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Freedom Song
Freedom Song (2000) on 27 february 2000
, 1h52
Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Vicellous Reon Shannon, Danny Glover, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Loretta Devine, Glynn Turman, Stan Shaw
Rating72% 3.639523.639523.639523.639523.63952
Freedom Song is told in flashbacks from the perspective of Owen Walker, a high school student in the fictional town of Quinlan, Mississippi in the mid-1960s. Growing up in an insulated black community, Owen is oblivious to the white supremacy that still reigned in his town until he has a run-in with racists at a local bus station. While waiting for the bus, five-year-old Owen wanders unknowingly into the "Whites Only" diner. His father, Will, soon follows quickly behind and is forced by white diner attendants to spank his son in public. Will later tells his son, "someday you'll be eating at this counter". But this scene of public humiliation leaves a lasting scar on their relationship.
The 10th Kingdom
The 10th Kingdom (2000) on 27 february 2000
, 6h57
Directed by David Carson, Herbert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about the labor movement, Wolves in film, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Scott Cohen, Ed O'Neill, John Larroquette, Daniel Lapaine, Dianne Wiest
Rating82% 4.148194.148194.148194.148194.14819
In a hidden realm, fairy tale characters inhabit nine magical kingdoms where an Evil Queen plots to rule them. She is trapped in the Fourth Kingdom Prison under the rule of Prince Wendell; the spoiled, arrogant grandson of Snow White. Weeks before his coronation ceremony, the Queen enlists the help of the brutal Troll King and his three children to release her before the Prince makes his annual visit to the prison.
Cut
Cut (2000) on 23 february 2000

Directed by Kimble Rendall
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Molly Ringwald, Kylie Minogue, Jessica Napier, Paul Blackwell, Stephen Curry, Don Barker
Rating43% 2.155162.155162.155162.155162.15516
Fed up with Brad's (Frank Roberts) on-screen antagonist's foul-ups, his director, Hilary Jacobs (Kylie Minogue), publicly humiliates him and fires him on the spot in front of onlookers. Her further degrading of him (as he comes hoping for one more chance) in her office causes this actor to go berserk, mutilating himself before cutting out her tongue using the modified prop shears as his real-life signature weapon. Before he could harm anyone else, his co-star Vanessa Turnbill (Molly Ringwald) gives him a makeshift tracheotomy which ends in Brad being seemingly electrocuted as P.A. man Lossman (Geoff Revell) looks on. But as Brad dies it seems he curses the source of his misery: Hot Blooded and all who would work on it. Now in present-day Australia, Lossman is a teacher using his personal experiences as warnings to his students that any attempts to complete filming or even screening of Hot Blooded! has ended up with lives being lost in mysterious and disturbing ways (like a producer being suspiciously electrocuted in an editing room or a director mysteriously discovered with his throat slit). But some of his pupils decide such a chance is too much of a temptation and despite his better wishes they decide to try to finish the film as a graduation grade. They contact Vanessa Turnbill to co-star; she is persuaded by her agent to go back to Australia; when she arrives at the airport she is greeted by Raffy and Hester who take her to a press conference to give the film publicity; while being interviewed a local reporter asks Vanessa if she is worried about the curse on the film, she passes off the question with a joke saying that "Oh if I die, I get paid extra".
Claire Dolan
Claire Dolan (1998) on 25 february 2000
, 1h35
Directed by Lodge Kerrigan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Katrin Cartlidge, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colm Meaney, Maryann Plunkett, John Doman, Tom Gilroy
Rating66% 3.343333.343333.343333.343333.34333
Claire doesn't enjoy the profession at all, but owes her pimp money and must continue to work. She goes to neighboring Newark, New Jersey, where she has a cousin. She takes a job in a salon and forms a relationship with her cousin and Siobhan.
