Ireland:12A certified movies

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Orlando Bloom | Keira Knightley | Jack Davenport | Bill Nighy | Jonathan Pryce | Lee Arenberg | Mackenzie Crook | Kevin McNally | David Bailie | Stellan Skarsgård | Tom Hollander | Naomie Harris | Martin Klebba | David Schofield
Directors: Gore Verbinski
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Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack’s compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.

Catch and Release (2006)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Garner | Timothy Olyphant | Sam Jaeger | Kevin Smith | Juliette Lewis | Joshua Friesen | Fiona Shaw | Tina Lifford | Georgia Craig | Christopher Redman | Joyce Krenz | Sonja Bennett | Yorgo Constantine | Daniel A. Parker | Nancy Hower
Directors: Susannah Grant
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After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray Wheeler finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and, oddly enough, his old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom she?d previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to the last man she ever expected to fall for.

The Bucket List (2007)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Morgan Freeman | Sean Hayes | Beverly Todd | Rob Morrow | Ian Anthony Dale | Alfonso Freeman | Hugh B. Holub | Jordan Lund | Frank Maharajh | Jonathan Mangum | Richard McGonagle | Ramon Roullard | Christopher Stapleton | Roy Vongtama
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Corprate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander Ludwig | Christopher Eccleston | Ian McShane | Frances Conroy | James Cosmo | Jim Piddock | Amelia Warner | John Benjamin Hickey | Wendy Crewson | Emma Lockhart | Drew Tyler Bell | Edmund Entin | Gary Entin | Gregory Smith | Jordan J. Dale
Directors: David L. Cunningham
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The film tells the story of Will Stanton, a young man who learns he is the last of a group of warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark. Traveling back and forth through time, Will discovers a series of clues which lead him into a showdown with forces of unimaginable power. With the Dark once again rising, the future of the world rests in Will’s hands.

Beowulf (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ray Winstone | Robin Wright Penn | Anthony Hopkins | John Bilezikjian | Brice Martin | Sonje Fortag | Sharisse Baker-Bernard | Charlotte Salt | Julene Renee | Greg Ellis | Rik Young | Sebastian Roché | Leslie Harter Zemeckis | John Malkovich | Woody Schultz
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel’s mother, who begins killing out of revenge.

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Grey | Patrick Swayze | Jerry Orbach | Cynthia Rhodes | Jack Weston | Jane Brucker | Kelly Bishop | Lonny Price | Max Cantor | Charles 'Honi' Coles | Neal Jones | 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow | Wayne Knight | Paula Trueman | Alvin Myerovich
Directors: Emile Ardolino
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Set in the 1960s, Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes to a very respectable summer camp in the Catskills. Baby has grown up in privileged surrounds with her doctor father and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny, a man whose background is vastly different to her own. Attempting to impress him, Baby borrows money from her father to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny’s dance partner and it is during the rigorous training that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny’s friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby is forced to seek her father’s medical assistance. Her father then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with “those people”. In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny - ostensibly to apologize for her father’s rudeness - and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny’s bungalow the next morning and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft that last evening, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts. Attempting to defend her lover, Baby confesses that they were together that night - all night. This revelation causes a huge rift in the family and Baby makes an impassioned speech to her angry and bereft father. At the closing night performances, and although he has been fired and banned from attending - Johnny returns and takes the stage to tell everyone about the woman who stole his heart and changed his life before they have one, final dance together.

Failure to Launch (2006)

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew McConaughey | Sarah Jessica Parker | Zooey Deschanel | Justin Bartha | Bradley Cooper | Terry Bradshaw | Kathy Bates | Tyrel Jackson Williams | Katheryn Winnick | Rob Corddry | Patton Oswalt | Stephen Tobolowsky | Kate McGregor-Stewart | Adam Alexi-Malle | Gretchen Cleevely
Directors: Tom Dey
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Tripp is a thirty-five years old bachelor man that still lives with his parents, Al and Sue. Al and Sue hire the manipulative interventionist Paula to play Tripp’s girlfriend and seduce him, convincing Tripp to move out of their home. Paula and Tripp fall in love for each other, but Tripp’s best friends Ace and Demo accidentally find the truth about Paula and Demo discloses to Tripp, spoiling the plan and their relationship. When Tripp and Paula miss each other, their friends plot a scheme trying to arrange an encounter to fix the situation.

The Namesake (2006)

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: India | USA
Actors: Irfan Khan | Kal Penn | Jagannath Guha | Ruma Guha Thakurta | Tabu | Sandip Deb | Sukanya | Tanusree Shankar | Sabyasachi Chakravarthy | Tamal Sengupta | Dhruv Mookerji | Supriya Choudhury | Stuart Rudin | Heather MacRae | Sumitra Kanti
Directors: Mira Nair
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While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The family then buy their own house in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke spends time traveling, and Sonia moves to California, leaving Ashima all her by herself. The Ganguli family will be destined to travel to India again soon - this time under very different circumstances - and after all have endured life-changing events.

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lucas Black | Damien Marzette | Trula M. Marcus | Zachery Ty Bryan | Brandon Brendel | Daniel Booko | David V. Thomas | Amber Stevens | Ashika Gogna | Christian Salazar | Kevin Caira | Trey Sanford | Danny Ray McDonald II | Nikki Griffin | Vincent Laresca
Directors: Justin Lin
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An American teenager named Shawn Boswell is a loner in school, however he challenges his rival for an illegal street racing, and he totals his car in the end of the race. To avoid time in prison he is send to Tokyo to live with his father who is in the military. As soon as he arrives he discovers a new, fun but dangerous way of street racing in the underworld of the streets of Tokyo, Japan.

Oliver Twist (2005)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Barney Clark | Jeremy Swift | Ian McNeice | Richard Durden | Timothy Bateson | Andy de la Tour | Filip Hess | Andreas Papadopoulos | Laurie Athey | Joseph Tremain | Peter Copley | Andy Linden | John Nettleton | Tony Noble | Michael Heath
Directors: Roman Polanski
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Oliver Twist (Clark) is an orphan, who is soon kicked out of the orphanage and thrown into a terrible home. The bad treatment Oliver receives, forces him to run off to London. Here, he is soon picked up by the Artful Dodger (Eden) and taken to Fagin (Kingsley). Fagin treats Oliver well, but is it the life Oliver really wants?