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RV (2006) --> Robin Williams's movies are usually both entertaining and funny. But RV is not one of them. Take the worse elements of the National Lampoon's Vacation movies and you essentially have the gist of what RV is about. Williams plays salesman Bob Munro who decides he will solve his family's emotional distance by renting an RV and driving to Colorado Springs. The family, after surviving many trials and tribulations, become close again and everyone lives happily ever after... boring!


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Over the Hedge (2006) --> After attempting to steal and then accidentally destroying a Grizzly bear's store of food, a raccoon (voiced by Bruce Willis) is forced to replace it in one week on pain of death by the Ursus horribilis. Traveling out of the forest to a newly built community of townhouses, RJ, the raccoon in question, comes across a group of foraging animals and tricks them into helping him regain all the food he destroyed.

Pandemonium ensues as RJ and the group battle an unruly home-owner, an exterminator and the bear all bent on obliterating them from existence. An entertaining animated film from Dreamworks that in the end fails to rise up to the bar set by Pixar over the last decade.


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Layer Cake (2004) --> Similar to Guy Ritchie's gangster flicks but without the humour, Layer Cake is directed by newcomer (it's his first film) Matthew Vaughn. Vaughn makes an interesting film the shows us the world of cocaine dealers and British Mafia gangsters. Based upon JJ Connelly's London crime novel of the same name, Layer Cake stars Daniel Craig as a dealer who is getting out of the business. He knows when to quit and after he is paid for a score he is abandoning ship to enjoy the spoils of his labour. But will boss Jimmie Price let him leave? Throw in the kidnapping of a London socialite's daughter, a robbery of 2 million in ecstasy pills, and gangsters from England and Serbia showing how ruthless they can be and you have the makings of an intriguing crime film.


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Capturing the Friedmans (2003) --> Andrew Jarecki's documentary on the Fridman family of Long Island. When the father, Arnold Friedman, is arrest charged and eventually convicted of pedophilia, Jarecki shows us the results. The controversy surrounding the conviction and the resulting effects on the two sons and wife of Arnold Friedman are captured by Jarecki. He uses home footage from the family's archives to tell the history of the family and interviews various participants to get a well rounded opinion on the whole episode. Capturing the Friedmans is one of the best documentaries of 2003.


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