titled Eaters of the Dead , production began in the summer of 1997, but the film went through several re-edits after test audiences had not reacted well to the initial cut. Crichton took over as director himself because of the poor test audience reception, causing the release date to be pushed back over a year. The film was recut, and a new ending along with a new score was added. Graeme Revell was replaced by Jerry Goldsmith as composer. The title was changed to The 13th Warrior . [ 9 ] McTiernan has since gone on record as defending the film, stating the finished product was not entirely different from what he shot along with stating that he had originally wanted to do the film with Michael Keaton in mind for the lead role. [ 10 ] [ 11 ]", "The budget, which was originally around $85 million, reportedly soared to $100 million before principal photography concluded. With all of the re-shoots and promotional expenses, the total cost of the film was rumored to be as high as $160 million, which, given its lackluster box office take (earning US$61.7 million worldwide), made for a loss of $70–130 million. [ 2 ]", "The film was pre-sold internationally by Buena Vista Film Sales . [ 12 ]", "The film debuted at No. 2 on its opening weekend behind The Sixth Sense . [ 13 ]", "The 13th Warrior holds a 33% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 88 reviews. The consensus is: \"Atmospheric, great sets and costumes, but thin plot.\" [ 14 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 42 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. [ 15 ]", "Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars out of four, remarking that it \"lumber[s] from one expensive set-piece to the next without taking the time to tell a story that might make us care.\" [ 16 ] Conversely, James Berardinelli gave The 13th Warrior three stars out of four, calling it \"a solid offering\" that \"delivers an exhilarating 100 minutes\". [ 17 ] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly rated it A− and called it \"the most unexpectedly audacious, exhilarating, and wildly creative adventure thriller I have seen in ages\". [ 18 ]", "The outcome of the film's production disappointed Omar Sharif so much that he temporarily retired from film acting, not taking a role in another major film until 2003's Monsieur Ibrahim :", "The original soundtrack was composed by Graeme Revell and featured the Dead Can Dance singer Lisa Gerrard . The score was rejected by Michael Crichton and was replaced by one composed by Crichton's usual collaborator, Jerry Goldsmith . [ 22 ]"]
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13 Sins
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/13_Sins_poster.jpg/250px-13_Sins_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Daniel Stamm", "Written by": "David Birke Daniel Stamm", "Based on": "13 Beloved by Matthew Chookiat Sakveerakul", "Produced by": "Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Steve Squillante Kiki Miyake", "Starring": "Mark Webber Devon Graye Tom Bower Rutina Wesley Pruitt Taylor Vince Ron Perlman", "Cinematography": "Zoltan Honti", "Edited by": "Shilpa Sahi", "Music by": "Michael Wandmacher", "Production companies": "Automatik [ 2 ] Little Magic Films [ 2 ] Blumhouse Productions [ 2 ] IM Global [ 3 ] Sahamongkol Film International [ 3 ]", "Distributed by": "Dimension Films [ 4 ] RADiUS-TWC [ 4 ]", "Release dates": "March 7, 2014 ( 2014-03-07 ) ( SXSW ) [ 1 ] April 18, 2014 ( 2014-04-18 ) (United States)", "Running time": "92 minutes [ 2 ]", "Country": "United States [ 2 ]", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$13,809 (US) [ 5 ]"}
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["13 Sins is a 2014 American horror - thriller film [ 6 ] directed by Daniel Stamm . The film is a remake of the 2006 Thai comedy horror film 13 Beloved . Mark Webber stars as Elliot, a meek salesman who accepts a series of increasingly disturbing and criminal challenges. It premiered at the 2014 SXSW film festival and was released theatrically in the United States on April 18, 2014. This was the final film appearance of George Coe before his death in 2015.", "Elliot Brindle, a meek salesman , loses his job despite his debt and the people who depend on him: Michael, his mentally disabled brother; Shelby, his pregnant fiancée; and Samson, his abusive father. Elliot receives a mysterious phone call that offers him $1,000 to assertively kill a fly that has been harassing him. After Elliot checks his bank account online and sees that he has been credited, he accepts the next challenge: to eat the dead fly, for which he receives $3,622, the outstanding balance on Shelby's credit card. The caller explains that he will be offered a series of thirteen challenges, each of which will result in greater rewards. If he fails to complete any of them, interferes in the game, or reveals the game, he will forfeit all the money, including any he already won.", "The next few challenges attract police attention: making a young girl cry, arson , and scamming a homeless person with an ostrich . When the child identifies Elliot in the police station based on wanted posters, Detective Chilcoat takes over the case. Shelby becomes concerned about Elliot's secretive and odd behavior, and he explains that he is planning a surprise. For his sixth challenge, Elliot is forced to take a corpse of a man who committed suicide out for coffee. Given a strict deadline, Elliot panics and brazenly steals a cup of coffee from a table of on-duty police officers. When confronted, Elliot notices that they are drinking alcohol and threatens to file a complaint which forces them to back off. He flees the restaurant, leaving the corpse behind. Impressed by Elliot's boldness and improvisation, the caller tells him he is awarded two completed challenges.", "Elliot is then told that he has left behind his library card as evidence. If he wins the game, he will have legal immunity from any crimes he has committed so far. If he loses, he will have no protection. At the same time, Chilcoat follows Vogler, a conspiracy theorist that has been investigating the game. Paranoid, Vogler flees Chilcoat but advises him to kill Elliot at his first opportunity. Chilcoat eventually tracks down Vogler at a bar and discuss that the game's sole purpose is turning players into monstrosities at the promise of millions of dollars. Vogler states his wife once played the game, resulting in her eating their dog. For his next challenge, Elliot receives no instructions and is taken to a rural motel. There, a man identifies himself as a former childhood bully. A nurse arrives and applies a local anesthetic to the man's right arm and gives Elliot an electric surgical saw. For $100,000, the caller tells Elliot to amputate the man's arm. Elliot initially refuses but does so once the man taunts him. After driving the man to the hospital, Elliot beats the man's brother with a chair as revenge for him bullying Elliot and Michael. As a result, he is credited with two more completed challenges.", "When the police arrive at the banquet hall where Elliot and Shelby are having their rehearsal dinner, Elliot is surprised to discover that they are interested in Michael, who says he revealed himself to a young woman partially due to his medication being cut off. To give Michael time to escape, he accepts his next challenge. For $500,000, he must destroy the banquet hall while singing The Internationale . Elliot's account is credited for the completed challenge, but disappointed in his reluctance to break social norms, the caller then instructs Elliot to surrender to the police; from whom Elliot learns that another person has been playing the game while committing other acts such as pushing an elder down the stairs and burning down a house of worship. Elliot takes and accidentally wounds a hostage to escape, desperate to complete the game before the other competitor. As he escapes, he's forced to leave behind his cell phone. He takes an old woman hostage when she shows up, convinced that she is involved in his next challenge.", "After feigning ignorance, the old woman reveals his next challenge: to pull a braided steel cable across the road. Elliot is horrified when he realizes that a group of bikers have been instructed to speed down the road. Although he disarms the trap in time, the other competitor arms a similar trap down the road, and the cyclists are decapitated. Disgusted and mortified, Elliot quits the game, tossing the phone away before he's told the last challenge and, when he returns home, discovers that Michael is the other competitor. Michael reveals that the final challenge is to kill a family member. Although Elliot originally tries to talk Michael out of killing their father, Elliot becomes homicidal when their father reveals he won the game by killing their mother, which led to a miserable life despite his victory. To prevent his sons from experiencing the horror of losing everything closest to them from winning the game, Samson commits suicide by cutting his own throat.", "However, Michael refuses to stop playing the game and attempts to kill Elliot. Elliot kills Michael in self-defense, though he is stabbed multiple times. Elliot is credited for his final challenge, but he forfeits all the money when he interferes with the game by shooting Chilcoat, who had murdered the conspiracy theorist and has now arrived to clean up the crime scene, thus revealing his involvement with the game. Later, Elliot learns that Shelby had been invited to play the game, but had refused and he collapses, laughing happily.", "The themes of the film were written to reflect drug addiction, and Stamm used a drug addiction specialist to emphasize those parallels in Elliot's character arc. Stamm wanted Elliot to grow assertive and strong, then slowly become addicted to both the game and his new persona, which causes him to not notice the increasingly negative effects on his life. Two endings were shot: a more upbeat ending and a highly nihilistic ending. The alternate ending is available on the Blu-ray release. [ 7 ] Jason Blum bought the rights to 13: Game of Death and offered the remake to Stamm, who enjoyed the original film. The studio gave him complete freedom, which Stamm said allowed him to explore his interpretation of the film and tweak tasks that he felt did not work. [ 8 ] Perlman did not see the original film, as he did not want it to influence his performance. Several of the tasks are new; Stamm wanted to include enough new content to keep fans of the original film interested in the remake while retaining the original film's most iconic tasks. For the story, Stamm was influenced by Falling Down , which he said invited the audience to identify with a protagonist who becomes increasingly assertive, only to reveal later that he is \"a racist and dangerous\". [ 9 ] Stamm wanted the actors to feel comfortable with each other and their roles, so he had them perform improvisational scenes together. Although initially eager to show off for the sake of impressing Perlman, of whom he is a fan, Stamm eventually backed off and allowed the actors to improvise their lines during filming, too. [ 8 ]", "13 Sins premiered at SXSW on March 7, 2014. It was released to video on demand March 14 and theatrically April 18, 2014, in the United States. [ 1 ] It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 17, 2014. [ 10 ]", "Rotten Tomatoes , a review aggregator , reports that 65% of 43 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 5.8/10. The site's consensus reads, \" 13 Sins may be derivative of other horror films that made their moral points with more finesse, but it atones with a grim sense of humor and sleek style.\" [ 11 ] Metacritic rated it 44/100 based on eleven reviews. [ 12 ]", "Variety wrote that it \"achieves a modest degree of tension and dark humor before it unravels.\" [ 13 ] Fearnet wrote that the film's greatest weakness was its similarity to earlier films, but that overall \"there's more than enough here for a 'psychological horror' fan to get behind.\" [ 14 ] The Austin Chronicle was more positive in their review, in which they said that the movie would have a wide appeal to both genre and mainstream viewers. [ 15 ]", "Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote, \"A study of desperation and the evil within, Daniel Stamm's 13 Sins is an empty, efficient thriller that leaves you as cold as most of its characters.\" [ 16 ] Martin Tsai of the Los Angeles Times called it \"a Saw knock-off without the torture porn\". [ 17 ] Staci Layne Wilson of Dread Central rated it 3/5 stars and called it \"a fun enough time waster\". [ 18 ]", "Bears Fonté of AMFM Magazine said the film was the best of all the midnighters at SXSW and \"provides a nice commentary on materialism and ease at which someone will shed their carefully crafted image when provided with a chance to score some cash.\" [ 19 ] Patrick Cooper of Bloody Disgusting rated it 3/5 stars and wrote that it is \"tonally uneven\" but \"darkly comic\". [ 20 ]"]
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13 Rue Madeleine
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/13_rue_madeleine_poster.jpg/250px-13_rue_madeleine_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Henry Hathaway", "Written by": "John Monks, Jr. Sy Bartlett", "Produced by": "Louis De Rochemont", "Starring": "James Cagney Annabella Richard Conte Frank Latimore", "Narrated by": "Reed Hadley", "Cinematography": "Norbert Brodine", "Edited by": "Harmon Jones", "Music by": "David Buttolph", "Production company": "Twentieth Century Fox", "Distributed by": "Twentieth Century Fox", "Release date": "January 15, 1947 ( 1947-01-15 )", "Running time": "95 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$2,750,000 (US rentals) [ 1 ]"}
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["13 Rue Madeleine is a 1947 American World War II spy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring James Cagney , Annabella , Richard Conte and Frank Latimore . Allied volunteers are trained as spies in the leadup to the invasion of Europe, but one of them is a German double agent .", "Bob Sharkey is given charge of a group of American espionage candidates. However, he is informed by his boss Charles Gibson that one of his students is a German Abwehr agent. He accepts the challenge of identifying him. He correctly chooses the student, who is using the alias of Bill O'Connell. Gibson reveals that O'Connell is actually Wilhelm Kuncel, one of Germany's top spies. His mission is to determine the date and location of the Allied invasion of Europe . They assign O'Connell a job in London that gives him full access to false information about \"Plan B\", the invasion of Germany through the lowlands , hoping that he will pass on the misleading information to his superiors.", "At the end of their training, three of the new agents—Frenchwoman Suzanne de Beaumont, American Jeff Lassiter and Kuncel—are sent to Britain, where they prepare to fly into German-occupied territory. O'Connell / Kuncel is given a mission in Holland, supposedly because of his familiarity with the region. Lassiter is assigned to kidnap the French collaborator Duclois and bring him to England; Duclois designed and built the main assembly and supply depot for V-2 rockets that will be used against the key Allied invasion port of Southampton , and what he knows would be vital for achieving its destruction. De Beaumont goes along as Lassiter's radio operator. Sharkey tells Lassiter about O'Connell / Kuncel and orders him to kill Kuncel if he suspects that Kuncel has not been deceived. However, on the airplane, Lassiter cannot conceal his uneasiness from Kuncel, who realizes Lassiter suspects him and sabotages Lassiter's parachute, causing him to fall to his death. Gibson and Sharkey conclude that Kuncel now knows that the information that he was given is false.", "With no time to brief another agent, Sharkey volunteers to take Lassiter's place. Gibson is reluctant to do so, as Sharkey knows the true date and location of the invasion, but finally agrees. With the help of the local French resistance led by the town's mayor, Sharkey takes Duclois prisoner. However, in stopping Kuncel from interfering with the airplane departing with Duclois, Sharkey is captured. De Beaumont is killed while transmitting the news to England. Kuncel takes Sharkey to Gestapo headquarters at 13 Rue Madeleine in Le Havre and supervises his torture when Sharkey refuses to talk. Back in Britain, Gibson has no choice but to order a bombing raid to destroy the building before Sharkey cracks. When the bombing starts, Sharkey laughs in triumph in Kuncel's face.", "Prohibited from mentioning the OSS in films during the war, several Hollywood studios produced films about the agency after the war, such as O.S.S. ( Paramount ), Cloak and Dagger ( Warner Bros. / United States Pictures ) and Notorious ( RKO ), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Although 13 Rue Madeleine was originally written to showcase the O.S.S., with Cagney playing a character based on William Donovan and featuring Peter Ortiz as a technical advisor , Donovan raised major objections to the film, including the idea that his agency had been infiltrated by an enemy agent. [ 2 ] The spy group was renamed \"O77\" and Cagney's character had no similarities to Donovan.", "The film followed Fox's The House on 92nd Street , a true story of FBI counterespionage , which shared the same director, producer and one of the writers. [ 3 ]", "Much of the filming took place in Quebec City , Quebec, Canada. [ citation needed ]", "The Breen Office objected to the Americans bombing a building solely to kill Sharkey. However, Sy Bartlett, one of the film's scriptwriters, had served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and claimed that such an incident did indeed take place, although in a different context. According to director Henry Hathaway, that incident was the basis for the film's final scene. [ 2 ]", "In a scathingly negative contemporary review for The New York Times , critic Bosley Crowther wrote:", "Crowther wrote more about the film several days after his initial review:"]
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13 Moons
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/13_moons_dvd_cover.jpg/250px-13_moons_dvd_cover.jpg", "Directed by": "Alexandre Rockwell", "Written by": "Brandon Cole Alexandre Rockwell", "Produced by": "Brandon Cole Michael Din David Kronemeyer", "Starring": "Jennifer Beals Elizabeth Bracco Steve Buscemi Peter Dinklage Sam Rockwell Peter Stormare", "Cinematography": "Phil Parmet", "Edited by": "John David Allen", "Music by": "Brian Kelly Kevin Salem", "Distributed by": "13 Moons Productions LLC Lot 47 Films", "Release date": "January 2002 ( 2002-01 )", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["13 Moons is a 2002 comedy-drama film directed by Alexandre Rockwell . The title is a reference to the saying of a minor character's mother, who suggested that if nights of the full moon are strange, then \"this must be the night of thirteen moons.\" [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Bananas The Clown is run over by his wife, Suzi, who has discovered his stripper girlfriend, Louise. When his wife is jailed for trying to run him over, they contact a bail bondsman. The bondsman is busy taking care of his sick son, Timmy. On the way, they are accosted by a crazed drug addict named Slovo, who is hit by a car soon after.", "At the jail, the five meet up with an angry record producer and the girlfriend he believes to be pregnant, whom he plans to make a star, despite her protestations of not having any talent. Also along for the ride are two priests, one of whom has begun to doubt the wisdom of the Roman Catholic Church , who are trailing to bail out a third priest who was goaded into a fight by the proprietor of a strip club.", "When the nine characters intersect, they discover that Timmy has a defective kidney and is slowly dying. He has just been paged, as there is a donor at the hospital: Slovo. The three caring characters immediately take Timmy to the hospital, with the others in pursuit. By the time they arrive, Slovo is partially recovered and escapes to wander the streets, cheerfully ignoring his internal bleeding, and must be tracked down before both he and Timmy die.", "In a 2023 review of the film, The Herald stated \"“13 Moons,” from 2002, is not a good film, but it has a key insight that’s exceedingly rare in the filmmaking world. See, most bad movies end up that way because they tried to be good and failed. If being good was never the intention, though, strange new opportunities present themselves.\" [ 3 ]"]
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/13_Hours_poster.png/250px-13_Hours_poster.png", "Directed by": "Michael Bay", "Screenplay by": "Chuck Hogan", "Based on": "13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff", "Produced by": "Michael Bay Erwin Stoff", "Starring": "James Badge Dale John Krasinski Max Martini", "Cinematography": "Dion Beebe", "Edited by": "Pietro Scalia Michael McCusker Calvin Wimmer", "Music by": "Lorne Balfe", "Production companies": "3 Arts Entertainment Bay Films", "Distributed by": "Paramount Pictures", "Release dates": "January 12, 2016 ( 2016-01-12 ) ( AT&T Stadium ) January 15, 2016 ( 2016-01-15 ) (United States)", "Running time": "144 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$50 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$70.5 million [ 2 ]"}
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["13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a 2016 American biographical action-thriller film , directed and produced by Michael Bay . Written by Chuck Hogan , it is based on 2014 non-fiction book 13 Hours by American author Mitchell Zuckoff . The film follows six members of the Annex Security Team who fought to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi , Libya after waves of attacks by militants on September 11, 2012 . The film stars James Badge Dale , John Krasinski , Pablo Schreiber , Max Martini , David Denman and Dominic Fumusa , with supporting roles by Toby Stephens , Alexia Barlier and David Costabile . Filming on location began on April 27, 2015, in Libya.", "Upon its release on January 15, 2016, by Paramount Pictures , 13 Hours grossed $69 million worldwide against a production budget of $50 million, becoming one of Bay's lowest-grossing films. It also received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its performances, action sequences, and dark tone, but criticized the script for historical liberties. Bay's direction also received a mixed response, with many criticizing his emphasis on over-the-top action, but some also noting it as one of his most mature and grounded films. 13 Hours received an Oscar nomination for Best Sound Mixing at the 89th Academy Awards .", "In 2012, following the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , Benghazi is named one of the most dangerous places in the world. While several countries have pulled their embassies out of Libya in fear of an attack by militants, the U.S. still has a diplomatic compound open in the city. Less than a mile away is a CIA outpost called the Annex, which is protected by a team of private military contractors from Global Response Staff (GRS).", "New to the detail is Jack Silva, who arrives in Benghazi and is picked up by Tyrone \"Rone\" Woods , commander of the GRS team and a personal friend of his. Arriving at the Annex, he is introduced to the rest of the GRS team and the CIA Chief-of-Station, who constantly reminds them never to engage the citizens.", "The U.S. Ambassador Stevens arrives in Benghazi to maintain diplomatic connections amidst the political and social chaos. Despite warnings, he decides to stay at the Special Mission with limited protection from a pair of Diplomatic Security (DS) agents, Wickland and Ubben, and guards hired from the local February 17th Martyrs Brigade militia, nicknamed \"17-Feb\".", "On the morning of the eleventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks , Stevens notices suspicious men taking pictures of the compound and notifies his security detail. Back at the Annex, Silva finds out that his wife is pregnant. That night, a group of militants from Ansar al-Sharia assault the compound. The 17-Feb guards quickly surrender their posts, allowing the attackers easy access to the Special Mission compound.", "Wickland takes Stevens and Smith , an IT specialist, into the safe room. Unable to breach it, the attackers set the building on fire, hoping to burn them out. Wickland escapes but loses both Stevens and Smith. At the Annex, the GRS team desperately wants to go to the compound to help, but the Chief refuses, fearing that the team's departure would leave the Annex vulnerable.", "However, the team is dispatched to the compound and meets with the DS agents. Silva and Woods go into the building to search for Stevens and Smith, but only find Smith's body. The DS team retreats to the Annex, but after Wickland goes in the wrong direction, they are followed back to the Annex. Later, the GRS team also retreats to the Annex.", "Knowing an attack by the militants is imminent, the CIA staff of the Annex makes several desperate calls for help. The only help they can get is from Doherty , a GRS officer in Tripoli , who forms a team including two Delta operators that fly to Benghazi after several delays. Meanwhile, the GRS team fends off the militants as they try to breach the Annex perimeter. After repelling the largest attack wave, they receive word from ISR that help is en route.", "The Tripoli GRS reinforcements arrive, preparing the CIA and DS staff to head for the airport. The militants launch a mortar attack in which Ubben and Geist are wounded; Geist's left arm is partially severed, and Ubben's right leg suffers a compound fracture. Woods and Doherty are both killed by mortar.", "With the GRS team compromised and the Annex now vulnerable, the remaining GRS operators watch as a convoy of vehicles rolls toward them. Fearing the worst, the operators prepare to make a final stand, until it is revealed that the convoy is part of the Libya Shield Force militia escorting the GRS reinforcements. They also discover Stevens was found behind the compound, but was pronounced dead at the hospital.", "At the airport, the CIA staff and the wounded Geist board the plane to Tripoli while the remainder of the GRS team awaits the next plane with the bodies of Stevens, Smith, Woods, and Doherty. Closing titles reveal that all of the surviving Annex security team members received contractor medals in a private ceremony and have since retired from the GRS team and live with their families.", "On February 10, 2014, it was announced that Paramount Pictures was in talks with 3 Arts Entertainment to acquire the film rights to the book 13 Hours , written by Mitchell Zuckoff , with Erwin Stoff to produce. [ 12 ] Chuck Hogan was set to adapt the book, based on the true events of The Benghazi Attack by militants on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi Libya, on the evening of September 11, 2012. [ 12 ] The film would focus on six members of a security team that fought to defend the Americans stationed there. [ 12 ] On October 29, 2014, Michael Bay was set to direct and produce the thriller. [ 13 ]", "On January 14, 2015, John Krasinski was cast to play a leading role, playing a former US Navy SEAL . [ 3 ] On February 3, Pablo Schreiber also signed on to star in the film, playing Kris \"Tanto\" Paronto, one of the six-man security team. [ 8 ] On February 6, James Badge Dale was set to star, as the leader of the security team. [ 5 ] Max Martini was cast as another member of the security team on February 17, 2015. [ 6 ] David Denman signed on to star in the film on March 3, 2015, playing Boon, an elite sniper. [ 9 ] On March 5, 2015, THR reported that Dominic Fumusa also signed on, to play John \"Tig\" Tiegen, one of the members of the security team, who is also a former Marine with weapons expertise. [ 7 ] Freddie Stroma was added to the cast on March 17, 2015, to play the role of an undercover CIA officer in Libya. [ 10 ] On May 7, 2015, Toby Stephens was set to play Glen \"Bub\" Doherty, another of the security team members. [ 14 ]", "Country War September Attack in 2017 54 13 Libya . [ 9 ] [ 15 ] A large film set was built in March 2015 in Benghazi , Libya at . [ 16 ] [ 17 ]", "On June 30, 2015, Paramount announced that the new title would be 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi , and set the film to be released on January 15, 2016, on the MLK Holiday weekend. [ 18 ] The film premiered on January 12, 2016, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas , [ 19 ] benefiting the Shadow Warriors Project, which supports private military security personnel and other groups. [ 19 ]", "Unusual for a major American film, the film was given only a limited release in Canada during its American wide opening weekend, playing in select theatres in six cities. The film expanded to a wide release in Canadian theatres the following weekend, January 22–24. [ 20 ] [ 21 ]", "Paramount specifically marketed the film to conservatives , [ 22 ] in a method similar to previous films Lone Survivor and American Sniper , both of which had beaten box office expectations. This included screening 13 Hours for key Republican Party figures in order to generate endorsement quotations. [ 23 ]", "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 7, 2016. Likely due to a boost from the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election , the film made $40 million in DVD and Blu-ray sales by August 2016. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] It was released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on June 11, 2019. [ 26 ]", "13 Hours grossed $54 million in North America and $16.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $70.5 million, against a production budget of $50 million, [ 2 ] making it Michael Bay's lowest-grossing directorial film to-date. [ 27 ]", "The film was projected to earn around $20 million in its four-day Martin Luther King weekend debut. It faced competition from fellow newcomer Ride Along 2 , as well as holdovers The Revenant and Star Wars: The Force Awakens . [ 28 ] Other films in a similar vein that had opened on the MLK weekend in previous years, American Sniper ($107.2 million in 2015) and Lone Survivor ($37.8 million in 2014), found success, although they had faced weaker competition, and were considered less politically divisive. [ 29 ] However, The Hollywood Reporter noted that the film could outperform expectations if it was buoyed by waves of patriotism. [ 29 ] The film made $900,000 from 1,995 theaters during its Thursday previews and $16.2 million in its opening weekend, finishing fourth at the box office. [ 30 ] The film added 528 theaters in its second weekend and grossed $9 million, a 39.8% drop. [ 31 ]", "13 Hours received mixed reviews from critics, though some viewed it as a welcomed tame effort from Michael Bay. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 51% based on 224 reviews, with an average rating of 5.60/10. The site's consensus reads, \" 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a comparatively mature and restrained effort from Michael Bay, albeit one that can't quite boast the impact its fact-based story deserves.\" [ 37 ] On Metacritic the film has a score of 48 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. [ 38 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 30 ] [ 39 ]", "Soren Andersen, writing for The Seattle Times , gave the film 3 stars out of 4, criticizing the lack of distinctive characters but ultimately summarizing 13 Hours as \"engrossing\" and \"a ground-level depiction of heroism in the midst of the fog of war\". [ 40 ] Richard Roeper similarly praised 13 Hours in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times . Although he lamented the script, Roeper found the film to be a \"solid action thriller with well-choreographed battle sequences and strong work from the ensemble cast\". [ 41 ] Like Roeper's review, New York Daily News ' Joe Dziemianowicz was less receptive toward the script, but applauded the film's focus on the real-life attack, summarizing: \"War is gritty here, not glamorous... [ Michael Bay ] delivers a gripping, harrowing, and heartfelt film.\" [ 42 ]", "In a mixed review, Inkoo Kang of TheWrap praised 13 Hours for its action scenes, but panned Bay's direction as \"myopic\". She writes, \" 13 Hours is the rare Michael Bay movie that wasn't made with teenage boys in mind. But that doesn't make his latest any less callously juvenile.\" [ 43 ] Lindsey Bahr of the Associated Press was critical of the film's direction and cinematography, and found the screenplay to be confusing. [ 44 ] Similarly, The Economist described the film as \"a sleek, poorly scripted and largely meaningless film\". [ 45 ]", "The film caused controversy in Libya. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Many Libyans believed it ignored the contributions of local people who attempted to save the US ambassador. [ 48 ] Libya's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Salah Belnaba, denounced the film's portrayal of the Libyan people and described it as \"fanatical and ignorant.\" [ 49 ] Culture and Information Minister, Omar Gawaari, also criticized the film saying: \"the movie shows the US contractors who actually failed to secure the ambassador [...] as heroes\", adding that Michael Bay \"turned America's failure to protect its own citizens in a fragile state into a typical action movie all about American heroism\". [ 48 ] [ 49 ] [ 50 ]", "At the 89th Academy Awards , 13 Hours received a nomination for Best Sound Mixing . [ 51 ] However, Greg P. Russell (one of the four nominees from the film) had his nomination rescinded when it was discovered that he had contacted voters for the award by telephone in violation of campaigning regulations. [ 52 ]", "The film's historical accuracy has been disputed. In the film's most controversial scene, the CIA chief in Benghazi (identified only as \"Bob\") tells the military contractors there when they seek permission to go defend the embassy to \"stand down\" and thus denies them permission. The real-life CIA chief stated that there was no stand-down order. [ 53 ] However, no help was sent even though officials at the highest levels had found out about the attack within the first few hours out of the 13. Also, the National Review commentator David French argues that the Senate committee cited above found plenty of evidence of the \"stand down\" order in the form of personal testimony from multiple witnesses but chose to rule that the contrary testimony outweighed it. [ 54 ]", "Kris \"Tanto\" Paronto, a CIA contractor who was involved in action during the event, said, \"We were told to 'stand down'. Those words were used verbatim—100 percent. If the truth of it affects someone's political career? Well, I'm sorry. It happens.\" [ 55 ] The CIA base chief portrayed in the film has directly contradicted Paronto's claims, saying \"There never was a stand-down order.... At no time did I ever second-guess that the team would depart.\" [ 56 ]", "Also disputed is the film's portrayal that air support was denied. A House Armed Services Committee report found that air support was unavailable or that it would have arrived too late to make a difference. [ 45 ]"]
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13 Going on 30
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/13_Going_on_30_film_poster.png", "Directed by": "Gary Winick", "Written by": "Cathy Yuspa Josh Goldsmith", "Produced by": "Susan Arnold Donna Arkoff Roth Gina Matthews", "Starring": "Jennifer Garner Mark Ruffalo Judy Greer Andy Serkis", "Cinematography": "Don Burgess", "Edited by": "Susan Littenberg", "Music by": "Theodore Shapiro", "Production companies": "Columbia Pictures Revolution Studios Roth/Arnold Productions", "Distributed by": "Sony Pictures Releasing", "Release date": "April 23, 2004 ( 2004-04-23 )", "Running time": "98 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$37 million [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$96 million [ 1 ]", "Released": "April 6, 2004", "Genre": "Pop pop rock new wave dance-pop", "Label": "Hollywood Records", "Length": "29 : 46"}
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["13 Going on 30 (released as Suddenly 30 in some countries) is a 2004 American fantasy romantic comedy [ 3 ] film written by Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith, directed by Gary Winick , starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo , and produced by Susan Arnold and Donna Arkoff Roth . The film is about a 13-year-old girl in 1987 who awakens to find herself suddenly 30 years old and living in 2004 as a fashion editor.", "13 Going on 30 received generally positive reviews from critics, with many praising Garner's performance and its nostalgic environment. It was also praised for its humorous plot and self-empowering message. The film was also a commercial success, earning $22 million in its first week and becoming one of the year's biggest-selling DVD rental titles. Its total box office profit was over $96 million. Additionally, the soundtrack charted inside the top 50 on the US Billboard 200 chart. Garner's acting earned her nominations from both the MTV Movie Awards and the Teen Choice Awards .", "In 1987, nerdy 13-year-old Jenna Rink yearns to be popular. She persuades the Six Chicks, her school's ruling clique led by \"Tom-Tom\", to attend her birthday party by doing their homework for them. Jenna's best friend and next-door neighbor, Matty Flamhaff, secretly in love with her, gifts her a handmade dollhouse and sprinkles the roof with \"magic wishing dust.\" The Six Chicks arrive with a group of boys, including Jenna's crush Chris Grandy. They trick Jenna into believing Chris is going to play \" seven minutes in heaven \" with her while they leave with the completed homework. When Matty discovers her in the closet, a humiliated Jenna barricades herself and tearfully wishes to be \"thirty and flirty and thriving\" as the wishing dust falls on her.", "The next morning, Jenna awakens as an adult in a luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment in 2004, dating a young man she does not recognize and with no memory of the intervening seventeen years. Upon further investigation, she learns that she now works as an editor for her favorite fashion magazine, Poise , alongside her co-editor and best friend, Lucy Wyman. However, the magazine is falling behind its arch-rival Sparkle , which her editor-in-chief, Richard Kneeland, believes is the work of a saboteur. A confused Jenna locates Matty, now a struggling photographer, in Greenwich Village . He explains that in high school, she became the new head of the Six Chicks and subsequently stopped speaking to him; she also learns that Lucy is Tom-Tom.", "As she adjusts to her new adult life, Jenna gradually learns that the person she has become is nothing like her shy, sweet teenage self; the adult Jenna plagiarized ideas, became estranged from her parents, and had an affair with a co-worker's husband. After overhearing Lucy plotting to remove her from a presentation on a Poise rebrand, Jenna returns to her childhood home in New Jersey to reunite with her parents before reconciling with Matty and hiring him to help with her presentation. They gradually fall for each other, though Matty's fiancee Wendy is eager for him to move to Chicago .", "Jenna's presentation proves successful, but Lucy lies to Matty and claims Jenna did not use his photos, having him sign them over to her instead. While looking for Matty to deliver the good news, Jenna finds Wendy, who reveals that their wedding is the next day. Moreover, she learns from Kneeland that Lucy became Sparkle ' s new editor-in-chief by using Jenna's presentation. Outraged, she confronts Lucy, who scornfully reveals that Jenna is the one who sabotaged Poise in exchange for a position at Sparkle , though Lucy took the job first.", "Jenna rushes to Matty's childhood home, where the wedding is about to take place, to explain what happened, though Matty says he already knew the truth. Jenna tries to convince Matty to give their relationship a chance, promising that she is not the awful person she appears to be. Matty acknowledges his feelings for her, but rejects her anyway, claiming that too many years have passed. He gives her the dollhouse, which he has kept despite their estrangement, and confesses that he has always loved her. Jenna goes next door to her childhood home and breaks down in tears while holding the dollhouse; a breeze swirls some remnants of the wishing dust around her.", "Jenna reawakens back in 1987 on her thirteenth birthday. When Matty finds her huddled alone in the closet, she happily embraces and kisses him. Jenna berates Lucy and her friends, destroys their completed homework, and ousts them from her house. With this second chance, Jenna lives the subsequent seventeen years differently, eventually going on to marry Matty. The newlywed couple then moves into a suburban house resembling the dollhouse Matty gave Jenna on her thirteenth birthday.", "In October 2002, director Gary Winick was in negotiations to direct 13 Going on 30 . [ 4 ] It was also announced that Susan Arnold and Donna Arkoff Roth were producing the project with the writers' manager, Gina Matthews. [ 5 ] [ 4 ] Actress Jennifer Garner was cast for the movie's lead role. In order to film the picture, Garner shot it while on break from filming her television series Alias . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Gwyneth Paltrow , Hilary Swank , and Renée Zellweger were all considered for the lead role. [ 7 ] Judy Greer was cast to play Lucy, Garner's best friend; Kathy Baker and Phil Reeves were cast as Garner's mother and father, respectively. [ 8 ] Later, Andy Serkis was selected to play Garner's boss; while Samuel Ball was announced as Garner's boyfriend. [ 9 ]", "On May 13, 2003, it was reported that filming for the movie was underway in Los Angeles with Revolution Studios . [ 8 ] It was filmed in Los Angeles , New York City and South Pasadena, California . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Interior shots were filmed in Los Angeles. The crew moved to New York City, where they shot exteriors for 17 days. [ 12 ] Principal photography took place from May to November 2003. Written by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, the script was \"polished\" by Niels Mueller (who lost an initial writing credit in a subsequent dispute arbitrated by the Writers Guild of America ). [ 13 ]", "Christa B. Allen , who portrayed 13-year-old Jenna, later \"reprised\" her role as a younger version of Jennifer Garner by portraying the teenage version of Jenny Perotti in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). [ 14 ] In October 2016, it was announced 13 Going on 30 was going to be adapted for Broadway with an estimated debut in late 2017, but plans did not move forward. [ 15 ]", "The soundtrack to 13 Going on 30 was released on April 20, 2004, from Hollywood Records . [ 16 ] The album mostly contains music from the 1980s with a range of hits from famous recording artists such as Talking Heads , Billy Joel , Madonna , Pat Benatar and Whitney Houston . There is also a handful of songs performed by contemporary artists, such as Lillix and Liz Phair .", "The songs \" Breathe \" by Michelle Branch and \" Iris \" by the Goo Goo Dolls were featured in promotional trailers, but were not featured in the movie or on the soundtrack.", "The film opened on April 23, 2004, with an initial box office take of $22 million in its first weekend, debuting at number two, almost tied with Denzel Washington 's thriller Man on Fire . [ 17 ] In its second week, it dropped to number three, earning $9 million. [ 18 ] In its third week, it fell to number five, earning $5.5 million. [ 19 ] In its fourth week, it took sixth place with an estimated $4.2 million. [ 20 ] In its fifth week, it fell to number seven, with an estimated $2.5 million. [ 21 ] In its sixth week, the film fell to number 9, earning $1 million. [ 22 ] It ended with $57 million at the domestic box office, and a total worldwide gross of $96,455,697. [ 1 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , 13 Going on 30 has an approval rating of 65% based on reviews from 179 critics, with an average rating of 6.20/10. The site's critics consensus reads, \"Although the plot leaves a lot to be desired, 13 Going on 30 will tug at your inner teenager's heartstrings thanks in large part to a dazzling performance from Jennifer Garner.\" [ 23 ] On Metacritic , the film has a score of 57% based on reviews from 35 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. [ 24 ] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade A−, on a scale of A to F. [ 25 ]", "Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a highly positive review with a grade of \"A−\", writing, \" 13 Going on 30 is the rare commercial comedy that leaves you entranced by what can happen only in the movies.\" Gleiberman also praised Garner's performance, writing: \"She cuts out all traces of adult consciousness, of irony and flirtation and manipulation, reducing herself to a keen, goggle-eyed earnestness that's utterly beguiling.\" [ 26 ] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: \"The possibilities of Jenna's confusion are exploited for full comic effect. Garner, who turns out to be a charming, abandoned comedian, makes Jenna's incredulousness and innocence very funny and occasionally even touching.\" [ 27 ] Joe Leydon of Variety also praised her performance, writing \"Garner throws herself so fully and effectively into the role that in a few key scenes, she vividly conveys Jenna's high spirits and giddy pleasure through the graceful curling of her toes.\" Leydon praised director Gary Winick for \"bringing a fresh spin to most of the script's cliches and emphasizing nuggets of emotional truth provided by Goldsmith and Yuspa.\" [ 28 ] Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe wrote that \"The film is tailor-made for women who openly lust for dream houses, dream jobs, and dream hubbies.\" He also wrote that \"the best stuff involves the childhood preamble. (The young actors playing Jenna, Matt, and Lucy are terrific.) Those moments feel painfully, comically true.\" [ 29 ]", "Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, commenting, \"This romantic comedy is intended as a cautionary fairy tale. The silly humor works with the film's gentle message of self-empowerment and avoids sappiness in a tender interlude where the adult Jenna returns to her childhood home. Amusing, charming, and pleasantly nostalgic, 13 Going on 30 should fall easily onto moviegoers' wish lists.\" [ 30 ] Mick Martin and Marsha Porter's 2005 DVD and Video Guide called it a \"shameless rip-off of the Tom Hanks ' classic Big \", adding that it was \"weak, but predictable and is sparked by the excellent performance of Jennifer Garner\". [ 31 ] [ 32 ]", "Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times wrote: \"The performances give the film more flavor and life than the situation does; it often feels like pre-chewed Bubble Yum. The message of the plot is that a lack of sophistication is the key to success, even in a fashion magazine that attracts readers through sexy exhibitionism. The movie would have shown some daring savvy if it had played more with the role-playing aspect of fashion spreads. Instead, it is content to eat its retro snack cake and have it, too.\" [ 33 ] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2 out of 4 and wrote: \"You buy the magic because it comes with the territory. What I couldn't buy was the world of the magazine office, and the awkward scenes in which high-powered professionals don't seem to notice that they're dealing with a 13-year-old mind.\" [ 34 ] Andrea Gronvall of the Chicago Reader wrote that \"The formula works, thanks in large part to star Jennifer Garner, who's so radiant theaters should be stocking sunblock. Underlying the shenanigans and the pop-psychology moral—self-love is a prerequisite for true love—there's a touching wistfulness about roads not taken.\" [ 35 ] Jorge Morales of The Village Voice commented: \"The thirty something in me was all, gag me with a spoon , but the kid in me was like, this film's rad to the max.\" [ 36 ] Nell Minow of Common Sense Media rated four stars out of five saying \"Touching, hilarious Jennifer Garner rom-com.\" [ 37 ]", "The film received several nominations at the Teen Choice Awards , including a nomination for Garner. [ 38 ] The musical performance of Garner and Ruffalo was nominated for an MTV Movie Award . [ 39 ]", "The DVD was re-released in 2006 with the subtitle The Fun and Flirty Edition with special packaging and different special features. [ 40 ] The Blu-ray version of 13 Going on 30 was released on January 20, 2009. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 2 ]", "On 28 September 2023, a UK stage adaptation of the film was announced. The show held several public workshop performances at Battersea Arts Centre in London, ahead of a full production opening in the summer of 2025. The stage production is written by movie writers Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa and music is by composer/lyricists Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner . [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Casting for the workshops was announced on 12 October 2023, with Lucie Jones playing Jenna Rink, Jamie Muscato playing Matt Flamhaff, and Grace Mouat playing Lucy Wyman, with Andy Fickman set to direct. [ 45 ]", "On 29 October 2024 it was announced that the stage adaptation would make its world premiere at the Manchester Opera House from 21 September 2025 through 12 October 2025. The producers for the show include ROYO, Revolution Studios , Wendy Federman, and Phil Kenny. [ 46 ]", "The soundtrack to 13 Going on 30 was released on April 20, 2004, from Hollywood Records . [ 16 ] The album mostly contains music from the 1980s with a range of hits from famous recording artists such as Talking Heads , Billy Joel , Madonna , Pat Benatar and Whitney Houston . There is also a handful of songs performed by contemporary artists, such as Lillix and Liz Phair .", "The songs \" Breathe \" by Michelle Branch and \" Iris \" by the Goo Goo Dolls were featured in promotional trailers, but were not featured in the movie or on the soundtrack.", "The film opened on April 23, 2004, with an initial box office take of $22 million in its first weekend, debuting at number two, almost tied with Denzel Washington 's thriller Man on Fire . [ 17 ] In its second week, it dropped to number three, earning $9 million. [ 18 ] In its third week, it fell to number five, earning $5.5 million. [ 19 ] In its fourth week, it took sixth place with an estimated $4.2 million. [ 20 ] In its fifth week, it fell to number seven, with an estimated $2.5 million. [ 21 ] In its sixth week, the film fell to number 9, earning $1 million. [ 22 ] It ended with $57 million at the domestic box office, and a total worldwide gross of $96,455,697. [ 1 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , 13 Going on 30 has an approval rating of 65% based on reviews from 179 critics, with an average rating of 6.20/10. The site's critics consensus reads, \"Although the plot leaves a lot to be desired, 13 Going on 30 will tug at your inner teenager's heartstrings thanks in large part to a dazzling performance from Jennifer Garner.\" [ 23 ] On Metacritic , the film has a score of 57% based on reviews from 35 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. [ 24 ] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade A−, on a scale of A to F. [ 25 ]", "Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a highly positive review with a grade of \"A−\", writing, \" 13 Going on 30 is the rare commercial comedy that leaves you entranced by what can happen only in the movies.\" Gleiberman also praised Garner's performance, writing: \"She cuts out all traces of adult consciousness, of irony and flirtation and manipulation, reducing herself to a keen, goggle-eyed earnestness that's utterly beguiling.\" [ 26 ] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: \"The possibilities of Jenna's confusion are exploited for full comic effect. Garner, who turns out to be a charming, abandoned comedian, makes Jenna's incredulousness and innocence very funny and occasionally even touching.\" [ 27 ] Joe Leydon of Variety also praised her performance, writing \"Garner throws herself so fully and effectively into the role that in a few key scenes, she vividly conveys Jenna's high spirits and giddy pleasure through the graceful curling of her toes.\" Leydon praised director Gary Winick for \"bringing a fresh spin to most of the script's cliches and emphasizing nuggets of emotional truth provided by Goldsmith and Yuspa.\" [ 28 ] Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe wrote that \"The film is tailor-made for women who openly lust for dream houses, dream jobs, and dream hubbies.\" He also wrote that \"the best stuff involves the childhood preamble. (The young actors playing Jenna, Matt, and Lucy are terrific.) Those moments feel painfully, comically true.\" [ 29 ]", "Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, commenting, \"This romantic comedy is intended as a cautionary fairy tale. The silly humor works with the film's gentle message of self-empowerment and avoids sappiness in a tender interlude where the adult Jenna returns to her childhood home. Amusing, charming, and pleasantly nostalgic, 13 Going on 30 should fall easily onto moviegoers' wish lists.\" [ 30 ] Mick Martin and Marsha Porter's 2005 DVD and Video Guide called it a \"shameless rip-off of the Tom Hanks ' classic Big \", adding that it was \"weak, but predictable and is sparked by the excellent performance of Jennifer Garner\". [ 31 ] [ 32 ]", "Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times wrote: \"The performances give the film more flavor and life than the situation does; it often feels like pre-chewed Bubble Yum. The message of the plot is that a lack of sophistication is the key to success, even in a fashion magazine that attracts readers through sexy exhibitionism. The movie would have shown some daring savvy if it had played more with the role-playing aspect of fashion spreads. Instead, it is content to eat its retro snack cake and have it, too.\" [ 33 ] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2 out of 4 and wrote: \"You buy the magic because it comes with the territory. What I couldn't buy was the world of the magazine office, and the awkward scenes in which high-powered professionals don't seem to notice that they're dealing with a 13-year-old mind.\" [ 34 ] Andrea Gronvall of the Chicago Reader wrote that \"The formula works, thanks in large part to star Jennifer Garner, who's so radiant theaters should be stocking sunblock. Underlying the shenanigans and the pop-psychology moral—self-love is a prerequisite for true love—there's a touching wistfulness about roads not taken.\" [ 35 ] Jorge Morales of The Village Voice commented: \"The thirty something in me was all, gag me with a spoon , but the kid in me was like, this film's rad to the max.\" [ 36 ] Nell Minow of Common Sense Media rated four stars out of five saying \"Touching, hilarious Jennifer Garner rom-com.\" [ 37 ]", "The film received several nominations at the Teen Choice Awards , including a nomination for Garner. [ 38 ] The musical performance of Garner and Ruffalo was nominated for an MTV Movie Award . [ 39 ]", "The DVD was re-released in 2006 with the subtitle The Fun and Flirty Edition with special packaging and different special features. [ 40 ] The Blu-ray version of 13 Going on 30 was released on January 20, 2009. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 2 ]", "On 28 September 2023, a UK stage adaptation of the film was announced. The show held several public workshop performances at Battersea Arts Centre in London, ahead of a full production opening in the summer of 2025. The stage production is written by movie writers Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa and music is by composer/lyricists Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner . [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Casting for the workshops was announced on 12 October 2023, with Lucie Jones playing Jenna Rink, Jamie Muscato playing Matt Flamhaff, and Grace Mouat playing Lucy Wyman, with Andy Fickman set to direct. [ 45 ]", "On 29 October 2024 it was announced that the stage adaptation would make its world premiere at the Manchester Opera House from 21 September 2025 through 12 October 2025. The producers for the show include ROYO, Revolution Studios , Wendy Federman, and Phil Kenny. [ 46 ]", "The film opened on April 23, 2004, with an initial box office take of $22 million in its first weekend, debuting at number two, almost tied with Denzel Washington 's thriller Man on Fire . [ 17 ] In its second week, it dropped to number three, earning $9 million. [ 18 ] In its third week, it fell to number five, earning $5.5 million. [ 19 ] In its fourth week, it took sixth place with an estimated $4.2 million. [ 20 ] In its fifth week, it fell to number seven, with an estimated $2.5 million. [ 21 ] In its sixth week, the film fell to number 9, earning $1 million. [ 22 ] It ended with $57 million at the domestic box office, and a total worldwide gross of $96,455,697. [ 1 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , 13 Going on 30 has an approval rating of 65% based on reviews from 179 critics, with an average rating of 6.20/10. The site's critics consensus reads, \"Although the plot leaves a lot to be desired, 13 Going on 30 will tug at your inner teenager's heartstrings thanks in large part to a dazzling performance from Jennifer Garner.\" [ 23 ] On Metacritic , the film has a score of 57% based on reviews from 35 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. [ 24 ] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade A−, on a scale of A to F. [ 25 ]", "Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a highly positive review with a grade of \"A−\", writing, \" 13 Going on 30 is the rare commercial comedy that leaves you entranced by what can happen only in the movies.\" Gleiberman also praised Garner's performance, writing: \"She cuts out all traces of adult consciousness, of irony and flirtation and manipulation, reducing herself to a keen, goggle-eyed earnestness that's utterly beguiling.\" [ 26 ] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: \"The possibilities of Jenna's confusion are exploited for full comic effect. Garner, who turns out to be a charming, abandoned comedian, makes Jenna's incredulousness and innocence very funny and occasionally even touching.\" [ 27 ] Joe Leydon of Variety also praised her performance, writing \"Garner throws herself so fully and effectively into the role that in a few key scenes, she vividly conveys Jenna's high spirits and giddy pleasure through the graceful curling of her toes.\" Leydon praised director Gary Winick for \"bringing a fresh spin to most of the script's cliches and emphasizing nuggets of emotional truth provided by Goldsmith and Yuspa.\" [ 28 ] Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe wrote that \"The film is tailor-made for women who openly lust for dream houses, dream jobs, and dream hubbies.\" He also wrote that \"the best stuff involves the childhood preamble. (The young actors playing Jenna, Matt, and Lucy are terrific.) Those moments feel painfully, comically true.\" [ 29 ]", "Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, commenting, \"This romantic comedy is intended as a cautionary fairy tale. The silly humor works with the film's gentle message of self-empowerment and avoids sappiness in a tender interlude where the adult Jenna returns to her childhood home. Amusing, charming, and pleasantly nostalgic, 13 Going on 30 should fall easily onto moviegoers' wish lists.\" [ 30 ] Mick Martin and Marsha Porter's 2005 DVD and Video Guide called it a \"shameless rip-off of the Tom Hanks ' classic Big \", adding that it was \"weak, but predictable and is sparked by the excellent performance of Jennifer Garner\". [ 31 ] [ 32 ]", "Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times wrote: \"The performances give the film more flavor and life than the situation does; it often feels like pre-chewed Bubble Yum. The message of the plot is that a lack of sophistication is the key to success, even in a fashion magazine that attracts readers through sexy exhibitionism. The movie would have shown some daring savvy if it had played more with the role-playing aspect of fashion spreads. Instead, it is content to eat its retro snack cake and have it, too.\" [ 33 ] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2 out of 4 and wrote: \"You buy the magic because it comes with the territory. What I couldn't buy was the world of the magazine office, and the awkward scenes in which high-powered professionals don't seem to notice that they're dealing with a 13-year-old mind.\" [ 34 ] Andrea Gronvall of the Chicago Reader wrote that \"The formula works, thanks in large part to star Jennifer Garner, who's so radiant theaters should be stocking sunblock. Underlying the shenanigans and the pop-psychology moral—self-love is a prerequisite for true love—there's a touching wistfulness about roads not taken.\" [ 35 ] Jorge Morales of The Village Voice commented: \"The thirty something in me was all, gag me with a spoon , but the kid in me was like, this film's rad to the max.\" [ 36 ] Nell Minow of Common Sense Media rated four stars out of five saying \"Touching, hilarious Jennifer Garner rom-com.\" [ 37 ]", "The film received several nominations at the Teen Choice Awards , including a nomination for Garner. [ 38 ] The musical performance of Garner and Ruffalo was nominated for an MTV Movie Award . [ 39 ]", "The DVD was re-released in 2006 with the subtitle The Fun and Flirty Edition with special packaging and different special features. [ 40 ] The Blu-ray version of 13 Going on 30 was released on January 20, 2009. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 2 ]", "On 28 September 2023, a UK stage adaptation of the film was announced. The show held several public workshop performances at Battersea Arts Centre in London, ahead of a full production opening in the summer of 2025. The stage production is written by movie writers Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa and music is by composer/lyricists Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner . [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Casting for the workshops was announced on 12 October 2023, with Lucie Jones playing Jenna Rink, Jamie Muscato playing Matt Flamhaff, and Grace Mouat playing Lucy Wyman, with Andy Fickman set to direct. [ 45 ]", "On 29 October 2024 it was announced that the stage adaptation would make its world premiere at the Manchester Opera House from 21 September 2025 through 12 October 2025. The producers for the show include ROYO, Revolution Studios , Wendy Federman, and Phil Kenny. [ 46 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Thir13en_Ghosts_poster.JPG/250px-Thir13en_Ghosts_poster.JPG", "Directed by": "Steve Beck", "Screenplay by": "Neal Marshall Stevens Richard D'Ovidio", "Story by": "Robb White", "Based on": "13 Ghosts by Robb White", "Produced by": "Robert Zemeckis Joel Silver Gilbert Adler", "Starring": "Tony Shalhoub Embeth Davidtz Matthew Lillard Shannon Elizabeth Rah Digga F. Murray Abraham", "Cinematography": "Gale Tattersall", "Edited by": "Derek G. Brechin Edward A. Warschilka", "Music by": "John Frizzell", "Production companies": "Warner Bros. Pictures Columbia Pictures Dark Castle Entertainment", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros. Pictures (North America) Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (International)", "Release date": "October 26, 2001 ( 2001-10-26 ) (U.S.)", "Running time": "91 minutes", "Countries": "United States Canada", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$42 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$68.5 million [ 1 ]"}
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["Thirteen Ghosts (also known as 13 Ghosts and stylized as THIR13EN Ghosts ) is a 2001 supernatural horror film directed by Steve Beck in his directorial debut. A remake of the 1960 film 13 Ghosts by William Castle , [ 2 ] the film stars Tony Shalhoub , Embeth Davidtz , Matthew Lillard , Shannon Elizabeth , Alec Roberts, Rah Digga , and F. Murray Abraham .", "The film was considered a box-office disappointment , grossing $68 million on a $42 million budget. Thirteen Ghosts received generally negative reviews from critics for its lack of scares and editing , though the production design was praised. Years after its release, the film garnered a cult following .", "In 2023, Dark Castle Entertainment announced a television adaptation.", "Ghost hunter Cyrus Kriticos and his psychic assistant, Dennis Rafkin, lead a specialized team on a mission to capture a spirit in a junkyard. Cyrus and several of his men are killed, but the team successfully captures the ghost. His nephew Arthur, a widower, is informed by Cyrus' estate lawyer, Ben Moss, that he has inherited Cyrus' mansion. Financially insecure, Arthur decides to move there with his two children, Kathy and Bobby, and their nanny, Maggie.", "Passing himself off as an electrical technician, Dennis meets the family at the mansion and enters with them. The structure is made entirely of glass panels inscribed with Latin phrases, which Dennis recognizes as barrier protection spells. He discovers that the twelve ghosts he and Cyrus captured are imprisoned within cells in the basement. Pairs of spectral glasses allow their wearers to see the ghosts. As Dennis warns Arthur about the ghosts, Moss picks up a briefcase filled with cash and unwittingly triggers a mechanism that seals the house and releases one of them. He backs away from her, only to be sliced in half and killed by a pair of closing doors. Bobby sees several of the ghosts, including his mother Jean, who had died from injuries sustained in a house fire. He is knocked unconscious and dragged away.", "Kalina Oretzia, a spirit liberator attempting to free the ghosts, drives one of them away when it attacks Kathy and Arthur. Kathy disappears while Kalina is explaining her presence, and the four adults flee from the ghosts and take shelter in the library, where Arthur learns that Jean's ghost is one of those trapped in the house. Kalina tells them that the house is a machine which will be powered by the captive ghosts, allowing its users to see the past, present, and future. However, she says, a thirteenth ghost arising from a sacrifice motivated by pure love can act as a failsafe and shut the house down. Arthur realizes that he must become that ghost by dying to save the children.", "Armed with the spectral glasses, Arthur and Dennis enter the basement to find the children. Dennis barricades Arthur behind a glass panel for his protection and is beaten to death by a ghost. Cyrus enters the house apparently as a ghost, but he has faked his death and made Kalina his lover and a secret partner in his scheme. Kalina has lied to Arthur about the thirteenth ghost, which will activate the machine instead of shutting it down. When Kalina objects to putting the children in danger, Cyrus kills her and summons the ghosts to the main hall.", "Arthur witnesses the ghosts standing around a clockwork device of whirling metal rings, with Kathy and Bobby at the center. He prepares to throw himself into the rings to create the thirteenth ghost, but realizes that Cyrus is alive. The two men fight as Maggie regains consciousness and disrupts the summoning, freeing the ghosts from Cyrus' control and causing the machine to malfunction. The ghosts seize Cyrus and throw him into the rings, slicing him to pieces, and Dennis appears as a ghost to encourage Arthur to save his children. Arthur leaps over the rings and lands at the center to protect them as the machine tears itself apart. The house's walls shatter and the ghosts depart, with Jean giving her family one last smile before she disappears.", "As the family departs, Maggie angrily declares she is quitting as their nanny.", "James Gunn performed rewrites to the script, but was uncredited. [ 3 ] There were some reshoots that were filmed during September 11, 2001. [ 4 ]", "The film was released on VHS and DVD on April 2, 2002. [ 5 ] The film initially debuted on the Blu-ray format on October 19, 2010 in a double feature with House of Wax (2005). [ 6 ]", "A special collector's edition Blu-ray was released by Shout Factory under their Scream Factory label on July 28, 2020. This new release features brand new interviews with the cast and crew, plus a brand new audio commentary with director Steve Beck. [ 7 ]", "In the US, the film opened ranking 2nd behind K-PAX , making $15,165,355. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It spent 10 weeks in the US box office, eventually making $41,867,960 domestically, and $68,467,960 worldwide. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]", "Reviews for Thirteen Ghosts were mostly negative. Praise was directed toward the production design but the film was criticized for its lack of scares and a number of strobe effects throughout that could induce seizures . It holds an approval rating of 19% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , based on 96 reviews with an average rating of 3.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \"The production design is first rate, but 13 Ghosts is distinctly lacking in scares.\" [ 11 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 30 out of 100, based on reviews from 24 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable reviews\". [ 12 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"C+\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 13 ]", "Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine rated the film two out of four stars, panning the film's lack of scares, and predictable plot twists. However, Gonzalez commended the art direction, while also stating it was underutilized. [ 14 ] \n Roger Ebert praised the production values saying, \"The production is first-rate...The physical look of the picture is splendid.\" However, he criticized the story, lack of interesting characters, loud soundtrack, and poor editing. [ 15 ] In 2005 Ebert included it on his list of \"Most Hated\" films. [ 16 ] Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times said of the film \"what we're left with after the scares is just plain dumb.\" [ 17 ]", "In the years since its release and disappointing box office performance, the film has gathered a prominent cult following, finding further success and more positive reception. [ 2 ]", "In August 2023, Dark Castle Entertainment announced that they were planning to make a Thirteen Ghosts series. [ 18 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/13ghostsposters.jpg", "Directed by": "William Castle", "Written by": "Robb White", "Produced by": "William Castle", "Starring": "Charles Herbert Jo Morrow Rosemary DeCamp Margaret Hamilton Donald Woods", "Cinematography": "Joseph F. Biroc", "Edited by": "Edwin H. Bryant", "Music by": "Von Dexter", "Distributed by": "Columbia Pictures", "Release date": "July 1960 ( 1960-07 )", "Running time": "84 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$1.5 million (US/Canada) [ 2 ]"}
