Hot Movies for July!! - Childrens Movies

Like Mike

Release Date: July 3, 2002
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: John Schultz
Screenwriter: Mike Elliot, Jordan Moffet
Starring: Lil' Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki, Eugene Levy, Anne Meara, Matt Geiger, Jesse Plemons, Julius Ritter, Brenda Song
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG (for brief mild language)
Official Website: LikeMikemovie.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: Making his feature film starring debut, teen hip hop sensation, Lil' Bow Wow portrays fourteen-year-old orphan Calvin Cambridge, who dreams of being a famous professional basketball player. But his diminutive stature and limited ability make this goal a far-off fantasy. Or is it? When Calvin dons a pair of old sneakers, with the faded initials "M.J." inscribed inside, he displays amazing hoop skills, and leads a struggling NBA team to victory.

Men in Black II

Release Date: July 3, 2002
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenwriter: Robert Gordon, Barry Fanaro
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Rip Torn, Patrick Warburton, Lara Flynn Boyle, David Cross, Darrell Foster, Linda Kim, Johnny Knoxville, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Bailey Smith
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi action violence and some provocative humor)
Official Website: Sony.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: In "Men In Black 2," Kay (Jones) and Jay (Smith) reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIBs untarnished mission statement: protecting the earth from the scum of the universe.

It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Kay has since returned to the comforts of civilian life while Jay continues to work for the Men In Black, the highly funded yet unofficial government agency that regulates all things alien on earth.

While investigating a seemingly routine crime, Jay uncovers a diabolical plot masterminded by Serleena (Boyle), an evil Kylothian monster who disguises herself as a sexy lingerie model. When Serleena takes the entire MIB building hostage, there is only one person left Jay can turn to-his former MIB partner who is now a drone in another large government office, the U.S. postal service, and prefers simple pleasures like his wife's cookies over standoffs with mammoth alien insects.

It's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay-who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the Men In Black, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy-to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

The Powerpuff Girls Movie

Release Date: July 3, 2002
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director: Craig McCracken
Screenwriter: Don Shank, Charlie Bean, Lauren Faust, Paul Rudish, Craig McCracken
Starring: Tara Strong, Catherine Cavadini, E.G. Daily
Genre: Adventure, Animated, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for non-stop frenetic animated action)
Official Website: PowerPuffGirlsmovie.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: Based on the hit animated television series, this feature film adaptation tells the story of how Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup - three little girls who happen to have superpowers - decide to use their special powers for good as they attempt to stop the evil mutant monkey Mojo Jojo's plan to take over the world.

Me Without You

Release Date: July 5, 2002
Studio: IDP Distribution
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Screenwriter: Sandra Goldbacher
Starring: Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Oliver Milburn, Trudie Styler, Marianne Denicourt, Steve John Shepherd, Allan Corduner, Nicky Henson, Kyle MacLachlan, Ella Jones, Anna Popplewell, Cameron Powrie, Deborah Findlay, Hannah Bourne, Russell Mabey
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not available
Official Website: MeWithoutYoumovie.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: "Me Without You" features Michelle Williams and Anna Friel as best friends for life whose close bond is tested through three tumultuous decades in England. During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly (William) and Marina (Friel) make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For the troubled, unpredictable Marina, whose vulnerability is well concealed beneath a selfish, sadistic streak, Holly remains the only constant in Marina's life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. Meanwhile, Holly buries herself in her books out of frustration with her over-protective mother and a nagging insecurity about her beautiful and possessive best friend. She holds just one secret from Marina: her increasing passion for Marina's brother Nat (Milburn). The bond between the young women grows through the years as they share all the pleasures and pain that life has to offer, including sex, love, and rock 'n roll. For Holly, however, a friendship that has never been equal gradually begins to feel like a trap. As her relationship with Marina becomes increasingly claustrophobic, she must decide whether true happiness lies in a life with - or without - her best friend. A vibrant evocation of the fashion and punk musical styles of '70s and '80s Britain, the poignant and mischievous "Me Without You" will strike a chord in anyone who has ever lived through friendship and survived to tell the tale.

