Movie Releases by User Score
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Spider-Man
May 3, 2002
Peter Parker (Maguire), after being bitten by a genetically altered spider, becomes Spider-Man, a hero of superhuman strength with the ability to cling to any surface. He dedicates himself to a life of fighting crime, while living a double life as a superhero and working student. (Sony)
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
May 16, 2002
Ten years after the invasion of Naboo, the galaxy is on the brink of civil war. Under the leadership of a renegade Jedi named Count Dooku, thousands of solar systems threaten to break away from the Galactic Republic. When an assassination attempt is made on Senator Padmé Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo, twenty-year-old Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker is assigned to protect her. In the course of his mission, Anakin discovers his love for Padmé as well as his own darker side. Soon, Anakin, Padmé, and Obi-Wan Kenobi are drawn into the heart of the Separatist movement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.
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Spirited Away
September 20, 2002
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world. [Walt Disney Studios]
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
December 18, 2002
In the second chapter in J.R.R Tolkien's epic trilogy, the Fellowship faces unimaginable armies and deception while also witnessing ancient wonders and the untapped strength of their people. [New Line Productions]
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
November 15, 2002
This second installment in the Harry Potter series finds young wizard Harry Potter (Radcliffe) and his friends Ron (Grint) and Hermione (Watson) facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts as they try to discover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.
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Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
January 25, 2002
A spoof of dubbed martial arts movies.
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Equilibrium
December 6, 2002
In a future society, citizens are prevented from expressing emotions and are controlled by militaristic police with the enforced use of a dehumanizing drug.
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Resident Evil
March 15, 2002
A secret experiment...a deadly virus...a fatal mistake. Based on the wildly popular video game series, Resident Evil is an action-packed thriller starring Milla Jovovich in a battle of good and evil, human versus computer, the living against the Undead. (Sony Pictures)
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Ice Age
March 15, 2002
A quartet of misfits (including a fast talking but dim sloth named Sid; a moody woolly mammoth named Manny; a devilish saber-toothed tiger named Diego; and an acorn-crazy saber-toothed squirrel known as Scrat) unexpectedly, and reluctantly, comes together in a quest to return a human infant to his father. (Twentieth Century Fox)
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Catch Me If You Can
December 25, 2002
Frank W. Abagnale (DiCaprio) worked as a doctor, a lawyer and as a co-pilot for a major airline -- all before his 21st birthday. A master of deception, he was also a brilliant forger, whose skill at check fraud had netted him millions of dollars in stolen funds. FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Hanks) has made it his prime mission to capture Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank is always one step ahead of him, baiting him to continue the chase. [DreamWorks]
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8 Mile
November 8, 2002
A story about the boundaries that define our lives, and a young man's struggle to find the strength and courage to transcend them. (Universal Pictures)
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The Ring
October 18, 2002
In this remake of one of Japan's biggest box office hits, Naomi Watts plays a journalist who discovers a mysterious videotape that is connected to several deaths.
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Signs
August 2, 2002
Everything that farmer Graham Hess (Gibson) assumed about the world is changed when he discovers a message - an intricate pattern of circles and lines - carved into his crops. (Touchstone Pictures)
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Minority Report
June 21, 2002
Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, Minority Report is and action-detective thriller set in Washington, D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime. (Fox/Dreamworks)
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The Bourne Identity
June 14, 2002
Robert Ludlum's international thriller gets an edgy 21st century spin from director Doug Liman.
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The Pianist
December 27, 2002
Wladyslaw Szpilman, a brilliant Polish pianist, a Jew, escapes deportation. Forced to live in the heart of the Warsaw ghetto, he shares the suffering, the humiliation and the struggles. He manages to escape and hides in the ruins of the capital. A German officer comes to his aid and helps him to survive. (Focus Features)
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Gangs of New York
December 20, 2002
Set in New York City between 1840 and 1863, this is the story of a young man named Amsterdam (DiCaprio) who seeks vengeance against Bill "The Butcher" Poole (Day-Lewis), the man who killed his father as a result of warfare between the powerful Manhattan gangs.