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["13 Ghosts is a 1960 American supernatural horror film produced and directed by William Castle , written by Robb White and starring Rosemary DeCamp , Margaret Hamilton , Charles Herbert , Martin Milner , Jo Morrow , John van Dreelen , and Donald Woods . [ 3 ]", "13 Ghosts was released in 1960 as a double bill with 12 to the Moon , The Electronic Monster or Battle in Outer Space , depending on the film market.", "The occultist Dr. Plato Zorba bequeaths a large house to his impoverished nephew Cyrus. Along with his wife Hilda, teen daughter Medea and adolescent son, Buck, Cyrus is informed by lawyer Ben Rush that the house comes with ghosts that Dr. Zorba has collected from around the world. The will stipulates that the family must stay in the house and cannot sell it, or it will be turned over to the state. The family is shocked to find that the house is really haunted by 12 ghosts. The furnished mansion also comes with a creepy housekeeper, Elaine, who conducts seances, and a hidden fortune concealed somewhere on the property. The spirits include a wailing lady, clutching hands, a fiery skeleton , an Italian chef continuously murdering his wife and her lover in the kitchen, a hanging lady, an executioner holding a severed head, a fully grown lion with its headless tamer , a floating head and a ghost of Zorba himself, all held captive in the eerie house and looking for an unlucky 13th ghost to free them. Dr. Zorba also leaves a set of special goggles, the only way of seeing the ghosts. A Ouija board warns the family that a death will occur in the house.", "Rush, the estate executor, knows Zorba's fortune is hidden somewhere in the house, having unsuccessfully searched for it previously. When two $100 bills fall loose after Buck slides down the stairs, Rush tricks Buck into secretly searching for the money. After Buck finds the cash under the stairs, Rush carries the sleeping boy out of his room and attempts to murder him in the same way that he killed Zorba: using a four-poster bed equipped with a descending canopy that fatally suffocates people.", "Zorba's ghost appears, killing the terrified Rush by driving him under the canopy as Buck awakens and escapes. Rush has become the 13th ghost. The next morning, Cyrus and his family count the recovered money and decide to stay. Elaine says the ghosts have left but predicts they will return, much to Buck's delight. Unseen by the family, an unseen force blows the special glasses into smithereens. Elaine gets a broom and permits herself a small enigmatic smile.", "As with several of his more famous productions, producer William Castle used a gimmick to promote 13 Ghosts , as audience members were given the choice to see the ghosts. In theaters, most scenes were in black-and-white , but scenes involving ghosts were shown in a process dubbed \"Illusion-O\". The filmed elements of the actors and the sets – everything except the ghosts – had a blue filter applied to the footage, while the ghost elements had a red filter and were superimposed over the frame. [ 4 ] Audiences received viewing glasses with red and blue cellophane filters. Unlike with early 3D glasses having one eye red and the other cyan or blue, the Illusion-O device required viewers to look through a single color with both eyes. Looking through the red filter intensified the images of the ghosts, while the blue filter \"removed\" them. [ 5 ]", "Television and home video releases are edited to simulate the effect without the need for special glasses.", "Howard Thompson of The New York Times called the film \"a simple, old-fashioned haunted house yarn\" that \"would be a lot better off without this gimmick.\" [ 6 ] Variety wrote: \"The idea is sound and exploitable, but the execution doesn't fully come off,\" explaining the ghosts \"lack personality and aren't frightening, so that there isn't sufficient tension in the sequences during which the 'ghost viewer' comes into play.\" [ 7 ] The Monthly Film Bulletin called it \"a workmanlike but not very frightening horror film ... the ghosts, which are a dull red colour, are far less effective when witnessed than when their presence is merely suggested, especially when their viewability depends on a process as unremarkable as Illusion-O.\" [ 8 ]", "The film was remade in 2001 as Thirteen Ghosts , directed by Steve Beck . As with the original, the film was distributed by Columbia Pictures , except in the United States and Canada, where it was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures . [ 9 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/13belovedposter.jpeg", "Directed by": "Matthew Chookiat Sakveerakul", "Screenplay by": "Matthew Chookiat Sakveerakul", "Produced by": "Prachya Pinkaew Sukanya Vongsthapat", "Starring": "Krissada Sukosol Clapp Achita Sikamana Sarunyoo Wongkrachang", "Cinematography": "Chitti Urnorakanku", "Music by": "Kitti Kuremanee", "Production company": "Sahamongkol Film International", "Distributed by": "Sahamongkol Film International", "Release date": "October 5, 2006 ( 2006-10-05 )", "Running time": "116 minutes 110 minutes (Rated cut)", "Country": "Thailand", "Languages": "Thai Indonesia", "Budget": "THB 13 million (US$400,000)", "Box office": "THB 18.47 million"}
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["13 Beloved ( Thai : 13 เกมสยอง ; RTGS : Sip Sam Kem Sayong ; ( lit. ' 13 games of horror ' ) or 13 Game Sayong , also 13: Game of Death ) is a 2006 Thai horror comedy film written and directed by Chukiat Sakveerakul and starring Krissada Sukosol Clapp as a man who is led through progressively challenging, degrading, and dangerous stunts by mysterious callers from an underground reality game show , Achita Sikamana and Sarunyoo Wongkrachang appear in supporting role, is adapted from the 13th Quiz Show episode in the My Mania comic-book series by Eakasit Thairaat. It was the second feature-length film for Chukiat, who previously directed the horror film Pisaj .", "The film won several awards in Thailand and from film festivals. Remake rights for the film were purchased by The Weinstein Company .", "A Boy Scout is standing at the crosswalk of a busy intersection in Bangkok and sees an elderly woman carrying some bags, struggling to make her way across the street. The woman drops some of her belongings, and as the lights are about to change, the boy runs out to assist the woman. In the confusion, he drops his mobile phone, and leaves it in the street while he helps the woman to safety. Just as the light changes and traffic starts to rush forward, the boy runs out to retrieve his phone, where he is hit by a bus and killed.", "The scene then shifts to protagonist Phuchit Puengnathong (ภูชิต พึ่งนาทอง) [ 1 ] ( Krissada Sukosol Clapp ), a struggling Yamaha Corporation salesman. He arrives at a potential client's school to find that a co-worker from his firm has already made the sale. His girlfriend, Maew, has recently dumped him to become a pop star. He lives alone in a small apartment. The next morning, he finds that his car has been repossessed. He arrives at work and is called into his boss's office, and is forced to resign due to his lack of sales.", "He goes out to the stairwell to gather his thoughts and have a cigarette. He then discovers he has no more. He has a big stack of overdue bills from credit companies. However, his mobile phone is still working. His mother calls. She needs some money to pay for his younger brother's schooling. Puchit agrees to send her some money.", "Angrily, he crumples his credit-card statements and bills and throws them to the floor. His phone rings again. The caller says Phuchit has a chance to win 10,000 baht . Phuchit is ready to hang up, thinking the call is cruel joke being played on him by his co-workers or friends. But then the caller tells Phuchit his full name, age, employment status and other details that makes Phuchit stay on the line. To win the 10,000 baht, all he has to do is swat a fly which is at that very moment buzzing around him and has been pestering him the whole time he has been sitting in the stairwell. The caller even says there is a rolled up newspaper nearby. Phutchit grabs the paper and swats the fly.", "He immediately receives a message that 10,000 baht has been transferred to his bank account. His phone immediately rings again. The caller says Phuchit will win more money if he eats the dead fly. He goes back to his desk, holding the fly while debating whether to eat it. One of his co-workers, a friend, Tong (Achita Sikamana), comes to see him, just as he pops the fly into his mouth. She is stunned and is not sure what to say to him.", "Phuchit receives another phone call. The caller explains that if he completes 11 more tasks, he will win 100 million baht. Needing the money, Phuchit reluctantly agrees to the play the game. The caller explains that if he quits the game or anyone discovers that he is playing the game, he'll forfeit all his winnings so far.", "For the third stunt, he is told he must make some children cry. This act makes Phuchit recall his childhood, in which his father crushed his toys by stomping on them; Phuchit's father, a farang named John Adams (Philip Wilson), had married his Thai mother (Sukulya Kongkawong). Next, Phuchit must steal coins from a beggar.", "For his fifth stunt, Phuchit is told to go to a fine Chinese restaurant. He is brought a covered plate that contains feces and he is told that he must eat it. This makes Phuchit recall when some bullies tried to make him eat dog feces when he was a child.", "The stunts grow increasingly degrading, unlawful and deadly. His sixth is to fight with a gang of school-age thugs while riding a public bus in order to get another mobile phone. He must jump down a well and drag up the corpse of a dead man. He has to beat up his ex-girlfriend Maew's new boyfriend with a chair. Next, he must break an elderly woman (the same old woman from the first scene) out of a hospital. The game causes Phuchit to recall his childhood, when he was beaten by his cruel farang father, was taunted by bullies and other bad memories.", "Meanwhile, Phuchit's friend Tong is concerned about the strange behavior she witnessed earlier in the office and later in the Chinese restaurant, and putting together clues overheard at the police station, she goes to her computer at work and gets on the internet. A computer expert, she manages to hack into a website for a game called 13 . However, unbeknownst to her, she is being watched, and unwittingly, she is made part of the game.", "A police detective, Surachai, also becomes involved, and comes close to catching Phuchit. He believes the crime spree is linked to something much larger, and it is hinted he has suspicions about the existence of the game. However, Phuchit evades capture, and a higher-ranking police official orders Surachai to call off the pursuit.", "Eventually, Tong's life is put at risk. She discovers the place where the game is being run from, and confronts the game's mastermind, a young boy named Kie, who tells Tong he is powerless to stop the game, saying he is \"just a component\" in the live, underground reality game involves players and viewers that perhaps number in the thousands.", "Phuchit finds himself confronted by his abusive father, John Adams, who is strapped in a wheelchair, wearing a straitjacket and appears to be unconscious. To win the 100 million baht, Phuchit must stab Adams with a butcher knife. Phuchit is unable to do this, recalling that what guided him through his painful childhood and disappointing life was his mother's desire that he never become a bad person like his father. Adams wakes up and stabs Phuchit to death, therefore winning his own game. Tong screams at Kie, and Kie leaves as his minions hold her. Tong later wakes up on a bus bench and is found by Surachai as he continues to investigate.", "13 Beloved is adapted from the 13th Quiz Show episode in the My Mania ( รวมเรื่องสั้นจิตหลุด ) graphic novel (or \"pocket book\" as it is called in Thailand) series by Eakasit Thairaat originally published as stand alone short story in monthly Thai Comics Magazine Vol.178 (No.5/ March 2003 Vibulkij). [ 2 ] before published as collected graphic novel in 2004. [ 3 ]", "Chukait Sakveerakul discovered a My Mania trade paperback from the local rent comic shop and became impressed immediately with 13th Quiz Show and wanted to adapt it. While waiting for preproduction of romanctic film The Love Of Siam let to Sahamongkol Film contact Eakasit and Worawut Worawittayanon editor of Thai Comics Magazine to buy the movie rights. [ 4 ]", "Director Matthew Chookiat Sakveerakul said the film is a reflection on what he views as materialism in Thai society.", "There are plenty of movies out there that are only for fun,\" Chukiat said in an interview. \"I am more interested in political and social issues, so my movies address these and human issues as well. All in all, movies do address the state of being human, with themes such as love, and obsessions of one kind or another. But some just scratch the surface. [ 5 ] \nIn the original comics it is black comedy that heavily satire on reality multimedia or game shows like The Weakest Link that was popular in Thailand in this period. [ 6 ]", "Thailand's prime minister at the time, Thaksin Shinawatra , is directly referenced in the film – his photo is on the newspaper that Phuchit uses to swat a fly.", "The film covers one day but actually took about seven months to film. [ 7 ]", "The fifth stunt involved Phuchit eating a plate of feces, which in reality was a mix of durian , syrup and peanuts. [ 7 ]", "A short film prequel, 12 Begin , was made as part of the film's pre-release promotional campaign. It was shown in limited screenings at SF Cinema City theaters. [ 8 ] \nA sequel called 14 Beyond has been planned for several years, but has yet to start production. [ 9 ] Commuan Studios began producing a manga version of the sequel in the leadup to the planned production, but it no longer appears to be available online. [ 10 ]", "The film opened in wide release in Thai cinemas on October 5, 2006. It was also screened commercially in Japan and Singapore in June 2007. Its North American premiere was at the 2007 Fantasia Festival in Montreal. [ 11 ] It also screened at the 2007 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival , where it won the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation Asian Film Award. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] It also screened at the 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival in the non-competition \"Thai Panorama\" program. The film has been released on Region 3 DVD in Singapore , with English subtitles. [ 14 ] It released theatrically in Hong Kong on January 24, 2008. [ 15 ]", "13 Beloved was number one in Thai cinemas on opening weekend, earning US$266,218 and edging out the previous week's number one film, Rob-B-Hood . [ 16 ]", "The film was hailed critically as well, with the Bangkok Post ' s Kong Rithdee calling it a \"smart, ambitious commercial film\" with shortcomings that \"are the results of risk-taking rather than of incompetence.\" [ 17 ] Maggie Lee, writing for The Hollywood Reporter , called 13 Beloved \"one of those accomplished suspense thrillers that mount the tension stage by stage without running out of steam at the end, it is also an unyieldingly cynical exploration of the human heart of darkness with an oedipal climax that makes it a field-day for Freudians.\" [ 18 ]", "Remake rights for the film were purchased by The Weinstein Company . [ 21 ] The remake was released in 2014 titled 13 Sins ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Thirteen_Assassins.jpg", "Directed by": "Takashi Miike", "Screenplay by": "Daisuke Tengan", "Story by": "Shōichirō Ikemiya [ 1 ]", "Based on": "13 Assassins by Eiichi Kudo", "Produced by": "Michihiko Umezawa Minami Ichikawa Tôichirô Shiraishi Kazuomi Suzaki Hisashi Usui Takahiro Ohno Hirotsugu Yoshida Shigeji Maeda", "Starring": "Koji Yakusho Takayuki Yamada Yusuke Iseya Tsuyoshi Ihara Hiroki Matsukata Mikijirō Hira Gorō Inagaki Masachika Ichimura", "Cinematography": "Nobuyasu Kita [ 1 ]", "Edited by": "Kenji Yamashita [ 1 ]", "Music by": "Kōji Endō", "Production companies": "Sedic International [ 1 ] Recorded Picture Company [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Toho (Japan) [ 2 ] Artificial Eye (United Kingdom) [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "Release dates": "9 September 2010 ( 2010-09-09 ) ( Venice Film Festival ) 25 September 2010 ( 2010-09-25 ) (Japan)", "Running time": "141 minutes", "Countries": "United Kingdom [ 1 ] Japan [ 1 ]", "Language": "Japanese", "Budget": "$6 million [ 5 ]", "Box office": "$17.5 million [ 6 ]"}
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["13 Assassins ( Japanese : 十三人の刺客 , Hepburn : Jūsannin no Shikaku ) is a 2010 samurai film directed by Takashi Miike , and starring Koji Yakusho , Takayuki Yamada , Sōsuke Takaoka , Hiroki Matsukata , Kazuki Namioka and Gorō Inagaki . A remake of Eiichi Kudo 's 1963 Japanese period drama film 13 Assassins , it is set in 1844 toward the end of the Edo period in which a group of thirteen assassins—comprising twelve samurai and a hunter—secretly plot to assassinate Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu , the murderous leader of the Akashi clan , to thwart his appointment to the powerful Shogunate Council.", "The film marks the third collaboration in which Yamada and Takaoka co-starred, the first two being Crows Zero and Crows Zero 2 , both directed by Miike. Principal photography took place over two months, from July to September 2009, in Tsuruoka, Yamagata , in northern Japan. The film opened in Japan on 25 September 2010 and in the United States on 29 April 2011. It received critical acclaim from western critics, who compared it favourably to Akira Kurosawa 's oeuvre.", "In 1844, during the Edo Period , the Tokugawa Shogunate is in decline. Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu of Akashi sadistically rapes, tortures, mutilates and murders nobles and commoners, but is protected by the Shōgun , his half-brother. With Naritsugu due to ascend to the Shogunate Council, the Shōgun's Justice Minister, Sir Doi Toshitsura , realizes that this ascendance will cause civil war between the Shōgun and the many feudal lords Naritsugu has offended. The Mamiya clan's feudal lord publicly commits seppuku as a protest against the Shōgun's refusal to punish Naritsugu, who had personally murdered the feudal lord's entire family. When the Shōgun insists upon Naritsugu's promotion, Sir Doi hires a trusted older samurai, Shimada Shinzaemon, to assassinate Naritsugu. However, Naritsugu's loyal retainers led by Hanbei, an old contemporary of Shinzaemon, learn of the plot by spying on Doi.", "Shinzaemon gathers ten more samurai, including his nephew, Shinrokurō, plus one rōnin , to attack Naritsugu during his official journey from Edo to Akashi. Before Naritsugu leaves, Hanbei confronts Shinzaemon over the plot. The assassins decide to ambush Naritsugu at the town of Ochiai , predicting that he will insist on carrying out his pre-announced visit of Naegi and thus pass through Ochiai. During the assassins' journey to Ochiai, they stop at a town where they are attacked by rōnin paid off by Hanbei. Fearing more attacks, the assassins leave the roads, instead trekking through the mountains, but lose their way. They rescue a hunter, Kiga Koyata, who guides them to Ochiai and volunteers to become the thirteenth assassin.", "The assassins enlist the help of Makino, a feudal lord whose daughter-in-law was raped and son murdered by Naritsugu. Using troops with firearms, Makino blocks the official highway, forcing Naritsugu to take a detour. Makino then commits seppuku to conceal his involvement in the conspiracy. Sensing a trap, Hanbei advises Naritsugu to avoid Naegi, but Naritsugu refuses as this would publicly embarrass him. Naritsugu acknowledges that visiting Naegi is unsafe, but also exciting. Meanwhile, the assassins, with the legal authority and generous financial assistance of Doi, buy the help of Ochiai to convert the town into an elaborate maze of booby traps and camouflaged fortifications.", "Naritsugu and his retinue arrive at Ochiai, with reinforcements arranged by Hanbei, increasing their number from 70 to 200. As Ochiai's civilians escape, the 13 assassins trap Naritsugu's party in Ochiai. A lengthy battle begins, with the assassins first using arrows and explosives, then using swords for melee combat, with the exception of Koyata, who fights with rocks in slings and with sticks. While many of Naritsugu's retainers are killed, Naritsugu is aroused by the bloodshed of the battle and declares that when he ascends to the Shogunate Council, he will start wars reminiscent of the Sengoku Period .", "While most of the Akashi forces are defeated, at least 10 of the assassins perish, with several fighting until they collapsed dead from their injuries. Eventually, Shinzaemon and Shinrokurō confront Naritsugu, Hanbei and two remaining retainers. Shinzaemon argues that Naritsugu will ruin the realm, but Hanbei insists on loyalty to his master. Shinzaemon duels Hanbei and decapitates him after kicking mud into Hanbei's eyes, while Shinrokurō slays the last two Akashi retainers. Naritsugu kicks Hanbei's severed head away and announces that the people and the samurai have only one purpose: to serve their lords. Shinzaemon counters that the lords cannot live without the support of the people and that, if a lord abuses his power, the people will rise up against him. Naritsugu and Shinzaemon mortally wound each other. Crying, crawling in the mud, and experiencing rare fear and pain, Naritsugu thanks Shinzaemon for causing the most exciting day of Naritsugu's life. Naritsugu is decapitated by Shinzaemon, who succumbs to his wounds.", "Shinrokurō wanders through the carnage and Koyata runs up, appearing virtually unharmed despite being impaled through the neck by Naritsugu and slashed in the stomach by Hanbei. Koyata dismisses his previous injuries as trivial. Shinrokurō and Koyata leave separately, with Shinrokurō intending to become a bandit or travel to America, while Koyata vows to elope with his lover.", "An epilogue states that Naritsugu's death was officially attributed to illness, and that 23 years later, the Tokugawa Shogunate was overthrown during the Meiji Restoration .", "13 Assassins was produced through Toshiaki Nakazawa's film outfit, Sedic International, and Jeremy Thomas ' s Recorded Picture Company . Nakazawa had previously worked with director Takashi Miike on The Bird People in China and Andromedia (both in 1998), Yakuza Demon (2003), and Sukiyaki Western Django (2007). [ 2 ] At the start of production, Thomas said he was pleased to be working again with \"wonderful Japanese filmmakers like Toshiaki Nakazawa and Takashi Miike, whose work speaks for itself as being amongst the most successful and innovative coming from Japan\". Nakazawa replied that he would like Thomas \"to wear a sword also, and with one more assassin, together we will send out the fourteen assassins over there\". [ 2 ] Of his approach in directing the film, Miike said:", "Having been a fan of Koji Yakusho 's acting, Miike made it a priority that he be cast in the leading role. In addition, he sought younger actors to play the assassins, in particular Sousuke Takaoka and Takayuki Yamada , with whom Miike had worked in his two films, Crows Zero (2007) and its sequel Crows Zero 2 (2009). [ 10 ] The film's screenplay was written by Daisuke Tengan, who had also written the screenplay for Miike's film Audition (1999). [ 11 ]", "The film entered production over a two-month period. [ 12 ] Principal photography began in July 2009 on a large open-air set in Tsuruoka in the Yamagata Prefecture in northern Japan. [ 13 ] The filming of the action scenes took about three weeks and was met with minor weather-related difficulties. Miike had strayed from the use of CGI in the film as well as planning the scenes via storyboarding , insisting on shooting the scenes right away. [ 14 ] In a separate interview, however, Miike said that some CGI were used, albeit minimal. [ 12 ] Over half of the thirteen actors playing the assassins were reportedly inexperienced in sword fighting and horseback riding, [ 9 ] and Miike wanted them to be just that, explaining, \"If the actors had been skilled from the beginning, and had been in several samurai movies before, the way they approached the action would've been different; they probably would've ended up being something they were doing to look good or be beautiful, or to fall into the trappings of the stereotypical form that they had.\" [ 14 ] Filming concluded in early September 2009. [ 13 ]", "For international exhibition, the 141 minute film was edited to 125 minutes. [ 3 ]", "Jeremy Thomas ' s London-based company HanWay Films handled international sales. [ 5 ] Toho had prebought the rights to distribute in Japan, [ 2 ] and released it on 25 September 2010. [ 15 ] The film competed for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on 9 September 2010. [ 16 ]", "Magnet Releasing, a genre arm of Magnolia Pictures , acquired North American distribution rights. [ 17 ] The film streamed video on demand in March 2011, and was released theatrically in the United States on 29 April. [ 18 ]", "At the box office, 13 Assassins grossed $802,778 in the US and Canada. [ 6 ] From an estimated $6 million budget, [ 5 ] it grossed $17,555,141 worldwide. [ 6 ]", "13 Assassins drew favorable reviews from critics, [ 19 ] many of whom praised its final battle sequence (which runs 45 minutes). [ 11 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 95%, with an average rating of 7.9/10, based on reviews from 131 critics. The consensus reads, \"Takashi Miike's electric remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 period action film is a wild spectacle executed with killer, dizzying panache.\" [ 22 ] On Metacritic , the film received \"Universal acclaim\" and was awarded its \"Must-See\" badge, with a weighted average of 84 out of 100 based on 33 reviews. [ 23 ]", "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times , who gave the film 3 .mw-parser-output .sfrac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .sfrac.tion,.mw-parser-output .sfrac .tion{display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.5em;font-size:85%;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .num{display:block;line-height:1em;margin:0.0em 0.1em;border-bottom:1px solid}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .den{display:block;line-height:1em;margin:0.1em 0.1em}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px} 1 / 2 stars out of 4, praised the film as \"terrifically entertaining, an ambitious big-budget epic, directed with great visuals and sound\", and compared it favorably with other action films in its subtle use of CGI effects. Ebert also praised the way the film \"focuses on story in the midst of violence\", as well as incorporating characters and drama with a skill that most blockbuster action films lack. [ 20 ] Ebert later included it in his Best Films of 2011 list as an addendum to his top 20. [ 24 ] Manohla Dargis chose 13 Assassins as her Critic's Pick for The New York Times , describing it as \"A stirring, unexpectedly moving story of love and blood\". [ 25 ]", "V. A. Musetto of the New York Post said the film complements Akira Kurosawa 's Seven Samurai (1954) and Ran (1985), describing Miike's film as \"a pulse-quickening masterpiece that would please the mighty Kurosawa\". [ 26 ] Mark Schilling of The Japan Times commended Miike's direction and the performance of the ensemble cast (including Koji Yakusho 's). Schilling gave the film 4 stars out of 5, but, notwithstanding other favorable comparisons, he noted that it barely \"strike[s] the deeper chords\" of Seven Samurai . [ 8 ] Tom Mes of Film Comment said the film \"culminates in a riveting, ingeniously plotted, and inventively shot 45-minute battle scene that few contemporary Japanese directors besides Miike could pull off, either logistically or artistically\". [ 11 ] Leslie Felperin of Variety praised the film's technical aspects, describing Kenji Yamashita's editing as \"gracefully executed\", Kazuhiro Sawataishi 's costume design as \"terrific, character-defining\", and Kōji Endō's soundtrack as \"rousing, propulsive score \". [ 21 ]", "The film's DVD and Blu-ray versions were released in the United States on 5 July 2011 by Magnet Releasing, [ 27 ] and in the United Kingdom on 5 September by Artificial Eye . [ 28 ] The DVD version was the 12th-bestselling DVD in its first week of availability in the US, selling 41,593 copies. In its second week, it dropped to 30th place, selling 13,922 copies. The Blu-ray version was the third-bestselling Blu-ray, selling 33,142 copies in its first week. In its second week, it dropped to 10,335 copies and was placed 20th. [ 29 ] The Blu-ray version garnered positive reviews from IGN , DVD Talk , Slant Magazine , and HuffPost UK. [ 30 ]", "In Japan, the film won four of its ten nominations at the 34th Japan Academy Prize , [ 31 ] and won both of its two nominations at the 32nd Yokohama Film Festival . [ 32 ] In 2014 Time Out polled several film critics, directors, actors, and stunt actors to list their top action films. [ 33 ] 13 Assassins was listed at 94th place on the list. [ 34 ] Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film at No. 70 on its list of the \"140 Essential Action Movies To Watch Now\", [ 35 ] and was ranked at No. 5 on Screen Rant 's \"12 Best Action Movies You've Never Heard Of\". [ 36 ] 13 Assassins made the British Film Institute 's list of 10 great samurai films. [ 37 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/13_Assassins_%281963_film%29.jpg/250px-13_Assassins_%281963_film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Eiichi Kudo", "Screenplay by": "Kaneo Ikegami", "Produced by": "Kanji Amao Jun'ichirō Tamaki", "Starring": "Takayuki Akutagawa [ ja ] Chiezō Kataoka Kōtarō Satomi", "Cinematography": "Jūhei Suzuki", "Edited by": "Shintarō Miyamoto", "Music by": "Akira Ifukube", "Production company": "Toei Company", "Distributed by": "Toei Company", "Release date": "1963 ( 1963 )", "Running time": "125 minutes", "Country": "Japan", "Language": "Japanese"}
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["13 Assassins ( Japanese : 十三人の刺客 , romaji : Jūsan-nin no shikaku ) is a 1963 Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) film directed by Eiichi Kudo . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "In 1844, the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan is in a period of transition, and one of the high ranking lords, Lord Matsudaira , has become tainted by his dissolute and reprobate misconduct. Many leaders in the governing community of the current government feel that the code of honor, bushido , of the samurai is being disgraced by Matsudaira. His reprobate, egotistical, and feckless lifestyle is disgusting to those who come into close contact with him. After receiving reports, Sir Doi is convinced that Matsudaira represents a severe threat to the entire code of honor for the samurai tradition. Sir Doi decides, because of the severity of Matsudaira's misconduct, to take a blood oath to assassinate the reprobate Lord Matsudaira. He enlists a troop of assassins to swear a similar blood oath to do away with Matsudaira in order to restore his country's wellbeing and code of honor. [ 4 ]", "Shinzaemon gathers a diverse group of warriors with the intent to trap and kill Matsudaira and his 200 bodyguards in the town of Ochiai. Using clever tactics, Shinzaemon successfully evens the odds against the overwhelming force and defeating the enemy lord and his rival, the leader of the bodyguards, Hanbei. [ 5 ]", "The film was remade in 2010 by Takashi Miike . The remake was met with critical acclaim. BFI, in an assessment of the top ten samurai films, compared the remake of the film to the original version stating: \"Set in 1844, 13 Assassins follows the Seven Samurai template, featuring a band of samurais who come together to overthrow a despotic lord for the greater good of society. Miike’s version benefits from a far more generous budget, with a wonderful attention to period sets and costumes and some inventively choreographed fight scenes.\" [ 6 ]", "Between the original 1963 film and the 2010 remake, a 1990 production by Fuji TV aired as a television movie starring noted actor Tatsuya Nakadai in the lead role (Shimada Shinzaemon)."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c5/13_Musical_Film_Poster.jpg/250px-13_Musical_Film_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Tamra Davis", "Screenplay by": "Robert Horn", "Based on": "13 by Jason Robert Brown Robert Horn Dan Elish", "Produced by": "Bob Boyett Laurence Mark Neil Meron", "Starring": "Eli Golden Gabriella Uhl Debra Messing Rhea Perlman Frankie McNellis Josh Peck Peter Hermann", "Cinematography": "Adam Santelli", "Edited by": "Joe Galdo", "Music by": "Christopher Lennertz", "Production company": "Zadan/Meron Productions", "Distributed by": "Netflix", "Release date": "August 12, 2022 ( 2022-08-12 )", "Running time": "94 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["13: The Musical is a 2022 American musical coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Tamra Davis from a screenplay written by Robert Horn , based on the 2007 stage musical of the same name by Horn, Jason Robert Brown , and Dan Elish. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Eli Golden, Gabriella Uhl, Frankie McNellis, JD McCrary , Lindsey Blackwell, Jonathan Lengel, Ramon Reed, Nolen Dubuc, Luke Islam, Liam Wignall, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Khiyla Anne, Kayleigh Cerezo, and Willow Moss, with Debra Messing , Josh Peck , Peter Hermann , and Rhea Perlman .", "A film adaptation of 13: The Musical was officially announced in September 2019, with Davis hired as director and Horn confirmed to be adapting his and Elish's book as the screenplay. That same month, Brown was also confirmed to be returning to write new songs for the film, and Christopher Lennertz was hired to compose the film's incidental score. The cast was filled out between October 2020 and April 2021, including Golden, Uhl, McNellis, McCrary, Blackwell, Lengel, Messing, Perlman, Hermann, and Peck. Principal photography took place between June and August 2021.", "13: The Musical premiered at the Paris Theater in New York City on August 8, 2022, and was released through Netflix on August 12. [ 1 ]", "The film follows Evan has he navigates the complexities of his first year as a teenager, including studying for his bar mitzvah —a coming-of-age ritual in Judaism typically performed at 13 years of age.", "Evan Goldman is forced to move from New York City to his grandmother's house in Walkerton, Indiana, when his parents go through a divorce (\"Thirteen\"). He befriends the next door neighbor, Patrice (\"The Lamest Place in the World\"), and her friend Archie, who uses a wheelchair.", "Faced with his upcoming Bar Mitzvah, Evan aims to befriend the popular kids at his new school, led by football star Brett Sampson and head cheerleader, Kendra Duncan, but this alienates him from Patrice, who is considered a dork by the popular kids and sees Evan wanting to befriend them as a betrayal. Things aren't better at home, with Evan resenting both his parents for the divorce and move and his mother Jessica lamenting giving up her writing career for her marriage, only for it to fail anyway.", "Brett and Kendra both have feelings for each other and want to share their first kiss together (\"I've Been Waiting\"), but Kendra's best friend Lucy Hallman also likes Brett, and is fed up with always being outshone by Kendra (\"Opportunity\"). When Evan comes up with a plan to trick Kendra's overbearing mother and get her and Brett on a date to the movies (\"The Bloodmaster\"), Lucy threatens him to prevent the two from kissing or she will get everyone to boycott Evan's party.", "To prevent the kiss without angering Brett directly, Evan recruits Archie, who has a huge crush on Kendra, to sit next to her at the movies to ruin the mood. Archie is fine with this, despite knowing Evan is using him (\"Getting Ready\"), but Patrice learns and calls Kendra's mother with the truth, causing her to storm in and ruin the date. This backfires on her when such an act alienates her from both Archie and Evan, who is blamed and shunned. Lucy makes her move and kisses Brett, claiming him as her boyfriend.", "Lucy proves to be a clingy overbearing girlfriend to Brett, whose friends pity his sad state (\"Bad Bad News\"). Evan and Jessica reconcile over the disappointing turns their lives have taken (\"It Would Be Funny\"), and Evan finally calls his father, who apologizes and encourages him to fix his mistakes. He convinces Brett to apologize to Kendra, with help from Patrice (\"Tell Her\"). Brett and Kendra reconcile, and he dumps Lucy. Evan and Patrice apologize to each other, and Evan asks her to come to his Bar Mitzvah.", "The morning of the party, Patrice is convinced to forgive Evan by a gift Evan leaves at her house, and goes to the service, which is also attended by Brett and Kendra and their friends, including Lucy, who apologizes and makes up with Kendra. Evan completes his service, and everyone sings that they have \"A Little More Homework to Do\" while flashes show Jessica and Evan moving into a house of their own, Evan being friends with both Brett and Kendra, and Patrice and Archie with understanding on both sides, Jessica resuming her writing career, and Archie getting a new crush. The whole cast has an epic party afterwards, with a performance of \"A Brand New You\". [ 2 ]", "Eli Golden as Evan", "On August 12, 2014, CBS Films acquired the rights to adapt 13 , with Bert V. Royal writing the script and Laurence Mark , Bob Boyett and David Blackman producing the film. [ 3 ] On September 20, 2019, Netflix and producer Neil Meron acquired the film, with Tamra Davis hired to direct and Robert Horn writing the script instead of Royal. [ 4 ] On April 29, 2021, Davis was set to produce the film with Jason Robert Brown , Horn, Bob Boyett and Mark Nicholson. [ 5 ]", "On October 28, 2020, Neil Meron issued an open casting call for the teen roles, with rehearsals set to begin in March 2021. [ 6 ] On April 29, 2021, Eli Golden, Gabriella Uhl, JD McCrary , Frankie McNellis, Lindsey Blackwell, Jonathan Lengel, Ramon Reed, Nolen Dubuc, Luke Islam, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Kayleigh Cerezo, Willow Moss, Liam Wignall, and Khiyla Aynne were cast in the film. [ 5 ] On May 24, 2021, Debra Messing was cast in the film. [ 7 ] On June 11, 2021, Rhea Perlman , Josh Peck , and Peter Hermann joined the cast. [ 8 ]", "On October 28, 2020, principal photography was set to begin in Toronto in June 2021. [ 6 ] Filming also took place in various locations like New York City , Beeton and Brampton (Ontario, Canada). The principal photography ended on August 6, 2021. [ 9 ]", "On September 20, 2019, Brown was hired to write new songs for the film. In July 2022, Christopher Lennertz was hired to compose the film's incidental underscore. [ 4 ]", "The songs appear in the film in the following order:", "† New song written for film", "The film also features \"Cyclical Safire,\" written and performed by Gary Schreiner.", "The film was released through Netflix on August 12, 2022. [ 1 ]", "The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its music and the performances of the cast, but criticism for its deviations from the stage musical. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 58% of 19 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.70/10. Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/13_poster.jpg/250px-13_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Géla Babluani", "Written by": "Géla Babluani Gregory Pruss", "Based on": "13 Tzaméti by Géla Babluani", "Produced by": "Rick Schwartz Jeanette B. Milio Valerio Morabito", "Starring": "Sam Riley Ray Winstone Curtis \"50 Cent\" Jackson Alexander Skarsgård Mickey Rourke Jason Statham", "Cinematography": "Michael McDonough", "Edited by": "Géla Babluani David Gray", "Music by": "Alexander Bubenheim", "Production companies": "Magnet Media Group Overnight Films Barbarian Films Morabito Picture Company", "Distributed by": "Anchor Bay Films (United States and United Kingdom) Paramount Vantage (International) [ 1 ]", "Release dates": "March 13, 2010 ( 2010-03-13 ) ( SXSW ) October 28, 2011 ( 2011-10-28 ) (United States)", "Running time": "97 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$3,701,600 [ 2 ]"}
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["13 is a 2010 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Géla Babluani (who also directed the original), stars Sam Riley , Ray Winstone , 50 Cent , Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham . It is a remake of the 2005 Georgian-French film 13 Tzameti .", "Vincent \"Vince\" Ferro overhears people talking about a dead man who was going to start a well-paid job. Ferro, in need of money, steals an envelope containing the instructions for the job. He arrives at an event in a secluded place. He is ordered to strip, and his boot heels are cut off, in order to check for surveillance equipment. The organizers accept him for the job instead of the dead man. The job is participation in a series of Russian roulette games. There are several participants, identified by number. In each round, the participants have to spin the cylinder of their revolver , and shoot when the light of a special light bulb is switched on. The event is organized for the enjoyment of rich spectators, one of these spectators being Jasper Bagges, who places bets on who will survive. Bagges bets on his brother Ronald, who was brought from the mental institution. One of the participants Patrick Jefferson who was brought out from prison by his patron Jimmy to compete begs Jimmy to help him but is ignored. He then bargains with Jimmy about the hidden loot which he and his son robbed from a truck before going to prison. He requests Jimmy to give half of the loot to his imprisoned son and Jimmy can keep half of it if he dies in the game.", "In the first round, the participants each get one bullet in their revolver, they are arranged into a circle, and each has to aim his revolver at the man in front of him. Ferro tries to back out, but he is forced to participate. As #13, he survives the first round and fires his gun only after being threatened with death. In the second round, in which two bullets are placed in each gun, Ferro survives only because the man behind him is killed before he could fire, as a bullet was in the chamber. In the third round, with three bullets in each gun, Ferro again survives, along with four other men. In the final round, Ferro is one of two survivors randomly chosen to participate in a duel. The three others are finished and get a large sum of money. Jimmy then tries to garrote Jefferson to steal the map of the loot to take all the money for himself. Another employee catches Jimmy in the act, and demands that he stop, insisting that nobody is allowed to harm the surviving players. Jefferson then reveals the supposed map to Jimmy which turns out to be blank paper and mock Jimmy for being fooled by him. As the angered Jimmy leaves, Jefferson collects his belongings and leaves but not before burning the paper, which turns out to be the hidden real map of his loot so no one can find it, as well as fooling Jimmy from pursuing him later on.", "Against the odds, Ferro wins the duel and gets $1,850,000 (USD). He also learns that his opponent won his last 3 duels. He collects his winnings and sneaks away from the mansion, arriving at a train station. When he spots police closing in on him, he stashes his winnings in a garbage can. After being interrogated by the police, he retrieves the money and sends it to his family, via registered mail, and buys a toy for his sister's birthday. However, on the way home, he is shot by Jasper, partly in revenge for Ferro having killed Ronald, and partly to steal the money, as he thinks Ferro still has the money with him. Jasper escapes with the money bag, not knowing that it only contains the toy. Before dying, Ferro takes out the package receipt and swallows it so the authority and Jasper will not be able to trace the money.", "The film features Mickey Rourke , Jason Statham and David Zayas , who all starred in The Expendables which was released before this film.", "The film was directed and written by Géla Babluani , who directed and wrote the original film. [ 3 ] A trailer was released in August 2010. [ 7 ] Filming began on November 17, 2008, in and around New York City . [ 8 ] [ 9 ]", "13 received critically negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes , it has an 8% rating, stating that only 1 out of the 13 reviews for the film was positive, with an average score of 3.8/10. [ 10 ]", "The New York Times film critic Stephen Holden considered 13 \"a blustering, bad cartoon.\" [ 11 ] V.A. Musetto of the New York Post criticized the film for being shot in color rather than the original's black and white, and for the addition of character back stories, \"which serve only to slow the film’s momentum.\" [ 12 ] The Hollywood Reporter said \"Géla Babluani's English-language remake of his French debut loses the source's gritty, mysterious gloom.\" [ 13 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/12th_%26_Delaware.jpg/250px-12th_%26_Delaware.jpg", "Directed by": "Rachel Grady Heidi Ewing", "Produced by": "Rachel Grady Heidi Ewing", "Cinematography": "Kat Patterson", "Edited by": "Enat Sidi", "Music by": "David Darling", "Production company": "Loki Films", "Distributed by": "HBO Documentary Films", "Release date": "January 24, 2010 ( 2010-01-24 ) ( Sundance )", "Running time": "80 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["12th & Delaware is a 2010 American documentary film set in a crisis pregnancy center (named Pregnancy Care Center) and an abortion clinic (named A Woman's World Medical Center) [ 1 ] across the street from it in Fort Pierce, Florida . The film was produced and filmed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing and covers the center and its patients over the period of a year. The film shows interviews of staff at both facilities, as well as pregnant women who are going to them. [ 2 ] 12th & Delaware premiered on January 24, 2010, at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition. [ 3 ] It won a Peabody Award that same year \"for its poignant portrait of women facing exceedingly difficult decisions at a literal intersection of opposing ideologies.\" [ 4 ]", "One of the interviewees was president of the Pregnancy Care Centre, Father Thomas J. Euteneuer . [ 5 ] In January 2011, Euteneuer issued a statement disclosing that he had \"violat[ed] the boundaries of chastity with an adult female ... I take full responsibility for my own poor judgment, my weakness and my sinful conduct that resulted from it\". [ 5 ] and then in June 2012, it was reported that a woman had filed a lawsuit accusing Euteneuer of sexual abuse during what were supposed to be exorcisms. [ 6 ]"]
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{"Directed by": "Jonathan Heap", "Written by": "Stephen Tolkin Jonathan Heap", "Based on": " 12:01 P.M. \" by Richard A. Lupoff", "Produced by": "Teresa E. Kounin", "Starring": "Kurtwood Smith Laura Harrington Don Amendolia Jane Alden", "Cinematography": "Charlie Lieberman", "Edited by": "Hubert de la Bouillerie", "Music by": "Stephen Melillo", "Production company": "Chanticleer Films", "Release date": "1990 ( 1990 )", "Running time": "25 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["12:01 PM is a 1990 short film directed by Jonathan Heap and starring Kurtwood Smith . It aired on cable television in 1990 as part of the Showtime 30-Minute Movie anthology series. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "It is the first film adaptation of the short story \" 12:01 P.M. \" by Richard A. Lupoff , which was published in the December 1973 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . The major plot device is a time loop or time bounce.", "Myron Castleman [ 3 ] is an everyman stuck in a loop that forces him to constantly relive the same hour of his life over and over. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He is the only person aware of this. During one loop, he discovers that a scientist named Nathan Rosenbluth has predicted an event that matches his experience. Castleman calls him and explains what is going on, however, Rosenbluth is highly skeptical of his claims. Over the next loops, Myron struggles to get into contact with Rosenbluth again, and in the process becomes frustrated to the point of screaming at his secretary and throwing his suitcase into traffic. Eventually, he does manage to talk to Rosenbluth, who initially dismisses Myron as crazy until Myron describes the transition as the scientist had predicted (including the phrase \"Consciousness is an independent variable,\" which is central to Rosenbluth's theories). The professor sadly informs Castleman that there is nothing that can be done, causing Myron to become hysterical and shoot himself. There is a brief pause until Myron finds himself back at the beginning of the loop, realizing that he is trapped for eternity.", "12:01 PM was released on DVD in the United States late in 2006, and is also available on DVD in the UK, collected on a DVD with other short films. [ 6 ] [ 7 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8b/12-01_dvd_cover.jpg/250px-12-01_dvd_cover.jpg", "Genre": "Science fiction", "Based on": " 12:01 P.M. \" by Richard Lupoff", "Teleplay by": "Philip Morton", "Story by": "Jonathan Heap", "Directed by": "Jack Sholder", "Starring": "Jonathan Silverman Helen Slater Nicolas Surovy Robin Bartlett Jeremy Piven Constance Marie Glenn Morshower Martin Landau", "Music by": "Peter Rodgers Melnick", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original language": "English", "Executive producers": "Jana Sue Memel Sasha Emerson", "Producers": "Jonathan Heap Robert J. Degus Cindy Hornickel", "Cinematography": "Anghel Decca", "Editor": "Michael N. Knue", "Running time": "92 minutes", "Production companies": "New Line Cinema Chanticleer Films Fox West Pictures", "Network": "Fox", "Release": "July 5, 1993 ( 1993-07-05 )"}
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["12:01 is a 1993 American science fiction television film directed by Jack Sholder and starring Jonathan Silverman , Helen Slater , Jeremy Piven , and Martin Landau . It originally aired on the Fox Network in the United States on July 5, 1993.", "It is an adaptation of Richard Lupoff 's short story \" 12:01 P.M. ,\" published in the December 1973 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction . The story had previously been adapted into the 1990 short film 12:01 PM starring Kurtwood Smith .", "Barry Thomas is bored with his job and moons over high-profile scientist Lisa Fredericks, who is working on a particle accelerator that accelerates faster than the speed of light, but is about to be shut down because of potential risks.", "On the way home, Barry sees Lisa fatally shot and takes it very hard. While at home at midnight, he receives a strong electrical shock. The next morning the events of the previous day are repeating themselves and Barry is the only one who realizes that the world is stuck in a time loop. During several repetitions, Barry figures out how to save Lisa and get closer to her. His actions also get him fired and arrested for knowing too much about events. Barry and Lisa eventually learn that her boss, Dr. Thadius Moxley, caused the time loop by conducting illegal and unethical experiments with the particle accelerator in the hopes of profiting from its extreme cheap energy. Moxley sent his henchmen to murder Lisa because she already knew too much about his activities. After getting involved with an undercover government agent, they must stop Moxley from starting his experiment at the end of a loop or the world will be trapped forever repeating the same day.", "Expanding on the original's premise of a one-hour time loop , this version saw the main character reliving the same 24-hour period, which would restart at one minute past midnight (rather than midday as in the other versions). It also contains a happy ending , as the protagonist ultimately finds a way to correct the time loop, and find love, over the course of the film’s 92-minute running time.", "The film was released on DVD in the United States on November 28, 2006. [ 1 ]", "The film Groundhog Day , which has a similar time loop premise, was also released in 1993. The writers and producers of 12:01 believed their work was stolen by Groundhog Day .", "According to Richard Lupoff :"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/127_Hours_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Danny Boyle", "Screenplay by": "Danny Boyle Simon Beaufoy", "Based on": "Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston", "Produced by": "Danny Boyle Christian Colson John Smithson", "Starring": "James Franco Amber Tamblyn Kate Mara", "Cinematography": "Anthony Dod Mantle Enrique Chediak", "Edited by": "Jon Harris", "Music by": "A. R. Rahman", "Production companies": "Dune Entertainment Pathé Everest Entertainment Film4 Productions HandMade Films Cloud Eight Films [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros. Pictures (United Kingdom) [ 2 ] Fox Searchlight Pictures (United States)", "Release dates": "4 September 2010 ( 2010-09-04 ) ( Telluride Film Festival ) 5 November 2010 ( 2010-11-05 ) (United States) 7 January 2011 ( 2011-01-07 ) (United Kingdom)", "Running time": "94 minutes", "Countries": "United Kingdom United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$18 million [ 3 ]", "Box office": "$60.7 million [ 3 ]"}
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["127 Hours is a 2010 biographical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Danny Boyle . The film mainly stars James Franco , with Kate Mara , Amber Tamblyn , and Clémence Poésy appearing in brief supporting roles. In the film, canyoneer Aron Ralston must find a way to escape after he gets trapped by a boulder in an isolated slot canyon in Bluejohn Canyon , southeastern Utah , in April 2003. It is a British and American venture produced by Pathé , Everest Entertainment, Film4 Productions , HandMade Films and Cloud Eight Films.", "The film, based on Ralston's memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2004), was written by Boyle and Simon Beaufoy , co-produced by Christian Colson and John Smithson , and scored by A. R. Rahman . Beaufoy, Colson, and Rahman had all previously worked with Boyle on Slumdog Millionaire (2008). 127 Hours premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 4 September 2010, and was released in the United States on 5 November 2010 and in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2011. It was acclaimed by critics and audiences and grossed $60.7 million worldwide. It was selected by the American Film Institute as one of the top 10 films of 2010 and was nominated for six Academy Awards , including Best Actor for Franco and Best Picture .", "The film's title refers to the period of non-stop activity from when Ralston was stranded in Bluejohn Canyon, once his arm was trapped underneath a boulder, to when he was rescued. [ 4 ]", "In April 2003, avid mountaineer Aron Ralston goes hiking at Utah 's Canyonlands National Park without telling anyone. He befriends lost hikers Kristi and Megan and gives them directions. While guiding them, he shows them an underground pool. The three have fun, and that afternoon, the girls invite him to a party that is being held the following night. Aron declines and says goodbye to the girls, who head home. He continues through a slot canyon in Bluejohn Canyon . While climbing, an 800-pound (360 kg) boulder he is hanging off comes loose and causes both to fall, which traps his right arm against the wall. Aron attempts to move the boulder, but it does not budge; he also soon realizes he is alone. He shortly begins recording a video diary using his camcorder to maintain morale as he chips away parts of the boulder with a pocket knife. At one point, the knife falls off his hand, and he is forced to use his bare feet and a little branch to recover it. Over the next five days, Aron rations his food and remaining 300ml of water, struggles to keep warm at night, and is forced to drink his urine when his water runs out. He also sets up a pulley using his climbing rope in a futile attempt to lift the boulder.", "Throughout the days, Aron becomes desperate and depressed and begins hallucinating about escape, relationships, and past experiences, including his family and his former girlfriend, Rana. He also imagines going to the party he was invited to and having fun. During one hallucination, Aron realizes his mistake was that he did not tell anyone where he was going or for how long. Aron has a vision of his future son on the sixth day, spurring his will to survive. He fashions a tourniquet from CamelBak tube insulation and uses a carabiner to tighten it. Then, using his knowledge of torque , he breaks the bones in his arm and, using the multi-tool, slowly amputates it. Aron then wraps the stump to prevent exsanguination and takes a picture of the boulder before rappelling down a 65 ft (20 m) rockface. He then finds some rainwater collected while descending down, drinks the stagnant water due to dehydration, and continues. He spots a family on a hike in the desert and calls for help. They give him water and alert the authorities; a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter brings him to a hospital.", "Years later, Aron gets married and has a son. He also continues climbing and always leaves a note telling his family where he has gone.", "Ralston himself, his wife, and his son make cameo appearances at the end of the film. [ 5 ]", "The scenes early in the film of Ralston's encounter with the two hikers were altered to portray Ralston showing them a hidden pool, when in reality he just showed them some basic climbing moves. Despite these changes, with which he was initially uncomfortable, Ralston says the rest of the film is \"so factually accurate it is as close to a documentary as you can get and still be a drama.\" [ 6 ]", "Other changes from the book include omissions of descriptions of Ralston's efforts after freeing himself: his bike was chained to itself, not to the tree as depicted at the beginning of the movie; he had to decide where to seek the fastest medical attention; he took a photo of himself at the small brown pool from which he really did drink; he had his first bowel movement of the week; he abandoned many of the items he had kept throughout his confinement; he got lost in a side canyon; and he met a family from the Netherlands (not an American family), Eric, Monique, and Andy Meijer, who already knew that he was probably lost in the area, thanks to the searches of his parents and the authorities. (The actor who plays Eric Meijer, Pieter Jan Brugge , is Dutch.)", "Ralston did send Monique and Andy to run ahead to get help, and Ralston did walk seven miles before the helicopter came, [ 7 ] although this trek is shown in the film's alternative ending. [ citation needed ]", "Danny Boyle had been wanting to make a film about Ralston's ordeal for four years; [ 8 ] he wrote a film treatment and Simon Beaufoy wrote the screenplay. [ 9 ] Boyle describes 127 Hours as \"an action movie with a guy who can't move.\" [ 10 ] He also expressed an interest for a more intimate film than his previous film, Slumdog Millionaire (2008): \"I remember thinking, I must do a film where I follow an actor the way Darren Aronofsky did with The Wrestler . So 127 Hours is my version of that.\" [ 11 ]", "Boyle and Fox Searchlight announced plans to create 127 Hours in November 2009. [ 12 ] Cillian Murphy was reportedly approached by Boyle to play Ralston. [ 13 ] In January 2010, James Franco was cast as Ralston. [ 14 ] In March 2010, filming began in Utah; [ 15 ] Boyle intended to shoot the first part of the film with no dialogue. [ 8 ] By 17 June 2010, the film was in post-production. [ 16 ]", "Boyle made the very unusual move of hiring two cinematographers to work first unit, Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak , each of whom shot 50 percent of the film by trading off with each other. This allowed Boyle and Franco to work long days without wearing out the crew. [ 17 ]", "Boyle enlisted makeup effects designer Tony Gardner and his effects company, Alterian, Inc. , to re-create the character's amputation of his own arm. Boyle stressed that the realism of the arm as well as the process itself were key to the audience's investing in the character's experience, and that the makeup effects' success would impact the film's success. The false arm rigs were created in layers, from fiberglass and steel bone, through silicone and fibrous muscle and tendon, to functional veins and arteries, and finally skinned with a translucent silicone layer of skin with a thin layer of subcutaneous silicone fat. Gardner states that the effects work was extremely stressful, as he wanted to do justice to the story; he credits James Franco equally with the success of the effects work. [ citation needed ] Three prosthetics were used in all, with two designed to show the innards of the arm and another to emulate the outside of it. [ 18 ] Franco would later note that seeing blood on the arm was difficult for him and his reactions in those scenes were genuine. [ 18 ]", "Franco admitted that shooting the film was physically hard on him: \"There was a lot of physical pain, and Danny knew that it was going to cause a lot of pain. And I asked him after we did the movie, 'How did you know how far you could push it?' ... I had plenty of scars...Not only am I feeling physical pain, but I'm getting exhausted. It became less of a façade I put on and more of an experience that I went through.\" [ 19 ]", "127 Hours was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September 2010, following its premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival . [ 20 ] The film was selected to close the 2010 London Film Festival on 28 October 2010. [ 21 ] It was given a limited release in the United States by Fox Searchlight Pictures on 5 November 2010. [ 22 ] It was released in the United Kingdom by Pathé 's then-theatrical distributor Warner Bros. Entertainment UK on 7 January 2011, [ 2 ] and in India on 26 January 2011. [ 23 ] [ 24 ]", "There were many published reports (not all confirmed) that the trailer and film made audience members ill. The Huffington Post , in November 2010, wrote that it \"has gotten audiences fainting, vomiting and worse in numbers unseen since The Exorcist – and the movie has not even hit theaters yet.\" [ 25 ] \nDuring the screenings at Telluride Film Festival, two people required medical attention. At the first screening, an audience member became lightheaded and was taken out of the screening on a gurney . During a subsequent screening, another viewer suffered a panic attack. [ 26 ] Similar reactions were reported at the Toronto International Film Festival [ 27 ] and a special screening hosted by Pixar and Lee Unkrich , director of Toy Story 3 (2010) and Coco (2017). [ 28 ] The website Movieline published \"Armed and Dangerous: A Comprehensive Timeline of Everyone Who's Fainted (Or Worse) at 127 Hours .\" [ 29 ]", "20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released 127 Hours on DVD and Blu-ray on March 1, 2011 in the United States and on June 6, 2011 in the United Kingdom under the Pathé label.", "On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 93% based on 239 critic reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"As gut-wrenching as it is inspirational, 127 Hours unites one of Danny Boyle's most beautifully exuberant directorial efforts with a terrific performance from James Franco.\" [ 30 ] On Metacritic , which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has an average score of 82 out of 100, based on 38 critic reviews, indicating \"universal acclaim\". [ 31 ]", "Writing for DVD Talk , Casey Burchby concluded that \" 127 Hours will stay with you not necessarily as a story of survival, but as a story of a harrowing interior experience\". [ 32 ] Richard Roeper of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars, said he believed Franco deserved an Oscar nomination for his performance, and called the film \"one of the best of the decade.\" [ 33 ] Roger Ebert also awarded the film four stars out of four and wrote that \" 127 Hours is like an exercise in conquering the unfilmable\". [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Gazelle Emami wrote for The Huffington Post , describing Franco's performance as \"mesmerizing\" and \"incredible.\" [ 36 ]", "127 Hours was on many critics' top ten lists for 2010. [ 37 ]", "127 Hours was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards , including Best Actor , Best Screenplay and Best Original Score . [ 39 ]", "The film was nominated for nine British Academy Film Awards , including Outstanding British Film , Best Direction , Best Actor in a Leading Role , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Cinematography , Best Editing , and Best Film Music . [ 40 ]", "The film got six nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Original Score , Best Original Song , and Best Film Editing . [ 41 ]", "It received eight nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association , including Best Film , Best Director , Best Actor , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Cinematography , Best Editing , Best Song , and Best Sound . [ 42 ] Its main theme song \" If I Rise \" won the Critics Choice award for Best Song. [ 43 ] [ 44 ]", "James Franco was awarded Best Actor by the New York Film Critics Online and the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association . [ 45 ] [ 46 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Aadhi_film_poster.jpg/250px-Aadhi_film_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Jeethu Joseph", "Written by": "Jeethu Joseph", "Produced by": "Antony Perumbavoor", "Starring": "Pranav Mohanlal Jagapathi Babu Siddique Lena Aditi Ravi Anusree", "Cinematography": "Satheesh Kurup", "Edited by": "Ayoob Khan", "Music by": "Anil Johnson", "Production company": "Aashirvad Cinemas", "Distributed by": "Maxlab Cinemas and Entertainments", "Release date": "26 January 2018 ( 2018-01-26 ) (India)", "Running time": "160 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam", "Box office": "est. ₹ 50 crore", "Released": "26 January 2018 ( 2018-01-26 )", "Recorded": "2017", "Venue": "Kochi , Chennai", "Studio": "Blacknoise Studio 20 dB Studios", "Genre": "Filmi", "Label": "Goodwill Entertainments", "Producer": "Anil Johnson"}
