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Sahara
Dirk Pitt. Adventure
has a new name.
Genre:
Action / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Breck Eisner
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Penélope
Cruz, Steve Zahn, Lambert Wilson, William H. Macy
Searching
for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey)
thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful UN scientist
investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North
Africans into madness, cannibalism and death. The suspected
cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution
that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas.
Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt
and his team, equipped with an extraordinary, state-of-the-art
yacht, run a gantlet between a billionaire industrialist and
a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert,
Pitt finds a gold mine manned by slaves and uncovers the truth
behind two enduring mysteries -- the fate of a Civil War ironclad
and its secret connection with Lincoln's assassination and
the last flight of a long-lost female pilot....Now, amidst
the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, Dirk Pitt will
make a desperate stand -- in a battle the world cannot afford
to lose!
The
Year of the Yao
Genre:
Documentary
Directors: Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern and
Adam Del Toro
Distributor: Fine Line Features
Cast: Yao Ming, Colin Pine, Shaquille O'Neal,
Kelvin Cato, Kobe Bryant
Yao Ming
- He stands 7 feet 6 inches tall and is just 22 years old.
To the Chinese nation of one billion, he is a heroic son and
symbol of its increasing presence on the world stage. To the
National Basketball Association, he is a poster child for
the globalisation of the sport and potentially its first iconic
superstar from outside North America and Europe. To his team-mates
on the Houston Rockets, he is the key to a successful championship
season. To basketball fans, comedians and even commentators
in his field, he is an anomaly: the tallest player in the
NBA and Chinese. To his supportive parents, both of whom preceded
him as members of the Chinese National Basketball team, he
is simply "son." To a young American interpreter
with a passion for Chinese language and culture, he is initially
a client for interpretation services...and eventually, over
the course of a year, a close and valued friend.
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