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#1 Lilo & Stitch
Lilo & Stitch was produced by the same Disney team that made "Mulan,". Itis a funny fantasy about an alien monster that accidentally finds itself adopted as the pet of a little girl in Hawaii. The creature, named Stitch (voice by Chris Sanders), was produced by an illegal genetic mutation, and is so horrifyingly hostile that it's been locked up by its inventors. It escapes to Earth, is mistaken for a very strange dog, and adopted by Lilo (voice by Daveigh Chase), who essentially uses her innocence and the aloha spirit to confuse and even civilize the creature.
#2 Finding Nemo
#3 Romeo & Juliet
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#5 The Little Mermaid
The sweet teenage mermaid named Ariel, done with the lovely voice of Jodi Benson, lives in the sea. As in all Disney films, she has some wisecracking friends, with the funniest being her guardian, a little red crab named Sebastian (Samuel E. Wright). Full of advice, he keeps the show from ever dragging. "Teenagers," he complains. "They think they know everything. You give them an inch; they swim all over you." Sebastian and Ariel share most of the singing duties although just about everyone seems to get a chance to sing a little. Benson's voice is like honey, and Wright's has the richness of the Caribbean.New Releases
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Miles, a struggling, forty-ish novelist, is frustrated over his stalled career and the fact that his struggling actor buddy, Jack, is about to get married. Jack loves his soon-to-be bride but is panicking about the loss of his long standing bachelorhood and the pressures he is under to join his new father-in-law's real estate firm. Miles teaches English at a private middle school and fancies himself an amateur wine connoisseur, though he's really nothing more than an alcoholic. Two years ago Miles went through a nasty divorce and he's unwilling and unable to move on.
The Village
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M. Night Shyamalan, the creative mind behind The Sixth Sense and Signs, wrote and directed this characteristically atmospheric thriller. The rustic village of Covington is a small town in rural Pennsylvania that is home to 60 souls. The citizens of Covington lead a quiet and peaceful life, but not without an unusual caveat -- terrible creatures lurk just outside the borders of the village, and the people of Covington have reached an agreement of sorts with the beasts, in which they are allowed to go about their business as long as they never cross the village's boundaries. However, this precarious balance is upset when a headstrong young man, Lucius Hunt (Joaquin Phoenix), decides to find out what lies outside Covington, and unwittingly invites the wrath of the creatures upon the town.
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
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Directed by Danny Leiner, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle follows the life-changing (and mind-altering) journey of Korean-American investment banker Harold (John Cho) and Indian-American medical-school candidate Kumar (Kal Penn). Both underdogs, Harold and Kumar decide to spend what would have been an otherwise uneventful Friday night satisfying an oddly intense urge for White Castle hamburgers. However, finding a White Castle proves a highly difficult task, and the two friends wind up on an epic road trip of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling, and enough half-baked, politically incorrect philosophizing to outweigh a White Castle value meal.My Top Picks
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