Robert Duvall - Biography and Filmography

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Robert Duvall

05.01.1931

Birth name: Robert Selden Duvall

Actor and director Robert Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, California, the son of a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, Illinois), then served a two-year hitch in the army after graduating in 1953. He began attending The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre In New York City on the G.I. Bill in 1955, studying under Sanford Meisner along with Dustin Hoffman, with whom Duvall shared an apartment. Both were close to another struggling young actor named Gene Hackman. Meisner cast Duvall in the play "The Midnight Caller" by Horton Foote, a link that would prove critical to his career, as it was Foote who recommended Duvall to play the mentally disabled Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), his motion picture debut.

Duvall began making a name for himself as a stage actor in New York, winning an Obie Award in 1965 playing incest-minded longshoreman Eddie Carbone in the off-Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge," a production for which his old roommate Hoffman was assistant director. He found steady work in episodic TV and appeared as a modestly billed character actor in films, such as Arthur Penn's The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando and in Robert Altman's Countdown (1968) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969), in both of which he co-starred with James Caan.

He was also memorable as the heavy who is shot by John Wayne at the climax of True Grit (1969) and was the first Maj. Frank Burns, creating the character in Altman's Korean War comedy MASH (1970). He also appeared as the eponymous lead in George Lucas' directorial debut, THX 1138 (1971). It was Coppola, casting The Godfather (1972), who reunited Duvall with Brando and Caan and provided him with his career breakthrough as mob lawyer Tom Hagen. He received the first of his six Academy Award nominations for the role.

Thereafter, Duvall had steady work in featured roles in such films as The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Killer Elite (1975), Network (1976), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Occassionally this actor's actor got the chance to assay a lead role, most notably in Tomorrow (1972), in which he was brilliant as William Faulkner's inarticulate backwoods farmer. He was less impressive as the lead in Badge 373 (1973), in which he played a character based on real-life NYC policeman Eddie Egan, the same man his old friend Gene Hackman had won an Oscar for playing, in fictionalized form, as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection (1971).

It was his appearance as Lt. Col. Kilgore in another Coppola picture, Apocalypse Now (1979), that solidified Duvall's reputation as a great actor. He won his second Academy Award nomination for the role, and was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most versatile actor in the world! Duvall created one of the most memorable characters ever assayed on film, and gave the world the memorable phrase, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

Subsequently, Duvall proved one of the few established character actors to move from supporting to leading roles, with his Oscar-nominated turns in The Great Santini (1979) and Tender Mercies (1983), the latter of which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Now at the summit of his career, Duvall seemed to be afflicted with the fabled "Oscar curse" that had overwhelmed the careers of fellow Academy Award winners Luise Rainer, Rod Steiger and Cliff Robertson. He could not find work equal to his talents, either due to his post-Oscar salary demands or a lack of perception in the industry that he truly was leading man material. He did not appear in The Godfather: Part III (1990)m as the studio would not give in to his demands for a salary commensurate with that of Al Pacino, who was receiving $5 million to reprise Michael Corleone.

His greatest achievement in his immediate post-Oscar period was his acclaimed characterization of the grizzled Texas Ranger Gus McCrae in the TV mini-series "Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini), for which he received an Emmy nomination. He received a second Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Stalin (1992) (TV), and a third Emmy nomination playing Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996) (TV).

The shakeout of his career doldrums was that Duvall eventually settled back into his status as one of the premier character actors in the industry, rivaled only by his old friend Gene Hackman. Duvall, unlike Hackman, also has directed pictures, including the documentary We're Not the Jet Set (1977), Angelo My Love (1983) and Assassination Tango (2002). As a writer-director, Duvall gave himself one of his most memorable roles, that of the preacher on the run from the law in The Apostle (1997), a brilliant performance for which he received his third Best Actor nomination and fifth Oscar nomination overall. The film brought Duvall back to the front ranks of great actors, and was followed by a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for A Civil Action (1998).

Robert Duvall will long be remembered as one of the great naturalistic American screen actors in the mode of Spencer Tracy and his frequent co-star Marlon Brando. His performances as Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird," Jackson Fentry in "Tomorrow," Tom Hagen in the first two "Godfather" movies, Frank Hackett in Network (1976), Lt. Col. Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now," Bull Meechum in "The Great Santini," Mac Sledge in "Tender Mercies," Gus McCrae in "Lonesome Dove," and Sonny Dewey in "The Apostle" rank as some of the finest acting ever put on film. It's a body of work that few actors can equal, let alone surpass.