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["Aadhi is a 2018 Indian Malayalam -language action thriller film directed by Jeethu Joseph and produced by Antony Perumbavoor through Aashirvad Cinemas . The film stars Pranav Mohanlal in the title role (in his debut role) and with an ensemble cast including Jagapathi Babu , Siddique , Lena , Aditi Ravi , Anusree , Sharaf U Dheen , Siju Wilson , Meghanathan , Sijoy Varghese , Tony Luke and Krishna Shankar . The original soundtrack for the film was composed by Anil Johnson .", "The principal photography took place between August and November 2017 in Kochi , Bangalore , and Hyderabad .", "Aadhi was released in India on 26 January 2018 and met with positive response. The film was a major commercial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of 2018 . [ 1 ]", "Aadhi aspires to become a music director in cinema who is doing local singing gigs. He receives some support from his father, Mohan Varma, a successful businessman, he is not so optimistic about Aadhi's musical career and wants him to earn a livelihood from the business. His mother, Rosy, however, supports his wishes except for the parkour.", "Aadhi is trying hard to get a breakthrough. Mohan sends Aadhi to take his friend Roy's car to Bangalore to receive Roy after his foreign trip. In Bangalore, Aadhi goes to a nightclub where eminent personalities from the music industry gather and seeks an opportunity to perform a musical to catch their attention. But circumstantially cause the death of a person who is the son of a greatly influential figure. The deceased was the son of Narayana Reddy, the owner of Pinnacle Group. Jayakrishnan intimidates Anjana and frames Aadhi for the death, and informs Reddy, who seeks to take revenge on Aadhi.", "Reddy uses his influence to make it an accidental death to avoid police intervention and starts an underground manhunt for Aadhi, using a picture of him captured by the security camera in the club. Reddy gets hold of the car that Aadhi brought to the pub, his dad's boss's one, and through the security cam footage that he stays somewhere on the Bangalore-Mysore road. He sends his goons to catch Aadhi, while unbeknownst to all of it, he is in the streets. But using his free-running skills, he evades the goons only to end up with Sharath.", "Sharath takes him home and tells him about the bounty Reddy has placed on him. Sharath also tells him that he will help him as Reddy has caused ill fates to his family, and is the sole reason why his family is this way. Sharath agrees to help him and his sister Jaya approves of that. Sharath takes help from his friend Mani Annan and decides to plot an escape plan, all to go to waste. Aadhi meets up with his dad at Sharath's home and decides to go abroad. He takes refuge in an abandoned factory until his escape plan is done.", "Meanwhile, Reddy urges the cops to have a lookout for Aadhi, and all the transport routes are inspected for Aadhi's suspected departure. Aadhi, having lost his phone, keeps on his communicating with his parents through Sharath, and this intrigues Reddy, who decides to go for call tracing on that. Suspecting his activities to be disclosed, Jayakrishnan readily takes over the responsibility of monitoring the calls. He overhears the call and confirms Aadhi's location, and goes with some goons to get done with Aadhi. Aadhi somehow escapes from them and interprets that Jayakrishnan has been tapping his phone calls.", "Jayakrishnan, having learned of Sharath's role in Aadhi's hideout, captures him and murders him before Sharath discloses Jayakrishnan's role in the death of Reddy's son. This creates a stir, and Aadhi is forced to leave the hideout. Aadhi plots a new plan to disclose things to Reddy, as the situation brings him to the conclusion that Jayakrishnan devised the whole plan to save face because Reddy might kill him if he is found guilty. Aadhi takes help from Mani Annan and a former employee of the Pinnacle Group, Ebin, to disclose to Reddy all the happenings at his office in Bangalore.", "As per Ebin's request, he gets hold of gadgets to gain access to the security cam footage of the building and thereby get to Reddy's office. He also uses Anjana to devise a plan so that Jayakrishnan stays out of the office and passes information that he is going to meet Reddy at an event outside his office late one day. Jayakrishnan leaves the office soon. Aadhi gets inside the office through the service exit, and Anjana through the front door, which alerts Jayakrishnan, who returns soon after.", "Meanwhile, Aadhi and Anjana reach Reddy's office, only for Reddy to attack Aadhi, who later convinces Reddy of Jayakrishnan's part in the ploy. Jayakrishnan soon comes and shoots Reddy, and leaves him for dead, and along with Siddharth, aka Siddhu discloses them as partners intending on killing Reddy and taking his wealth. Siddhu never intended on sharing and turns on Jayakrishnan and kills him and moves to kill Aadhi and Anjana as well. Aadhi makes a quick run for it and reaches the 10th floor of the building.", "Aadhi is taken out by the guards before he could rappel out and Siddhu gets down to kill him. Before Siddhu could shoot him, it is revealed that the 10th-floor exit was an escape plan, and Aadhi performs a Dülfersitz just before Ebin turns the fire alarm on, to shower gasoline on them. Aadhi throws a lighter and escapes out in the ensuing explosion. Reddy recovers, and it is revealed that Aadhi is set free, and Jayakrishnan and Siddhu were killed because of the explosion on the 10th floor.", "On 30 September 2016, Mohanlal announced that his son Pranav Mohanlal would be acting in a film directed by Jeethu Joseph and produced by Aashirvad Cinemas , which would be a thriller. The film marks the return of Pranav as an actor, who had earlier appeared as child actor. He had worked with Jeethu as an assistant director in two films— Papanasam and Life of Josutty . [ 2 ] The project was green-lit a few days before the announcement when Jeethu had a discussion with Pranav. [ 3 ] After learning Pranav wanted to return to acting, Jeethu approached him with an abstract idea of a film and received positive feedback. [ 4 ]", "Jeethu was in charge of writing; he had completed the story by the time of the announcement and had begun writing the screenplay, intending it to be his next directorial. [ 3 ] He described the film as an action movie and a thriller, but it will not resemble a thriller like his 2013 film Memories . [ 4 ] Jeethu had developed the story idea during his college education. His protagonist was a marathon or cross country runner , whose athletic skills aid him in the story. For the film, it was changed to parkour since Pranav had learned it during his academic life. The entire plot takes place within one week or 10 days. [ 5 ] By the end of March 2017, Jeethu said he was working on the script and hoped to start filming by June, with the rest of the cast finalizing after the first draft is prepared. [ 6 ] In early May, Jeethu confirmed that the first draft was complete and they were about to enter pre-production, [ 7 ] with the filming planned to begin in the second half of 2017. [ 8 ] In mid-May he stated that he is still working on the screenplay. [ 9 ]", "In early July 2017, Jeethu said he intended to start filming by the end of that month. [ 10 ] For the film, Pranav trained in parkour. [ 11 ] The title Aadhi along with an animated digital poster were revealed on 5 July at the puja function of the film held at hotel Vivanta by Taj in Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram . The venue was shared with the puja of Aashirvad Cinemas's Odiyan . Aadhi is billed with the tagline, \"some lies can be deadly\". Satheesh Kurup was signed as the cinematographer, while Anil Johnson as music composer. [ 12 ]", "Pranav plays Aadhi, an urban youth who loves music and aspires to become a music director. [ 13 ] Although Pranav was described about his character, Jeethu gave him freedom to mould the character accordingly. [ 14 ] In August 2017, Siddique , Sharaf U Dheen , and Siju Wilson were confirmed in prominent roles. Initially Sunny Wayne was signed for a role but had to cancel because of scheduling conflicts. The film has no romantic track. The leading female roles were played by Anusree , Aditi Ravi , and Lena . [ 15 ] Aditi plays Anjana, a Bangalore -based Malayali banking professional. [ 16 ] She was suggested to Jeethu by cinematographer Satheesh Kurup , who worked in her debut film Alamara ; Aditi was cast after a screen test . [ 17 ] Siddique and Lena play Aadhi's father and mother. [ 18 ] Also in August 2017, confirming his presence, Tony Luke shared his character look on a social networking site, sporting a thick beard. [ 19 ] By the end of the month, Jagapati Babu was confirmed to be in the cast in a significant role. [ 20 ]", "Preliminary principal photography commenced on 5 July 2017 at hotel Vivanta by Taj in Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram after a puja function held at the same venue—it was a single brief shot featuring Pranav. [ 21 ] The regular filming began on 1 August 2017 in Nedumbassery , Kochi. [ 15 ] Pranav was seen playing a guitar in the scene stills taken on the day. [ 22 ] Early in this schedule, some scenes were filmed inside a studio near Pathadipalam in Kochi, inside which a house was created in set . Pranav and Anusree were present in that segment. [ 23 ] The first schedule in Kochi continued until 10 August [ 24 ] and the second schedule began in Bangalore the following week. [ 25 ] The schedule was expected to continue until mid-September and then shift to Hyderabad by the end of the month. [ 26 ]", "In early September, Jeethu said the crew had already filmed two songs of the three songs. The unit finished filming in Bangalore and shifted to Hyderabad earlier than scheduled due to rain. Filming began at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad from 3 September; the scenes including an office, a building, a club, and a dance bar had originally been planned for Bangalore but were shot in Ramoji Film City instead. The schedule in Ramoji Film City was planned for 20 days. The film also had location shooting in a few streets in Hyderabad. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Pranav, Aditi, and Anusree took part in this schedule. [ 29 ] Jeethu's spouse Linta Jeethu was the film's costume designer. [ 27 ]", "Pranav received the screenplay early and had several discussions with Jeethu, who said, \"because he has been through the script so many times, he is able to add his improvisations\" and \"directing him has been a seamless experience\". By the end of September 2017, Jeethu said they had one month of shoot left in Hyderabad and would soon film the action scenes, for which a foreign stunt director would join the unit. After completing the action scenes, the crew would shift again between Kochi and Bangalore. [ 13 ] On 23 October, the unit returned to Kochi to begin the final phase of filming; the climax scenes were shot in the next two days. [ 30 ]", "Pranav was injured while breaking glass for a scene. [ 31 ] While performing an action scene in Kochi, Pranav's finger bruised and bled; he was taken to a hospital and was prescribed two days' rest. The crew had only three days of filming left and were about to return to Hyderabad for the weekend. Since the upcoming action scenes require many hand movements, filming was postponed to the next week. They were permitted to shoot only at weekends. [ 32 ] When the first poster of the film was released on 4 November, Jeethu wrote on his social networking page that the final phase of filming was progressing in Hyderabad. [ 33 ] Filming was wrapped on 8 November 2017. [ 34 ]", "Anil Johnson composed the music for the film, it features three songs. Besides acting, Pranav made his debut as a playback singer and songwriter with a retro English track in the film. When Jeethu asked, Pranav expressed interest in writing and singing the track that appears in a live performance scene in the film. He also played the guitar. [ 5 ] Johnson was confident of Pranav's singing and guitar skills. Titling the song, finalizing the tune, and recording, was done in Kochi after Pranav returned from the final filming schedule in Hyderabad . [ 35 ] \"Sooryane\", a single from the film was released by Goodwill Entertainments label on 5 January 2018 for digital download and as music video on YouTube. It was sung by Najim Arshad and written by Santhosh Varma. The music work was done at Blacknoise studio in Kochi and 20 dB Studios in Chennai . [ 36 ] [ 37 ]", "The makers initially targeted a release by Christmas 2017, but in August that year, Jeethu confirmed the film would not be released at Christmas because filming was expected to finish by October and the film would have an extensive post-production. [ 38 ] In early November 2017, Jeethu stated they had a few more days of filming left but had already begun the post-production work to ensure a release by the end of January 2018. [ 35 ] Release date was confirmed in December 2017. [ 39 ] Aadhi released in India on 26 January 2018. [ 40 ]", "Aadhi opened to positive response from critics. [ 41 ]", "Anna M. M. Vetticad of Firstpost rated 3.5/5 stars and wrote \" Aadhi is one of the most exciting rollercoaster rides ever to emerge from Malayalam cinema.\" [ 42 ] Meera Suresh of The New Indian Express gave 3.5/5 stars and called it \"an impressive debut from Pranav\", stating that \"With mind-boggling action sequences and enough screen presence, Mohanlal's son makes a comfortable debut, winning us with his charisma.\" [ 43 ]", "G. Ragesh of Malayala Manorama gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote \"Aadhi is tailor-made for the entry of Pranav Mohanlal into the world of stardom and the writer-director has done everything possible to keep the fans of the superstar in good spirits.\" [ 44 ] Sify gave 3/5 stars and wrote \" Aadhi is an entertaining journey of a youth, which gives you some edge of the seat moments with his action skills. Jeethu Joseph has evidently tried to keep the viewers engaged using a fast-paced presentation.\" [ 45 ]", "Manoj Kumar R. of The Indian Express gave 3/5 stars and wrote \"Pranav's performance in action sequences is one of the mainstays in the film. Shot in real locations, Pranav draws applause for his skills in free running or popularly known as Parkour.\" [ 46 ] Deccan Chronicle gave 3/5 stars and said the film is \"A high-octane, action-packed drama keeps audience, irrespective of ages, engaged.\" [ 47 ] Deepa Soman of The Times of India gave 3/5 stars and wrote \"Aadhi deserves your time if you can look past the familiarity of the story, and want to enjoy a mix of Mohanlal nostalgia, stunts and the genuine efforts of a newbie actor to breathe life into his debut character.\" [ 48 ]", "The film was a commercial success at the box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of the year. It grossed ₹ 50 Crore from the box office worldwide and ran over 100 days in theatres. [ 49 ] In the opening weekend (9–11 February), the film grossed $42,907 (₹32.19 lakh) from 38 screens in the United States [ 50 ] and £2,666 from two theatres in the United Kingdom. [ 51 ] It collected £25,583 (₹23.19 lakh) from 94 screens in the UK in the second week. [ 52 ] In four weeks, the film grossed $85,982 (₹55.98 lakh) in the US and £50,571 (₹45.34 lakh) in the UK. [ 53 ] In the opening weekend (15–18 February), it grossed $403,843 from 41 screens in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—second best opener of that weekend (behind Black Panther ) and $9,557 from 3 screens in New Zealand. It collected $526,393 from the UAE in four weeks and $10,851 from New Zealand in two weeks. [ 54 ] Three week gross in New Zealand was NZ$14,875. [ 55 ]", "Pranav won the Best Debut Actor award at the 8th South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA). [ 56 ] Lena also won the SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Anusree won the award for Best Character Actress at the 21st Asianet Film Awards .", "Anil Johnson composed the music for the film, it features three songs. Besides acting, Pranav made his debut as a playback singer and songwriter with a retro English track in the film. When Jeethu asked, Pranav expressed interest in writing and singing the track that appears in a live performance scene in the film. He also played the guitar. [ 5 ] Johnson was confident of Pranav's singing and guitar skills. Titling the song, finalizing the tune, and recording, was done in Kochi after Pranav returned from the final filming schedule in Hyderabad . [ 35 ] \"Sooryane\", a single from the film was released by Goodwill Entertainments label on 5 January 2018 for digital download and as music video on YouTube. It was sung by Najim Arshad and written by Santhosh Varma. The music work was done at Blacknoise studio in Kochi and 20 dB Studios in Chennai . [ 36 ] [ 37 ]", "The makers initially targeted a release by Christmas 2017, but in August that year, Jeethu confirmed the film would not be released at Christmas because filming was expected to finish by October and the film would have an extensive post-production. [ 38 ] In early November 2017, Jeethu stated they had a few more days of filming left but had already begun the post-production work to ensure a release by the end of January 2018. [ 35 ] Release date was confirmed in December 2017. [ 39 ] Aadhi released in India on 26 January 2018. [ 40 ]", "Aadhi opened to positive response from critics. [ 41 ]", "Anna M. M. Vetticad of Firstpost rated 3.5/5 stars and wrote \" Aadhi is one of the most exciting rollercoaster rides ever to emerge from Malayalam cinema.\" [ 42 ] Meera Suresh of The New Indian Express gave 3.5/5 stars and called it \"an impressive debut from Pranav\", stating that \"With mind-boggling action sequences and enough screen presence, Mohanlal's son makes a comfortable debut, winning us with his charisma.\" [ 43 ]", "G. Ragesh of Malayala Manorama gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote \"Aadhi is tailor-made for the entry of Pranav Mohanlal into the world of stardom and the writer-director has done everything possible to keep the fans of the superstar in good spirits.\" [ 44 ] Sify gave 3/5 stars and wrote \" Aadhi is an entertaining journey of a youth, which gives you some edge of the seat moments with his action skills. Jeethu Joseph has evidently tried to keep the viewers engaged using a fast-paced presentation.\" [ 45 ]", "Manoj Kumar R. of The Indian Express gave 3/5 stars and wrote \"Pranav's performance in action sequences is one of the mainstays in the film. Shot in real locations, Pranav draws applause for his skills in free running or popularly known as Parkour.\" [ 46 ] Deccan Chronicle gave 3/5 stars and said the film is \"A high-octane, action-packed drama keeps audience, irrespective of ages, engaged.\" [ 47 ] Deepa Soman of The Times of India gave 3/5 stars and wrote \"Aadhi deserves your time if you can look past the familiarity of the story, and want to enjoy a mix of Mohanlal nostalgia, stunts and the genuine efforts of a newbie actor to breathe life into his debut character.\" [ 48 ]", "The film was a commercial success at the box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of the year. It grossed ₹ 50 Crore from the box office worldwide and ran over 100 days in theatres. [ 49 ] In the opening weekend (9–11 February), the film grossed $42,907 (₹32.19 lakh) from 38 screens in the United States [ 50 ] and £2,666 from two theatres in the United Kingdom. [ 51 ] It collected £25,583 (₹23.19 lakh) from 94 screens in the UK in the second week. [ 52 ] In four weeks, the film grossed $85,982 (₹55.98 lakh) in the US and £50,571 (₹45.34 lakh) in the UK. [ 53 ] In the opening weekend (15–18 February), it grossed $403,843 from 41 screens in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—second best opener of that weekend (behind Black Panther ) and $9,557 from 3 screens in New Zealand. It collected $526,393 from the UAE in four weeks and $10,851 from New Zealand in two weeks. [ 54 ] Three week gross in New Zealand was NZ$14,875. [ 55 ]", "Pranav won the Best Debut Actor award at the 8th South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA). [ 56 ] Lena also won the SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Anusree won the award for Best Character Actress at the 21st Asianet Film Awards ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Aadharam_1992.jpg/250px-Aadharam_1992.jpg", "Directed by": "George Kithu", "Written by": "Lohithadas", "Produced by": "N. Krishnakumar (Kireedam Unni)", "Starring": "Murali Suresh Gopi Geetha", "Cinematography": "Ramachandra Babu", "Edited by": "Venugopal", "Music by": "Johnson", "Release date": "14 February 1992 ( 1992-02-14 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aadhaaram is a 1992 Malayalam -language drama film directed by George Kithu, written by Lohithadas . The film stars Murali as Bapputty, who is trying to rebuild life after completing his prison sentence. The film also features Suresh Gopi , Geetha , and Sudheesh in supporting roles. [ 1 ]", "Bapputty is a convict who is released from jail after serving his sentence. The film tells the story of his attempts to build back his life and his accidental interference in the family affairs of Rameshan and his sister Sethulakshmi."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Aadavari_Matalaku_Arthale_Verule.jpg", "Directed by": "Selvaraghavan", "Written by": "Selvaraghavan", "Dialogue by": "Ramesh–Gopi", "Produced by": "N. V. Prasad S. Naga Ashok Kumar", "Starring": "Venkatesh Trisha", "Cinematography": "B. Balamurugan", "Edited by": "Kola Bhaskar", "Music by": "Yuvan Shankar Raja", "Production company": "Sri Sai Deva Productions", "Release date": "27 April 2007 ( 2007-04-27 )", "Running time": "157 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu", "Box office": "est. ₹30 crore [ 1 ]", "Released": "28 March 2007 (India)", "Recorded": "2006–2007", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "31 : 02", "Label": "Aditya Music", "Producer": "Yuvan Shankar Raja"}
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["Aadavari Matalaku Arthale Verule ( transl. The words of women have different meanings ) is a 2007 Indian Telugu -language romantic drama film [ 2 ] written and directed by Selvaraghavan (credited as Sri Raghava). The film stars Venkatesh and Trisha while Sriram , Kota Srinivasa Rao , K. Viswanath , and Sunil play supporting roles. The music was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja . The film's title is based on a song from Missamma (1955), which is partially featured in this film.", "The film was released theatrically on 27 April 2007 and became a critical and commercial success. [ 2 ] It won three Nandi Awards and one Filmfare Award . Following its success, the film was remade in Tamil as Yaaradi Nee Mohini (2008; starring Selvaraghavan's brother Dhanush ), Kannada as Anthu Inthu Preethi Banthu (2008), Odia as Prema Adhei Akhyara (2010), Bengali as 100% Love (2012) and Bhojpuri as Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna (2017).", "Ganesh is from a middle-class family. He makes several bids to obtain employment, but all go in vain due to his poor language skills and inadequate educational qualifications. All his friends settled in life, but he continues to struggle to find employment. Ganesh has two best friends, Vasu and Srinu. His father is a teacher and is always critical of him for being an irresponsible person, only adding to his already long list of woes.", "At this juncture, Ganesh catches a glimpse of Keerthi and immediately falls in love with her. He learns that she works for a software solutions firm. Luckily, Ganesh eventually secured employment in the same firm. Keerthi, however, turns out to be short-tempered. On a business trip, Ganesh accompanies her along with other colleagues to Australia. There, he reveals his feelings of love to her. She declines, saying that she comes from an orthodox family, and her marriage has already been arranged with her cousin.", "Ganesh returns to India in a depressed manner. Unable to see his son in depression, his father tries to convince Keerthi, but she insults him for recommending his son's love and accidentally slaps both Ganesh and his father. Later that night, Ganesh's father dies of a heart attack. Ganesh again goes into depression. To ease Ganesh's mood, Vasu persuades him to come along to his family's house in the countryside. Coincidentally, on the train journey, Keerthi is revealed to be Vasu's fiancée. However, their grandfather's intention of getting them married earlier is put aside because Vasu and Keerthi leave the house to make their own identity. This causes heartache to their grandfather.", "With the passing of a few days, the parents of Keerthi and Vasu decide to marry to appease their grandfather. After several turns of events, Keerthi realizes that she is in love with Ganesh instead. Ganesh asks her to forget him, during a late-night meeting, because he believes that it would create problems in their happy family. Keerthi's grandfather notices them conversing and admonishes Keerthi for bringing disrepute to their family and asks Ganesh to leave his village. Ganesh gets ready to leave when he sees everyone putting up decorations for the wedding. Vasu furiously asks him to get out but Ganesh responds that they have misunderstood Keerthi all along. While Ganesh is on his way, a bunch of goons he saved the family from stabbed him in the stomach, and he is hospitalized.", "However, Vasu and Keerthi's wedding is taking place that morning. Upon knowing Ganesh's condition, Srinu asks Vasu to come and help. Though initially reluctant, Vasu abandons his wedding to help Ganesh. Everyone else slowly leaves for the hospital, except Keerthi and her grandfather. Keerthi says that she would never disobey her grandfather. Afterward, her grandfather takes Keerthi to the hospital. While Ganesh recovers and wakes up to leave, he sees that everyone in the family is outside his room, including Keerthi and her grandfather.", "In time, Keerthi's family comes to stay with Ganesh for a few days. The film ends when Ganesh and Keerthi become a couple and live together.", "Selvaraghavan (under the name of Sri Raghava) directed his maiden Telugu venture which he had committed to make since 2003 with Venkatesh in the leading role. [ 3 ] He wrote the script, taking experiences from life experiences of friends who were unemployed graduates, like the film's main character. [ 4 ] Jyothika was considered as a lead opposite Venkatesh, but she opted out of the contract due to her wedding arrangements. She was later replaced by Trisha . [ 5 ]", "The music was composed by director Sri Raghava 's friend and \"frequent\" composer Yuvan Shankar Raja , teaming up again after producing successful Tamil albums such as Kaadhal Kondein (2003), 7G Rainbow Colony (2004) and Pudhupettai (2006). This film remains their last collaboration (even though they later rejoined in 2021 for Nenjam Marappathillai ) before they split up, before NGK (2019), and Sri Raghava decided to work with G. V. Prakash Kumar . The soundtrack was released on 28 March 2007 at Rama Naidu studios. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It features 6 tracks overall with lyrics by Kulasekhar , Kandikonda , Sirivennela Sitaramasastri and Chandrabose .", "Upon the film's release, the music received positive reviews, being praised as \"extraordinary\", [ 8 ] winning composer Yuvan Shankar Raja much accolades and a nomination at the 2008 Filmfare Awards South for Best Music in Telugu . [ 9 ]", "The film is released on 27 April 2007. [ 10 ] The film was released on 272 screens, including 15 in Karnataka, 8 in Orissa and 21 overseas. [ 11 ]", "A critic from Rediff.com called the film \"a good entertainer\". [ 12 ] Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film 3 .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px} 1 ⁄ 2 out of 5 and wrote that \"Venkatesh’s ultimate comedy, Trisha, Selva Raghavan’s genuine moments and dialogues are the main positive aspects of this film\". [ 13 ] The film collected ₹ 30 crore at the box office. [ 1 ] It completed a 50-day run in 200 centres and a 100-day run in 21 centres. [ 14 ]", "Aadavari Matalaku Arthale Verule was remade in Tamil as Yaaradi Nee Mohini (2008), in Kannada as Anthu Inthu Preethi Banthu (2008), in Odia as Prema Adhei Akhyara (2010), [ 19 ] in Bengali as 100% Love (2013) and in Bhojpuri as Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna (2017). [ citation needed ]", "The music was composed by director Sri Raghava 's friend and \"frequent\" composer Yuvan Shankar Raja , teaming up again after producing successful Tamil albums such as Kaadhal Kondein (2003), 7G Rainbow Colony (2004) and Pudhupettai (2006). This film remains their last collaboration (even though they later rejoined in 2021 for Nenjam Marappathillai ) before they split up, before NGK (2019), and Sri Raghava decided to work with G. V. Prakash Kumar . The soundtrack was released on 28 March 2007 at Rama Naidu studios. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It features 6 tracks overall with lyrics by Kulasekhar , Kandikonda , Sirivennela Sitaramasastri and Chandrabose .", "Upon the film's release, the music received positive reviews, being praised as \"extraordinary\", [ 8 ] winning composer Yuvan Shankar Raja much accolades and a nomination at the 2008 Filmfare Awards South for Best Music in Telugu . [ 9 ]", "The film is released on 27 April 2007. [ 10 ] The film was released on 272 screens, including 15 in Karnataka, 8 in Orissa and 21 overseas. [ 11 ]", "A critic from Rediff.com called the film \"a good entertainer\". [ 12 ] Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film 3 .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px} 1 ⁄ 2 out of 5 and wrote that \"Venkatesh’s ultimate comedy, Trisha, Selva Raghavan’s genuine moments and dialogues are the main positive aspects of this film\". [ 13 ] The film collected ₹ 30 crore at the box office. [ 1 ] It completed a 50-day run in 200 centres and a 100-day run in 21 centres. [ 14 ]", "Aadavari Matalaku Arthale Verule was remade in Tamil as Yaaradi Nee Mohini (2008), in Kannada as Anthu Inthu Preethi Banthu (2008), in Odia as Prema Adhei Akhyara (2010), [ 19 ] in Bengali as 100% Love (2013) and in Bhojpuri as Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna (2017). [ citation needed ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/13_Tzameti_Poster.jpg/250px-13_Tzameti_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Géla Babluani", "Written by": "Géla Babluani", "Produced by": "Géla Babluani", "Starring": "Georges Babluani Pascal Bongard Aurélien Recoing", "Cinematography": "Tariel Meliava", "Edited by": "Noémie Moreau", "Music by": "East", "Distributed by": "Palm Pictures", "Release dates": "September 1, 2005 ( 2005-09-01 ) (Venice) February 8, 2006 ( 2006-02-08 ) (France)", "Running time": "95 minutes", "Country": "France", "Languages": "French Georgian", "Budget": "$1.6 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$795,223 [ 2 ]"}
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["13 Tzameti is a 2005 suspense thriller French film written, produced, and directed by Georgian filmmaker Géla Babluani . \"Tzameti\" ( ცამეტი; tsameti ) is the Georgian word for thirteen. 13 Tzameti is the feature-length directorial debut for Babluani. It also marks the acting debut of his younger brother Georges, who plays the film's protagonist Sébastien. The music was composed by East (Arnaud Taillefer) from the French band Troublemakers .", "The film tells the story of a destitute immigrant worker who steals an envelope containing instructions for a mysterious job that could pay out a fortune. Following the instructions, the young man unwittingly becomes trapped in a dark and dangerous situation.", "The film follows 22-year-old Sébastien, a Georgian immigrant living in France and working construction jobs to support his poor family. Sébastien works on the home of Godon, a feeble morphine addict who is under police surveillance. After Godon dies of an overdose, his widow informs Sébastien that she is unable to pay him. Sébastien then overhears the widow talking with one of Godon's friends, describing a mysterious \"job\" that Godon had lined up before his death. The destitute Sébastien steals an envelope containing the instructions for the job. The police begin following Sébastien as he uses the train ticket contained in the envelope.", "The police lose track of Sébastien as he follows the instructions and is brought to a secluded house in a forest. At the house, a deadly gambling event is being organized by a powerful criminal. Though Sébastien's contacts immediately recognize that he is not Godon and has no idea what he is getting into, they force him to participate in the game. Thirteen men identified by number must undergo a series of Russian roulette games, arranging themselves into a circle and pointing their revolver at the man in front of them. Spectators place bets on who will survive. Sébastien, as #13, survives the first round and fires his gun only after threatened with death. On the second round, in which two bullets are placed in each gun, Sébastien survives only because the man behind him is killed before he could fire. On the third round, with three bullets in each gun, Sebastien survives along with three other men.", "Though he believes that he is finished, Sébastien is selected for the final \"duel\" game against #6, a cruel man who is managed by his own brother. Sébastien wins the duel and survives the game. He collects €850,000 out of the winnings his handlers have made from him, then flees the house. Fearing for his life, he sends the money home in a parcel before the police catch up with him. He tells the detective that he was turned away from the game and received no money, but gives the license plate number of a particularly unpleasant gambler in attendance. The police release him, but the brother of #6 spots him as he boards a train. The brother shoots Sébastien and steals his empty satchel. Sébastien collapses into a seat as the train begins to move.", "As of October 2023 [update] , the film holds an 83% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 66 reviews with an average rating of 7 out of 10. The website's critics consensus reads: \"This starkly minimalist nail-biter of a thriller relentlessly builds up the tension and keeps the audience guessing.\" [ 3 ]", "The film won the World Cinema Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival . [ 4 ] It also won two awards at the 62nd Venice Film Festival . [ 5 ]", "There is an American remake in color of the film, [ 6 ] but Babluani intended to \"change a lot of the storyline\" to avoid merely reshooting the original film. The film stars Mickey Rourke , Ray Winstone , Jason Statham , Sam Riley , and 50 Cent . [ 6 ]"]
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Aadharshila
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{"Directed by": "Ashok Ahuja", "Written by": "Ashok Ahuja", "Produced by": "Ashok Ahuja", "Starring": "Naseeruddin Shah Anita Kanwar Devki Nandan Pandey Neena Gupta Raja Bundela K. K. Raina Annu Kapoor", "Cinematography": "Sharad Navle", "Edited by": "Renu Saluja", "Music by": "Uttam Singh", "Release date": "1982 ( 1982 )", "Running time": "154 minutes", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Aadharshila (English: The Foundation Stone) is a 1982 Hindi-language film written, produced and directed by Ashok Ahuja, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Anita Kanwar . The film won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie and the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director . [ 1 ]", "The film is about Ajay (Naseeruddin Shah), a young filmmaker, hoping to direct his first film. He has just got married, and shares his hopes with his wife Asha (Anita Kanwar). Asha works as a teacher to support them, while Ajay takes on other work, but is always hoping to make his film. Aadharshila portrays the struggles of young people - especially graduates of the Film and Television Institute of India - to find a foothold in the Indian film industry. The film ends with the completion of the film-within-a-film."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Aadarsham_%28Film%29.jpg/250px-Aadarsham_%28Film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Joshiy", "Written by": "Pappanamkodu Lakshmanan", "Produced by": "M. D. George", "Starring": "Prem Nazir Jayabharathi Srividya Menaka", "Music by": "Shyam", "Production company": "Amala Arts", "Distributed by": "Amala Arts", "Release date": "1 October 1982 ( 1982-10-01 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aadharsam is a 1982 Indian Malayalam -language film directed by Joshiy and produced by M. D. George. The film stars Prem Nazir , Jayabharathi , Srividya and Menaka in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Shyam . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "The music was composed by Shyam and the lyrics were written by Bichu Thirumala ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Thirteen_days_poster.jpg/250px-Thirteen_days_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Roger Donaldson", "Written by": "David Self", "Based on": "The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow", "Produced by": "Armyan Bernstein Peter Almond Kevin Costner", "Starring": "Kevin Costner Bruce Greenwood Steven Culp Dylan Baker", "Cinematography": "Andrzej Bartkowiak", "Edited by": "Conrad Buff", "Music by": "Trevor Jones", "Production company": "Beacon Pictures", "Distributed by": "New Line Cinema (United States and Canada) Buena Vista Film Sales (International) [ 1 ]", "Release dates": "December 19, 2000 ( 2000-12-19 ) (Premiere) January 12, 2001 ( 2001-01-12 ) (USA)", "Running time": "145 minutes [ 2 ]", "Country": "United States", "Languages": "English Russian Spanish Romanian", "Budget": "$80 million [ 3 ]", "Box office": "$66.6 million [ 3 ]"}
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["Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson . It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars as top White House assistant Kenneth P. O'Donnell , with Bruce Greenwood featured as President John F. Kennedy , Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , and Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara .", "While the film carries the same title as the 1969 book Thirteen Days by former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , it is in fact based on the 1997 book, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis , by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow . It is the second docudrama made about the crisis, the first being 1974's The Missiles of October , which was based on Kennedy's book. The 2000 film contains some newly declassified information not available to the earlier production, but takes greater dramatic license, particularly in its choice of O'Donnell as protagonist. It received generally positive reviews from critics who praised the screenplay and performances of the cast but was a box-office bomb , grossing $66.6 million against its $80 million budget.", "In October 1962, U-2 aerial surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is placing intermediate-range ballistic missiles carrying nuclear weapons in Cuba . U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his advisers must come up with a plan to prevent their activation. Kennedy wants to show that the United States will not allow a missile threat. The Joint Chiefs of Staff advise military strikes against the missile sites followed by an invasion of Cuba. Kennedy is reluctant to this because it would likely cause the Soviets to invade West Berlin , which could lead to an all-out war. Kennedy sees an analogy to the events that started World War I , where the tactics of both sides' commanders had not evolved since the previous war and were obsolete, only this time nuclear weapons are involved. War appears to be almost inevitable.", "The Kennedy administration tries to find a solution that will remove the missiles but avoid an act of war. They reject a blockade, as this is formally regarded as an act of war, and settle on what they publicly describe as a quarantine . They announce that the U.S. naval forces will stop all ships entering Cuban waters and inspect them to verify they are not carrying weapons. The Soviet Union sends mixed messages in response. Off the shores of Cuba, the Soviet ships turn back from the quarantine lines. Spy plane pictures continue to be ordered, but one of Kennedy's top advisers, Kenneth O'Donnell , calls the pilots to ensure they do not report that they were shot at or fired upon, because if they were, the country would be forced to retaliate under the rules of engagement .", "John A. Scali , a reporter with ABC News , is contacted by Soviet \"emissary\" Aleksandr Fomin , and through this back-channel communication method the Soviets offer to remove the missiles in exchange for public assurances that the U.S. will never invade Cuba. A long message in the same tone as the informal communication from Fomin, apparently written personally by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev , is received. This is followed by a second, more hard line cable in which the Soviets offer a deal involving U.S removal of its Jupiter missiles from Turkey . The Kennedy administration interprets the second as a response from the Soviet Politburo , and decides to ignore it and respond to the message assumed to be from Khrushchev. There are several mis-steps during the crisis: the defense readiness level of Strategic Air Command (SAC) is raised to DEFCON 2 (one step shy of maximum readiness for imminent war), without informing Kennedy; a U.S. nuclear weapon test proceeds ( Bluegill Triple Prime ) and a routine test launch of a U.S. offensive missile is also carried out without the President's knowledge.", "In a bid for time while under pressure from the military for an immediate strike, President Kennedy authorizes attacks on the missile sites and an invasion of Cuba, to commence the following Monday. An Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane is sent over Cuba to gather intelligence for the attack, but is shot down, killing the pilot . After much deliberation with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council , Kennedy makes a final attempt to avoid a war by sending his brother Robert to meet with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin on Friday night. Bobby reiterates the demand that the Soviets remove their missiles from Cuba, and in return promises not to invade or assist in the invasion of Cuba. Dobrynin insists that the U.S. must also remove all Jupiter missiles from Turkey, on the border of the Soviet Union. Bobby says that a quid pro quo is not possible, but in exchange for Khrushchev removing the missiles from Cuba, there will be a secret understanding that the U.S. will remove all of its \"obsolete\" missiles from Turkey within six months as part of a pre-scheduled plan. The Soviets announce on Sunday that they will remove their missiles from Cuba, averting a war that could have escalated to the use of nuclear weapons . President Kennedy later dictates a letter of condolence to the family of the reconnaissance pilot, Rudolf Anderson , who was shot down over Cuba as part of the preparations for the invasion.", "The film was co-produced by several studios, including New Line Cinema , Kevin Costner's Tig Productions and Armyan Bernstein's Beacon Pictures . Several directors had been involved at various points. Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan expressed interest, while Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Campbell had been in discussions to direct. Coppola later passed to peruse Megalopolis instead after seeing an early screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace . Phil Alden Robinson had been attached, but left due to creative differences. Roger Donaldson officially signed on in May 1999. Production began on September 20, 1999. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ]", "The Department of Defense co-operated to some extent by allowing the producers to film on several bases. To keep the film \"in period,\" filming took place on ships from the time of the crisis that still existed in the active fleet ( USS Enterprise ) and ships that are preserved as museums ( USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. ). Aircraft (both a preserved F-8 Crusader and Lockheed U-2 spyplane were featured) that still exist from the period were refurbished to appear operational as well. The RF-8 Crusader (and an F-5) and the scenes of Cuba were shot in the Philippines . The air base scene was taken at Clark Air Base , Philippines, a former American facility, which substituted for NAS Key West , Florida, where the actual RF-8As of Light Photographic Squadron SIX TWO ( VFP-62 ) launched from on their Cuban overflight missions. At the time of the shooting, the F-8 was still in the inventory of the Philippine Air Force but was no longer operational. The F-5 was retired in 2005. [ citation needed ]", "The Department of Defense attempted to get the film to change its portrayal of the US military, which they believed portrayed it in a negative light. When the producers refused military assistance was denied. [ 9 ]", "Universal Pictures had been the initial domestic distributor, as they had a first-look deal with Beacon, but they dropped the film due to budgetary concerns. Several other studios offered to pick up the film, with Sony Pictures winning out due to the positive relationship the producers had working on Air Force One . However, Sony bailed out when there was no director set. Universal had a chance to buy the film back but chose not to. New Line Cinema officially picked up domestic distribution rights in March 1999. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Canadian distribution was handled by Alliance Atlantis , while Buena Vista International 's Buena Vista Film Sales handled the international sales of the film, with BVI self-distributing in the United Kingdom. [ 13 ]", "The film was given a limited theatrical release on Christmas Day 2000, and a wide release on January 12, 2001, with a staggered release to various countries throughout most of the year. The film grossed $66,579,890 worldwide against a production budget of $80 million. [ 3 ]", "Rotten Tomatoes reports that 83% of 124 critics have given the film positive reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus states: \" Thirteen Days offers a compelling look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, and its talented cast deftly portrays the real-life people who were involved.\" [ 14 ] Metacritic , which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream film critics, gives Thirteen Days a score of 67, based on 31 reviews, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 15 ] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A−\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 16 ]", "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave Thirteen Days a rating of 3 stars out of 4, and said \"The movie's taut, flat style is appropriate for a story that is more about facts and speculation than about action. Kennedy and his advisers study high-altitude photos and intelligence reports, and wonder if Khrushchev's word can be trusted. Everything depends on what they decide. The movie shows men in unknotted ties and shirt-sleeves, grasping coffee cups or whiskey glasses and trying to sound rational while they are at some level terrified...[T]hings might not have happened exactly like this, but it sure did feel like they did.\" [ 17 ]", "Some former Kennedy administration officials and contemporary historians, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. , Special Counsel Ted Sorensen , and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara , criticized the film for the depiction of Special Assistant Kenneth O'Donnell as chief motivator of Kennedy and others during the crisis. [ 18 ] Prior to seeing the movie, McNamara reacted to the premise in a PBS NewsHour interview: \"For God's sakes, Kenny O'Donnell didn't have any role whatsoever in the missile crisis; he was a political appointment secretary to the President; that's absurd\". [ 19 ]", "According to McNamara, the duties performed by O'Donnell in the film were closer to the role Sorensen played during the actual crisis: \"It was not Kenny O'Donnell who pulled us all together—it was Ted Sorensen.\" After seeing the movie McNamara remarked that while he still thought the filmmakers took some creative liberties with certain characters, he ultimately thought that it was a reasonable historical portrayal of the crisis: \"I think it's an absolutely fascinating portrayal and a very constructive and responsible portrayal of a very, very serious crisis not only in the history of this nation but in the history of the world\". [ 19 ]", "Kenny O'Donnell's son, the venture capitalist Kevin O'Donnell, bought back controlling interest in the production company Beacon Pictures in 1999 alongside earlier founder Armyan Bernstein . Kevin and Beacon Pictures have denied any undue influence on the screenplay portrayals of the released Thirteen Days the next year. [ 20 ] [ 21 ]", "Costner traveled to Cuba in 2001 to screen the film for Fidel Castro , saying at a press conference, \"It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.\" [ 22 ]", "The DVD and VHS was released on July 10, 2001. The DVD release marked the debut for New Line Home Entertainment 's Infinifilm label. [ 23 ]"]
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Aadavaallu Meeku Joharlu
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/Aadavaallu_Meeku_Joharlu_%281981_film%29.jpg/250px-Aadavaallu_Meeku_Joharlu_%281981_film%29.jpg", "Directed by": "K. Balachander", "Written by": "K. Balachander", "Produced by": "T. Visweswara Rao", "Starring": "Krishnam Raju Jayasudha", "Cinematography": "B. S. Lokanath", "Edited by": "N. R. Kittu", "Music by": "K. V. Mahadevan", "Release date": "15 January 1981 ( 1981-01-15 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu"}
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["Aadavaallu Meeku Joharlu ( transl. Salutation to you, ladies ) is a 1981 Indian Telugu -language film directed by K. Balachander , starring Krishnam Raju , Jayasudha and Bhanu Chander , with Chiranjeevi played a guest role while movie starting . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Soundtrack was composed by K. V. Mahadevan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/13th_%28film%29.png", "Directed by": "Ava DuVernay", "Written by": "Ava DuVernay Spencer Averick", "Produced by": "Ava DuVernay Howard Barish Spencer Averick", "Cinematography": "Hans Charles Kira Kelly", "Edited by": "Spencer Averick", "Music by": "Jason Moran", "Production company": "Kandoo Films", "Distributed by": "Netflix", "Release dates": "September 30, 2016 ( 2016-09-30 ) ( NYFF ) October 7, 2016 ( 2016-10-07 ) (United States)", "Running time": "100 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$1 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$566 (UK only) [ 2 ]"}
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["13th is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay . It explores the prison–industrial complex , and the \"intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States\". [ 3 ] The title refers to the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude , except as punishment for convicted criminals . The film argues that this exemption has been used to continue the practice of involuntary servitude in the form of penal labor .", "DuVernay contends that slavery in the United States has been perpetuated since the end of the Civil War through criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing ; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement , lynchings , and Jim Crow ; politicians declaring a war on drugs that weighs more heavily on minority communities; and, by the late 20th century, mass incarceration affecting communities of color, especially American descendants of slavery . In addition to the prison-industrial complex, the film examines the emerging detention-industrial complex, discussing how much money is being made by corporations from such incarcerations.", "The film garnered widespread critical acclaim. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards , [ 4 ] and it won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards . [ 5 ]", "The film begins with an audio clip of President Barack Obama stating that the US has 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of the world's prisoners. There follow interviews with a number of activists, academics, political figures from both major U.S. political parties, and public figures, including Angela Davis , Bryan Stevenson , Michelle Alexander , Jelani Cobb , Van Jones , Newt Gingrich , Cory Booker , Marie Gottschalk , and Henry Louis Gates Jr. [ 6 ]", "The economic history of slavery and the post- Civil War racist legislation and practices that replaced it are explored. Southern states criminalized minor offenses, arresting freedmen and forcing them to work when they could not pay fines, and this approach was institutionalized as convict leasing , which created an incentive to criminalize more behavior. DuVernay contends that most black people were disenfranchised across the South at the turn of the 20th century, being excluded from the political system (including juries) at the same time that lynching of black people by white mobs reached a peak. In addition, Jim Crow legislation was passed by Democrats to legalize segregation and suppress minorities, forcing them into second-class status. Following the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s that restored civil rights , the film notes the Republican Party's appeal to southern white conservatives , including the claim to be the party to fight the war on crime and war on drugs, which began to include mandatory, lengthy sentencing. A new wave of minority suppression began, reaching African Americans and others in the northern, mid-western, and western cities where many had migrated in earlier decades. After their presidential candidates lost to Republicans, Democratic politicians such as Bill Clinton joined the war on drugs.", "As a result, from the early 1970s to the present, the rate of incarceration and the number of people in prisons has climbed dramatically in the United States, while at the same time the rate of crime in the United States has continued to decline since the late 20th century . As late as the 2016 presidential election, the eventual winner Donald Trump worked to generate fear of crime, claiming high rates in New York City, for instance, which was not true, according to the film, which states that crime was lower overall than it had been in decade. Private prison contractors entered the market to satisfy demand as arrests and sentences increased, forming an independent group with its own economic incentives to criminalize minor activities and lengthen sentences in order to keep prisons full. Politicians and businessmen in rural areas encouraged construction of prisons to supply local jobs, and they also have had incentives to keep prisons full.", "The federal Bureau of Prisons announced in 2016 its intention to stop contracting with private providers for prison services. According to the film, the over-incarceration of adults has severely damaged generations of black and minority families and their children.", "The film explores the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), backed by corporations, that has provided Republican state- and federal-legislators with draft legislation to support the prison-industrial complex. It contends that only after some of the relationships were revealed did corporations like Walmart and others receive criticism and drop out of the organization.", "The demonization of minority poor to serve political ends is examined, along with how this has contributed to fears of minorities by whites and to problems of police brutality against minority communities. In the 21st century, the regularity of fatal police shootings of unarmed minorities in apparently minor confrontations has been demonstrated by videos taken by bystanders and by the increasing use of cameras in police cars or worn by officers. DuVernay ends the film with graphic videos of fatal shootings of black people by police, which Manohla Dargis describes as, following the previous discussion, having the effect of \"a piercing, keening cry.\" [ 3 ]", "The film was written by Ava DuVernay , the director of Selma (2014), and Spencer Averick , who also edited the film. Produced and filmed in secrecy, the existence of 13th was only revealed when it was announced as the opening film of the 2016 New York Film Festival . It was the first documentary ever to open the festival. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]", "13th was released on Netflix on October 7, 2016. [ 7 ] A companion piece, 13th: A Conversation with Oprah Winfrey & Ava DuVernay , was released on the service on January 26, 2017, in the United States, and on January 31 worldwide. [ 9 ] On April 17, 2020, Netflix made the film available to stream for free on YouTube . [ 10 ]", "On the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 97% of 109 critics' reviews of the film are positive, with an average rating of 8.8/10; the site's \"critics consensus\" reads: \" 13th strikes at the heart of America's tangled racial history, offering observations as incendiary as they are calmly controlled.\" [ 11 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 83 out of 100 based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". [ 12 ]", "Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film \"powerful, infuriating, and at times overwhelming\", and praised its meticulous marshaling of facts. Summarizing the film, Dargis wrote that \"The United States did not just criminalize a select group of black people. It criminalized black people as a whole, a process that, in addition to destroying untold lives, effectively transferred the guilt for slavery from the people who perpetuated it to the very people who suffered through it.\" [ 3 ] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film four stars out of four and named it one of the best films of 2016. [ 13 ]", "Dan Berger of Black Perspectives wrote that 13th was at its best when chronicling the lives of individuals in the American prison system, but said the film \"makes several significant factual errors\", such as using outdated statistical data and overstating the role of for-profit prisons. [ 14 ] John Anderson of America Magazine had similar criticisms of the film. [ 15 ]", "On a panel about the future of film published in The New York Times , DuVernay said: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}", "During the George Floyd protests in June 2020, the film experienced a 4,665% surge in viewership on Netflix . [ 17 ]", "The film was nominated for dozens of awards, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature . It was given a Peabody Award for excellence and won best documentary at the British Academy Film Awards and the Primetime Emmy Awards . DuVernay received a Primetime Emmy Award for her writing , and she was nominated for her directing . The song \"Letter to the Free\" was nominated for several awards, with Common , Robert Glasper , and Karriem Riggins winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/1982-k-Adat_Se_Majboor.jpg/250px-1982-k-Adat_Se_Majboor.jpg", "Directed by": "Ambrish Sangal", "Written by": "Apurba Kishore Bir", "Produced by": "Mohan Kumar", "Starring": "Mithun Chakraborty Ranjeeta Rameshwari Neena Gupta Mohan Gokhale", "Cinematography": "K. K. Mahajan", "Edited by": "Pratap Bhatt", "Music by": "Usha Khanna", "Release date": "2 July 1982 ( 1982-07-02 )", "Running time": "105 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Adat Se Majboor ( lit. ' Helpless by Habit ' ) is a 1982 Indian Hindi -language film directed by Ambrish Sangal, starring Mithun Chakraborty , Mohan Gokhale , Neena Gupta , Gloria Mahanty, Bijainee Misra and Lalatendu Rath.", "The film has 6 songs, written by Indivar & Nida Fazli and composed by Usha Khanna . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]"]
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Aadavallu Meeku Joharlu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadavallu_Meeku_Joharlu_(2022_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Aadavallu_Meeku_Johaarlu_%282022_film%29_poster.jpeg/250px-Aadavallu_Meeku_Johaarlu_%282022_film%29_poster.jpeg", "Directed by": "Kishore Tirumala", "Written by": "Kishore Tirumala", "Produced by": "Sudhakar Cherukuri Ramana Rao Rudrapati", "Starring": "Sharwanand Rashmika Mandanna Khushbu Sundar Radhika Sarathkumar Urvashi", "Cinematography": "Sujith Sarang", "Edited by": "A. Sreekar Prasad", "Music by": "Devi Sri Prasad", "Production company": "Sri Lakshmi Venkateswara Cinemas", "Release date": "4 March 2022 ( 2022-03-04 )", "Running time": "141 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu", "Released": "8 March 2022 ( 2022-03-08 )", "Recorded": "2021–2022", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "16 : 36", "Label": "Lahari Music", "Producer": "Devi Sri Prasad"}
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["Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu ( transl. Salutation to you, ladies ) is a 2022 Indian Telugu -language romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Kishore Tirumala . Produced by SLV Cinemas, the film stars Sharwanand , Rashmika Mandanna , Khushbu Sundar , Radhika Sarathkumar and Urvashi .", "Tirumala initially planned the film in 2016 with Venkatesh and Nithya Menen as the leads but it did not materialize. The project was revived in October 2020 with Sharwanand and Mandanna replacing them. Principal photography of the film commenced in July 2021 and ended in February 2022 with the filming primarily taking place in Hyderabad and Rajahmundry . The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Devi Sri Prasad . Sujith Sarang and A. Sreekar Prasad performed the cinematography and editing respectively.", "Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu was released on 4 March 2022 and opened to mixed reviews from critics. The film was a commercial failure . [ 2 ]", "Chiranjeevi grows up in the company of five strong headed women, including his mother Aadhi Lakshmi and aunts Padmamma, Sharadamma, Gouramma and Santhamma. Though they love and dote on him, they nitpick and reject almost every bride match he gets, The film deals with his journey in finding a suitable bride who is approved by all the five. At last, The right girl comes in the form of Aadhya.", "In 2016, director Kishore Tirumala teamed up with actors Venkatesh and Nithya Menen for the romantic comedy titled Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] However, the project was kept on back burner. In an interview in 2017, Tirumala stated, \"I feel the story for Adavallu … needs improvisation and so, I asked Venky sir sometime to arrive with a convincing script. The film is definitely on but it will take some time to hit the floors.\" [ 5 ] Tirumala later wrote a different version of the story while retaining the basic premise. [ 6 ]", "The project was revived in 2020 with actor Sharwanand replacing Venkatesh. [ 7 ] The film was formally announced on 25 October 2020 with a launch ceremony, marking Sharwanand's first collaboration with Tirumala. [ 8 ] Actresses like Menen and Sai Pallavi were considered for the female lead role but Rashmika Mandanna was finalized. [ 9 ] Veteran actresses Radhika Sarathkumar , Khushbu Sundar and Urvashi joined the production in August 2021. [ 10 ]", "Principal photography of the film began on 20 July 2021 in Hyderabad . [ 11 ] Filming also took place in Rajahmundry where majority of the film is shot. [ 12 ] The shoot was completed in February 2022. [ 13 ]", "The music was composed by Tirumala Kishore's usual composer Devi Sri Prasad . Lahari Music acquired the film's audio rights. [ 14 ] The first single, \"Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu\" was released on 4 February 2022, and was sung by Devi Sri Prasad himself with lyrics written by Sri Mani . [ 15 ]", "Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu was released on 4 March 2022. [ 16 ] The film was initially scheduled for release on 25 February but was deferred by a week to avoid a clash with Bheemla Nayak . [ 17 ]", "The film made a pre-release business of ₹16 crore from its theatricals. The Telangana theatrical rights are given to Sri Karthikeya Cinemas. [ 18 ] SonyLIV acquired the film's digital streaming rights. [ 14 ]", "Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu received mixed reviews from critics. [ 19 ] The Hans India gave the film a rating of 3.5/5 and wrote \"A feel-good movie with a complete lovely family drama... It is worth watching this summer as every movie buff will enjoy it to the core!\". [ 20 ] Neeshita Nyayapati of The Times of India gave the film a rating of 2.5/5 and wrote \" Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu has moments that are relatable but the film runs on a paper-thin storyline that does not warrant even its short run-time. If only the film had something novel to tell.\" [ 21 ]", "Writing for The Hindu , Sangeetha Devi Dundoo said that the film began as a humorous drama descended into a \"melodramatic, boring narrative that the talented actors cannot salvage.\" [ 22 ] The Indian Express critic Gabbeta Ranjith Kumar called it a \"half-boiled drama\", and felt that the director was divided between making a masala entertainer and a message-driven film. [ 23 ]", "Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu grossed ₹3.6 crore worldwide on its opening day with a distributor's share of ₹1.9 crore. [ 24 ] In its opening weekend, the collected a distributor's share of ₹5.67 crore . [ 2 ] By the end of its theatrical run, the earned a distributor's share of ₹ 7.72 crore, and incurred a loss of about ₹ 8 crore. [ 25 ]", "The music was composed by Tirumala Kishore's usual composer Devi Sri Prasad . Lahari Music acquired the film's audio rights. [ 14 ] The first single, \"Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu\" was released on 4 February 2022, and was sung by Devi Sri Prasad himself with lyrics written by Sri Mani . [ 15 ]", "Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu was released on 4 March 2022. [ 16 ] The film was initially scheduled for release on 25 February but was deferred by a week to avoid a clash with Bheemla Nayak . [ 17 ]", "The film made a pre-release business of ₹16 crore from its theatricals. The Telangana theatrical rights are given to Sri Karthikeya Cinemas. [ 18 ] SonyLIV acquired the film's digital streaming rights. [ 14 ]", "Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu received mixed reviews from critics. [ 19 ] The Hans India gave the film a rating of 3.5/5 and wrote \"A feel-good movie with a complete lovely family drama... It is worth watching this summer as every movie buff will enjoy it to the core!\". [ 20 ] Neeshita Nyayapati of The Times of India gave the film a rating of 2.5/5 and wrote \" Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu has moments that are relatable but the film runs on a paper-thin storyline that does not warrant even its short run-time. If only the film had something novel to tell.\" [ 21 ]", "Writing for The Hindu , Sangeetha Devi Dundoo said that the film began as a humorous drama descended into a \"melodramatic, boring narrative that the talented actors cannot salvage.\" [ 22 ] The Indian Express critic Gabbeta Ranjith Kumar called it a \"half-boiled drama\", and felt that the director was divided between making a masala entertainer and a message-driven film. [ 23 ]", "Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu grossed ₹3.6 crore worldwide on its opening day with a distributor's share of ₹1.9 crore. [ 24 ] In its opening weekend, the collected a distributor's share of ₹5.67 crore . [ 2 ] By the end of its theatrical run, the earned a distributor's share of ₹ 7.72 crore, and incurred a loss of about ₹ 8 crore. [ 25 ]"]
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Aadarsham
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadarsham_(1993_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e4/Aadarsam_1993.jpg/250px-Aadarsam_1993.jpg", "Directed by": "Mouli", "Written by": "Tanikella Bharani (dialogues)", "Screenplay by": "Mouli", "Story by": "Mouli", "Produced by": "C. Venkataraju G.Sivaraju", "Starring": "Jagapathi Babu Ashwini Nachappa Raghu", "Cinematography": "D. Prasad Babu", "Edited by": "D. Shyam Mukherjee", "Music by": "M. M. Keeravani", "Production company": "Sri Vijaya Lakshmi Productions", "Release date": "2 April 1993 ( 1993-04-02 )", "Running time": "128 mins", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu", "Released": "1993", "Genre": "Soundtrack", "Length": "16 : 39", "Label": "Balaji Audio", "Producer": "M. M. Keeravani"}
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["Aadarsam ( transl. Ideal ) is a 1993 Indian Telugu -language drama film directed by Mouli . It stars Jagapathi Babu , Ashwini Nachappa , Raghu and music composed by M. M. Keeravani . [ 1 ] It was produced by C. Venkataraju, G. Sivaraju under the Sri Vijaya Lakshmi Productions banner. Later it was dubbed into Tamil as Aananenna Pennenna .", "The film opens at an orphanage where Jyothi, a spirited and rebellious girl, lives under strict rules. One day, she learns that she has a family consisting of her alcoholic father, Suryanarayana, and his kind-hearted wife, Savitri. The couple has two other daughters, Lalitha and Vani. Suryanarayana, frustrated by the birth of daughters instead of a son, had sent Jyothi to the orphanage. Determined to reconnect, Jyothi returns to her family and insists on staying with them, gradually taking on household responsibilities and encouraging her sisters to pursue their ambitions. Over time, Jyothi's efforts pay off: Lalitha becomes a schoolteacher, and Vani gains local fame as a singer, although Suryanarayana remains unaware of their achievements.", "Meanwhile, Devi Prasad, a seemingly respectable man with a dark side, runs a network of illegal activities in the town. Chakrapani, a well-meaning man, unknowingly aids Devi Prasad by operating an auto stand that facilitates these activities. Jyothi acquires an auto from Chakrapani, and the two develop a romantic relationship. Sivaji, a stern and upright police inspector, is assigned to bring down Devi Prasad's operations. Sivaji, who is a widower with a daughter named Veena, becomes closer to Lalitha, who is Veena’s teacher.", "As the story progresses, Vani joins a music troupe led by Pardhasaradhi, who admires her. However, Vani’s ambitions drive her to seek greater recognition. Suryanarayana eventually discovers his daughters' accomplishments, but his realization comes too late, as Lalitha, Vani, and Savitri decide to leave him. They move to a colony where they face harassment from Prem, the son of Devi Prasad, who uses a cultural club as a front for his criminal activities. Despite the separation, Savitri continues to care for Suryanarayana, leading him to regret his past actions.", "Lalitha completes her I.A.S., returns as a district collector, and marries Sivaji. Using her newfound authority, she shuts down Prem's club and has him arrested. However, Prem, seeking revenge, deceives and humiliates Vani, leading her to a state of despair. In her desperation, Vani contemplates suicide but is saved by Pardhasaradhi, who expresses his love and commitment to her.", "Meanwhile, Jyothi is imprisoned after attacking Prem in response to his actions. In jail, Prem manipulates Jyothi and attempts to torment her, but Chakrapani, who has reformed, protects her. Unable to bear the pain inflicted by Prem, Savitri decides to take matters into her own hands, but before she can act, Suryanarayana kills Prem. In the climax, Sivaji, Chakrapani, and Jyothi join forces to defeat Devi Prasad, bringing an end to his reign of terror. The film concludes with Suryanarayana acknowledging the worth of his daughters and feeling proud of their achievements before surrendering to the law.", "The music was composed by M. M. Keeravani , with lyrics written by Bhuvana Chandra . The soundtrack was released by Balaji Audio Company.", "The music was composed by M. M. Keeravani , with lyrics written by Bhuvana Chandra . The soundtrack was released by Balaji Audio Company."]
