2008

Bedtime Stories 2008

In 1974, Marty Bronson builds the Sunny Vista Motel in Los Angeles, California, with the intention of raising his son Skeeter and his daughter Wendy in the place where he works. However he is not a good businessman and the hotel goes bankrupt. Marty is forced to sell his motel to Barry Nottingham who promises to hire Skeeter in a general manager position when he has grown up. Years later, Barry builds a new hotel; forgets his promise to Marty; and Skeeter Bronson is only the handyman of his hotel. The general manager is the arrogant Kendall, who is engaged with the shallow Barry's daughter Violet Nottingham. When the Webster Elementary School where Wendy is the principal will be closed to be demolished, she needs to travel to Arizona for a job interview. Wendy asks her friend Jill, who is teacher in the same school, to watch her son Patrick and her daughter Bobbi during the day and Skeeter to watch them during the night. Skeeter meets the estranged kids with his best friend Mickey and makes up bedtime stories to help them to sleep but the kids add details to the stories, changing their endings. Soon Skeeter realizes that the plot of the stories are coming true and affecting his life. Meanwhile Barry Nottingham decides to give a change to Skeeter to dispute the manager position in his new hotel with Kendall like in one of his stories. But Skeeter has told to his nephew and his niece that stories do not have happy endings.

Category: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Kids

Stars: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand

6.0 IMDB Rating 8,026 Views
Six Degrees Could Change the World 2008

The film runs through the effect each degree in temperature change has on the world.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Alec Baldwin, Richard Betts, Duarte Borba, Jamais Cascio

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,501 Views
Patrik 1,5 2008

Goran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and are given the option to adopt Swedish orphan "Patrik 1,5," but when Patrik arrives, he turns out not to be the little boy they were expecting. A comma was misplaced, and the boy they receive is a 15-year-old homophobe with a criminal past.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Gustaf Skarsgård, Torkel Petersson, Tom Ljungman, Amanda Davin

6.9 IMDB Rating 7,751 Views
Kung Fu Panda 2008

It's the story about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, named Po, who is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around...which doesn't exactly come in handy while working every day in his family's noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po's dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five -- Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey -- under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it's up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master into reality? Po puts his heart - and his girth - into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.

Category: Action, Adventure, Animation, Kids

Stars: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane

7.5 IMDB Rating 15,062 Views
Management 2008

A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Drama, Comedy, Romantic

Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson

5.8 IMDB Rating 4,841 Views
WALL·E 2008

A robot who is responsible for cleaning a waste-covered Earth meets another robot and falls in love with her. Together, they set out on a journey that will alter the fate of mankind.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Family, Kids, Sci-Fi

Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin

8.4 IMDB Rating 11,957 Views
Inkheart 2008

Mo has the special talent to bring characters out of books. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta, two villains, and Dustfinger, a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Meggie discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp.

Category: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Stars: Brendan Fraser,Sienna Guillory,Eliza Bennett,Richard Strange

6.1 IMDB Rating 7,417 Views
The Duchess 2008

Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to produce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper

6.9 IMDB Rating 6,996 Views
The Forbidden Kingdom 2008

An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

Category: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Stars: Jet Li,Michael Angarano,Jackie Chan,Juana Collignon

6.6 IMDB Rating 10,300 Views
Tropic Thunder 2008

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Category: Action, Comedy, War

Stars: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr.

7.1 IMDB Rating 1,577 Views
Mirrors 2008

In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed with the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him and jeopardizing his family.

Category: Horror, Mystery

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland,Paula Patton,Cameron Boyce,Erica Gluck

6.2 IMDB Rating 7,481 Views
Die Welle 2008

A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

Category: Drama, Thriller

Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt

7.6 IMDB Rating 11,314 Views
Another Cinderella Story 2008

A guy who danced with what could be the girl of his dreams at a valentine mascarade ball only has one hint at her identity: the Zune she left behind as she rushed home in order to make her curfew. And with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, he sets out to find his masked beauty.

Category: Comedy, Family, Music

Stars: Selena Gomez,Drew Seeley,Jane Lynch,Katharine Isabelle

5.9 IMDB Rating 16,495 Views
Snow Buddies 2008

In this spin-off of the Air Bud franchise, five pups follow an ice cream transport truck to a plane and end up flying with the ice cream shipment to Alaska. There they find a pup friend and a boy who needs five dogs for a big race.

Category: Adventure, Family, Kids

Stars: Jim Belushi, Jimmy Bennett, Lothaire Bluteau, Jason Bryden

5.2 IMDB Rating 7,118 Views
The Incredible Hulk 2008

Depicting the events after the Gamma Bomb. 'The Incredible Hulk' tells the story of Dr Bruce Banner, who seeks a cure to his unique condition, which causes him to turn into a giant green monster under emotional stress. Whilst on the run from military which seeks his capture, Banner comes close to a cure. But all is lost when a new creature emerges; The Abomination.

Category: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Stars: Edward Norton,Liv Tyler,Tim Roth,William Hurt,Tim Blake Nelson,Ty Burrell,Christina Cabot,Peter Mensah,Lou Ferrigno,Paul Soles,Débora Nascimento,Greg Bryk,Chris Owens,Al Vrkljan,Adrian Hein

6.9 IMDB Rating 18,762 Views
The Wrestler 2008

This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.

Category: Drama, Sport

Stars: Mickey Rourke,Marisa Tomei,Evan Rachel Wood,Mark Margolis

7.9 IMDB Rating 4,903 Views
The Eye 2008

The violinist Sydney Wells has been blind since she was five years old due to an accident. She submits to a surgery of cornea transplantation to recover her vision, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she's having strange visions. With the support of Dr. Paul Faulkner, Sidney finds who the donor of her eyes and begins a journey to find out the truth behind her visions.

Category: Mystery

Stars: Jessica Alba,Alessandro Nivola,Parker Posey,Rade Serbedzija

5.4 IMDB Rating 5,420 Views
Quarantine 2008

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

Category: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Stars: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Columbus Short

5.9 IMDB Rating 6,067 Views
Slumdog Millionaire 2008

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Kaun Banega Crorepati? (2000) (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Dev Patel,Saurabh Shukla,Anil Kapoor,Raj Zutshi

8.0 IMDB Rating 11,842 Views
College Road Trip 2008

Melanie Porter (Raven-Symone)is a talented high school graduate who has selected a University 800 miles from home. Her over protective father, James (Martin Lawrence) doesn't want her to be so far away, so he cooks up a plot to try to convince her to go to a local University. On the guise of going to her selected university, he forces a visit to his preferred (close to home) school. This is a typical road trip movie with lost cars, bumming rides on buses and planes, covering that difficult time of life when a father loses control of his daughter.

Category: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Martin Lawrence,Raven-Symoné,Kym Whitley,Adam LeFevre

4.2 IMDB Rating 6,505 Views