ALONG CAME POLLY
90 minutes
Reuben Feffer has made a good career and a fine life out of playing it safe. As the senior risk assessor for a leading insurance firm, Reuben is an expert on minimising danger. Australia’s Bryan Brown plays Reuben’s most challenging insurance client, a death defying media mogul who is intent on showing Reuben that his uninsurable extreme lifestyle ‘is’ a safe bet for Reuben’s insurance company.
Among the mayhem this new client is causing, Reuben soon finds his best-laid plans for life and love destroyed when his bride dumps him on their honeymoon for a scuba instructor. Heartbroken, Reuben vows to play life safer than ever, but then a chance encounter leads him into a whirlwind romance with Polly Prince, an adventure-craving childhood friend, who plays her life like a game of chance. While Reuben is adamant that sticking to the rules and following a schedule is ‘the’ way to live, Polly lives for the moment and takes Reuben along for a hysterical ride with steamy salsa dancing; extreme sports; near-sighted ferrets and an array of spicy foods. But will their relationship last? Can Polly teach Reuben to lighten up? Can Reuben plan a stable future with this on-the-move bohemian? Will Reuben re-unite with his wife?
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The hippest cast in history has united to become the funniest superhero team ever.
Ben Stiller,
Janeane Garofalo,
Hank Azaria,
William H. Macy,
Greg Kinnear,
Geoffrey Rush, and Paul Reubens join forces in this wild, funny and thoroughly original misadventure. When Captain Amazing, Champion City's legendary superhero, falls into the hands of the evil mandman Casanova Frankenstein and his disco-dancing henchmen, there's suddenly a chance for the aspiring superheroes to show what they can do. They're the Mystery Men.a ragtag team of superhero wannabes featuring: Mr. Furious, whose power comes from his boundless rage; The Shoveler, a father who shovels "better than anyone"; The Blue Raja, a fork-flinging mama's boy; The Bowler, who fights crime with the help of her father's skull; The Spleen, whose power is pure flatulence; Invisible Boy, who's only invisible when no one's watching and The Sphinx, a cliché-spewing philosopher. With its outrageous adventure, incredible cast and hip alternative humour, Mystery Men is so irresistably funny and appealing, seeing it just once will never be enough.
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It's graduation day, 1994, and Lelaina Pierce is taking her first, bold step into the final frontier - reality. Unfortunately, her future seems to have moved away without leaving a forwarding address. Wynona Rydera and
Ethan Hawke star with
Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn as a circle of friends, who, facing some hard facts about life and love after college, are mapping out their own offbeat survival guide for the 1990s.
Ben Stiller makes his feature directing debut with Reality Bites, a fresh, irreverant romantic comedy about life and love for post-Baby-Boomers.