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The Bucket List
2008 • 97 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd, Rob Morrow, Alfonso Freeman, Ian Anthony Dale, Serena Reeder
Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
Buddy
2003 • 101 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Morten Tyldum
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Pia Tjelta, Janne Formoe, Henrik Giæver, Kim Haugen, Håvard Bakke, Eivind Sander,
Anna Bache-Wiig
Kristoffer’s love life is on the rocks. But what can you expect from a guy who likes to videotape himself and his friends pulling outrageous
stunts When Kristoffer’s video diary winds up at a popular TV show, it’s not just his love life that turns upside down. A vibrant young cast
explores the true meaning of friendship and love in a heart-warming story about high jinks, crazy roommates and reality television.
Buffy the Vampire Killer
1992 • 96 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui
Cast: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry
Cute variation on vampire sagas, with high school Valley Girl Swanson turning out to be "the chosen one" of her generation to kill roaming
vampires. Sutherland is ideal as her mentor and guide, and Reubens (the former Pee-wee Herman) is fun as one of the fanged menaces.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feelings
2001 • 40 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Emma Caulfield, Michelle Trachtenberg, James Marsters, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony
Head, Hinton Battle, Amber Benson
Sunnydale is alive with the sound of music as a mysterious force causes everyone in town to burst into full musical numbers, revealing
their innermost secrets as they do. But some townsfolk are dancing so much that they simply burst into flames, and it becomes clear that
maybe living in a musical isn't so great after all.
Bushwhacked
1995 • 90 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Greg Beeman
Cast: Daniel Stern, Blake Bashoff, Corey Carrier, Michael Galeota, Max Goldblat
Max Grabelski is a delivery guy living in a world all his own. With his leather jacket, Italian shoes and a self-confidence that’s more a
product of his imagination than anything else, he might bend the rules, but his heart is always in the right place. Unfortunately he also has
a knack for ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time. When he finds himself set up for a murder he didn’t commit, he’s forced to go
on the lam.
The Butcher's Wife
1991 • 106 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Terry Hughes
Cast: Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza, Mary Steenburgen, Frances McDormand, Margaret Colin, Max Perlich, Miriam
Margolyes, Helen Hanft, Christopher Durang, Luis Avalos
A romantic comedy about a clairvoyant whose sudden marriage brings her to Greenwich Village where she begins to have an uncanny
mystical effect on everyone in the village.
Bye Bye, Love
1995 • 105 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Sam Weisman
Cast: Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid, Paul Reiser, Janeane Garofalo, Amy Brenneman, Eliza Dushku
This is a story about the breakup of the family. In particular, it focuses on the lifestyle of three divorced men. The film is presented from
their perspective and it reveals their relationship with their children, ex-wives, girl friends, male friendships, and their identities as divorced
men. In addition to dealing with divorce, the film touches on spousal loss and young adult homelessness. The film can be considered a
social commentary that is both comical and emotional.
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