m-balsara's - Rented List

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For Jack (Mark Ruffalo) and Terry (Laura Dern), the everyday tribulations of being parents of young children and trying to make ends meet have taken their toll on the once passionate couple.

And Hank (Peter Krause), a selfabsorbed writer at heart, is fond of his daughter and family life, but not all that interested in monogamy, it turns out. Trying to find a way to make her marriage work under the new circumstances, Edith (Naomi Watts) turns to Jack for comfort. What begins as a playfully lascivious affair erupts into a season of infidelity, leaving all four to sift through the emotional wreckage to find their way home.

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Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying.

Moments after takeoff, Lisa's (Rachel McAdams) seatmate, Jackson (Cillian Murphy), menacingly reveals the real reason he's on board: He is an operative in a plot to kill a rich and powerful businessman...And Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her father will be killed by an assassin awaiting a call from Jackson. Trapped within the confines of a jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has nowhere to run and no way to summon help without endangering her father, her fellow passengers and her own life. As the miles tick by, Lisa knows she is running out of time as she desperately looks for a way to thwart her ruthless captor and stop a terrible murder.

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"Me and You and Everyone We Know" is a comic and poetic take on contemporary relationships. In her feature debut as director, Miranda July casts herself as Christine, a drifting video artist who falls for down-on-his-luck shoe salesman Richard (John Hawkes).

Recently separated from his wife, Richard struggles with his parental responsibility for seven year old Robby (Brandon Ratcliff) and teenage Peter (Miles Thompson). Left unsupervised while their dad works, the two boys amuse themselves on their PC, constructing animal pictures using the punctuation keys, and getting involved in some increasingly risque instant-messaging. Orbiting this central quartet are an assortment of expertly drawn characters, whose lives intersect in sometimes bizarre but always believable ways; from the curator of the gallery to whom Christine has submitted her video project to Robby and Peter's next door neighbour, a young girl who collects consumer goods for a "hope chest" in her bedroom.

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A powerful and extraordinary film... undoubtedly one of the best films of the year. An unflinching look at the complexities of human conflict in America. A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers.

A black television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie Cop. A middle-aged Korean couple. They all live in L.A. and in the next 36 hours, they will all collide...

From wildly-imaginative kung fu showdowns to dance sequences featuring tuxedoed mobsters, you've never seen action this outrageous and characters this zany! With jaw-dropping fight sequences by Yuen Wo Ping, Kung Fu Hustle will blow you away!

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Halle Berry stars in her 'Best Actress', Academy Award - winning role as the wife of a condemned man on death row, with Billy Bob Thornton as the executioner destined to find a new life and new hope with the condemned man's widow.

Monster's Ball is a film about intersecting lives, in which the characters transform one another in a deeply profound way. But can these two people, drawn together by passion and violence, wrestle their future from the tangled grasp of the past?

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Maria Alvarez (Catalina Sandino), a bright, spirited 17-year old, lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia.

Desperate to leave her job stripping thorns from flowers in a rose plantation, Maria accepts a lucrative offer to transport packets of heroin-which she must swallow-to the United States. The ruthless world of international drug trafficking proves to be more than Maria bargained for as she becomes ultimately entangled with both drug cartels and immigration officials..

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Bruce Willis stars as Hartigan, a cop with a vow to protect a stripper, Nancy (Jessica Alba); Mickey Rourke as Marv, the outcast misanthrope on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love; and Clive Owen as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shellie (Brittany Murphy), who spends his night

defending Gall (Rossario Dawson) and her Old Town girls from Jackie (Benicio Del Toro), a tough guy with a penchant for violence.

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"2046" continues the story of Chow Mo Wan from Wong Kar-Wai's previous film, 'In the Mood for Love', a few years after his ephemeral affair with Maggie Cheung's Su Li-zhen. Set in late-1960's Hong Kong, Chow is now an out of work journalist and pulp fiction writer living in a cheap hotel.

Bruised and battered by love, he pursues a playboy lifestyle of zero commitment and one-night stands. He develops a passion for a beautiful call girl (Zhang ZiYi), enjoys a breezy summer with the hotel manager's eldest daughter (Faye Wong), and happens across the path of a professional gambler (Gong Li) who he met in Singapore some years before. In the meantime, Chow works on a science fiction novel about a mysterious hi-tech train that transports people to the year 2046 to reclaim their lost memories.

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Two brothers return to the hometown they left eight years earlier, to find it still run by the same game of small-time drug dealers and petty thugs.

Their purpose, it soon becomes clear, is not reunion, but revenge - a quest of particular significance for Richard (Paddy Considine), the leader of the two, whose obsessive desire to even the score will lead them into dangerous territory.

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Beginning with a kinetic, bone-crushing car accident, 'Amores Perros' imaginatively interweaves the stories of its three victims: Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal) a young man who has fallen in love with his violent brother's wife; Valeria (Goya Toledo), a beautiful Mexican model for whom physical

appearances are everything and El Chivo (Emilio Echevarria), a former political assassin now exiled from his family. The result is a moving, visceral eulogy to life, loss and dog fighting on Mexico's mean streets.

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As the title suggests, 'Walkabout' is a journey not only in distance, but also in the transition for one Australian aborigine, from adolescence to manhood. While on a family picnic a beautiful teenager and her brother suddenly find themselves very much alone after the tragic death of their father.

As they wander through the outback they meet the young aborigine. The film unfolds and tells the tale of survival, resourcefulness and sexual awareness, as the travellers become lost in the Australian wilderness.

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Deep in the suburbs of Pasadena, a bored, confused and alienated twenty-one year old graduate named Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) awkwardly drifts from moment to moment, in constant turmoil over his lack of direction and the uncertain, impending future.

Driven by a desire for experience and desperate to avoid the corporate, deluded and mediocre world of his affluent parents, Benjamin succumbs to the advances of an older woman and begins an affair with the persuasive and enigmatic Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) the wife of one of his father's business partners. But what starts as a farcical fling becomes painfully complicated when Ben finds himself falling in love with her daughter.

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Heidi is sixteen. Starved of affection, she uses one night stands as a substitute for the physical and emotional contact she craves at home but never gets.

Caught in bed with her mother’s boyfriend, she runs away to an ort-of-season ski resort in the Australian mountains where the cycle of casual sex looks likely to continue. Then she meets Joe, the son of a wealthy local farmer. At last the troubled teenager seems to have found the real love she so desperately needs. But when Joe backs off, beset with problems of his own, Heidi is hurt and confused and left struggling to make sense of her life before she loses everything…

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Is there someone who lingers in your memory - someone who makes you wonder what might have been? Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy make magic again, reprising their 'Before Sunrise' roles of Jesse and Celine and reuniting with director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) in this engaging tale of love and

renewal. When Jesse and Celine first met in the mid 90's, their few hours together in Vienna were spontaneous and life-altering. Nine years later, lightning strikes twice. They unexpectedly meet in Paris...and have only one fading afternoon to decide if they should share their tomorrows. Smart, witty, real and unfolding largely in real time to heighten its immediacy, 'Before Sunset' glows with the moments that are every heart's greatest adventure.