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"Blue Crush" (2002)

Tagline: "If you want to feel the rush you have to take the risk."

Length: 104 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, teen partying, language and a fight

The story and characters are surprisingly good in this drama, which features Hawaii, surfing, and young women who look good in bathing suits. Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth), Eden (Michelle Rodriguez), and Lena (Sanoe Lake) work as hotel maids and live together in near-poverty. Their jobs leave them little time to pursue their passion, which is surfing. Although Anne Marie nearly drowned while surfing three years earlier, she goes into training for a surfing competition famous for how dangerous it is. Then Anne Marie gets fired from her job, and she becomes conflicted over whether or not to risk giving her heart to Matt (Matthew Davis), a professional football quarterback who is visiting Hawaii. As the date for the big competition approaches, Anne Marie finds herself battling doubt and distraction.

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"FearDotCom" (2002)

Tagline: "Want to see a really killer website? It's the last site you'll ever see."

Length: 101 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for violence including grisly images of torture, nudity and language

This is a horror movie about a diabolical Web site on the Internet. Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) is a police detective investigating a series of mysterious deaths where the victim bleeds from the eyes. He is assisted by public health researcher Terry Houston (Natascha McElhone). It eventually emerges that all the victims have visited a particular Web site and that anyone who visits that site dies within 48 hours. The sadistic mastermind behind the Web site turns out to be Alistair Pratt (Stephen Rea). The site shows people being tortured, and visitors to the site pay a high price for watching. The movie offers creative visuals, but the images of torture are grisly, the story meanders, and the dialogue doesn't work. Ninety-five percent of the Rotten Tomatoes critics gave this film a negative review.

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"Undercover Brother" (2002)

Tagline: "He's all action."

Length: 86 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, sexual humor, drug content and campy violence

This silly but funny comedy spoofs 1970s blaxploitation movies. According to this film, African-American culture has been steadily declining since the 1970s, and its erosion is attributed to The Man, an actual person who directs a worldwide operation. One of The Man's nefarious schemes results in a black war hero and possible presidential candidate abandoning politics and opening fried chicken outlets. However, The Man is opposed by the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., an underground organization that includes Smart Brother, Conspiracy Brother, and Sistah Girl, as well as a white intern (brought in for affirmative action purposes). To infiltrate The Man's operation, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. recruits Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin), who wears 1970s clothes, sideburns, and an afro.

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