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George (James Purefoy) is a knight returning from the first crusade on his way back to England. All he wants is a little bit of land and some cattle and start a home. On his return to England however, he hears that the king's daughter Lunna (Piper Perabo) has gone missing. He sets out on a quest to find the girl and return her to the King and Lord Garth the Gurney (Patrick Swayze) who has been promised her hand in marriage. George and Garth both set out to rescue the princes
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New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) is picking his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) up from Washington's Dulles Airport at Christmas. The authorities don't believe John when he sees some very suspisious people of which he kills one in a gun fight. It's just his luck when terrorist take over the airflight controls and keep a number of planes circling over the airport hostage, including the plane Holly is on. As the authorities don't believe him, he has to go at it himself. Surrounded by a snow storm McClane fights the baddies in and around the airport.
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New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) in Los Angeles over the Christmas holidays. Whilst John waits for her at her office party a gang of criminals take the people in the building hostage. The criminals are ruthless and kill Holly's boss after he refuses to open the safe. John is the only one in the office building who isn't rounded up by the criminals. He starts fighting the criminals and tries to get help from the outside.
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Fred Tate his a highly intelligent seven year old boy, playing the piano, performing astonishing mathmatics and creating art. As he's a bit of an odd duckling, he is ignored by his class mates. His single mother Dede, played by Jodie Foster, tries her best, but is strugling. After long deliberation she agrees to let a psychologist (Dianne Wiest) enlist him to a school for highly gifted children. Fred finally get an intelectual challenge here, but he finds it difficult to get used to living in the academic world.
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According to the blurb on the back of the DVD case, the movie is a semi-autobiographical story written (and directed) by Barry Levinson. Set in 1954, it tells the stories of two sons, Van and Ben each falling in love with girls that their parents do not approve of. Van, the oldest, falls for a rich non-Jewish girl and Ben becomes friends with his school's first black student.
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Wayne finally moved out of his parents house and now lives in and makes his tv show from an abandoned doll factory. He is worries about the future as he has no direction in life. An almost naked indian appears in his dream who takes him to Jim Morrison in the desseart. He instructs him to put on a music festival, getting cool bands "If you book them, they will come".
Whilst Garth is dating megababe Honey Hornee, played by Kim Basinger, Wayne has is fighting over Cassandra (Tia Carrere) with the evil record producer Bobby Cahn (Christopher Walken).
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Best friends Wayne and Garth have their own cable-access show Wayne's World from the basement of Wayne's parent's house. Sleazy TV producer Benjamin happens to see the show and sees an opportunity to exploit it. Benjamin is after more than only Wayne's TV show, he also tries to steel Waynes new girlfriend Cassandra [swing].
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Wayne's World is an excellent comedy as long as you don't expect too sufficticated a comedy. Its got load and loads of memorable quotes and funny jokes.
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Six time travelling dwarves walk through Kevin's bed room from one time to another. Kevin joins them in their adventures through time, steeling a load of gold and other treasure from Napoleon and carrying on through medieval times. Which also is the funniest bits of the movie with John Cleese playing a very polity Robin Hood. The dwarves are chased by a floating face trying to get back the map plotting the time holes the dwarves stole. Travelling from time hole to time hole they finally make it to the lair of Evil Genius who plans to use the map to take over the world.
Dr. Evil is back! and he's travelled back to the 60's to take over the world. International super spy Austin Powers follow's him back to 1969 after finding that his wife is a Fembot. Dr. Evil steals Austin's mojo and Austin gets help from Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham) "Shagwell by name and shag-very-well by reuptation". Dr. Evil is assisted by his old team, nr. two, Frau and Scott, in addition to a clone 1/8th of Dr. Evil's size, called mini me. They end up flying to the moon for their final battle including time travelling around!