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A mentally challenged man who has killed his own mother is just released from reformatory, deemed mentally fit. He befriends a boy who is in need of a father, and also in need of protection.

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Directed by Billy Thornton
Starring Billy Thornton, Lucas Black
Music score by

John Travolta plays the all-important arch-angel from heaven who may not be such a saint after all. He attracts attention from the world's media and also a lovely girl (in the form of Andie Macdowell!)

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Directed by Nora Ephron ('Sleepless in Seattle')
Starring John Travolta, Andie Macdowell
Music score by Randy Newman ('Toy Story', 'James and the Giant Peach', 'The Paper', 'Maverick' )

A critically acclaimed romantic comedy starring Tom Cruise.
About a man's fall from high place finding the way to redemption.

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Directed by Cameron Crowe ('Singles', 'Say Anything')
Starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kelly Preston, Bonnie Hunt, Jerry O'Connell
Music score by Nancy Wilson ('Say Anything')

A surprise flop for Stallone... but who can expect him to do well again after a series of box-office duds? As for the movie, it is but an average 90's Hollywood copy of the 60's movie classic "The Poseidon Adventure".
Entertaining nonetheless.

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Directed by Rob Cohen ('Dragonheart', 'Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story')
Starring Sylvestor Stallone
Music score by Randy Edelman ('Dragonheart', 'Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story',
'Come See The Paradise')

The live remake of Disney's animated puppy feature!
Earned a cool $45.1m at the box office over the 4 day Thanksgiving weekend!

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Directed by Stephen Herek
Starring Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels
Music score by Michael Kamen ('Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves', 'Die Hard 2: Die Harder', '101 Dalmations')

A song-filled exploration of a 60's one-hit wonder rock and roll band sensation.
A movie that invites the audience to share the joys (and sorrows) of a rising band.
If for some reason you dislike the song "That Thing You Do!",
then I suggest you don't watch the movie.
You probably won't enjoy it much.

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Directed by Tom Hanks
Starring Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Tom Hanks, Jonathan Schaech, Ethan Embry, Steve Zahn
Music score by Michael Kamen ('Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves', 'Die Hard 2:Die Harder', '101 Dalmations')

In STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the newly commissioned Enterprise-E battle the insidious Borg to restore the rightful future of Earth.
Opened with an incredible US$30.4m at the box-office.

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Directed by Jonathan Frakes
Starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, etc

A tycoon's son is kidnapped. Ransom: only $2 million.
What is the kidnapper's motive?
This is the answer to which the tycoon will risk his everything
- including the safety of his son - in order to get him back.
A superbly gritty and tense drama.
Opening weekend gross: a hefty $32.4m!

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Directed by Ron Howard ('Apollo 13', 'Backdraft')
Starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinese, Brawley Nolte, Donnie Walberg
Music score by James Horner ('Apollo 13', 'Courage Under Fire', 'Braveheart')

The long awaited film version of Evita, starring, of course, Madonna.

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Directed by Alan Parker Starring Madonna, Antonio Banderas
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice

Christmas is here! (Well almost) That can only mean two things -
Christmas CDs and Christmas movies!
(And, of course, the Christmas shopping)
This movie opened with a dismal(my opinion) US$12.1m at the box office.

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Directed by Brian Levant ('The Flintstones', 'Beethoven', 'Problem Child 2')
Starring Arnold Swachzenegger, Sinbad
Music score by David Newman ('Operation Dumbo Drop')

This is the story of four childhood friends who commits a prank that goes awry and as a result
is sent to a boy's home. It is there that their lives are ruined forever.
One of my most anticipated films right now (the other being Evita).
(I mean, just look at the star-studded cast! And John Williams as the composer!
Of course, I'm into the story as well - I've just started on the book)
Earned over $12m at the U.S box office in its first week of opening.

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Directed by Barry Levinson ('Rain Man')
Starring Brad Pitt, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric,
Brad Renfro, Minnie Driver ('Circle Of Friends')
Music score by John Williams ('Jurassic Park', 'ET', 'Star Wars')

A gripping thriller based on John Grisham's 1994 best seller,
The Chamber is the compelling tale of an idealistic young lawyer who is forced to confront the
dark secrets of his family's past.

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Directed by James Foley
Starring Chris O'Donnell ('Batman Forever'),
Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Lela Rochon

In Penny Marshall's new romantic comedy, "The Preacher's Wife," Whitney Houston stars as the gospel-singing wife of Reverend Henry Biggs (Courtney B. Vance), a good man who is doubting his ability to make a difference in his troubled community and home. Help is on the way, in the form of angel Dudley (Denzel Washington), who soon becomes both the source of and the solution to their problems.