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Aadarsa Kutumbam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadarsa_Kutumbam
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Aadarsa_Kutumbam.jpg/250px-Aadarsa_Kutumbam.jpg", "Directed by": "K. Pratyagatma", "Written by": "Acharya Aatreya (dialogues)", "Screenplay by": "K. Pratyagatma Acharya Aatreya", "Story by": "K. Pratyagatma", "Produced by": "A. V. Subba Rao", "Starring": "Akkineni Nageswara Rao Jayalalitha", "Cinematography": "P. S. Selvaraj", "Edited by": "J. Krshna Swamy Balu", "Music by": "S. Rajeswara Rao", "Production company": "Prasad Art Productions", "Distributed by": "Navayuga Films", "Release date": "6 June 1969 ( 1969-06-06 )", "Running time": "175 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu", "Released": "1969", "Genre": "Soundtrack", "Length": "26 : 15", "Producer": "S. Rajeswara Rao"}
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["Aadarsa Kutumbam ( transl. Ideal Family ) is a 1969 Indian Telugu -language drama film directed by K. Pratyagatma . It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Jayalalithaa , with music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao . [ 1 ] It was produced by A. V. Subba Rao under the Prasad Art Productions banner. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for the year 1969. [ 2 ]", "The film deals with a joint family; Raghavendra Rao and his wife Rajyalakshmi are paterfamiliases with four sons and a daughter. The elder son, Pattabhi, and his wife, Janaki, look after the house finances and agricultural work. The second son Prakasam is involved in village politics and wastes time & money therein, and his wife, Jaya, is a shrew who doesn't contribute anything to the welfare of the family. The third son, Pratap, is a bodybuilder obsessed with diet & fitness and is not bothered about his wife Rama. The youngest one, Prasad, studies in the city, where he falls in love with a beautiful girl, Saroja, a doctor. The only daughter is Chandra, and her husband, Suryam, suffers from night blindness. He doesn't work and spends his time lazily living in his in-law's house. To make things worse, his mother, Durgamma, always visits the home, creating rifts in the family. Pattabhi & Janaki's goodwill misleads to inability, which remains misused. Meanwhile, Prasad marries Saroja at this juncture, and she enters the family when everybody is in a mess with unnecessary expenditures, arguments, and cheating. So, Prasad & Saroja decide to separate the family, and they do so by cheating. The rest of the story is about reuniting the affections and relations between family members.", "Music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao .", "Music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao ."]
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Aadanthe Ado Type
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadanthe_Ado_Type
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Aadanthe_Ado_Type.jpg", "Directed by": "E. V. V. Satyanarayana", "Screenplay by": "E. V. V. Satyanarayana Janardhana Maharshi", "Story by": "Ameer Sultan", "Based on": "Mounam Pesiyadhe", "Produced by": "Ambica Krishna", "Starring": "Aryan Rajesh Sivaji Anita Hassanandani Sindhu Menon", "Cinematography": "V. Srinivasa Reddy", "Edited by": "V. Nagi Reddy", "Music by": "Yuvan Shankar Raja", "Production company": "Ambica Art Productions", "Release date": "30 August 2003 ( 2003-08-30 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu", "Released": "3 June 2003", "Recorded": "2003", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "37 : 13", "Producer": "Yuvan Shankar Raja"}
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["Aadanthe Ado Type is a 2003 Indian Telugu -language romance film directed by E V V Satyanarayana , starring Aryan Rajesh , Sivaji and Anita Hassanandani . It is a remake of the 2002 Tamil film Mounam Pesiyadhe written and directed by Ameer Sultan , [ 1 ] with Aryan Rajesh, Anita, Shivaji, and Sindhu replacing Suriya , Trisha , Nandha , and Maha, respectively, who originally played the roles. The film was released on 30 August 2003. There is also a dubbed Telugu version of Mounam Pesiyadhe , titled as Kanchu , which was released in 2006.", "Surya ( Aryan Rajesh ) is a man who hates love. But somehow he is charmed by Brunda ( Anita Hassanandani ). Brunda likes his attitude and admires him as a friend. But her admiration coupled with a few coincidences makes Surya think that she is in love him. When he is expecting her to speak those magical words (I love you), she introduces Surya to her fiancé ( Sai Kiran ). After Brunda marries her beau, a damsel ( Bhoomika Chawla ) meets Surya and explains the flashback. That beautiful girl is a silent admirer of Surya and had been following him for years. She proposes to Surya when they were in college. Surya asks her to come back once he is financially settled, as love and life afterall need security. Finally Surya settles down with her and the movie ends on a happy note.", "The music, including film score, was composed by Ilaiyaraaja's youngest son, Yuvan Shankar Raja . The soundtrack comprises 7 tracks, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja as well, out of which 4 songs were retained from the original film and 1 song was retained from Manadhai Thirudivittai with minor modifications. [ 2 ] The lyrics were written by Surendra Krishna. The audio was launched live through Gemini TV , whereas viewers themselves could release one of the songs, by calling on a certain number. Out of 2.7 lakhs callers 7 people got the chance to release a song each. [ 3 ]", "Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film 2.5/5 and wrote, \"Though the narration sounded neat, the emotions of the film were not brought out. EVV should stop handling subjects which he is not familiar with and start adapting the his[sic] good old narration style, which has given his blockbusters in the past\". [ 4 ]", "The music, including film score, was composed by Ilaiyaraaja's youngest son, Yuvan Shankar Raja . The soundtrack comprises 7 tracks, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja as well, out of which 4 songs were retained from the original film and 1 song was retained from Manadhai Thirudivittai with minor modifications. [ 2 ] The lyrics were written by Surendra Krishna. The audio was launched live through Gemini TV , whereas viewers themselves could release one of the songs, by calling on a certain number. Out of 2.7 lakhs callers 7 people got the chance to release a song each. [ 3 ]", "Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film 2.5/5 and wrote, \"Though the narration sounded neat, the emotions of the film were not brought out. EVV should stop handling subjects which he is not familiar with and start adapting the his[sic] good old narration style, which has given his blockbusters in the past\". [ 4 ]"]
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Aadamkhor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadamkhor
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{"Directed by": "Joginder", "Starring": "C S Aasie, Sunil Dhawan, Ranjeet", "Release date": "1986 ( 1986 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Aadamkhor is a 1986 Bollywood Hindi language horror movie directed by Joginder Shelly. [ 1 ] The film stars Joginder Shelly, Neelam Mehra , Nazneen , Sona Mastan Mirza , Jagdarshan , Randhawa and Reetu Khanna .", "The leading protagonists are the daughters of four army officers who practise different faiths: Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh. They are trained in martial arts with the intent to promote secularism within the country."]
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Aadama Jaichomada
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ef/Aadama_Jaichomada.jpg/250px-Aadama_Jaichomada.jpg", "Directed by": "Badri", "Written by": "Shiva (Dialogues)", "Screenplay by": "Badri T. Senthilkumaran", "Produced by": "P. Madhusudhanan", "Starring": "Karunakaran Bobby Simha Vijayalakshmi", "Narrated by": "Shiva", "Cinematography": "Dwarakanath", "Edited by": "KJ Venkatramanan", "Music by": "Sean Roldan", "Production companies": "Upshot Films B&C Films", "Distributed by": "Skilite Creations", "Release date": "19 September 2014 ( 2014-09-19 )", "Running time": "116 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil", "Released": "1 September 2014", "Recorded": "2014", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "19 : 31", "Label": "Think Music", "Producer": "Sean Roldan"}
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["Aadama Jaichomada ( transl. We won without playing ) is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language black comedy film directed and co-written by Badri . Produced by B&C films and Upshot Films, co-produced by Skilite Creations, the film stars Karunakaran , Bobby Simha , and Vijayalakshmi in prominent roles, while Balaji Venugopal , Aadukalam Naren , and K. S. Ravikumar amongst others appear in supporting roles. The dialogues were written by actor Shiva . [ 1 ] The music was composed by Sean Roldan . The film released on 19 September 2014 to positive reviews.", "The film deals with corruption involved in cricket . [ 2 ] The film's title takes its name from a phrase in \"Machi Open The Bottle\", a song from the film Mankatha . [ 3 ]", "The film is about unraveling the identity of the mysterious 'Albert', who heads the spot fixing operations for the IPL matches in Chennai. The Chennai Police Commissioner gets a tip off that Albert plans to fix a bowler to spot fix a specific over in the semifinal match of the IPL. He informs his officers to be sharp and on the lookout for 'Albert' or any clues leading to Albert. Dhayalan, Albert's agent, uses a taxi belonging to Panneer to travel all over Chennai, his motive being to confuse the police by constantly travelling and confusing the GPS locators. Dhayalan and Panneer bond and swap life stories. Panneer drops Dhayalan at his hotel and is asked to return the following morning. When Panneer goes to Dhayalan's room the following morning, he sees Dhayalan dead with a knife in his chest. This brings Inspector Bhoominathan and his sidekick Constable Mariadas, who arrest Panneer as a suspect for murdering Dhayalan. However, Panneer is whisked away by a film producer, who comes in the guise of a Maharashtra Police Officer. He wants Panneer, who is the last person to have seen Dhayalan alive, because he wants to place a bet on the match to win big and pay off a producer to whom he owes several crores. Eventually, the police sets a trap for Albert with Panneer playing a major role, but the plot turns awry when Albert manages to get away with it and with Panneer winning two crores from his bet, which he uses to set up his own call taxi company, and his wife Rama, who sets up her own restaurant.", "The soundtrack for the film was composed by Sean Roldan . Aadama Jaichomada marked Roldan's fourth film as a composer, followed by Vaayai Moodi Pesavum , Sathuranga Vettai , and Mundasupatti , all of which were released in 2014. The five song soundtrack had lyrics penned by Pa. Vijay , GKB, Rajhesh Vaidhya and Roldan himself as the lyricist. The audio launch event was held at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai on 1 September 2014, [ 4 ] where the makers unveiled the film's soundtrack and theatrical trailer of the film.", "The soundtrack received positive reviews. Behindwoods gave a rating of 2.5 out of 5 to the album stating, \"Sean Roldan continues his approach to bring new sounds to Tamil film songs. But Aadama Jaichomada songs will need the visuals to be evaluated better.\" [ 5 ] Indiaglitz gave a rating of 3 out of 5 to the soundtrack. [ 6 ]", "The film received overall positive reviews. [ 7 ] The Times of India gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, \"There is scope for an interesting black comedy in this plot but Aadama Jaichomada often feels less quirky and less funny than it should have been. It is as if the makers decided to stick to the lowest possible yardstick and were satisfied for managing to cross it. As a result, many of the jokes do not work that well...We are amused..we smile...we chuckle...but we never truly laugh non-stop\". [ 8 ] The New Indian Express wrote, \"Laced with dark humour, Aadama Jaichomada keeps one entertained for the most part. Taking just about two hours of viewing time, Aadama Jaichomada has its good moments and is a breezy watch\". [ 9 ] Rediff gave 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, \"The characters and the situation they unwittingly get themselves into, is well thought out, and cleverly woven into the screenplay. The narrative too is totally unpredictable, keeping you guessing. At just two hours, the story moves at a brisk pace\", going on to add that the film \"does work as an entertainer\". [ 10 ] Sify wrote, \"The film works for its performances of Karunakaran, Balaji and the interactions between the bumbling cops Simhaa, KS Ravikumar and Chetan. There is something quirky about it that makes the film a watchable fun ride. Aadama Jaichomada is like a T:20 match fast and thoroughly enjoyable\". [ 11 ] IANS gave 3 stars and wrote, \" Aadama Jaichomada , at two hours, attempts to be a crime-thriller as well as a sports-based comedy. But it only succeeds as the latter, and fails to do justice to the former form...Despite a weak story, the humour in Aadama Jaichomada will bowl over the movie buffs\". [ 12 ] The Hindu wrote, \"Picture yourself reading an average joke book. You flip page after page, reading the jokes, many of which barely evoke a smile. Just as you decide to try one last one before flinging the book away, you find a tickler that gets you laughing. Aadama Jaichomada is this joke book that surprises you with a witty line or funny joke just when you are resigned to expecting nothing\". [ 13 ] Cinemalead rated a 2.5 out of 5 and wrote,\"Short and Fun\" [ 14 ]", "The film opened to good response and collected ₹ 4 crore (Share) in its first week end. The film collected ₹ 10.22 crore (Share) worldwide at the box office.", "The soundtrack for the film was composed by Sean Roldan . Aadama Jaichomada marked Roldan's fourth film as a composer, followed by Vaayai Moodi Pesavum , Sathuranga Vettai , and Mundasupatti , all of which were released in 2014. The five song soundtrack had lyrics penned by Pa. Vijay , GKB, Rajhesh Vaidhya and Roldan himself as the lyricist. The audio launch event was held at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai on 1 September 2014, [ 4 ] where the makers unveiled the film's soundtrack and theatrical trailer of the film.", "The soundtrack received positive reviews. Behindwoods gave a rating of 2.5 out of 5 to the album stating, \"Sean Roldan continues his approach to bring new sounds to Tamil film songs. But Aadama Jaichomada songs will need the visuals to be evaluated better.\" [ 5 ] Indiaglitz gave a rating of 3 out of 5 to the soundtrack. [ 6 ]", "The film received overall positive reviews. [ 7 ] The Times of India gave the film 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, \"There is scope for an interesting black comedy in this plot but Aadama Jaichomada often feels less quirky and less funny than it should have been. It is as if the makers decided to stick to the lowest possible yardstick and were satisfied for managing to cross it. As a result, many of the jokes do not work that well...We are amused..we smile...we chuckle...but we never truly laugh non-stop\". [ 8 ] The New Indian Express wrote, \"Laced with dark humour, Aadama Jaichomada keeps one entertained for the most part. Taking just about two hours of viewing time, Aadama Jaichomada has its good moments and is a breezy watch\". [ 9 ] Rediff gave 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, \"The characters and the situation they unwittingly get themselves into, is well thought out, and cleverly woven into the screenplay. The narrative too is totally unpredictable, keeping you guessing. At just two hours, the story moves at a brisk pace\", going on to add that the film \"does work as an entertainer\". [ 10 ] Sify wrote, \"The film works for its performances of Karunakaran, Balaji and the interactions between the bumbling cops Simhaa, KS Ravikumar and Chetan. There is something quirky about it that makes the film a watchable fun ride. Aadama Jaichomada is like a T:20 match fast and thoroughly enjoyable\". [ 11 ] IANS gave 3 stars and wrote, \" Aadama Jaichomada , at two hours, attempts to be a crime-thriller as well as a sports-based comedy. But it only succeeds as the latter, and fails to do justice to the former form...Despite a weak story, the humour in Aadama Jaichomada will bowl over the movie buffs\". [ 12 ] The Hindu wrote, \"Picture yourself reading an average joke book. You flip page after page, reading the jokes, many of which barely evoke a smile. Just as you decide to try one last one before flinging the book away, you find a tickler that gets you laughing. Aadama Jaichomada is this joke book that surprises you with a witty line or funny joke just when you are resigned to expecting nothing\". [ 13 ] Cinemalead rated a 2.5 out of 5 and wrote,\"Short and Fun\" [ 14 ]", "The film opened to good response and collected ₹ 4 crore (Share) in its first week end. The film collected ₹ 10.22 crore (Share) worldwide at the box office."]
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Aadab Arz
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{"Directed by": "V. C. Desai", "Produced by": "Amar Pictures", "Starring": "Nalini Jaywant Karan Dewan Mukesh Dulari", "Music by": "Gyan Dutt", "Release date": "1943 ( 1943 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Aadab Arz is a Bollywood film directed by V. C. Desai. It was released in 1943 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was produced by \"Amar Pictures\" which was a company started by Chimanlal Desai after he left National Studios. The film starred Nalini Jaywant , Karan Dewan , Mukesh , and Dulari . [ 3 ] The music was composed by Gyan Dutt and the lyricists were Rammurti Chaturvedi, Pandit Indra and Kailash Matwala."]
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Aadaalla Majaka
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadaalla_Majaka
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{"Directed by": "Muthyala Subbaiah", "Written by": "Muthyala Subbaiah", "Produced by": "Bezawada Koteswara Rao", "Starring": "Vikram Ooha Ali Sudhakar", "Cinematography": "K. V. Ramanan", "Edited by": "Madhu", "Music by": "Raj Bhaskar", "Release date": "1995 ( 1995 )", "Running time": "136 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu"}
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["Aadaalla...Majaka! is a 1995 Indian Telugu -language romantic film written by and directed by Muthyala Subbaiah . The film stars Vikram , Ooha , and Ali in the leading roles, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] while Sudhakar plays a supporting role. The film is a remake of the Malayalam film Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu (1994). [ citation needed ]", "The plot revolves around paying guests staying in a female-only homestay who are self-identified misandrists .", "The soundtrack album was composed by Raj Bhaskar. [ 4 ]", "The film was later dubbed and released in Tamil under the title Marri by Vijay Sri Film Productions, as a result of Vikram's new found saleability after the release of Sethu (1999). The storyline was heavily edited, with dubbed sequences featuring actresses Ramya Krishnan and Simran added to the film. Following the success of Gemini (2002), the film was dubbed and released again in Tamil as Vahini . [ 5 ]", "Vikram and Ali later starred together in Ooha . [ 6 ] [ 7 ]"]
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Aachi & Ssipak
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dc/Aachi_%26_Ssipak_film_poster.jpg/250px-Aachi_%26_Ssipak_film_poster.jpg", "Hangul": "아치와 씨팍", "RR": "Achiwa ssipak", "MR": "Ach'iwa ssip'ak", "Directed by": "Jo Beom-jin English Dub: Ed Skudder Zack Keller", "Written by": "Kang Sang-kyun Jeong Hye-won Jo Beom-jin English Dub: Ed Skudder Zack Keller", "Produced by": "Kim Seon-ku Park Se-jun", "Starring": "Ryoo Seung-bum Im Chang-jung Hyun Young English Dub: Ed Skudder Zack Keller", "Cinematography": "Lee Chung-bok", "Edited by": "Kim Yun-gi Seo Dong-hyeon Park Han-jae English Dub: Zack Keller", "Music by": "Kang Ki-young English Dub: Nick Keller", "Production company": "JTeam Studios", "Distributed by": "Studio 2.0 Mondo Media (US)", "Release date": "June 28, 2006 ( 2006-06-28 )", "Running time": "90 minutes", "Country": "South Korea", "Language": "Korean", "Budget": "US$3 million"}
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["Aachi & Ssipak is a 2006 South Korean adult animated comic science fiction action film directed by Jo Beom-jin and features the voices of Ryoo Seung-bum , Im Chang-jung , and Hyun Young .", "Somewhere in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have somehow engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. People started to build the new city by making new energy with their excrement. Soon after, the city's leaders announced two legislations to generate and control the new energy; including installing ID chips in each citizens' anus to monitor the defecation level; providing an addictive juicybar to citizens in return. Soon enough, defecation amounts have skyrocketed and the city becomes full of addicts, due to juicybar's strong addictive qualities. An illegal juicybar trade becomes prevalent and its side effects has created dumb pint-sized mutants. The mutants later organize a gang, plundering juicybars, later becoming known as the Diaper Gang.", "Section 4 travels back to the city (filled with juicybars), with police officers in their motorcycles for protection until the Diaper Gang hijacks it and kills everyone, they succeed but fail as Geko comes to kill off, once all gone, Aachi and Ssipak returns to the city. Aachi and Ssipak are street hoodlums who struggle to survive by trading black market Juicybars. Through a chain of events involving their porn -director acquaintance Jimmy the Freak, they meet a porn star named Beautiful, who gets a pink ring inside her butt which makes her defecations rewarded by exceptional quantities of Juicybars. For that reason, Beautiful is also wanted by the violent blue mutants known as the Diaper Gang (led by the Diaper King), the police (most notably the cyborg police officer Geko), and others.", "The original story was proposed in 1998. To test different film techniques, demos using flash animation were made before attempting a theatrical version. In 2001, the flash animation versions of the film with four episodes were showcased in the 11th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival . [ 1 ] All six episodes premiered in an online theatre called cine4m with Aachi played by Ryoo Seung-bum and Ssipak played by Im Won-hee . The clip attracted three million hits , and the movie was originally scheduled for release at the end of 2002. [ 2 ] Ryoo Seung-bum later revealed that it was hard to voice act in the film. [ 3 ] There were also news reports that a game would be developed by teaming up with game company ziointeractive, expecting the film will be released in May 2005. [ 4 ] The team eventually delayed the release date of the film to November 2005. [ 5 ] 3.5 billion won was spent to produce the film. [ 6 ]", "After animated films My Beautiful Girl, Mari and Wonderful Days flopped despite huge expectations, Jo's film ran into investor problems, and the production team halted working on the animation for almost a year. [ 7 ] It would take a total of eight years for the feature-length film to be finished. [ 8 ]", "The film was marketed with interactive games and character merch such as t-shirts and in case of t-shirts, they were worn by celebrities such as Yoon Do-hyun and Shin dong yup . Albums were even released. [ 9 ]", "Mondo Media hired Dick Figures creators, Ed Skudder and Zack Keller to rewrite a version of the film for English -speaking audiences. [ 10 ] It was released digitally on February 11, 2014, and the DVD and Blu-ray were released a month later on March 11. [ 11 ] Four minutes were cut, and dubbed English voice acting and an entirely new soundtrack (a DJ-rap music score by Mad Decent 's Kevin Seaton) were added. [ 7 ]", "Aachi & Ssipak opened in South Korean theaters on June 28, 2006. Like most of its predecessors in homegrown animation, it was well-reviewed, but a box office flop, with total ticket sales of 107,154. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The film was invited to the 2007 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam . [ 14 ]", "In November 2020, the film was rereleased on theaters at Seoul Lotte cinema world tower joined by Nancy Lang . [ 15 ]"]
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Aada Paduchu
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Aada_Paduchu.jpg/250px-Aada_Paduchu.jpg", "Directed by": "K. Hemambharadhara Rao", "Written by": "K. Pratyagatma (dialogues)", "Screenplay by": "L. V. Prasad", "Story by": "T. S. Natarajan", "Based on": "En Thangai (Tamil)", "Produced by": "K. Hemambharadhara Rao", "Starring": "N. T. Rama Rao Krishna Kumari Shobhan Babu Vanisree Chandrakala", "Cinematography": "M. G. Singh M. C. Shekar", "Edited by": "B. Gopala Rao", "Music by": "T. Chalapathi Rao", "Production company": "Subhashini Art Pictures", "Release date": "30 November 1967 ( 1967-11-30 )", "Running time": "162 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu", "Released": "1967", "Genre": "Soundtrack", "Length": "22 : 54", "Label": "His Master's Voice", "Producer": "T. Chalapathi Rao"}
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["Aada Paduchu ( transl. Sister ) is a 1967 Indian Telugu -language drama film , produced and directed by K. Hemambaradhara Rao under the Subhashini Art Pictures banner. It stars N. T. Rama Rao , Krishna Kumari , Sobhan Babu , Vanisri and Chandrakala , with music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao . The film is a remake of the 1952 Tamil movie En Thangai (1952) which was earlier remade in Hindi in 1959 as Chhoti Bahen and in Kannada in 1967 as Onde Balliya Hoogalu . [ 1 ] The film received critical acclaim [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and was recorded as a Super Hit at the box office.", "The film begins in a village where a bourgeoisie, Satyam, lives happily with his siblings Shekar & Sarada. The two elders show ample fondness for their sister, who also adores them, and she nourishes her brothers with sweets for her every birthday. Satyam endears a school teacher, Susheela, who plans to nuptial after Shekar's graduation and Sarada's wedlock. Satyam strives hard for Shekar's civilization, for which he owes his paternal uncle Dharmaiah a loan shark. Although he is cutthroat, his son Sadanandam is good-natured, admires Satyam, and dotes on Sarada. In the town, Shekar neglects his studies by falling for Lalitha, the daughter of a tycoon Rao Bahadur Ranga Rao. Knowing it, Satyam moves to Ranga Rao, who agrees to knit them and aids in fixing an affluent alliance for Sarada with Dr. Ramesh. Satyam mortgages his house at Dharmaiah to cover the costs. Just before, Sarada loses her vision in a mishap, which calls off the wedding and collapses Satyam.", "Parallelly, as a glimpse, Sadanandam loves a girl, Hema, when avaricious Dharmaiah slyly splits them. So, Sadanandam migrates to the town and becomes a rickshawala. Following, Satyam unites Shekar & Lalitha, who cannot acclimate to their lifestyle and constantly denounces Sarada. Ergo, a rift arises between the siblings, and Shekar breaks apart into matrilocality. Amidst, Susheela approaches to support Satyam, but he denies it and decides to remain single for Sarada. Besides, Shekar takes the path of vices by Ranga Rao, who dies because of bankruptcy. Thus, repentance kicks off in Shekar & Lalitha and comprehends the virtue of kinship. Meanwhile, misfortunes arise for Satyam; he loses his job, and Dharmaiah seals their property when he proceeds to the town with Sarada, who resides on the pavement. However, Dharmaiah pays for his sins by losing his property in a fire accident.", "Eventually, Satyam falls sick, and Sarada rushes for a doctor. Fortuitously, she is acquainted with Ramesh, who detects her but is quiet and walks on with her. By that time, Satyam faints on her quest when Sadanandam secures him, and Ramesh shelters Sarada. He divulges his actuality, proposes to Sarada, which she admits is a boon, and communicates her whereabouts to Susheela. Satyam gets wind of Sarada and retrieves her without Ramesh's knowledge. Today is Sarada's birthday, and she bestows sweets to Satyam & Sadanandam. Now, she sets foot to feed Shekar but falls under a truck. Blessedly passing, Shekar spots her and admits her to the hospital. Here, Shekar begs for mercy from Satyam, being a penitent when all lands therein, including Susheela & Dharmaiah. At this, Ramesh saves Sarada and entreaties her hand, which Satyam does. Moreover, Satyam splices Susheela on Sarada's plea, and remorseful Dharmaiah joins Sadanandam & Hema. Finally, the movie ends happily with Ramesh & Sarada going abroad to recoup her vision.", "Music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao . Music released by His Master's Voice .", "The film ran for more than 100 days in five centers in Guntur , Vijayawada , Kakinada , Rajahmundry and Visakhapatnam . [ 1 ]", "Sikaraju of Andhra Sachitra Vara Patrika praised the risk taken by the producers in making the movie. He wrote positively about the performance of the cast and the music composition. He critically praised N. T. Rama Rao for taking up a new role against the popular culture. [ 2 ]", "Music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao . Music released by His Master's Voice .", "The film ran for more than 100 days in five centers in Guntur , Vijayawada , Kakinada , Rajahmundry and Visakhapatnam . [ 1 ]", "Sikaraju of Andhra Sachitra Vara Patrika praised the risk taken by the producers in making the movie. He wrote positively about the performance of the cast and the music composition. He critically praised N. T. Rama Rao for taking up a new role against the popular culture. [ 2 ]"]
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Aacharyan
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{"Directed by": "Ashokan", "Starring": "Thilakan Suresh Gopi Sreenivasan", "Music by": "Ouseppachan Lyrics: Bichu Thirumala", "Release date": "1993 ( 1993 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aacharyan is a 1993 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Ashokan and starring Thilakan , Suresh Gopi and Sreenivasan in the lead roles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The story is about an investigative journalist who tracks down a drug trafficking gang with the help of a retired civil servant and an ex-police officer.", "Sivashankaran, a journalist, goes in search of the truth regarding the death of Jeevan Kumar, a college student. He is determined to bring the criminals to justice.", "The music was composed by Ouseppachan and the lyrics were written by Bichu Thirumala ."]
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Aacharya
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aacharya_(2006_film)
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{"Directed by": "Ravi", "Written by": "Ravi", "Produced by": "S. N. Raja E. Chitra V. Uma Maheshwari", "Starring": "Vignesh Divya", "Cinematography": "Rajavel Mohan", "Edited by": "Suresh Urs", "Music by": "Srikanth Deva", "Production company": "ITA Films", "Release date": "23 June 2006 ( 2006-06-23 )", "Running time": "120 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telgu or Hindi", "Released": "2006", "Recorded": "2006", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Length": "23 : 17", "Producer": "Srikanth Deva"}
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["Aacharya is a 2006 Indian Tamil -language gangster drama film written and directed by Ravi, an erstwhile assistant of Bala . The film stars Vignesh and newcomer Divya, with Nassar , Charan Raj , Vadivukkarasi , Ganja Karuppu , Thennavan , Devan and C. Ezhumalai playing supporting roles. The music was composed by Srikanth Deva with cinematography by Rajavel Mohan and editing by Suresh Urs . The film released on 23 June 2006. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Yadhunandhan is born in a very poor Brahmin family. He lived in an Agraharam in Mannargudi , and he had to go on a daily alms round to collect food. His father left the family at an early age, and his mother died shortly after; a kind-hearted muslim man took the young Yadhunandhan with him and became his adoptive father.", "Many years later, the pious Yadhunandhan comes to the city Madurai with his degrees in hand to look for a job. One night, the thief Kokki steals Yadhunandhan's bag, and the police arrest the innocent Yadhunandhan for no particular reason. The police inspector Sivanandi has sympathy for Yadhunandhan, so he offers him a temporary job. Yadhunandhan does all the dirty work in the police station. He gets his daily food and sleeps in the station. The situation forces Sivanandi there to plead Yadhunandhan to accept a crime that he has not committed. In jail, Yadhunandhan crosses over Kokki, who advises him to stay away from the police and convinces him to meet Mayakka. Upon release from prison, he meets Mayakka, the authoritarian gang leader who lords over the market. Impressed by Yadhunandhan's kind words, Mayakka takes him under her wing and gives him a place to live. Yadhunandhan is now called Saamy. The soft-spoken Yadhunandhan easily befriends Mayakka's gang members, and Yadhunandhan discovers that Mayakka is, in fact, a kindhearted person who joined the underworld for a living after the murder of her rowdy husband.", "Mayakka, along with six others, works for the local bigwig Annavi Thevar, an influential and intimidating figure. Annavi Thevar rules the criminal underworld of the city, and even the police department is afraid of him. In the meantime, Yadhunandhan and Devakosa Mangai fall in love with each other. Yadhunandhan then helps her get selected as a police officer thanks to Annavi Thevar's influence. Koorumathi is a gang leader who wants to control Mayakka's market, so he and his henchmen brutally murder Mayakka in broad daylight. Thereafter, SP Thiruvasagam advises Koorumathi to surrender. Yadhunandhan, who was a pacifist and God-fearing man, decides to kill Koorumathi with the help of his friends for murdering Mayakka. On his way to the magistrate's house, Koorumathi is killed by Yadhunandhan in cold blood.", "The murders of Mayakka and Koorumathi therefore trigger a brutal gang war, and the police has been overtaken by the events. The government has given free rein to the police to stop the gang war and to encounter all the rowdies. Yadhunandhan and his friends have no choice but to hide from the police. Yadhunandhan then realizes that Annavi Thevar sells out to the police to save his life. Sivanandi then arrests Yadhunandhan, but instead of encountering him, he sends him to jail because Sivanandi felt guilty for sending the innocent Yadhunandhan in jail in the past. Devakosa Mangai becomes a police officer and swears to Yadhunandhan that she will save him at any cost. Thiruvasagam wants Yadhunandhan to disclose the place where the other rowdies are hiding. Yadhunandhan then convinces him not to kill the rowdies but to punish Annavi Thevar, who is the real culprit of this mess. Yadhunandhan swears that he and the other rowdies will testify against Annavi Thevar. At the court, two killers and a mole in the police department, appointed by Annavi Thevar, try to attack Yadhunandhan but fail. In a desperate move to save Annavi Thevar, his faithful henchman Pammathan threatens to shoot if the police do not release Annavi Thevar, Thiruvasagam shoots Pammathan in the leg, and Pammathan then triggers his gun. The bullet hits Devakosa Mangai, and she dies on the spot. The film ends with Yadhunandhan bursting into tears and his adoptive father taking Yadhunandhan with him.", "Ravi, who entered the cinema field, came from director Bala 's school of learning. With his first film, Acharya, with actor Vignesh, Ravi is sure of his capabilities and believes in producing a good product. Based on a true-life story, director Ravi said to have chosen an interesting line and is treating it very naturally. That the written permission has been obtained from those whose characters are to be projected (they are all still living) is an interesting aside. Actor Vignesh signed to play the lead role of a Brahmin who tries hard to uphold the rituals and traditions that are fast disappearing. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Srikanth Deva . The soundtrack, released in 2006, features 8 tracks with lyrics written by Na. Muthukumar . [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "P. V. Sathish Kumar wrote, \"Even if Ravi steers the narrative towards the inevitable cornball conclusion with little care for subtlety, Aacharya is still most certainly a movie worth watching\". [ 8 ] Sify stated, \"Vadivukarasi as Mayakka is simply superb and Charanraj as cop is good. For Vignesh, it is a comeback vehicle and he has done his best while Nassar is riveting as the guy with negative shades\" and concluded that the film \"is one of the better movies in the gangster genre\". [ 9 ]", "Indiaglitz.com wrote, \"Ravi has proved that he has the fire in him to make offbeat entertainers. A welcome addition to the directors keen on rendering movies on new themes\". [ 10 ] A reviewer from tamilcinema.com wrote, \"Aacharya is somewhat different and more fast-paced than the typical action films, it will be a successful film.\" [ 11 ] Cinesouth wrote \"Director Ravi’s screenplay makes one’s heart ache to see the hero has nothing or nobody last for him\". [ 12 ]", "The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Srikanth Deva . The soundtrack, released in 2006, features 8 tracks with lyrics written by Na. Muthukumar . [ 6 ] [ 7 ]", "P. V. Sathish Kumar wrote, \"Even if Ravi steers the narrative towards the inevitable cornball conclusion with little care for subtlety, Aacharya is still most certainly a movie worth watching\". [ 8 ] Sify stated, \"Vadivukarasi as Mayakka is simply superb and Charanraj as cop is good. For Vignesh, it is a comeback vehicle and he has done his best while Nassar is riveting as the guy with negative shades\" and concluded that the film \"is one of the better movies in the gangster genre\". [ 9 ]", "Indiaglitz.com wrote, \"Ravi has proved that he has the fire in him to make offbeat entertainers. A welcome addition to the directors keen on rendering movies on new themes\". [ 10 ] A reviewer from tamilcinema.com wrote, \"Aacharya is somewhat different and more fast-paced than the typical action films, it will be a successful film.\" [ 11 ] Cinesouth wrote \"Director Ravi’s screenplay makes one’s heart ache to see the hero has nothing or nobody last for him\". [ 12 ]"]
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Aachariyangal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachariyangal
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{"Directed by": "Harshavardhan", "Written by": "Harshavardhan", "Produced by": "Harshavardhan", "Starring": "Thaman Kumar Aishwarya Rajesh Reethu Mangal Mahanadi Shankar", "Cinematography": "Deepak Bagavanth", "Edited by": "Athiyappan Siva", "Music by": "Ganesh Raghavendra", "Production company": "Purple Patch Entertainment", "Release date": "24 August 2012 ( 2012-08-24 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil"}
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["Aachariyangal ( transl. Surprises ) is a 2012 Tamil-language fantasy thriller film written, produced and directed by debutant director Harshavardhan , starring Thaman Kumar , Aishwarya Rajesh , Reethu Mangal and Mahanadi Shankar . The film released on 24 August 2012. [ 1 ]", "Karthik ( Thaman Kumar ) wants a \"spicy life\" and asks God to make his life as eventful as possible. He gets a mysterious call from 'God', who tells his that his wish has been granted and his life will change for the better or worse in the next 25 days...", "The team of the film met actor Kamal Haasan in July 2012, with the director Harshavardhan being an alumnus of Kamal Haasan's 2009 screen-writing workshop. [ 2 ]", "Rohit Ramachandran of Nowrunning.com rated it 3.5/5 stating that \"Aachariyangal's got a sophisticated plot that's narrated with due simplicity and directed with candid straightforwardness.\" [ 3 ] Malini Mannath of The New Indian Express concluded \"Aachariyangal is a fairly enagaging [sic] fare from a debutant maker, who has made an effort to strike a different chord.\" [ 4 ] Times of India gave 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote \"if Aachariyangal works to a certain extent, it is mainly because of the inherent what-next suspense that the plot holds\". [ 5 ] Behindwoods gave 1.5 out of 5 and wrote \"Aachariyangal might not make your day but it has its trump cards lined-up just when you feel like brushing it away\". [ 6 ]", "The film went unnoticed commercially and resulted in a major loss for Harshavardhan, which he later admitted in 2018 on a video uploaded to his YouTube channel Showpepper TV ."]