Filmography

# The Last Full Measure (2007) .... Frank Pitsenbarger

# A Night in Old Mexico (2008)

# We Own the Night (2007) .... Burt Grusinsky

# Lucky You (2007) .... L. C. Cheever

# The Godfather: Mob Wars (2006) (VG) (voice) .... Tom Hagen

# "Broken Trail" (2006) (mini) TV Series .... Prentice Ritter

# The Godfather: The Game (2006) (VG) (voice) .... Tom Hagen

# Thank You for Smoking (2005) .... Doak 'The Captain' Boykin

# Kicking & Screaming (2005) .... Buck Weston

# Secondhand Lions (2003) .... Hub

# Open Range (2003) .... Boss Spearman

# Gods and Generals (2003) .... Gen. Robert E. Lee

# Assassination Tango (2002) .... John J. Anderson

... aka Assassination Tango (Argentina)

# John Q (2002) .... Lt. Frank Grimes

... aka John Q. (USA: poster title)

# The 6th Day (2000) .... Dr. Griffin Weir

... aka Sixième jour, Le (Canada: French title)

# A Shot at Glory (2000) .... Gordon McLeod

# Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) .... Otto Halliwell

# A Civil Action (1998) .... Jerome Facher

# Deep Impact (1998) .... Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner

# "Saturday Night Live" .... Various (1 episode, 1998)

... aka SNL (USA: informal title)

... aka SNL 25 (USA)

- Episode #23.14 (1998) TV Episode .... Various

# The Gingerbread Man (1998) .... Dixon Doss

# The Apostle (1997) .... Euliss 'Sonny' Dewey - The Apostle E.F.

# The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996) (TV) .... Adolf Eichmann

# Sling Blade (1996) .... Karl's Father

# Phenomenon (1996) .... Doc Brunder

# A Family Thing (1996) .... Earl Pilcher Jr.

# The Scarlet Letter (1995) .... Roger Chillingworth

# The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995) .... Mr. Cox

# Something to Talk About (1995) .... Wyly King

... aka Grace Under Pressure

# The Paper (1994) .... Bernie White

# Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) .... Walter

# Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) .... Chief of Scouts Al Sieber

# Falling Down (1993) .... Detective Martin Prendergast

... aka Chute libre (France)

# Stalin (1992) (TV) .... Josef Stalin

... aka Sztálin (Hungary)

# Peste, La (1992) .... Joseph Grand

... aka The Plague (USA)

# Newsies (1992) .... Joseph Pulitzer

... aka Newsboys

# The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (V) .... Tom Hagen

... aka The Godfather Saga (USA)

... aka The Godfather Trilogy

# Convicts (1991) .... Soll

... aka Horton Foote's Convicts (USA: complete title)

# Rambling Rose (1991) .... Daddy Hilyer

# Days of Thunder (1990) .... Harry Hogge

# A Show of Force (1990) .... Howard

# The Handmaid's Tale (1990) .... Commander

# "Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini) TV Series .... Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

# Colors (1988) .... Officer Bob Hodges

# Hotel Colonial (1987) .... Roberto Carrasco (Luca Venieri)

# Apocalypse Pooh (1987) (TV) (voice) .... Gopher

# Let's Get Harry (1986) .... Norman Shrike

... aka The Rescue

# Belizaire the Cajun (1986) .... The Preacher

# The Lightship (1986) .... Calvin Caspary

... aka Killers at Sea (USA: TV title)

# Waylon Jennings: America (1986) (V) .... Doctor

# The Natural (1984) .... Max Mercy

# The Stone Boy (1984) .... Joe Hillerman

# The Terry Fox Story (1983) (TV) .... Bill Vigars

... aka Heart of a Champion (Philippines: English title: theatrical title)

# Tender Mercies (1983) .... Mac Sledge

# The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981) .... Gruen

... aka Pursuit

# True Confessions (1981) .... Thomas "Tom" Spellacy

# The Great Santini (1979) .... Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum

... aka The Ace

... aka The Gift of Fury

# Apocalypse Now (1979) .... Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

... aka Apocalypse Now Redux (International: English title: longer version)

# "Ike" (1979) (mini) TV Series .... Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

# Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (uncredited) .... Priest on swing

# The Betsy (1978) .... Loren Hardeman III

... aka Harold Robbins' The Betsy

# Ike: The War Years (1978) (TV) .... General Dwight D. Eisenhower

# "The Godfather Saga" (1977) (mini) TV Series .... Tom Hagen

# The Greatest (1977) .... Bill McDonald

# The Eagle Has Landed (1976) .... Col. Max Radl

# Network (1976) .... Frank Hackett

# The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) .... Dr. John H. Watson/Narrator

# The Killer Elite (1975) .... George Hansen

# Breakout (1975) .... Jay Wagner

# The Godfather: Part II (1974) .... Tom Hagen

... aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part II (USA: complete title)

# The Conversation (1974) (uncredited) .... The Director

# The Outfit (1973) .... Earl Macklin

# Badge 373 (1973) .... Eddie Ryan

# Lady Ice (1973) .... Ford Pierce

# Joe Kidd (1972) .... Frank Harlan

# The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) .... Jesse James

# Tomorrow (1972) .... Jackson Fentry

# The Godfather (1972) .... Tom Hagen

... aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather (USA: complete title)

# Lawman (1971) .... Vernon Adams

# THX 1138 (1971) .... THX 1138

# The Revolutionary (1970) .... Despard

# MASH (1970) .... Maj. 'Frank' Burns

# "The F.B.I." .... Ernie Milden / ... (6 episodes, 1965-1969)

- Nightmare Road (1969) TV Episode .... Gerald Wilson

- The Harvest (1968) TV Episode .... Joseph Troy

- The Executioners: Part 2 (1967) TV Episode .... Ernie Milden

- The Executioners: Part 1 (1967) TV Episode

- The Scourge (1966) TV Episode .... Johnny Albin

(1 more)

