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What a Girl Wants
2003 • 105 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Dennie Gordon
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Anna Chancellor, Tom Harper, Jonathan Pryce, Eileen Atkins, Raffaello Degruttola
Daphne (Amanda Bynes), a spirited young American girl, travels to London in search of her long-lost father (Colin Firth), an influential
aristocratic politician. As Daphne attempts to prove that love can conquer all, her impulsive behaviour creates an uproar in high society,
where her unique style threatens to undermine the relationship she has waited her whole life to experience.
What Happens in Vegas
2008 • 98 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Tom Vaughan
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Lake Bell, Krysten Ritter, Rob Corddry, Michelle Krusiec, Jason Sudeikis, Lauren Reeves
Two strangers awaken together to discover they've gotten married following a night of debauchery in Sin City, and that one of them has
won a huge jackpot after playing the other's quarter. The newlyweds devise ever-escalating schemes to undermine each other and get
their hands on the money – only to find themselves falling in love amid the mutual backstabbing.
What Women Want
2000 • 126 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Nacy Meyers
Cast: Mel Gibson, Mark Feuerstein,, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda
Mel Gibson stars as Nick Marshall, a competitive advertising executive known for his chauvinistic commercials. His ideas become
outdated and inappropriate when women become the largest consumer demographic. Passed for a promotion, he is stunned to discover
the position has been given to his rival, Darcy McGuire. After a freak accident, Nick suddenly develops the ability to understand what
women are thinking and what they want.
What’s Cooking
2000 • 109 minutes • Colour • Maple Pictures
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Ann Weldon, Mercedes Ruehl, Maria Carmen, Victor Rivers, Douglas Spain
The story follows four diverse Los Angeles households and their modern-day problems as they prepare for Thanksgiving dinner and their
guests.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 • 117 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Darlene Cates, Laura Harrington, Mary Kate Schellhardt, Kevin
Tighe, John C. Reilly
A Story about a young man in a dead-end town saddled with the responsibility of caring for his retarded younger brother, and depressed
by his obese mother, who hasn't left the house in seven years.
When Did You Last See Your Father
2007 • 92 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, Gina McKee, Sarah Lancashire, Elaine Cassidy, Claire Skinner, Matthew Beard
When Did You Last See Your Father is an unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father
Arthur’s terminal illness and imminent death. Blake's memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood and
teens are interspersed with tender and heart-rending scenes in the present, as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their
history of conflict, and learns to accept that one's parents are not always accountable to their children.
When Worlds Collide
1951 • 81 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Rachel Ames
An imaginative tale of scientists racing against time to build a rocket ship so that a few human colonists can escape the impending
destruction of the Earth. The George Pal production won an Oscar for its special effects.
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