Cut
Cut (2000) on 23 february 2000
, 1h20
Directed by Kimble Rendall
Origin Australie
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about films, Serial killer films
Actors Molly Ringwald, Kylie Minogue, Stephen Curry, Jessica Napier, Paul Blackwell, Don Barker
Rating43% 2.155162.155162.155162.155162.15516
Raffy Carruthers, une jeune réalisatrice, décide de terminer un film d'horreur laissé à l'abandon des années auparavant après plusieurs meurtres commis sur le tournage. Mais le film est réputé pour être maudit et un tueur masqué fait son apparition sur le nouveau tournage...
Guts
Guts (2000) on 25 february 2000
, 1h30
Actors Rick Engelkes, Victor Reinier
Rating51% 2.5739252.5739252.5739252.5739252.573925
The Wog Boy
The Wog Boy (2000) on 24 february 2000
, 1h32
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Vince Colosimo, Lucy Bell, Nikolaos Giannopoulos, Abi Tucker, Stephen Curry, Geraldine Turner
Rating58% 2.900142.900142.900142.900142.90014
Steve (Nick Giannopoulos) is a second-generation Greek Australian. Steve is unemployed, but manages to get by, helping out here and there. His pride and joy is his VF Valiant Pacer. Whilst helping out a compensation-oriented neighbour, Steve has a minor car accident involving the Minister for Employment, vampily played by Geraldine Turner. The net result of this encounter is twofold; Steve gets to meet Celia (Lucy Bell) whom he is instantly attracted to but who initially hates him, and Steve gets outed on national television by Derryn Hinch as the worst dole-bludger in Australia.
Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys (2000) on 22 february 2000
, 1h51
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr., Rip Torn
Rating71% 3.5982453.5982453.5982453.5982453.598245
Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university (the movie was shot chiefly in and around Carnegie Mellon). He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), whose husband, Walter (Richard Thomas), is the chairman of the English department in which Grady is a professor. Grady's third wife, Emily, has just left him, and he has failed to repeat the grand success of his first novel, published years earlier. He continues to labor on a second novel, but the more he tries to finish it the less able he finds himself to invent a satisfactory ending. The book runs to over two and a half thousand pages and is still far from finished. He spends his free time smoking marijuana.
Reindeer Games
Reindeer Games (2000) on 25 february 2000
, 1h44
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Christmas films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, James Frain, Danny Trejo, Clarence Williams III
Rating57% 2.8991252.8991252.8991252.8991252.899125
Nick Cassidy and Rudy Duncan are cellmates in prison two days away from release. Nick has been corresponding with a young woman named Ashley Mercer, who is waiting for him on the outside. After Nick takes a shiv in a prison fight and dies, Rudy, who just wants to have a cup of hot chocolate after he reunites with his family, takes his place and lets the beautiful Ashley think he is the one who has been writing her. Gabriel, the leader of a gang who assaults Rudy and Ashley in their cabin, and is Ashley's brother and tells "Nick" that the gang, with Nick's help, will rob the casino he used to work at. Rudy reveals he is not Nick, but Ashley continues to confirm he is and that she wrote to him knowing Gabriel was going to kidnap and force Rudy to assist in the robbery. Rudy, while furious with Ashley, is reluctantly forced to go along with his ruse.
More Than Puppy Love
More Than Puppy Love (2000) on 25 february 2000

Origin USA
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs
Actors Diane Ladd, Pamela Bach, Kyla Pratt, Allan Kayser
Rating44% 2.2365752.2365752.2365752.2365752.236575
A family is given a puppy for a year to undergo domestic training to become a help dog for the disabled. The young daughter in the household becomes a best friend of the puppy and finds it difficult to be parted from him when the time is up for him to leave.
Last Resort
Last Resort (2000) on 23 february 2000
, 1h13
Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dina Korzun, Paddy Considine, Perry Benson, Ben Dover, Adrian Scarborough, Bruce Byron
Rating71% 3.593643.593643.593643.593643.59364
A young Russian woman and her son arrive in London, expecting to be met by her fiancé. When he does not arrive, they claim asylum, and are confined to a small seaside town while their claim is considered. A relationship develops between the woman and the manager of a local amusement arcade (played by Paddy Considine).