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Kung Fu Panda
2008 • 92 minutes • Colour • DreamWorks
Director: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
Cast: Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Ian McShane, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Dan Fogler, Michael Clarke Duncan,
David Cross, Randall Duk Kim
A comedy about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, Po, who must somehow become a Kung Fu Master in order to save the Valley of Peace
from a villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung. Set in the legendary world of ancient China, this is the story of Po, who enters the rigid world of
Kung Fu and turning it upside down. Po ultimately becomes a Kung Fu hero by learning that if he believes in himself, he can do anything.
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011 • 90 minutes • Colour • DreamWorks
Director: Jennifer Yuh
Cast: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, James Woods, Gary Oldman, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, David Cross, Lucy Liu
Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the valley alongside The Furious Five - Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and
Monkey. But Po's awesome new life is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable
weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. It is up to Po and The Furious Five to journey across China to face this threat and vanquish
it.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
2002 • 82 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Steve Oedekerk
Cast: Steve Oedekerk, Tad Horino, Philip Tan, Jennifer Tung
This movie patches a story together by inserting Steve Oedekerk within an existing kung fu movie, 1976's Savage Killers. The story follows
The Chosen One (Oedekerk) as he seeks to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of the evil and seemingly indestructible kung fu
legend Master Pain (aka "Betty").
Lady Bugs
1992 • 93 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Jackée Harry, Jonathan Brandis, Ilene Graff, Vinessa Shaw, Tom Parks, Jeanetta Arnette, LaCrystal Cooke
To placate his boss and secure a promotion, Rodney becomes the coach of a girls' soccer team—complete with an in-drag male player
(the son of his fiancée).
Lady in the Water
2006 • 109 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Andrew Aninsman, Bob Balaban, J. Bloomrosen, John Boyd, Rich Bryant, Cindy Cheung,
Sarita Choudhury
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he
discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his
tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
The Lake House
2006 • 98 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Nathan Adloff, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Mike Bacarella, April Chancy, Lynn
Collins
A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a
frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves). When they discover that they’re actually living two years apart, they must try to unravel the mystery
behind their extraordinary romance before it’s too late.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001 • 100 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Simon West
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Leslie Phillips, Rachel Appleton, Chris Barrie, Iain Glen, Richard Johnson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Noah
Taylor
Angelina Jolie stars as Lara Croft, the daughter of famed archaeologist Lord Henshingly Croft (Jon Voight), who is brought up in the secure
world of the British aristocracy but eventually rejects it it in favor of travel and adventure.
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