What brings best friends together? For Daphne, Velma, Fred, Shaggy and
Shaggy's spunky pup Scooby-Doo, it's a mystery! The feature-length
live-action Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins original movie takes you
back to when four teenage sleuths (plus one dog detective) first met.
Unjustly accused of staging a spooky practical joke complete with
ghosts, the kids are suspended from Coolsville High. To clear their
names, they team to solve the supernatural mystery... and head straight
into nonstop laughs and adventure. Special fun, special friends and
extra-special effects make this "how-it-all-began" story - from
boy-meets-dog to the first trip in the Mystery Machine and more - a
doggone great time!
Carnegie Mellon English Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) is
a depressed middle-aged widower. He is arrogant at work, uninterested
in his students, and alienated from his two children. His adopted
ne'er-do-well brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Church) arrives to borrow
money and stay for a while, and tries to unwind Lawrence's lonely,
high-achieving teenage daughter Vanessa (Ellen Page).
Meanwhile,
Lawrence suffers a trauma-induced seizure after falling from the top of
a fence in an attempt to retrieve his briefcase from inside of his
impounded car. After being released from the hospital, Lawrence has a
meeting with a sympathetic doctor, Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), a
former student he does not recall. Janet fulfills her long-ago crush
with a "face-to-face" date wit... Read more »
Genre:Comedy | Drama | Romance Director:J. Jesses Smith
Writers:Charisse Edey-Cherie Johnson Release Date:11 August 2009 (USA)
Marcus finds himself in love and married to not one woman, but two. Every man's fantasy right? Wrong! Due to odd circumstances Marcus is forced to live under one roof with both of his wives. This makes it impossible to hide the intimate details of either relationship. With his first wife Vivian determined and on a mission to get her man back by any means necessary, Marcus' once peaceful home is now anything but that. He has gotten himself into world wind of trouble being too greedy, and not being able to choose between his past, and his present, but which will be his future?
MPAA: Rated R for pervasive language, graphic nudity, drug use, sexual content and violence.
Trivia: Jody Hill has described his initial inspiration for this film as wanting to do a comedic version of Taxi Driver (1976).
Cast
Seth Rogen … Ronnie Barnhardt
Ray Liotta … Detective Harrison
Michael Pea … Dennis
Anna Faris … Brandi
Dan Bakkedahl … Mark
Jesse Plemons … Charles
John Yuan … John Yuen
Matt Yuan … Matt Yuen
Celia Weston … Mom
Collette Wolfe … Nell
Randy Gambill … Pervert
Alston Brown … Bruce
Cody Midthu... Read more »
DJ Williams (Columbus Short) is a krump dancer in inner-city Los
Angeles. He and his younger brother Duron (Chris Brown) compete in
local dance competitions as members of a crew known as the "Goon
Squad". Primarily due to one final dynamic step from Duron, the Goon
Squad win a cash-prize battle held one night at an underground krumping
competition, and the losing home crew responds by ambushing DJ and his
crewmates after the show. A fight breaks out, and the leader of the
rival group shoots Duron and kills him.
Arrested for assault, DJ
is subsequently sent by his mother to live with his aunt Jackie
(Valerie Pettiford) and uncle Nate (Harry J. Lennix) in Atlanta,
Georgia, where he is to attend historically black Truth University.
Nate, the physical plant dire... Read more »
