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Release Date: 6/17/2005 (wide)
Running Time: 1:36
MPAA Rating: PG for some mildly suggestive content.
Cast: Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Aria Wallace, Chris Noth, Caroline Rhea, Carson Kressley, Mike O’Malley, Ben Feldman, Vanessa Lengies, Amy Acker, Dennis DeYoung Director: Mark Rosman
Producer: Marc Platt, Dawn Wolfrom, Susan Duff
Executive Producer: Billy Higgins, Adam Siegel
Screenwriter: Gina Wendkos
Story: Michael McQuown, Heather Robinson, Katherine Torpey
Cinematographer: John R. Leonetti
Composer: Christophe Beck
Additional Music/Songs: Styx
Distributor: Universal Pictures Distribution

Movie Rental Review Rating: 7/10

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The Perfect Man is about a teenager’s quest to find the perfect man for her mother who does not want to grow old along. Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) has been moving around every time her single mom Jean (Heather Locklear) breaks up with another man and she is tired of it. She has gotten so use to the moving that she does not plan to attend the prom or get her picture taken for the school yearbook. Holly discovers that her mother has already attracted a real winner of a man Lenny (Mike O’Malley) and she tries to sidetrack her mother by creating the perfect man. The decision is not the most thought out and really turns out to help to come back and bite her. At school she is fitting in until she meets up with Adam (Ben Feldman), when things get to close she decides to run away from the problem like her mother. Adam is a down to earth person who has a real artistic side he expresses through his drawings. I liked his description of what Love is “it’s like friendship on fire”, very true. Holly’s invented perfect man really catches her mom’s eye and when her mom was getting to close Holly decides to break it off with the imaginary man named Ben. She quickly sees that her girl friend’s uncle “Uncle Ben” really is the perfect man for her mother.

The Movie Rental Review found this movie to be funny and sad at the same time. I think this is a great movie for the family.

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United States/United Kingdom, 2005
U.S. Release Date: 4/22/05 (wide)
Running Length: 2:08
MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Violence, profanity, sexual content)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron, George Harris, Hugo Speer, Curtiss I’Cook
Director: Sydney Pollack
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Kevin Misher
Screenplay: Charles Randolph and Scott Frank and Steven Zallian
Cinematography: Darius Khondji
Music: James Newton Howard
U.S. Distributor: Universal Pictures

Movie Rental Review Rating: 4/10

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The Interpreter is about a girl who is a translator at the United Nations in New York. She over hears a plot that inadvertently brings her past to light. The girl is Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) who spent a majority of her life as a minority in an African country called Matobo. She lost her father, mother and sister to a landmine, which set her political views, at least while she was in Africa. She blames the death of her parents and sister on the president of the country, Edmond Zuwanie (Earl Cameron). As fate would have it, one of the metal detectors malfunctions and as a precaution, the building was evacuated. Silvia leaves a bag behind and must return for it in the dark of night. While in the UN building she over hears a plot to kill the very man who she holds responsible for the death of her parents and sister. Two Secret Service agents Tobin Keller (Penn) and Dot Woods (Catherine Keener) that are part foreign delegate protection squad who are assigned to investigate Silva’s story. Tobin is a bit on the edge because of the recent death of his wife in a car accident. This adds to the already emotional tension emanating from Silvia. She is concerned that this plot has her brother involved, who is the only remaining member of her family. Silva does not find out until much later that one of Zuwanie’s henchmen killed her brother. After the attempt on Silva’s life Tobin becomes her protector right to the very end of the movie.

The Movie Rental Review found this movie to be very slow in the middle but there was many plot threads running through out the movie.

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United States, 2005
U.S. Release Date: 6/22/05 (wide)
Running Length: 1:40
MPAA Classification: PG (Sexual innuendo)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Michael Keaton, Matt Dillon, Breckin Meyer, Justin Long, Cheryl Hines, Jimmi Simpson
Director: Angela Robinson
Producer: Robert Simonds
Screenplay: Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant and Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
Cinematography: Greg Gardiner
Music: Mark Mothersbaugh
U.S. Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

Movie Rental Review Rating: 8/10

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Herbie: Fully Loaded is a resurrection of awesome old Disney story with characters and problems of today. Herbie finds himself Scrap and Salvage yard owned by a guy named Crazy Dave. Herbie gives Dave a working over until Herbie scum’s to a flat tire. Maggie Peyton (Lindsay Lohan) just graduates from college and her father Ray (Michael Keaton) wants to do something nice for her. They enter Crazy Dave’s Scrap and Salvage yard, Ray gives Maggie $75 and tells her to pick out a car. She finds Herbie after Herbie lands on another car destine for the crusher. The Peyton family is a racing family. Ray’s father was a famous racer so it is in their blood. Her brother is trying to learn to be a great racecar driver but he just cannot get the hang of it. With Herbie’s help, Maggie meets an old friend Kevin (Justin Long) who upgrades Herbie with performance parts of today. They bump into Trip Murphy (Matt Dillon) at a street race and beat him. This prompts Trip to sponsor a race to draw out the person that beat him.

The Movie Rental Review found this movie to be good resurrection of the old classic Love Bug movies. I grew up with Herbie and I found this movie had all the characteristics of the old Love Bug movies

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