Movies produced in 2002
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Gangs of New York
Action / Crime / Drama / History , produced in 2002, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, UK, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
Bill "The Butcher" Cutting's (Daniel Day-Lewis) band is fighting the Irish immigrants in 1860's NY to gain control over the underprivileged areas of the city. Bill has killed the father (Liam Nison) of DiCaprio's character called Amsterdam Vallon, several years later the young man returns to NYC and becomes an ally of The Butcher who has no idea about the past of his new crony. Vallon slowly falls under his spell which causes an inner conflict in his life because his primal aim was the ruthless revenge. Concurrently, Leo's character meets the charming pickpocket named Jenny (Cameron Diaz) who turns out to have a close relationship with The Butcher. At the same time, the Civil War rages on...
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery , produced in 2002, Germany, UK, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts School of Wizardry for his second year. After a confrontation with a house elf named Dobby, Harry escapes to the Weasley house with Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) in a flying car. They are then late for the train and have to ride it to school. When they get there, strange happenings invade the school. "Mudbloods" (people of Muggle families) are "petrified" by an evil monster lurking in the grounds. When every one suspects that it is him, the trio then set out to find the culprit and find out more than they bargained for: the diary of Tom Riddle, why Hagrid was expelled and what the Chamber of Secrets is and why is it so feared in Hogwarts.
Signs
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2002, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
M. Night Shyamalan presents another paranormal-themed thriller where Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), a priest loses his wife (Patricia Kalember) in a car accident, denying God then and remaining an ordinary farmer who devotes himself to rural work and to raise his son Morgan and daughter Bo (Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin) along with his younger brother (Joaquin Phoenix). The faith is lost, the job is quitted, and one day Hess family encounters the unknown, namely the 500-foot circles shaped with mathematical exactness. Hess is astonished and enraged thinking these circles simple are somebody's prank. But this explanation soon proves its groundlessness: Graham is confronted with the new uncommon, inexplicable events as he began to see and hear strange things. Uncovering the truth, Hess runs the more risk as his family is under the threat...
Red Dragon
Crime / Horror / Thriller , produced in 2002, Germany, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
This is a screen version of the most terrific book of the same name (The Red Dragon) by Thomas Harris. The famous trilogy of an evil Gannibal Lecter finds the brilliant, dreadful ending in this suspense series, taking place before events with Clarissa Starling and before the Silence of the Lambs episode. The man who smoked out the mysterious maniac, Gannibal Lecter, now is to pursue the bloodier criminal, who is known as The Tooth Fairy. This ruthless scum carries out massacres of the whole families, and the FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) will face many complications catching the bastard. Will has a mysterious gift which allows him to penetrate into the minds of the criminals, he got retired after catching Lecter, but the massacres having place compel him to return to his dangerous duties. The fate is cynical: Graham is to ask imprisoned Gannibal Lecter for help to succeed, because the monstrous man-eater is a former forensic psychiatrist... and he is in some way connected with the Tooth Fairy.
Ice Age
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family , produced in 2002, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
Early mammals have hard times: the Ice Age is come! An action of this computer-animated movie takes place twenty thousand years ago, when Arctic glaciers approached close to the motherland of Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) and Scrat (Wedge), who respectively are a mammoth, a sloth and a side-splitting saber-tooth squirrel. Freezing temperatures and the command of evil tigers oblige them to fight for survival, from time to time animals get into different hilarious and threatening situations, trying to save the human child which was torn from its tribe as a result of the tiger assault. Manny and Sid want to return the infant to his father when the demonic saber-toothed striped villain named Diego (Denis Leary) claims his rights to this child.
Men in Black II
Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi , produced in 2002, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
They are back, again in black! The heroes of the most successful sci-fi comedy of the 1997 return to the screen to fight the powerful intergalactic villain Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle), an alien disguised as a lingerie model. Jay (Will Smith), whose partner Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) is retired since the very ending of the previous series, is to find his colleague who is now a mailman and remembers absolutely nothing about his agent life as his memory is selectively wiped. Serleena's aim is to possess some hidden artifact, in that case our world will have serious troubles, namely, it will be destroyed. The most hilarious characters in this series are talking dog Frank (voiced by Tim Blaney) and a motley crew of the alien worms who help guys in black to fight super-powerful, super-sexy villain. She will not surrender for nothing: Serleena's tentacles wrapped the MIB central office...
Minority Report
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2002, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
In the midst of the XXI century, new psychological technologies have made the crime prevention almost absolutely effective in this movie set in Washington DC. All crimes are being interrupted even before its commission, all future offenders get jailed before the coming victim will suffer. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) works for the Pre-crime Division, which obtains future crime data from three genetically altered humans (Pre-Cogs), a kind of extrasensory individuals who are maintained by the chemicals. John had lost his child, a little girl several years ago. Suddenly it becomes known that Anderton is soon-to-kill somebody, a man he don't even know. John can't believe this, and now he is outlawed trying to find the truth about himself, he gets to know that the minority report exists: Agatha, one of the Pre-Cogs, is having her separate opinion on the difficult situation...
The Transporter
Action / Crime / Thriller , produced in 2002, France, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
Frank Martin is a former soldier now living a solitary existence in France, Frank runs a private business as a "Transporter" a hired criminal whose job is to transport cargo, packages and passengers without question. Playing by the rules, Frank is the best in the business and he has never broken the rules. Until, Frank is hired by an American criminal known as "Wall Street" to deliver a package. Frank's curiosity leads him to break the rules, and he discovers the package he is delivering to Wall Street is a Chinese woman named Lai. Learning that Frank broke the rules and learn about Lai, Wall Street sends his mercenaries to assassinate him. With his own life in danger, Frank takes it upon himself to protect not only himself, but Lai, as he agrees to help Lai rescue enslaved people from China, who are being smuggled into France by Wall Street helped by Lai's father.