Brittany Murphy
1) Ramen Girl
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English
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An American adrift and abandoned by her boyfriend in Tokyo finds her calling in an unlikely place: a local ramen house run by a tyrannical chef who doesn't speak of a word of English. Undaunted by the chef's raging crankiness, Abby convinces him to teach her the art of ramen preparation...and despite hilarious clashes of culture and personality, Abby learns how to put passion and spirit into her life as well as her cooking.
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In this tense, stylish noir thriller, Terry (Danny Pino, TV's Cold Case) follows his fiancee, June (Brittany Murphy, The Ramen Girl, 8 Mile), to a seedy hotel where she's meeting another man. Drunk and distraught, Terry calls best friend Julian (Mike Vogel, Cloverfield) and reveals that he's holed up across the hall from the lovers with a stolen gun and murder on his mind. A chilling cat-and-mouse game ensues, forcing Julian to risk his own life to...
3) Abandoned
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English
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Brittany Murphy (8 MILE, GIRL INTERRUPTED) – in her final film role – stars as Mary, who brings her new boyfriend (Dean Cain of TV's LOIS & CLARK) to the hospital for minor outpatient surgery. But when she returns later to pick him up, he has mysteriously vanished. The police can't help her. Her friends – who have never met him – don't believe her. Is the hospital administrator involved in a creepy cover-up? Could Mary's increasingly frantic...
4) Drive
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English
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When a prototype 'enhanced human' on the run from hit men hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, the two elude their pursuers. Starring Brittany Murphy ("8 Mile").
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English
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In Little Black Book, Stacy Holt (Brittany Murphy), an associate producer for daytime talk show hostess Kippie Kann (Kathy Bates), is frustrated when her boyfriend Derek (Ron Livingston) refuses to discuss his past relationships. With the encouragement of her co-worker Barb (Holly Hunter), she delves into his Palm to learn about his ex-girlfriends. Using the show as a ruse and Barb as her guide, Stacy interviews and befriends them, only to discover...
6) Happy feet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing that threatens them all. Defiant in the face of unjust rejection,...
7) Clueless
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Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
15-year-old Cher, the matchmaking Beverly Hills High schooler, has shopping and boys on her mind. She leads a hectic lifestyle but keeps it all together until she starts to fall in love and finds she's 'clueless'. A loose adaptation of Emma, Jane Austen's 19th-century comedy of manners.
8) Uptown girls
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Molly is the daughter of a deceased rock legend who is, for the first time in her life, forced to work after her manager steals all her inheritance. With help of her friend, Molly becomes the nanny of Ray, the precocious daughter of a busy music executive. She learns as much about being an adult from Ray, as she teachs Ray about being a child.
10) Sin City
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English
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Description
Welcome to Sin City, the town that beckons to the tough, the corrupt, and the brokenhearted. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still try to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care. See Frank Miller's graphic novels come to life.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Stacy is an associate producer for a daytime talk show who is confounded by her boyfriend Derek's unwillingness to talk about his previous relationships. Egged on by her co-worker Barb, Stacy sneaks a look at Derek's Palm Pilot and checks out the scores of names and numbers of his ex-girlfriends. Stacy sets up interviews with them, under the false pretense that it has to do with the show, in order to get closer to her man. Her plan starts to unravel,...
12) 8 mile
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A young white rapper in Detroit crosses 8 Mile Road, the unspoken racial boundary, to pursue his dreams of being a hip hop artist. Through courage and determination he fulfills his dream.
13) The Groomsmen
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English
Description
A poignant, hysterical story of men in their 30's struggling to grow up.
14) Don't say a word
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When psychiatrist Nathan Conrad's daughter is kidnapped, the only hope of getting her back lies with a mentally unstable girl and the secret that she is keeping.
Publisher
Sisu
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Brings to life the diaries of young people who witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Through an emotional montage of sound and image, the film salutes this group of brave, young writers who refused to quietly disappear. The stories of the young Holocaust victims come to life by weaving together personal photos, handwritten pages and drawings from the diaries, and archival films. Original footage shot in Vilnius, Lithuania, in the remnants...
16) Good boy!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Dogs are an alien species sent to earth thousands of years ago to spy on humans. But when the spies stop reporting back to the home planet, Canid 3942 is sent to earth to investigate. Once there, Canid 3942 encounters Owen, a young boy who runs a dog-walking service. Owen befriends the space-dog, renaming him Hubble. When it becomes obvious that the dogs of earth have forgotten their mission, Hubble enlists the help of Owen to get them all into shape...
17) Uptown Girls
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English
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Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy) is the freewheeling daughter of a late rock legend, and the toast of the New York City social scene. But when her inheritance is stolen, Molly is forced to do something she's never done before -- she's forced to get a job. Molly becomes a nanny to a precocious little girl, who is "eight going on forty."
18) Summer Catch
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English
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Every summer, the most talented college baseball players come to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to compete for a spot on one of the Cape's elite baseball teams, a steppingstone--for a talented few--to the major leagues. This year local boy Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) is getting a rare second chance. But a rivalry with a hotshot teammate and the wiles of sexy, sophisticated rich girl (Jessica Biel) could keep Ryan from reaching his dream.
19) Neverwas
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English
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Searching for insight into his father's life and the magical place he wrote about in the beloved children's book, Neverwas, psychiatrist Zach Riley takes a job at the institution where his father lived on and off. Once there, Zach meets Gabriel, a patient whose alternate reality is startlingly close to the world his father created, setting Zach on a magical and moving journey of discovery.