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Criterion Pictures 30 MacIntosh Blvd., Unit 7 • Vaughan, Ontario • L4K 4P1 800-565-1996 Fax: 866-664-7545 • www.criterionpic.com First Daughter 2004 • 105 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox Director: Forest Whitaker Cast: Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas, Michael Keaton, Parry Shen The daughter of the President of the United States goes off to college after insisting that she be able to enjoy her school years without the omnipresence of the Secret Service. The government agrees to her demands but assigns a young agent to go undercover as a student in order to keep an eye on her. The first daughter and the agent fall in love, until she learns his true identity. The First Grader 2010 • 120 minutes • Colour • Maple Pictures Director: Justin Chadwick Cast: Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Sam Feuer, Nick Reding, Vusi Kunene, John Sibi-Okumu, Oliver Litondo Set in a mountain village in Kenya the film tells the remarkable true and uplifting story of a proud old Mau Mau veteran who is determined to seize his last chance to learn to read and write - and so ends up joining a class alongside six year-olds. Together he and his young teacher face fierce resistance, but ultimately they win through - and also find a new way of overcoming the burdens of the colonial past. First Monday in October 1981 • 95 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures Director: Ronald Neame Cast: Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes, Jan Sterling A most entertaining battle of the sexes reminiscent of the great bouts between Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. In First Monday in October, Matthau is a cantankerous Supreme Court Justice whose liberalism is challenged by the arrival of conservative Jill Clayburgh, the first woman appointed to the High Court. Watch the sparks fly! The First Wives Club 1996 • 102 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures Director: Hugh Wilson Cast: Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith, Heather Locklear, Bronson Pinchot, Dan Hedaya The First Wives Club is a comic revenge tale of three close friends all of whom have been discarded by their husbands in favour of much younger "trophy wives." Smarting from the pain, the three concoct a plan to exact the most exquisitely bitter vengeance upon their 'exes." Great cast and intriguing plot should attract a lot of attention. Fitzcarraldo 1982 • 150 minutes • Colour • New Horizons Director: Werner Herzog Cast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Jose Lewgoy This powerful majestic film tells the story of a man obsessed with the dream of building an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle. In order to fund the project, he conceives the idea of pulling a steamboat over a mountain, and into a river tributary where he can achieve a monopoly in the rubber trading business. Five Fingers of Death 1973 • 98 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers Director: Cheng Chang Ho Cast: Lo Lieh, Wang Ping, Wang Ching-Feng Only interesting in that it is the Kung Fu film that began the craze in America. Family honor defended with every part of the body. Flicka 2006 • 94 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox Director: Michael Mayer Cast: Maria Bello, David Burton, Kaylee DeFer, Sierra Doherty Gillin, Steve Fox, Ryan Kwanten, Alison Lohman A young girl, Katy, adopts a wild mustang she names Flicka, only to see her father sell her now beloved companion. To win back Flicka’s freedom, Katy secretly schemes to enter a dangerous wild horse race. © 2011 All Rights Reserved Les Films Criterion Pictures 1-800-595-1996 www.criterionpic.com
Criterion Pictures 30 MacIntosh Blvd., Unit 7 • Vaughan, Ontario • L4K 4P1 800-565-1996 Fax: 866-664-7545 • www.criterionpic.com Flicka 2 2010 • 98 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox Director: Michael Damian Cast: Patrick Warburton, Tammin Sursok, Emily Tennant, Ted Whittall, Clint Black, Reilly Dolman, Craig Stanghetta, Dwayne Wiley Relocating from Pittsburgh to her estranged father's Wyoming ranch after her grandmother becomes too ill to care for her, a 14-year-old skateboarder has a tough time adjusting to rural life until she bonds with a half-wild horse named Flicka. The Flight of the Phoenix 1965 • 147 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox Director: Robert Aldrich Cast: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Ernest Borgnine, Hardy Kruger A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out. The Flight of the Phoenix 2004 • 112 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox Director: John Moore Cast: Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese, Miranda Otto, Jared Padalecki An action-adventure in which a group of air crash survivors - cast-offs from society who will never be missed - are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no hope of rescue. As they attempt to build a new plane from the wreckage of the old one, in hopes of flying back to civilization, they experience a rebirth of their own. Flipped 2010 • 90 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers Director: Rob Reiner Cast: Rebecca De Mornay, Aidan Quinn, Anthony Edwards, Morgan Lily, Penelope Ann Miller, John Mahoney, Madeline Carroll, Stefanie Scott, Michael Bolten Two eighth graders start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites. Based on the novel "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen. La Florida 1993 • 115 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc Director: George Mihalka Cast: Rèmy Girard, Pauline Lapointe, Jason Blicker, Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder Boisterous but heartwarming, this film is about the love affair between Quebecois and Florida. Leo Lesperance and his family leave their old life in Montreal in search of their place in the sun. Flushed Away 2006 • 84 minutes • Colour • DreamWorks Director: Henry Anderson, David Bowers Cast: Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Simon Callow, Shane Richie, Geoffrey Palmer, Susan Duerden The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life. Focus 2001 • 107 minutes • Colour • Paramount Vantage Director: Neal Slavin Cast: William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer, Meat Loaf, Kay Hawtrey, Michael Copeman, Kenneth Welsh, Joseph Ziegler, Arlene Meadows, Peter Oldring In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival. © 2011 All Rights Reserved Les Films Criterion Pictures 1-800-595-1996 www.criterionpic.com
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