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In 1937 Mississippi during the Great Depression, three convicts, Ulysses Everett McGill, Delmar O’Donnell and Pete, escape from a chain gang and set out to retrieve a treasure Everett claims to have buried from an armored truck robbery, before its locale is flooded to make a lake and provide electricity for the state. The three …
In a voiceover, “Tech 49” Jack Harper tells of the state of the Earth on March 14, 2077. Sixty years earlier, a race of alien scavengers destroyed the Moon and invaded Earth to seize its resources. Humanity won the war, but the nuclear weapons they used, and the loss of the Moon, have left most …
Newly paroled con artist Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock), the late Danny Ocean’s younger sister, convinces former partner-in-crime Lou (Cate Blanchett) to join her in a new heist. They assemble their team: bankrupt fashion designer Rose Weil (Helena Bonham-Carter); jewelry maker Amita (Mindy Kaling), who is eager to move out of her mother’s house; security hacker …
World War II veterans Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) and Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) recruit nine of their comrades from their unit in the 82nd Airborne to simultaneously rob five Las Vegas casinos: the Sahara, Riviera, Desert Inn, Sands, and Flamingo. The gang (the “eleven” of the title) plans the elaborate New Year’s Eve heist with …
Following his release from prison, Danny Ocean violates his parole by traveling to California to meet his partner-in-crime and friend Rusty Ryan to propose a heist. The two go to Las Vegas to pitch the plan to wealthy friend and former casino owner Reuben Tishkoff. The plan consists of simultaneously robbing the Bellagio, the Mirage, …
In October 1957, news of the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1 reaches the town of Coalwood, West Virginia, where most residents work in the coal mines. As the townspeople gather outside to see the satellite orbit across the sky, Homer Hickam is inspired to build his own rockets to escape Coalwood. His family and …
The film takes place in two different times: the present and 11 years earlier. The two plot lines are told in parallel through flashbacks. In 2002, software engineer Alan Russell moves into a new house with his wife Marie, 10-year-old son Tim, and 12-year-old daughter Kaylie. Alan purchases an antique mirror to decorate his office. …
The movie opens with George in a boxcar, reminiscing on the events that occurred. During the Great Depression, the quick-witted George Milton (Gary Sinise) looks after his physically strong yet mentally disabled companion Lennie Small (John Malkovich). The two are fleeing from their previous employment as workmen in Weed, California where Lennie was accused of …
A magazine editor named Dorine, due to budget cuts, is forced to work from home. One night she is called to help fix the computer of a co-worker, Gary MIchaels, who is electrocuted while trying to fix the wires. Dorine dials 911, but hangs up when the call is answered. She places the corpse on …
Peter Gibbons is a frustrated and unmotivated programmer who works at a company called Initech. His co-workers include fellow programmers Samir Nagheenanajar and Michael Bolton, as well as Milton Waddams, a meek collator who is mostly ignored by the rest of the office. The staff constantly suffer under callous management, especially Initech’s smarmy vice president …
Andromache “Andy” of Scythia, Booker, Joe, and Nicky are centuries-old warriors with regenerative healing abilities who use their vast experience to help people. Breaking their rule of never working for the same people twice, they’re hired by former CIA operative Copley to rescue a group of kidnapped children in South Sudan. During the mission, however, …