I can certainly understand Anne Hathaway wanting to shed the image of The Princess Diaries.
Bijou Phillips, on the other hand has to rid herself of Bully. I can’t say either made a particularly good choice with this movie.
Phillips made a step up perhaps in that she didn’t take her clothes off quite as much. But her character was actually even less developed this time around than she was in Bully, if that is even possible. Hathaway, meanwhile, actually had what was perhaps an interesting character, but it seems about the only compelling reason to see this movie is the fact that she’s not the little princess any more. As it turns out, that’s not enough.
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Adventure on June 9th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas return to reprise their roles from 1998’s The Mask of Zorro.
It’s now ten years later, they have a son, and California is on the verge of joining the union. This means that Alejandro (Banderas) must fulfill his promise to Elena (Zeta-Jones) and hang up his crime-fighting mask once and for all to be with his family. Of course, he isn’t quite sure he’s ready to do that.
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Drama on May 6th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Nicole Kidman stars as UN translator Silvia Broome in this political thriller from Sydney Pollack (who also has a smallish role in the film).
Early on, we find out that Silvia has overheard someone speaking an obscure African dialect about murdering a visiting dignitary. Even stranger, that dialect is spoken in her country of origin, a fact pointed out by Sean Penn, playing haunted secret service agent Tobin Keller.
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