# The Rain People (1969) .... Gordon

# True Grit (1969) .... Ned Pepper

# "The Mod Squad" .... Matt Jenkins (1 episode, 1969)

- Keep the Faith, Baby (1969) TV Episode .... Matt Jenkins

# Bullitt (1968) .... Weissberg

# The Detective (1968) .... Nestor

# "Judd for the Defense" .... Raymond Cane (1 episode, 1968)

- Square House (1968) TV Episode .... Raymond Cane

# Countdown (1968) .... Chiz

# "Run for Your Life" .... Richard Fletcher (1 episode, 1968)

- The Killing Scene (1968) TV Episode .... Richard Fletcher

# Flesh and Blood (1968) (TV) .... Howard

# "The Wild Wild West" .... Dr. Horace Humphries (1 episode, 1967)

- The Night of the Falcon (1967) TV Episode .... Dr. Horace Humphries

# "Cimarron Strip" .... Joe Wyman (1 episode, 1967)

- The Roarer (1967) TV Episode .... Joe Wyman

# Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI (1967) (TV) .... Ernie Milden

# "Combat!" .... Karl / ... (3 episodes, 1965-1967)

- The Partisan (1967) TV Episode .... Michel

- Cry for Help (1966) TV Episode .... Peter Halsman

- The Enemy (1965) TV Episode .... Karl

# "T.H.E. Cat" .... Laurent / ... (2 episodes, 1966-1967)

- The Long Chase (1967) TV Episode .... Laurent

- Crossing at Destino Bay (1966) TV Episode .... Scorpio

# "The Time Tunnel" .... Raul Nimon (1 episode, 1967)

- Chase Through Time (1967) TV Episode .... Raul Nimon

# Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) (TV) .... Eddie Franchot

# "Shane" .... Tom Gary (1 episode, 1966)

- Poor Tom's A-Cold (1966) TV Episode .... Tom Gary

# "Felony Squad" .... Albie Froehlich (1 episode, 1966)

- Death of a Dream (1966) TV Episode .... Albie Froehlich

# "Hawk" .... Dick (1 episode, 1966)

- The Theory of the Innocent Bystander (1966) TV Episode .... Dick

# "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" .... Frank Reeser (1 episode, 1966)

... aka The Chrysler Theater

... aka Universal Star Time (syndication title)

- Guilty or Not Guilty (1966) TV Episode .... Frank Reeser

# The Chase (1966) .... Edwin Stewart

# "The Defenders" .... Al Rogart / ... (3 episodes, 1961-1965)

- Only a Child (1965) TV Episode .... Bill Andrews

- Metamorphosis (1963) TV Episode .... Luke Jackson

- Perjury (1961) TV Episode .... Al Rogart

# Nightmare in the Sun (1965) .... Motorcyclist

# "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" .... Zar (1 episode, 1965)

- The Invaders (1965) TV Episode (as Robert Duval) .... Zar

# "The Fugitive" .... Eric Christian / ... (3 episodes, 1963-1965)

- Brass Ring (1965) TV Episode .... Leslie Sessions

- Never Wave Goodbye: Part 2 (1963) TV Episode .... Eric Christian

- Never Wave Goodbye: Part 1 (1963) TV Episode .... Eric Christian

# "The Outer Limits" .... Adam Ballard / ... (3 episodes, 1964)

- The Inheritors: Part 2 (1964) TV Episode .... Adam Ballard

- The Inheritors: Part 1 (1964) TV Episode .... Adam Ballard

- The Chameleon (1964) TV Episode .... Louis Mace

# "Kraft Suspense Theatre" .... Harvey Farnsworth (1 episode, 1964)

- Portrait of an Unknown Man (1964) TV Episode .... Harvey Farnsworth

# Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) .... Capt. Paul Cabot Winston

# "Arrest and Trial" .... Morton Ware (1 episode, 1963)

- The Quality of Justice (1963) TV Episode .... Morton Ware

# "Stoney Burke" .... Joby Pierce (1 episode, 1963)

- Joby (1963) TV Episode .... Joby Pierce

# "The Virginian" .... Johnny Keel (1 episode, 1963)

... aka The Men from Shiloh (USA: new title)

- The Golden Door (1963) TV Episode .... Johnny Keel

# "The Twilight Zone" .... Charley Parkes (1 episode, 1963)

... aka Twilight Zone (USA: new title)

- Miniature (1963) TV Episode .... Charley Parkes

# "Route 66" .... Arnie / ... (3 episodes, 1961-1963)

- Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain (1963) TV Episode .... Lee Winters

- Birdcage on My Foot (1961) TV Episode .... Arnie

- The Newborn (1961) TV Episode .... Roman

# "The Untouchables" .... Eddie Moon (1 episode, 1963)

- Blues for a Gone Goose (1963) TV Episode .... Eddie Moon

# To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) .... Arthur 'Boo' Radley

# "Naked City" .... Barney Sonners / ... (4 episodes, 1961-1962)

- Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long (1962) TV Episode .... Barney Sonners

- Five Cranks for Winter...Ten Cranks for Spring (1962) TV Episode .... Johnny Meigi

