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The Other Side of Heaven
The Other Side of Heaven (2001) on 12 april 2001
, 1h53
Directed by Mitch Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Christopher Gorham, Anne Hathaway, Nathaniel Lees, Gerald R. Molen, Miriama Smith, Pua Magasiva
Rating62% 3.1491053.1491053.1491053.1491053.149105
During the 1950s, John Groberg, who grew up in Idaho Falls, is called on a mission to Tonga. There he will spend three years as Elder Groberg teaching about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His first adventures are just in getting there, including a short time in a Fijian jail.
Life
Life (2001) on 12 april 2001

Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Rating67% 3.368053.368053.368053.368053.36805
Diyari, a Kurdish/American returns to his hometown of Halabja, to build an orphanage five years after the chemical bombing. There, he meets Jiyan and Sherko, orphan survivors of the attack. During his stay in the town, Diyari brings a short lived spark of hope and happiness to the children's lives, and as he leaves, the orphans go back to their lonely lives. Diyari leaves tearful Jiyan at the place where they met first: on a swing under a lonely tree on a small hill.
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) on 13 april 2001
, 1h37
Directed by Sharon Maguire
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Nouvel an
Actors Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Embeth Davidtz, Gemma Jones
Rating67% 3.3994853.3994853.3994853.3994853.399485
Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is frustrated: she is in her early thirties, single, very accident-prone and worried about her weight. She works in publicity at a book publishing company in London where her main focus is fantasizing about her boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). At a New Year party hosted by her parents, she re-meets Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), the barrister son of her parents' friends. They had known each other as children. After their initial encounter, Mark thinks that Bridget is a fool and vulgar and Bridget thinks that he is arrogant and rude, and is disgusted by his novelty Christmas jumper. After overhearing Mark grumble to his mother about her attempts to set him up with Bridget "A verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and dresses like her mother", she decides to turn her life around. She starts her own diary, which covers all her attempts to stop smoking, lose weight and find her Mr.
Joe Dirt
Joe Dirt (2001) on 10 april 2001
, 1h31
Directed by Dennie Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Dennis Miller, Jaime Pressly
Rating59% 2.997812.997812.997812.997812.99781
Joe Dirt is a custodian at a Los Angeles radio station, sleeping in a janitor's closet in the basement. A producer discovers Joe being bullied in the hallway, and drags him into the studio to talk live on the air with famous disc jockey, shock jock Zander Kelly. Joe tells his life story. As a baby he had a mullet wig installed because the top of his skull had never formed. At age 8, he was left behind by his parents and young sister at the Grand Canyon. He does not know his real last name. After growing up in a series of foster homes, Joe arrives in Silvertown, a small town in the Pacific Northwest, where he meets beautiful Brandy and her dog, Charlie, and becomes a target for jealousy from Robby, the town bully, who has a crush on Brandy.
Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come (2001) on 11 april 2001
, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Anthony Anderson, Loretta Devine, Kellita Smith
Rating55% 2.7562652.7562652.7562652.7562652.756265
Kingdom Come is a story of a family called the Slocumbs, living out in the country, who must come together after the death of a family member, whom no one seems to remember with much fondness. It is based on the Off-Broadway play Dearly Departed.
Proximity
Proximity (2001) on 15 april 2001

Directed by Scott Ziehl
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Rob Lowe, James Coburn, Jonathan Banks, Kelly Rowan, Joe Santos, Terrence C. Carson
Rating48% 2.4114152.4114152.4114152.4114152.411415
When William Conroy (Rob Lowe) a former college professor is sentenced to life in prison for vehicular manslaughter it seems his life is over. But, when a fellow inmate tells him that in the past two years fourteen inmates have died at the prison, and then turns up dead the next day, Conroy is in more danger than he ever imagined. His suspicions are confirmed when, while on the way to his parole hearing, the van carrying the inmates crashes. Seizing the opportunity, Conroy flees the scene and elicits the help of his lawyer (Mark Boone Junior). What the two discover is a grisly murder ring set up within the prison walls that incriminates those at the highest levels of the correctional system.
The Donor
The Donor (2001) on 13 april 2001
, 1h35
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors David Carradine, Florence Guérin, Karen Black, Didem Erol, James Handy
Rating52% 2.6022652.6022652.6022652.6022652.602265
Un homme tombe amoureux de la mère porteuse de son enfant, qui devait rester anonyme.
Hounded
Hounded (2001) on 13 april 2001
, 1h32
Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films
Actors Tahj Mowry, Craig Kirkwood, Shia LaBeouf, Ed Begley Jr., Sara Paxton, Olesya Rulin
Rating50% 2.5082752.5082752.5082752.5082752.508275
Jay Martin is a 13-year-old who is competing for a scholarship with the headmaster's son, rival classmate and potential bully Ronny Van Dusen. The headmaster, Mr. Van Dusen, confiscates Jay's presentation and leaves it lying around his office. Ronny, alone in Mr. Van Dusen's office then copies the presentation. Jay breaks into Ronny's pool house when the Van Dusens are away in order to take his presentation back. However, their show dog, Camille, discovers Jay and follows him home. Camille goes crazy and wrecks the Martin's home when she goes too long without her medication. After Jay spends hours trying to comfort the dog, Camille withstands no more and explodes. Jay's brother, Mike, comes home and finds the house a mess and Camille with a nervous breakdown. After Jay's confession about what happened, and the loss of the dog, the two try to buy time to get the dog back. Mr. Van Dusen agrees to numerous ridiculous acts just to get Camille and his father in law off his back. Reaching his limit he finally calls the police to tap into the calls he usually received from the two boys. Jay and Mike, think up a plan and frames Ronny for the whole thing. In the end, Mr. Van Dusen's father in law becomes the new headmaster of the school while he becomes a secretary, Jay gets the scholarship after the competition is reopened and Ronny is sent to the Military Academy where his instructor is none other than Mike Martin. Camille has puppies and Jay receives one of them.
Chopper
Chopper (2000) on 11 april 2001
, 1h34
Directed by Andrew Dominik
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films
Actors Eric Bana, Vince Colosimo, Kate Beahan, David Field, Daniel Wyllie, Fletcher Humphrys
Rating70% 3.5481853.5481853.5481853.5481853.548185
In and out of jail since he was 16, Melbourne standover man Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (Eric Bana) is serving a 16-year sentence for kidnapping a supreme court judge to get his childhood friend, Jimmy Loughnan (Simon Lyndon), out of the notorious H Division of maximum security Pentridge Prison. To become leader of the division, he ignites a power struggle which gains him more enemies than admirers. Eventually, even his gang turn their backs on him and Loughnan stabs him several times in a failed assassination attempt. Chopper voluntarily has his ears cut off by a fellow inmate in order to be transferred out of the H Division; this also gains him recognition in and out of the prison.