61.4% from 15 members
Thank You For Smoking
Witty, original and extremely funny. I saw this in a cinema, full of single people, and every one of us was independently pissing ourselves with laughter. A god among black comedies.
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Thank You For Smoking
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright
Director: Jason Reitman
Certificate:
Nick Taylor (Aaron Eckhart) is a sexy, charismatic spin doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protest America's right to smoke - even if it kills him - while still remaining a role model to his 12-year-old son. When he incurs the wrath of a New England senator (William H. Macy) bent on snuffing ..read more »
68%
from 36,061 members
Bang, Bang, You're Dead
A heart stopping look at the damage caused by being everybody's punching bag. Unbelievable.
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Bang, Bang, You're Dead
(2002)
Starring: Thomas Cavanagh, Ben Foster, Randy Harrison
Director: Guy Ferland
Certificate:
Bang, Bang, You're Dead is the story of a high school boy on the verge of committing a horrendous act of violence. The troubled student is brought back from the brink by a mentor teacher and the redemptive powers of a play the teacher convinces him to perform.
78%
from 18 members
Lars and the Real Girl
So brilliant, so funny.
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Lars and the Real Girl
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider
Director: Craig Gillespie
Certificate:
As the title character, Ryan Gosling is a strange but likeable young man who manages to keep down a job but keeps mostly to himself. He only leaves the garage where he lives when his older brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and loving sister-in-law Karin (Emily Mortimer) drag him to their house next door ..read more »
74%
from 13,378 members
Dear Wendy
The outcasts of a town create a safe world for themselves, with wonderful music by the Zombies.
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Dear Wendy
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Certificate:
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A young boy in a nameless, timeless American town establishes a gang of youthful misfits united in their love of guns and their code of honor.
51%
from 4,429 members
Into the Wild
The sort of thing you wish you could do, but in the end you are very glad you just watched instead. It left me feeling strangely adrift for several days.
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Into the Wild
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt
Director: Sean Penn
Certificate:
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
73%
from 44,930 members
Juno
I wish I was that quick witted. I can but try.
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Juno
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner
Director: Jason Reitman
Certificate:
The word 'quirky' has become the quick and easy way to describe films such as 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Lars and the Real Girl' that straddle the lines between indie and studio films and comedy and drama. While 'Juno' fits into that same category, this distinctive dramedy is in a class all its ..read more »
75%
from 78,992 members
Brick
Film noir in a modern setting and in colour. Strangely it really works. Joseph Gordon Levitt is so under rated, this is some of his very finest work.
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Brick
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas
Director: Rian Johnson
Certificate:
Brick follows the path of the hard-boiled noir mystery but wittily and bracingly immerses itself in a modern-day Southern California high school. Student Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin) prefers being an outsider and he stays that way until the day that his ex-girlfriend Emily (..read more »
61%
from 22,123 members
Saved
Sometimes, it is the most religious who turn out to be the least Christian.
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Saved
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin
Director: Brian Dannelly
Certificate:
Good girl Mary (Jena Malone) and her domineering best friend Hilary (Mandy Moore) are starting their senior year at the top of the social food chain at American Eagle Christian High School. Until Mary’s boyfriend says he thinks he might be gay. And she’s convinced she needs to do everything to help ..read more »
55%
from 8,228 members
Starter For 10
This speaks to my inner geek. It tells her that everybody is a complete prat sometimes, and not to worry about it.
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Starter For 10
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Mark Gatiss, Rebecca Hall, James McAvoy
Director: Tom Vaughan
Certificate:
Set in 1985, working-class student Brian Jackson (McAvoy) navigates his first year at Bristol University.
63%
from 22,965 members
My Life Without Me
A wonderful melancholy look at how everyone else has to carry on with life after you're gone.
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My Life Without Me
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Deborah Harry
Director: Isabel Coixet
Certificate:
Ann is 23-years-old, she has 2 young daughters, a husband who spends more time unemployed than working, a mother who hates the world, a father who has spent the last ten years in jail, and a job as a night janitor in a university that she could never attend in the daytime. They all live in a ..read more »
61%
from 5,451 members
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