A group of archaeologists become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve a friend. The group must survive in fourteenth century France before they can escape back to the twenty-first century.
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
An aging alcoholic cop is assigned the task of escorting a witness from police custody to a courthouse 16 blocks away. There are, however, chaotic forces at work that prevent them from making it in one piece.
In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free.
A senior at an ivy league college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it betters chances at Harvard but The Skulls is not what he thought and comes at a price.
Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers.
Director:
Marc Forster
Stars:
Gerard Butler,
Michelle Monaghan,
Michael Shannon
An unhappy family is visited by a strange man at Christmas, who claims to have grown up in their home. He tells stories of miscarriage and reincarnation, and they throw him out... but not ... See full summary »
Director:
Tony Asimakopoulos
Stars:
Guido Cocomello,
Kent McQuaid,
Erika Rosenbaum
Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
Director:
Breck Eisner
Stars:
Matthew McConaughey,
Penélope Cruz,
Steve Zahn
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
A group of archaeologists and combat experts led by Chris Johnston (Paul Walker) and Kate Ericson (Frances O'Connor) use a "3-D fax machine" to time-travel back to France in 1357, in hopes of retrieving Chris' father, Professor Edward Johnston (Sir Billy Connolly), and returning safely to the present. No such luck. Fending for themselves against marauding hordes of medieval French warriors at war with the invading British, these semi-intrepid travellers find their body count rising, and the deadline for their return home is rapidly approaching.Written by
Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
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Goofs
Just after Doniger kills Kramer in the present, we switch back to the battle in France where Marek watches through a barred window as Claire is about to be hung. The whole grate is supposed to be set in a solid frame, but it moves. The "iron" bar on the right bends and wobbles. See more »
Going to show this movie in my high school world history class to exemplify the animosity between the Brits and the French, or should I say the Normans(Vikings) and the Franks? Michael Crichton's name sells. It is that simple. Since my earliest recollection as a pre-teen boy watching "Andromeda Strain" on a black and white TV on network television on a Saturday night, to seeing "Westworld" and then reading "Jurasic Park" wondering if it would ever become a movie, he has authored interesting stories. If you don't like the movie, you won't like the book. It is a reasonably faithful adaptation. Again, I find it worthwhile enough to spend two and a half class periods on it to demonstrate in an entertaining manner the rational expectation of what it may have been like back then in midieval France...
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Going to show this movie in my high school world history class to exemplify the animosity between the Brits and the French, or should I say the Normans(Vikings) and the Franks? Michael Crichton's name sells. It is that simple. Since my earliest recollection as a pre-teen boy watching "Andromeda Strain" on a black and white TV on network television on a Saturday night, to seeing "Westworld" and then reading "Jurasic Park" wondering if it would ever become a movie, he has authored interesting stories. If you don't like the movie, you won't like the book. It is a reasonably faithful adaptation. Again, I find it worthwhile enough to spend two and a half class periods on it to demonstrate in an entertaining manner the rational expectation of what it may have been like back then in midieval France...