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Aabroo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aabroo_(1968_film)
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{"Directed by": "C. L. Rawal", "Written by": "G. L. Rawal", "Produced by": "B. L. Rawal", "Starring": "Ashok Kumar Nirupa Roy Rehman Leela Naidu Vimi Deepak Kumar", "Cinematography": "M. N. Malhotra", "Edited by": "Pran Mehra", "Music by": "Sonik Omi", "Production company": "Rawal Films", "Release date": "13 December 1968 ( 1968-12-13 )", "Running time": "170 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Aabroo (Honour) is a 1968 Hindi romantic crime drama film directed by C. L. Rawal. [ 1 ] The story, screenplay and dialogue were written by G. L. Rawal. It was produced by B. L. Rawal under the Rawal Films banner. [ 2 ] The music directors were Sonik-Omi and the lyricist was G. L. Rawal. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The director of photography was M. N. Malhotra. [ 5 ] The film starred Ashok Kumar , Nirupa Roy , Vimi , Rehman , Leela Naidu , Shashikala and Deepak Kumar . [ 6 ]", "The story revolves around two lovers, Manish and Neena, who are separated when Neena is forced to marry her sister's husband. The husband is killed and Manish is arrested for his murder.", "Manish lives with his brother Anand an advocate and sister-in-law Tilottama, in Kashmir. Manish has just returned from abroad having completed his medical degree. Neena has come to Kashmir for her holidays, meets Manish and they fall in love. Manish is waiting to get a job confirmation from one of the hospitals in Bombay . Neena's sister Sharda lives with her husband Chandrashekhar Verma in Bombay. The two are very much in love with each other. Being childless, Sharda is harassed by her mother-in-law Mrs. Verma. Sharda asks Shekhar to get married again, but he refuses. Mrs. Verma's harassment of Sharda turns to tragedy when two relatives Darwajalal and Shanta come to live with them. Neena is also staying in the house with her sister. Darwazalal poisons Sharda, who while dying makes Neena promise that she will marry Chandrashekhar. After Sharda dies, Neena and a distraught Chandrashekhar get married. Chandrashekhar has no interest in Neena as he is still grieving the loss of his beloved wife Sharda.", "Manish finally gets a job in Bombay and Anand asks him to stay with his good friend Chandrashekhar till he settles in. On arriving at Chandrashekhar's house, Manish is shocked to find the girl he loves, Neena, now married to Chandrashekhar. Darwajalal and Shanta start rumours regarding Manish and Neena, however, Chandrashekhar overhears Darwajalal's plotting, but is hit on the head by him. His situation is critical and the attending doctor is Manish. When Chandrashekhar dies, Manish is arrested for murder. After a court scene where Anand fights for the prosecution and his wife Tillottama defends Manish, the nefarious planning of Darwajalal and Shanta is revealed.", "The music was composed by the duo Sonik-Omi while the lyricist was G. L. Rawal. The playback singers were Asha Bhosle , Mohammed Rafi , Mukesh and Manna Dey . [ 7 ]"]
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Aabshar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aabshar
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Aabroo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aabroo_(1943_film)
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{"Directed by": "Govind Ram", "Produced by": "Hind Pictures", "Starring": "Sitara Devi Yakub Masud Nazir Ahmed", "Music by": "Pandit Gobindram", "Release date": "1943 ( 1943 )", "Running time": "98 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Aabroo (Hindi: आबरू, transl. reputation) is a Bollywood film . It was released in 1943 . [ 1 ] The film was directed by Nazir and starred Sitara Devi , Yakub , Masud, Nazir Ahmed , Laddan and Chandabai. The music was composed by Pandit Gobindram . [ 2 ]", "Nazir had starred with Sitara Devi earlier in Baagbaan (1938) and when he re-launched his banner 'Hind Pictures' in 1943, he offered a partnership to Sitara Devi. She acted in all the five films produced by Hind Pictures that year. Four of them including Aabroo co-starred Nazir while one ( Salma ) had Ishwarlal opposite her.", "The music director was Pandit Gobindram and the lyrics were written by several lyricists, namely: Tanveer Naqvi, Rajjan, Hasrat Lakhnavi, Swami Ramanand Saraswati. [ 3 ] One version of the old popular song \"Inhi Logon Ne Le Leena Dupatta Mera\" is rendered in the film by Yakub. The lyrics are credited to Tanvir Naqvi, [ 3 ] though there is a song recorded earlier than this. The song later gained popularity when used in Pakeezah 1972, sung by Lata Mangeshkar and with lyrics credited to Majrooh Sultanpuri . [ 4 ]"]
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2025-06-27 22:38:57
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57,959
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Aabra Ka Daabra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aabra_Ka_Daabra
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Aabra_Ka_Daabra.jpg", "Directed by": "Dheeraj Kumar", "Written by": "Raghuveer Shekhawat (dialogues)", "Story by": "J. K. Nirmal, Iqbal Katchi", "Produced by": "Zuby Kochhar", "Starring": "Athit Naik Satish Kaushik Hansika Motwani Nupur Mehta", "Cinematography": "Ajay Tandon", "Edited by": "Ballu Saluja", "Music by": "Himesh Reshammiya", "Production companies": "Creative Eye Studios Namah Shivay Enterprises", "Release date": "31 December 2004 ( 2004-12-31 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi", "Budget": "₹ 8 crore [ 1 ]", "Box office": "₹1.06 crore [ 2 ]", "Released": "31 December 2004 (India)", "Recorded": "2004", "Venue": "Mumbai", "Genre": "Feature film soundtrack", "Producer": "Himesh Reshammiya"}
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["Aabra Ka Daabra is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language fantasy film. [ 3 ] It is an unofficial adaptation of the Harry Potter film series . [ 4 ]", "Shanu, a 12-year-old boy, lives with his mother Shivani Singh and father Rahul Singh. Rahul is a magician and escape artist, and one fateful day he locks himself in a closed box and drops it in the ocean, failing to emerge and supposedly dying. This sudden tragedy drives Shanu and his mother to live in worse conditions, and people tease Shanu for this loss, calling him the 'son of a loser'. However, Shanu wins a sponsored competition, which grants him admission to any school he wishes. He decides on admission to Aabra Ka Daabra, a school of magic.", "Upon arrival, he meets new friends, as well as school caretaker Limbu. He also meets the strict principal, Rang Birangi, also referred to as RB. He studies many magic tricks in school and learns to fly on a carpet, rising the ranks to become one of the school's top students. While in school, he comes to learn that Birangi has a tendency to sneak off somewhere at night in the nearby forest. Curious, Shanu and his friends decide to secretly track Birangi by taking an invisibility pill given by Limbu, where they find Shanu's father Rahul being imprisoned by Birangi, who wants him to make \"amarsanjivani,\" an immortality potion that he once made as a teacher at Aabra Ka Daabra.", "Birangi sees Shanu and injects him with poison. To save his son, Rahul continues to make the potion and eventually cures his son. Shanu and his allies stand against Birangi, and a magical duel happens, in which Birangi promises to come back for revenge and vanishes. Shanu takes her magical wand and gives it to Dilbaug Singh, his guardian. Everyone celebrates their liberation from Birangi's rule in Aabra Ka Daabra, but Birangi's magic wand disappears magically. The movie ends with Zulu, Birangi's demon-winged servant, wondering about RB's and the mysterious disappearance of her wand.", "Music composed by Himesh Reshammiya . The album has 8 tracks. [ 6 ]", "Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film 2 out of 5, writing \"AABRA KA DAABRA revolves around the kids and all of them come up with decent performances. Master Athit is adorable, followed by Vishal. Hansika and Esha are effective. Tiara enacts her part well. Anupam Kher goes over the top. Satish Kaushik, Archana Puransingh, Navin Bawa and Johny Lever are adequate. Shweta Tiwari and Krrishna Sonie are fair. On the whole, AABRA KA DAABRA caters to the kids mainly and releasing it during the vacations is a step in the right direction.\" [ 7 ]", "Music composed by Himesh Reshammiya . The album has 8 tracks. [ 6 ]", "Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film 2 out of 5, writing \"AABRA KA DAABRA revolves around the kids and all of them come up with decent performances. Master Athit is adorable, followed by Vishal. Hansika and Esha are effective. Tiara enacts her part well. Anupam Kher goes over the top. Satish Kaushik, Archana Puransingh, Navin Bawa and Johny Lever are adequate. Shweta Tiwari and Krrishna Sonie are fair. On the whole, AABRA KA DAABRA caters to the kids mainly and releasing it during the vacations is a step in the right direction.\" [ 7 ]"]
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Aabhijathyam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aabhijathyam
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1e/Aabhijathyam.jpg/250px-Aabhijathyam.jpg", "Directed by": "A. Vincent", "Screenplay by": "Thoppil Bhasi", "Produced by": "R. S. Prabhu", "Starring": "Madhu Sharada Sukumari Kaviyoor Ponnamma", "Cinematography": "A. Venkat", "Edited by": "G. Venkitaraman", "Music by": "A. T. Ummer", "Production company": "Rajesh Films", "Release date": "12 August 1971 ( 1971-08-12 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aabhijathyam ( transl. False pride ) is a 1971 Indian Malayalam -language drama film directed by A. Vincent [ 1 ] and produced by R. S. Prabhu. A remake of the Marathi film Manini (1961), it stars Madhu , Sharada , Sukumari and Kaviyoor Ponnamma . It was released on 12 August 1971. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was remade in Tamil as Petha Manam Pithu and in Telugu as Abhimanthavalu . [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "Malathi, born into a wealthy family, defies her father's wishes by marrying her music teacher, who is of modest means. Facing disdain from her family, particularly during her sister's wedding, Malathi and her husband decide to leave before the celebrations begin due to the hurtful insults. This departure deeply affects her mother, who becomes bedridden and passes away from sorrow. Realizing his errors, Malathi's father seeks forgiveness, reconciles with her, and chooses to live with her permanently."]
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Aabhaasam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aabhaasam
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Aabhaasam_movie_poster.jpg/250px-Aabhaasam_movie_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Jubith Namradath", "Screenplay by": "Jubith Namradath", "Produced by": "Sanju Unnithan, Rajeev Ravi", "Starring": "Suraj Venjaramoodu", "Cinematography": "Prasanna S. Kumar", "Edited by": "Shameer Muhammed", "Music by": "Dev", "Production companies": "Spire Productions Collective Phase One", "Distributed by": "Amour Films & Release", "Release date": "4 May 2018 ( 2018-05-04 ) (India)", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aabhaasam is a 2018 Indian Malayalam -language social satirical film written and directed by Jubith Namradath. The film stars Suraj Venjaramoodu , Alencier Ley Lopez , Indrans , and Rima Kallingal . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] \n [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "'Aabhaasam' is a story told through a bus journey from Bangalore to Thiruvananthapuram , it dwells on the theme of suppressed urges of lust and the unapologetic inhumane acts that people find to satisfy it. The film unfolds the theme through instances of the story-line."]
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Aaahh Belinda
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaahh_Belinda
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/AaahBelinda.jpeg", "Directed by": "Atıf Yılmaz", "Written by": "Barış Pirhasan", "Produced by": "Cengiz Ergun", "Starring": "Müjde Ar Yılmaz Zafer [ tr ] Macit Koper Güzin Özipek", "Cinematography": "Orhan Oğuz", "Edited by": "Odak Film", "Music by": "Onno Tunç", "Release date": "1986 ( 1986 )", "Running time": "100 minutes", "Country": "Turkey", "Language": "Turkish"}
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["Aaahh Belinda is a 1986 Turkish fantastic comedy film, directed by Atıf Yılmaz , featuring Müjde Ar as a young actress appearing in a TV-commercial for a shampoo, who finds herself transported into the role she plays. [ 1 ] The film screened in a competition at the 23rd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival , where it won Golden Oranges for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress. [ 2 ]", "Serap, a young actress with a strong, lively personality and a special dislike for middle-class family life, takes part in a TV commercial for a recently marketed shampoo, \"Belinda\". She plays the role of a typical housewife called Naciye. During one of the rehearsals, she suddenly finds that the stage has disappeared, the crew has vanished and all the elements of the script have become real. Now she is Naciye. Even worse, her family thinks that she is suffering from depression, while Serap desperately tries to prove otherwise."]
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Aaah
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaah_(film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Aah_Maldivian_film.jpg", "Directed by": "Amjad Ibrahim", "Produced by": "Abdulla Shafeeq", "Starring": "Yoosuf Shafeeu Mohamed Shavin Ibrahim Giyas Sheela Najeeb Jamsheedha Ahmed", "Release date": "2001 ( 2001 )", "Country": "Maldives", "Language": "Dhivehi"}
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["Aaah is a 2001 Maldivian drama film directed by Amjad Ibrahim . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Produced by Abdulla Shafeeq, the film stars Yoosuf Shafeeu , Mohamed Shavin , Ibrahim Giyas, Sheela Najeeb and Jamsheedha Ahmed in pivotal roles. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]", "Faisal ( Mohamed Shavin ) hired Ruwaisha ( Sheela Najeeb ) as his personal secretary. A romantic relationship builds between them and later gets married. Faisal accompanied his wife and his younger brother, Mifzal (Ibrahim Giyas) travel to Maamingili for a business project; opening a guest shop in the island. There they meet Aisha ( Jamsheedha Ahmed ), an adopted child of Javid, a friend of Faisal's father, Thaufeeq ( Koyya Hassan Manik ). Mifzal proposes to Aisha and they spent an enjoyable trip in the island until Aisha's husband, Junaid ( Yoosuf Shafeeu ) shows up."]
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Aaag Hi Aag
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Aaag_Hi_Aag.jpg/250px-Aaag_Hi_Aag.jpg", "Directed by": "T. L. V. Prasad", "Written by": "Shiraz Ahmad (Screenplay), Bashir Babbar (Dialogue).", "Produced by": "Vaibhavi Bafna, Yash Bafna, O.P. Goyle", "Starring": "Mithun Chakraborty Jackie Shroff", "Cinematography": "S. Naidu", "Edited by": "Prakash Dave", "Music by": "Babul Bose", "Release date": "1999 ( 1999 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Aaag Hi Aag is 1999 Hindi language action movie directed by T L V Prasad and starring Mithun Chakraborty , Jackie Shroff , Sneha , Aloknath Dixit, Payal Malhotra , Rajiv Raj, Kiran Kumar , and Laxmikant Berde . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "This is the story of two men's clash with underworld Dons to free the society from anti social elements. Ajay and Ravi are fighting against the lawless activities of Mafia king Tiger.", "Music: Babul Bose, Lyrics: Nawab Arzoo"]
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125 Years Memory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/125_Years_Memory
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/125_Years_Memory_poster_en.jpg", "Kanji": "海難１８９０", "Transcriptions Revised Hepburn": "Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Kainan 1890", "Revised Hepburn": "Kainan 1890", "Directed by": "Mitsutoshi Tanaka", "Screenplay by": "Eriko Komatsu [ ja ]", "Produced by": "Kazuhito Amano Norihisa Ohara Ryosuke Otani Teiji Ozawa Riuko Tominaga", "Starring": "Seiyo Uchino Kenan Ece Shioli Kutsuna Alican Yücesoy", "Cinematography": "Tetsuo Nagata", "Edited by": "Akimasa Kawashima [ ja ]", "Music by": "Michiru Oshima", "Production companies": "Toei Studios Tokyo Toei Studios Kyoto Creators' Union Böcek Yapım [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Toei (international) CGV Mars (Turkey)", "Release dates": "5 December 2015 ( 2015-12-05 ) (Japan) 25 December 2015 ( 2015-12-25 ) (Turkey)", "Running time": "132 minutes [ 2 ]", "Countries": "Japan Turkey", "Languages": "Japanese Turkish English", "Budget": "US$15 million [ 3 ]", "Box office": "¥780 million (Japan) [ 4 ] ₺4.7 million (Turkey) [ 5 ]"}
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["125 Years Memory ( 海難１８９０ , Kainan 1890 ) is a 2015 drama film directed by Mitsutoshi Tanaka starring Seiyo Uchino , Kenan Ece and Shioli Kutsuna . [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: The sinking of the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul off the Japanese coast in 1890 and the evacuation of Japanese nationals from Iran in 1985. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It received the Japan Academy Film Prize in ten categories, including Best Art Direction, Best Sound Recording, Excellent Film and Excellent Director. [ 6 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] A Japanese-Turkish co-production, the film was produced by Japan's Creators' Union and Toei together with Turkey's Böcek Yapım. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] It was released in Japan by Toei on 5 December 2015 and in Turkey by CGV Mars on 25 December 2015. [ 2 ] [ 11 ]", "In the night of 16 September 1890, while returning from a goodwill visit to Japan, the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kushimoto, Wakayama . Hearing the alarm bell the villagers of Kashino, a poor fishing village on Kushimoto's island of Kii Oshima , rush to the shore. They are confronted with the grisly spectacle of vast numbers of dead and dying. With more than 500 crew members dead, it is one of the largest sea accidents in history at that time. Risking their own lives, the villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Tamura ( Seiyo Uchino ), a doctor living in Kashino village, and his assistant Haru ( Shioli Kutsuna ) treat the injured. In the wake of her life rescuing efforts Haru builds a special bond with Mustafa ( Kenan Ece ), an officer on the Ertuğrul. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away and give them shelter in their small village of only 60 households.", "In the year 1985, during the Iran–Iraq War , Iraq announces an indiscriminate attack and to shoot down any aircraft over Iranian air space. Japanese Ambassador Yutaka Nomura ( Toshiyuki Nagashima ) requests rescue flights from Japan, but is told that a quick response is not possible. While evacuation flights from other nations are arriving, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. Harumi ( Shioli Kutsuna ), a teacher at the Tehran Japanese School , prevails upon Nomura to ask the Turkish ambassador for help. Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Özal ( Deniz Oral ) decides to evacuate the Japanese. In the morning of 19 March, only a few hours before Iraq's ultimatum expires, a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran. Not only is Tehran already under heavy rocket fire, but the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's evacuation flight. That's when Turkish embassy staff Murat ( Kenan Ece ) starts speaking out to his fellow citizens about the compassion and sacrifice Japanese villagers had shown to Turkish sailors shipwrecked far away a long time ago.", "The film was initiated by the residents of Kushimoto , a coastal town in Wakayama Prefecture where the first episode of the film takes place. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 12 ] For a very long time they wanted to make a film about the Ertuğrul story and thus send a message of friendship and peace to the rest of the world. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 12 ] To pursue their goal, Kushimoto Mayor Katsumasa Tashima contacted film director Mitsutoshi Tanaka and the NPO Ertuğrul Saves the World was established in the city of Wakayama . [ 7 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] After more than ten years of work the film was completed in 2015, commemorating the 125th anniversary of Japanese-Turkish friendship. [ 12 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ]", "Prior to the film's official launch, special screenings took place in Wakayama City on 20 October 2015 and in Fukuoka on 2 November 2015. [ 16 ] A novelization by author Mika Toyoda was published on 6 November 2015. [ 17 ] During a visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Turkey, Abe and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan watched a 30-minute promotional version of the film at Yıldız Palace in Istanbul on 13 November 2015. [ 18 ] They were joined by director Mitsutoshi Tanaka , actor Kenan Ece and actress Melis Babadağ . [ 19 ] Pre-release screenings took place in Kushimoto from 23 to 25 November 2015 and in Osaka on 28 November 2015. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] After the world premiere on 1 December 2015 in Tokyo, the film was released in Japan on 5 December 2015, screening in 309 movie theaters. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] At the Marunouchi Toei Theater in Tokyo audiences were greeted by director Mitsutoshi Tanaka and actors Seiyo Uchino , Kenan Ece, Shioli Kutsuna and Yui Natsukawa on the opening day. [ 24 ] Following opening galas in Ankara on 22 December 2015 and in Istanbul on 24 December 2015, the film was released in Turkey on 25 December 2015. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] In Turkey the film screened in 300 movie theaters. [ 27 ] The theme song Ertuğrul Türküsü , sung by Turkish folk singer Kubat , was released on 29 December 2015. [ 28 ] In the film, the song is performed by actor Savaş Satış. Since its theatrical release the film has screened around the world, most notably at the 2016 Toronto Japanese Film Festival. [ 7 ] [ 12 ] A DVD and Blu-ray disc were released by Toei Video on 8 June 2016. [ 29 ] Starting in 2021, online screenings took place in various countries, e.g. in the UK in June 2021 and in Canada and the USA in March 2022. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] The film is available online on demand on most common Japanese streaming platforms, among others on the Japanese site of Amazon Prime Video . [ 34 ]", "On its opening weekend in Japan, the film was fourth in both admissions, with 88,295, [ 35 ] and gross, with US$856,650 . [ 36 ] On its second weekend, it dropped to seventh, again both in admissions [ 37 ] and in gross, with US$638,625 . [ 38 ] On its third weekend, it was tenth placed in both admissions [ 39 ] and gross, with US$336,824 . [ 40 ] In Wakayama Prefecture , where the first part of the film takes place, the film screened in 5 theaters. [ 41 ] With 6,247 admissions and ¥6.9 million in ticket sales on its first day it became the highest grossing film on opening day in Wakayama for 2015. [ 42 ] Total theatrical revenue was ¥780 million in Japan and ₺4.7 million in Turkey. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Aaaah_2014.jpg/250px-Aaaah_2014.jpg", "Directed by": "Hari Shankar Harish Narayan", "Written by": "Hari Shankar Harish Narayan", "Produced by": "V. Loganathan V. Janarthanan Srinivas Loganathan", "Starring": "Gokulnath Meghna Bala Saravanan Bobby Simha", "Cinematography": "Sathish. G", "Edited by": "Hari Shankar", "Music by": "K. Venkat Prabhu Shankar Sam C. S.", "Production companies": "KTVR Creative Frames Shankar Bros", "Release date": "28 November 2014 ( 2014-11-28 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Tamil"}
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["Aaaah or Aah is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language anthology horror film written and directed by Hari & Harish , in their third venture following Orr Eravuu (2010) and Ambuli (2012). [ 1 ] The film stars Gokulnath , Meghna, Bala Saravanan , and Bobby Simha . It features five different horror stories shot in five different places; Japan , Dubai , the midsea of the Bay of Bengal , a highway in Andhra Pradesh and a remote ATM booth in Tamil Nadu . [ 2 ] The film was produced by KTVR Creative Frames, it was released on 28 November 2014 to mixed to positive reviews but had average collections. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "Three friends - Thamizh, Cherry and Singaram - are meeting at their reunion. They are being drawn into a bet to prove the presence of ghosts by a rich schoolmate Prosper. This leads them to a journey to five different places around the world suspected to be haunted. Namely, events which had unfolded in Japan, Dubai , the mid-sea of the Bay of Bengal , a highway in Andhra Pradesh , and a remote ATM booth in Tamil Nadu . They fail to capture ghosts in cameras in all the cases. They are now worried that they would lose the 60 crore prize amount and Prosper would win. Meanwhile, they learn about a video footage in which a ghost is sighted killing the ATM watchmen. The video footage is in a pen drive owned by Bosskey , the owner of the security company in which the ATM security guard was employed. When he learns of the huge reward money for a video footage proving existence of ghosts, he demands 50 lakhs for the pen drive. Cherry approaches Prosper to get 50 lakhs. Instead, Prosper tries to take advantage of the situation and behaves indecently with her. Cherry becomes annoyed and returns home and narrates the incident to Thamizh and Singaram. That night, Cherry gets a call from her lover Salim, and with shock and fear, she utters one word: \"accident\". The three friends visit the place and find Salim dying. Before dying, he narrates the incident and records it in his camera. Salim and his friends, while traveling in a car, watch a movie from a CD which they had picked up from a vendor who states that it is an unreleased movie. As they watch the movie, the same incidents start happening to them as shown in the movie. Soon after, all of them are killed, and Salim was able to bury the CD. The CD was found, but before they could get hold of it, all three friends are killed by the ghost. Prosper, after winning the bet, reclaims and rejoices his prize, a Yamaha RX 100 . After hearing the doorbell ring, Prosper opens it, only to be killed by a ghost. [ 5 ] [ 6 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/12_Strong_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Nicolai Fuglsig", "Written by": "Ted Tally Peter Craig", "Based on": "Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton", "Produced by": "Jerry Bruckheimer Molly Smith Thad Luckinbill Trent Luckinbill", "Starring": "Chris Hemsworth Michael Shannon Michael Peña Navid Negahban Trevante Rhodes Geoff Stults Thad Luckinbill", "Cinematography": "Rasmus Videbæk", "Edited by": "Lisa Lassek", "Music by": "Lorne Balfe", "Production companies": "Alcon Entertainment [ 1 ] Black Label Media [ 1 ] Jerry Bruckheimer Films [ 1 ] Torridon Films [ 2 ]", "Distributed by": "Warner Bros. Pictures (United States and Canada) Lionsgate (International)", "Release dates": "January 16, 2018 ( 2018-01-16 ) ( Jazz at Lincoln Center ) January 19, 2018 ( 2018-01-19 ) (United States)", "Running time": "129 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$35 million [ 3 ]", "Box office": "$71.1 million [ 2 ]"}
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["12 Strong (also known as 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers ) is a 2018 American action - war film [ 4 ] directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig . The film is based on Doug Stanton 's non-fiction book Horse Soldiers , which tells the story of U.S. Army Special Forces sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11 attacks and up to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif . The film stars Chris Hemsworth , Michael Shannon , Michael Peña , Navid Negahban , Trevante Rhodes , Geoff Stults , Thad Luckinbill , Ben O'Toole , William Fichtner , and Rob Riggle .", "Principal photography began in January 2017 in New Mexico . The film was released in the United States on January 19, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures , in standard and IMAX theaters. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the cast and action but criticized the by-the-numbers execution and lack of insight of the War in Afghanistan . [ 5 ]", "Mitch Nelson, a U.S. Army captain with Green Berets Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 595 , is moving into a new home with his wife and daughter on September 11, 2001 , after receiving an assignment to staff duty under Lieutenant Colonel Bowers. As news of the devastating terrorist attacks that day breaks, Nelson volunteers to lead 595 into Afghanistan. Bowers initially refuses, but veteran soldier CW5 Hal Spencer, previously scheduled to retire, persuades Bowers to give Nelson command of 595 again, as well as volunteering himself for the deployment. After leaving their families, 595 travels to Uzbekistan on October 7, 2001. After being briefed and evaluated by COL Mulholland , Commander of 5th Special Forces Group , Nelson and 595 are picked to fight alongside Northern Alliance leader Abdul Rashid Dostum .", "ODA 595 is inserted covertly in Afghanistan aboard Boeing CH-47 Chinook flown by 160th SOAR on October 19, 2001. [ 6 ] They land 40 miles south of Mazar-i-Sharif , the country's fourth-largest city and a longtime stronghold of the Taliban , where they meet Dostum. Six of the 12 members, led by Nelson, leave with Dostum to the mountains, while the other six remain in a fortified camp nicknamed \"the Alamo\" under Spencer's command. Dostum is attempting to capture the northern Afghanistan city, while battling Taliban leader Mullah Razzan, who rules local communities brutally under strict law of Sharia , and has murdered several people, including Dostum's family. Although the warlord is initially skeptical of Nelson's abilities, Nelson gradually earns Dostum's respect. In one battle, however, Dostum makes a tactical error, costing several casualties. Nelson accuses Dostum of acting carelessly with the lives of his men and of withholding valuable information, while Dostum retorts that he still feels that Nelson, and the U.S. are not willing to pay the potential price of the conflict, and tells Nelson that he needs to use his heart and mind to \"be a warrior\" instead of a soldier. The two eventually reconcile and after splitting off a three-man element under SFC Sam Diller to strike a Taliban supply route and being joined by Spencer's half of ODA 595, continue to work together. They win several victories with Dostum's leadership and manpower and American airpower, making significant progress towards Mazar-i Sharif. When Nelson informs Dostum that another ODA, 555, has been dispatched to support Atta Muhammad , another Northern Alliance leader, who is Dostum's political rival, Dostum is furious, and his men promptly abandon 595.", "Following Dostum's departure, Nelson plans to continue operating against the Taliban with his Americans and the few Afghan fighters remaining with them. Encountering a large force of Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters and armored vehicles, ODA 595, rejoined by Diller and his element, uses air support to eliminate many of the fighters and most of the armor, but are discovered and attacked. Spencer is critically injured by a suicide bomber, and the team is about to be overrun under heavy Taliban and Al-Qaeda pressure when Dostum returns with his forces. Carrying out the U.S. Army's first cavalry charge of the 21st century, the American and Northern Alliance forces disperse the Taliban and al-Qaeda , and Dostum tracks down and kills Razzan. After Spencer is medevaced , Nelson and Dostum continue to Mazar-i-Sharif but find Atta Muhammad has beaten them there. Against expectations, Dostum leaves any differences with Muhammad to be settled the next day. Impressed by Nelson and the Americans' efforts, Dostum gives Nelson his prized riding crop and tells him that he will always consider Nelson a brother and fellow fighter, at the same time bidding him remember that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. Spencer ultimately survives, and all 12 soldiers of ODA 595 return home after 23 days of almost continuous fighting in Afghanistan.", "On December 2, 2011, it was announced that producer Jerry Bruckheimer had taken out the script by Ted Tally and rewritten by Peter Craig with Nicolai Fuglsig attached to direct, which was bought by Walt Disney Pictures in 2009 for Bruckheimer, based on Doug Stanton's non-fiction book Horse Soldiers . [ 19 ] On March 29, 2016, Deadline Hollywood reported that Bruckheimer had officially hired Fuglsig to make his feature film directorial debut, which would be co-financed and produced by Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill through Black Label Media, along with Bruckheimer's Jerry Bruckheimer Films. [ 20 ]", "On September 30, 2016, Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon were cast in the film, and later on November 1, Michael Peña also joined the film. [ 9 ] [ 11 ] On November 3, 2016, Trevante Rhodes was cast in the film. [ 13 ] On November 14, 2016, Austin Stowell was cast in the film to play Staff Sergeant Fred Falls, an American soldier on the elite U.S. Special Forces team. [ 15 ] Lionsgate would handle the film's distribution. [ 15 ] On November 15, 2016, Austin Hébert was cast to play SFC Pat Essex, the intellectual and engineer of the team, and the same day it was reported that Ben O'Toole had also been cast for an unspecified role. [ 16 ] [ 14 ] On November 17, 2016, Variety reported that Navid Negahban was cast to play General Abdul Rashid Dostum in the film. [ 12 ] Elsa Pataky was revealed to be appearing in the film in December 2016, while on February 3, 2017, Deadline Hollywood reported that Rob Riggle joined the film to play Army Lieutenant Colonel Max Bowers, under whom Riggle actually served while he was a U.S. Marine Captain. [ 17 ] [ 18 ]", "Principal photography began in early January 2017 in New Mexico. [ 17 ] Mines near Orogrande, New Mexico , were used. Later the shooting took place in Socorro , where it ended on January 26 after eight days of filming. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The film was also shot in Alamogordo , using White Sands National Monument as the shooting location. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The scenes involving military encampments were filmed using 20 structures leased from AKS Military, a private manufacturer of military shelters. [ 25 ]", "The films postscript reads as follows: \"Against overwhelming odds, all twelve members of the U.S. Army Special Forces ODA 595 survived their mission. The capture of Mazar-i-Sharif by the Horse Soldiers and their counterparts is one of the US military's most stunning achievements. Military planners predicted it would take two years. Task Force Dagger did it in three weeks. Al Qaeda considers this to be their worst defeat. Because their mission was classified, the men of Special Forces ODA 595 returned home to their everyday lives with no fanfare or public acknowledgment of the near impossible mission they completed. In 2014, General Dostum became Vice President of Afghanistan. Dostum and Mitch Nelson remain close friends to this day. In 2012, to honor their extraordinary heroism, a statue of a Horse Soldier was dedicated at the World Trade Center site.", "Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released 12 Strong digitally April 10, and on Blu-ray Disc and DVD May 1. Blu-ray extras include the featurettes \"12 Strong: The Making of an Impossible Mission\" and \"Monumental Effort: Building America's Response Monument.\" [ 26 ]", "12 Strong grossed $46.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $24.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $70.8 million, against a production budget of $35 million. [ 27 ]", "In the United States and Canada, 12 Strong was released on January 19, 2018, alongside Den of Thieves and Forever My Girl , as well as the wide expansions of Phantom Thread , I, Tonya and Call Me by Your Name , and was projected to gross $15–20 million from 3,002 theaters in its opening weekend. [ 3 ] It ended up debuting to $15.8 million, similar to the $16.1 million that another war film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi opened to in January 2016, and finished second at the box office behind Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle . According to ComScore , 55% of the opening weekend audience was male, with 79% being over the age of 25. [ 28 ] The following week dropped 45% to $8.6 million, finishing 6th at the box office. [ 29 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 50% based on 173 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \" 12 Strong has a solid cast, honorable intentions, and a thrilling, fact-based story — all of which are occasionally enough to balance a disappointing lack of depth or nuance.\" [ 30 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on reviews from 43 critics, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. [ 31 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave an 81% overall positive score and a 63% \"definite recommend\". [ 28 ]", "Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, saying, \"...with a running time of two hours and 10 minutes, 12 Strong has at least 20 minutes of scenes that are either unnecessary or repetitive...[it] winds up being an almost-good film about some great American soldiers.\" [ 32 ] \n Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote: \"On its own terms, the film is watchable enough, but it’s blunt and stolid and under-characterized, and at 130 minutes it plods.\" Gleiberman notes that the soldiers riding on horseback do not amount to much, but praises the director and cinematographer for using the New Mexico locations to conjure the landscape of Afghanistan, calling it the most impressive aspect of the film. [ 33 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/12_Rounds_3_Poster.jpg/250px-12_Rounds_3_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Stephen Reynolds", "Written by": "Nathan Brooks Bobby Lee Darby", "Produced by": "Michael J. Luisi", "Starring": "Jonathan David Good Roger Cross Daniel Cudmore Lochlyn Munro Ty Olsson Sarah Smyth Rebecca Marshall Toby Levins Bill Dow Sharon Taylor Matthew Harrison", "Cinematography": "Mahlon Todd Williams", "Edited by": "Sam Bauer", "Music by": "Nathan Whitehead", "Production companies": "WWE Studios (Lockdown Films, Inc.)", "Distributed by": "Lionsgate Films", "Release date": "September 11, 2015 ( 2015-09-11 )", "Running time": "90 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (also known as 12 Rounds 3 or 12 Rounds: Lockdown ) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a 2015 American action film directed by Stephen Reynolds and starring Dean Ambrose (in his film debut) as a detective who is hunted by corrupt cops for the incriminating evidence he held in his hands. It is the sequel to the 2013 film 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded , the third and final installment in the 12 Rounds trilogy , and the second off six films (titled the \"Action Six-Pack\" series) to be co-produced by WWE Studios and Lionsgate , who distribute the film. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is the first film in the series not to be distributed by 20th Century Fox , and was released in select theaters across the United States and on demand on September 11, 2015. [ 1 ] [ 7 ]", "Detective Tyler Burke and his two men kill drug dealer George Freemont after destroying evidence showing Burke distributing narcotics. Meanwhile, Detective John Shaw returns to active duty at his precinct after the death of his partner, Ray Jones, in which Shaw was shot and sidelined with post traumatic stress disorder. He is met by his supervisor Captain Ellen Matthews, recent police academy graduate Officer Jenny Taylor and lastly Detective Burke, who is being hailed for busting Freemont.", "Unknown to Burke, Freemont had made a backup into the flash drive containing the incriminating evidence, which is found during Freemont's autopsy and delivered to Evidence by Taylor. Shaw reads the incident report of the Freemont bust and retrieves the flash drive from Evidence. At the same time, Burke learns about the flash drive and quickly heads to the precinct.", "Unable to intercept Shaw, Burke triggers the fire alarm so that everyone (except he and his fellow corrupt cops) can evacuate the building and find Shaw easily, initiates a total lockdown of the building, disabling all the phone communication, computer networks as well as jamming cell phone signals. Shaw, knowing that he is now being hunted, ambushes Meeks but Burke kills the latter when Shaw uses him as a human shield. Throughout, Shaw eludes a series of ambushes as he has only 12 rounds left on his gun.", "Shaw next runs into Taylor, who had been accidentally locked in, who sees Meeks' blood on Shaw and refuses to trust him, forcing him to point his gun at her. He leaves her with a warning to hide until the lockdown is over. Matthews arrives and, unaware of Burke's intention, hails Burke over walkie talkie. Burke frames Shaw, for Meeks' death and assuring Matthews that he will handle Shaw. Burke catches Taylor and threatens to kill her if Shaw doesn't show up. Despite Shaw complies, Burke kills her anyway. After an ensuing gunfight that nearly kills Burke, Shaw disconnects several wires to disable the CCTV cameras and then reactivates the network in order to upload the evidence regarding Burke to Internal Affairs. However, Darrow notices it and deactivates the network before the upload is complete. Frustrated, Shaw goes to the rooftop to make a call to Matthews, proclaiming his innocence and reveals Burke's corruption. Darrow and Burke captures Shaw and brought him to a meeting room. Burke retrieves the flash drive from Shaw and destroys it. Just as Burke is about to shoot Shaw, the power is cut and Shaw kills Darrow and escapes.", "After a brief encounter with the SWAT Team, Shaw calls Matthews to meet her at the back of the building. After meeting up, Matthews turns heel and reveals her alliance with Burke. Burke then shoots Matthews before the SWAT Team bursts inside. As Shaw is about to be arrested, he plays a recording of Burke's earlier monologue in which Burke incriminates himself. Burke attempts to shoot Shaw but Shaw fires his last round to Burke's leg. Shaw then cuffs Burke and walks out of the building.", "Jason Best of What's on TV gave it 2 out of 5 and wrote: \" Die Hard in a police station is a nifty idea but it is wasted on this by-the-numbers installment of the WWE action-movie franchise\". [ 9 ] Martin Tsai of the Los Angeles Times wrote: \"Written by Bobby Lee Darby and Nathan Brookes, the new film is a sequel to 12 Rounds in name only\". [ 10 ]"]
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12 Rounds 2: Reloaded
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/12_Rounds_2_dvdcover.jpg/250px-12_Rounds_2_dvdcover.jpg", "Directed by": "Roel Reiné", "Written by": "David Benullo", "Produced by": "Michael J. Luisi", "Starring": "Randy Orton Tom Stevens Brian Markinson Venus Terzo Cindy Busby Sean Rogerson Colin Lawrence Chelsey Reist Sebastian Spence Janene Carleton", "Cinematography": "Anthony C. Metchie", "Edited by": "Radu Ion", "Music by": "Nathan Furst", "Production companies": "WWE Studios (Reload Films, Inc.)", "Distributed by": "20th Century Fox Home Entertainment", "Release date": "June 4, 2013 ( 2013-06-04 )", "Running time": "94 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["12 Rounds 2: Reloaded (also known as 12 Rounds 2 and 12 Rounds: Reloaded ) is a 2013 American action film directed by Roel Reiné . The film stars Randy Orton , Tom Stevens , Brian Markinson and Cindy Busby . It is a sequel to 2009's 12 Rounds starring John Cena . Unlike the original which saw a theatrical release, the film was released on direct-to-DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on June 4, 2013.", "Paramedic Nick Malloy and his wife Sarah are going home after a movie, when a horrible car accident takes place. Nick attempts to aid and rescue the victims: a young boy and a married couple, but despite Nick's efforts, the woman dies; this completely shatters Nick as it never happened before in his entire career.", "One year later, Nick and his fellow paramedic Jay Thompson are going to work when they get an anonymous call from an abandoned building site where they find a dying citizen. They attempt to aid him, only to find the number 1 stitched on his stomach alongside a bomb, but before they can do something about it, Nick receives a phone call. The caller asks Nick to step outside the ambulance after answering it. Nick now finds himself playing a game called 12 Rounds by Patrick Heller, moonlighting as a mastermind and using Sarah as a pawn. The caller tells Nick that he is watching him through security cameras and gives Nick a hint about his ambulance exploding. Immediately the ambulance explodes, killing the citizen instantly and setting Jay on fire, although Nick manages to save him.", "In the next round, Nick receives a text message which leads him to a parking lot where a car waits for him. For Round 3, Nick must find a clue to his next destination in the car. Nick finds a matchbox with Palace Hotel written on it. Driving frantically to the hotel, Nick takes an alternative route. An enraged Heller threatens to detonate the bomb under the car but Nick manages to reach the Hotel with two seconds to spare.", "As the game unfolds, Detectives McKenzie and Sykes are investigating the ambulance explosion, and while Sykes immediately blames Nick for everything, McKenzie has her doubts.", "Round 4 begins in the Palace Hotel as Nick talks with the hotel manager, who is wearing a white top with a cue ball on the front with the number \"4\" on it and a key that dangles around his neck. Realizing this is the 4th round, Nick attacks the manager to steal the key. Heller tells Nick he must find a room that will give him all the answers. Nick finds out it's room 44, and inside the room, a young boy, Tommy Weaver, is having fun with a prostitute named Amber.", "Round 5 begins when he enters the room. Nick ransacks the room and gets in a fight with Tommy and the prostitute. The phone rings in the room and Heller is the caller. He orders Nick to bring \"it with you\" and get into a car parked next to Tommy's. Nick notices a tattoo on Tommy, the same as the calling card of the mastermind. However, as Nick takes Tommy out of the room, he gets into a fight with the security guard but manages to escape. Nick puts Tommy in the car next to his and finds a black glove with some coordinates leading to the Intersection of Grant and Sherwood Street.", "During the trip, Nick learns that Tommy has a parole anklet by following his DUI arrest, and Heller blocks the signal to the anklet so that Nick can stay focused on his timed mission. During the trip they stop halfway because both Nick and Tommy can hear a cell phone in the vehicle's trunk. They open the trunk to find Tommy's lawyer, Roberta Shaw, dead. For Round 6, they arrive at Grant and Sherwood intersection and find a telephone booth. Heller tells them a series of events led them there. Tommy finds out this is the street where he had an accident a year ago, that followed his DUI arrest. McKenzie and Sykes arrive at the hotel and talk with the security guard and the manager to find out about what Nick did earlier in the night and begin to suspect it is all linked to the governor's disappearance.", "Meanwhile, Nick begins to put all the pieces of the puzzle together, and finds out he was at the right place at the right time a year ago. Through a flashback the audience learns that Tommy was the young boy during the accident when the movie began and the woman who died was Patrick's wife. Immediately after, Tommy tries to escape and as Nick chases him, Heller reactivates Tommy's anklet signal. Along the way, Tommy finds 2 police officers and tries to turn himself into them, telling them that Nick is chasing him for no apparent reason. But Nick catches up to him, engages and defeats the officers and steals their police car. Chased down by police and the detectives, they take an alternative route until they meet a dead end. Nick escapes by driving up into a public parking garage building. When they reach the top they are found and cornered by Detective McKenzie, to whom they reveal Heller's game.", "McKenzie tells them the governor has disappeared and Tommy reveals he is his father. Heller calls Nick and tells him to put Tommy on the phone. Heller tells Tommy the location for Round 7. McKenzie tells them to keep playing his game to discover his true intentions.", "For Round 7 they must reach an abandoned sugar factory which is how Tommy's father got into the government. Tommy finds his father buried in raw sugar. Nick drives a tractor to stop the overflowing of the sugar. Meanwhile, the detectives track down a signal to an abandoned building and find an armed man behind metal doors. Sykes shoots the man and they discover he is a judge.", "For Round 8, Nick and Tommy must save the governor and when they do, Heller appears with Sarah, shoots Tommy's father and tells Nick that the detectives already took care of Round 9 for him. Back in the abandoned building a livestream of Heller begins in the computer and he reveals that Sykes was the first officer to arrive at the scene of the car accident and while the governor paid the lawyer and judge to reduce Tommy's sentence to one year probation, Sykes destroyed the evidence and got promoted to detective in the process. As Sykes apologizes to McKenzie a countdown appears in the computer and while McKenzie and the other officer says leave the room, Sykes stays and gets obliterated by the explosion. McKenzie then rushes out to find Nick. Round 10 begins when Tommy, still broken after his father's death, follows Heller's instructions and with a tazer incapacitates Nick temporarily.", "Round 11 begins in front of a club called \"Karma\". It turns out the citizen who died in the ambulance worked there. Heller gives 2 vodka bottles to Tommy and one is poisoned. Tommy needs to drink one and when he does, he presumes he will die, but when he doesn't, starts laughing hysterically. Heller pours the contents of the other bottle over Tommy, shoots it and leaves Tommy to die.", "For the Final Round, Heller has Nick and Sarah tied up in the back of his SUV and calls 911 to tell emergency services that there will be a horrible accident at Grant and Sherwood Intersection as Heller initiates a countdown in the SUV. Nick asks him what he would've done to save his wife's life to which Heller replies \"Anything\". Nick immediately breaks free and fights Heller, takes his gun and shoots the back of the SUV so he and Sarah can roll out of the vehicle. Heller breaks down, remembering the night's events and his wife, before shouting 'Diana' as the SUV explodes, killing him instantly.", "Emergency services arrive and aid both Nick and Sarah as Detective McKenzie arrives and thanks Nick for his help during the night by saying, 'It's Over' and walking away from the ambulance.", "Former WWE wrestler CM Punk said that he was initially chosen to star in the film, but was pulled from the project due to Punk's obligations for the WWE European tour taking place during filming in addition to being their WWE Champion at the time. John Cena was also considered to reprise his role from the first, and Chris Jericho was also considered. [ 1 ]", "The DVD and Blu-ray were released in Region 1 in the United States on June 4, 2013, and Region 2 in the United Kingdom on 24 June. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment . It made $919,421 worth of DVD units and $584,831 in Blu-ray units since June. [ 2 ]", "Tyler Foster of DVD Talk rated it 1.5/5 stars and wrote: \"Even the world's most committed Randy Orton fan won't get anything out of 12 Rounds 2 , a dull rehash of a million other, better action movies that saddles Orton with an uninteresting character\". [ 3 ] David Johnson of DVD Verdict compared it negatively to the first film and wrote: \"With 12 Rounds 2 and its dearth of compelling derring-do, we're left with Randy Orton grunting and running an obstacle course. No thanks\". [ 4 ]", "A third film in the franchise called 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown was released in September 2015, starring Dean Ambrose ."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Twelve_monkeysmp.jpg/250px-Twelve_monkeysmp.jpg", "Directed by": "Terry Gilliam", "Screenplay by": "David Peoples Janet Peoples", "Based on": "La Jetée by Chris Marker", "Produced by": "Charles Roven", "Starring": "Bruce Willis Madeleine Stowe Brad Pitt Christopher Plummer", "Cinematography": "Roger Pratt", "Edited by": "Mick Audsley", "Music by": "Paul Buckmaster", "Production companies": "Atlas Entertainment Classico Entertainment", "Distributed by": "Universal Pictures", "Release date": "December 29, 1995 ( 1995-12-29 )", "Running time": "129 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$29 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$168.8 million [ 2 ]"}
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["12 Monkeys is a 1995 American science fiction thriller film directed by Terry Gilliam from a screenplay by David Peoples and Janet Peoples , based on Chris Marker 's 1962 short film La Jetée . It stars Bruce Willis , Madeleine Stowe , Brad Pitt , and Christopher Plummer . Set in a post-apocalyptic future devastated by disease, the film follows a convict who is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.", "The film was theatrically released in the United States on December 29, 1995, by Universal Pictures . It received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $168.8 million worldwide against a $29 million budget. At the 68th Academy Awards , the film was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (for Pitt) and Best Costume Design . It garnered seven nominations at the 22nd Saturn Awards , winning three: Best Science Fiction Film , Best Supporting Actor , and Best Costumes . Pitt also won Best Supporting Actor at the 53rd Golden Globe Awards .", "A deadly virus released in 1996 wiped out almost all of humanity, forcing survivors to live underground. A group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to have released the virus. In 2035, James Cole is a prisoner living in an underground compound beneath Philadelphia . Cole is selected to be sent back in time to find the original virus to help scientists develop a cure in exchange for a reduced sentence. Cole is troubled by dreams involving a foot chase and a shooting at an airport.", "Cole arrives in Baltimore in 1990, not 1996 as planned. He is arrested and incarcerated at a mental hospital on the diagnosis of Dr. Kathryn Railly. There he encounters Jeffrey Goines, a mental patient with extreme environmentalist and anti-corporate views. Cole is interviewed by a panel of doctors and tries to explain that the virus outbreak has already happened and cannot be prevented.", "After an escape attempt, Cole is sedated and locked in a cell but he disappears and awakens back in 2035. He is interrogated by the scientists, who play a distorted voicemail message that asserts the association of the Army of the 12 Monkeys with the virus. He is also shown photos of numerous people suspected of being involved, including Goines. The scientists offer Cole another chance to complete his mission and send him back in time. Cole briefly arrives at a battlefield during World War I , where he sees another prison inmate who was sent back in time, José. Cole is shot in the leg and gets transported to 1996.", "In 1996, Railly gives a lecture about the Cassandra complex to a group of scientists. At the post-lecture book-signing, Railly meets Dr. Peters, who tells her that apocalypse alarmists represent the sane vision while humanity's gradual destruction of the environment is the real lunacy.", "Cole arrives at the venue after seeing flyers publicizing it. When Railly departs, he kidnaps her and forces her to take him to Philadelphia. They learn that Goines is the founder of the Army of the 12 Monkeys before they set out in search of him. When Cole confronts Goines, he denies any involvement with the group and says that in 1990, Cole originated the idea of wiping out humanity with a virus stolen from Goines' virologist father, Dr. Leland Goines.", "Cole is transported back to 2035, where he reaffirms to the scientists his commitment to his mission and asks to be sent back to complete it. When he finds Railly again in 1996, he tells her that he now believes himself crazy as she had suggested. Railly has discovered evidence of his time travel to the Great War which she shows him, believing he is sane. They decide to depart for the Florida Keys before the start of the plague.", "Cole and Railly learn that the Army of the 12 Monkeys was not the source of the epidemic; the group's major act of protest is releasing animals from a zoo and placing Goines' father in an animal cage. At the airport, Cole leaves a message telling the scientists that they are on the wrong track following the Army of the 12 Monkeys and he will not return. Cole is confronted by José, who gives Cole a handgun and instructs him to follow orders. Railly spots Dr. Peters at the airport and recognizes him from a newspaper as an assistant of Goines' father. Peters is about to embark on a tour of several cities that matches the viral outbreaks chronologically and geographically.", "Cole is informed of Peters by Railly, then forces his way through a security checkpoint in pursuit of Peters. Cole draws his gun, then is shot by police. As he lies dying in Railly's arms, she scans the crowd around her. She makes eye contact with a small boy: the young James Cole witnessing the scene of his death, which will replay in his dreams for years to come. Peters, aboard the plane with the virus, sits down next to Jones, one of the scientists from the future, who comments that her job is \"insurance\". The young Cole watches a plane take off from the ground outside the airport.", "The genesis of 12 Monkeys came from executive producer Robert Kosberg, who had been a fan of the French short film La Jetée (1962). Kosberg persuaded that film's director, Chris Marker , to let him pitch the project to Universal Pictures , seeing it as a perfect basis for a full-length science fiction film. Universal agreed to purchase the remake rights and hired David and Janet Peoples to write the screenplay. [ 3 ] Producer Charles Roven chose Terry Gilliam to direct, because he believed the filmmaker's style was perfect for 12 Monkeys ' nonlinear storyline and time travel subplot. [ 4 ] Gilliam had just abandoned a film adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities when he signed to direct 12 Monkeys . [ 5 ] Though Gilliam felt the script was \"too complex\" to take on. [ 6 ]", "The film represents the second film for which Gilliam did not write or co-write the screenplay. Although he prefers to direct his own scripts, he was captivated by Peoples' \"intriguing and intelligent script. The story is disconcerting. It deals with time, madness and a perception of what the world is or isn't. It is a study of madness and dreams, of death and re-birth, set in a world coming apart\". [ 4 ]", "Universal took longer than expected to approve 12 Monkeys , although Gilliam had two stars (Willis and Pitt) and a firm budget of $29.5 million (low for a Hollywood science fiction film). Universal's production of Waterworld (1995) had resulted in various cost overruns . To get 12 Monkeys approved for production, Gilliam persuaded Willis to lower his normal asking price . [ 7 ] Because of Universal's strict production incentives and his history with the studio on Brazil , Gilliam received final cut privilege . The Writers Guild of America was skeptical of the \"inspired by\" credit for La Jetée and Chris Marker. [ 8 ] Gilliam said that he had not seen La Jetée when he made 12 Monkeys . [ 9 ]", "Gilliam's initial casting choices were Nick Nolte as James Cole and Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey Goines, but Universal objected. [ 5 ] Other actors were suggested for the roles included Nicolas Cage and Tom Cruise , but Gilliam rejected the choices. [ 10 ] Gilliam, who first met Bruce Willis while casting Jeff Bridges' role in The Fisher King (1991), believed Willis evoked Cole's characterization as being \"somebody who is strong and dangerous but also vulnerable\". [ 4 ] Gilliam later stated that he wasn't originally interested in casting Willis because of the actor's mouth. [ 11 ]", "Gilliam cast Madeleine Stowe as Dr. Kathryn Railly because he was impressed by her performance in Blink (1994). [ 4 ] The director first met Stowe when he was casting his abandoned film adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities . [ 5 ] \"She has this incredible ethereal beauty and she's incredibly intelligent\", Gilliam said of Stowe. \"Those two things rest very easily with her, and the film needed those elements because it has to be romantic.\" [ 4 ]", "Gilliam originally believed that Pitt was not right for the role of Jeffrey Goines, but the casting director convinced him otherwise. [ 5 ] Pitt was cast for a comparatively small salary, as he was still relatively unknown at the time. By the time of 12 Monkeys ' release, Interview with the Vampire (1994), Legends of the Fall (1994), and Se7en (1995) had been released, making Pitt an A-list actor, which drew greater attention to the film and boosted its box-office standing. In Philadelphia , months before filming, Pitt spent weeks at Temple University 's hospital, visiting and studying the psychiatric ward to prepare for his role. [ 4 ]", "Principal photography lasted from February 8 to May 6, 1995. Shooting on location in Philadelphia and Baltimore (including the Senator Theatre ) [ 1 ] [ 12 ] in winter was fraught with weather problems. There were also technical glitches with the futuristic mechanical props. Because the film has a nonlinear storyline, continuity errors occurred, and some scenes had to be reshot. Gilliam also injured himself when he went horseback riding. Despite setbacks, the director managed to stay within the budget and was only a week behind his shooting schedule . \"It was a tough shoot\", acknowledged Jeffrey Beecroft , the film's production designer . \"There wasn't a lot of money or enough time. Terry is a perfectionist, but he was really adamant about not going over budget. He got crucified for Munchausen , and that still haunts him.\" [ 1 ]", "The filmmakers were not allowed access to sound stages ; thus, they had to find abandoned buildings or landmarks to use. [ 8 ] The exteriors of the climactic airport scene were shot at the Baltimore–Washington International Airport , while the interior scenes were shot at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (formerly Reading Terminal ). Filming at the psychiatric hospital was done at the Eastern State Penitentiary and Girard College . [ 13 ] Some shots took place in abandoned motels in Camden, New Jersey . [ 14 ] [ 15 ] 12 Monkeys was shot in the 1.85:1 format rather than anamorphic . [ 16 ]", "Gilliam used the same filmmaking style as he had in Brazil (1985), including the art direction and cinematography (specifically using Fresnel lenses ). [ 7 ] The appearance of the interrogation room where Cole is being interviewed by the scientists was based on the work of Lebbeus Woods ; these scenes were shot at three power stations (two in Philadelphia and one in Baltimore). Gilliam intended to show Cole being interviewed through a multi-screen interrogation TV set because he felt the machinery evoked a \"nightmarish intervention of technology. You try to see the faces on the screens in front of you, but the real faces and voices are down there and you have these tiny voices in your ear. To me that's the world we live in, the way we communicate these days, through technical devices that pretend to be about communication but may not be\". [ 17 ]", "The art department made sure that the 2035 underground world only used pre-1996 technology, to depict the bleakness of the future. Gilliam, Beecroft and set decorator Crispian Sallis went to several flea markets and salvage warehouses looking for materials to decorate the sets. [ 4 ] The majority of visual effects sequences were created by Peerless Camera Company, which Gilliam founded in the late 1970s with Kent Houston, the film's visual effects supervisor . [ 16 ] Additional digital compositing was done by The Mill , while Cinesite provided film scanning services. [ 4 ]", "The film's score was composed, arranged, and conducted by English musician Paul Buckmaster . The main theme is based on Argentine tango musician/composer Astor Piazzolla 's Suite Punta del Este . [ 18 ]", "In the biographical novel Gilliam on Gilliam , director Terry Gilliam described the film as \"very much about the twentieth century's inundation of information and about deciphering what among all this noise and imagery is useful and important to our lives\"; these themes are expressed in conflicts between the protagonist and antagonistic elements in the relative 'past' and 'future'. [ 7 ]", "References to time, time travel, and monkeys are scattered throughout the film, including the Woody Woodpecker cartoon, Time Tunnel (1969), playing on the TV in a hotel room, the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business (1931) on TV in the asylum, and the subplots involving monkeys (drug testing, news stories and animal rights).", "12 Monkeys is inspired by the French short film La Jetée (1962); as in La Jetée , characters are haunted by the images of their own deaths. [ 13 ] Like La Jetée , 12 Monkeys contains references to Alfred Hitchcock 's Vertigo (1958). Toward the end of the film, Cole and Railly hide in a theater showing a 24-hour Hitchcock marathon and watch scenes from Vertigo and The Birds . Railly then transforms herself with a blonde wig, as Judy ( Kim Novak ) transforms herself into blonde Madeleine in Vertigo ; Cole sees her emerge within a red light, as Scottie ( James Stewart ) saw Judy emerge within a green light. [ 13 ] Brief notes of Bernard Herrmann 's film score can also be heard. Railly also wears the same coat Novak wore in the first part of Vertigo . The scene at Muir Woods National Monument , where Judy (as Madeleine) looks at the growth rings of a felled redwood and traces back events in her past life, resonates with larger themes in 12 Monkeys . Cole and Railly later have a similar conversation while the same music from Vertigo is repeated. [ 13 ] The Muir Woods scene in Vertigo is also reenacted in La Jetée . In a previous scene in the film, Cole wakes up in a hospital bed with the scientists talking to him in chorus. This is a direct homage to the \" Dry Bones \" scene in Dennis Potter 's The Singing Detective . [ 19 ] James Cole is a notable Christ figure in the film. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The film is significant in the genre of science-fiction film noir, and it alludes to various \"canonical noir\" films. [ 22 ]", "Universal Pictures released 12 Monkeys on VHS on January 28, 1997. [ 23 ] [ better source needed ] It was also released on a \"Signature Collection\" LaserDisc of the film on February 18, 1997, containing an audio commentary by director Terry Gilliam and producer Charles Roven, The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (a making-of documentary), an archive of production art, and production notes. [ 24 ] \nIt was first released on DVD on March 31, 1998, containing the same extras as the LaserDisc. [ 25 ] [ better source needed ] It was re-released as a Special Edition DVD on May 10, 2005, with a new transfer of the film and identical extras. [ 26 ] It was also released on HD DVD on March 4, 2008, with the same extras. [ 25 ] It was released on Blu-ray Disc on July 28, 2009, with the same extras. [ 25 ] Arrow Films released a new Blu-ray of the film on October 15, 2018, containing a new transfer of the film, remastered in 4K from the original negative, all of the previous extras, as well as a vintage 1996 interview with Terry Gilliam, and an interview with Gilliam scholar Ian Christie. [ 27 ]", "In the beginning of the film, Cole is brought into an interrogation room and told to sit in a chair attached to a vertical rail on the wall. A spherical machine with screens of varying sizes showing close-ups of the faces of the scientists interrogating Cole, supported by a metal armature is suspended directly in front of him, probing for weaknesses as the inquisitors interrogate him. [ 28 ] Architect Lebbeus Woods filed a lawsuit against Universal in February 1996, claiming that his work \"Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber\" was used without permission. Woods won his lawsuit, requiring Universal to remove the scenes, but he ultimately allowed their inclusion in exchange for a \"high six-figure cash settlement\" from Universal. [ 28 ] [ 29 ]", "After the release of The Zero Theorem in 2013, claims were made that Gilliam had meant it as part of a trilogy. A 2013 review for The Guardian said, \"Calling it [ The Zero Theorem ] the third part of a trilogy formed by earlier dystopian satires Brazil and Twelve Monkeys [ sic ]\"; [ 30 ] but in an interview with Alex Suskind for Indiewire in late 2014, Gilliam said, \"Well, it's funny, this trilogy was never something I ever said, but it's been repeated so often it's clearly true [laughs]. I don't know who started it but once it started it never stopped\". [ 31 ]", "12 Monkeys grossed $57.14 million in the United States and Canada, and $111.69 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $168.83 million. [ 2 ] The film held the No. 1 spot on box office charts for two weeks in January, before dropping due to competition from From Dusk till Dawn , Mr. Holland's Opus , and Black Sheep . [ 32 ]", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 88% of 73 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's consensus reads: \"The plot's a bit of a jumble, but excellent performances and mind-blowing plot twists make 12 Monkeys a kooky, effective experience.\" [ 33 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 34 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 35 ]", "Roger Ebert found 12 Monkeys ' depiction of the future similar to Blade Runner (1982, also scripted by David Peoples ) and Brazil (1985, also directed by Terry Gilliam). \"The film is a celebration of madness and doom, with a hero who tries to prevail against the chaos of his condition, and is inadequate\", Ebert wrote. \"This vision is a cold, dark, damp one, and even the romance between Willis and Stowe feels desperate rather than joyous. All of this is done very well, and the more you know about movies (especially the technical side), the more you're likely to admire it. [...] And as entertainment, it appeals more to the mind than to the senses.\" [ 37 ]", "Janet Maslin of The New York Times stated, \"This apocalyptic nightmare, a vigorous work of dark, surprise-filled science fiction, is much tougher and less fanciful than the director's films have often been. [...] 12 Monkeys is fierce and disturbing, with a plot that skillfully resists following any familiar course. The film's hero fears that he's half-crazy, and for two hours Mr. Gilliam artfully keeps his audience feeling the same way.\" [ 38 ] Desson Thomson of The Washington Post praised the art direction and set design. \"Willis and Pitt's performances, Gilliam's atmospherics and an exhilarating momentum easily outweigh such trifling flaws in the script\", Thomson wrote. [ 39 ] Peter Travers from Rolling Stone magazine attributes the film's success to Gilliam's direction and Willis' performance. [ 40 ] Internet reviewer James Berardinelli believed the filmmakers had an intelligent and creative motive for the time-travel subplot. Rather than being sent to change the past, James Cole is instead observing it to make a better future. [ 41 ] Richard Corliss of Time magazine felt the film's time-travel aspect and apocalyptic depiction of a bleak future were clichés . \"In its frantic mix of chaos, carnage and zoo animals, 12 Monkeys is Jumanji for adults\", Corliss wrote. [ 42 ]", "Brad Pitt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor , but lost to Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects . Julie Weiss was also nominated for but lost to James Acheson for Restoration . [ 43 ] However, Pitt won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture . [ 44 ] Terry Gilliam was honored for his direction at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival . [ 13 ]", "The film also received positive notices from the science fiction community. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation [ 45 ] and the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films awarded it the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film at the 22nd Saturn Awards . Pitt and Weiss won awards at the ceremony as well; Gilliam, Bruce Willis , Madeleine Stowe , and writers David and Janet Peoples also received nominations. [ 46 ]", "On August 26, 2013, Entertainment Weekly announced that Syfy was developing a 12 Monkeys television series based on the film. Production began in November 2013. The pilot was written by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, who had previously written for the series Terra Nova . Due to the series being labeled as \"cast contingent\", the series did not move forward until the roles of Cole and Goines were cast. [ 47 ] In April 2014, Syfy green-lighted the first season, which consisted of 13 episodes, including the pilot filmed in 2013. The series premiered on January 16, 2015. [ 48 ] On March 12, 2015, the series was renewed for a second season that began airing in April 2016. [ 49 ] Actress Madeleine Stowe made an appearance in one Season 2 episode, being the only cast member of the film to appear on the series. [ 50 ] On June 29, 2016, the series was renewed for a 10-episode third season, set to premiere in 2017. [ 51 ] The third season aired over three consecutive nights, from May 19 to May 21, 2017. A fourth and final season was announced on March 16, 2017. The eleven-episode fourth season ran from June 15 to July 6, 2018. [ 52 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/12_Hour_Shift_%282020%29_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Brea Grant", "Written by": "Brea Grant", "Produced by": "Christina McLarty Arquette David Arquette Jordan Wayne Long Tara Perry Matt Glass", "Starring": "Angela Bettis Chloe Farnworth Nikea Gamby-Turner Kit Williamson David Arquette", "Cinematography": "Matt Glass", "Edited by": "Amy McGrath", "Music by": "Matt Glass", "Production company": "HCT Media [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Magnet Releasing", "Release date": "September 22, 2020 ( 2020-09-22 ) ( Fantasia ) [ 2 ]", "Running time": "86 minutes [ 3 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$6,820 [ 4 ] [ 5 ]"}
