Synopsis CPL 1 - 3 - Criterion Pictures
Synopsis CPL 1 - 3 - Criterion Pictures
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<strong>Criterion</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
30 MacIntosh Blvd., Unit 7 • Vaughan, Ontario • L4K 4P1<br />
800-565-1996 Fax: 866-664-7545 • www.criterionpic.com<br />
Martian Child<br />
2007 • 106 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc<br />
Director: Menno Meyjes<br />
Cast: John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt, Richard Schiff, Taya Calicetto<br />
David is a widower grieving for two years. He writes science fiction and was considered weird as a boy. He meets Dennis, a foster child<br />
who claims to be on a mission from Mars, stays in a large box all day, fears sunlight, and wears a belt of flashlight batteries so he won't<br />
float away. David takes the six-year-old home on a trial. His sister and his wife's best friend offer support, but the guys are basically alone<br />
to figure this out. Dennis takes things, is expelled, and is coached by David in being normal.<br />
Marvin's Room<br />
1996 • 92 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc<br />
Director: Jerry Zaks<br />
Cast: Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio<br />
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.<br />
Mary and Max<br />
2009 • 93 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media<br />
Director: Adam Elliot<br />
Cast: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries, Bethany Whitmore, Renée Geyer, Ian 'Molly' Meldrum, John<br />
Flaus, Julie Forsyth, Michael Ienna, Chris Massey, Shaun Patten<br />
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a fortyfour-year<br />
old, severely obese man living in New York.<br />
The Mask<br />
1994 • 101 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers<br />
Director: Charles Russell<br />
Cast: Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Cameron Diaz, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Jeni<br />
Stanley Ipkiss is a nice guy who’s getting good at finishing last. Then he finds a carved mask which, when he puts it on, transforms him<br />
into a confident whirlwind of colour who can get the girls and do all the things that Stanley is too nerdy to do by daylight.<br />
The Master Killer<br />
1978 • 115 minutes • Colour • Creswin Films Ltd.<br />
Director: Liu Chia-Liang<br />
Cast: Billy Chan, Lung Chan, John Cheung, Norman Chu, Hou Hsiao<br />
After his family is brutally killed during a Manchu attack, a young man studies to become a Shaolin Monk. His intense matriculation leads<br />
him all the way to the 36th chamber, the ultimate goal in the art of King Fu.<br />
Match Point<br />
2005 • 124 minutes • Colour • DreamWorks<br />
Director: Woody Allen<br />
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton, Layke Anderson,<br />
Alexander Armstrong, Morne Botes<br />
At a turning point in his life, the former tennis pro Chris (Rhys-Meyers) falls for Nola (Johansson), a femme fatal type who happens to be<br />
dating TOM (Goode), Chris's nemesis and soon-to-be brother-in-law.<br />
Matchstick Men<br />
2003 • 116 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers<br />
Director: Ridley Scott<br />
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce Altman, Beth Grant, Tim Maculan, Bruce McGill, Daniel Villarreal, Melora<br />
Walters<br />
Phobia-addled con artist Roy (Nicholas Cage) and his protégé Frank (Sam Rockwell) are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle<br />
when the unexpected arrival of Roy's teenage daughter Angela (Alison Lohman) disrupts his carefully-ordered life and jeopardizes his<br />
high-risk scam.<br />
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