Dave Tompkins :: DVD Library :: Movies :: Dave's Rating :: 3


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2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

Former cop, Brian O'Conner is finally arrested after letting his leader escape the law. To avoid the consequences, he must now work with an old college friend and help the police arrest a local drug exporter.

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Alexander (2004)

Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.

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Anger Management (2003)

Sandler plays a businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger-management program, where he meets an aggressive instructor.

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Apollo 18 (2011)

Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.

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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telekinetic humans.

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Big Momma's House (2000)

An FBI agent disguises himself as an old lady to protect a beautiful federal witness and her son.

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Blonde and Blonder (2007)

Comic mayhem ensues when two lovely blondes, Dee and Dawn, are mistaken as international mob killers.

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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)

A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.

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Cats & Dogs (2001)

A look at the top-secret, high-tech espionage war going on between cats and dogs, which their human owners are blissfully unaware of.

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Click (2006)

A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.

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Cliffhanger (1993)

A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.

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The Comebacks (2007)

A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no ''I'' in ''team''!

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Control Alt Delete (2008)

A moody romantic comedy exploring fetishism, addiction and love in the information age.

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Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.

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Daddy Day Care (2003)

Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs. This inspires them to open their own day-care center.

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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age.

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The Devil's Advocate (1997)

A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

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Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)

People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.

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Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)

Dolittle must save a forest and a bear's life.

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Elephant (2003)

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

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Eraser (1996)

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.

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Gamer (2009)

Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments...

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Garfield (2004)

Jon Arbuckle buys a second pet, a dog named Odie. However, Odie is then abducted and it is up to Jon's cat, Garfield, to find and rescue the canine.

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George of the Jungle (1997)

George grows up in the jungle raised by apes. Based on the Cartoon series.

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Gladiatress (2004)

This sword and sandals movie is an off-the-wall comedy adventure about three unlikely heroines, who set out to save Celtic Britain, by thwarting the Roman invasion in their own unique and outrageous style.

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The Glass House (2001)

An orphaned teenager is taken in by a Malibu couple but discovers they aren't the caring friends they seemed to be.

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Hanna Montana: The Movie (2009)

As Hannah Montana's popularity begins to take over her life, Miley Stewart, on the urging from her father takes a trip to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee to get some perspective on what matters in life the most.

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The Happening (2008)

A strange, horrible and unprecedented crisis begins in Central Park. A high school science teacher, his wife and a young girl do what they can to survive it.

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Head Over Heels (2001)

A young woman is attracted to a man despite her thinking she's seen him kill someone.

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Hollow Man (2000)

Scientists discover how to make people invisible, but their test subject becomes an insane killer who stalks them.

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Howard The Duck (1986)

A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)

Two straight, single Brooklyn firefighters pretend to be a gay couple in order to receive domestic partner benefits.

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Jack and Jill (2011)

Family guy Jack Sadelstein prepares for the annual event he dreads: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister, the needy and passive-aggressive Jill, who then refuses to leave.

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Jonah Hex (2010)

The U.S. military makes a scarred bounty hunter with warrants on his own head an offer he cannot refuse: in exchange for his freedom, he must stop a terrorist who is ready to unleash Hell on Earth.

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Juno and the Paycock (1930)

During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life forgetting what the most important values are.

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Just Friends (2005)

While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with -- a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.

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Just My Luck (2006)

Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.

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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Video game adventurer Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts.

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, SF and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.

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Mars Attacks! (1996)

The Earth is invaded by Martians with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor.

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Meet The Spartans (2008)
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Mr. Deeds (2002)

A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way.

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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

Professor Sherman Klump is getting married. And the Klump family could not be more delighted for him...

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Obsessed (2009)

A successful asset manager, who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage. But a temp worker starts stalking him, all the things he's worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.

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The Pacifier (2005)

Disgraced Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains in the kids' house.

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Patch Adams (1998)

A medical student in the 70's that treated patients, illegally, using humor.

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Poseidon (2006)

On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner, Poseidon, capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for survival as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.

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Private Snuffy Smith (1942)

Snuffy Smith, moonshining hillbilly, grows tired of dodging revenue agents, headed by Cooper, and decides...

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Rambo III (1988)

Rambo's Vietnam commanding officer Colonel Trautman is held hostage in Afghanistan, and its up to Rambo to rescue him.

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Resident Evil (2002)

A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.

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Resident Evil Extinction (2007)

Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.

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Rocky V (1990)

Reluctantly retired from boxing and back from riches to rags, Rocky takes on a new protege who betrays him; As the champ's son must adjust to his family's new life after bankruptcy.

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Scary Movie 4 (2006)

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien ''Tr-iPods'' are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.

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Scooby-Doo (2002)

After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on.

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The Second Arrival (1998)

A computer hacker (Patrick Muldoon) learns of the plot of the backwards-kneed aliens to take over the Earth using their shape-shifting talents.

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Sphere (1998)

A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.

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Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

The Cortez siblings set out for a mysterious island, where they encounter a genetic scientist and a set of rival spy kids.

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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)

Based on the popular video game franchise, female fighter Chun Li embarks on a quest for justice.

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Striptease (1996)

A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her.

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Stuart Little 2 (2002)

Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.

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Swordfish (2001)

A secretive renegade counter-terrorist co-opts the world's greatest hacker (who is trying to stay clean) to steal billions in US Government dirty money.

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Teen Wolf Too (1987)

Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.

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The Ten (2007)

Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

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The Three Stooges (2012)

While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.

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Unaccompanied Minors (2006)

A group of unaccompanied minors bond while snowed in at the midwestern Hoover International Airport during the holiday season and ultimately create a makeshift holiday themselves.

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Van Helsing (2004)

The notorious monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for some sinister purpose.

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What Hapens in Vegas (2008)

A man and a woman are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.

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The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

Jimmy the Tulip's (Willis) quiet new life is shaken up by his old pal Oz (Perry), whose wife (Henstridge) has been kidnapped by a Hungarian mob. The Tulip and his wife Jill (Peet) spring into action.

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