2004 movies

Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics

Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2004
Actors: Ricky Gervais | Ash Atalla | Robin Ince | Karl Pilkington
Directors: Dominic Brigstocke
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A year after Animals, Ricky Gervais comes back with his second stand up comedy tour: Politics.

The Gunman

The Gunman
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Year: 2004
Actors: Hannah Nicolas | Emma Nicolas | Sean Patrick Flanery | Alaina Kalanj
Directors: Daniel Millican
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When Detective Ben Simm’s wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.

Charlie

Charlie
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Year: 2004
Actors: Luke Goss | Steven Berkoff | Leslie Grantham | Anita Dobson
Directors: Malcolm Needs
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Set in post WWII Britain, the compelling drama traces the rise and fall of Charlie Richardson (Luke Goss) who has gone down in history as the most notorious and powerful crime lord in London.

Tremors 4: The Legend Begins

Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Western
Year: 2004
Actors: Michael Gross | Sara Botsford | Billy Drago | Brent Roam
Directors: S.S. Wilson
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The worms are back but this time in a prequel, set in 1889 Nevada as silver mines inspector Hiram Gummer, the great-grandfather of Burt Gummer, arrives in the small settlement of Rejection Valley and faces off against the so-called graboid worm monsters devouring the local inhabitants.

Two Brothers

Two Brothers
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family
Year: 2004
Actors: Guy Pearce | Jean-Claude Dreyfus | Freddie Highmore | Oanh Nguyen
Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Like The Bear, director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s acclaimed animal picture released 15 years prior, Two Brothers offers a family-friendly epic as told through the eyes of its four-legged protagonists, who, in this case, are sibling tiger cubs Koumal and Sangha. Though a life in the jungles of French colonial Indochina circa the 1920s seemed certain, the cubs are separated shortly after their birth when the notorious hunter Aidan McRory (Guy Pearce) kills their father. Koumal is whisked away to a circus, where he is cruelly beaten into submission and forced to perform tricks to earn his keep. Sangha fares better at first — he lands in the posh estate of a French government official who wants the big cat to serve as a companion for his lonely son, though a series of unforeseen circumstances ultimately finds Sangha in the hands of a man determined to turn him into an aggressive prizefighter. Understandably, neither tiger is happy with his arrangements, and both escape captivity in hopes of returning to the jungle. Unfortunately for them, the prospect of two loose tigers is hardly comforting for the locals, who quickly demand that McRory kill the cubs before they threaten the safety of the village. Once McRory finds the tigers in their natural habitat, however, he faces a crisis of conscience he hadn’t thought possible. Two Brothers also features Jean-Claude Dreyfus and Freddie Highmore.

Blade: Trinity

Blade: Trinity
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Year: 2004
Actors: Wesley Snipes | Kris Kristofferson | Dominic Purcell | Jessica Biel
Directors: David S. Goyer
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Wesley Snipes returns as legendary vampire hunter Blade in this, the third film inspired by the popular Marvel Comics character. A fearless warrior immune to vampires, Blade (Snipes) has become a hated enemy of the bloodsucking community, and as they gather in their desert compound, a group of vampires is plotting to eliminate Blade once and for all by turning the mortal community against him. The vampires have concocted a misinformation campaign that paints a picture of Blade as a ruthless murderer and has sent the FBI on the vampire hunter’s trail, led by the relentless agent Cumberland (James Remar). At the same time, the vampires have brought their founding father, Dracula, back to his undead state, renaming him Drake (Dominic Purcell) and investing him with special powers that allow him to walk unharmed in daylight. After a dangerous encounter with Cumberland, Blade and his ally, Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), form an uneasy alliance with a scruffy team of human vampire slayers, the Nighstalkers, led by Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds), and Whistler’s daughter, Abigail (Jessica Biel. While Sommerfield (Natasha Lyonne), a biologist working with the Nightstalkers, researches a scientific answer to the vampire problem, Blade and his comrades take a more hands-on approach against Drake and his minions, including Danica Talos (Parker Posey), Asher (Callum Keith Rennie), and Grimwood (Triple H). Blade: Trinity was directed by David Goyer, who also wrote the screenplay for this film, as well as the first two movies in the series.

Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Year: 2004
Actors: Chase Ellison | George Webster | Rachael Nastassja Kraft | Lisa Long
Directors: Gregg Araki
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Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the summer of 1981, Brian (George Webster) and Neil (Chase Ellison) are both eight years old and playing on the same little league baseball team in a small Kansas town. One day, after a game, Brian blacks out after getting caught in a rainstorm, and five hours later he finds himself sitting in his basement with his nose bleeding and no memory of what happened to him. Over the years, the event — particularly the missing five hours — weigh heavily on his mind, and he becomes convinced that he was kidnapped by space aliens. Teenaged Brian (now played by Brady Corbet) becomes friends with Avalyn Friesen (Mary Lynn Rajskub), a woman who claims to have been abducted by aliens on several occasions, and she urges him to look to his dreams for patterns that might suggest what happened to him. Meanwhile, during the same summer, Neil developed a powerful crush on their little league coach (Bill Sage), who appeared to have also taken a shine to Neil. Neil’s mother (Elisabeth Shue), seeing nothing wrong with their friendship, lets the coach look after Neil while she’s off on one of her many dates, and before long Neil begins sexually experimenting with the older man. Neil’s introduction to sex inspires him to become a hustler when he grows into his teens, and after burning his bridges in his hometown, Neil (now played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his close friend Wendy (Michelle Trachtenberg) move to New York, where he continues to cruise for a living but under significantly more risky circumstances. One day, Neil is contacted by Brian, who after seeing one of their team photos from their days in little league suspects he might have some clues as to what happened to him in 1981. Mysterious Skin was based on the novel by Scott Heim, and marked the first time Gregg Araki made a film that did not originate with one of his own screenplays.

