Star Movie Ratings

Starman

2009-05-31T11:59:35Z

YEAR: 1984

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STARRING:
Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen

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8 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: Having accepted an invitation to visit Earth sent via a space probe, an alien receives a rude reception when his ship is fired upon and disabled. He has only three days to get to the giant crater in the Western U.S. where he will be rescued or else he will die. Taking human form, he seeks the assistance of a recently widowed woman. Initially terrified, she comes to care for the alien visitor, while many government agents seek to track them down.

Baby On Board

2009-05-30T10:22:50Z

YEAR: 2009

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STARRING:
Heather Graham, Jerry O’Connell

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4 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: The story of an ambitious, image-conscious businesswoman working for an extremely demanding boss that becomes unexpectedly pregnant at the peak of her career. Her life with her divorce attorney husband, is turned upside-down when her ad campaign begins with an inconvenient pregnancy that leads to a nine month roller coaster ride. They try to cope with interference from their best friends, a pregnancy and constant thoughts of infidelity. The situation escalates into an all out brawl of the battle of the sexes.

The Breakfast Club

2009-05-24T07:49:02Z

YEAR: 1985

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STARRING:
Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez

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8 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: It’s the weekend, and five students have a school detention. There’s a jock, a princess, a misfit, a nerd, and a criminal that have nothing in common except for having to give up their day, and sit in the school library while writing an essay for the teacher. Being from such widely different backgrounds and having such completely different personalities, it’s inevitable that some frictions and shenanigans develop, especially when the teacher leaves the room.

Gran Torino

2009-05-23T08:24:09Z

YEAR: 2008

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STARRING:
Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley

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7 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: A hardened widower holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. He is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can’t get along with neither his kids nor his neighbors, and his prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his car, he sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of his neighbor’s family, he is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.

Caddyshack

2009-05-17T09:21:06Z

YEAR: 1980

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STARRING:
Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield

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7 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: A young caddy at an exclusive Golf Country Club has no idea about where his future will lead. His best chance at getting his life on track is to earn a caddy scholarship from the owner of the Country Club. A rude and overly eccentric millionaire who has interests in purchasing the fine Golf Course shows a quick disliking towards the owner and conflict brews between them, the teenage caddy and a charming golfer who is the best on the links. On the outside of this is a Golf Course Groundskeeper, whose goal is eliminate a rampaging gopher who is chewing up holes throughout the Golf Course.

Taken

2009-05-16T08:35:03Z

YEAR: 2008

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STARRING:
Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen

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6 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: A teenage girl is the pride and joy of her father, a retired agent that left the secret service to stay near his daughter. She lives with her mother and her wealthy stepfather, and she convinces her reluctant father to sign an authorization to travel to Paris with her girlfriend. When they arrive, they share a cab with a total stranger who finds out the two young girls have travelled their alone. When the father succeeds in contacting his daughter, she tells him that men have just broken into the apartment where they are staying, and they get kidnapped by an Albanese gang of human traffickers. The father promises on the phone to kill the kidnapper of his daughter. He then immediately travels to Paris to find the young girls and hunt down the criminals and their vast network of cohorts.

Training Day

2009-05-10T15:11:39Z

YEAR: 2001

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STARRING:
Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke

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9 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. A veteran narcotics detective whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt is training a rookie over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for the new officer as questions present themselves as to whether or not the detective’s methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong

Revolutionary Road

2009-05-09T12:41:14Z

YEAR: 2008

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STARRING:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

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5 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: It’s 1955. a couple are in their seventh year of their marriage, have fallen into a life that appears to most as being perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. The husband commutes to New York City where he works in an office job while the wife stays at home as a housewife, but they’re not happy. She has forgone her dream of becoming an actress, and he hates his job and puts little effort into his work. One day, she suggests that they move to Paris, a city where he visited during the war and loved. As a means to rejuvenate their life, they plan the big move where the wife would be the breadwinner while the husband would have free time to find himself and discover his passion. Initially skeptical, he ultimately agrees to the plan, but when circumstances change around for the couple, she decides she will do whatever she has to, to get herself out of her unhappy existence.

Rocky Balboa

2009-05-09T12:24:59Z

YEAR: 2006
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STARRING:
Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young

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6 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: Rocky Balboa is a longtime retired boxer and remembered by most as one of the greatest boxing champions in the world. He now lives back in the skids of Philadelphia but manages a good life including running his restaurant Adrian’s, helping an adult Little Marie and her son Steps, and saying hello at any opportunity to his estranged son Robert. After seeing a virtual fight of Rocky in his prime verse the current heavyweight champion of the world, Mason “The Line” Dixon, Rocky’s interest in fighting sparks again and he plans to fight in local clubs. The current champ and his managers have a different agenda though, with a plan to pit Rocky vs. Mason in real life for a publicity act to regain Mason’s lost respect from his fans. Finally agreeing to Mason Dixon’s proposal, Rocky prepares to step in the ring for one last time.

Obsessed

2009-05-02T11:05:24Z

YEAR: 2009
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Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles

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5 STARS

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PLOT SUMMARY: A hard working man, employed as an asset manager in a private company is very happy with his beautiful wife and only daughter, and because of his hard work he just got a huge promotion, but suddenly he gets a temporary worker who is both attractive and smart, and he is understandably impressed with her and also finds himself physically drawn to her. However, this new girl is desperate to get close to him at any cost.

Just Married

2009-04-26T09:38:21Z

YEAR: 2003

STARRING:
Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy

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OVERALL RATING:
7 STARS

PLOT SUMMARY: A regular guy who likes sports and beer, and who tries to make ends meet working as a nighttime radio traffic reporter meets a beautiful young woman from a wealthy and privileged family, who is trying to make a name for herself as a writer. They seemingly have nothing in common, but that doesn’t stop them from falling in love. Her family doesn’t much care for his boorish ways, and his buddies think that she is too highbrow for him, but, if anything, this makes the couple all the more determined to be together, and they decide to get married and head off to Italy for a honeymoon vacation despite the pleas of those closest to them. However, even after the knot is tied, her former beau is dead set upon breaking up the happy couple, though as it turns out, a seemingly endless stream of bad luck and post-marital jitters may do the job for them. The couple’s realtionship tries to survive all the ordeals and experiences of early marriage-hood.

The Wrestler

2009-04-25T07:11:43Z

YEAR: 2008

STARRING:
Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei

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OVERALL RATING:
9 STARS

PLOT SUMMARY: An aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime barely gets by working small wrestling shows in mediocre venues. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good, he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring, by working full time at a grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. These constant struggles leads him to enter a high profile match between an arch-nemesis to regain stardom he once had.