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Whale Rider
Genres: Family, Drama
Starring: Cliff Curtis, Rawiri Paratene, Tammy Davis, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Vicky Haughton, Grant Roa, Mana Taumaunu
Directors: Niki Caro
Country: Germany, New Zealand
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her dest...
One Hour Photo
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Robin Williams, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, Nick Searcy, Lee Garlington, Connie Nielsen, Jimmy Shubert
Directors: Mark Romanek
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod
Seymour 'SY' Parrish has been doing photo development for 20 years. He has a vast knowledge of modern photography and develops photos at a local department store for a living. But SY lives a sad and lonely life and begins spying on the Yorkin family, his biggest customers who seem to have everything in the world. SY begins to feel that he wants to be in the Yorkin's life, but when he discovers that the Yorkins are not as perfect as they seem, he becomes a man on a mission to expose the imperfections of the Yorkin family that could tear them apart.
The Christmas Shoes
Genres: Drama
Starring: Brian Heighton, Hugh Thompson, Rob Lowe, Dorian Harewood, Maria del Mar, Jeremy Akerman, John Maclaren
Directors: Andy Wolk
Country: USA, Canada
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir and declines a job in Robert's firm. When Robert's mother passes away, he begins to reconsider things and his and Nathan's paths cross on Christmas Eve as Nathan tries to raise the money for the shoes and Robert tries to get a present for his daughter.
John Q
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Denzel Washington, Laura Harring, Anne Heche, David Thornton, James Woods, Kevin Connolly, Stephanie Moore
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def
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.
Darkness
Genres: Horror
Starring: Anna Paquin, Iain Glen, Lena Olin
Directors: Jaume Balagueró
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Available Quality: Hi Def
A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
The Wiggles: Wiggle Bay
Genres: Family, Short
Starring: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Paul Paddick, Greg Page, Corinne O'Raffers, Andrew McCourt
Directors: Nicholas Bufalo
Country: Australia
Year: 2002
Wiggle Bay: When The Wiggles and their friends sailed into Wiggle Bay they were looking forward to a picnic by the sea. They found a magic shell, a curious note and Magdalena the beautiful mermaid! They also found they had a mystery to solve. Join The Wiggles when they solve the mystery and return the golden key to its rightful owner. Its a lot of fun and theres lots of music and dancing at Wiggle Bay!
The Pianist
Genres: Drama, War, Biography
Starring: Maureen Lipman, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner, Jessica Kate Meyer
Directors: Roman Polanski
Country: Germany, UK, France, Poland
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.
Hart's War
Genres: Drama, War
Starring: Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Colin Farrell, Marcel Iures, Michael Weston, Terrence Howard, Sam Jaeger
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Shortly before the end of World War II, young, bright-eyed, First-Lieutenant Thomas Hart, a third-generation desk-warrior, is stationed in an office miles away from any fighting. He meets the war only by accident and is taken prisoner. During interrogation, Hart faces a test of honor, courage, and sacrifice he had not prepared for. Surviving the interrogation, the horrified Hart witnesses courage and honor in the acts of his fellow-prisoners, who save him from certain death by sacrificing their belongings and even their own lives. At the POW camp, Hart learns that courage, sacrifice, and honor are much harder to find, as men become embittered...
007: Die Another Day
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Starring: Michael Madsen, Kenneth Tsang, Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench, Samantha Bond, Will Yun Lee, Lawrence Makoare
Directors: Lee Tamahori
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
After being incarcerated and tortured while on a mission in North Korea, Bond is traded for a psychotic terrorist and released back to M16, only to be accused of giving information. Bond escapes and goes after Zao, a deranged terrorist who knows who betrayed Bond to the North Koreans. Bond chases Zao around the globe and to a shady billionaire and a plot to change the world. But bond soon discovers that no one is who they seem to be...
Men in Black II
Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Rosario Dawson, Jack Kehler, Michael Bailey Smith, Johnny Knoxville, Tony Shalhoub
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Kay and Jay are back in black as the scum-fighting super-agents - regulators of all things alien on planet Earth. Their latest mission: to save the world from a total intergalactic disaster! When a renegade Kylothian monster disguised as a lingerie model threatens the survival of the human race, the boys of the MIB get the call to step up and get busy. With their headquarters under siege and time running out, Agents Kay and Jay enlist the help of Frank the Pug and a posse of hard-living worms to help them kick some seriously sexy alien butt!
Ju-on: The Grudge
Genres: Thriller, Horror
Starring: Yuya Ozeki, Takako Fuji, Takashi Matsuyama, Hideo Sakaki, Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara
Directors: Takashi Shimizu
Country: Japan
Year: 2002
Available Quality: Hi Def
In Japan, when the volunteer social assistant Rika Nishina is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio. Each person that lives or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears.
