10 July 2001
The Joy Luck Fight Club
Late at night four mother and daughter couples meet in the basements of bars and play bloody battles of Mah-Jong until the daughters begin plotting the destruction of credit card companies across the world. The mothers begin to suspect that their daughters might be figments of their respective imaginations.
L'Amantz
A computer animated tale of an underage young ant (voiced by Soon Yi Previn) in french colonial Vietnam in 1928 and the affair she has with a married man breaking class barriers, social barriers and even species barriers.
Ghost Dog: Subway of the Seven Samurai
Seven ex-cops, all with bright orange hair, follow the precepts of Hagakure in their daily jobs as hitmen but are forced to take refuge together in the New York subway system before exacting revenge on their attackers and defending Greenwich village.
Assault on Friday the Thirteen Days
In an update of Rio Bravo, a roving band of escaped mental patients who all survived drowning as children lay siege to a deserted police station on the banks of Crystal Lake during the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK is forced to handle political dealings, serial killing gangs and defend the isolated building from a nuclear strike.
Forget Paris, Texas
An amnesiac basketball referee travels to Paris to rejoin his brother in the hope he can restore his memory. He falls in love with an air hostess but discovers he has a wife and child back in Texas.
Eat, Drink, Rainman, Pretty Woman
Follows the story of an autistic Master Chef and his three mis-matched prostitute daughters who congregate every Sunday for a meal until all three daughters are swept away by rich businessmen one by one leaving the father to perform Abbot and Costello on his own.
To Wong Fools Rush Hour In
Matthew Perry, Jackie Chan and Chris Rock star as three drag queens attempting to free a diplomat's daughter kidnapped by a Hong Kong crime lord desperate to retrieve his signed photo of Julie Newmar. Salma Hayek plays the love interest in an easily ignored sub-plot.
Call of the Very Bad Wild Things
At Charlton Hestons stag party in British Columbia a threesome goes horribly wrong and the stripper is accidentaly eaten by Charlton's sled-dog. He and his bi-sexual partner (played by Neve Campbell) plot to lay the blame on the girl's father. The dog lives.
The Quick and the Evil Dead Again
Through past-life hypno-regression in an abandoned house in the wild west two people relive the various stylish gunfights they survived against ghouls and the demons locked in people's cellars. Unknown to them their hypnotist is also a Deadite.
Down and No Way Out in Hamburger Hills
Set during the Vietnam war, an intelligence officer cons his way into Gene Hackman's Intelligence Agency. He finds he must survive both a falsified witch-hunt for a KGB spy as well as a bloody assault on a Vietnamese stronghold as he attempts to prove his innocence.
Jewel of the Nil by Mouth
Michael Douglas returns as Dependable Jack Colton but finds his family is suffering from depression and drug-addiction in working-London. He attempts to find a fabled holy-man to alleviate his family's suffering of the human condition.
Wing Commander of Desire (Original title: Der Himmel Uber Kilrathi)
Based on the hit series of computer games by Wim Wenders, Freddie Prinze Jr stars as an angel, tired of watching humanity struggle against the evil Kilrathi empire, who descends to earth to sign on.
American Pi
A group of friends make a pact to solve incalculable mathematical equations before the end of the year. The funniest part, as seen in all the trailers, is when young Jason Biggs is caught staring into the sun for too long on a web camera.
And the ones I can't be bothered writing a summary for;
I Know What You Did Last of The Mohicans
Waiting for Playing Godot
The Emperor's New Jack City of Angel Heart of Darkness
My Stepmother is an Alien Resurrection Man
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