Posts Tagged ‘identity-swap’

Bubba Ho-tep (2002)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Davis, Ossie | Joyce, Ella | Marnhout, Heidi | Ivy, Bob | Jefferson, Edith | Pennell, Larry | Bannister, Reggie | Roebuck, Daniel | Schweiger, Daniel | Young, Harrison | Flammer, Linda | Okada, Cean | Morand, Solange | Placencia, Karen
Directors: Coscarelli, Don
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Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Meyer, Breckin | Hewitt, Jennifer Love | Connolly, Billy | Murray, Bill | Abercrombie, Ian | Rees, Roger | Davis, Lucy | Cardwell, Lena | Alicino, Veronica | Carr, Jane | Muirhead, Oliver | Blanc, JB | Watson-Johnson, Vernee | Milton, Russell | Falcone, Ben
Directors: Hill, Tim
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Jon goes to London to be with Liz and Garfield sneaks with him. Meanwhile a deceased Queen gives everything to her cat Prince XII. Her only heir Lord Dargis becomes jealous and tries to kill Prince. Garfield & Odie sneaks out to the streets of London. Lord Dargis throws Prince in the river and ends up in the sewer of London. SMithee the butler believes he found Prince but it was really Garfield and Jon find Odie with Prince and mistakes him for Garfield. Now the Castle animals must keep Garfield safe and keep him thinking he’s royal to save their lives.

Innerspace (1987)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Short, Martin | Ryan, Meg | McCarthy, Kevin | Lewis, Fiona | Wells, Vernon | Picardo, Robert | Schaal, Wendy | Sylvester, Harold | Schallert, William | Gibson, Henry | Hora, John | Taylor, Mark L. | Bean, Orson | Hooks, Kevin
Directors: Dante, Joe
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Cocky space ace Tuck Pendelton volunteers to be minaturized and injected into a lab rabbit. Some techno-terrorists foul up these plans and Tuck is mistakenly injected into hypochondriac Jack Putter instead. Now the terrorists are after Jack with all-American hero Tuck shrunk inside him. Their only hope is Tuck’s journalist girl- friend Lydia, but Jack has developed a crush on her.

Reindeer Games (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Sinise, Gary | Theron, Charlize | Farina, Dennis | Frain, James | Logue, Donal | Trejo, Danny | Hayes, Isaac | Tootoosis, Gordon | Stubblefield, Dana | Williams III, Clarence | Acheson, Mark | Heaton, Tom | Sunczyk, Michael | Arthurs, Douglas
Directors: Frankenheimer, John
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After being imprisoned for six years on a grand theft auto charge, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) and his cellmate Nick (James Frain) are finally going to be paroled. After hearing endless stories during his incarceration of Nick’s romantic correspondence to a woman named Ashley he has never met (Charlize Theron), Rudy is looking forward to returning to his family and having a fresh cup of hot chocolate. When Nick is killed during a prison riot, Rudy decides to assume Nick’s identity upon release from prison and meet up with the unknown woman. Burdened with a base knowledge of Nick’s Indian casino employment past, Rudy finds himself in too deep with Ashley’s brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise) and is violently forced to cooperate with a casino robbery that Gabriel and his gang have been planning with Nick in mind.

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Harring, Laura | Miller, Ann | Hedaya, Dan | Theroux, Justin | Briscoe, Brent | Forster, Robert | Towne, Katharine | Grant, Lee | Coffey, Scott | Cyrus, Billy Ray | Everett, Chad | Taggart, Rita | Karen, James | Heuring, Lori | Pellegrino, Mark
Directors: Lynch, David
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A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Final Analysis (1992)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Basinger, Kim | Thurman, Uma | Roberts, Eric | Guilfoyle, Paul | David, Keith | Harper, Robert | Rodriguez, Agustin | Zohar, Rita | Murdock, George | Prestia, Shirley | Genaro, Tony | Cortez, Katherine | Moy, Wood | Fischer, Corey
Directors: Joanou, Phil
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Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She’s beautiful and married (to a gangster). She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him. To avoid spoilers, someone dies, but who did what and why ?

Bad Boys (1995)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | Smith, Will | Leoni, Téa | Karyo, Tchéky | Pantoliano, Joe | Randle, Theresa | Helgenberger, Marg | Serrano, Nestor | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Guerra, Saverio | Imperioli, Michael | Levine, Anna | Manni, Vic | Hughes, Frank John | Kirton, Mike
Directors: Bay, Michael
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Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies’ man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station’s nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

John Q (2002)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Oltean, Gabriela | Duvall, Robert | Woods, James | Annabelle, Ron | Heche, Anne | Griffin, Eddie | Smith, Daniel E. | Thornton, David | Elise, Kimberly | Hatosy, Shawn | King, Barry G. | Wahlquist, Heather | Liotta, Ray | Harring, Laura
Directors: Cassavetes, Nick
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John Quincy Archibald’s son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael’s only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John’s insurance won’t cover his son’s transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.