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Waking Ned Devine
1998 • 95 minutes • Colour • Fox Searchlight
Director: Kirk Jones
Cast: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch, James Nesbitt, Maura O'Malley
When word reaches two elderly best friends that someone in their tiny Irish village has won the national lottery, they go to great lengths to
find the winner so they can share the wealth. When they discover the "lucky" winner, Ned Devine, they find he has died of shock upon
discovering his win. Not wanting the money to go to waste, the village enters a pact to pretend Ned is still alive by having another man
pose as him, and then to divide the money between them.
Walk the Line
2005 • 135 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Shelby Lynne, Dan Beene
The early years in the life and career of music legend Johnny Cash, whose work transcended musical boundaries to reach out to
everyone. A testament to making art and music and being young, the film explores the world he came from and his experiences beginning
a career during the birth of rock and roll. It also is a love story detailing Cash's burgeoning relationship with June Carter.
A Walk to Remember
2002 • 101 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Mandy Moore, Shane West, Al Thompson, Daryl Hannah
Set in the lowlands of North Carolina in the mid-1990’s, the story follows the right of passage of Landon — a jaded, aimless high school
senior — as he falls in love with a guiless young woman whom he and his friends once scorned. The story is based on the novel by
Nicholas Sparks.
Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
2010 • 132 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin (rumored), Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate
raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible
for the death of the young trader's mentor.
The Wallace and Gromit Movie: Curse of the Wererabbit
2005 • 94 minutes • Colour • DreamWorks
Director: Steve Box, Nick Park
Cast: Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes
Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the
annual giant vegetable growing contest.
War of the Buttons
1994 • 94 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: John Roberts
Cast: Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Kevin O’Malley, John Cleere
"War of the Buttons" explores the intense rivalries and friendships, the fantasies and the sudden insights and compassion, that are the
essence of childhood.
The War of the Worlds
1953 • 85 minutes • B/W • Paramount Pictures
Director: Byron Haskin
Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Houseley Stevenson Jr., Paul Frees
H.G. Wells' chilling novel of the invasion of Earth by Martians became even more frightening when translated to the screen. Updated to
include the atom bomb, this classic won an Oscar for its special effects. No one who has seen the Martian machines swan-shaped, ticking
and hissing menacingly as they glide along leaving a wake of destruction can ever forget their ominous impact. Produced by George Pal.
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