Read My Lips

Release Date: July 5, 2002
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Jacques Audiard
Screenwriter: Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benacquista
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier, Olivia Bonamy, Bernard Alane, Céline Samie, Pierre Diot, François Loriquet, Serge Boutleroff, David Saracino, Christophe Van de Velde, Bô Gaultier de Kermoal, Loïc Le Page, Nathalie Lacroix
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not available
Official Website: Club-Internet.fr/SurMesLevres
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: In its opening shot, "Read My Lips" shows Carla (Devos) inserting her hearing aids and getting ready for work. But it's evident that her hearing problem does not hold her back as she throws herself into answering the constantly ringing phones at her job as an unappreciated secretary for an architecture firm. Swamped with work, Carla's boss hires an assistant for her, Paul (Cassel), an ex-con who is trying to get his life back on track. To everyone else--her sexist coworkers and her sexy friend Annie--Carla is a dog with a disability. But to Paul, who is Carla's subordinate, she's a femme fatale. In Paul's life--to his parole officer and the two-bit thugs to whom he still owes money--he is an untrustworthy outcast and a bum. But to Carla, he is a secret weapon with skills (lock-picking, physical intimidation) that she needs. Likewise, Carla becomes Paul's secret weapon as her ability to read lips opens up a new world of possibilities to his plotting, criminal ways. "Read My Lips" is a story of romance through and through, and, in its second half, it is a fast-moving and constantly flip-flopping heist drama. Once Carla and Paul really start working together, the tension between them only helps them along. Never trusting each other, never predictable in their actions, these characters imbue Jacques Audiard's masterful film with a breathtaking suspense that is simultaneously alluring and repellent.

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

Release Date: July 12, 2002
Studio: MGM
Director: John Stainton
Screenwriter: Holly Goldberg Sloan
Starring: Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Magda Szubanski, David Wenham, Kate Behan, Steve Bastoni
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG (for action violence/peril and mild language)
Official Website: CrocodileHunterthemovie.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: Aussie adventurer Steve Irwin - a.k.a. The Crocodile Hunter - has avoided the death-roll and nabbed another feisty croc, hoping to save it from poachers. What Steve doesn't know is that the crocodile is the innocent party involved with a missing top secret U.S. satellite beacon, and the poachers are actually American special agents sent to retrieve it. Crikey! In the Outback and through the bush with his wife Terri's ever-present commentary ringing out over the countryside ("That was a close one, Steve!"), the Crocodile Hunter is out to save the gorgeous croc and relocate him. It won't be easy, but if he can handle bird-eating spiders and venomous snakes without getting bitten, gun-wielding agents shouldn't be too much of a problem. It's a little beauty!

Halloween: Resurrection

Release Date: July 12, 2002
Studio: Dimension Films
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Screenwriter: Larry Brand, Sean Hood
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bianca Kajlich, Busta Rhymes, Ryan Merriman, Sean Patrick Thomas, Tyra Banks, Brad Loree, Daisy McCrackin, Katee Sackhoff, Luke Kirby, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Billy Kay, Gus Lynch, Brad Sihvon
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not available
Official Website: DimensionFilms.com/HalloweenHomecoming
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: He's back for more... When a group of teens win a contest to spend a night in Michael Myser's childhood home to be broadcast live on the internet, they believe they are in for a little fun and some free publicity. But, things go frightfully wrong and the game turns into a struggle to make it out of the house alive.

My Wife is an Actress

Release Date: July 12, 2002
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Yvan Attal
Screenwriter: Yvan Attal
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp, Noémie Lvovsky, Laurent Bateau, Keith Allen, Jo McInnes, Ludivine Sagnier, Lionel Abelanski, Valérie Leboutte, Annette Hazanavicius, Jean Abelanski, Marie Denarnaud, Jean Rachid, Cécile Guignet
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for language and nudity/sexuality)
Official Website: Not available
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Plot Summary: "My Wife is an Actress" is a clever French comedy from Yvan Attal, who directs, produces, and stars in the film. Jealous and paranoid, Yvan (Attal) is the husband of Charlotte (Gainsbourg), a popular young actress who is constantly being cast in starring roles opposite attractive and seductive male actors. This drives Yvan crazy. But because he loves her, he must let her pursue her career dreams. A sports writer who operates in a world that is equally exciting, if not quite as glamorous, Yvan's own career is always secondary to Charlotte's. When she travels to London to work on her latest film, sharing the screen with the studly older actor, John (Stamp), Yvan makes furious and impulsive trips via Eurostar back and forth between Paris and London. He worries that his marriage with Charlotte will not withstand the weight of his heartache. Meanwhile, his sister (Lvovsky) and her husband (Bateau) face marital dilemmas of their own as they debate whether to circumcise the baby boy they're expecting. These story lines converge, resulting in some very funny moments and some heartfelt commentary on the difficulties of relationships.

