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- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsPeter PaulDavid PaulMartin MullTwo truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsThomas GottschalkBilly Dee WilliamsDom DeLuiseAn eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototype revolutionary new car that runs on vegetables and produces no pollution, but he runs into one madcap situation after another to find a buyer and financier for mass production.A major problem for the likable comedy is that laughs are hard to get.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsVictor WongMichael TreanorMax Elliott SladeEach year, three brothers visit their grandfather for the summer. He is highly skilled in ninjutsu, and for years he has trained the boys in his techniques.A miserable ripoff of The Karate Kid.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsJohn CandyLeonDoug E. DougWhen a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.Cool Runnings rises above its formulaic sports-movie themes with charming performances, light humor, and uplifting tone.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsSandra BullockBill PullmanPeter GallagherA hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority ticket booth operator is mistaken for the fiancée of a comatose patient.While You Were Sleeping is built wholly from familiar ingredients, but assembled with such skill -- and with such a charming performance from Sandra Bullock -- that it gives formula a good name.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsJohn TravoltaKyra SedgwickForest WhitakerAn ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.Works best if you can switch off your brain. Those who can will reach weepy nirvana. Those who can't will find this sticky-sweet wallow a bit, well, dumb.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsAnthony HopkinsCuba Gooding Jr.Donald SutherlandWhen noted anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell, who left society to live in the jungle, is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychiatrist Theo Caulder to get through to him.A convoluted and predictable plot overshadows the performances.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsBruce WillisSpencer BreslinEmily MortimerAn unhappy, disliked image consultant gets a second shot at life when he is mysteriously confronted by an eight-year-old version of himself.Critics find The Kid to be too sweet and the movie's message to be annoyingly simplistic.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsPaul CassellScott DennyMary McCormack
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsNicolas CageDiane KrugerJustin BarthaA historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.National Treasure is no treasure, but it's a fun ride for those who can forgive its highly improbable plot.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsNicolas CageDiane KrugerJustin BarthaBenjamin Gates must follow a clue left in John Wilkes Booth's diary to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.A talented cast goes to waste in the improbable National Treasure: Book of Secrets, which is eerily similar to the first film.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsNicolas CageJay BaruchelAlfred MolinaA protege of the magician Merlin must train his teacher's successor - an introverted but resourceful physics prodigy - in the art of sorcery to prevent the return of Morgana le Fay.It has a likable cast and loads of CGI spectacle, but for all but the least demanding viewers, The Sorcerer's Apprentice will be less than spellbinding.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsRobert De NiroMichael DouglasMorgan FreemanBilly, Paddy, Archie and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, they go to Vegas to relive their glory days. However, the decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship.The cast of Last Vegas keep things amiably watchable, but the film is mostly a mellower Hangover retread for the older set.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsJason StathamBingbing LiRainn WilsonA group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.The Meg sets audiences up for a good old-fashioned B-movie creature feature, but lacks the genre thrills -- or the cheesy bite -- to make it worth diving in.