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Frank Oz, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson, Temuera Morrison, Christopher Lee, Rose Byrne, Ian McDiarmid
Directors: George Lucas
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Set 10 years after the events in "The Phantom Menace". After an assassination attempt on the life of Senator Padme Amidala, Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan learner Anakin Skywalker are sent to investigate. After tracking down the assassin, she is killed before any information can be driven out of her. The two Jedi are then sent on two different missions, Anakin is sent to Naboo with Padme and Obi-Wan is sent to the planet of Kamino where he will investigate the assassination attempts. Little does he know, he is investigating some of the biggest events of the Star Wars saga, as he finds out that there is a connection between the assassinat...
Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure
Genres: Documentary
Starring: David Hoole
Directors: Gary McCartie
Country: Canada
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
Over Beautiful British Columbia is a spectacular aerial tour of one of Canada 's most beautiful regions. With this Special Collector's Edition DVD, shot entirely in widescreen High Definition Television (HDTV), you'll join a thrilling helicopter adventure that explores British Columbia like never before. Fly high above panoramic vistas and soar over mountaintops, dive into valleys and glide above Vancouver's skyline and the sun-drenched Okanagan. It's an aerial adventure you'll never forget. Compatible with Home DVD Players worldwide.
IMAX: Australia: Land Beyond Time
Genres: Documentary, Short
Starring: Alex Scott
Directors: David Flatman
Country: USA, Australia
Year: 2002
Available Quality: Hi Def
A breathtaking journey through the exotic, surreal and dramatic natural environment of Australia.
The Four Feathers
Genres: Adventure, Drama, War
Starring: Djimon Hounsou, Daniel Caltagirone, Kate Hudson, Wes Bentley, James Cosmo, Alex Jennings, James Hillier
Directors: Shekhar Kapur
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fianc
Headnoise
Genres: Thriller
Starring: Bogdan Diklic, Ivo Godnic, Radko Polic, Vlado Novak, Petre Arsovski, Milos Battelino, Rok Cvetkov
Directors: Andrej Kosak
Country: Slovenia
Year: 2002
Andrej Kosak's prison drama Zvenenje v Glavi (Headnoise) takes place in a Yugoslavian prison in the 1970s and is based on a real incident. After guards deny inmates the opportunity to watch an Olympic basketball game, the prisoners stage a riot that leads to them controlling the jail. Keber (Jernej Sugman), who was the prisoners' unofficial leader, asks fellow inmate Mrak (Radko Polic) to create law and order. As Keber pines for his wife from whom he is separated, Mrak lets his newfound power corrupt him.
A Man Like Me
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jón Gnarr, Stephanie Che, Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Þorsteinn Guðmundsson, Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir, Baldur T. Hreinsson
Directors: Róbert I. Douglas
Country: Iceland, Hong Kong
Year: 2002
A postal worker has some lunch in a chinese restaurant and falls in love with the waitress, who happens to be chinese. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father, but he's to occupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to looser friends talk about what Silvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.
Ed - Season Three
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Josh Randall, Julie Bowen, Tom Cavanagh
Directors: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Ed received casting, writing, and directing Emmy nominations in 2001. Tom Cavanagh received a Golden Globe nomination and a TV Guide Award for his work on the program.In 2004, despite a campaign by fans to keep the series on the air, NBC cut the show from their lineup because of poor ratings.
The Drew Carey Show - Season Eight
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Diedrich Bader, Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles
Directors: Bruce Helford, Drew Carey
Country: USA
Year: 2002
The first season's opening credits consisted of a caricature of Careyconsisting of his face and a yellow tiesinging the Robert McGuire-penned "Moon Over Parma". The song was trimmed for the opening sequence, and the reference to Eastlake in the line "Guide her to Eastlake underneath your silvery light" was changed to a reference to Cleveland.
Lisa Lampanelli: The Queen of Mean
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Lisa Lampanelli
Directors: Theodore Brown
Country: USA
Year: 2002
In clubs and theatres across the country, Lisa Lampanelli calls audience members colored, queer, bald, fat, and old. Do they get offended? Angry? No! They laugh uncontrollably and demand to know when she'll be back in town. After watching this hour-long concert--filmed live at Rascal's Comedy Club in West Orange, New Jersey--you'll see why! A cross between Don Rickles, Archie Bunker, and a vial of estrogen, Lisa lives up to her three favorite F-words: "Fierce, Funny, and Fearless"! She's got a bawdy personality, all-out honesty, and the insult comic's most essential quality--undeniable likeability.