Tom Baker (Steve Martin) and wife Kate (Bonnie Hunt), hoping to bring their family together for a memorable summer vacation, take their 12 offspring to the rustic Lake Winnetka. But their retreat soon becomes cutthroat when they enter into a competition with the over-achieving members of a large family headed by Tom’s long-time rival, Jimmy…
Chicken Little (2005)
Tagline: This time the sky really is falling. The movie picks up where the classic fable ends, namely after our pint-sized hero has caused big-time havoc when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky. In the wake of the “unfortunate acorn incident” Chicken Little’s name is mud in his hometown of…
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe (2005)
Tagline: Evil has reigned for 100 years… And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away from where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off… she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with…
Cinderella Man (2005)
“In all the history of the boxing game, you’ll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.” – Damon Runyon (1936) In the middle of the Great Depression, when an America in the grips of a devastating economic downturn was nearly brought to its knees, there came along…
Coach Carter (2005)
Tagline: It begins on the streets. It ends here. Inspired by a true-life story, “Coach Carter” is an inspirational account of a controversial high school basketball coach, who received both high praise and staunch criticism when he made national news in 1999 for benching his entire undefeated basketball team for poor academic performance. Tension mounted…
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Tagline: Love. At Any Cost. Based on the best-selling John le Carré novel, this takes place in a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa’s companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British…