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["12 Hour Shift is a 2020 American black comedy horror film written and directed by Brea Grant and starring Angela Bettis , Kit Williamson , and David Arquette . Bettis plays Mandy, a drug-addicted nurse involved in a black market organ-trading scheme in 1999. [ 6 ] Arquette was one of the film's producers, alongside his wife Christina Arquette, and Jordan Wayne Long, Tara Perry , and Matt Glass . [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The film also features music composed by Glass. [ 8 ]", "12 Hour Shift was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020 prior to the festival being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Distribution rights were acquired by Magnet Releasing in June 2020, and it premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival in September 2020. The film earned positive reviews from critics, who praised the cast—especially Bettis and Farnworth—and humor.", "In Arkansas in 1999, Mandy is an overworked nurse with a drug addiction. In addition to stealing patient medications, she finances her drug habit by harvesting dead patients' organs. Desk nurse Karen is Mandy's partner, and Mandy has recently brought on her cousin Regina to transport the organs to trafficker Nicholas.", "One night, at the start of her 12-hour shift, Mandy hands over a harvested kidney in a cooler to Regina behind the hospital. Regina accidentally leaves the cooler with the kidney, instead carrying a cooler with a soda can to Nicholas. Nicholas demands Regina get the kidney or he will take hers. Regina cannot find the kidney at the hospital. Mandy refuses to help her, so Regina dresses like a nurse and kills one of Mandy's patients by pouring bleach down his throat. Regina expects that Mandy will be able to extract the dead patient's kidney, but Mandy angrily explains that he was on dialysis , so his kidneys are unusable.", "Police arrive to investigate the murdered patient. Regina attacks more people and threatens to expose the organ trafficking operation unless Mandy helps her. Mandy agrees and tells Regina to wait outside. Regina sees one of Nicholas's henchman, and in a panic kills a passing skateboarder to take his kidney, but ends up taking his bladder instead. Meanwhile, inside the hospital Mandy kills a patient with an overdose and manages to harvest his kidney. She leaves the kidney in another cooler by the vending machine, but it has disappeared by the time Regina gets to it.", "Nicholas's henchman Mikey, who has entered the hospital and terrorized staff and patients, prepares to drag Regina away, but she desperately suggests that they kidnap a comatose patient so that Nicholas can take all his organs. The comatose patient is Mandy's abusive, drug-addicted half-brother. Mandy intervenes, and together she and Regina manage to overcome Mikey. The police investigation incorrectly determines that Mikey had been committing the murders around the hospital. Regina leaves. Hospital guest Mr. Kent suddenly announces that he has been finding the coolers containing kidneys all night; the exhausted Mandy leaves to take a nap in her truck. The film ends with Mandy re-entering the hospital to begin her next shift, followed shortly thereafter by Nicholas.", "12 Hour Shift was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020, [ 9 ] but the festival was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . [ 6 ] In June 2020, it was reported that the film's worldwide distribution rights were acquired by Magnet Releasing . [ 9 ]", "On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 77% based on 75 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: \"Sharp, twisted, and darkly funny, 12 Hour Shift is an uncommonly clever heist caper with a refreshing female-focused twist.\" [ 10 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100 based on 11 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 11 ]", "Hoai-Tran Bui of /Film praised Bettis's performance, and wrote that the film \"has a sick sense of humor that makes its washed-out setting the perfect blank canvas for writer and director Grant to paint her gleefully bloody caper.\" [ 12 ] Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting also lauded Bettis's performance but criticized the film's characterization overall, concluding: \" 12 Hour Shift is far too ambitious for its own good, playing out like a blood-drenched yet unfocused comedy of frustrating errors.\" [ 13 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Twelve_and_Holding_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Michael Cuesta", "Written by": "Anthony Cipriano", "Produced by": "Brian Bell Michael Cuesta Jenny Schweitzer Leslie Urdang Amy Robinson", "Starring": "Conor Donovan Jesse Camacho Zoe Weizenbaum Jeremy Renner", "Cinematography": "Romeo Tirone", "Edited by": "Eric Carlson Kane Platt", "Music by": "Pierre Földes", "Distributed by": "IFC Films", "Release dates": "September 2005 ( 2005-09 ) (Toronto) [ 1 ] May 19, 2006 ( 2006-05-19 )", "Running time": "95 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$119,195 [ 2 ]"}
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["12 and Holding is a 2005 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Michael Cuesta and starring Conor Donovan, Jesse Camacho , Zoe Weizenbaum , and Jeremy Renner . The film is distributed by IFC Films and was released on May 19, 2006 in limited theaters. [ 3 ]", "12-year-olds Rudy Carges and his overweight friend Leonard Fisher spend the night inside their treehouse after teenage bullies Jeff and Kenny threaten to destroy it. Jeff and Kenny arrive and set the treehouse on fire, not knowing Rudy and Leonard were in there until too late. Leonard escapes unharmed but then falls to the ground unconscious, while Rudy is burned to death offscreen. Rudy's twin brother Jacob, a boy with a huge birthmark , decides to seek revenge against the bullies. At the hospital, Leonard recovers and finds out he lost his sense of taste and smell. Leonard is then prompted by his gym teacher to go on a diet, which isn't welcomed by his obese family. The boys' female friend Malee tries to befriend an adult named Gus, a grief -stricken patient of her therapist mother Carla. Jacob's family falls apart after the death of his brother, but soon after they adopt a boy named Keith Gardner. Meanwhile, Malee begins to have a crush on Gus and changes the song for her recital to one Gus likes . As time goes by, she sees Gus as her \"soul mate\". She sneaks into his house one night to find him grieving. Afraid to confront him, Malee steals his gun and leaves. She gives the gun to Jacob the following day.", "Jacob's mother gets furious when she finds out Jeff and Kenny are being put in juvenile hall for only one year, while Jacob's father views Rudy's death as an accident. Jacob spends the next few months visiting Jeff and Kenny, and threatens them, until eventually Jeff commits suicide. Jacob sees Kenny grieving, so Jacob forgives and befriends Kenny; soon learning Kenny has an early release and is illegally moving to New Mexico . Meanwhile, Leonard's father decides to take Leonard's sisters to Florida for an annual trip instead of Leonard (who would usually go). Leonard decides to force his mother to lose weight by trapping her in the cellar. They both end up in the hospital after a gas leak in their home. Next, Jacob and Kenny agree that Jacob can go with him to New Mexico. Malee visits Gus and removes her clothes in an attempt to seduce him. Instead, Gus calls Malee's mother to come and pick her up. The next day, Gus explains to therapist Carla about the last fire he ever fought (which involved killing an injured little girl, upon the girl's request ), claiming that Malee wanted him to take her pain away, as he was aware of her growing crush on him.", "Meanwhile, Jacob's mother tells him that Keith Gardner wasn't adopted to replace Rudy, and that she wants Kenny dead, which reminds Jacob of his planned revenge. The night of escape for Jacob finally comes and he meets up with Kenny. Jacob insists on going through a construction site which he says is a secret route. Once there, Jacob points Gus's gun at Kenny, and tells him \"you killed him\" before shooting him dead. Jacob buries the body and leaves. He returns in the daytime, and sees Gus spreading cement above Kenny's grave, knowing the evidence is gone.", "Malee begins visiting her estranged father and Leonard's family finally starts eating healthily. Jacob returns home without telling anyone what he did.", "12 and Holding received generally positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has a 73% approval rating, based on 78 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's consensus reads, \"This shocking pre-teen drama manages, through realistic performances and a sense of empathy, to avoid exploitation and instead deliver something honest and haunting.\" [ 4 ]", "Writing for About.com , critic Marcy Dermansky said, \"Writers are often encouraged to provide moments of [epiphany] and revelation for their characters; 12 and Holding provides three transformations, and each is not only convincing, but also moving\". [ 5 ]", "In a review for Slant Magazine , Keith Uhlich criticized \"Anthony S. Cipriano’s contrivance-heavy screenplay and Michael Cuesta’s Six Feet Under -tutelaged direction\", saying the film \"comes off as something of a neo-con paranoid fantasy, its wayward trio of suburban youth standing in for the ills of America\". [ 6 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/12_Citizens_film_poster.jpg/250px-12_Citizens_film_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Xu Ang (徐昂)", "Written by": "Jinglong Han (韩景龙) Yujiao Li (李玉娇)", "Based on": "Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose", "Produced by": "Yan Jianwei (严建伟) Liangwen Li (李良文) Yang Ming (杨明) Luna Wang (王露娜)", "Cinematography": "Tao Cai (陶彩)", "Edited by": "Wang Gang (王刚) Jiale Yin (尹佳乐)", "Music by": "Radio Mars", "Release dates": "October 19, 2014 ( 2014-10-19 ) ( Rome ) May 15, 2015 ( 2015-05-15 ) (China)", "Running time": "106 minutes", "Country": "China", "Language": "Mandarin", "Box office": "CN¥2.07 million (China)"}
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["12 Citizens ( Chinese : 十二公民 ) is a 2014 Chinese suspense crime drama film directed by Xu Ang. It was shown at the 2014 Rome Film Festival on October 19, 2014 [ 1 ] and was released in China on May 15, 2015. [ 2 ] The plot is based on and heavily references the plot of the 1954 teleplay Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose . Various localization changes were made, such as changing the original, everyman protagonist into a Prosecutor of the Chinese Communist Party .", "On a hot summer's day, 12 male \"citizens\" undergo a mock jury for a law school's Western law subject. The mock jury need to decide whether a boy is guilty or not of a murder of his father with a knife based on the evidence. The evidence prepared by the students of the course seems airtight and therefore it seems as if the jury will render him guilty of the crime.", "However, one juror does not follow the consensus and appreciates the nuances and seriousness of the verdict. His motives are unclear but he wants to entertain the thought that there is reasonable doubt about the guilt of the boy. As a result, the evidence is slowly cross-referenced and examined. Conflicts are spurred as a result of their differing personalities and strong opinions. Eventually, one by one, the jurors are convinced that there is reasonable doubt and judge the boy to be not guilty.", "On the end of the mock jury trial, the jurors are visibly exhausted. The juror who had rebelled and wanted to see the case through is revealed to be a prosecutor of the People's Republic of China . The final credits note that the actual perpetrator was arrested a month later.", "By May 16, 2015 the film had grossed CN¥2.07 million at the Chinese box office. [ 3 ]", "On Film Business Asia , Derek Elley gave the film a 9 out of 10, saying it \"is superbly written and played.\" [ 4 ]", "In The Hollywood Reporter , Deborah Young comments on the ending of the movie, stating that \"one can take issue with the glib final revelation about Juror No. 8, which rather explodes the film’s progressive democracy-by-the-people facade\". [ 5 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/12_Angry_Men_1997_film_poster.jpg", "Genre": "Drama", "Based on": "Twelve Angry Men 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose", "Written by": "Reginald Rose", "Directed by": "William Friedkin", "Starring": "Courtney B. Vance Ossie Davis George C. Scott Armin Mueller-Stahl Dorian Harewood James Gandolfini Tony Danza Jack Lemmon Hume Cronyn Mykelti Williamson Edward James Olmos William Petersen", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original language": "English", "Producer": "Terence A. Donnelly", "Production locations": "Raleigh Studios - 5300 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles D.C. Stages, 1360 East 6th Street, Downtown, Los Angeles", "Cinematography": "Fred Schuler", "Editor": "Augie Hess", "Running time": "117 minutes", "Production company": "MGM Television", "Budget": "$1.75 million [ 1 ]", "Network": "Showtime", "Release": "August 17, 1997 ( 1997-08-17 )"}
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["12 Angry Men is a 1997 American made-for-television drama film directed by William Friedkin , adapted by Reginald Rose from his original 1954 teleplay of the same title . It is a remake of the 1957 film of the same name . The film aired on August 17, 1997 on Showtime .", "In the murder trial of a teenage boy from a city slum, accused of murdering his father, the judge instructs the jury to determine his guilt or innocence. The verdict must be unanimous and a guilty verdict will possibly (not mandatorily, unlike in the 1957 film) result in the death penalty. The jury of twelve retires to the jury room.", "An initial vote is taken and eleven jurors vote for conviction. Juror 8, the lone dissenter, states that the evidence is circumstantial and the boy deserves a fair deliberation. He questions the testimony of the two witnesses, and the fact that the switchblade used in the murder is not as unusual as the testimony indicates, producing an identical knife from his pocket.", "Juror 8 proposes another vote by secret ballot – if the other jurors vote guilty unanimously, he will acquiesce, but if at least one votes \"not guilty\" they will continue deliberating. Only Juror 9 changes his vote, respecting Juror 8's motives and feeling his points deserve further discussion.", "After deliberating whether one witness actually heard the murder take place, Juror 5, who grew up in a slum, changes his vote. Juror 11, questioning whether the defendant would have fled the scene and returned three hours later to retrieve his knife, also changes his vote. Jurors 2 and 6 also vote \"not guilty\", tying the verdict at 6-6, after Juror 8 demonstrates the unlikelihood that one witness actually saw the boy flee the scene. The remaining jurors are intrigued when Juror 11 proves that although a psychiatric test stated that the boy had subconscious desires to kill, such tests only offer possible actions. Juror 7, impatient to attend a baseball game that night, changes his vote, but Juror 11 chastises him for changing his vote so casually and selfishly when the boy's life is on the line. When pressed by Juror 11, Juror 7 eventually states that he doubts the boy is guilty.", "Jurors 12 and 1 change their votes, leaving the only dissenters: Jurors 3, 4, and 10. Outraged at the proceedings, Juror 10 goes on a bigoted diatribe against Hispanic immigrants \"outbreeding\" African-Americans. He attempts to leverage this with the other African-American jurors, offending the rest of the jury, until Juror 4 orders him to be quiet for the rest of the proceedings.", "Juror 4 states that despite all the other evidence called into question, the testimony of the woman who saw the murder from across the street stands as solid evidence. Juror 12 changes his vote back to \"guilty\", making the vote 8–4 again. Juror 9, seeing Juror 4 rub his nose, irritated by his glasses, realizes that the witness had impressions on her nose, indicating that she wore glasses and likely was not wearing them when she saw the murder. Jurors 12 and 4 change their vote to \"not guilty\". Juror 10, who says he still thinks the defendant is guilty, bluntly admits to no longer caring about the verdict and votes for acquittal.", "Undeterred, Juror 3 is forced to present his arguments again, and goes on a tirade, presenting the evidence in haphazard fashion and concluding with his disbelief that a son would kill his own father, mirroring his previous comments about his bad relationship with his own son. He begins to weep, and says he can feel the knife being plunged into his chest. Juror 8 gently points out that the boy is not his son, and Juror 4 quietly persuades him to let the boy live. Juror 3 gives in, and the final vote is unanimous for acquittal.", "The jurors leave and the defendant is found not guilty off-screen, while Juror 8 helps the distraught Juror 3 with his coat. Before departing the court, Jurors 8 (Davis) and 9 (McCardle) exchange names before parting ways.", "The film holds a 93% 'Fresh' score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , based on 15 critic reviews with an average rating of 7.2/10. [ 2 ]", "At the Golden Globe Awards , actor Ving Rhames won the award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his performance in Don King: Only in America . When presented with the award, he summoned Jack Lemmon on to the stage and gifted the award to him, feeling that Lemmon was more deserving of it. Rhames refused to re-accept the award when Lemmon tried to return it to him, meaning that, although Lemmon didn't officially win the Golden Globe Award , he did receive the trophy."]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0e/12_%282007_film%29.png/250px-12_%282007_film%29.png", "Directed by": "Nikita Mikhalkov", "Screenplay by": "Nikita Mikhalkov Alexander Novototsky-Vlasov Vladimir Moiseenko", "Based on": "12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose", "Produced by": "Nikita Mikhalkov Leonid Vereschtchaguine", "Starring": "Sergei Makovetsky Nikita Mikhalkov Sergei Garmash Valentin Gaft Alexei Petrenko Yuri Stoyanov", "Cinematography": "Vladislav Opelyants", "Edited by": "Enzo Meniconi Andrei Zaytsev", "Music by": "Eduard Artemyev", "Distributed by": "TriTe", "Release dates": "7 September 2007 ( 2007-09-07 ) ( Venice ) 20 September 2007 ( 2007-09-20 )", "Running time": "159 minutes", "Country": "Russia", "Languages": "Russian , Chechen", "Budget": "$2.5 million", "Box office": "$7.5 million"}
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["12 is a 2007 Russian legal drama film by director, screenwriter, producer and actor Nikita Mikhalkov . The film is a Russian-language remake of Sidney Lumet 's 1957 film 12 Angry Men , which in turn was based on Reginald Rose 's 1955 stage play, Twelve Angry Men , itself based on Rose's 1954 teleplay of the latter's same name .", "Mikhalkov was awarded the Special Lion at the 64th Venice International Film Festival for his work on the film, which also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film . [ 1 ] It received generally positive reviews from critics.", "A 12-men jury decides whether a young Chechen boy is guilty of murdering his stepfather, a Russian military officer. Initially, it seems that the boy was the murderer. However, one of the jurors votes in favour of acquittal. Since the verdict must be rendered unanimously, the jurors review the case, and one by one come to the conclusion that the boy was framed. The murder was performed by criminals involved in the construction business. The discussion is repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks from the boy's wartime childhood.", "In the end, the foreman states that he was sure the boy did not commit the crime, but he will not vote in favour of acquittal since the acquitted boy will be subsequently killed by the same criminals. Additionally, the foreman reveals that he is a former intelligence officer. After a brief argument, the foreman agrees to join the majority. Later, the foreman tells the boy that he will find the real murderers.", "The movie received generally positive critical opinion in Russia and abroad. 12 has an approval rating of 77% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , based on 60 reviews, and an average rating of 6.88/10. The website's critical consensus states, \"Loosely based on 1957's 12 Angry Men , Nikita Mikhalkov's superbly acted 12 is clever and gripping like its predecessor, but with a distinctly Russian feel\". [ 2 ] It also has a score of 72 out of 100 on Metacritic , based on 17 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 3 ]", "Russian president Vladimir Putin together with the film crew, Chechnya 's president Ramzan Kadyrov and Ingushetia 's president Murat Zyazikov watched the film in Putin's residence in Novo-Ogarevo ; after the screening Putin remarked that the film \"brought a tear to the eye\". [ 4 ] Opposition journalist Zoya Svetova labeled the film as pro-Putin, arguing that some of the characters are caricatures of Russian opposition politicians Valeriya Novodvorskaya and Mikhail Khodorkovsky as well as producer Dmitry Lesnevsky . [ 5 ]", "12 received a special Golden Lion for the \"consistent brilliance\" of its work and was praised by many critics at the 64th Venice International Film Festival . The Venice jury defined the movie as \"confirmation of his [Mikhalkov's] mastery in exploring and revealing to us, with great humanity and emotion, the complexity of existence\". [ 1 ] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . [ 6 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/12_Angry_Men_%281957_film_poster%29.jpg/250px-12_Angry_Men_%281957_film_poster%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Sidney Lumet", "Screenplay by": "Reginald Rose", "Based on": "Twelve Angry Men (1954 teleplay on Studio One ) by Reginald Rose", "Produced by": "Henry Fonda Reginald Rose", "Starring": "Henry Fonda Lee J. Cobb Ed Begley E. G. Marshall Jack Warden", "Cinematography": "Boris Kaufman", "Edited by": "Carl Lerner", "Music by": "Kenyon Hopkins", "Production company": "Orion-Nova Productions", "Distributed by": "United Artists", "Release date": "April 10, 1957 ( 1957-04-10 ) ( Fox Wilshire Theater ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ]", "Running time": "96 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$337,000 [ 3 ] [ 4 ]", "Box office": "$2 million (rentals) [ 5 ]"}
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["12 Angry Men is a 1957 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature directorial debut, adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] A critique of the American jury system during the McCarthy era , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] the film tells the story of a jury of twelve men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a teenager charged with murder on the basis of reasonable doubt ; disagreement and conflict among the jurors forces them to question their morals and values. It stars an ensemble cast , featuring Henry Fonda (who also produced the film with Rose), Lee J. Cobb , Ed Begley , E. G. Marshall , and Jack Warden .", "An independent production [ 10 ] [ 11 ] distributed by United Artists , 12 Angry Men received acclaim from critics, despite a lukewarm box-office performance. At the 30th Academy Awards , it was nominated for Best Picture , Best Director and Best Screenplay . It is regarded by many as one of the greatest films ever made .", "In 2007, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\". [ 12 ] Additionally, it was selected as the second-best courtroom drama ever (after 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird ) by the American Film Institute for their AFI's 10 Top 10 list . [ 13 ]", "On a hot summer day in the New York County Courthouse , the trial phase has just concluded for an impoverished 18-year-old boy accused of killing his abusive father. The judge instructs the jury that if there is reasonable doubt , the jurors must return a verdict of \"not guilty.\" If the defendant is found guilty, he will receive a mandatory death sentence via the electric chair . The verdict must be unanimous.", "At first, the case seems clear. A neighbor testified to witnessing the defendant stab his father, from her window, through the windows of a passing elevated train . Another neighbor testified that he heard the defendant threaten to kill his father, and the father's body hitting the floor; then, as he ran to his door, he saw the defendant running down the stairs. The boy had recently purchased a switchblade of the same type that was found, wiped of fingerprints, at the murder scene, but claimed he lost it.", "In a preliminary vote, all jurors vote \"guilty\" except Juror 8, who believes there should be some discussion before the verdict. He says he cannot vote \"guilty\" because reasonable doubt exists. When his first few arguments (including producing a recently purchased knife nearly identical to the murder weapon that was thought to be unique) seemingly fail to convince any of the other jurors, Juror 8 suggests a secret ballot, from which he will abstain; if all the other jurors still vote guilty, he will acquiesce. The ballot reveals one \"not guilty\" vote. Juror 9 reveals that he changed his vote; he respects Juror 8's motives, and agrees there should be more discussion.", "Juror 8 argues that the train noise would have obscured everything the second witness claimed to have overheard. Jurors 5 and 11 change their votes. Jurors 5, 6 and 8 further question the second witness's story, and question whether the death threat was figurative speech. After looking at a diagram of the witness's apartment and conducting an experiment, the jurors determine that it is impossible for the disabled witness to have made it to the door in time. Juror 3, infuriated, argues with and tries to attack Juror 8, yelling a death threat; jurors 5, 6, and 7 physically restrain Juror 3. Jurors 2 and 6 change their votes; the jury is now evenly split.", "Juror 4 doubts the defendant's alibi, as the boy did not recall specific details. Juror 8 tests Juror 4's own memory to make a point. Jurors 2 and 5 point out the father's stab wound was angled downwards, although the boy was shorter than his father. Juror 7 changes his vote out of impatience rather than conviction, angering Juror 11. After another vote, jurors 1 and 12 also change sides, leaving only three \"guilty\" votes.", "Juror 10 goes on a bigoted rant, causing Juror 4 to forbid him to speak for the remainder of the deliberation. When Juror 4 is pressed as to why he still maintains a guilty vote, he declares that the woman who saw the killing from across the street stands as solid evidence. Juror 12 reverts to a guilty vote.", "After watching Juror 4 remove his glasses and rub the impressions they made on his nose, Juror 9 realizes that the first witness was constantly rubbing similar impressions on her own nose, indicating that she also was a habitual glasses-wearer, even though she chose not to wear glasses in court. Juror 8 remarks that the witness, who was trying to sleep when she saw the killing, would not have had glasses on or the time to put them on, making her story questionable. Jurors 4, 10 and 12 all change their votes, leaving Juror 3 as the sole dissenter.", "After failing to convince the others of his argument, Juror 3 finally reveals that his strained relationship with his own son is the reason why he voted guilty. After ripping up a photograph of himself and his son in a fit of rage, he breaks down in tears and changes his vote to \"not guilty\". As the others leave, Juror 8 graciously helps Juror 3 put on his coat. The defendant is acquitted off-screen. As the jurors leave the courthouse, Jurors 8 and 9 reveal their surnames to each other before parting ways.", "Other, uncredited actors in the film include Rudy Bond as the judge, Tom Gorman as the court stenographer, James Kelly as the bailiff, Billy Nelson as the clerk, and John Savoca as the defendant. [ 14 ]", "Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA School of Law Michael Asimow referred to the film as a \"tribute to a common man holding out against lynch mob mentality\". [ 15 ] Gavin Smith of Film Comment called the film \"a definitive rebuttal to the lynch mob hysteria of the McCarthy era \". [ 16 ]", "Business academic Phil Rosenzweig called the jury in 12 Angry Men being made up entirely of white men \"especially important\", writing: \"Many of the twelve would have looked around the room, and, seeing other white men, assumed that they had much in common and should be able to reach a verdict without difficulty. As they deliberate, however, fault lines begin to appear—by age, by education, by national origin, by socioeconomic level, by values, and by temperament.\" [ 17 ]", "Reginald Rose 's screenplay for 12 Angry Men , titled Twelve Angry Men , was initially produced for television and was inspired by a jury summons. [ 18 ] Although it is unclear what trial he was summoned to, [ a ] according to Rose, in early 1954, he served as a juror on a manslaughter case in the New York Court of General Sessions . Though he and the other eleven jurors initially attended begrudgingly, Rose was deeply affected by the impassioned and deliberate atmosphere of the trial and the finality of his and the jury's verdict. Rose began writing Twelve Angry Men upon realizing that very few people knew what occurred during jury deliberations and that they could serve as an exciting setting for a drama. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] While writing the screenplay, Rose cut planned passages of dialogue to account for a fifty-minute time slot on television, leading to the characters to be less nuanced. [ 22 ] A live production of \" Twelve Angry Men \", directed by Franklin Schaffner and starring Robert Cummings as Juror 8 and Franchot Tone as Juror 3, was broadcast on the CBS program Westinghouse Studio One in September 20, 1954 to positive reviews. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] It received four nominations for the 7th Primetime Emmy Awards , winning three on March 7, 1955: \"Best Actor in a Single Performance\", \"Best Direction\", and \"Best Written Dramatic Material\". [ 25 ] [ 26 ]", "In February 1955, actor Henry Fonda formed Orion Productions under a three-year deal with distributor United Artists . [ 27 ] He reportedly first saw Westinghouse Studio One 's \"Twelve Angry Men\" as a kinescope in a Hollywood projection room following its success in the 7th Primetime Emmy Awards. He was impressed with the story and wanted to star as Juror 8. [ 28 ] [ 18 ] [ 29 ] In mid-1956, Fonda partnered with Rose to produce a film adaptation of 12 Angry Men . [ 30 ] [ 29 ] As part of the partnership, Rose formed Nova Productions and combined it with Fonda's Orion Productions to form Orion-Nova Productions, [ 31 ] [ 32 ] and production of the film was budgeted at $340,000. [ 33 ] To develop the screenplay and characters, Rose restored material he had cut for the broadcast and added dialogue that revealed character's backgrounds and motivations. [ 34 ] [ 18 ]", "Fonda and Rose recruited Sidney Lumet to direct 12 Angry Men , his film directorial debut. Lumet had previously directed numerous episodes, including adaptations of Rose's plays, for TV series such as Danger and You Are There . [ 35 ] Fonda said he hired Lumet because of his proficient directing skills and because he was \"wonderful with actors\". [ 33 ] Lumet recruited Boris Kaufman as the cinematographer. Kaufman had recently won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for On the Waterfront (1954), [ 36 ] [ 37 ] and Lumet believed Kaufman's \"realist style\" suited the film. [ 38 ]", "The film was shot in New York and completed after a short but rigorous rehearsal schedule, in less than three weeks, on a budget of $337,000 (equivalent to $3,773,000 in 2024). Rose and Fonda took salary deferrals. [ 3 ] Faith Hubley , later to be known for her Oscar-winning animated efforts with spouse John , was script supervisor for this film. [ 39 ] [ 40 ]", "At the beginning of the film, the cameras are positioned above eye level and mounted with wide-angle lenses , to give the appearance of greater depth between subjects, but as the film progresses the focal length of the lenses is gradually increased. By the end of the film, nearly everyone is shown in closeup, using telephoto lenses from a lower angle, which decreases or \"shortens\" depth of field . Lumet stated that his intention in using these techniques with cinematographer Boris Kaufman was to create a nearly palpable claustrophobia . [ 41 ]", "The film was a box office disappointment in the US [ 42 ] [ 43 ] but did better internationally. [ 3 ] The advent of color and widescreen productions may have contributed to its disappointing box office performance. [ 42 ] It was not until its first airing on television that the film finally found its audience. [ 44 ]", "On its first release, 12 Angry Men received critical acclaim. A. H. Weiler of The New York Times wrote, \"It makes for taut, absorbing, and compelling drama that reaches far beyond the close confines of its jury room setting.\" His observation of the twelve men was that \"their dramas are powerful and provocative enough to keep a viewer spellbound.\" [ 45 ] Variety called it an \"absorbing drama\" with acting that was \"perhaps the best seen recently in any single film\", [ 46 ] Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times declared it a \"tour de force in movie making\", [ 47 ] The Monthly Film Bulletin deemed it \"a compelling and outstandingly well-handled drama\", [ 48 ] and John McCarten of The New Yorker called it \"a fairly substantial addition to the celluloid landscape\". [ 49 ]", "Variety noted: \"Perhaps the motivations of each juror are introduced too quickly and are repeated too often before each changes his vote. However, the film leaves a tremendous impact.\" [ 50 ]", "In 2012, Mike D'Angelo of The A.V. Club questioned the verdict of the jury in the film, writing: \"What ensures The Kid's guilt for practical purposes, [...] is the sheer improbability that all the evidence is erroneous. You'd have to be the jurisprudential inverse of a national lottery winner to face so many apparently damning coincidences and misidentifications. Or you'd have to be framed, which is what Johnnie Cochran was ultimately forced to argue —not just because of the DNA evidence , but because there's no other plausible explanation for why every single detail points to O. J. Simpson 's guilt. But there's no reason offered in 12 Angry Men for why, say, the police would be planting switchblades.\" [ 51 ]", "The film is viewed as a classic, highly regarded from both a critical and popular viewpoint: Roger Ebert listed it as one of his \"Great Movies\". [ 52 ] The American Film Institute named Juror 8, played by Henry Fonda , 28th in a list of the 50 greatest movie heroes of the 20th century . AFI also named 12 Angry Men the 42nd- most inspiring film , the 88th- most heart-pounding film and the 87th-best film of the past hundred years . In 2011, the film was one of the top 20 most screened films in secondary schools in the United Kingdom. [ 53 ] The February 2020 issue of New York Magazine lists 12 Angry Men as among \"The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars.\" [ 54 ] As of March 2023 [update] , the film holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 61 reviews, with a weighted average of 9.10/10. The site's consensus reads: \"Sidney Lumet's feature debut is a superbly written, dramatically effective courtroom thriller that rightfully stands as a modern classic\". [ 55 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 97 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". [ 56 ]", "The film was selected as the second-best courtroom drama ever by the American Film Institute during their AFI's 10 Top 10 list, just after To Kill a Mockingbird , [ 13 ] and is the highest rated courtroom drama on Rotten Tomatoes ' Top 100 Movies of All Time. [ 57 ]", "American Film Institute lists:", "Speaking at a screening of the film during the 2010 Fordham University School of Law Film Festival, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated that seeing 12 Angry Men while she was in college influenced her decision to pursue a career in law. She was particularly inspired by immigrant Juror 11's monologue on his reverence for the American justice system. She also told the audience of law students that, as a lower-court judge, she would sometimes instruct juries to not follow the film's example, because most of the jurors' conclusions are based on speculation, not fact. [ 67 ] Sotomayor noted that events such as Juror 8 entering a similar knife into the proceeding; performing outside research into the case matter in the first place; and ultimately the jury as a whole making broad, wide-ranging assumptions far beyond the scope of reasonable doubt (such as the inferences regarding the woman wearing glasses) would not be allowed in a real-life jury situation, and in fact would have yielded a mistrial [ 68 ] (assuming that applicable law permitted the content of jury deliberations to be revealed).", "In 2007, legal scholar Michael Asimow argued that the jury in 12 Angry Men reached an incorrect verdict, writing that the amount of circumstantial evidence against the defendant should have been enough to convict him, even if the testimony of the two eyewitnesses was disregarded. [ 15 ]", "In 2007, drawing on empirical research, legal scholar Valerie Hans noted that while 12 Angry Men 's depiction of a lone dissenter converting the majority is rare in reality, the film accurately portrays how quality deliberation, diverse perspectives, and the unanimity requirement can enable thoughtful dissenters to meaningfully influence jury outcomes, particularly when arguing for acquittal. [ 69 ]", "There have been a number of adaptations of 12 Angry Men owing to its popularity and legacy.", "A 1963 German TV production, Die zwölf Geschworenen , was directed by Günter Gräwert, and a 1973 Spanish production, Doce hombres sin piedad , was made for TV 22 years before Spain allowed jury trials, while a 1991 homage by Kōki Mitani , Juninin no Yasashii Nihonjin (\"12 gentle Japanese\"), posits a Japan with a jury system and features a group of Japanese people grappling with their responsibility in the face of Japanese cultural norms.", "A 1970 episode of The Odd Couple television series (also co-starring Jack Klugman) entitled \"The Jury Story\" is reminiscent of 12 Angry Men , as it tells in a flashback the circumstances behind the meeting of roommates Oscar Madison and Felix Unger. Klugman (Madison) plays a juror on a panel during a supposedly open-and-shut case. Co-star Tony Randall (Unger) portrays the lone holdout who votes not guilty, eventually convincing the other eleven jurors.", "A 1978 episode of Happy Days entitled \"Fonzie for the Defense\" contains a situation similar to 12 Angry Men when Howard Cunningham and Fonzie find themselves the only members of the jury who are not ready to convict the defendant just because he rides a motorcycle.", "A 1986 episode of Murder, She Wrote entitled \" Trial by Error \" pays tribute to 12 Angry Men . The major twists are originally 10 jurors vote for \"not guilty\" due to self defense, Jessica votes \"unsure\" and another juror votes \"guilty\". Jessica and other jurors recall the evidence, as more and more jurors switch from \"not guilty due to self defense\" and come to a realization as to what actually occurred the night of the murder.", "The 1986 Hindi film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (\"a pending decision\") and 2012 Kannada film Dashamukha (\"ten faces\") are Indian remakes of the film, with almost identical storylines. The former has been adapted as another Indian Bengali film Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei which was released in January 2025. [ 70 ]", "Season 1, episode 17a of the Nickelodeon cartoon Hey Arnold! (1996) is a parody of 12 Angry Men . In the episode, titled \"False Alarm\", Eugene is suspected and accused of pulling the fire alarm, and a student jury is assembled to vote on the verdict, but Arnold is the only one who believes Eugene is innocent. He has to convince the rest of his classmates that Eugene is not guilty of the crime. In this adaptation, it is proven that Eugene was not the criminal but Curly a member of the student \"jury\" is the actual perpetrator due to the latter's reaction to the former's use of the Winkyland pencil (chewing on the eraser and intense sharpening).", "In 1997, a television remake of the film under the same title was directed by William Friedkin and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . In the newer version, the judge is a woman, four of the jurors are black, and the ninth juror is not the only senior citizen, but the overall plot remains intact. Modernizations include not smoking in the jury room, changes in references to pop culture and sports figures and income, references to execution by lethal injection as opposed to the electric chair, more race-related dialogue, and casual profanity.", "The detective drama television show Veronica Mars , which like the film includes the theme of class issues, featured a 2005 episode, \" One Angry Veronica \", in which the title character is selected for jury duty. The episode flips the film's format and depicts one holdout convincing the jury to convict the privileged defendants of assault against a less well-off victim, despite their lawyers initially convincing 11 jury members of a not guilty verdict.", "In a 2022 episode of The Equalizer called \" Vox Populi ,\" Aunt Vi is the only juror who doesn't automatically assume that the black male defendant is obviously guilty of the rape and murder of a white woman. As McCall works the case outside of the courtroom, Vi challenges the evidence and assumptions of the prosecution's narrative with the other jurors.", "Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov also made a 2007 Academy Award -nominated adaptation, 12 , featuring a Chechen teen on trial in Moscow.", "A 2015 Chinese adaptation, 12 Citizens , follows the plot of the original 1957 American film, while including characters reflecting contemporary Beijing society, including a cab driver, guard, businessman, policeman, a retiree persecuted in a 1950s political movement, and others. [ 71 ]", "Juror 8 is a 2019 South Korean adaptation, directed by Hong Seung-wan.", "The film has also been subject to parody. In 2015, the Comedy Central TV series Inside Amy Schumer aired a half-hour parody of the film titled \"12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer\". [ 72 ] [ 73 ]", "The film was also parodied in the BBC Television comedy Hancock's Half Hour , starring Tony Hancock and Sid James , and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson , in the episode broadcast on October 16, 1959. Family Guy paid tribute to the film with its Season 11 episode titled \" 12 and a Half Angry Men \", and King of the Hill acknowledged the film with their parody \"Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men\" in season 3.", "The American adult animated sitcom Krapopolis also parodied the film in the fifth episode of its first season, titled \"12 Angry Goat Herders\". In it, Tyrannis invents the court system after Shlub is accused of eating the goats of the goat farmers. Tyrannis represented Shlub while the goat farmers were represented by Brenda the Sphinx. [ 73 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Poster_of_12_%282003_film%29.png/250px-Poster_of_12_%282003_film%29.png", "Directed by": "Lawrence Bridges", "Written by": "Lawrence Bridges", "Produced by": "Lawrence Bridges", "Starring": "Alison Elliott , Tony Griffin and Allen Lulu", "Edited by": "Lawrence Bridges", "Release date": "2003 ( 2003 )", "Running time": "124 minutes"}
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["12 is an American independent feature film written, directed, edited and produced over the course of 10 years by filmmaker Lawrence Bridges . Considered the longest continuous production in film's history, up to that point, 12 is also the first film to use the aging of its actors as a practical effect. The film received acclaim from such notable publications as Variety , [ 1 ] Shoot , [ 2 ] and the Los Angeles Times , [ 3 ] while playing at over 15 festivals worldwide. [ 1 ]", "The film is a postmodern spoof that tells the story of Zeus ' modern-day illegitimate children , Filmore (Tony Griffin) and his half-sister Marie-Noel ( Alison Elliott ), who are forced to move from their ranch on the Channel Islands because their neighbors have grown suspicious of the fact they haven't aged for decades. Meanwhile, the U.S. government wants to turn their land into a national park . When the twelve Greek Gods return to Los Angeles for relaxation Zeus expects them to correctly identify the play fated and modeled around their current lives, Oscar Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest , and perform the work flawlessly, in its entirety, for the Gods' entertainment. By such means, as the play's plot unfolds, the children are guaranteed new, credible lives. \"Act or die,\" he commands. But if they fail to perform the play to its conclusion, or if they rebel, they will be killed by jealous Hera . The mere existence of these illegitimate children are an outrage to her, representing Zeus' countless infidelities.", "12 , whose title is often mistakenly derived from the number of years it took to create the film, is described by Variety as \"equal parts L.A. love story, The Importance of Being Earnest , spoof on Greek gods and personal diary of actual events from 1988 to 1998.\" [ 1 ] The director used more than 500,000 feet (150,000 m) of film . [ 3 ]", "Shot over the course of a decade, Bridges filmed 12 whenever the actors were available and \"never imposed a deadline\" on the project. [ 4 ] Throughout the course of shooting, Bridges captured footage of natural disasters and major political events, including the 1994 Northridge earthquake , the Malibu fires, four lunar eclipses and two eclipses of the sun and the Rodney King riots , which were all included in the film. Bridges explained, \"My camera was always loaded and the batteries charged and often it traveled with me in my car to and from work. When there was a disaster, I was always ready to document it.\" [ 5 ]", "In a rare twist of fate, nearly all of the original actors cast participated in the entire shoot, despite some road blocks along the way. While on a separate commercial shoot in Minneapolis, Allen Lulu suffered a heart attack caused by Phen-Phen. Additionally, Golde Starger' was diagnosed with cancer in the middle of the shoot, and thankfully, recovered. \"There were divorces and there were babies born. I guess when you look at all the things that could have gone wrong and didn't, I'm a very lucky man,\" Bridges told Indie Slate . [ 6 ] Additionally, Bridges adopted a flexible mentality in regards to continuity. As the actors aged and evolved, the one factor that remained semi-constant was wardrobe. For example, Griffin, who played Filmore, wore the same suite for 10 years. [ 4 ] Dramatic hair and weight change was even accounted for in the storyline.", "The film was shot on 35mm Kodak short ends using Arri cameras and Zeiss Superspeed prime lenses. The short ends were stock test samples from 1989 to 1999. The production used minimal on-set lighting, mostly opting for available light. The camera dolly used throughout the production of the film was actually a homemade dolly that Bridges converted from a baby stroller.", "More than its plot and themes, 12 is recognized for its unique style. Drawing inspiration from the French New Wave movement, poetry, and improvisation techniques, Bridges' film is inconsistent in tone, which some believe occurred because of the large span of time in which it was produced. One journalist described 12 as \"shifting capriciously between the near-profound and the pointlessly silly.\" The first half of the film especially has been considered nonlinear in regards to its narrative structure. [ citation needed ]", "None of the music in 12 was original score, yet the film incorporated over 100 different cues of music. More than 60 of those cues were classical in nature, incorporating Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and the like. 12 is the first film for which the composer John Adams has allowed his music to be used. [ citation needed ]", "12 explores a variety of themes and attitudes that relate to a postmodern perspective on Greek mythology set within modern day Los Angeles. The idea of juxtaposition—Oscar Wilde / Greek mythology, mortals/immortals, grand scenery/run down Los Angeles streets is evidenced throughout. As Bridges himself states, \" 12 is a diary of L.A., a cinematic record of the natural and political convulsions gripping our town during the late-1980s and into the millennium.\" [ 5 ]", "Bridges explained his rationale in making 12 to Shoot saying,\"Being the filmmaker, I clearly am defining myself as a radical independent. That's why I made the film. It's anti-everything in Hollywood. Not because of Hollywood – this is what I would do under any circumstance. I'm in love with the aesthetic, poetic and literary potential of film, and that's what I wanted to express.\" [ 2 ]", "Just as the film blurs the boundaries of life and art, so does its distribution. 12 is shown via guerrilla drive-ins , [ 7 ] a movement the filmmaker created, which entails projecting the piece on walls of buildings throughout Los Angeles and instructing viewers to tune their car radios to a specified station. Locations have included a Staples store on Sunset Boulevard, a parking lot behind the Los Angeles Police Department 's Hollywood offices and a parking lot near a Sportmart in West Los Angeles.", "Bridges said he created the guerrilla drive-in in an effort to \"paint the artwork back on the subject of its inception – projecting what you filmed back on to the wall at night.\" [ 2 ] Although the film was an out of pocket expense for Bridges, he has said he is \"waiting for the audience to find it, in terms of the marketplace,\" but also considers 12 to be public art that was privately funded. [ 6 ]", "In 2002, Bridges began a grassroots effort to be considered for Academy awards and passed out 12 T-shirts to members of the academy. However, police mistook him as a street vagrant and had him taken into custody. Coincidentally, the Los Angeles Times caught the incident on camera and published an image of Bridges being arrested wearing the ' 12 for Best Picture' shirt. [ 6 ]", "Although it never saw commercial success, 12 is considered a cult film that has played at more than 15 festivals worldwide and was honored with a \"Best of Fest\" award at the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival in 2004. It is critically acclaimed for its unique production process, complex and current themes and stunning visuals.", "LA Weekly film critic Paul Malcolm praised the filmmaker's inventive nature, writing, \"Bridges, a director of television commercials, has a feel for transformative compositions that can remake even the most familiar environment -- a kitchen pantry, a corner on Wilshire Boulevard -- into a place of wonder.\" [ 8 ]", "Variety reviewer Robert Koehler applauded Bridges for his \"dizzying, unforgettable adventure,\" writing, \"Griffin and Elliott provide a good grounding for the viewer's attention as the deconstructed stream of images and story roll by, but much of the fascination here is not in the highly uneven perfs, but in pic's raw enthusiasm for the film medium, montage, the juxtaposition of image and sound and the reimagining of Greek classicism in a SoCal setting.\" [ 1 ]", "Tod Booth of the San Francisco Film Society called 12 \"ambitious, discursive and hilarious\" and described the film to be \"as challenging and sweeping as a Pynchon novel-a Marx Brothers version of a Wagnerian opera, with Jean-Luc Godard mixed in.\" [ 9 ]", "In his monthly Media Matters column on Hollywood Network, Miles Beller wrote, \" 12 is by turns funny and infuriating, loony and inspire. Here is a movie that juggles actualities and artifice with manic glee. [...] [Bridges'] 12 is a daring, new vision of the human condition, a work of art that sublimely shows the folly and fulfillment of the ascent of man.\" [ 5 ]"]
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The 11th Hour
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/The_11th_Hour_Poster.jpg/250px-The_11th_Hour_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Nadia Conners Leila Conners", "Written by": "Nadia Conners Leonardo DiCaprio Leila Conners Petersen", "Produced by": "Leonardo DiCaprio Leila Conners Petersen Chuck Castleberry Brian Gerber", "Narrated by": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Edited by": "Luis Alvarez y Alvarez Pietro Scalia", "Music by": "Jean-Pascal Beintus Eric Avery", "Production company": "Appian Way", "Distributed by": "Warner Independent Pictures", "Release dates": "May 19, 2007 ( 2007-05-19 ) (Cannes Film Festival) August 17, 2007 ( 2007-08-17 )", "Running time": "92 minutes [ 1 ]", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$985,207 [ 2 ]"}
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["The 11th Hour is a 2007 documentary film on the state of the natural environment created, produced, co-written and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio . It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis and Pierre André Senizergues, and distributed by Warner Independent Pictures .", "Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May 16–27, 2007) and it was released on August 17, 2007, in the year in which the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations global warming panel IPCC was published and about a year after Al Gore 's An Inconvenient Truth , another film documentary about global warming .", "With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , physicist Stephen Hawking , Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai , journalist Armand Betscher, and Paul Hawken , the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation , mass species extinction , and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy.", "The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility , and conservation .", "Experts interviewed underlined that everyone must become involved to reverse the destruction and climate change . The role of humans in the destruction of the environment is explained from the viewpoint of several different professional fields including environmental scientists, oceanographers, economic historians, and medical specialists. The many experts called upon in this documentary demonstrate a consensus concerning human-caused climate change, and the many other impacts of industrialization such as the dramatic loss of species ( biodiversity ).", "In March 2008 The 11th Hour was awarded the Earthwatch Environmental Film Award at National Geographic in Washington, DC. [ 4 ]", "The film received generally favorable reviews from critics, with a 67% \"Fresh\" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The site's critics consensus reads, \"Well-researched and swimming in scientific data, this global warming documentary offers some practical and wide-ranging solutions to our climate crisis.\" [ 5 ] \nIt has an average score of 63% on Metacritic based on 30 reviews, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". [ 6 ]", "Kevin Crust, a critic from the Los Angeles Times , rated the film highly:"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9c/11-14_%282003_film%29_poster.jpg/250px-11-14_%282003_film%29_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Greg Marcks", "Written by": "Greg Marcks", "Produced by": "Beau Flynn John Morrissey", "Starring": "Rachael Leigh Cook Barbara Hershey Patrick Swayze Hilary Swank Ben Foster Clark Gregg Colin Hanks Shawn Hatosy Stark Sands Henry Thomas", "Cinematography": "Shane Hurlbut", "Edited by": "Dan Lebental Richard Nord", "Music by": "Clint Mansell", "Production companies": "Firm Films Media 8 Entertainment", "Distributed by": "New Line Cinema", "Release dates": "May 16, 2003 ( 2003-05-16 ) ( Cannes ) August 12, 2005 ( 2005-08-12 ) ( San Francisco )", "Running time": "86 minutes", "Countries": "United States Canada", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$6 million [ 1 ]"}
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["11:14 is a 2003 neo-noir black comedy thriller film written and directed by Greg Marcks (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of Rachael Leigh Cook , Ben Foster , Clark Gregg , Colin Hanks , Shawn Hatosy , Barbara Hershey , Stark Sands , Hilary Swank , Patrick Swayze , and Henry Thomas . It follows five different storylines that all lead up to a series of events that happen one evening at 11:14.", "The film premiered at the 56th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2003 and also screened at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 2003. It received a limited theatrical release in San Francisco , California on August 12, 2005, before being released on DVD and Blu-ray by New Line Home Entertainment on October 11, 2005. [ 2 ]", "The film involves a series of interconnected events that converge around two car-related accidents at 11:14 p.m. The connections between the events are not apparent at first, but are gradually revealed by a series of progressively receding flashbacks .", "11:14 - 11:34", "11:09 - 11:29", "11:04 - 11:24", "10:59 - 11:19", "10:54 - 11:14", "On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 11:14 has a 92% “fresh” approval rating based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. [ 3 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 4 ]", "Lisa Nesselson of Variety praised 11:14 as a \"zippy and sardonic feast of bad decision-making under pressure\" that \"artfully molds the seemingly unrelated misfortunes of 10 characters into a satisfying and consistently entertaining whole.\" [ 5 ] Wally Hammond of Time Out gave the film a mixed review, noting: \"Marcks mounts all this as an essay in synchronicity, replete with flashbacks, overlaps, connections and black humour... there are some outrageous, funny moments and Marcks directs with minor panache. But it’s ultimately an unsatisfactory experience, akin to observing someone else fill in a crossword puzzle.\" [ 6 ] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle called it a \"meticulous piece of plot construction, entertaining, full of incidents and infused throughout with a mischievous and bleak sense of humor.\" [ 7 ] Ryan Lambie of Den of Geek listed it as one of the top 25 underrated films of 2003. [ 8 ]"]
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11-11-11
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11-11-11_(2011_film)
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/6elevensmovieposter.jpg", "Directed by": "Darren Lynn Bousman", "Written by": "Darren Lynn Bousman", "Produced by": "Loris Curci Christian Molina Ferran Monje Wayne Alan Rice", "Starring": "Timothy Gibbs Michael Landes Wendy Glenn Lolo Herrero", "Cinematography": "Joseph White", "Edited by": "Martin Hunter", "Music by": "Joseph Bishara", "Production company": "Capacity Pictures", "Distributed by": "Epic Pictures Group Rocket Releasing", "Release date": "November 11, 2011 ( 2011-11-11 )", "Running time": "97 minutes", "Countries": "United States Spain", "Language": "English", "Box office": "$7 million [ 1 ]"}
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["11-11-11 is a 2011 supernatural horror film written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman . The film is set at 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month and concerns an entity from another world that enters the earthly realm through Heaven's 11th gate. The film was released in 17 theaters domestically on November 11, 2011. It was distributed by Epic Pictures Group in North America, though most of its revenues were generated from foreign showings. [ 1 ]", "Joseph Crone wakes in his hotel room at 11:11 AM on November 7, 2011. His manager, Grant, arrives and urges Joseph to write his next novel after telling him that his previous book sold over 5 million copies. Joseph begins writing about how after his wife and son died, he lost all faith in a higher power and God and writes \" God is dead , or maybe he was never alive.", "On November 8, 2011, Joseph attends his support group meeting where Sadie is telling her story. Outside, Sadie tells Joseph that he should speak up, calling him good with words, and gives him a notebook. On departure, Joseph is immediately in a car accident. At the hospital, he has an MRI scan and the doctors reveal to him that he is perfectly healthy and uninjured while the other driver was killed in the crash. Joseph tells Sadie that he feels that he has no purpose and prays for God to kill him every day. He then examines his watch and sees that it stopped exactly at 11:11. That night, Joseph gets a call from his estranged brother, Samuel, who is living in Spain with their father, Richard, and learns their father is dying.", "On November 9, 2011, Joseph goes to Barcelona , Spain, to visit his father. There, Joseph meets with Samuel, who uses a wheelchair. Samuel urges Joseph to put aside his hatred for the church and asks Joseph to stay the night. Later Samuel tells Joseph that his congregation dwindled away and asks him to try to get some of his fans to follow his church.", "In Samuel's study, the local housekeeper Ana demands that Samuel show Joseph the video de los demonios . Ana shows Joseph a security video taken on November 3 that depicts the faint outline of what appears to be a demon at 11:11 PM. Joseph tells Samuel that he's been seeing the number 11-11 frequently in the past few days. Joseph later talks to Ana and finds a diary, only titled El Libro de Ana . Ana claims that it's the gospel according to her. That night, Joseph reads that people who frequently see the number 11-11 have been \"Activated\", and saves Samuel, who is being strangled by demon-like creatures.", "On November 10, 2011, at a meeting of Samuel's congregation, a man named Javier brandishes a gun at Samuel, dropping a camera in the process. Joseph disarms Javier, who runs off. Joseph and Samuel then visit the cemetery where their mother, Lauren, is buried. Joseph points out that Samuel's birthday and Lauren's death both took place on November 11. Joseph tells Samuel that the attack the night before, Joseph's accident, David's death, and the apparitions all occurred at 11:11 on the clock. Samuel urges Joseph to not look for meaning where there is none. Joseph goes to find a shop to develop the photos on Javier's camera, and the employees say that the photos will be developed the next day. Joseph visits an occult bookstore where the keeper reads a passage from a book, detailing that on November 11, 2011, a sacrifice will be made that will \"destroy faith and the Serpent will rise\". Joseph becomes convinced that Samuel is a prophet to save the church and that on November 11, 2011, at 11:11, Samuel will be sacrificed by these demons for the devil to rise.", "On November 11, 2011, Joseph finds that Sadie has arrived in Barcelona, and they are cornered in a maze by Javier, who brandishes the gun at Joseph before fleeing. When Joseph and Sadie return to the house, they find that Richard has died. Joseph breaks into Javier's home and finds Samuel's photos in a diary with the word SACRIFICIO scrawled on its pages, along with 11-11-11. Javier finds Joseph and shoots him.", "Joseph comes to that night, calls Sadie, and tells her to get the photos that were developed as he runs back to the house. He finds Samuel, who urges Joseph to save the notebooks that chronicle the church's history. As they do, they're cornered by the demonic beings, who take Samuel at 11:02PM. Joseph attempts to find and rescue Samuel as Sadie gets the photos. Joseph finds Samuel, suspended in the air, surrounded by the beings. A sinkhole opens, causing Joseph to fall away from rescue, but he manages to crawl out of the sinkhole as one of the creatures readies a blade to stab Samuel. Joseph steps in the path of the blade exactly at 11:11, and the beings disappear.", "Sadie, looking through the photos, burns them all. Joseph and Samuel lie out in the rain as Joseph begins to die. Samuel tells Joseph that 11-11 was not a window opening, but one closing, and that the end of the world could only be stopped then. Joseph finds the notebooks and reads one that Samuel wrote, depicting his own death. Samuel stands, collects the notebooks, and leaves Joseph to die after revealing that the beings were, in fact, angels and that he was the devil that needed to be stopped. A new religion will start, and Joseph's, Samuel's, Sadie's, Grant's, and Ana's books will become the new gospels.", "Sometime later, a large church is filled with Samuel's followers, each bearing a book titled The Book of Joseph .", "Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 7% approval rating based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 3.71/10. [ 2 ] Metacritic reports a score of 26/100 based on 5 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable\" reviews. [ 3 ] The film was most popular in Brazil and Russia. [ 1 ]"]
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10½
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%C2%BD
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/82/10_1-2_film.jpg/250px-10_1-2_film.jpg", "Directed by": "Daniel Grou", "Written by": "Claude Lalonde", "Produced by": "Pierre Gendron", "Starring": "Claude Legault Robert Naylor Eugénie Beaudry", "Cinematography": "Bernard Couture", "Edited by": "Valérie Héroux", "Production company": "Zoofilms", "Distributed by": "Les Films Equinoxe", "Release dates": "October 13, 2010 ( 2010-10-13 ) (Festival du Nouveau Cinéma) October 29, 2010 ( 2010-10-29 ) (Quebec)", "Running time": "108 minutes", "Country": "Canada", "Language": "French", "Budget": "CAD $3.9 million"}
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["10 + 1 ⁄ 2 is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Daniel Grou and written by Claude Lalonde. It premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal . The story involves a ten-year-old boy called Tommy in the youth-protection system in Quebec .", "10 + 1 ⁄ 2 follows several child psychiatrists, including Claude Legault 's Gilles, as they attempt to break through the brittle exterior of a seriously ill-tempered young boy (Robert Naylor). The movie captures the unpleasant reality of life within a halfway house for juvenile delinquents.", "In a review for The Montreal Gazette , Brendan Kelly called the film \"gripping\" and praised the performances of Claude Legault (\"so good as Gilles\") and Robert Naylor (\"a revelation\"). [ 1 ] He noted, however, that due to the nature of the story, the film was \"not much fun to watch\". [ 1 ]", "The film won the 2010 Main Award of Mannheim-Heidelberg at the 59th International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg . [ 2 ] At the 2010 International Film Festival Bratislava , the film won the FIPRESCI Jury Award and the Student Jury Award. For his role as Tommy, Robert Naylor won the award for Best Actor. [ 3 ] Claude Legault won Prix Jutra for Best Actor."]
