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The Polar Express
2004 • 100 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Andrew Ableson, Debbie Lee Carrington, Tom Hanks, Eddie Deezen, Michael Jeter, Peter Scolari, Chris Coppola, Dylan Cash, Phil
Fondacaro, Nona M. Gaye
Believing in Santa Claus isn't easy when all of your friends and family insist he's just make-believe. A boy's faith is rewarded one
Christmas Eve when he's awakened by a steam train that pulls up in front of his house and takes him and other children to the North Pole
to meet Santa.
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
1994 • 83 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Alan Metter
Cast: G.W. Bailey, George Gaynes, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Claire Forlani
This time the Academy is called into action against the Godfather of the Russian Mafia. The Imperious Don aims to tap into worldwide
databases with a secret computer program he’s developed. But leave it to the Academy ties to turn it into a case of arrested development!
Polish Wedding
1998 • 100 minutes • Colour • Fox Searchlight
Director: Theresa Connelly
Cast: Lena Olin, Gabriel Byrne, Claire Danes, Adam Trese, Mili Avital, Daniel Lapaine
The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's
happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop
Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala.
Pootie Tang
2001 • 81 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Louis CK
Cast: Lance Crouther, Chris Rock, Robert Vaughn, David Cross
Adapted from a comedy sketch on HBO’s The Chris Rock Show, Pootie is the ultimate superhero. A cool walking, smooth talking ladies
man, Pootie is a hero and role model to all the children. Everybody looks up to him, except for the evil Dick Lecter, CEO of Lecter Corp., a
company that makes cigarettes, alcohol and fast food. Can Pootie’s cool determination and strength prevail over the evil Lecter and his
crew
Poseidon
2006 • 98 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Jimmy Bennett, Mia Maestro, with Andre Braugher, Richard
Dreyfuss
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.
Post Grad
2009 • 88 minutes • Colour • Fox Searchlight
Director: Vicky Jenson
Cast: Alexis Bledel, Carol Burnett, Michael Keaton, Rodrigo Santoro, Jane Lynch, Zach Gilford
Eternal optimist Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) has the most brutal of wake-up calls when she graduates from college and can't find a job,
forcing her back home to live with her oddball family. Frustrated and confused about how her life is supposed to turn out, she soon realizes
that her longtime platonic best friend is the only one who makes everything in her crazy life make sense.
Practical Magic
1998 • 104 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Griffin Dunne
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Goran Visnjic, Aidan Quinn, Lucinda Jenney
Based on Alice Hoffman's best-selling novel. This dark and comic fable is set in a small contemporary New England town, where two
sisters struggle to use their hereditary gift for guiding fate through practical magic to overcome the obstacles in discovering true love.
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