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Insomnia
May 24, 2002
From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan ("Memento") comes the story of Will Dormer (Pacino), a veteran LAPD detective who travels to a small Alaskan town with his partner Hap (Donovan) to investigate the disturbing murder of a seventeen year-old girl. (Warner Bros.)
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Punch-Drunk Love
October 11, 2002
Paul Thomas Anderson's fourth film features Sandler as a lonely man with serious emotional issues. As he concocts a scheme involving frequent flier miles and copious amounts of pudding, he finds himself both falling prey to a phone-sex scam and falling in love with his sister's colleague.
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Road to Perdition
July 12, 2002
A portrayal of two families whose fates are determined by the complex and often combative relationships between fathers and their sons. (DreamWorks Pictures)
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Treasure Planet
November 5, 2002
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Planet gets a futuristic twist in this amazing tale of a brave young man's thrilling journey to new frontiers aboard a flying ship.
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Scooby-Doo
June 14, 2002
Scooby Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang take their animated antics to the big screen as a live-action movie.
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Halloween: Resurrection
July 12, 2002
When a group of teens win a contest to spend a night in Michael Myers' childhood home to be broadcast live on the Internet, things go frightfully wrong and the game turns into a struggle to make it out of the house alive. (Dimension Films)
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Blade II
March 22, 2002
Wesley Snipes returns as Blade, the Marvel Comics half-human, half-vampire character he vividly brought to life in the 1998 hit film of the same name. (New Line Cinema)
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Adaptation.
December 6, 2002
The lives of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage), author Susan Orlean (Streep) and orchid poacher John Laroche (Cooper) become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others' in this adaptation of the best-selling "The Orchid Thief." [Columbia Pictures]
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Die Another Day
November 22, 2002
In this 20th installment of the James Bond franchise, 007 circles the world in his quest to unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic proportions.
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Panic Room
March 29, 2002
A newly divorced mother (Foster) and her young daughter are caught in a cat-and-mouse game with three intruders who break into their New York apartment searching for a hidden cache of cash.
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Men in Black II
July 3, 2002
This sequel to the 1997 hit, which was based upon a Marvel Comics comic book, features Agents J and K (Smith and Jones) in battles with alien rabble-rousers who take the form of a host of estrogen-charged extraterrestrials.
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A Walk to Remember
January 25, 2002
Set in the lowlands of North Carolina, this story follows the rite of passage of a jaded, aimless high school senior (West) as he falls in love with a guileless young woman (Moore) he and his friends once scorned. (Warner Brothers)
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Chicago
December 27, 2002
A new interpretation that takes the award-winning Broadway show into fresh and expansive cinematic realms, Chicago shifts adroitly from the reality of intrigue, rivalry and betrayal to spectacular fantasies of music and dance, offering tongue-in-cheek commentary on the cult of celebrity and the scandalous lengths to which people will go to attain it. [Miramax]
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
May 24, 2002
The animated adventures of a wild and rambunctious mustang stallion as he journeys through the untamed American frontier. (DreamWorks)
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Jason X
April 26, 2002
Jason Voorhees, iconic movie villain, returns to the screen after a nine-year absence in the 10th installment of the classic Friday the 13th film series. (New Line Cinema)
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The Hours
December 27, 2002
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place; all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. [Paramount]
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The Transporter
October 11, 2002
Dangerous complications ensue when a former U.S. Special Forces soldier-turned expatriate mercenary is hired to kidnap the feisty daughter of a lethal Chinese cook who's smuggling his fellow countrymen into France.
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Lilo & Stitch
June 21, 2002
In Lilo and Stitch, get ready to crash-land on Earth with Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet. As he wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl named Lilo and learns about loyalty, friendship, and 'ohana, the Hawaiian tradition of family.
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The Salton Sea
April 26, 2002
After witnessing the murder of his wife, a man (Kilmer) goes undercover to avenge her death.
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Austin Powers in Goldmember
July 26, 2002
It's been three years since Austin Powers, that swinging international man of mystery, has faced his arch-nemesis, Dr. Evil. But after Dr. Evil and his accomplice Mini Me escape from a maximum-security prison, Austin is called to action once more in this third installment of the highly successful "Austin Powers" movie franchise. (New Line Cinema)
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One Hour Photo
August 21, 2002
A young suburban family finds themselves the objects of obsession of an employee (Williams) at their local one-hour photo lab.