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The 10th Victim
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10th_Victim
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/10th-victim.jpg", "Directed by": "Elio Petri", "Screenplay by": "Tonino Guerra Giorgio Salvioni Ennio Flaiano Elio Petri [ 1 ]", "Based on": " Seventh Victim \" by Robert Sheckley [ 1 ]", "Produced by": "Carlo Ponti [ 1 ]", "Starring": "Marcello Mastroianni Ursula Andress Elsa Martinelli Salvo Randone Massimo Serato Milo Quesada Luce Bonifassy George Wang", "Cinematography": "Gianni Di Venanzo [ 1 ]", "Edited by": "Ruggero Mastroianni [ 1 ]", "Music by": "Piero Piccioni [ 1 ]", "Production companies": "C.C. Champion Les Films Concordia [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Interfilm [ 2 ]", "Release dates": "3 December 1965 ( 1965-12-03 ) (Italy) 10 February 1967 ( 1967-02-10 ) (France)", "Running time": "92 minutes", "Countries": "Italy France [ 1 ]", "Languages": "Italian English [ 3 ]", "Budget": "₤ 632 million [ 4 ]", "Box office": "₤620 million [ 5 ]"}
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["The 10th Victim ( Italian : La decima vittima ) is a 1965 science fiction film directed and co-written by Elio Petri , starring Marcello Mastroianni , Ursula Andress , Elsa Martinelli , and Salvo Randone . An international co-production between Italy and France, it is based on Robert Sheckley 's 1953 short story \" Seventh Victim \".", "Taking place in the year 2079 in the aftermath of World War III , the film's focus is on a government-endorsed program known as \"The Big Hunt\", whereby contestants from around the world act as \"hunters\" and \"victims\" in two-person battles to the death as a means of avoiding mass warfare. The plot follows veteran Big Hunt contestants Caroline Meredith (Andress) and Marcello Poletti (Mastroianni), who are respectively assigned the roles of hunter and victim for one such confrontation, which is complicated by their budding romance. Like Petri's other films, The 10th Victim is a work of socio-political satire, while also combining science fiction themes with conventions of the commedia all'italiana genre. [ 6 ]", "Upon release, The 10th Victim performed below expectations in Italy and received mixed reviews from critics. [ 6 ] In the decades since its initial release, the film has garnered a cult following , and its imagery has been referenced or parodied in other films, notably the Austin Powers franchise; it is also considered to be a forerunner to works depicting televised fights to the death, such as The Hunger Games . A novelization of the film, written by Sheckley, was published in 1966, [ 7 ] this was followed by two sequels, Victim Prime and Hunter/Victim in 1987 and 1988, respectively. [ 8 ] Although several attempts to produce a remake of The 10th Victim have been announced, none have entered production. [ 9 ]", "In the 21st century, World War III has recently ended. In order to prevent a potential fourth war, those with violent tendencies are given an opportunity to engage in \"The Big Hunt,\" the world's most popular form of entertainment. This event attracts participants seeking fame and fortune. The competition involves ten rounds, with each competitor experiencing five rounds as the hunters and five as the victims. The last person standing after ten rounds becomes immensely wealthy and can retire.", "Caroline Meredith, as victim, has just claimed her ninth kill and is next on the hunt for the tenth. Eager to maximize her financial gains, Meredith aims for a flawless kill in front of the cameras, having secured a significant sponsorship from the Ming Tea Company. Marcello Poletti is selected as the victim; however, his winnings from six kills have already been spent by his mistress, Olga, and his ex-wife, Lidia.", "To carry out her plan, Caroline travels to Rome and assumes the role of a reporter assigned to study the sexual preoccupations of Italian men. She requests an interview with Marcello at the Temple of Venus . Suspecting something amiss, Marcello plans for Caroline to be attacked by a crocodile in front of a rival television company's cameras, but she manages to escape. Caroline later entices Marcello to the beach, convincing him of her love. After drugging Marcello, she brings him back to the Temple of Venus.", "In a dramatic twist, Caroline shoots Marcello on live television, only to discover that he loaded the gun with blanks. Marcello retaliates by shooting her, but her bulletproof armor saves her. Marcello and Caroline decide to break free from The Big Hunt and board a plane, ultimately choosing to get married. The movie concludes with the pilot showering them with a cascade of flowers.", "The original short story was written from the point of view of a man hunting his seventh target, a woman, whereas in the movie she is the hunter. He finds her apparently defenceless sitting in a café. Talking to her, she tells him how she is new to the game but could not bear to kill her own target, and now expects to die. The hunter falls in love with his victim, as in the movie, and eventually reveals who he is. She has tricked him; she shoots him, joining the ranks of the \"Tens\".", "The story was adapted for radio on X Minus One in 1957. [ 10 ]", "Source: [ 2 ]", "An avid reader of science fiction, Petri began work on an adaptation of Sheckley's story in 1961; producer Carlo Ponti came onboard the project due to the involvement of Mastroianni. A variety of screenwriters worked on the script to varying degrees without receiving an onscreen credit, including Suso Cecchi D'Amico , Nate Monaster and Ernesto Gastaldi . Ponti's lack of interest in the science fiction genre led to his mandating of more comedic elements in the story against Petri's wishes, including altering its original, pessimistic ending. Backed by financial support from Joseph E. Levine 's Embassy Pictures , filming took place primarily on location in Rome and New York City from June to September 1964; produced at the height of the pop art movement in Italy, Petri sought to create a vision of the future that juxtaposes that style's imagery with Rome's ancient and modern architectural structures, such as the Colosseum and the EUR district . [ 6 ]", "The 10th Victim was released in Italy on 3 December 1965. [ 11 ] The film grossed a little over 620 million lire in Italy upon its theatrical release. [ 5 ] It was released in France on February 10, 1967. [ 12 ]", "The 10th Victim was distributed abroad, including in the United States and Canada by Embassy Pictures in late December 1965. [ 5 ] [ 13 ]", "On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds a score of 80% based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 7.35/10. [ 14 ] In contemporary reviews, the Monthly Film Bulletin praised the visuals of the film, but stated that \"the film is never quite as much fun as it should be, possibly because of rather ponderous dubbing and possibly because imaginative camera angles cannot totally make up for lapses in narrative.\" [ 1 ] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times noted a \"wildly imaginative plot\" but declared the film overall to be \"a clever but patently self-conscious exercise ... The cleverness is so insistent that it soon becomes excessive and absurd, and the gamesmanship of the satire becomes too cute, too much a bore.\" [ 15 ] Variety found the film superior to Jean-Luc Godard 's Alphaville , praising both Mastroianni and Andress, as well as Elsa Martinelli and Massimo Serato . [ 16 ] The review also noted the cinematography of Gianni di Venanzo . [ 16 ] Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post wrote that the film is \"not handled so crisply as the material promises\", finding that director Elio Petri \"did not find quite the exact, cohesive tone such material demands. The result is curiously pedestrian.\" [ 17 ] Algis Budrys of Galaxy Science Fiction described Sheckley's novelization as \"a reasonably good chase novel\" which would, nonetheless, disappoint readers, whether they wanted a literary version of the film's Italian satire and symbolism or the 'chilling futurama of legalized manslaughter' the cover promised. [ 18 ]", "Nick Chen of the British Film Institute described The 10th Victim as a cult film . The film would influence later films such as Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). In the audio commentary for the film, director Jay Roach mentions on that a sequence was \"inspired by The Tenth Victim\", which actor Mike Myers interjects that it was \"Stolen from.\" [ 19 ]", "It was also the first film to feature the reality TV death game theme, which was later used in other works such as Battle Royale , Series 7: The Contenders , and The Hunger Games . [ 20 ] [ unreliable source? ]"]
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The 10th Kingdom
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1c/10th_Kingdom_DVD.jpg/250px-10th_Kingdom_DVD.jpg", "Written by": "Simon Moore", "Directed by": "David Carson Herbert Wise", "Starring": "Kimberly Williams Scott Cohen Ed O'Neill John Larroquette Daniel Lapaine Dianne Wiest Ann-Margret", "Music by": "Anne Dudley", "Country of origin": "United States", "Original language": "English", "No. of episodes": "5", "Producers": "Robert Halmi Sr. Robert Halmi Jr. Simon Moore", "Cinematography": "Chris Howard Lawrence Jones", "Editors": "Andrew McClelland Chris Wimble", "Running time": "417 minutes\n = 390 minutes (edited)", "Production company": "Hallmark Entertainment", "Budget": "$44 million", "Network": "NBC", "Release": "February 27 ( 2000-02-27 ) – March 6, 2000 ( 2000-03-06 )"}
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["The 10th Kingdom is an American fairytale fantasy miniseries written by Simon Moore and produced by Britain's Carnival Films , Germany's Babelsberg Film und Fernsehen, and the American's Hallmark Entertainment . It depicts the adventures of a young woman and her father after they are transported from New York City , through a magical mirror, into a parallel world of fairy tales .", "The miniseries was initially broadcast over five nights in two-hour episodes, each airing weekly, on NBC , beginning February 27, 2000 and concluding March 6 of that same year. It won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2000. The premiere had more than 14.04 million viewers. [ 1 ]", "In a hidden realm, fairy tale characters inhabit nine magical kingdoms where an Evil Queen plots to rule them. She is held in a Fourth Kingdom prison. This kingdom is under the rule of Prince Wendell, the spoiled, arrogant grandson of Snow White . Weeks before his coronation ceremony, the Queen enlists the help of the brutal Troll King and his three children to release her right before the Prince makes his annual visit to the prison. Prince Wendell is captured by the Evil Queen , who is his wicked stepmother . She turns him into a Golden Retriever while her very own retriever is transformed into a facsimile of Wendell. In a panic, the transformed Prince flees through the prison, stumbles across a mirror portal in the basement, and is transported to New York City . The Troll King orders his bumbling children Burly, Blabberwort, and Bluebell to bring back the escaped Prince while the Queen releases a half-wolf prisoner (who is simply called Wolf ) to retrieve him instead.", "Meanwhile, two regular Manhattan inhabitants, headstrong waitress Virginia Lewis and her oafish father Tony are entangled in the mishaps caused by the new magical arrivals to the city, including Wolf falling helplessly in love with Virginia and Tony being given six wishes (which he foolishly uses for personal gain, upon which they have a tendency to backfire). With Virginia having already determined that the transformed Wendell (named by a fellow waitress as 'Prince' even before Virginia learns his identity)--is more than just a normal dog, Tony uses his last wish to acquire the ability to understand the dog, who urges them to travel back to The Nine Kingdoms with him to break the spell. Tony, feeling responsible for Prince, reluctantly accepts, and Virginia and Tony are taken back to the realm through the magic mirror.", "At first, Tony and Virginia are desperate to just get home, while the magic mirror is being taken from place to place around the Kingdoms – being cleared out of the prison, taken as a prize for a sheep-rearing contest, and then sold in an auction. The group travels the lands in pursuit of the mirror, facing many dangers and challenges in the process, including Virginia's hair being enchanted to an impossible length, pursuit by the Queen's Huntsman, and a conspiracy by the descendants of Little Bo Peep to control a town's wishing well . During their journey, Wolf questions his loyalty to the Queen in order to gain favor with stubborn Virginia and quickly sides with them. This act prompts the Queen to send her relentless and cold-blooded Huntsman to capture the Prince along with Virginia and Tony.", "Virginia eventually meets the ghost of Snow White , who reveals she is destined to save the Nine Kingdoms. Tony also recognizes the Queen as his long lost wife and Virginia’s mother. They travel to the castle to stop her, but Wolf seems to have betrayed Tony and Virginia. They are thrown into the dungeons where Tony reveals to Virginia that her mother had been suffering a mental breakdown and had tried to drown Virginia the night she left. The Queen has her imposter Prince Wendell crowned king and then tries to poison all the monarchs who attend the ceremony.", "Luckily, Wolf had switched the poison for a sleeping potion, so everyone wakes up unharmed. Virginia must kill the Evil Queen in self-defense, which pains her greatly. The real Prince Wendell turns back into a human and takes the throne, pardoning the trolls, and allowing them to return to their kingdom after the death of their father. Grateful to Tony for all of his help, now-King Wendell offers him a job at the palace, which he accepts. Virginia and Wolf, now expecting a child, return to New York City.", "Simon Moore , writer of the screenplay, wondered about what happened after the Happily Ever After of old fairytales. His vision became The 10th Kingdom .", "According to The New York Times \"There are humorous allusions to familiar characters like the Seven Dwarfs and Rapunzel throughout the 10 hours and appearances by updated versions of Snow White ( Camryn Manheim ) and Cinderella (Ann-Margret).\" Executive producer Robert Halmi Sr. explains, \"We wanted to take the flip side of these well-known characters. For instance, Cinderella is now 200 years old. And Camryn took her part because she loved the idea that Snow White was now overweight.\" [ 3 ] Camryn Manheim elaborates, \"Well, I've been playing her in my bedroom for many years now, so I was ready for her. But it was wonderful, I grew up reading about Snow White and fantasizing about being the fairest of them all, and there I was. My manager told me that NBC had offered me the role of Snow White and I said, 'I'll take it.' I agreed to do it even before reading the script because I was so thrilled that they were moving away from the conventional Snow White. I am playing Snow White, and we've come very far from that image when I grew up and we're getting all kinds of images of beauty. So it was really thrilling to get in that tight corset and be able to accentuate my assets, no pun intended and, yes, it was a throwback to my finer days\" [ 4 ] \n The Times reported that Virginia Lewis's portrayer, Kimberly Williams, \"prefers to work in film and theatre rather than television. \"Because TV happens so fast, I feel a sense of panic,\" she explains. Yet, despite the misgivings, she could not resist the offer to star in The 10th Kingdom alongside Dianne Wiest, Jimmy Nail, and Rutger Hauer. \"Simon has woven together all the old fairytales and updated them, exploring what happened after Happily Ever After,\" explains Williams, whose character Virginia is a New York waitress thrust into a parallel world inhabited by trolls and an evil stepmother.\".", "The miniseries was initially broadcast as five two-hour episodes on NBC , beginning February 27, 2000. The 10th Kingdom won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2000. [ 5 ]", "It was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sky One . [ 6 ]", "Variety's Laura Fries (Feb. 21, 2000) asserted that \"Kimberly Williams is doe-eyed and pretty and is heavily featured throughout, but 10 hours is a lot for this star to carry on her shoulders.\" [ 7 ] Christopher Null Filmcritic.com felt that \"Larroquette was an unfortunate casting choice. 30 minutes of Night Court has always been my limit on the guy. 417 minutes is too much of his abrasive attitude to handle.\" [ 8 ]", "During the original airing of The 10th Kingdom there was a toll-free number displayed so that one could order a set of the novelization, the CD soundtrack, and the entire miniseries on three VHS tapes. In May 2000, The 10th Kingdom was released by Hallmark Entertainment and Artisan Entertainment (now Lions Gate Entertainment) on VHS as both a two-tape set and as an Extended Play single tape edition. Approximately two hours of the miniseries were cut out to make it fit on two tapes. None of the footage dealt with major plot elements, but the sheer amount removed resulted in a significantly different viewing experience.", "The miniseries was later released as aired on a three-disc DVD set in October 2000. A two-disc set followed in May 2002, which utilized one double-sided disc and one single-sided disc and included the special feature \"The 10th Kingdom: The Making of an Epic\", hosted by John Larroquette . The complete 5 episode series was made available for instant streaming on Netflix as of the 3rd week of August 2012. This is the first time the series was presented in individual episode format since the initial broadcast on NBC.", "On March 19, 2013, after several years of unavailability, Mill Creek Entertainment reissued the complete miniseries on 3 DVDs, retaining the making-of featurette and presents the miniseries as five separate parts. Also on that date, it was made available on Amazon .", "On November 3, 2015, Mill Creek Entertainment released \"The 10th Kingdom - 15th Anniversary Special Edition\" Blu-ray, marking its first-ever high-definition release. [ 9 ]", "The novelization , released in February 2000 by Hallmark-Kensington Books, was written by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith under the name Kathryn Wesley. The novel was based on an early version of the script; however, only a few differences exist between the novel and the film, with most being slight changes in conversations and other minor details. For a number of years, it was available in a package with the VHS release of the movie and the soundtrack, but it is now out of print.", "Varèse Sarabande released a soundtrack album on compact disc, featuring the score by Anne Dudley and the Miriam Stockley cover version of \" Wishing on a Star \" heard over the opening title and end credits of each episode. [ 10 ]"]
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10th & Wolf
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Tenth_and_wolf.jpg/250px-Tenth_and_wolf.jpg", "Directed by": "Robert Moresco", "Written by": "Robert Moresco Allan Steele", "Produced by": "Suzanne DeLaurentiis Leo Rossi Joe Murphy", "Starring": "James Marsden Giovanni Ribisi Brad Renfro Piper Perabo Dash Mihok Lesley Ann Warren Dennis Hopper Brian Dennehy Francesco Salvi Val Kilmer", "Cinematography": "Alex Nepomniaschy", "Edited by": "Harvey Rosenstock", "Music by": "Aaron Zigman", "Distributed by": "THINKFilm", "Release dates": "April 21, 2006 ( 2006-04-21 ) ( PBIFF ) August 18, 2006 ( 2006-08-18 ) (United States)", "Running time": "110 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$8 million", "Box office": "$143,451"}
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["10th & Wolf is a 2006 film about the Philadelphia crime family , directed by Robert Moresco . It is based on an actual mob war in South Philadelphia . The movie stars James Marsden , Giovanni Ribisi and Brad Renfro , and features appearances by Dennis Hopper , Val Kilmer , Piper Perabo , Lesley Ann Warren , Tommy Lee , Francesco Salvi and Brian Dennehy .", "10th & Wolf was the last film starring Renfro to be released before his death at the age of 25.", "Tommy is the son of a Mafia hitman, who, after his father is killed by a rival, moves with his younger brother to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousin in Philadelphia . As the sole member of his family who is not involved in crime, Tommy joins the Marines and is deployed in Operation Desert Storm . He becomes disillusioned, however, when Saddam Hussein is still in power. Disenchanted with military service, Tommy assaults an MP and steals a colonel's Jeep . Arrested when the jeep runs out of gas, the movie opens with Tommy in the brig at a U.S. Marine base.", "An FBI agent (played by Dennehy) coerces Tommy into infiltrating the family business. The agent tells Tommy that he can protect his brother and cousin in return for evidence against the Sicilian Mafia , which is trying to take over the heroin trade in the United States. Tommy is instructed to wear a wire to record negotiations between his cousin and gang leader, Joey Marcucci, and Mafia boss Luciano Reggio.", "Tommy tries to obtain incriminating evidence against Reggio while protecting his cousin and younger brother in their fledgling attempts to become \"goodfellas\". His efforts to strike a balance between his family loyalties, and the FBI's need for evidence, take up most of the film's bulk.", "The movie was billed as having been \"inspired by a true story from the FBI agent known as 'Donnie Brasco'\", referencing the 1997 film of that name , which was based on former agent Joseph D. Pistone 's nonfiction book detailing his infiltration of the Mafia.", "While 10th & Wolf is set in Philadelphia, it was filmed in Pittsburgh . Scenes were shot at Tom's Diner and Bloom Cigar Company on the South Side and at Hartwood Mansion . [ 1 ]", "The film was panned by critics. It holds a 19% approval score on Rotten Tomatoes , with an average rating of 4/10, based on 27 reviews. [ 2 ] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 36 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable\" reviews. [ 3 ]", "The film was released in DVD on July 9, 2007."]
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10000 Years Later
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/10000_Years_Later_poster.jpeg/250px-10000_Years_Later_poster.jpeg", "Directed by": "Yi Li", "Release date": "March 27, 2015 ( 2015-03-27 )", "Running time": "93 minutes", "Country": "China", "Language": "Mandarin", "Box office": "CN¥27.7 million (China)"}
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["10000 Years Later ( Chinese : 一万年以后 ) is a 2015 Chinese animated epic action fantasy film directed by Yi Li. It was released on March 27, 2015. [ 1 ]", "This story takes place in the far future after a cataclysmic event that forces humanity to revert to a medieval-style civilization. Wugreb, the leader of a Tibetan tribe called the Wu Tribe, led an expedition to the Western Regions of China to rediscover an ancient city called Tech City, which their ancestors created at the acme of their civilization. Wugreb, however, became drunk with the new-found technology he recovered from Tech City, and uses it to create a vast army of monsters and demons to conquer the world, starting with the Western Regions.", "His plans for global domination were thwarted, however, by the guardian goddess of Tibet, Kelsang. Wugreb is then imprisoned within the tomb of Kuger for a thousand years. The effects of Wugreb's onslaught are evident around the world. Many new creatures and even new human species rise up because of Tech City's return to the world. The seal placed by Kelsang, holding Wugreb in his prison, begins to wane in power. It's up to a young storyteller and her warrior comrades from around the world to rise up and stand against the invasion of Wugreb and the return of Tech City.", "The film earned CN¥27.731 million at the Chinese box office. [ 2 ]"]
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108 Demon Kings
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/74/108_Demon_Kings_poster.jpg/250px-108_Demon_Kings_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Pascal Morelli", "Screenplay by": "Pascal Morelli Jean Pécheux", "Produced by": "François Cornuau Vincent Roget", "Starring": "Lucien Jean-Baptiste", "Cinematography": "François Hernandez", "Music by": "Rolfe Kent", "Production company": "Fundamental Films", "Distributed by": "Gébéka Films", "Release dates": "4 December 2014 ( 2014-12-04 ) (Forum des Images) 21 January 2015 ( 2015-01-21 ) (France)", "Running time": "104 minutes", "Countries": "France Belgium Luxembourg", "Language": "French", "Budget": "$11.4 million [ 1 ]"}
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["108 Demon Kings (French: 108 Rois-Démons ) is a 2014 animated family adventure film directed by Pascal Morelli. The film premiered at the Forum des Images on 4 December 2014 [ 2 ] before it was released theatrically wide in France on 21 January 2015 in France. [ 3 ]", "The film had 30,005 admissions at the French box office. [ 4 ]"]
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101 Reykjavík
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e9/101reykjavik.jpg/250px-101reykjavik.jpg", "Directed by": "Baltasar Kormákur", "Written by": "Hallgrímur Helgason Baltasar Kormákur", "Based on": "101 Reykjavík by Hallgrímur Helgason", "Produced by": "Ingvar Þórðarson Baltasar Kormákur", "Starring": "Victoria Abril Hilmir Snær Guðnason Hanna María Karlsdóttir", "Cinematography": "Peter Steuger", "Edited by": "Skule Eriksen Sigvaldi J. Kárason", "Music by": "Damon Albarn Einar Örn Benediktsson", "Production company": "Blueeyes Productions [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "101 Limited", "Release date": "1 June 2000 ( 2000-06-01 )", "Running time": "88 minutes", "Country": "Iceland", "Languages": "Icelandic English", "Box office": "$546,459 [ 2 ]"}
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["101 Reykjavík ( pronunciation ⓘ ) is a 2000 Icelandic romantic comedy film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Victoria Abril and Hilmir Snær Guðnason . It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Hallgrímur Helgason , [ 3 ] and both are set in Reykjavík , Iceland . The title is taken from the postal code for the Miðborg district of central Reykjavík, the postal code being a common way to refer to the area. The film won nine B-class film awards and received ten nominations most notably winning the Discovery Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival .", "The film centers on Hlynur, a thirty-year-old slacker who still lives with his mother, Berglind. His mother’s best friend and Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with the two for Christmas. While his mother is away, Hlynur learns Lola is a bisexual with a high sex drive. After a night of drinking, Hlynur and Lola end up having sex. When Berglind returns home, she discloses to Hlynur that she is also a bisexual and she is in love with Lola.", "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 89% of 47 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7/10. The website's consensus reads: \"A funny, offbeat romantic comedy about an unlikely tryst with the beautiful Icelandic landscape as a backdrop.\" [ 4 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. [ 5 ]"]
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101 Rent Boys
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/101_rent_boys_poster.jpg/250px-101_rent_boys_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato", "Produced by": "Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato", "Cinematography": "Sandra Chandler", "Edited by": "William Grayburn", "Distributed by": "Strand Releasing [ 1 ]", "Release date": "June 7, 2000 ( 2000-06-07 ) ( San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival )", "Running time": "78 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English"}
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["101 Rent Boys [ 2 ] is a 2000 documentary film that explores the lives of male prostitutes in the Los Angeles, California area. Created by film-makers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, the film depicts 101 hustlers, being paid each $ 50 for their time, which come from diverse ethnic, regional, and economic backgrounds. [ 3 ] Picked up on and around Santa Monica Boulevard , [ 4 ] the men discuss a variety of things, many referring to their personal history as well commenting on the nature of their work. [ 3 ]", "Filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey had earlier created the independent films The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Party Monster . While the two previous films covered different topics, the cinematography and general style are the same as in 101 Rent Boys . Each man interviewed is paid $50 for his time, [ 3 ] and they were picked up on and around Santa Monica Boulevard . [ 4 ]", "The interviewees discuss a variety of aspects about the U.S. prostitution trade itself such as their individual physical selling-points, attitudes held toward customers, and sexual turn-ons/offs. Self-identity and sexual orientation come up, with several of the men being \" gay for pay \". Personal life challenges such as substance abuse and periods of homelessness are talked about as well. [ 3 ] Several were molested as children ; some men mention feelings of depression and segregation, such as one interviewee describing using drugs \"to deal with the fact that\" he's \"using intimacy as a commodity\". [ 5 ] However, others protest the characterization as hurting or being made dirty. Each hustler has a large card that describes the number with which he got assigned during the film-making. [ 3 ]", "Additional examples of subjects broached include a Latino rent boy being a former gang member , Van Darkholme who is a performance artist dressed in heavily fetishist regalia operating in the BDSM scene , and a prostitute who is transsexual . While the outfits worn and states of dress vary from person to person, nudity briefly occurring, the film itself contains no sexual activity. [ 3 ]", "Variety ran a mixed review by film critic Dennis Harvey, who argued that the men interviewed \"are there more to be tallied than truly fathomed.\" He stated that the film's creators \"deliver a slick, fussily stylized package that leaves no room for boredom\" but should have delved more into the lives of the interviewees, with fewer hustlers being involved. However, Harvey considered several moments rather \"memorable\", citing for example a prostitute's description of a parent dying of a heroin overdose that went into detail about \"feeling my soul float away\" as a result. [ 3 ]", "A brief mentioning of the film by the Chicago Reader described it as \"gritty\" and remarked on the frankness of the comments made by the hustlers. [ 5 ] The film has received condemnation in the pages of the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work , with 101 Rent Boys labeled in the book's first volume as being \"an exploitative look\" at the subject rather than an honest one. The book asserted that the overall style of the film gets set up in such a way as to \"reduce the men to parodies\". The works Chicken Ranch (1983) and Fetishes (1996) were highlighted as a contrast. [ 4 ]", "The film came out on the broadcast network Cinemax in August 2000. [ 3 ]", "101 Rent Boys was released on Region 1 DVD on June 26, 2001. [ 6 ] The DVD release has a feature where each of the interview subjects were left alone with the camera for five minutes to do whatever they choose. In this feature, several participants masturbate. [ 7 ]", "A companion book, also called 101 Rent Boys , was released, featuring photos and excerpts from the interviews. [ citation needed ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/12_Years_a_Slave_film_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Steve McQueen", "Screenplay by": "John Ridley", "Based on": "Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup", "Produced by": "Brad Pitt Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner Bill Pohlad Steve McQueen Arnon Milchan Anthony Katagas", "Starring": "Chiwetel Ejiofor Michael Fassbender Benedict Cumberbatch Paul Dano Paul Giamatti Lupita Nyong'o Sarah Paulson Brad Pitt Alfre Woodard", "Cinematography": "Sean Bobbitt", "Edited by": "Joe Walker", "Music by": "Hans Zimmer", "Production companies": "Regency Enterprises [ 1 ] River Road Entertainment [ 1 ] Plan B Entertainment [ 1 ] Film4 [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Fox Searchlight Pictures (United States and Canada) [ 1 ] Entertainment One (United Kingdom) [ 2 ] Summit Entertainment (International) [ 3 ] [ 2 ]", "Release dates": "August 30, 2013 ( 2013-08-30 ) ( Telluride Film Festival ) November 8, 2013 ( 2013-11-08 ) (United States) January 10, 2014 ( 2014-01-10 ) (United Kingdom)", "Running time": "134 minutes [ 4 ]", "Countries": "United Kingdom [ 3 ] United States [ 1 ] Luxembourg [ 3 ]", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$20–22 million [ 5 ] [ 6 ]", "Box office": "$187.7 million [ 5 ]"}
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["12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley , based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup , an American of mixed race , who was kidnapped from Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery . He was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released. The first scholarly edition of David Wilson's version of Northup's story was co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon . [ 7 ]", "Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup. Supporting roles are portrayed by Michael Fassbender , Benedict Cumberbatch , Paul Dano , Garret Dillahunt , Paul Giamatti , Scoot McNairy , Lupita Nyong'o , Adepero Oduye , Sarah Paulson , Brad Pitt , Michael Kenneth Williams , and Alfre Woodard . Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana , from June 27 to August 13, 2012. The locations used were four historic antebellum plantations : Felicity , Bocage , Destrehan , and Magnolia . Of the four, Magnolia is nearest to the actual plantation where Northup was held.", "12 Years a Slave received widespread critical acclaim and was named the best film of 2013 by several media outlets and critics, and it earned over $187 million on a production budget of $22 million. The film received nine Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Picture , Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley, and Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o. The Best Picture win made McQueen the first black British producer to ever receive the award and the first black British director of a Best Picture winner. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama , and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts recognized it with the BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Best Actor for Ejiofor. [ 10 ] Since its release, the film has been cited as among the best of the 2010s, the 21st century, and of all time , with it being named the 44th greatest film since 2000 in a BBC poll of 177 critics in 2016 and the 51st best film of the 21st century in a New York Times poll of over 500 filmmakers in 2025. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ]", "In 2023, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant,\" making it the ninth film designated in its first year of eligibility, the 49th Best Picture Academy Award winner and the most recently released film to be selected. [ 14 ]", "Solomon Northup is a free African-American man in 1841, working as a violinist and living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York . Two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician in Washington, D.C. ; instead, they drug Northup and deliver him to James H. Birch , the owner of a slave pen . Northup proclaims his freedom, only to be violently beaten and tortured.", "He is shipped to New Orleans with other slaves, who tell him he must adapt if he wants to survive in the South . Slave trader Theophilus Freeman gives Northup the identity of \"Platt,\" a runaway slave from Georgia , and sells him to plantation owner William Ford . Ford takes a liking to Northup and gives him a violin. Tensions between Northup and plantation carpenter John Tibeats break when Northup defends himself from Tibeats and beats him with his whip. Tibeats and his men prepare to lynch Northup but are stopped by the overseer . Northup is left on tiptoes with the noose around his neck for hours before Ford arrives and cuts him down. Northup tells Ford that he is in fact a free man, but Ford has debts to settle and sells Northup to plantation owner Edwin Epps .", "Epps, unlike Ford, is abusive and sadistic to his slaves. Northup meets Patsey , a favored slave and Epps' top cotton picker . Epps regularly rapes Patsey, and his jealous wife abuses her. Cotton worms destroy Epps' crops, so he leases his slaves to neighbor Judge Turner's plantation for the season. Turner favors Northup and allows him to fiddle at a celebration and keep his earnings. Northup returns to Epps and pays white field hand and former overseer Armsby to mail a letter to his friends in New York. Armsby takes Northup's money but betrays him. Epps questions and threatens Northup, but Northup convinces him that Armsby is lying. Northup burns the letter. Patsey is caught by Epps going to a neighboring plantation to acquire soap, as Mrs. Epps will not let her have any. Epps orders Northup to whip Patsey, which he reluctantly does, but Epps demands he strike her harder, eventually taking the whip and beating Patsey nearly to death. Enraged and regretting what he did, Northup destroys his violin.", "Northup begins constructing a gazebo with Canadian laborer Samuel Bass . Bass, citing his Christian faith, strongly opposes slavery and castigates Epps, earning his enmity. Northup reveals his kidnapping to Bass and asks for help sending his letter. Bass hesitates because of the risk but agrees. The local sheriff arrives, and Northup recognizes his companion as Mr. Parker, a shopkeeper he knew in New York. As they embrace, Epps furiously protests and tries to prevent Northup from leaving but is rebuffed. Northup bids farewell to Patsey and rides off to his freedom.", "Northup returns home to reunite with his wife and children. His daughter, who is now married, introduces his grandson and namesake, Solomon Northup Staunton. He apologizes for his long absence while his family comforts him.", "An epilogue recounts Northup's unsuccessful lawsuits against Brown, Hamilton, and Birch; the 1853 publication of Northup's slave narrative memoir, Twelve Years a Slave ; his role in the abolitionist movement ; and the absence of information regarding his death and burial.", "African-American history and culture scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was a consultant on the film. [ 17 ] Researcher David Fiske , a co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave , provided some material used to market the film. [ 18 ] [ 19 ]", "Emily West, an associate professor of history at the University of Reading who specializes in the history of slavery in the U.S., said she had \"never seen a film represent slavery so accurately\". [ 20 ] Reviewing the film for History Extra , the website of BBC History Magazine , she wrote: \"The film starkly and powerfully unveiled the sights and sounds of enslavement – from slaves picking cotton as they sang in the fields, to the crack of the lash down people's backs. We also heard a lot about the ideology behind enslavement. Masters such as William Ford and Edwin Epps, although very different characters, both used an interpretation of Christianity to justify their ownership of slaves. They believed the Bible sanctioned slavery, and that it was their 'Christian duty' to preach the scriptures to their slaves.\" [ 20 ]", "Scott Feinberg wrote in The Hollywood Reporter about a September 22 article in The New York Times that \"dredged up and highlighted a 1985 essay by another scholar, James Olney, that questioned the 'literal truth' of specific incidents in Northup's account and suggested that David Wilson, the white amanuensis to whom Northup had dictated his story, had taken the liberty of sprucing it up to make it even more effective at rallying public opinion against slavery.\" [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Olney had observed that \"slave autobiographies, when read one next to another, display an \"overwhelming sameness .\" That is, though the autobiography by definition suggests a unique and personal story, that slave narratives present a genre of autobiographies that tell essentially the same story. There is a distinct repetitiveness when read in conjunction, as in this anthology. While this repetitiveness disallows the creativity and shaping of one's personal story, as Olney argues, it was equally important for slave narratives to follow a form that corroborated with the stories of others to create a collective picture of slavery as it then existed. In fact, the \"same\" form presented in all of these unique and individual stories created a powerful and resounding message of the consistent evils of slavery and the necessity of its demise. [ 23 ]", "A journal article published by The Johns Hopkins University Press and written by Sam Worley states that \"Northup's narrative, though well known, has often been treated as a narrative of the second rank, albeit one with an unusually exciting and involving story as well as, thanks to the research of its modern editors, Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon , one with considerable historical value.\" [ 24 ]", "Noah Berlatsky wrote in The Atlantic about a scene in McQueen's adaptation. Shortly after Northup's kidnapping, he is sent on a slave ship . One of the sailors attempts to rape a female slave, but is stopped by a male slave. \"The sailor unhesitatingly stabs and kills [the male slave]\", he wrote, stating that \"this seems unlikely on its face – slaves are valuable, and the sailor is not the owner. And, sure enough, the scene is not in the book.\" Berlatsky also states, \"the sequence is an effort to present nuance and psychological depth – to make the film's depiction of slavery seem more real. But it creates that psychological truth by interpolating an incident that isn't factually true.\" [ 25 ]", "The visual blog Information is Beautiful deduced that, while taking creative license into account, the film was 88.1% accurate when compared to real-life events, summarizing: \"While there are a touch of dramatic license here and there, the most gut-wrenching scenes really happened\". [ 26 ]", "Forrest Wickman of Slate wrote of Northup's book giving a more favorable account of the author's onetime master, William Ford, than the McQueen film. In Northup's own words, \"There never was a more kind, noble, candid, Christian man than William Ford,\" adding that Ford's circumstances \"blinded [Ford] to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of Slavery.\" The movie, however, according to Wickman, \"frequently undermines Ford.\" [ 27 ] McQueen undercuts Christianity itself as well, in an effort to update the ethical lessons from Northup's story for the 21st century, by holding the institutions of Christianity up to the light for their ability to justify slavery at the time. [ 28 ] Northup was a Christian of his time, writing of his former master being \"blinded\" by \"circumstances\" [ 27 ] that in retrospect meant a racist acceptance of slavery despite being a Christian, a position untenable to Christians now [ 29 ] and to Christian abolitionists of the 19th century but not contradictory to Northup himself. Valerie Elverton Dixon in The Washington Post characterized the Christianity depicted in the movie as \"broken\". [ 28 ]", "After meeting screenwriter John Ridley at a Creative Artists Agency screening of Hunger in 2008, director Steve McQueen got in touch with Ridley about his interest in making a film about \"the slave era in America\" with \"a character that was not obvious in terms of their trade in slavery.\" [ 30 ] Developing the idea back and forth, the two did not strike a chord until McQueen's partner, Bianca Stigter , found Solomon Northup 's 1853 memoir Twelve Years a Slave . McQueen later told an interviewer:", "After a lengthy development process, Brad Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment backed the project, which eventually helped get financing from various other film studios. The film was officially announced in August 2011 with McQueen to direct and Chiwetel Ejiofor to star as Solomon Northup, a free African-American who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South . [ 32 ] McQueen compared Ejiofor's conduct \"of class and dignity\" to that of Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte . [ 33 ] In October 2011, Michael Fassbender (who starred in McQueen's previous films Hunger and Shame ) joined the cast. [ 34 ] In early 2012, the rest of the roles were cast, and filming was scheduled to begin at the end of June 2012. [ 35 ] [ 36 ]", "To capture the language and dialects of the era and regions in which the film takes place, dialect coach Michael Buster assisted the cast in altering their speech. The language has a literary quality related to the style of writing of the day and the strong influence of the King James Bible . [ 37 ] Buster explained:", "After both won Oscars at the 86th Academy Awards , it was reported that McQueen and Ridley had been in an ongoing feud over screenplay credit. McQueen reportedly had asked Ridley for shared credit, which he declined. McQueen appealed to Fox Searchlight, which sided with Ridley. Neither thanked the other during their respective acceptance speeches at the event. [ 39 ] Since the event, Ridley has noted his regret for not mentioning McQueen [ 40 ] [ 41 ] and denied the feud. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] He spoke favorably of working with McQueen, and explained that his sole screenplay credit was due to the rules of the Writers Guild of America . [ 44 ] McQueen has not commented on the alleged feud. [ 39 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ]", "With a production budget of $22 million , [ 45 ] principal photography began in New Orleans , Louisiana, on June 27 , 2012. After seven weeks, [ 46 ] filming concluded on August 13 , 2012. [ 47 ] As a way to keep down production costs, a bulk of the filming took place around the greater New Orleans area – mostly south of the Red River country in the north of the state, where the historic Northup was enslaved. [ 48 ] Among locations used were four historic antebellum plantations: Felicity , Bocage , Destrehan , and Magnolia . [ 49 ] Magnolia, a plantation in Schriever, Louisiana , is just a few miles from one of the historic sites where Northup was held. \"To know that we were right there in the place where these things occurred was so powerful and emotional,\" said actor Chiwetel Ejiofor. \"That feeling of dancing with ghosts – it's palpable.\" [ 50 ] Filming also took place at the Columns Hotel and Madame John's Legacy in the French Quarter of New Orleans for the scenes set in Washington D.C. [ 51 ]", "Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt , the film's primary camera operator, [ 52 ] shot 12 Years a Slave on 35 mm film with a 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio using both an Arricam LT and ST. \"Particularly for a period piece, film gives the audience a definite sense of period and quality,\" said Bobbitt. \"And because of the story's epic nature, widescreen clearly made the most sense. Widescreen means a big film, an epic tale – in this case an epic tale of human endurance.\" [ 53 ]", "The filmmakers avoided the desaturated visual style that is typical of a more gritty documentary aesthetic. [ 54 ] Deliberately drawing visual comparisons in the filming to the works of Spanish painter Francisco Goya , McQueen explained:", "To depict accurately the time period of the film, the filmmakers conducted extensive research that included studying artwork from the era. [ 56 ] With eight weeks to create the wardrobe, costume designer Patricia Norris collaborated with Western Costume to compile costumes that would illustrate the passage of time while also being historically accurate. [ 57 ] Using an earth-toned colour palette, Norris created nearly 1,000 costumes for the film. \"She [Norris] took earth samples from all three of the plantations to match the clothes,\" McQueen said, \"and she had the conversation with Sean [Bobbitt] to deal with the character temperature on each plantation, there was a lot of that minute detail.\" [ 58 ]", "The musical score to 12 Years a Slave was composed by Hans Zimmer , with original on-screen violin music written and arranged by Nicholas Britell and performed by Tim Fain . [ 59 ] The film also features a few pieces of western classical and American folk music such as Franz Schubert 's \"Trio in B-flat, D471\", Daniel Dow 's \" Money Musk \", and John and Alan Lomax 's arrangement of \" Run, Nigger, Run \". [ 60 ] A soundtrack album, Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave , was released digitally on November 5 and received a physical format release on November 11, 2013, by Columbia Records . [ 61 ] In addition to Zimmer's score, the album features music inspired by the film by artists such as John Legend , Laura Mvula , Alicia Keys , Chris Cornell , and Alabama Shakes . [ 62 ] Legend's cover of \" Roll, Jordan, Roll \" debuted online three weeks prior to the soundtrack's release. [ 63 ]", "On November 15, 2011, Summit Entertainment announced that it had closed deals for the distribution of 12 Years a Slave in most international markets. [ 2 ] In April 2012, a few weeks before principal photography, New Regency Productions agreed to co-finance the film. [ 64 ] Because of a distribution pact between 20th Century Fox and New Regency, Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the film's American and Canadian distribution rights. [ 65 ] However, instead of paying for the distribution rights, Fox Searchlight made a deal in which it would share box-office proceeds with the financiers of the independently financed film. [ 66 ] 12 Years a Slave premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2013; [ 67 ] it was later screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 6 [ 68 ] where it was given the top People's Choice Award , [ 69 ] the New York Film Festival on October 8, [ 70 ] the New Orleans Film Festival on October 10, [ 71 ] and the Philadelphia Film Festival on October 19. [ 72 ] The film was commercially released on October 18 , in the United States for a limited release of 19 theaters, with a wide release in subsequent weeks. [ 73 ] The film was initially scheduled to be released in late December, but \"some exuberant test screenings\" led to the decision to move up the release date. [ 74 ] The film was distributed by Entertainment One in the United Kingdom. [ 75 ]", "Due to both the film's explicit nature and award contender status, 12 Years a Slave 's financial success was being watched closely. Many analysts compared the film's content to other drama films of a similar vein such as Schindler's List (1993) and The Passion of the Christ (2004), which became box office successes despite their respective subject matters. [ 50 ] [ 66 ] \"It may be a tough subject matter, but when handled well ... films that are tough to sit through can still be commercially successful,\" said Phil Contrino of Boxoffice Magazine . [ 76 ] Despite its content, the film's critical success has assisted its domestic distribution by Fox Searchlight that began with a limited release aimed primarily towards art house and African-American patrons. [ 77 ] The film's release was gradually widened in subsequent weeks, similarly to how the studio had successfully done in previous years with films such as Black Swan and The Descendants . [ 78 ] International release dates for 12 Years a Slave were largely delayed to early 2014 in order to take advantage of the attention created by awards seasons . [ 79 ]", "During its marketing campaign, 12 Years a Slave received unpaid endorsements by celebrities such as Kanye West and P. Diddy . [ 80 ] In a video posted by Revolt , Combs urged viewers to see 12 Years a Slave by stating: \"This movie is very painful but very honest, and is a part of the healing process. I beg all of you to take your kids, everybody to see it. ... You have to see this so you can understand, so you can just start to understand.\" [ 81 ]", "Following its cinematic release in theaters, the Region 1 Code widescreen edition of the film was released on DVD in the United States on March 4, 2014. Special features for the DVD include; a Closed Caption option, The Team – Meet the Creative Minds Assembled by Director Steve McQueen and Bring Solomon Northup's Journey to Life bonus selection, and The Score – Follow Film Composer Hans Zimmer Creating His Dramatic Score feature. [ 82 ] In supplemental fashion, a widescreen hi-definition Blu-ray Disc version of the film was also released on the same day. Special features include; a historical portrait from Director Steve McQueen's documentary feature, cast and crew interviews, The Team special feature, and The Score selection. [ 83 ] An additional viewing option for the film in the media format of Video on demand has been made available as well. [ 84 ]", "12 Years a Slave earned $187.7 million, including $56.7 million in the United States. [ 5 ] During its opening limited release in the United States, 12 Years a Slave debuted with a weekend total of $923,715 on 19 screens for a $48,617 per-screen average. [ 85 ] The following weekend, the film entered the top ten after expanding to 123 theatres and grossing an additional $2.1 million. [ 86 ] It continued to improve into its third weekend, grossing $4.6 million at 410 locations. The film release was expanded to over 1,100 locations on November 8, 2013. [ 5 ] [ 87 ] In 2014, 12 Years a Slave was the 10th-most illegally downloaded movie, with 23.653 million such downloads, according to Variety . [ 88 ]", "Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 95% of critics gave the film a positive rating, based on 379 reviews, with an average score of 8.90/10. The site's consensus states, \"It's far from comfortable viewing, but 12 Years a Slave ' s unflinchingly brutal look at American slavery is also brilliant – and quite possibly essential – cinema.\" [ 89 ] Metacritic , another review aggregator , assigned the film a weighted average score of 96 out of 100 based on 57 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". It is currently one of the site's highest-rated films, as well as the best-reviewed film of 2013. [ 90 ] CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film an \"A\" grade. [ 91 ]", "Richard Corliss of TIME wrote: \"McQueen's film is closer in its storytelling particulars to such 1970s exploitation-exposés of slavery as Mandingo and Goodbye, Uncle Tom . Except that McQueen is not a schlockmeister sensationalist but a remorseless artist\". Corliss draws parallels with Nazi Germany , saying, \"McQueen shows that racism, aside from its barbarous inhumanity, is insanely inefficient. It can be argued that Nazi Germany lost the war both because it diverted so much manpower to the killing of Jews and because it did not exploit the brilliance of Jewish scientists in building smarter weapons. So the slave owners dilute the energy of their slaves by whipping them for sadistic sport and, as Epps does, waking them at night to dance for his wife's cruel pleasure.\" [ 92 ] Gregory Ellwood of HitFix gave the film an \"A−\" rating, stating, \" 12 Years is a powerful drama driven by McQueen's bold direction and the finest performance of Chiwetel Ejiofor's career.\" He continued by praising the performances of Fassbender and Nyong'o, citing Nyong'o as \"the film's breakthrough performance [that] may find Nyong'o making her way to the Dolby Theater next March \". He also admired the film's \"gorgeous\" cinematography and the musical score, as \"one of Hans Zimmer 's more moving scores in some time\". [ 93 ] Paul MacInnes of The Guardian scored the film five out of five stars, writing, \"Stark, visceral and unrelenting, 12 Years a Slave is not just a great film but a necessary one.\" [ 94 ] The Guardian 's Andrew Pulver said, in 2017, that 12 Years a Slave is \"one of the most important films about the African-American experience ever\". [ 95 ]", "Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised it as \"a new movie landmark of cruelty and transcendence\" and as \"a movie about a life that gets taken away, and that's why it lets us touch what life is\". He also commented very positively about Ejiofor's performance, while further stating, \" 12 Years a Slave lets us stare at the primal sin of America with open eyes, and at moments it is hard to watch, yet it's a movie of such humanity and grace that at every moment, you feel you're seeing something essential. It is Chiwetel Ejiofor's extraordinary performance that holds the movie together, and that allows us to watch it without blinking. He plays Solomon with a powerful inner strength, yet he never soft-pedals the silent nightmare that is Solomon's daily existence.\" [ 96 ] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone , gave the film a four-star rating and said: \"you won't be able to tuck this powder keg in the corner of your mind and forget it. What we have here is a blistering, brilliant, straight-up classic.\" He later named the film the best movie of 2013. [ 97 ]", "Manohla Dargis wrote, in her review for The New York Times , \"the genius of 12 Years a Slave is its insistence on banal evil, and on terror, that seeped into souls, bound bodies and reaped an enduring, terrible price\". [ 98 ] The Daily Telegraph 's Tim Robey granted the film a maximum score of five stars, stating that \"it's the nobility of this remarkable film that pierces the soul\", while praising Ejiofor and Nyong'o's performances. [ 99 ] Tina Hassannia of Slant Magazine said that \"using his signature visual composition and deafening sound design, Steve McQueen portrays the harrowing realism of Northup's experience and the complicated relationships between master and slave, master and master, slave and slave, and so on\". [ 100 ] David Simon , the creator of the TV series The Wire , highly praised the movie, commenting that \"it marks the first time in history that our entertainment industry, albeit with international creative input, has managed to stare directly at slavery and maintain that gaze\". [ 101 ]", "The film was not without its criticisms. Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice was more critical of the film. While praising Ejiofor's work, she stated: \"It's a picture that stays more than a few safe steps away from anything so dangerous as raw feeling. Even when it depicts inhuman cruelty, as it often does, it never compromises its aesthetic purity.\" [ 102 ] Peter Malamud Smith of Slate criticized the story, saying, \" 12 Years a Slave is constructed as a story of a man trying to return to his family, offering every viewer a way into empathizing with its protagonist. Maybe we need a story framed on that individual scale in order to understand it. But it has a distorting effect all the same. We're more invested in one hero than in millions of victims; if we're forced to imagine ourselves enslaved, we want to imagine ourselves as Northup, a special person who miraculously escaped the system that attempted to crush him.\" Describing this as \"the hero problem\", Malamud Smith concluded his review explaining, \"We can handle 12 Years a Slave . But don't expect 60 Years a Slave any time soon. And 200 Years, Millions of Slaves ? Forget about it.\" [ 103 ] Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club opined that McQueen is \"essentially tone-deaf when it comes to performance, and skirts by on casting\". The film \"lacks a necessary emotional continuity. I don't think it's something the movie is denying in the way it intentionally denies so many other conventions; it's still structured around an ending that's supposed to function as a release, but because it can't organize that sense of catharsis it so badly needs, it just feels as though McQueen is scurrying for an exit. Also: The cast is wildly uneven.\" [ 104 ]", "Some critics identified 12 Years a Slave as an example of the white savior narrative in film . [ 105 ] Timothy Sneed said in U.S. News & World Report the year after the film was released, \"Doubts still lingered about its ability to truly bring about a newfound racial consciousness among a national, mainstream audience ... The film also was a period piece that featured a happy ending ushered in by a 'white savior' in the form of Brad Pitt's character.\" [ 106 ] At The Guardian , black Canadian author Orville Lloyd Douglas said he would not be seeing 12 Years a Slave , explaining: \"I'm convinced these black race films are created for a white, liberal film audience to engender white guilt and make them feel bad about themselves. Regardless of your race, these films are unlikely to teach you anything you don't already know.\" [ 107 ] A Black writer, Michael Arceneaux , wrote a rebuttal essay \"We Don't Need To Get Over Slavery... Or Movies About Slavery\". Arceneaux criticized Douglas for being ignorant and having an apathetic attitude towards black Americans and slavery. [ 108 ]", "12 Years a Slave has received numerous awards and nominations. It earned three Academy Awards : Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. [ 109 ] It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama . [ 110 ] The film also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film , while Ejiofor received the Best Actor award. [ 10 ] In addition, the motion picture has been named as one of the best films of 2013 by various ongoing critics, appearing on 100 critics' top-ten lists in which 25 had the film in their number-one spot. This is the most of any film released in its production year. [ 111 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Aaaaaaaah%21.jpg", "Directed by": "Steve Oram", "Produced by": "Steve Oram Andrew Starke", "Starring": "Steve Oram Tom Meeten Julian Barratt Toyah Willcox Julian Rhind-Tutt Noel Fielding Holli Dempsey", "Cinematography": "Matthew Wicks", "Edited by": "Steve Oram", "Music by": "King Crimson ProjeKcts David Westlake", "Distributed by": "Lincoln Studios Rook Films Releasing", "Release date": "28 August 2015 ( 2015-08-28 ) ( FrightFest )", "Running time": "79 minutes", "Country": "United Kingdom"}