Sideways

Sideways
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Year: 2004
Actors: Paul Giamatti | Thomas Haden Church | Virginia Madsen | Sandra Oh
Directors: Alexander Payne
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Directed by Alexander Payne, Sideways follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), who is distressed about his lack of success as a novelist, and Jack (Thomas Haden Church), an equally unsuccessful actor with a rapidly approaching wedding. In a last-ditch effort to sow their wild oats, Jack and Miles take off on a final road trip to California’s wine country the week prior to Jack’s wedding. Both men have goals for the vacation — Miles wants to turn Jack on to the art of wine tasting, while Jack is concerned with exploiting his last days as a bachelor — but when the two men come across two fascinating women (Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh), the duo is forced to examine their morality, and if maturity isn’t such a depressing prospect — at least, for one of them.

Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Year: 2004
Actors: Simon Pegg | Kate Ashfield | Nick Frost | Lucy Davis
Directors: Edgar Wright
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It’s often said that the true character of a man is only revealed in times of dire crisis, and for likable, lovelorn loser Shaun (Simon Pegg), that moment of reckoning came when the dead rose from their slumber to feast on the flesh of the living. A hapless electronics store employee who spends most of his spare time downing pints at the local pub with his roommate, Ed (Nick Frost), Shaun’s life seems to fall apart when he is dumped by his girlfriend, Liz (Kate Ashfield), and his obnoxious stepfather, Philip (Bill Nighy), shows up to berate him for not being more attentive to his caring mother Barbara (Penelope Wilton) — especially since he forgot to send flowers for her birthday. Things take a turn for the worse when the dead return to stake their claim on the Earth, and though the chaos that follows threatens to swallow up all of England, it’s up to Shaun to keep his cool and prove himself once and for all by successfully rescuing Liz and his mother. With his trusty roommate by his side, nothing — not even the living dead — can stand between Shaun and the two most important women in his life.

Miracle

Miracle
Genres: Drama | Family | History | Sport
Year: 2004
Actors: Kurt Russell | Patricia Clarkson | Noah Emmerich | Sean McCann
Directors: Gavin O'Connor
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The inspiring story of the team that transcended its sport and united a nation with a new feeling of hope. Based on the true story of one of the greatest moments in sports history, the tale captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice. In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team’s coach, Herb Brooks, took a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning from a distraction from world events. With the world watching the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels’ now famous question, to the millions viewing at home: Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Year: 2004
Actors: Jean Reno | Benoît Magimel | Christopher Lee | Camille Natta
Directors: Olivier Dahan
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In Lorraine, close to the border of Germany, the Chief Inspector Pierre Niemans is investigating the death of a man behind of a wall of an isolated abbey. Meanwhile, the efficient detective Reda is investigating the attempt of murder of a man called Jesus. They come to the same point along their investigations, join forces with the detective Marie, a specialist in religious matter, and fight against Heinrich von Garten, a German Minister of Culture and Religion, a group of powerful monks.

Polar Express, The

Polar Express, The
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Year: 2004
Actors: Tom Hanks | Leslie Harter Zemeckis | Eddie Deezen | Nona Gaye
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on children’s author Chris Van Allsburg’s modern holiday classic of the same name, The Polar Express revolves around Billy (Hayden McFarland), who longs to believe in Santa Claus but finds it quite difficult to do so, what with his family’s dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to the man himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with Santa. The train’s conductor (Tom Hanks) along with the other passengers help turn Billy’s crisis in faith into a journey of self-discovery. A long-time fan of Van Allsburg’s book, Hanks also helped produce the film.

Howl’s Moving Castle

Howl’s Moving Castle
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Year: 2004
Actors: Chieko Baisho | Takuya Kimura | Akihiro Miwa | Tatsuya Gashuin
Directors: Hayao Miyazaki
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Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese animation director who wowed audiences worldwide with his award-winning film Spirited Away, brings another visually spectacular tale of imagination to the screen. Sophie is an 18-year-old girl who toils in the hat shop opened years ago by her late father. Often harassed by local boys, one day Sophie is unexpectedly befriended by Howl, a strange but flamboyant wizard whose large home can travel under its own power. However, the Witch of the Waste is displeased with Sophie and Howl’s budding friendship, and turns the pretty young woman into an ugly and aged hag. Sophie takes shelter in Howl’s castle, and attempts to find a way to reverse the witch’s spell with the help of Calcifer, a subdued but powerful demon who exists in the form of fire, and Markl, who protects the four-way door which can instantly take visitors to other lands and dimensions. Howl’s Moving Castle was released in North America by Walt Disney Pictures, who distributed the film both in its original Japanese and in a dubbed English version; the English-speaking voice cast includes Christian Bale, Emily Mortimer, Jean Simmons, Lauren Bacall, and Billy Crystal.