- The One Marked Hot Gives Cold (1962) TV Episode .... Francis L. Childe

- A Hole in the City (1961) TV Episode .... Lewis Nunda

# "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" .... Bart Collins (1 episode, 1962)

- Bad Actor (1962) TV Episode .... Bart Collins

# "Shannon" .... Joey Nolan (1 episode, 1961)

- The Big Fish (1961) TV Episode .... Joey Nolan

# "Cain's Hundred" .... Tom Nugent (1 episode, 1961)

- King of the Mountain (1961) TV Episode .... Tom Nugent

# "Great Ghost Tales" .... William Wilson (1 episode, 1961)

- William Wilson (1961) TV Episode .... William Wilson

# "Armstrong Circle Theatre" .... Berks (2 episodes, 1959-1960)

- Positive Identification (1960) TV Episode

- The Jailbreak (1959) TV Episode .... Berks

# "Playhouse 90" (1 episode, 1960)

- John Brown's Raid (1960) TV Episode

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	Avatar \| 2009
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In the year 2154, the RDA corporation is mining Pandora, the lush, Earthlike moon of the planet Polyphemus, in the Alpha Centauri system. Parker Selfridge, (Giovanni Ribisi), the administrator, employs former marines as mercenaries to provide security. The humans aim to exploit Pandora’s reserves of unobtanium, a valuable mineral.Pandora is inhabited by the na’vi, a paleolithic species of sapient humanoids with feline characteristics.[16] Physically stronger and several feet taller than humans, the blue-skinned indigenes live in harmony with Nature and worship a mother goddess called Eywa.Humans cannot breathe Pandora’s atmosphere. In order to move about Pandora uninhibited, human scientists have genetically engineered human-na’vi hybrid bodies called Avatars, which are controlled by genetically matched human operators. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic former marine, arrives on Pandora to replace his murdered twin brother, an Avatar operator. Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), the head of the Avatar Program, considers him an inadequate replacement for his brother, relegating him to a bodyguard role.While Jake is escorting Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore) in their Avatar forms, the group is attacked by a large predator, and Jake becomes separated and lost. Attempting to survive the night in Pandora’s dangerous jungles, he is rescued by Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña), a female na’vi. Neytiri brings Jake back to Hometree, which is inhabited by Neytiri’s clan, the Omaticaya. Mo’at, (C. C. H. Pounder), the na’vi shaman and Neytiri’s mother, instructs her to teach him their ways.Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the mercenary leader of the security forces, learns of Jake’s relationship with the Omaticaya, and offers to get him new legs in exchange for providing intelligence about the natives and learning what it will take to make them abandon Hometree, which rests above a large deposit of unobtanium.During the next three months, Jake becomes close to Neytiri and the Omaticaya, and begins to prefer the life he lives through the Avatar. Jake’s attachment begins to erode his loyalty towards the corporation and the humans and when he is finally initiated into the tribe, he and Neytiri choose each other as mates. Jake’s change of loyalty is revealed when he disables a bulldozer as it destroys the Tree of Voices; upon seeing this, Col. Quaritch forcibly disconnects him from his Avatar, and presents Selfridge and Augustine with a vlog in which Jake had admitted that his mission was fruitless; that the humans had nothing the Omaticaya considered to be of value and that they would never abandon Hometree. This convinces Selfridge that negotiations would be fruitless and he orders the destruction of Hometree.Augustine, whose research suggests that all organisms on Pandora are linked in a vast bio-botanical neural network, protests at the destruction of Hometree, but Selfridge persists, allowing Jake only one hour to convince the na’vi to leave before Col. Quaritch’s forces arrive. When he reveals the true nature of his mission to the Omaticaya, Neytiri accuses him of betraying them, which results in Jake and Augustine’s temporary imprisonment. Jake’s time runs out and Quaritch’s forces destroy Hometree. Eytucan (Wes Studi), Neytiri’s father and clan chief, and many others are killed in the attack. Jake and Augustine are once again disconnected from their Avatars and detained for treason against the humans. Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez), a security force pilot who is disgusted by the violence, breaks them out but Augustine is wounded by the ruthless Quaritch during their escape. With Augustine in a critical state, Jake turns to the Omaticaya for help. Searching for a way to regain their trust, he remembers that Neytiri told him that only five na’vi had ever tamed the Toruk, an immensely powerful flying beast. Successfully taming it, he flies to the na’vi, who have gathered at the sacred Tree of Souls. He pleads with Mo’at to heal Augustine, who is now dying. They attempt to transplant her soul into her Avatar but fail.With the assistance of Neytiri and Tsu’Tey (Laz Alonso), the new leader of the Omaticaya, Jake vows defiance against the humans, and assembles thousands of na’vi from other clans. Jake prays to Eywa to intercede on behalf of the na’vi in the coming battle. Col. Quaritch, seeing the na’vi’s growing strength, orders a preemptive strike on the Tree of Souls, as it is the center of na’vi religion and culture; its destruction would leave the na’vi too demoralized to continue resisting the humans.As the humans move against the sacred site, the na’vi fight back fiercely, but human technology and firepower outweighs their bravery; they suffer heavy casualties, including Tsu’Tey and Trudy. When all hope seems lost, the Pandoran wildlife suddenly attack the humans in great numbers, overwhelming them in the air and on the ground. Neytiri interprets this as Eywa answering Jake’s prayer.Col. Quaritch orders the bombing of the Tree of Souls but Jake destroys the bomber before it can reach its target. Quaritch escapes in an AMP (Amplified Mobility Platform) suit. He finds the Avatar interface pod, where Jake’s human body is located, and attacks it, damaging it and exposing Jake to Pandora’s atmosphere. Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake, seeing his human form for the first time. With the human attack successfully repelled, they reaffirm their love for each other.The defeated humans are expelled from Pandora, while Jake and his friends remain. Jake is seen wearing the insignia of the Omaticaya clan leader, suggesting that he has become the new leader after the death of Tsu’Tey. The film ends with Jake’s soul being successfully transplanted into his na’vi Avatar.When a geeky, overweight rushee is found dead at the hottest sorority on the campus, the three most popular girls of the house are prime suspects.Trailer:

