Summer Movies Planner '04
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Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 2
06/30
Peter Parker swings back into action this week!

See an exclusive feature about Peter and Mary Jane's relationship.

Plus, watch webisodes on the film's costume design and J. Jonah Jameson.

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Opening: June 4
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06/04
EW Grade: B+

Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) return for their third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the teenagers are forced to face their darkest fears as they confront a dangerous escaped prisoner (Gary Oldman) and the equally foreboding Dementors, who are sent there to protect them.
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Opening: June 11

06/11

In this sequel to the futuristic sci-fi adventure 'Pitch Black,' Vin Diesel returns as Richard B. Riddick, an escaped convict with the ability to see in the dark. Still on the lam, he finds himself in the midst of an intergalactic crusade while searching for the secrets of his past.
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06/11
EW Grade: C+

A remake of the 1975 cult fave has Nicole Kidman playing Joanna Eberhart, a city mom who moves to the Connecticut suburbs and discovers all the other wives acting so perfect that they're creepy. As the sinister plot, which may or may not involve her husband (Matthew Broderick), around her becomes clear, Eberhart struggles against doom.
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06/11
EW Grade: C-

'Garfield' marks the long-awaited motion picture debut of America's favorite feline -- and the world's laziest cat. The live-action / CGI picture is adapted from the syndicated cartoon strip read in 2600 newspapers by 260 million readers around the globe. Bill Murray provides the voice of Garfield.
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06/11
EW Grade: C-

Teenage misfit Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) lives in a remote Idaho town, sports a frizzy red 'fro, wears moon boots and practices his ninja moves. Then, he decides to help his best friend Pedro (Efren Ramirez) win the Student Body President election over snobby Summer Wheatley (Haylie Duff).
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Opening: June 16 - 18

06/16

This adaptation of the famous Jules Verne novel has Jackie Chan playing a thief in 1872 who becomes the traveling companion and martial arts bodyguard of a man betting that he can circumnavigate the world in a set time. The pair use various means to accomplish that, stopping in Paris, Turkey, India, China and the United States.
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06/18
EW Grade: C+

In this film by director Steven Spielberg, an Eastern European war refugee (Tom Hanks) lands at a New York City airport at the very moment his beleaguered homeland ceases to exist, invalidating his immigration papers. Homeless and countryless, he makes the airport his home, eventually falling in love with a flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
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06/18

After their neighborhood gym is threatened with a corporate takeover, Vince Vaughn and friends try to save it by entering a high-stakes dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas against an all-star team led by Ben Stiller.
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Opening: June 23 - 30

06/23
EW Grade: B+

Two black FBI agents, desperate to get back in the bureau's good graces after a disastrous drug sting, agree to protect the Wilton sisters, a pair of hotel heiresses and socialites, from a kidnapping plot. In their zeal to protect the girls (and give the audience plenty of laughs), the agents actually become decoys, disguising themselves as the sisters.
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06/25
EW Grade: C+

Based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, this love story stars James Garner, Gena Rowlands and Joan Allen opposite young stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. The reading of a notebook reveals the story of a young woman who is courted by two handsome men during World War II.
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06/25
EW Grade: B+

Twin tiger brothers born amidst the temple ruins and exotic jungles of French Indo-China are separated as cubs and taken into captivity -- one tiger is forced to become a circus performer, the other a trained killer. Years later, the brothers are reunited, but as forced enemies pitted against each other.
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06/25
EW Grade: B+

Winner of the Palme D'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Michael Moore's controversial documentary digs into the Bush Administration's response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and subsequent war against Iraq. The director examines ties between the Bush and Bin Laden families, tries to convince congressmen to enlist their children into the army and interviews members of the military in Iraq.
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06/30

Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), aka Spiderman, finds he has a new adversary in mad scientist Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) whose mechanical arms are a weapon to be reckoned with. Meanwhile Mary Jane looks for romance with the son of Peter's boss.
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