Never Again

Release Date: July 12, 2002
Studio: Focus
Director: Eric Schaeffer
Screenwriter: Eric Schaeffer
Starring: Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Bill Duke, Caroline Aaron, Eric Axen, Michael McKean, Sandy Duncan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content including graphic dialogue, and for language)
Official Website: USAFilms.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: A movie for adults - with a sense of humor. Independent filmmaker Eric Schaeffer's romantic comedy takes a ribald yet compassionate look at two lovelorn fifty-something New Yorkers. Christopher is an exterminator-cum-jazz musician who, after years of one-night stands, begins to question his sexual orientation. Grace is a divorcee looking to jump-start her life again. When a blind date for Grace goes bad, she ducks into a gay bar - and meets Christopher. The circumstances are so wrong that the two are immediately drawn to each other.

Reign of Fire

Release Date: July 12, 2002
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Director: Rob Bowman
Screenwriter: Gregg Chabot, Kevin Peterka, Zak Penn, Matt Greenberg
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Alexander Siddig, Doug Cockle, Scott Moutter, Benny Nieves, Rory Keenan, Randall Carlton
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense action violence)
Official Website: ReignofFire.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: In present-day London, twelve-year-old Quinn watches as his mother, a construction engineer, inadvertently wakes an enormous fire-breathing beast from its centuries-long slumber. Twenty years later, much of the world has been scarred by the beast and its offspring. As a fire chief, Quinn (Bale) is responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a small community alive as they eke out a meager existence. Into their midst comes a hotshot American, Van Zan (McConaughey), who says he has a way to kill the beasts and save manking - a way Quinn's never seen done.

Road to Perdition

Release Date: July 12, 2002
Studio: DreamWorks SKG, 20th Century Fox
Director: Sam Mendes
Screenwriter: David Self
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Al Molina, Stanley Tucci, Liam Aiken, Dylan Baker, Kevin Chamberlain, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds
Genre: Action, Crime
MPAA Rating: R (for violence and language)
Official Website: RoadtoPerdition.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: Hit man Michael O'Sullivan (Hanks) is known to friends and enemies alike as the "Angel of Death". Uncompromising in his work, O'Sullivan is just as devoted to his private life as an upstanding husband and father of two young boys. But when those worlds collide, taking the lives of his wife and younger son, O'Sullivan and his surviving son leave their sedate home life behind and embark on a startling journey of revenge.

Sex and Lucia

Release Date: July 12, 2002
Studio: Not available
Director: Julio Medem
Screenwriter: Julio Medem
Starring: Paz Vega, Tristan Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Daniel Freyre
Genre: Erotica, Romance
MPAA Rating: Not available
Official Website: SexandLucia.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: Lucia is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet secluded Mediterranean island. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun, Lucia begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship, as if they were forbidden passages of a novel which the author now, from afar, allows her to read.

Eight Legged Freaks

Release Date: July 19, 2002
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director: Ellory Elkayem
Screenwriter: Jesse Alexander, Ellory Elkayem
Starring: David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson, Doug E. Doug, Leon Rippy, Rick Overton
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi violence, brief sexuality and language)
Official Website: EightLeggedFreaks.WarnerBros.com
Review: Not available
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Plot Summary: What do you get when you cross toxic waste with a bunch of exotic spiders? Eaten. As every fan of classic spine-tinglers knows, given the opportunity and the right chemical enhancement, arachnids will grow to humongous size and wreak havoc upon humanity. In "Eight Legged Freaks" the residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. And they're hungry. When the alarm is sounded, it is up to mining engineer Chris McCormack (Arquette) and Sheriff Sam Parker (Wuhrer) to mobilize an eclectic group of townspeople, including the Sheriff's young son, Mike (Terra), her daughter, Ashley (Johansson) and paranoid radio announcer Harlan (Doug), into battle against the bloodthirsty eight-legged beasts.

K-19: The Widowmaker

Release Date: July 19, 2002
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Screenwriter: Christopher Kyle
Starring: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, George Anton, Joss Ackland, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Shaun Benson, Christian Camargo, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Steve Cumyn, Svetlana Efremova, JJ Feild, James Ginty, Michael J.X. Gladis, Kristen Holden-Reid, Ravil Issyanov, Steve Nicolson, Peter Oldring, Sam Redford, Christopher Routh, Tygh Runyan, John Shrapnel, Lex Shrapnel, Sam

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