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The Hangover Movie Review
The Hangover Movie Review – Box Office Results Usa
USA Box Office Results for June 5–7, 2009
The Hangover Movie Review – Plot
Doug is about to be married, so his friends — Phil, a schoolteacher bored of the married life, Stu, a dentist planning on proposing to his strict and controlling girlfriend of three years, and Doug’s soon to be brother-in-law Alan, who is smart yet socially-inept — take him to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. Stu’s girlfriend constantly checks in and calls him, thereby forcing Stu to lie to her about their destination.
The guys get a suite at their hotel, then sneak onto the roof of the hotel and toast to the night ahead. Skipping forward to the next morning, the three groomsmen awake with no memory of the previous night. They realize Doug is missing, Stu lost a tooth, there’s a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, and the villa’s a wreck; filled with all the activities and things they engaged in the night before. Initially they believe Doug to have gone out for breakfast, but soon worry when his cellphone has been left behind. They collect what memories they have from their little amount of memory to figure out what might have happened to Doug, with Alan finding Stu’s tooth in his pocket, Stu finding an ATM receipt for $800, and a VIP parking pass. The valet brings them a police car, which they had dropped off the night before.
Suddenly discovering that Phil is wearing a hospital bracelet and implying that he may have been there the night before, the guys head to the hospital trying to obtain a lead and follow the potential trail that they left behind in their drunk escapades. The doctor identifies that they had traces of Ruffalin, or roofies, in their blood, helping to explain their memory loss of the night before, and tells them that they had just come from a wedding, to which he provides them another clue. At the chapel, they learn that Stu had married a girl named Jade at some point in the night, to which he freaks out about and looks to annul the wedding, but Eddie, the owner, tells them that they need to find Jade so both parties are present to complete the annulment. In the parking lot of the chapel, however, they are attacked by two Chinese thugs. After smashing through their car after they draw a gun and end up shooting Eddie in the shoulder, they escape and track down Jade, where she reveals she is a stripper and that the baby is hers. After obtaining a few more details about their night, cops then burst into her apartment to arrest the three men for stealing their car. However, not wanting to face the embarrassment of losing their car, the officers work out a deal in which the men volunteer to demonstrate how tasers are used in the middle of a tour of the police station with a group of children. Afterwards, the three friends pick up their car, though a Chinese man named Mr. Chow is locked in the trunk naked and attacks them upon his release. Alan then admits to having drugged their drinks the night before with what he thought was ecstasy, hoping they would have a better time, but realizes he must have been sold roofies instead by the drug dealer he purchased them from.
They head back to the hotel to look for further evidence, but discover Mike Tyson instead, who is the owner of the tiger in their bathroom. He forces them to bring the tiger back to his place, and on the way there it destroys their car after waking up from the roofies that Alan put into a steak to feed the tiger, which they’re then forced to push to Tyson’s home. After returning the tiger and watching a security tape from Tyson’s security cameras of their activities from the night before (and learning Doug was still with them at that point in the night), they are attacked again by Mr. Chow and his men after they run into their car and severely damage it. According to Chow, they had mixed up bags the night before at a casino, and they were holding $80,000 of Chow’s money that he had won. Chow demands it back in exchange for Doug, whom he has apparently captured and taken for ransom with a sack over his head in his car. Unable to find the money, Alan decides to use his knowledge of counting cards to win the money in blackjack. After a night of playing blackjack and gaining suspicions from the casino, the boys manage to obtain $82,400 in winnings, and feel reinvigorated at finally being able to get Doug. The money is returned, but Chow had captured a different Doug than the one they’re looking for, who turns out to be the drug dealer that sold the roofies to Alan, who then realizes that he mixed up the drugs by accident when he sold them to Alan.
Phil is in the middle of calling Doug’s fiancée to tell her they lost Doug, when Stu realizes where Doug is. The guys had seen a mattress flung from their hotel earlier, and Stu deduces that Doug is locked on the roof. They find him, sunburned but holding on to the original $80,000. They rush back home and make it to the wedding just in time. Phil happily goes back to his family, while Stu breaks up with his girlfriend and arranges a date with Jade. Stu learns from Jade that he had pulled his own tooth out as a bet. The four friends reflect on the trip, and when Alan finds a camera they had with them, they look at the images from the night they had forgotten, which then roll over for the beginning of the credits and ends the film.