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Directed by Penny Marshall ('A League Of Thier Own')
Starring Whitney Houston, Denzel Washington
Music score by Hans Zimmer ('A League Of Thier Own', 'The Fan', 'The Rock')

A new comedy starring three of Hollywood's "veteran" actresses... Three well-heeled New York ex-wives are declaring war. The mission: to get the most delicious revenge ever on the husbands who coldly dumped them for younger, sexier "trophy" wives. The battlefield: the boardrooms and bedrooms of Manhattan. Raked in US$18.9m in the first week of opening. (22 Sept)

Jack is a fable about the precariousness of life as told through the eyes of a
10-year-old boy (Robin Williams) who was born with a condition that causes his
body to age four times faster than the normal rate.

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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola ('Apocalypse Now', 'Bram Stoker's Dracula')
Starring Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Fran Drescher, Bill Cosby
Music score by Michael Kamen ('Don Juan Demarco', 'Mr Holland's Opus')

George Malley's uncomplicated life takes a mystifying and wondrous turn on his
37th birthday as a result of an extraordinary occurrence.
Doubtful of his new found power of learning,
Malley's good ol' friends turn away from him.
Now he can only rely on his best friend and his new found love to give him their support.

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Directed by Jon Turteltaub ('While You Were Sleeping')
Starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall
Music score by Thomas Newman ('Little Women', 'Up Close and Personal')

Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler star in this new action comedy.
The story of a cop, a crook and a beautiful friendship gone sour takes place in a world where loyalty goes to the highest bidder - and the only one you can trust turns out to be your worst enemy.

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Directed by Ernest Dickerson
Starring Damon Wayans ('The Last Boy Scout'),
Adam Sandler ('Happy Gilmore')

The balance of nature is put to the ultimate test in this science-fiction thriller
when a marooned stranger stumbles across an out-of-control experiment that fuses man
with animal in The Island of Dr. Moreau.

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Directed by John Frankenheimer
Starring Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer

No.1 at the box office in the U.S. for the week ending 18 August.
This is Kevin Costner's new movie centered around golf tournaments.

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Directed by Ron Shelton
Starring Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, Cheech Marin

Independence Day

A high content special effects popcorn movie meant not to be taken too seriously.
Don't expect serious Sci-fi (like the Aliens movies) and you will be entertained!
(One word of advice... please leave your sense of logic at the door)

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Directed by Roland Emmerich ('Stargate')
Starring Bill Pullman, Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum
Music score by David Arnold ('Stargate').

A combination between Jurassic Park and Speed -
this movie left me literally breathless!
If you want almost non-stop action like Speed, this is it!
Directed by Speed's Jan de Bont,
this is one adrenelin pumping ride.

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Starring Helen Hunt ('Mad About You').
Music score by Mark Mancina ('Speed', 'Fair Game', 'Bad Boys').

Demi Moore strips in Striptease. Oh what a surprise.

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Starring Demi Moore

From the writer of The Firm, The Client and The Pelican Brief (John Grisham) comes this
latest legal thriller adapted for the big screen.
Making its debut at No.1 at the box office, this movie knocked Independence Day off the top spot!

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Directed by Joel Schumacher ('Batman Forever', 'Batman & Robin' (1997), 'The Client', 'Dying Young')
Starring Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey,
Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland

Mission Impossible

A taut spy thriller that manages to deliver suspense
- something lacking in recent action movies.
And of course, that theme song...

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Directed by Brian de Palma
Starring Tom Cruise, Jean Reno
Music score by Danny Elfman ('The Frighteners', 'Batman')

Yup. That's Jim Carrey alright. (Can we ever get enough of him?!)
This movie marks his first shift away from the usual slapstick comedy.
A dark thriller-comedy of sorts.

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Directed by Ben Stiller ('Reality Bites')
Starring Jim Carrey & Mathew Broderick

A new action movie starring Sean Connery, from the Simpson/Bruckheimer
production team who made Crimson Tide, Bad Boys, Days Of Thunder & Top Gun
such huge hits.
I like this one. It's got a heart in it. (And great actors too!)

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Starring Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage, Ed Harris
Music score by Hans Zimmer ('The Lion King', 'Crimson Tide', 'Broken Arrow')

One of the few horror-comedies this year.
Boasts some supposedly cool special effects.
Stars Michael J Fox.

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Starring Michael J Fox
Music score by Danny Elfman ('Batman', 'Dolores Claiborne', 'Tales From The Crypt') )

MOVIEWEB Home Page

This is the place to check out the latest movies and box office charts in the USA at one convienient stop. Includes movie pictures and brief info about the latest movies.
Future movies in the making are also listed.

Joseph Mazzello Official Fan Page

From evading dinosaurs in Jurassic Park to running (or flying, if you like) away from an abusive stepfather in Radio Flyer to battling the dreadful AIDS virus in the heart wrenching movie The Cure to learning to accept the pain of losing a father in Three Wishes (phew, what a journey!), this talented up and rising young star is far from being the next Macauly Culkin! Joseph was picked by acclaimed director Richard Attenborough to star in his acclaimed drama Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson on the strength of his acting ability.
Joseph's plays the lead role in his next movie - The Warrior of Waverly Street -
a fantasy/sci-fi adventure.

Singapore International Film Festival Website

This festival serves the dual purpose of showcasing films from around the world and also as a platform for launching the Singaporean film industry.