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Mr. Deeds
June 28, 2002
In this homage to the 1936 Frank Capra classic "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," Adam Sandler plays Mr. Deeds, a young man from the small town of Mandrake Falls, NH who inherits controlling interest in a massive media corporation from his deceased uncle.
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The Master of Disguise
August 2, 2002
Dana Carvey is Pistachio Disguisey, the last in a long line of "masters of disguise" in a family that goes back through 2,000 years of European history.
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Ghost Ship
October 25, 2002
In a remote region of the Bering Sea, a salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger liner lost for more than 40 years. Once onboard, the crew must uncover the truth about the ship's past and unlock the mystery that threatens their very survival. (Warner Bros.)
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Red Dragon
October 4, 2002
The first and most terrifying chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. (Universal Pictures)
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xXx
August 9, 2002
Vin Diesel stars as former extreme sports athlete Xander "XXX" Cage, notorious for his death defying public stunts. Betting he can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Xander is recruited by NSA Agent Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) to become a different kind of undercover agent.
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Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
August 7, 2002
When last we saw them, the Cortez kids had just joined the family business in order to win back their kidnapped parents. Now, Carmen and Juni are Level 2 OSS agents, about to set off on their own solo mission, or so they think. (Dimension Films)
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The Count of Monte Cristo
January 25, 2002
Alexandre Dumas's classic story of an innocent man wrongly but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him. (Touchstone Pictures)
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Solaris
November 27, 2002
A story of love, redemption, second chances and a space mission gone terribly wrong. (20th Century Fox)
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About a Boy
May 17, 2002
About a Boy is about a man (Grant) -- a handsome, rich, shallow, self-absorbed, irresistible cad -- and the unexpected relationship he develops with a boy he meets while trying to pick up another boy's mother. (Universal Pictures)
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Frailty
April 12, 2002
The story of the FBI's search for the notorious "God's Hand" murderer. (Lion Gate Films)
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Swept Away
October 11, 2002
Guy Ritchie's contemporary adaptation of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 romantic comedy, a story of love, sex, drugs and too much money -- all set against the backdrop of a Mediterranean island paradise. (Sony)
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Queen of the Damned
February 22, 2002
Based on the third installment of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, the film follows the supernatural adventures of the legendary vampire Lestat, who has reinvented himself as an international rock star. His music awakes Akasha, the queen of all vampires, who is determined to make Lestat her king.
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Star Trek: Nemesis
December 13, 2002
The Federation is about to encounter its greatest challenge -- The Romulans want peace. Conceived in the regal senate halls of Romulus and forged in the dilithium mines of Remus, comes a nemesis bent on destroying Picard and the Federation...exactly in that order. (Paramount Pictures)
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FeardotCom
August 30, 2002
A brash young police detective (Dorff) joins forces with a beautiful, ambitious Department of Health researcher (McElhone) to find the answers behind the mysterious deaths of four people who each died 48 hours after logging on to the Internet site Feardotcom. (Warner Bros.)
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Y Tu Mamá También
March 15, 2002
Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, two teenagers meet an exotic older woman at a wedding, and they embark on a road trip together.
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25th Hour
December 19, 2002
The story of the last twenty-four hours Monty Brogan (Norton) gets to spend with his two best friends and his girlfriend before he goes to prison for seven years for pushing heroin.
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Eight Crazy Nights
November 27, 2002
Davey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far. In keeping with the holiday spirit, the judge gives Davey one last chance at redemption -- spend the holiday performing community service as the assistant referee for the youth basketball league or go to jail. (Columbia Pictures)
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About Schmidt
December 13, 2002
Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) has arrived at several of life's crossraods all at the same time. With no job, no wife, and no family, he is desperate to find something meaningful in his thoroughly unimpressive life. He sets out on a journey of self-discovery, exploring his roots across Nebraska in a 35-foot motor home. (New Line Productions)
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Pokémon 4: The Movie
October 11, 2002
The fourth installment in the popular Pokemon series of films, starring Ash, Pikachu and all the other Pokemon favorites, and also featuring a new time-travelling creature that has powers over nature as well as time and space.