Avatar | 2009

Science Fiction, Thriller, War, Romance, Mystery, Fantasy, Family, Drama, Adventure, Action

In the year 2154, the RDA corporation is mining Pandora, the lush, Earthlike moon of the planet Polyphemus, in the Alpha Centauri system. Parker Selfridge, (Giovanni Ribisi), the administrator, employs former marines as mercenaries to provide security. The humans aim to exploit Pandora’s reserves of unobtanium, a valuable mineral.Pandora is inhabited by the na’vi, a paleolithic species of sapient humanoids with feline characteristics.[16] Physically stronger and several feet taller than humans, the blue-skinned indigenes live in harmony with Nature and worship a mother goddess called Eywa.Humans cannot breathe Pandora’s atmosphere. In order to move about Pandora uninhibited, human scientists have genetically engineered human-na’vi hybrid bodies called Avatars, which are controlled by genetically matched human operators. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic former marine, arrives on Pandora to replace his murdered twin brother, an Avatar operator. Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), the head of the Avatar Program, considers him an inadequate replacement for his brother, relegating him to a bodyguard role.While Jake is escorting Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore) in their Avatar forms, the group is attacked by a large predator, and Jake becomes separated and lost. Attempting to survive the night in Pandora’s dangerous jungles, he is rescued by Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña), a female na’vi. Neytiri brings Jake back to Hometree, which is inhabited by Neytiri’s clan, the Omaticaya. Mo’at, (C. C. H. Pounder), the na’vi shaman and Neytiri’s mother, instructs her to teach him their ways.Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the mercenary leader of the security forces, learns of Jake’s relationship with the Omaticaya, and offers to get him new legs in exchange for providing intelligence about the natives and learning what it will take to make them abandon Hometree, which rests above a large deposit of unobtanium.During the next three months, Jake becomes close to Neytiri and the Omaticaya, and begins to prefer the life he lives through the Avatar. Jake’s attachment begins to erode his loyalty towards the corporation and the humans and when he is finally initiated into the tribe, he and Neytiri choose each other as mates. Jake’s change of loyalty is revealed when he disables a bulldozer as it destroys the Tree of Voices; upon seeing this, Col. Quaritch forcibly disconnects him from his Avatar, and presents Selfridge and Augustine with a vlog in which Jake had admitted that his mission was fruitless; that the humans had nothing the Omaticaya considered to be of value and that they would never abandon Hometree. This convinces Selfridge that negotiations would be fruitless and he orders the destruction of Hometree.Augustine, whose research suggests that all organisms on Pandora are linked in a vast bio-botanical neural network, protests at the destruction of Hometree, but Selfridge persists, allowing Jake only one hour to convince the na’vi to leave before Col. Quaritch’s forces arrive. When he reveals the true nature of his mission to the Omaticaya, Neytiri accuses him of betraying them, which results in Jake and Augustine’s temporary imprisonment. Jake’s time runs out and Quaritch’s forces destroy Hometree. Eytucan (Wes Studi), Neytiri’s father and clan chief, and many others are killed in the attack. Jake and Augustine are once again disconnected from their Avatars and detained for treason against the humans. Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez), a security force pilot who is disgusted by the violence, breaks them out but Augustine is wounded by the ruthless Quaritch during their escape. With Augustine in a critical state, Jake turns to the Omaticaya for help. Searching for a way to regain their trust, he remembers that Neytiri told him that only five na’vi had ever tamed the Toruk, an immensely powerful flying beast. Successfully taming it, he flies to the na’vi, who have gathered at the sacred Tree of Souls. He pleads with Mo’at to heal Augustine, who is now dying. They attempt to transplant her soul into her Avatar but fail.With the assistance of Neytiri and Tsu’Tey (Laz Alonso), the new leader of the Omaticaya, Jake vows defiance against the humans, and assembles thousands of na’vi from other clans. Jake prays to Eywa to intercede on behalf of the na’vi in the coming battle. Col. Quaritch, seeing the na’vi’s growing strength, orders a preemptive strike on the Tree of Souls, as it is the center of na’vi religion and culture; its destruction would leave the na’vi too demoralized to continue resisting the humans.As the humans move against the sacred site, the na’vi fight back fiercely, but human technology and firepower outweighs their bravery; they suffer heavy casualties, including Tsu’Tey and Trudy. When all hope seems lost, the Pandoran wildlife suddenly attack the humans in great numbers, overwhelming them in the air and on the ground. Neytiri interprets this as Eywa answering Jake’s prayer.Col. Quaritch orders the bombing of the Tree of Souls but Jake destroys the bomber before it can reach its target. Quaritch escapes in an AMP (Amplified Mobility Platform) suit. He finds the Avatar interface pod, where Jake’s human body is located, and attacks it, damaging it and exposing Jake to Pandora’s atmosphere. Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake, seeing his human form for the first time. With the human attack successfully repelled, they reaffirm their love for each other.The defeated humans are expelled from Pandora, while Jake and his friends remain. Jake is seen wearing the insignia of the Omaticaya clan leader, suggesting that he has become the new leader after the death of Tsu’Tey. The film ends with Jake’s soul being successfully transplanted into his na’vi Avatar.When a geeky, overweight rushee is found dead at the hottest sorority on the campus, the three most popular girls of the house are prime suspects.Trailer:

	Sherlock Holmes \| 2009
Thriller, Mystery, Comedy, Adventure, Action
The film, set in London of 1891, opens with Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Watson (Jude Law) racing to prevent a human sacrifice ritual conducted by Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong). Holmes and Watson stop the sacrifice just in time and neutralize Lord Blackwood, after which the police, led by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), arrive and arrest him.Within prison, Lord Blackwood triggers panic, even causing a prison warden to be struck down with a seizure. Holmes, on the other hand, has been bored silly in the three months between Blackwood’s capture and his impending execution.Watson has met a girl named Mary (Kelly Reilly) whom he intends to wed, and will be moving out of his apartment. This upsets Holmes as he fears he will lose the close bond he built up with Watson. Meanwhile, Holmes gets re-acquainted with Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams), the only person who has managed to fool him twice. She offers him a sum of money to pursue a case, and leaves his apartment. Holmes disguises himself as a vagrant and trails Adler to a coach, within which sits a man whose face is not seen but who has a wrist mounted pistol which he uses to threaten the disguised Holmes.The day before his execution, Blackwood asks to meet with Holmes. Holmes notices that Blackwood has scrawled occult symbols and inscriptions on the walls of his prison cell, and Blackwood warns Holmes that death will not be an obstacle to him. He states that three more murders will occur, and there is nothing Holmes can do about it.Blackwood is subsequently hanged and Watson himself personally verifies that Blackwood has no pulse and is clinically dead. Three days after he is buried, the stones that sealed his tomb are found shattered, and a witness claims he saw Blackwood leave the tomb alive. Holmes and Watson are called to the scene to investigate. When the coffin is removed, instead of Blackwood’s corpse, they find the body of a red haired midget, the very man Irene Adler had asked him to find.With Blackwood apparently back from the dead, London is astir with rumors about his dark powers, and Holmes and Watson resume their hunt to track him down and uncover the mystery of his resurrection. During their search, they find a room filled with dead, hung pigs. The two discover that they have been followed by Ms. Adler, who was trapped by Blackwood, she is bound and cleave-gagged on a factory conveyor belt. Holmes braves the flames and blades to saves her, securing her trust. Watson follows Blackwood but is caught by a tripwire and sets off a massive explosion, in which he is badly wounded.Holmes’ and Watson’s adventures lead them to uncover an occult-dabbling secret society known as the Temple of the Four Orders (similar in vein to secret societies such as the Order of the Eastern Star, the Freemasons, the Illuminati and the Rosicrucians), with Blackwood eventually leading it on a quest for world domination. Blackwood leaves many (apparently supernatural) murders in his wake, and manages to take control of the secret society. Blackwood uses the influence of the police to have the police hunt down Holmes and bring him to Parliament, where Lord Coward inadvertently gives Holmes the clues he needs to reveal Blackwood plans to launch a major attack on the British parliament.Holmes and Watson discover a machine designed to release a chemical gas, hidden in the sewers under parliament but Adler manages to disarm it. When his plan fails Blackwood flees and in a battle on the construction site of the Tower Bridge, Holmes reveals all of the scientific methods behind Blackwood’s seemingly supernatural resurrection, powers, and murders. Blackwood falls and gets tangled in some chains used for the construction; when they finally untangle, one gets caught around his neck and he is accidentially (and ironically) hanged. Above London, Holmes handcuffs himself to Ms. Adler until she explains her motives to become involved with the case. She explains that the mysterious caped man in the carriage is one Professor Moriarty, who had used the battle to covertly steal an important component of the machine. Adler warns Holmes that Moriarty is just as brilliant as he is, and infinitely more devious. Holmes leaves Adler, and returns to explain to Watson how Blackwood managed to fake his death. The film ends with Holmes learning of a new case involving Professor Moriarty.Trailer:

Sherlock Holmes | 2009

Thriller, Mystery, Comedy, Adventure, Action

The film, set in London of 1891, opens with Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Watson (Jude Law) racing to prevent a human sacrifice ritual conducted by Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong). Holmes and Watson stop the sacrifice just in time and neutralize Lord Blackwood, after which the police, led by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), arrive and arrest him.Within prison, Lord Blackwood triggers panic, even causing a prison warden to be struck down with a seizure. Holmes, on the other hand, has been bored silly in the three months between Blackwood’s capture and his impending execution.Watson has met a girl named Mary (Kelly Reilly) whom he intends to wed, and will be moving out of his apartment. This upsets Holmes as he fears he will lose the close bond he built up with Watson. Meanwhile, Holmes gets re-acquainted with Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams), the only person who has managed to fool him twice. She offers him a sum of money to pursue a case, and leaves his apartment. Holmes disguises himself as a vagrant and trails Adler to a coach, within which sits a man whose face is not seen but who has a wrist mounted pistol which he uses to threaten the disguised Holmes.The day before his execution, Blackwood asks to meet with Holmes. Holmes notices that Blackwood has scrawled occult symbols and inscriptions on the walls of his prison cell, and Blackwood warns Holmes that death will not be an obstacle to him. He states that three more murders will occur, and there is nothing Holmes can do about it.Blackwood is subsequently hanged and Watson himself personally verifies that Blackwood has no pulse and is clinically dead. Three days after he is buried, the stones that sealed his tomb are found shattered, and a witness claims he saw Blackwood leave the tomb alive. Holmes and Watson are called to the scene to investigate. When the coffin is removed, instead of Blackwood’s corpse, they find the body of a red haired midget, the very man Irene Adler had asked him to find.With Blackwood apparently back from the dead, London is astir with rumors about his dark powers, and Holmes and Watson resume their hunt to track him down and uncover the mystery of his resurrection. During their search, they find a room filled with dead, hung pigs. The two discover that they have been followed by Ms. Adler, who was trapped by Blackwood, she is bound and cleave-gagged on a factory conveyor belt. Holmes braves the flames and blades to saves her, securing her trust. Watson follows Blackwood but is caught by a tripwire and sets off a massive explosion, in which he is badly wounded.Holmes’ and Watson’s adventures lead them to uncover an occult-dabbling secret society known as the Temple of the Four Orders (similar in vein to secret societies such as the Order of the Eastern Star, the Freemasons, the Illuminati and the Rosicrucians), with Blackwood eventually leading it on a quest for world domination. Blackwood leaves many (apparently supernatural) murders in his wake, and manages to take control of the secret society. Blackwood uses the influence of the police to have the police hunt down Holmes and bring him to Parliament, where Lord Coward inadvertently gives Holmes the clues he needs to reveal Blackwood plans to launch a major attack on the British parliament.Holmes and Watson discover a machine designed to release a chemical gas, hidden in the sewers under parliament but Adler manages to disarm it. When his plan fails Blackwood flees and in a battle on the construction site of the Tower Bridge, Holmes reveals all of the scientific methods behind Blackwood’s seemingly supernatural resurrection, powers, and murders. Blackwood falls and gets tangled in some chains used for the construction; when they finally untangle, one gets caught around his neck and he is accidentially (and ironically) hanged. Above London, Holmes handcuffs himself to Ms. Adler until she explains her motives to become involved with the case. She explains that the mysterious caped man in the carriage is one Professor Moriarty, who had used the battle to covertly steal an important component of the machine. Adler warns Holmes that Moriarty is just as brilliant as he is, and infinitely more devious. Holmes leaves Adler, and returns to explain to Watson how Blackwood managed to fake his death. The film ends with Holmes learning of a new case involving Professor Moriarty.Trailer:

	Up in the Air \| 2009
Comedy, Drama
George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who travels around the country to various workplaces and conducts employee layoffs on behalf of bosses too cowardly to do it themselves. Walter Kirn stated in the film’s press notes: "Ryan is like a masseur who comes in and sort of rubs your shoulders while rolling your desk chair into the elevator." On occasion, he delivers motivational speeches about the virtue of a relationship-free life, often using a backpack analogy. He relishes the comfort of being anonymous during his perpetual travels. He does not have a personal life and chooses to stay away from his family. He is close to achieving his personal goal of 10 million frequent flyer miles.During his frequent flying, he meets a woman named Alex (Vera Farmiga) with whom Ryan starts to pursue a casual relationship. Ryan receives a business partner, Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick), a young, ambitious, but still naïve Cornell graduate. Against Ryan’s wishes, his company chooses to ground him and keep him at the corporate headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska after the introduction of a new efficient layoff system introduced by Natalie.[9] Ryan counters that Natalie knows nothing about what it takes to fire people, and the company suggests that Ryan take Natalie on his travels to show her what the company does. Ryan begrudgingly accepts.Natalie, unaccustomed to Ryan’s lifestyle, questions Ryan’s philosophies and goals, but Ryan does not see the value in long-term relationships and is happy in his niche. While on the road, Natalie’s boyfriend leaves her through text message, leaving her devastated. Ryan and Natalie meet Alex, and take Natalie to a crash a tech-conference party. After Natalie sees the kind of relationship Ryan and Alex maintain, she is infuriated and criticizes Ryan’s viewpoint as juvenile. The company is impressed with Natalie’s performance and her program becomes active. Natalie returns home, and Ryan is invited to his sister’s wedding.Ryan decides to invite Alex to accompany him to the wedding in northern Wisconsin, saying that he wants to have a partner occasionally in his travels. Alex agrees and they fly together to Wisconsin, where they meet Julie (Melanie Lynskey) and her fiancé, Jim (Danny R. McBride). Ryan takes Alex to where he grew up, showing her around Waupaca High School, where he played on the basketball team.Their date is cut short when Ryan’s older sister Kara (Amy Morton) calls: apparently, Jim has gotten cold feet, and Ryan must use his skills as a motivational speaker to convince him to marry. This runs counter to Ryan’s no-strings-attached philosophy, but Ryan successfully argues that important moments in life are seldom alone. Jim reconsiders, apologies to Julie, and the wedding proceeds as planned. Ryan and Alex enjoy themselves, but Ryan finds himself alone after Alex departs once again to her life between planes.When Ryan returns, Natalie walks him through the process of her program. Ryan is then seen presenting at a convention but, reconsidering his life philosophy, leaves in the middle to go visit Alex. Arriving on Alex’s front door in Chicago, Ryan discovers that Alex is a married woman with young children. She tells him that this is her real life and that Ryan was just a side-line. Ryan, devastated, returns home and receives even more upsetting news: an employee that he and Natalie had a hand in firing, killed herself by jumping off a bridge into a river. Natalie quits and goes to San Francisco. Seeing how talented she is, Ryan writes a letter of recommendation to the company Natalie is interviewing for back in San Francisco.Natalie’s program is put on indefinite hold and Ryan goes back to flying across the country to do his job. Ryan, while airborne, crosses his 10 million mile mark, a feat only six others have accomplished with him being the youngest. The film then shows various people fired by Ryan commenting on how they were able to get through unemployment and rebuild their lives thanks to the help and inspiration of their families. The film ends with Ryan reflecting on his life choices, finding himself most at home on his planes.Trailer:

