A local sheriff (Brendan Gleeson) pulls a diver out of Black Lake (they wanted to call it Lake Placid, but that name was already taken), only to find that he’s been bitten in half. What they find is a tooth, and this gets sent to a museum for analysis.
The tooth ends up in the hands of Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda), who doesn’t usually do field research, and most certainly not in Maine. But because her boss – and boyfriend – has decided to do a little extra-curricular activity of his own with her friend, she ends up in the backwoods. This may or may not be a good choice.
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Horror on December 19th, 2006 by Chad Everett
There aren’t too many movies that I like that start at the end. This one isn’t likely to make me a convert. It starts with a man (Bill Pullman) jumping to his death from a hotel balcony. At least, I think it was a hotel. It may have been an apartment. I really couldn’t tell.
And that was the second part of the problem. I was completely and utterly lost all the way through this movie. I followed the plot well enough, but I spent much of the time trying to figure out what was happening around the plot. That’s no fun.
What I can tell you is that Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is some sort of exchange student. At least, she is an American. Suddenly, due to the death of a nurse or housekeeper or something, an opening becomes available for her, and so she jumps at the chance. But the house where she will be working is possessed by the spirit or someone who was killed. Apparently an ancient proverb says that someone killed with great emotion will remain there, and that’s what happened.
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Romance on October 19th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Everyone knows that they need someone, and this is a film that attempts to chronicle the process of finding someone for several twenty-somethings in Seattle during the nineties.
Janet (Bridget Fonda) just wants someone to say gesundheit when she sneezes, but on-and-off-again boyfriend Cliff (Matt Dillon) is more concerned about his band than Janet (Cliff also serves as something of a narrator).
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Drama on July 26th, 2006 by Chad Everett
The Accidental Tourist refers to a series of books written by character Macon Leary (William Hurt), who helps business travelers to make their travel experience a bit better by giving them tips, such as to take packets of laundry detergent so that they can pack lightly yet still have everything they need at their disposal.
He returns from one of his trips to find his wife is leaving him. A year after their son died, she has decided that she cannot handle it any more and needs to get away. Being essentially destroyed, he simply moves on with his life. He fights for a while and then gives into the advances of a dog trainer who seems interested enough to pursue him (played by Geena Davis).
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