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We Were Soldiers
March 1, 2002
Based on the best-selling book which details the events of the battle of LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. (Paramount)
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Super Troopers
February 15, 2002
Thorny, Rabbit, Mac, and Foster are Vermont State Troopers stationed in the boonies on the Canadian border. When they find out that the state has targeted their low-volume station for a potential budget cut, the guys attempt to straighten up their act but find it's not so easy to change their brazen ways. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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The Mothman Prophecies
January 25, 2002
A suspense-filled thriller about a man (Gere) driven to extremes to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his wife's death -- and how they might be connected to the strange phenomena in a town four hundred miles away. (Screen Gems)
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Cremaster 3
May 15, 2002
Matthew Barney's Cremaster series has taken on a legendary stature. This final piece in the 5-part cycle is the longest, densest and most complex -- filled with beautiful, mystifying images, many of them harkening back to themes the artist has already established. (Film Forum)
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The Hot Chick
December 13, 2002
Jessica Spencer is convinced she has the perfect life. She's the hottest, most popular girl in high school, head cheerleader, and dating the dreamy quarterback. But she gets a big dose of reality when she wakes up in the body of a 30-year-old man (Schneider)! (Touchstone Pictures)
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The Scorpion King
April 19, 2002
Inspired by the legendary Egyptian warrior this prequel to the opening sequence of The Mummy Returns is set 5,000 years ago in the notorious city of Gomorrah.
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The Santa Clause 2
November 1, 2002
In this sequel to 1994's "The Santa Clause," a "clause" in Santa's contract is discovered that requires Santa to get married in order to keep his job.
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Changing Lanes
April 12, 2002
A rush hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive turns two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. (Paramount Pictures)
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Jackass: The Movie
October 25, 2002
Johnny Knoxville and his crew of crazies take the concept of the MTV show "Jackass" - a bunch of guys doing dangerous and disturbing stunts just to see what happens - and turn it into a movie.
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Bowling for Columbine
October 11, 2002
Famed documentarian Michael Moore returns with his first feature film in five years, as he tackles the issue of America's unique obsession with firearms.
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
August 16, 2002
Set on the moon in the year 2087, this comedy stars Eddie Murphy as Pluto Nash, the audacious, successful owner of the hottest nightclub in town who finds himself in trouble with lunar gangsters. (Warner Bros.)
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Reign of Fire
July 12, 2002
An exciting tale of adventure and survival that fuses a medieval past with a post-apocalyptic future. (Buena Vista Pictures Entertainment)
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Death to Smoochy
March 29, 2002
A dark comedy set in the dog-eat-dog world of children's television programming.
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John Q
February 15, 2002
John Q. Archibald (Washington) is an ordinary man who must face the fact that his health insurance will not pay for the emergency heart transplant that is his son's only hope. Vowing to do whatever it takes to keep his son alive, John Q decides his only hope is a desperate gamble, and he takes the emergency room hostage. (New Line Cinema)
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Blood Work
August 9, 2002
A retired FBI profiler is brought back into service under unusual circumstances involving his own blood analysis to track a ruthless serial killer. (Warner Bros.)
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Stuart Little 2
July 19, 2002
The mouse is back (no, not Mickey!) in this sequel to the 1999 film.
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Enough
May 24, 2002
An abused wife (Lopez) is forced to go on the run with her 5-year-old daughter to escape her obsessive husband (Campbell). She toughens herself mentally and physically and sets out to prove to him that she's had enough. (Sony)
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Nine Queens
April 19, 2002
Set in Buenos Aires, this is the story of two small-time swindlers who team up after meeting in a convenience store and become involved in a half million-dollar deal. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Van Wilder
April 5, 2002
A hilarious coming-of-age story about the burden of facing real life...and the freedom that comes from not taking it too seriously. (Artisan Entertainment)
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Crossroads
February 15, 2002
The story of three childhood friends, Lucy (Spears), Kit (Saldana) and Mimi (Manning), who, after eight years apart, rediscover their friendship on a cross-country trip. (Paramount Pictures)
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They
November 27, 2002
After witnessing a horrible incident, a graduate student struggles to find the link between her childhood fear of the dark and the night terrors she now suffers.
