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Natalie Angel Movies

2005  
PG13  
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A guy trying to do the right thing ends up taking part in one of the most morally dubious con games in history in this comedy. Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville) is an office drone who wants to move up the corporate ladder, but when he asks his boss for a promotion, it comes with a condition -- Steve has to fire Stavi (Luis Avalos), who has been the firm's janitor for years. Steve decides to soften the blow by hiring Stavi to do his lawn and garden work. However, an accident robs Stavi of several of his fingers, and since he doesn't have medical insurance, Steve needs to find a way to pay for his surgery. Steve's uncle Gary (Brian Cox), a sleazy type who will bet on anything, also needs some fast cash, and comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme -- Steve was a track star in high school, and with the Special Olympics Championships coming up, all Steve has to do is pretend to be mentally challenged, enter the competition, and win the running events against six-time medalist Jimmy (Leonard Flowers). Gary will bet big on Steve, and the odds will allow them to clean up. Steve is appalled by the idea, but he needs the money badly enough to go along. However, Steve discovers that Jimmy is fast enough that he has little chance of beating him. However, Jimmy's colossal ego has made him many enemies among his fellow Special Olympians, and they're eager enough to see him taken down a peg that they help Steve train for the big event. Matters become all the more complicated when Steve becomes infatuated with Lynn (Katherine Heigl), a beautiful woman who has volunteered to help the challenged athletes, and would doubtless be furious if she found out what Steve was really doing. Produced by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, The Ringer was the first fiction directorial credit for Barry W. Blaustein; the story also parallels a 2004 episode of the animated television series South Park, "Up the Down Steroid." ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Starring:
Johnny KnoxvilleBrian Cox, (more)
 
2012  
PG13  
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Author Stephen Chbosky adapts his own best-selling novel about a withdrawn teen who attempts to remain hopeful for the future while dreading every day of the present. Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, and Logan Lerman star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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2013  
R  
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Director Michael Bay takes the helm for this over-the-top action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie as three Miami Beach bodybuilders who hatch an extortion plot that goes hilariously awry. Ed Harris, Rob Corddry, Ken Jeong, and Tony Shalhoub co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Starring:
Mark WahlbergAnthony Mackie, (more)
 
2006  
R  
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Douglas McGrath's Infamous represents the second major biopic about the avant-garde belletrist Truman Capote to be released within a year. It thus tells roughly the same story as Bennett Miller's earlier Capote, recounting the events that belied the writer's six-year authorship of the seminal "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood. The story opens with Capote (Toby Jones) visiting the site of the 1959 Clutter family homicide, on a Kansas research trip, accompanied by his close friend and colleague, author Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock). As Capote settles into the community, McGrath uses the preponderance of screen time to explore the emotional tapestry of Capote's increasingly risky emotional attachment to one of the two murderers, Perry Edward Smith (Daniel Craig), with whom he senses more than a few common bonds. McGrath weaves a decidedly bittersweet tale, contrasting the optimism and devil-may-care, "conquer all" attitude of Capote in his early years with a seemingly endless string of poor choices in the writer's later years, from addictions to drink and pills, to a failure to maintain healthy output as a writer, to poorly chosen romantic and sexual entanglements. Most significantly, however, McGrath reveals how the relationship with Smith virtually destroyed Capote as an artist and a human being, by inducing him to sell out on all levels to satisfy his lust for accomplishment and notoriety. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Starring:
Toby JonesSandra Bullock, (more)
 
2011  
R  
In this psychological thriller from director Aaron Rottinghaus, Noah (Josh Danziger) and Emily (Olesya Rulin) first met as children on a school field trip that turned tragic when their bus was involved in a serious accident. Ever since, Emily has suffered from a psychological condition known as ICD-10 F24, in which she's constantly haunted by visions of horrible tragedies; Noah is a part of Emily's illness in that he also sees the same things when he's around her, but not when they're apart. While it might be best if the two keep their distance, they share an emotional bond that makes it difficult for them to stay away. When Noah is severely injured in another auto accident, he struggles to remember the unhappy events of his past, while elsewhere, Emily seeks treatment with a psychiatrist, Dr. Jane Sheppard (Joey Lauren Adams), who believes therapy can take the frightening visions away. However, as Dr. Sheppard studies Emily's hallucinations, she discovers they have a startling resemblance to real-life events and wonders if the young woman has a gift of prophecy. Apart received its world premiere at the 2011 South By Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Starring:
Olesya RulinJosh Danziger, (more)