The Hangover Movie Review – Cast
- Bradley Cooper as Phil Wenneck
- Ed Helms as Stu Price
- Zach Galifianakis as Alan Garner
- Justin Bartha as Doug Billings
- Heather Graham as Jade
- Jeffrey Tambor as Sid Garner
- Ken Jeong as Mr. Chow
- Mike Tyson as Himself
- Sasha Barrese as Tracy Garner
- Rob Riggle as Officer Franklin
- Rachael Harris as Melissa
- Mike Epps as Black Doug
- Carrot Top as Himself (photo montage)
- Wayne Newton as Himself (photo montage)
The Hangover Movie Review – Cast
| Directed by | Todd Phillips |
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| Produced by | Todd Phillips Daniel Goldberg |
| Written by | Jon Lucas Scott Moore |
| Starring | Bradley Cooper Ed Helms Zach Galifianakis Heather Graham Justin Bartha Jeffrey Tambor Sasha Barrese |
| Music by | Christophe Beck |
| Cinematography | Lawrence Sher |
| Editing by | Debra Neil-Fisher |
| Studio | Legendary Pictures |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | June 5, 2009 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $27.5 million |
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Fast and Furious Movie Review
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Fast and Furious Movie – Plot After a successful run of hijacking fuel tankers in the Dominican Republic, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has become an international criminal. Under increasing pressure from the local police, Dom’s partner Han (from the third film) decides to flee to Tokyo. Dom tries to convince Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) to run away again with him to another country. She refuses, and so he leaves her. (The prologue ends here.)Some time later, Letty is found to have been shot dead in her wrecked car. Dom returns to the scene of her murder just outside of L.A.. There, he discovers traces of nitromethane, which allows him to lead a personal investigation up to a certain David Park, who had purchased the nitromethane for the driver who killed Letty. Park is coerced into helping Dom get a spot in a street race, arranged by Ramon Campos, where he will supposedly find Letty’s killer.Meanwhile, Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), now an FBI agent, is assigned to track down a notorious drug lord named Arturo Braga. Brian’s investigation also leads him to David Park. He arrives at Park’s apartment while Dom is still interrogating him. At the FBI bureau, Park also tells Brian that the aforementioned street race grants the winner a spot on the team that traffics heroin across the United States-Mexico border for Braga. Dom and Brian participate in the race, and Dom wins. Having lost the race, Brian uses his position at the FBI to wrongfully arrest Dwight Mueller, another of Braga’s drivers, in order to usurp Mueller’s spot on the team. Ramon Campos, Braga’s right hand man, invites the drivers to a party, where Dom ends up in a confrontation with a driver called Fenix, and Brian looks for signs of Braga.The next day, the team’s drivers and their cars are smuggled into Mexico to receive the heroin which they are to import across the border at night. They are to meet with Fenix en route and pass through a path of tunnels to evade the surveillance systems used to monitor the borders. Gisele, Braga’s liason, gives Dom a subtle warning in the form of the Spanish phrase “vaya con Dios” After the run, Dom realizes that the drivers are routinely shot and killed after each import job, to avoid having to pay them. Letty, having been in the same situation, was the only driver to get away when they shot her team. The ensuing pursuit led to her car crash and getting shot. Now, just before shooting Brian and Dom, Fenix admits with no remorse that he killed Letty. Suddenly, the cars behind them explode due to sabotage by Dom, who had anticipated the betrayal. Brian uses this diversion to hijack one of the Hummers carrying the heroin, and escape the gunfire with Dom.Back in L.A., they hide the Hummer in the LAPD impound lot, and Brian claims that Dom now owes him a “10-second car”, echoing Dom’s line from the first movie. Dom smashes the window of an impounded Subaru Impreza WRX STi, which he “gives” to Brian. They go to the Torrettos’ house, where Dom learns that Brian had been contacted by Letty, who had agreed to infiltrate Braga’s organization to collect information in exchange for clemency for Dom, so that he could return home to her in LA. This is how she had ended up being one of the drivers for the Braga import job which led to her death. Mia forgives Brian for his past betrayal five years earlier.The next day, he tells his superiors about his plan to lure Braga into a trap, offering him his heroin back in exchange for $6 million, which Braga is to deliver himself. However, Brian requests that the FBI pardon Dom before proceeding with the plan. Campos agrees to Brian’s deal, not knowing that the FBI is poised to arrest Braga at the exchange site. However, the FBI only succeeds in apprehending Braga’s decoy, realizing too late that Campos is the real Braga. Because of this error, Braga is able to evade capture and flees to Mexico, out of the FBI’s jurisdiction. Read the rest of this entry » |
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The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review
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The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review – Plot
Based on a true story, Lionsgate’s The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family’s terrifying, real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner’s clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits, when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the powerful dark forces of the supernatural, returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family.
The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review – cast
Virginia Madsen as Sara Campbell
Kyle Gallner as Matt Campbell
Martin Donovan as Peter Campbell
Amanda Crew as Wendy
Elias Koteas as Reverend Nicholas Popescu
Michael Glen Forrester as Demon
The Haunting in Connecticut Movie Review – Production
Directed by Peter Cornwell
Produced by Scott Niemeyer
Norm Waitt
Steve Whitney
Paul Brooks
Daniel Farrands
Phyllis Laing
Wendy Rhoads
Andrew Trapani
Written by Adam Simon
Tim Metcalfe
Distributed by Lionsgate, Gold Circle Films
Release date March 27, 2009
Country United States
Language English
