In Okinawa, The Bride acquires a legendary bladed weapon from the last of the world’s great samurai sword-smiths, the legendary ninjitsu master Hattori Honzo (Sonny Chiba). In Tokyo, O-Ren Ishii is surrounded by her lethal henchmen and holds court in a massive nightclub / restaurant complex, the House of Blue Leaves. The Bride’s assault upon this stronghold is a pitched martial arts battle with hundreds of black clad soldiers of O-Ren’s personal shock squad, The Crazy 88s.
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Anger Management Production Notes (2003)
Among the indignities Dave must suffer to rid himself of his pent-up anger are group sessions with a decidedly eccentric bunch of men and women who also suffer from anger control issues, confronting a childhood tormentor, being propositioned by a transvestite, singing “I Feel Pretty” on the Queensboro bridge during rush hour and shacking up…
Bad Santa Production Notes (2003)
Many have been the portraits of down-and-out Santas and Christmas Scrooges in the movies. Yet never has the world seen a Santa who has started out in quite such a hilariously rock-bottom place as Willie T. Stokes. He drinks like a fish, swears like a sailor and spreads a lot more Christmas sarcasm than holiday…
Big Fish Production Notes (2003)
And thus, an improbable and mythic journey begins. Many years and countless adventures later, Bloom (Albert Finney) is well known as a teller of tall tales about his colorful life as a less than ordinary young man (Ewan McGregor), when his wanderlust took him around the world and back again. His mythic exploits range from…
Bruce Almighty Production Notes (2003)
There are some marriages that are made in heaven – creative ones, that is – and no star and director are more suited for each other than Jim Carrey and Tom Shadyac. Their first collaboration, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, firmly established Carrey as a star of the first magnitude, and Shadyac as a freshman director…
Calendar Girls Production Notes (2003)
The story hit the headlines immediately. The calendar was published and spread through Yorkshire, down to London and even across the Atlantic to Hollywood. The calendar was a huge story in all the British media, across Europe, and in the USA, where stories ran on the front page of the New York Times and on…