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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
September 20, 2002
In the deadly game of international espionage, elite, anonymous operatives wage secret wars for power, information and national security. In a frantic race to obtain an ingenious new assassination device, only two individuals, sworn enemies, have the skill, talent and tenacity to succeed. (Warner Bros.)
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Mostly Martha
August 16, 2002
Martha (Gedeck) is a head chef for an upscale restaurant who relies on her culinary skill as her primary means of communication. When her sister dies in a car accident, her orderly world falls apart as she has to care for her eight-year-old niece, a girl who proves as resolute and single-minded as her aunt. (Paramount Classics)
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Sunshine State
June 21, 2002
The story of two women attempting to reconcile with their families and the changing landscape of their small Florida town due to country club resort developers.
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
April 19, 2002
A romantic comedy based on the one-woman show written by and starring "Second City" alumna Nia Vardalos.
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The Time Machine
March 8, 2002
A film version of the visionary novel by H.G. Wells in which a man in the 1890's builds a time machine that sends him into the future.
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Pinocchio
December 25, 2002
Roberto Benigni brings one of the world's most famous and beloved tales magically to the screen. (Miramax)
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Far From Heaven
November 8, 2002
An idyllic 1950s married couple faces social taboos of homosexuality and interracial relationships -- but at great cost.
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Secretary
September 20, 2002
A powerful and unique love story that toys with our expectations of love, sexuality and intimacy. (Lions Gate)
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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
May 8, 2002
The year is 1893 when Britain's Queen Victoria was the unsympathetic ruler of India. This is an inspiring story of a battle without bloodshed fought by a group of unlikely heroes. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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The Piano Teacher
March 29, 2002
Erika is a piano teacher at a prestigious music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother. Lonely and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. [Kino International]
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Big Fat Liar
February 8, 2002
Who's afraid of the big bad Wolf? Not Jason Shepherd (Muniz), who has to prove that sleazy Hollywood producer Marty Wolf (Giamatti) stole his class paper and turned into a blockbuster hit movie called Big Fat Liar. (Universal)
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Igby Goes Down
September 13, 2002
Igby Slocumb (Culkin), a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of "old money" privilege he was born in to. (MGM/UA)
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The Believer
May 17, 2002
The story of Danny Balint, who transformed himself from Jewish religious student to a rising star in the Neo-Fascist political movement.
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The New Guy
May 10, 2002
A hilarious story about wiping the slate clean and reinventing yourself. (Sony)
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Rollerball
February 8, 2002
Set in 2005, this update of the classic 1975 film directed by Norman Jewison, focuses on the deadly sport that combines roller derby and basketball and packs arenas around the world.
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Russian Ark
November 29, 2002
A unique panorama of the Hermitage, the most famous palace in Russia, now one of the great museums of the world.
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Talk to Her
November 22, 2002
A story about the friendship between two men, about loneliness and the long convalescence of wounds provoked by passion. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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24 Hour Party People
August 9, 2002
Spanning from the late 1970's to the early 1990's, this is the story of the Manchester music scene, as seen by the founders of the legendary Factory Records label.
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Who Is Cletis Tout?
July 26, 2002
A prison escapee (Slater) assumes the identity of a deceased man named Cletis Tout. He soon discovers that someone had a contract out on Cletis' life, so now the escapee has to deal with not only the police, but a hitman (Allen) as well.
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Eight Legged Freaks
July 17, 2002
The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate into the size of SUVs. And they're hungry. (Warner Bros.)
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Hey Arnold! The Movie
June 28, 2002
Nickelodeon character Arnold tackles life in the big city as he goes up against a powerful industrialist who threatens to build a mammoth "mall-plex" in the middle of Arnold's close-knit neighborhood.
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State Property
January 18, 2002
An urban crime drama. Frustrated with being broke, "Beans" (Sigel) decides that the only way to grasp the "American Dream" is to take it. State Property follows Beans and his crew, the "ABM" as they take over the city, creating mayhem as their empire builds. (Lions Gate Films)
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Titles with fewer than 7 critic reviews are excluded.