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The Skulls

0192614Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2000
Country: USA, Canada
Runtime: 106
Rating: 5.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Rob Cohen
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines:

  • A secret society so powerful, it can give you everything you desire… at a price.
  • Getting in is easy. Getting out is a killer.
  • If a secret society can give you everything you desire, imagine what they can take away.
  • Writing by: John Pogue - (written by)

    Produced by: Christopher Ball - executive producer (as Chris J. Ball)
    Creighton Bellinger - associate producer
    Fred C. Caruso - co-producer (as Fred Caruso)
    Nancy Kirhoffer - associate producer
    Bruce Mellon - executive producer
    Neal H. Moritz - producer
    John Pogue - producer
    William Tyrer - executive producer

    Cast: Joshua Jackson - Lucas “Luke” McNamara
    Paul Walker - Caleb Mandrake
    Hill Harper - Will Beckford
    Leslie Bibb - Chloe Whitfield
    Christopher McDonald - Martin Lombard
    Steve Harris - Detective Sparrow
    William Petersen - Ames Levritt
    Craig T. Nelson - Litten Mandrake
    David Asman - Jason Pitcairn
    Scott Gibson - Travis Wheeler
    Nigel Bennett - Dr. Rupert Whitney

    Music: Randy Edelman Emmanuel Kiriakou
    Official Website: Visit Website

    Plot Outline: Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called “The Skulls”…
    Plot: Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called “The Skulls”, in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the clubs trapping of power and wealth, a series of disturbing incidents, such as his best friends suicide, leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization and the truth behind his friends supposed suicide. He starts realizing that his future and possibly his life is in danger.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    No hippies or republicans were harmed in this film

    Goofs: We know about 22 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Factual errors: The walkie-talkie used by a character in the robbery scene is really an Ericsson cell phone. Some cell phones have functions that let them work like walkie-talkies, but they are made by Motorola.

    Trivia: There are 8 entries in the trivia list - like these:

    • Yale is never mentioned by name during the film, but there are plenty of references: - At the boat race, every team is mentioned by its school name, except for “The Bulldogs.” (Theyre the Yale team.) - The characters wear Ys on their sports uniforms. - The Skulls are said to have “322 alumni worldwide.” The Yale secret society Skull & Bones uses the number 322 as an identifier on many of its symbols. - The characters are seen celebrating at a pizza parlor they refer to as “Morys,” drinking from a big golden cup. Morys is an actual place, and the tradition with the song and the big golden cup is accurate; however, its a formal restaurant, not a pizza parlor, and actual Morys cups are traditionally silver. - The new Skulls are sent to raid “Snake & Skeleton.” There is a Yale secret society called “Book & Snake.” - Some campus shots seem to purposefully mimic Yale buildings. Theres a tower that looks a lot like Harkness Tower, and the dining hall looks like the one in Saybrook College.
    • The wristwatch that each new member of the Skulls is given is the Breitling Old Navitimer.
    • The Skull-and-Bones Society (on which this movie was based) actually gives out watches to each class of skulls, though not necessarily with the whole branding ceremony. After the movie was filmed, Joshua Jackson acquired one of the actual watches and gave it to director Rob Cohen.
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    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

    0158622Category: Family
    All Genres: Family, Comedy
    Release Year: 2000
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 90
    Rating: 5.3 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: Brian Levant
    Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
    Taglines:

  • Get ready to rock!
  • Writing by: William Hanna - (animated series) (as Hanna-Barbera Prods Inc.) &
    Joseph Barbera - (animated series) (as Hanna-Barbera Prods Inc.)
    Deborah Kaplan - (written by) &
    Harry Elfont - (written by) and
    Jim Cash - (written by) &
    Jack Epps Jr. - (written by)

    Produced by: Joseph Barbera - executive producer
    Bart Brown - co-producer
    Bruce Cohen - producer
    William Hanna - executive producer
    Dennis E. Jones - executive producer

    Cast: Mark Addy - Fred Flintstone
    Stephen Baldwin - Barney Rubble
    Kristen Johnston - Wilma Slaghoople
    Jane Krakowski - Betty OShale
    Joan Collins - Pearl Slaghoople
    Thomas Gibson - Chip Rockefeller
    Alan Cumming - Gazoo / Mick Jagged
    Harvey Korman - Colonel Slaghoople
    Alex Meneses - Roxie
    John Taylor - Keith Richrock
    Tony Longo - Big Rocko

    Music: David Newman
    Official Website: Visit Website

    Plot Outline: In this live-action prequel to the 1994 comedy hit, the Flintstones and the Rubbles go on a trip to Rock Vegas, where Wilma is pursued by playboy Chip Rockefeller.
    Plot: The Flintstones are at it again. The Flintstones and the Rubbles head for Rock Vegas with Fred hoping to court the lovely Wilma. Nothing will stand in the way of love, except for the conniving Chip Rockefeller (played by Thomas Gibson) who is the playboy born in Baysville but who has made it in the cutthroat town of Rock Vegas. Will Fred win Wilmas love? A tried and tested cast delivers a family entertainment script.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    The Universal logo says “Univershell” and displays a single large continent.

    Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: In the party scene, after Dino runs across the table and makes a mess, Wilmas mothers hair has some debris in it. She wipes it off with her hand, then in the next scene a piece is back, she picks it off, and in the next scene, more debris is back in her hair.

    Trivia: There are 11 entries in the trivia list - like these:

    • John Stephenson, who plays the Showroom Announcer, was the voice of Mr. Slate Flintstones TV movies.
    • Harvey Korman, who plays Colonel Slaghoople, was the original voice of The Great Gazoo in The Flintstones TV series.
    • The song that the showgirls danced to, “Rise And Shine,” was used as the beginning and end credits theme song for the first season of the animated series.
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    Hanging Up

    0162983Category: Comedy
    All Genres: Comedy, Drama
    Release Year: 2000
    Country: USA, Germany
    Runtime: 94
    Rating: 5.6 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: Diane Keaton
    Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
    Taglines:

  • Every family has a few hang-ups.
  • Writing by: Delia Ephron - (book)
    Delia Ephron - (screenplay) &
    Nora Ephron - (screenplay)

    Produced by: Delia Ephron - executive producer
    Nora Ephron - producer
    Laurence Mark - producer
    Diana Pokorny - co-producer
    Bill Robinson - executive producer

    Cast: Meg Ryan - Eve Mozell Marks
    Diane Keaton - Georgia Mozell
    Lisa Kudrow - Maddy Mozell
    Walter Matthau - Lou Mozell
    Adam Arkin - Joe Marks
    Shaun Duke - Dr. Omar Kunundar (as Duke Moosekian)
    Ann Bortolotti - Ogmed Kunundar
    Cloris Leachman - Pat Mozell
    Maree Cheatham - Angie
    Myndy Crist - Dr. Kelly
    Libby Hudson - Libby

    Music: David Hirschfelder
    Official Website: Visit Website

    Plot Outline: Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968.
    Plot: A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Hector Elizondos title credit is prefixed by As Usual, referring to the number of times Elizondo has appeared in films directed by Garry Marshall

    Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: Eves cracked driver window is fixed when viewed from outside.

    Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:

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