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New Flicks


Spanglish

A comedy with a language all its own.

Genre: Comedy
Director: James L. Brooks
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Ian Hyland

Cultures collide as Flor (Paz Vega), a beautiful Mexican woman and her twelve-year-old daughter move in with an affluent Los Angeles family (Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni and Cloris Leachman) in hopes of finding a better life. Of all the horrors Flor imagined about this new culture, she never fathomed the peril of being truly embraced by an upscale American family.

 

Flight of the Phoenix

The only way out is up.

Genre: Action / Adventure
Director: John Moore
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Hugh Laurie, Jared Padalecki

When a C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers crashes in Mongolia's Gobi Desert during a sandstorm, the survivors attempt to build a new plane from the parts they find in the wreckage to escape. The plane was piloted by Captain Frank Towns, an employee of oil company Geodel, whose job it is to go to remote oil rigs and shut them down when their productivity has decreased. Having accomplished his job with one such rig, his plane crashes with all of the employees aboard on the way back to Beijing.


Source: IMDB.com / YahooMovies

 

 

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