Up in the Air | 2009

Comedy, Drama

George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who travels around the country to various workplaces and conducts employee layoffs on behalf of bosses too cowardly to do it themselves. Walter Kirn stated in the film’s press notes: "Ryan is like a masseur who comes in and sort of rubs your shoulders while rolling your desk chair into the elevator." On occasion, he delivers motivational speeches about the virtue of a relationship-free life, often using a backpack analogy. He relishes the comfort of being anonymous during his perpetual travels. He does not have a personal life and chooses to stay away from his family. He is close to achieving his personal goal of 10 million frequent flyer miles.During his frequent flying, he meets a woman named Alex (Vera Farmiga) with whom Ryan starts to pursue a casual relationship. Ryan receives a business partner, Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick), a young, ambitious, but still naïve Cornell graduate. Against Ryan’s wishes, his company chooses to ground him and keep him at the corporate headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska after the introduction of a new efficient layoff system introduced by Natalie.[9] Ryan counters that Natalie knows nothing about what it takes to fire people, and the company suggests that Ryan take Natalie on his travels to show her what the company does. Ryan begrudgingly accepts.Natalie, unaccustomed to Ryan’s lifestyle, questions Ryan’s philosophies and goals, but Ryan does not see the value in long-term relationships and is happy in his niche. While on the road, Natalie’s boyfriend leaves her through text message, leaving her devastated. Ryan and Natalie meet Alex, and take Natalie to a crash a tech-conference party. After Natalie sees the kind of relationship Ryan and Alex maintain, she is infuriated and criticizes Ryan’s viewpoint as juvenile. The company is impressed with Natalie’s performance and her program becomes active. Natalie returns home, and Ryan is invited to his sister’s wedding.Ryan decides to invite Alex to accompany him to the wedding in northern Wisconsin, saying that he wants to have a partner occasionally in his travels. Alex agrees and they fly together to Wisconsin, where they meet Julie (Melanie Lynskey) and her fiancé, Jim (Danny R. McBride). Ryan takes Alex to where he grew up, showing her around Waupaca High School, where he played on the basketball team.Their date is cut short when Ryan’s older sister Kara (Amy Morton) calls: apparently, Jim has gotten cold feet, and Ryan must use his skills as a motivational speaker to convince him to marry. This runs counter to Ryan’s no-strings-attached philosophy, but Ryan successfully argues that important moments in life are seldom alone. Jim reconsiders, apologies to Julie, and the wedding proceeds as planned. Ryan and Alex enjoy themselves, but Ryan finds himself alone after Alex departs once again to her life between planes.When Ryan returns, Natalie walks him through the process of her program. Ryan is then seen presenting at a convention but, reconsidering his life philosophy, leaves in the middle to go visit Alex. Arriving on Alex’s front door in Chicago, Ryan discovers that Alex is a married woman with young children. She tells him that this is her real life and that Ryan was just a side-line. Ryan, devastated, returns home and receives even more upsetting news: an employee that he and Natalie had a hand in firing, killed herself by jumping off a bridge into a river. Natalie quits and goes to San Francisco. Seeing how talented she is, Ryan writes a letter of recommendation to the company Natalie is interviewing for back in San Francisco.Natalie’s program is put on indefinite hold and Ryan goes back to flying across the country to do his job. Ryan, while airborne, crosses his 10 million mile mark, a feat only six others have accomplished with him being the youngest. The film then shows various people fired by Ryan commenting on how they were able to get through unemployment and rebuild their lives thanks to the help and inspiration of their families. The film ends with Ryan reflecting on his life choices, finding himself most at home on his planes.Trailer:

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