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Part of director Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain trilogy of theatre-motif films that include Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge!, this final installment focuses on all the dance and drama you can handle at Paris’ famous titular cabaret at the end of the 1800s. If you don’t quite remember this Oscar-winning musical extravaganza from 2001, it’s more likely you’ve cut a rug to its de facto theme song, Lady Marmalade, at more than a few weddings. The film plays out through a mix of cut scenes to the present-day legal proceedings and flashbacks chronicling Facebook’s rise - including its involvement with Napster’s Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), its move to Silicon Valley, and Saverin’s eventual ousting from the company - but Fincher and Sorkin’s focus stays true as we see a Zuckerberg who must come to terms with the price he’s paid for his creation. Problem is, Mark may have stolen the idea from the wealthy Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer). Nominated for eight Oscars and winning three, the film follows 19-year-old Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), who, along with his best friend, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), and other classmates, create TheFacebook, a social media site for Ivy League students. An intensely isolating film driven by Hanks’ Oscar-nominated performance, we get to be a fly on the palm tree as Nolan struggles to make fire, survive off the land, and stave off insanity by befriending the now-famous Wilson the volleyball (named after Hanks’ real-life wife, Rita Wilson) while he plans his escape from his tropical prison to get back to Kelly before she moves on for good.Īlthough The Social Network acts as a kind of unofficial telling of the story of Facebook and is based on Ben Mezrich’s 2009 novel The Accidental Billionaires, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher were less dazzled by the behemoth trailblazer Facebook would become than they were with the themes of friendship, betrayal, and jealousy embroiled in its genesis.
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Nolan miraculously survives the crash and washes up on a deserted island along with some wreckage and a pile of FedEx boxes.
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After being called away from yet another Christmas with his loving girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt), the workaholic, jet-setting FedEx operations executive boards a cargo plane that plummets into the south Pacific - gone, without a trace. And if you haven’t seen it, buckle up for some primo Hanks. Fitbit Versa 3Īmerica’s dad (Tom Hanks) had already risen from his comedic roots into more important and dramatic fare like Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, and The Green Mile before taking on the role of everyman Chuck Noland in Cast Away.