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Dear Frankie<br />
Alliance/Atlantis<br />
To protect her son, Frankie,<br />
Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) has<br />
invented a story to satisfy<br />
Frankie's curiosity. She regularly<br />
writes Frankie a letter<br />
from his make-believe father<br />
who works aboard a ship<br />
traveling to exotic lands. When Frankie discovers<br />
that his “father's” ship will be arriving in town,<br />
Lizzie hatches a plan to hire a stranger to play the<br />
perfect father.<br />
tribute.<strong>ca</strong> User Reviews:<br />
“It touched my heart—and the acting was suberb!”<br />
“It’s a shame the film <strong>ca</strong>me out in such limited release.”<br />
“Easily one of the best movies I`ve ever seen.”<br />
AVERAGE RATING:<br />
Constantine<br />
Warner<br />
John Constantine (Keanu<br />
Reeves), who has literally<br />
been to hell and back, teams<br />
up with skepti<strong>ca</strong>l policewoman<br />
Angela Dodson (Rachel<br />
Weisz) to solve a mysterious<br />
suicide. Their investigation<br />
takes them through the world of demons and angels<br />
that exist just beneath the lands<strong>ca</strong>pe of contemporary<br />
Los Angeles and they quickly become <strong>ca</strong>ught in<br />
a <strong>ca</strong>tastrophic series of otherworldly events.<br />
tribute.<strong>ca</strong> User Reviews:<br />
“Overkill.”<br />
“I paid full price four times.”<br />
“The visual effects were stunning.”<br />
AVERAGE RATING:<br />
Million Dollar Baby<br />
Warner<br />
Clint Eastwood’s Os<strong>ca</strong>r-winning<br />
drama is more of a<br />
story about family and friendship<br />
than about boxing.<br />
Under a layer of sweat and a<br />
pair of padded boxing gloves<br />
is a story about what goes on<br />
outside the ring when three lost souls—a trainer<br />
(Eastwood), a fighter (Hilary Swank) and a former<br />
fighter (Morgan Freeman)—are faced with life’s<br />
bigger questions.<br />
tribute.<strong>ca</strong> User Reviews:<br />
“Wonderful, sad and inspiring.”<br />
“Disturbing and disappointing.”<br />
“It deserved the Best Picture Os<strong>ca</strong>r.”<br />
AVERAGE RATING:<br />
Upside of Anger<br />
Alliance<br />
Terry Wolfmeyer (Joan Allen),<br />
a sharp-witted suburban wife<br />
and mother, is left to raise her<br />
four daughters when her husband<br />
unexpectedly disappears.<br />
Things get even more hectic<br />
when Terry falls for her neighbor<br />
Denny (Kevin Costner), a once-great baseball star<br />
turned radio DJ, and her daughters are forced to juggle<br />
their mom's romantic dilemmas as well as their own.<br />
tribute.<strong>ca</strong> User Reviews:<br />
“This movie was my pick and it’s going to take me<br />
a looong time to live it down.”<br />
“Great story, good acting, strong direction.”<br />
“I was pleasantly surprised.”<br />
AVERAGE RATING:<br />
Hitch<br />
Columbia<br />
As a tacti<strong>ca</strong>l adviser who<br />
specializes in first impressions,<br />
Alex “Hitch” Hitchens<br />
(Will Smith) customizes and<br />
orchestrates a client's first<br />
three dates. In fact, Hitch has<br />
been secretly responsible for<br />
hundreds of New York City weddings. But after<br />
a chance meeting with Sara (Eva Mendes), a gossip<br />
reporter for a daily tabloid, Hitch is smitten and<br />
finds his professional life and personal life on<br />
a collision course.<br />
tribute.<strong>ca</strong> User Reviews:<br />
“Eva Mendes is so hot!”<br />
“Wait and see it at home.”<br />
“It's a perfect date movie.”<br />
AVERAGE RATING:<br />
Miss Congeniality 2:<br />
Armed and Fabulous<br />
Warner<br />
Reeling from a broken romance<br />
and frustrated by her newfound<br />
fame, FBI agent Gracie Hart<br />
(Sandra Bullock) reluctantly<br />
agrees to serve the Bureau in<br />
the only way now possible:<br />
coifed and styled for the talk show circuit as “the<br />
face of the FBI.” But when Gracie's best friend,<br />
pageant winner Cheryl (Heather Burns) and emcee<br />
Stan Fields (William Shatner) are kidnapped in Las<br />
Vegas, Gracie's crime-fighting instincts kick back in.<br />
tribute.<strong>ca</strong> User Reviews:<br />
“Very funny.”<br />
“More like unarmed and unfabulous.”<br />
“If you don’t like it, something is wrong with you.”<br />
AVERAGE RATING:<br />
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<strong>Tribute</strong> July/August 2005