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["Aaaaaaaah! is a 2015 British horror comedy film conceived, directed, edited and produced by Steve Oram . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The film contains no dialogue, with the cast communicating entirely in animalistic grunts. It premiered in August 2015 at London FrightFest Film Festival . In 2016 the film was released on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD on Icon Productions 's Frightfest Presents label. [ 5 ] The film has received a positive critical reception.", "Two men, Smith ( Steve Oram ) and Keith ( Tom Meeten ) arrive in a woodland clearing. Smith cries over a photograph of his estranged wife before he and Keith perform a ritual in which they urinate on the photograph. Keith dries Smith's eyes and penis and they head downhill towards a vast suburban sprawl.", "In the Ryan family household, a young woman, Denise (Lucy Honigman), is preparing dinner with her mother, Barabara ( Toyah Willcox ). They watch a cookery show in which the topless host Carolla ( Shelley Longworth ) prepares a meat, potato and salt dinner. Barabara copies the recipe and tenderises a steak by bashing it on the kitchen door.", "Smith and Keith arrive in town and decide to follow a scruffy man, Og (Sean Reynard) who masturbates in an underpass using a mouse. Smith and Keith rough him up and scare him. Og returns to his 'alpha', Ryan ( Julian Rhind-Tutt ) to tell him about these new threatening males, but Ryan gives him a beating and forces him to set up the new widescreen television. Ryan and Og sit down to play a motorbike game on the games console.", "The family eats dinner, but Og tries to have sex with Denise and she leaves the room. In the kitchen she sees her father, Jupiter ( Julian Barratt ) looking sadly in at the kitchen window. She gives him a Battenburg cake and they share a tender moment before Jupiter returns to the garden where he now lives. He lies under a tree with his cake, a broken man.", "We see a flashback of a previous time when Jupiter was the alpha male of the house. He serves a Sunday Roast human leg to Barabara, Denise and Og. But Og disrupts the happy scene by confronting him aggressively, an act that Jupiter fails to deal with properly. The washing machine breaks down and Barabara rounds on Jupiter also.", "Back in the dinner room, the family eats pudding. Ryan initiates a food fight and covers Barabara with blancmange. Barabara retaliates and they have a huge fight. Denise storms out of the house, fed up with them all.", "In the park Denise meets up with her streetwise cousin Helen ( Holli Dempsey ) and they drink vodka together. Helen has itchy VD and Denise suggests she pour vodka down her crotch which she does. They go shoplifting and are caught by a shop assistant, Carl ( Noel Fielding ). The shop manager ( Waen Shepherd ) interrogates them in the basement and masturbates in front of them before falling asleep on his desk. Carl then gets Helen to give him a blow job, but Helen bites his penis off. The girls flee with some money from the cash box.", "A debauched party is now going on at the Ryan house. Denise and Helen return and flaunt the money they stole in front of Ryan, but he is paralytic on drink and drugs and passes out. Smith and Keith arrive at the party and piss on the walls, scent marking it. They graffiti Ryan's sleeping face, then Keith rests his testicles on Ryan's head and Smith photographs it on Ryan's phone, which he returns to Ryan's pocket. Smith and Keith disrupt the party and Smith has sex with Denise in the bathroom.", "Smith, Keith and Denise leave the party. They break into an unoccupied house where Smith & Denise perform a 'wedding' ritual to celebrate their union.", "Next morning Ryan awakes, hungover and graffitied. He smokes outside and Jupiter laughs at his face.", "We see another flashback which charts Jupiter's fall from 'alpha' status. Barabara and Ryan, the washing machine repair man, flirt. Ryan then forms an alliance with Og before Ryan and Barabara have sex on top of the washing machine in front of Jupiter. Ryan and Og then beat Jupiter senseless, goaded on by Barabara, while Denise looks on distraught.", "Ryan sees the photograph on his phone of Keith's testicles resting on his head and is furious. He and Og head out on the warpath and clash with Smith and Keith on some waste ground. Keith is stabbed by Og before Smith chases Og, smashing his head on the ground and killing him. Smith then rips Ryan's arm off and leaves him for dead.", "Smith and Denise return to the house. Smith smashes up the kitchen in a display to convince Barabara of his new alpha status, but she is unconvinced. He tries to have sex with her but cannot get it up and Barabara laughs at him. Smith collects Keith's body and gives him a 'funeral' before placing his corpse in the wheelie bin. Barabara is also unimpressed by this.", "Smith invites Jupiter into the house and tries to involve him in the new 'family' group, but Jupiter only manages to wet his pants before sitting alone repeatedly watching an inane children's TV show involving an animated chicken. Smith repairs the house and gradually begins to win Barabara over. They all sit down to watch a sitcom starring two big comedy stars ( Tony Way and Alice Lowe ) which features slo-mo action replays of lame pratfalls. They all enjoy it and Jupiter seems to get his 'voice' back. This delights Denise and they seem to be a happy 'family' at last.", "In the night Jupiter stabs Barabara, Smith and Denise to death, then sits back down to watch the animated chicken on TV.", "The film was shot over two weeks during the summer of 2014. [ 6 ] The film's soundtrack features a number of tracks from the King Crimson ProjeKcts albums. [ 7 ]", "The critical reception has been positive, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes giving it a rating of 79% based on 14 reviews. [ 8 ] The film went on to receive a British Independent Film Awards Nomination, [ 9 ] as well as a special jury mention at Cleveland International Film Festival . [ 10 ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/Aa_Raathri.jpg/250px-Aa_Raathri.jpg", "Directed by": "Joshiy", "Written by": "Kaloor Dennis", "Produced by": "Joy Thomas", "Starring": "Mammootty Poornima Bhagyaraj", "Edited by": "K. Sankunni", "Music by": "Ilaiyaraaja", "Production company": "Jubilee Productions", "Distributed by": "Jubilee Productions", "Release date": "23 April 1983 ( 1983-04-23 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aa Raathri ( transl. That night ) is a 1983 Indian Malayalam -language drama film directed by Joshiy and written by Kaloor Dennis, with Mammootty and Poornima Bhagyaraj . [ 1 ] Rohini, M. G. Soman and Lalu Alex appear in supporting roles. The film follows the life of a happy family and how a set of unfortunate events ruin their lives. The film's songs were composed by Ilaiyaraaja , with lyrics written by Poovachal Khader . It was the first film to gross Rs. 1 crore distributors share", "Ravi and Indu are happily married and they have a daughter, Minimol. Ravi is working in a bank and Indu is a housewife. Indu was brought up in an orphanage at Ernakulam. Ravi had fallen for her and they got married. They are now settled in Trivandrum.", "Abdu is illegally 'employed' as a 'false witness' in court. People will hire him for providing false witness during court judgments.", "Venu and his two friends stay in a house. Venu is a decent guy but the other two will always go behind girls for their desires.", "There was an invite for Ravi and Indu to attend the feast of Mother (who was the matron of the orphanage in which Indu was brought up), and they plan to go.", "During proceeding of one of the cases, Abdu tells that he had seen the alleged person committing a murder, and he should be given the maximum punishment. The alleged person pleads to the court, that he has not committed it. However court orders the alleged to be hanged. The wife and daughter of the alleged commit suicide by jumping in front of the train. After watching their corpses, Abdu regrets to his mother and takes the decision to lead a good life by doing a decent job. He then starts in the job of a fish seller in the market.", "On their return journey from Ernakulam after attending the feast, Radha runs and gets into the compartment in which Ravi and Indu are traveling. Radha's stepfather started misbehaving with her after her mother's death so she wishes to escape from him. She boarded the train as her cousin and fiancé (Venu) was employed at Trivandrum and she had decided to reach him for help. On reaching Trivandrum, Radha stays with Ravi and Indu. Minimol is much interested in Radha. In the meantime, Ravi starts enquiring about Venu, who was a medical representative. Ravi gets the information that Venu has been to Madras for training, and once he is back he will be promoted to area manager. Days pass and as Radha's grief increases day by day, Ravi gets a job for her in YWCA. However, as per their rules, Radha has to stay there. So Radha parts with them to stay there.", "Venu returns after the training, and they start partying in a bar. Ravi, Indu and Minimol visit Radha in YWCA and they go for an outing. After the outing, Minimol wants to stay with Radha. So Ravi and Indu return after leaving Minimol with Radha, with the assurance that Radha will drop her at the house the next morning. Ravi and Indu takes dinner outside and they go for a second show (movie). Venu and his friends too come for the movie and they get seated just behind Ravi and Indu's seat. Venu was seated just behind Indu. Despite initial warnings from Venu, his friends try to trouble Indu. And while Ravi goes to the toilet in between, and as the molestation becomes too much, Indu turns back and beats Venu, thinking that she was disturbed by Venu. As the people in the theatre get angry with the three, they leave the theatre and go to a bar. Venu feels much depressed as he was humiliated in front of the crowd in the theatre for an offence he had not done. His friends console him by telling him that they will take revenge for this. While Ravi and Indu was returning after the movie, they block them, thrash Ravi and take Indu in the car. Abdu sees Ravi, and they both search for the car. However, they did not succeed and they file a complaint with the police. Ravi gets back home and spend the night in chair sleepless. In the morning when Radha returns with Minimol, the phone rings and they get the information that Indu is admitted in the hospital. Ravi goes to see that she was raped, and takes her home. He takes good care of her to recover. Though Indu plans suicide, Ravi consoles her by telling that it's her personality that he had liked and not her body.", "As Indu also suggests, Ravi wants to withdraw the case as he fears that the proceedings in the court may hurt Indu mentally again. However, when the police Inspector suggests that it will allow the accused to be free again, Ravi somehow agrees. Abdu was approached for telling false witness in the court for Venu and his friends, but he denies. Abdu assures Ravi that he will provide witness in the court for Indu and Ravi.", "On the way Abdu meets his old teacher Rahim. We come to know that Abdu is actually Gopi, who had eloped while he was young, leaving his mother and sister. Gopi was falsely caught for a pick-pocket case and then he had reached the hands of a Muslim family where they had called him Abdu. Rahim says that after the death of Gopi's mother, he had taken Gopi's sister to an orphanage in Ernakulam, and gives the details of the orphanage.", "While the case proceedings happen in the court, Radha had a glimpse on Venu and she was shocked to see that Venu is one among the culprits. Abdu tells false witness against Indu, alleging her as a prostitute. Also, Indu could not answer the criminal lawyer's questions. The culprits are set free. Ravi gets angry with Abdu, and start to fight with him, when the crowd pulls them apart. Abdu visits the orphanage to find out that Indu is her sister. He returns to Ravi's house to see that Indu had committed suicide. Radha visits Venu and curses him. While she returns, she is taken into custody by Venu's friends. On seeing that Radha is about to be raped by his friends, Venu fights them. He confirms to Radha that he is innocent and he was the one who had taken Indu to hospital (after his friends had raped her that night).", "Ravi was looking to take revenge for all happenings. As he was about to beat Venu, Radha interferes and tells Ravi that Venu is her husband and he is innocent. While Minimol is all alone at the house, Abdu reaches there and takes her. While Ravi sees this he gets angry and starts fighting with Abdu. Abdu somehow blocks Ravi and tells him that Indu was his sister and in order to get cash to conduct her sister's marriage, he had borne false witness in court.", "Ravi and Abdu then set out to hunt the two criminals, and finally kills them. The film ends with Minimol being taken by Radha and Venu, as the police vehicle departs with Ravi in it.", "The film was released on 23 April 1983. [ citation needed ]"]
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e3/12Rposter.jpg/250px-12Rposter.jpg", "Directed by": "Renny Harlin", "Written by": "Daniel Kunka", "Produced by": "Becki Cross Trujillo Mark Gordon Renny Harlin Mike Lake Josh McLaughlin Vince McMahon", "Starring": "John Cena Aidan Gillen Ashley Scott Steve Harris Brian J. White", "Cinematography": "David Boyd", "Edited by": "Brian Berdan", "Music by": "Trevor Rabin", "Production companies": "WWE Studios Fox Atomic The Mark Gordon Company [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "20th Century Fox", "Release dates": "March 19, 2009 ( 2009-03-19 ) (Australia) March 27, 2009 ( 2009-03-27 ) (United States)", "Running time": "109 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$6.7 million [ 2 ]", "Box office": "$17.3 million [ 3 ]"}
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["12 Rounds is a 2009 American action film directed by Renny Harlin and produced by WWE Studios . [ 4 ] The cast is led by John Cena , [ 5 ] alongside Aidan Gillen , Steve Harris , Gonzalo Menendez, Brian J. White , Ashley Scott , and Taylor Cole . [ 6 ] The film was released to theaters in the United States on March 27, 2009. [ 4 ] The film received generally negative reviews. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ]", "A sting operation to capture arms dealer Miles Jackson goes awry when the FBI 's inside man double crosses them. Miles escapes with his girlfriend Erica Kessen in a getaway car. Officers Danny Fisher and Hank Carver help the FBI. They find a surveillance video of Miles dancing with Kessen. A subsequent encounter at a traffic light leads to her death and Miles being taken away. Miles swears vengeance on Fisher.", "One year later, Miles escapes from prison and calls Fisher, who is now a Detective. Fisher is injured when his car and house explode. After recovery, Jackson challenges Fisher to participate in a game of revenge called \"12 Rounds\". The explosions were \"Round 1\". Fisher's girlfriend Molly is kidnapped in \"Round 2\". For \"Round 3\", Fisher follows clues to locate the cell phone. The next round requires Fisher to go to New Orleans Savings and Loans where he extracts two security deposit boxes within 20 minutes amidst an active fire.", "While Fisher continues with the game, his friend Carver looks into Molly's kidnapping. FBI Agents work with them as well.", "Round after round, Fisher keeps progressing and barely making it ahead.", "Fisher ultimately understands that the rounds were rigged from the start. The inevitable death in an elevator was also orchestrated by Jackson. All events turn out to be connected. They figure out that Jackson was leading them to take out the power because Homewood Security comes in to move the federally unprotected cash from the United States Mint in New Orleans. Jackson's grudge against Fisher was only a cover for his scheme to steal this money.", "Fisher realizes that \"Round 12\" is a wild-goose chase. Jackson, dressed as a security guard, steals the cash. He uses Porter's ID card to get to a Medevac chopper on a hospital roof, transporting the money inside a body bag. Fisher and Aiken race to the hospital roof, where Aiken is wounded. Jackson activates the touch phone-bomb and throws the switch away. Porter and Fisher jump into a pool, while Jackson is left in the exploding helicopter. The movie ends with Danny and Molly leaving, with Molly wanting to go home, but Danny tells her about what happened to it.", "The score of 12 Rounds was composed by Trevor Rabin , who had previously worked with director Renny Harlin on Deep Blue Sea and Exorcist: The Beginning . He recorded his score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios. [ 13 ]", "The filmed opened at number seven at the box office, gaining an estimate of $1.75 million in its opening day and $5.3 million in its opening weekend. The film grossed $12,234,694 in the United States and Canada, and $5,045,632 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $17,280,326. [ 3 ]", "12 Rounds has received mostly negative reviews from critics. Some critics have noted the film's similarities to the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance . [ 7 ] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 31% based on reviews from 71 critics. The site's consensus reads: \"Energetic but empty, 12 Rounds' preposterous plot hurtles along at a rapid pace, but can't disguise the derivative script\". [ 8 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 38%, based on 13 reviews. [ 9 ] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of B−. [ 10 ]", "Rob Nelson of Variety wrote that the film is heavy on stunts but light on plausibility, humor, surprise, visual ingenuity or psychological depth. [ 11 ] Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club called the film \"honest trash: it never pretends to be anything other than manic schlock\" and gave it a grade C+. [ 12 ]", "12 Rounds was released on DVD , Blu-ray Disc , and UMD with an unrated \"Extreme Cut\" of the film on June 30, 2009. [ 14 ] In the first week, 12 Rounds opened at #1 at the DVD sales chart, selling 208,936 DVD units translating to revenue of $3.1m. [ 15 ] As of July 2011, 581,834 DVD units have been sold, bringing in $8,884,292 in revenue. This does not include Blu-ray Disc sales/DVD rentals.", "Randy Orton stars in a stand-alone sequel titled 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded . [ 16 ] The sequel was released in 2013. 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown starring Dean Ambrose was released in 2015. [ 17 ]"]
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102 Dalmatians
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/102_dalmatians_poster.jpg", "Directed by": "Kevin Lima", "Screenplay by": "Kristen Buckley Brian Regan Bob Tzudiker Noni White", "Story by": "Kristen Buckley Brian Regan", "Based on": "The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith", "Produced by": "Edward S. Feldman", "Starring": "Glenn Close Ioan Gruffudd Alice Evans Tim McInnerny Gérard Depardieu", "Cinematography": "Adrian Biddle Roger Pratt", "Edited by": "Gregory Perler", "Music by": "David Newman", "Production company": "Walt Disney Pictures", "Distributed by": "Buena Vista Pictures Distribution", "Release dates": "November 13, 2000 ( 2000-11-13 ) ( Radio City Music Hall ) November 22, 2000 ( 2000-11-22 ) (United States)", "Running time": "100 minutes", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Budget": "$85 million [ 1 ]", "Box office": "$183.6 million [ 1 ]"}
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["102 Dalmatians is a 2000 American crime comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution . Directed by Kevin Lima from a screenplay by Kristen Buckley , Brian Regan , Bob Tzudiker and Noni White , based on a story by Buckley and Regan, it is the sequel to 101 Dalmatians (1996), which was a live-action remake of the 1961 animated film of the same name . It stars Glenn Close reprising her role as Cruella de Vil as she attempts to steal puppies for her \"grandest\" fur coat yet, with Ioan Gruffudd , Alice Evans , Tim McInnerny , Ian Richardson , Gérard Depardieu , Ben Crompton , Carol MacReady , Jim Carter , Ron Cook , David Horovitch , Timothy West , and the voice of Eric Idle in supporting roles. Close and McInnerny were the only two actors from the 1996 film to return for the sequel, while Adrian Biddle and Anthony Powell reprised their respective duties as cinematographer and costume designer.", "The film received negative reviews from critics, and grossed a total of $183.6 million worldwide against a budget of $85 million, becoming a commercial failure , although the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design . [ 2 ]", "A backstory film in its own continuity, Cruella , was released on May 28, 2021, with Emma Stone in the title role and Close acting as an executive producer. [ 3 ]", "After three years in prison following the events of the previous film , Cruella de Vil has been cured of her desire for fur coats by psychologist Dr. Pavlov and become a changed woman. She is released on probation but warned that if she breaks parole she will be immediately sent back to prison, as well as be forced to pay the remainder of her fortune, £ 8 million, to all the dog shelters in Westminster . Cruella mends her working relationship with her much-abused valet Alonzo and buys the Second Chance Dog shelter, owned by Kevin Shepherd, to save it from insolvency. Cruella's probation officer, Chloe Simon, is the owner of Dipstick (one of the original 101 Dalmatians Cruella had stolen); she suspects Cruella will strike again despite her growing popularity as an animal person.", "Dipstick's mate, Dottie, gives birth to three puppies: Domino, Little Dipper, and Oddball, who appears to be an albino , and begins to feel self-conscious about her lack of spots as she grows up. Meanwhile, Dr. Pavlov discovers that when his therapy patients are subjected to the chimes of Big Ben , they revert to their former personalities, but he conceals these findings from the public. Inevitably, when Big Ben rings in her presence, Cruella reverts to her former personality. After recognizing Dipstick and remembering her failed attempt of making a dalmatian fur coat, she enlists the help of French furrier Jean-Pierre LePelt. Together, they design a new fur coat, with the intention of using Dipstick's children for a hood as a part of Cruella's revenge.", "Chloe and Kevin go out on a date, where Kevin tells Chloe that, if Cruella violates her parole, her entire fortune will go to him, since his dog shelter is the only one currently operating in Westminster. Knowing this, Cruella has Kevin framed for the theft of the first 99 dalmatian puppies LePelt takes, also exploiting the fact that Kevin has a prior record of dog-napping. She invites Chloe and Dipstick to her house for a dinner party to decoy them away while LePelt steals Dottie and her three puppies. Dipstick quickly returns to the apartment but is later captured. Chloe rushes home to save her pets but arrives too late. She is joined by Kevin, who has escaped from prison with the help of his talking macaw , Waddlesworth. Kevin explains that his earlier conviction was for breaking animals out of a lab, where they were being used for experiments .", "Upon finding LePelt's lost ticket for the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express to Paris , Kevin and Chloe attempt but fail to stop Cruella and LePelt before their train departs. Waddlesworth and Oddball, who managed to escape, secretly follow them to LePelt's factory in Paris. Kevin and Chloe get there as well but they are discovered by Cruella, who locks them in a cellar. Despite this, they free the puppies through a hole in the ceiling. Cruella goes after the puppies alone, while Alonzo, having been mistreated beyond his patience, defeats LePelt and frees Kevin and Chloe. They pursue Cruella to a bakery and find that the puppies, led by Oddball, have tricked Cruella into being baked in an enormous cake. Cruella survives, then she and LePelt are both arrested.", "Chloe and Kevin, exonerated from the theft accusation, return to London and are personally awarded the remnants of Cruella's fortune by Alonzo himself. Oddball's coat finally develops a few small spots, much to everyone's surprise.", "The early working title was 101 Dalmatians Returns. Production began in December 1998 and ended in mid-November 1999 without the use of John Hughes who wrote and produced the 1996 film , due to the critical failure of Flubber and the shutdown of Great Oaks Entertainment . The film was set to be released on June 30, 2000, but was pushed back to November 22. Oxford Prison was used for the scene as Cruella walked out of prison. The teaser appeared in theaters before Toy Story 2 and Stuart Little as well as the home video release of Music of the Heart . 102 Dalmatians was filmed partially in Paris. On November 7, Disney released the soundtrack to the movie, including pre-eminently, a cover of Paul Anka 's \" Puppy Love \" (sung by Myra ) [ 4 ] [ better source needed ] and original songs: Mike Himelstein's \"What Can a Bird Do?\" (voiced by Jeff Bennett ), \"My Spot in the World\" (sung by Lauren Christy ) and \"Cruella De Vil 2000\" (better known as \"Cruella De Vil (102 Dalmatians)\", performed by Camara Kambon featuring Mark Campbell [ 5 ] of Jack Mack and the Heart Attack , a derivation of \"Cruella de Vil\").", "The film is dedicated in memory of cameraman Mike Roberts, who died before it was released. [ 6 ]", "The film opened at the third position behind M. Night Shyamalan 's Unbreakable and Ron Howard 's Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas . [ 7 ] The film grossed $67 million in the U.S. and $116.7 million in other territories, bringing its total to $183.6 million worldwide, making less than its predecessor. [ 1 ]", "On Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 30% based on 90 reviews, and an average rating of 4.40/10. The website's critics consensus reads: \"This sequel to the live-action 101 Dalmatians is simply more of the same. Critics say it also drags in parts-- potentially boring children-- and that it's too violent for a G-rated movie.\" [ 8 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 35 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable\" reviews. [ 9 ] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B+\" on an A+ to F scale. [ 10 ]", "Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 out of 4, writing: \"Glenn Close does what can be done with the role. Indeed, she does more than can be done; Cruella is almost too big for a live-action film and requires animation to fit her operatic scale.\" [ 11 ]", "102 Dalmatians was released on VHS and DVD on April 3, 2001. It was re-released on DVD on September 16, 2008.", "A video game loosely based on the film, that was entitled Disney's 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue , was released in 2000, with Frankie Muniz as the voice of Domino, Molly Marlette as the voice of Oddball and Susanne Blakeslee as the voice of Cruella de Vil. Horace and Jasper also appeared in the game despite not being present in the film. [ 12 ]", "A backstory film, centered around Cruella de Vil titled Cruella has been made. Glenn Close served as an executive producer on the project [ 13 ] while Emma Stone played the eponymous role. [ 14 ] The film was released on May 28, 2021. [ 15 ]", "In May 2021, Glenn Close revealed that while working on Cruella as an executive producer, she wrote a new story as a sequel to the films where she would reprise the role of Cruella De Vil. The plot would involve the character in New York City and also take inspiration from The Godfather Part II . The actress intends to pitch it to the studio. [ 16 ] [ 17 ]"]
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dc/101_Dalmatians_II_Patch%27s_London_Adventure_cover.jpg/250px-101_Dalmatians_II_Patch%27s_London_Adventure_cover.jpg", "Directed by": "Jim Kammerud Brian Smith", "Screenplay by": "Jim Kammerud Brian Smith", "Story by": "Jim Kammerud Dan Root Garrett K. Schiff Brian Smith Temple Mathews", "Produced by": "Carolyn Bates Leslie Hough", "Starring": "Bobby Lockwood Barry Bostwick Samuel West Kath Soucie Susanne Blakeslee Jeff Bennett Maurice LaMarche Jason Alexander Martin Short", "Edited by": "Robert S. Bichard Ron Price", "Music by": "Richard Gibbs", "Production company": "Walt Disney Television Animation [ 1 ]", "Distributed by": "Buena Vista Home Entertainment [ a ]", "Release date": "January 21, 2003 ( 2003-01-21 )", "Running time": "74 minutes", "Country": "United States [ 1 ]", "Language": "English"}
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["101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure is a 2003 American animated direct-to-video adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation with distribution by Walt Disney Home Entertainment . It serves as the sequel to Disney's 1961 animated feature film One Hundred and One Dalmatians . It was directed by Jim Kammerud and Brian Smith, with them also writing the screenplay from a story by Kammerud, Dan Root, Garrett K. Schiff, Smith and Temple Mathews and produced by Carolyn Bates and Leslie Hough. It was released on VHS and DVD on January 21, 2003, and features the voices of Bobby Lockwood , Barry Bostwick , Martin Short , Jason Alexander , Susanne Blakeslee , Kath Soucie , Jeff Bennett , and Jim Cummings . The main focus of the sequel is Patch, the loneliest of puppies, feeling \"lost in a sea of spots\". After he gets left behind during the Radcliffe family's moving day, he encounters his TV hero, Thunderbolt, who enlists him on a publicity campaign. Critical reception was positive.", "Some time after the events of the first film , the Radcliffe family and their 101 Dalmatians are preparing to move to their \"Dalmatian Plantation\", a home in the countryside with plenty of room for all of them. However, one of the puppies, Patch, feels ignored and wishes to be unique like his television hero, Thunderbolt. While watching The Thunderbolt Adventure Hour , Patch hears about a chance to appear on the show. Patch is accidentally left behind when his family leaves for the plantation, so he decides to head for the audition to meet his hero and win a guest spot on the show. Patch fails to impress the producers. Meanwhile, Thunderbolt's sidekick Lil' Lightning is mistreated and underappreciated and tricks Thunderbolt into believing that he would be replaced and convinces him to go to make \"real-life heroic deeds\" so he would trick the producers into making himself the hero of his own show. Seeing how much Patch knows about his adventures, Thunderbolt decides to ask him for help.", "Elsewhere in London , Cruella de Vil , unable to purchase furs due to being on probation and a restraining order after being exposed and arrested for stealing the Radcliffes' original 15 puppies, attempts to soothe her fixation on spots with the help of Lars, a French beatnik artist. In order to inspire him, she restarts her hunt for the Dalmatians, using a newspaper picture of Patch to find their new address. Patch's family finally becomes aware that he is missing and returns to London to search for him. Cruella de Vil bails her former henchmen, Horace and Jasper Badun, out of prison. She sends them in a stolen dog food truck to steal the remaining puppies. The Baduns succeed after dealing with Nanny, and they take the puppies to Lars. When Cruella de Vil requests she be made a masterpiece from the puppies' fur, Lars refuses, not wanting to harm the puppies. Enraged, Cruella de Vil has him bound and gagged and returns to her original plan of making a Dalmatian fur coat .", "The imprisoned puppies use the Twilight Bark to send a distress signal, which is picked up by Patch and Thunderbolt, and they set out to save Patch's family. Lil' Lightning follows them and convinces Thunderbolt not to use Patch's stealth plan, but to openly attack. Cruella de Vil knocks Thunderbolt unconscious and has the Baduns lock Patch and Thunderbolt in a cage. Lil' Lightning then tells Patch that Thunderbolt is just an actor. Patch falls into despair, but Lucky reminds him that Thunderbolt escaped a similar predicament in one of the TV episodes. Patch breaks out and releases his siblings, but Thunderbolt remains behind, ashamed of himself for disappointing Patch. The Dalmatians escape through the building's roof to a double-decker bus . Meanwhile, Thunderbolt escapes from his cage and frees Lars.", "Cruella de Vil and the Baduns discover the escape, and a chase ensues through the streets of London, crashing through the filming of Lil' Lightning's new show in the process. Cruella de Vil and the Baduns finally corner the puppies in an alley. Patch tries to hold them off while the others escape, but they are undaunted. Luckily, Thunderbolt arrives, having been driven to the scene by Lars, and fakes a heart attack, distracting Cruella de Vil and causing her to knock out Jasper and Horace and incapacitate herself. Patch puts the bus into reverse, sending Cruella de Vil, the Baduns, their stolen truck, and Lil' Lightning scrambling into the River Thames . The police arrest the Baduns and have two boxers arrest Lil' Lightning. Cruella de Vil, now driven completely insane, is sent to a mental institution . The Radcliffes and Nanny arrive along with Patch's parents Pongo and Perdita, who thank Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt dismisses himself as just an actor, but says that Patch is \"a real, one of a kind wonder-dog\".", "In a post-credits scene , Patch, along with his 98 siblings, finally fulfills his dream to star in another episode of The Thunderbolt Adventure Hour .", "101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure was released direct-to-video on January 21, 2003, 42 years after its predecessor. Bonus features on the DVD include the behind-the-scenes footage \"Making of Dog-umentary\", music videos \"Try Again\" by Will Young and \"You're the One\" by LMNT , and some games. The film was re-released on DVD on September 16, 2008. [ 2 ] It was released on Blu-ray on September 3, 2012 in the United Kingdom, along with the UK Blu-ray release of the original film. Finally, the film was released on Blu-ray on June 9, 2015 in the United States, following the first HD Blu-ray release of its predecessor.", "Unlike most of Disney's direct-to-video sequels, the film received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , it currently holds a 67% \"fresh\" rating based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10. [ 3 ]", "Almar Haflidason of BBC.com gave the film 3 out of 5, calling it the \"best Disney direct-to-video sequel so far.\" [ 4 ]", "A video game based on the film was released exclusively on PlayStation on November 20, 2003."]
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Aa Okkati Adakku
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Okkati_Adakku
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Aa_Okkati_Adakku.jpg", "Directed by": "E. V. V. Satyanarayana", "Written by": "L. B. Sriram (dialogues)", "Screenplay by": "E. V. V. Satyanarayana", "Story by": "P. Kalaimani", "Produced by": "M. Saravanan M. Balasubramaniam", "Starring": "Rajendra Prasad Rambha", "Cinematography": "V. Srinivasa Reddy", "Edited by": "K. Ravindra Babu", "Music by": "Ilaiyaraaja", "Production company": "AVM Productions", "Release date": "19 September 1992 ( 1992-09-19 )", "Running time": "155 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu"}
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["Aa Okkati Adakku ( transl. Don't ask for that one thing ) is a 1992 Indian Telugu -language comedy film directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana , and produced by M. Saravanan and M. Balasubramaniam under the AVM Productions banner. The film stars Rajendra Prasad , Rambha , and Rao Gopal Rao with music composed by Ilaiyaraaja . Aa Okkati Adakku marks the Telugu debut of actress Rambha.", "The film was based on the Tamil film Paaru Paaru Pattanam Paaru (1986). [ 1 ] It was a commercial success and was later remade in Kannada as Bal Nan Maga (1995) and in Hindi Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi (1997). [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "The film is set in Visakhapatnam and follows Chitti Babu, a highly educated yet idle man who places great faith in astrology and fortune. He is convinced by an astrologer, Poompuhar Devagna Sarma, that he has Rajayogam and will become a king within a year. Chitti Babu lives with his mother and sister, Kunthi, who pressures him to arrange her marriage, threatening to elope if it is not done soon. Meanwhile, Ganga Raju (Royyala Naidu), a wealthy self-made businessman, refuses to allow his daughter Rambha to marry a rich but lazy man brought to him by a matchmaker. He insists that she marry someone who is hardworking, even if poor.", "Chitti Babu saves Rambha from some bullies, and during the encounter, a lizard falls on him, leading him to seek guidance from Poompuhar, who predicts danger will come from a virgin girl. Soon after, Chitti Babu becomes the victim of an accident caused by Rambha's car, and she falls in love with him. Rambha offers Chitti Babu a job at her father's company, but he initially refuses, feeling it beneath his dignity. However, under pressure from his sister, he reluctantly accepts.", "Initially disapproving of Rambha's love for Chitti Babu, Royyala Naidu reluctantly agrees to their marriage when Rambha attempts suicide. However, he sets a condition: Chitti Babu must pay a dowry of ₹1,00,000. To raise the money, Chitti Babu invites a large crowd, including strangers, to the wedding venue, hoping to collect gifts. After the ceremony, Royyala Naidu thwarts his plan and imposes further conditions, including forbidding the couple’s first night until the dowry is fully paid.", "Royyala Naidu eventually offers to accept the dowry payment in four installments. Determined to raise the money, Chitti Babu resorts to clever cons, including selling a goat to a gullible man by claiming it can speak and pretending to be a blind man to secure a loan. However, his fraudulent acts are exposed when the man who bought the \"talking\" goat and the bank officer willing to grant him the loan turn out to be Royyala Naidu’s friends or relatives. Consequently, Royyala Naidu uncovers Chitti Babu's deception and expels him.", "Royyala Naidu humiliates Chitti Babu's mother, which prompts Chitti Babu to angrily divorce Rambha. In response, Royyala Naidu arranges for Rambha to remarry. Chitti Babu, heartbroken, defends his right to stop the marriage, and Royyala Naidu offers a final chance: if Chitti Babu clears the debt, he will cancel the marriage.", "Meanwhile, Kunthi agrees to marry an elderly man to raise the money for the dowry. After much soul-searching, Chitti Babu sets out to make his fortune. His efforts initially fail, but he eventually stumbles upon a cloth mill owner in the process of attempting suicide due to his business’s bankruptcy. Using his wit and creativity, Chitti Babu turns the company into a profitable venture by introducing new designs. His success leads to a rapid accumulation of wealth.", "Chitti Babu returns to the wedding hall to find Kunthi about to marry the elderly man, only to discover that Royyala Naidu orchestrated this entire situation to reform him. The film concludes with Chitti Babu and Rambha finally uniting in marriage.", "The music for the film was composed by Ilayaraja , marking his only collaboration with E. V. V. Satyanarayana. The soundtrack was released by Akash Audio Company. [ 4 ] Notably, the song \"Pavurama\" was based on Ilayaraja's own composition, \"Shenbagame,\" from the 1987 film Enga Ooru Pattukaran . [ citation needed ]", "The film was a commercial success and was later remade in Kannada as Bal Nan Maga (1995) and in Hindi Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi (1997). [ 2 ]", "Rao Gopala Rao’s performance received praise. [ 5 ] The film features double entendre in its dialogue and faced criticism for obscenity. This marked one of E. V. V. Satyanarayana’s early controversies involving sexual explicitness, a theme that would resurface in his later film Alluda Majaaka (1995). [ 5 ]", "In 2017, Rao Gopal Rao 's son Rao Ramesh played Royyalu Naidu in the film DJ: Duvvada Jagannadham , which is based on and named after Gopal Rao's character in the film. [ 6 ]"]
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Aa Okkadu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Okkadu
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8e/Aa_Okkadu_Poster.jpg/250px-Aa_Okkadu_Poster.jpg", "Directed by": "N. S. Murthy (Dakshin Srinivas)", "Written by": "N. S. Murthy (Dakshin Srinivas)", "Produced by": "Ganesh Indukuri", "Starring": "Suresh Gopi Ajay Madhurima", "Cinematography": "Kamalakar", "Edited by": "M. R. Varma", "Music by": "Mani Sharma", "Release date": "5 June 2009 ( 2009-06-05 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu", "Released": "2009", "Genre": "Soundtrack", "Length": "21 : 24", "Label": "Lahari Music"}
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["Aa Okkadu is a 2009 Indian Telugu -language action thriller film starring Suresh Gopi , Ajay , and Madhurima . [ 1 ] The film is directed by N S Murthy and was released by Tolly 2 Holly Films on 5 June 2009. [ 2 ] Mani Sharma composed the music. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The New Indian Express categorised this film as one of the commercially unsuccessful films of 2009. [ 5 ]", "Sri Krishna ( Suresh Gopi ) is a successful criminal lawyer. Bujji ( Ajay ) works under Sri Krishna. Dr. Pavitra ( Madhurima ) is a psychiatrist who works in a mental hospital. Sri Krishna and Pavitra are disciples of a godman. Pavitra has a family dispute with her brother-in-law and he dies under suspicious circumstances. Slowly a few people associated with Pavitra are killed and the needle of suspicion turns towards Pavitra. The rest of the film is all about who did it.", "The music was composed by Mani Sharma . In an audio review of the film by Telugucinema.com , a critic rated the soundtrack three-and-a-half out of five and wrote that \"At the outset, the album might seem to offer nothing new but Mani Sarma's careful handling of orchestration and tuning stand out on repeated hearing\". [ 6 ]", "Jeevi of Idlebrain rated the film two and one-fourth out of five and wrote that \"On a whole, Aa Okkadu is a well-intended effort that has gone wrong due to inefficient screenplay and uninteresting narration.\" [ 4 ]", "A critic from Bangalore Mirror wrote that \"Director Murthy has succeeded in holding the suspense till the end but the comedy sequences do not blend well with the main story. Many of the plots lack logic too. Even Mani Sharma's music fails to impress.\" [ 7 ]", "The music was composed by Mani Sharma . In an audio review of the film by Telugucinema.com , a critic rated the soundtrack three-and-a-half out of five and wrote that \"At the outset, the album might seem to offer nothing new but Mani Sarma's careful handling of orchestration and tuning stand out on repeated hearing\". [ 6 ]", "Jeevi of Idlebrain rated the film two and one-fourth out of five and wrote that \"On a whole, Aa Okkadu is a well-intended effort that has gone wrong due to inefficient screenplay and uninteresting narration.\" [ 4 ]", "A critic from Bangalore Mirror wrote that \"Director Murthy has succeeded in holding the suspense till the end but the comedy sequences do not blend well with the main story. Many of the plots lack logic too. Even Mani Sharma's music fails to impress.\" [ 7 ]"]
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Aa Nimisham
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Nimisham
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Aa_Nimisham.jpg", "Directed by": "I. V. Sasi", "Written by": "A. Sheriff", "Screenplay by": "Sherif", "Produced by": "K. J. Joseph", "Starring": "Madhu Sheela Sridevi Kaviyoor Ponnamma", "Cinematography": "C. Ramachandra Menon", "Edited by": "K. Narayanan", "Music by": "G. Devarajan", "Production company": "Cherupushpam Films", "Release date": "9 September 1977 ( 1977-09-09 )", "Running time": "130 minutes", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aa Nimisham ( transl. That Moment ) is a 1977 Indian Malayalam -language drama film , directed by I. V. Sasi and produced by K. J. Joseph. The film stars Madhu , Sheela , Sridevi and Kaviyoor Ponnamma . The film has musical score by G. Devarajan . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The film was remade in Tamil as Nool Veli and in Telugu as Guppedu Manasu .", "The music was composed by G. Devarajan and the lyrics were written by Yusufali Kechery ."]
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2025-06-27 22:39:01
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57,998
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Aa Naluguru
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Naluguru
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Aa_Naluguru.jpg", "Directed by": "Chandra Siddhartha", "Written by": "Madan (story / dialogues)", "Screenplay by": "Chandra Siddhartha Madan", "Produced by": "Sarita Patra P. Prem Kumar (Presents)", "Starring": "Rajendra Prasad Aamani", "Cinematography": "T. Surendra Reddy", "Edited by": "Girish Lokesh", "Music by": "R. P. Patnaik", "Production company": "Prem Movies", "Release date": "9 December 2004 ( 2004-12-09 )", "Running time": "140 mins", "Country": "India", "Language": "Telugu", "Released": "2004", "Genre": "Soundtrack", "Length": "27 : 02", "Label": "Unknown", "Producer": "R. P. Patnaik"}
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["Aa Naluguru ( transl. Those four people ) is a 2004 Indian Telugu -language drama film directed by Chandra Siddhartha . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film stars Rajendra Prasad and Aamani with music composed by R. P. Patnaik . It is produced by Sarita Patra and presented by P. Prem Kumar. The film won three Nandi Awards . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The film was later remade in Kannada in 2006 as Sirivantha . [ 5 ]", "The film begins with agents of death land for the life of Raghuram. Amidst they are carrying his soul, he wishes to view his funeral rights, which the two bestow. At this moment, Raghuram anticipates that all his men will be engulfed in mourning for his death, which reverses. The agents heckle him, witnessing it. Raghuram states he is under dichotomy whether the world revolves around Money or Love and spins back. Raghuram is a good spirit with high ethics and works as editor & chief of a newspaper. He resides with his wife, Bharati & three progeny, Shekar, Chinna, & Indira. Raghuram loves society as much as his family and spends half of his earnings on charity, but his family is quite opposite to his principles. Besides, several characters surround Raghuram, his bestie, Subramanyam, who constantly warns him about his path. Mastan, whom Raghuram shields in a religious strife, risking his life. Above all, Kotaiah, a loanshark, wagers Raghuram never to approach him for a debt if Love is more significant than Money. Once, his managing director, G.Venkat Rao, forced him to publish tabloid photos to increase circulation, which he rejected & resigned as per morals. Later, Venkat Rao admits his fault, apologizes, and reappoints Raghuram, promising not to be involved in his duty.", "Meanwhile, Indira secretly knits a guy named Ravi. Still, Raghuram wholeheartedly welcomes them and conducts a grand reception. Shekar qualifies for the Police selection but bribes him for the job, and Chinna, an education donation fee for an engineering seat, which Kotaiah & Subramanyam are accommodating to their sons—additionally, Ravi & Indira demand funds to settle in the US. Raghuram denies the three feeling it dead wrong from vice. From there, they create mental agony in him with scorn & detest, including Bharati, but he does not yield. Anyhow, discerning that his kids are going into the dark path to earning money, Raghuram succumbs. Hence, he loans at Venkat Rao & Mastan, and the amount is unfilled. Whereat, Raghuram forwards Kotaiah, accepting his defeat, which he presents. Today, the public comes in droves to Raghuram's funeral, but his son-in-law & sons are missing. Through agents, Raghuram's soul knows they are hiding in the same town to escape from the debtors. Concurrently, the doctors arrive to collect his donated eyes when they declare suicide. They also detect a note where Raghuram announced he can not bear his ideology's defeat. Subramanyam shatters therein but conceals the fact to guard Raghuram's honor. Eventually, Bharati collapses, comprehending her husband's virtue and children's evil shade.", "Raghuram's last journey begins with the society he facilitated, which grows into the ocean step by step. Midway, his sons & son-in-law, who are fleeing, struck in the vast procession. Ergo, they have to participate in it as recognized. Raghuram's soul is wailing to retrieve the amount of his debts. Kotaiah bars Shekar just before lighting the pyre, vowing not to let him do so until they clear his due. So, Shekar walks out reluctantly, leaving his father's corpse. Then, the whole public sets foot to pay the amount, showing their gratitude towards Raghuram, which makes his children remorseful. Here, Kotaiah acclaims Raghuram's eminence and his adoration towards him. He has carried out this mess to reform children and make Raghuram win. Now, the entire family bows down before Raghuram's integrity and oaths to move in his footsteps. However, Bharati hinders Shekar from performing the ritual since they are the main factors for his death and implores the public to accomplish it, and they do. At last, Raghuram triumphs in his victory. Startlingly, the agents transform into heavenly gods because Raghuram has been in grief till now, which is hell & he is currently under great happiness, heaven. Finally, the movie ends Raghuram's soul departing with a proclamation: We never brought anything in birth or take nothing at death, but he is carrying the love shared by the society.", "Music was composed by R. P. Patnaik . Lyrics were written by Chaitanya Prasad. Music released on Aditya Music Company.", "Music was composed by R. P. Patnaik . Lyrics were written by Chaitanya Prasad. Music released on Aditya Music Company."]
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Aa Neram Alppa Dooram
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_Neram_Alppa_Dooram
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Aa_Neram_Alpa_Dhooram.jpeg/250px-Aa_Neram_Alpa_Dhooram.jpeg", "Directed by": "Thampi Kannanthanam", "Written by": "Thampi Kannanthanam Kamal (dialogues)", "Screenplay by": "Thampi Kannanthanam", "Produced by": "E. K. Thyagarajan", "Starring": "Mammootty Jose Prakash Manavalan Joseph Siddique", "Cinematography": "Babulal", "Edited by": "K. Sankunni", "Music by": "Johnson", "Production company": "Sree Murugalaya Films", "Distributed by": "Sree Murugalaya Films", "Release date": "1 November 1985 ( 1985-11-01 )", "Country": "India", "Language": "Malayalam"}
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["Aa Neram Alppa Dooram ( മലയാളം : ആ നേരം അല്പദൂരം ) is a 1985 Indian Malayalam - language Revenge film , directed by Thampi Kannanthanam and produced by E. K. Thyagarajan. The film stars Mammootty , Jose Prakash , Manavalan Joseph and Siddique in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Johnson . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]", "Mammootty approached Kamal to write dialogues for the film though Kamal initially was uninterested to pen dialogues as \"Thampy's idea of filmmaking was not something that I shared\" though he agreed as he knew Thampy from his days as assistant director. Thampy wanted to cast Lalu Alex as antagonist however on the insistence of a person called as Kora Chettan in industry circles, he decided to cast Siddique in that role. After Thampy came to know Siddique who was then a college student went to abroad, he \"lost interest in Siddique\" and roped Lalu Alex. Thampy who was surprised to see Siddique turning up at the sets gave him a small role in the film not to disappoint him. [ 4 ]", "The music was composed by Johnson and the lyrics were written by Poovachal Khader . [ 5 ]", "The film failed at box-office. [ 4 ] In a 2018 interview with Safari TV, Dennis Joseph told that the failure of the film affected Mammootty very much and he was not keen on working with Kannanthanam again. The incident created a permanent rift between them. [ 6 ]"]
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Aa Gale Lag Jaa
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{"image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Aa_Gale_Lag_Jaa_%281994%29.jpg", "Directed by": "Hamid Ali Khan", "Written by": "Salim Akhtar Santosh Saroj (Dialogue)", "Produced by": "Salim Akhtar", "Starring": "Jugal Hansraj Urmila Matondkar Paresh Rawal Ashok Saraf Ajit Arjun", "Cinematography": "Anwar Siraj", "Edited by": "Waman Bhonsle Gurudutt Shirali", "Music by": "Anu Malik", "Production company": "Aftab Pictures", "Release date": "13 May 1994 ( 1994-05-13 )", "Running time": "158 min", "Country": "India", "Language": "Hindi"}
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["Aa Gale Lag Jaa ( transl. Come, embrace me ) is a 1994 Indian Hindi language romantic thriller film directed by Hamid Ali Khan [ 1 ] and starring Jugal Hansraj , Urmila Matondkar , Paresh Rawal , Ashok Saraf , Ajit , Reema Lagoo , Raza Murad , Arjun and Gulshan Grover . [ 2 ]", "The film marked the first leading role for Jugal Hansraj, who previously was a child artist in several films in the 1980s. Coincidentally, he was paired with Urmila Matondkar who had played his sister in his debut film Masoom (1983). [ 3 ]", "Suraj ( Jugal Hansraj ) is a poor boy raised by his father Mamtaram ( Paresh Rawal ). Roshni ( Urmila Matondkar ) is a rich girl raised by her widowed mother Shakuntala Devi ( Reema Lagoo ). Roshni & Suraj fall in love, but Shakuntala opposes the marriage on knowing that Suraj is the son of the driver of Roshni's father, who also happened to be his murderer. Mamtaram confirms that his real father was indeed in prison, but he was killed on release by a speeding truck.", "Suraj's dreams are shattered. Suddenly, someone starts killing Roshni's father's business partners. Suspicion points towards Suraj. The murder cases are assigned to a weird Police Inspector Ram Bhajan Singh ( Gulshan Grover ). After realizing that killer is some third person nobody knows about, the Inspector arranges a trap for him.", "It is found that the killer is Suraj's supposedly dead father. He tells everybody that the real killers were Roshni's father's business partners who were afraid that her father would expose their frauds. They framed Suraj's father who tried to remove the knife out of his masters body. Before the Inspector can arrest him, Suraj's father finds the last partner in the hospital and kills him. He cut face off Plasic surgery. Suraj's father surrenders to the police and the film ends. [ 4 ]", "The film is remembered for its melodious songs by Anu Malik . [ 5 ]"]
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