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Articles tagged with Billy Connolly 4 entries

★★★★☆ Fido (2007)

Plot: Years ago, the Earth passed through a cloud of space dust that caused the dead to rise again. Now, zombies are domesticated. When Helen (Moss) brings a zombie servant (Connolly) home, her son Timmy (Ray) discovers a new best friend, and is determined to keep him - even if he does eat the odd person…

 
 

★½☆☆☆ Open Season (2006)

Plot: A domesticated bear named Boog (Lawrence) finds out all about life in the wilderness thanks to a fast-talking mule deer (Kutcher). Animated.

 

★½☆☆☆ Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Plot: When a mysterious fire kills their parents, three children are sent to live with their uncle, Count Olaf (Carrey), whom they have never met. As it turns out, the Count is out for their inheritance - and doesn’t care about the children at all. In fact, the sooner they die, the quicker he gets the money. Based on the books “The Bad Beginning”, “The Reptile Room” and “The Wide Window” by Lemony Snicket.

 
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★★★☆☆ Timeline (2003)

Plot: While on a dig at Castlegard, France, a group of archaeologists uncover a note written by the head of their dig (Connelly), who has been away on business for two weeks. The interesting part is that the note is carbon-dated to 1357! They investigate, and are whisked away to New Mexico by a company called ICS. At ICS, they discover that the scientists have stumbled across time travel, and the professor is trapped in 1357. Now they must go back and rescue the professor within 6 hours…or none of them is ever coming back. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton.

 
  
     
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