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<strong>Criterion</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong><br />

30 MacIntosh Blvd., Unit 7 • Vaughan, Ontario • L4K 4P1<br />

800-565-1996 Fax: 866-664-7545 • www.criterionpic.com<br />

The Terminal<br />

2004 • 127 minutes • Colour • DreamWorks<br />

Director: Steven Spielberg<br />

Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride, Stanley Tucci, Zoe Saldana, Diego Luna<br />

An immigrant (Hanks) fleeing the war that ravages his tiny Eastern European homeland finds himself stuck in the terminal of one of New<br />

York City's airports when the time of his landing coincides precisely with the point at which the war causes his nation of origin to no longer<br />

exist, meaning that his passport and paperwork are no longer valid. As a man without a home, he takes up residence in the terminal itself,<br />

befriending the staff of the airport, and falling in love with an airline flight attendant.<br />

Texas Rangers<br />

2001 • 90 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc<br />

Director: Steve Miner<br />

Cast: James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ashton Kutcher<br />

Set in Texas in the 1870s, after the Civil War, a ragtag group of youngsters band together to form the Texas Rangers. They are a group<br />

charged with dangerous, ruthless duty of cleaning up the West.<br />

That Night<br />

1994 • 89 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers<br />

Director: Craig Bolotin<br />

Cast: C.Thomas Howell, Juliette Lewis, Helen Shaver, Eliza Dushku.<br />

In 1961 Long Island Alice is just that bit younger than her playmates. She doesn't quite understand yet about some grownup things and is<br />

teased a lot. Her heroine is anyway Sheryl, the teenager over the road who has a succession of boyfriends. Alice even copies her perfume<br />

and favourite records, though she has never spoken to her. When Sheryl's father dies suddenly and she takes up with Rick, who is viewed<br />

with horror by all the parents around, she and Alice become firm friends as they try to keep the romance going.<br />

That Thing You Do<br />

1996 • 107 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox<br />

Director: Tom Hanks<br />

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry<br />

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.<br />

There Will be Blood<br />

2007 • 157 minutes • Colour • Paramount Vantage<br />

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson<br />

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, Russell Harvard, Paul F. Tompkins, Kevin Breznahan, John Kerry,<br />

Jim Meskimen<br />

A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century Texas prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the early days<br />

of the business.<br />

Thief Lord<br />

2006 • 98 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox<br />

Director: Richard Claus<br />

Cast: Aaron Johnson, Jasper Harris, Rollo Weeks, Alice Connor, George MacKay, Lathaniel Dyer, Jim Carter, Caroline Goodall<br />

Based on the novel by Cornelia Funke, this charming tale follows six-year-old Bo (Jasper Harris) and fifteen-year-old Prosper (Aaron<br />

Johnson), two recently orphaned brothers who escape their impending separation by running off to Venice. There they have fantastical<br />

adventures with the mysterious masked figure known as the Thief Lord and his band of child followers, who show the boys all the magic<br />

the city has to offer.<br />

The Thing Called Love<br />

1993 • 116 minutes • Colour • Paramount <strong>Pictures</strong><br />

Director: Peter Bogdanovich<br />

Cast: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock, K.T. Oslin, Anthony Clark, Webb Wilder, Earl Poole Ball,<br />

Deborah Allen<br />

A romantic drama, set against the country music scene in Nashville, about a love triangle between two young men and a woman.<br />

© 2011 All Rights Reserved Les Films <strong>Criterion</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong> 1-800-595-1996 www.criterionpic.com

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