A Walk to Remember

When a prank on a fellow high-school student goes wrong, popular but rebellious Landon Rollins Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion. His punishment is mandatory participation in various after-school activities, such as tutoring disadvantaged children and performing in the drama club's spring musical. At these functions he is forced to interact with quiet, bookish Jamie Elizabeth Sullivan (Mandy Moore), the only daughter of their church's pastor, a girl he has known for many years but to whom he has rarely if ever spoken. Their differing social statures leave them worlds apart, despite their close physical proximity.

When Landon has some trouble learning his lines, he asks Jamie for help. She agrees to help him if he promises not to fall in love with her. Landon laughs off the strange remark, believing Jamie to be the last person with whom he would ever fall in love. After all, Landon has access to the prettiest and most popular girls in town; and between her shy demeanor and old-fashioned wardrobe, Jamie doesn't exactly fall into that category.

Landon and Jamie begin practicing together at her house after school. The two form a tentative friendship, and Landon learns that Jamie has a wish list of all the things she hopes to do in her life, such as getting a tattoo and being in two places at once. One day, Jamie approaches Landon at his locker, where he is hanging out with some of his friends. When Jamie asks Landon if they are still on for practice tha

t afternoon he smirks, "In your dreams." His friends laugh and Landon's smirk falters as Jamie's face fills with betrayal and embarrassment. That afternoon Landon arrives at Jamie's house, hoping that Jamie will still agree to help him. But she refuses to open the door. When she eventually does, she sarcastically remarks that they can be "secret friends." She slams the door in his face when he agrees. Landon eventually learns the script by himself.

During the play, Jamie astounds Landon and the entire audience with her beauty and voice. Landon kisses Jamie during the play, which was not in the script, and Landon tries to get close to Jamie, but she repeatedly rejects him. It is only after a malicious joke played on Jamie by Landon's friends that Jamie agrees to get to know Landon after he punches out Dean and shuns Belinda (his friends who played the joke) and takes Jamie home. The two pursue a relationship. He asks if she will go to dinner with him, but she replies that she is not allowed to date. He wants the date so badly that he goes to her father in the church and asks him if he can take Jamie out to dinner. Her father says no. Landon asks for her father to give faith in him. He eventually says yes. He takes her out to dinner and dances with her, something he never did for anyone else. Landon then sets out to help her accomplish a few things on the list. One memorable date had Landon taking Jamie to the state line. He excitedly positions her on the line in just the right way, and when Jamie asks him what he's doing he tells her "You're in two places at once." Her face lights up with joy, as she realizes that Landon set out to make her impossible dreams come true. One evening, Landon asks her to find a star for him with her telescope. When she asks why he is looking for it, he replies, "I had it named for you." She embraces him and whispers "I love you" to him for the first time.

Jamie finally tells Landon that she has terminal leukemia and has stopped responding to treatments. Landon gets upset at first. Jamie tells him the reason why she didn't tell him because she was moving on with her life and using the time she had left but then Landon happened and she fell in love with him. Jamie starts to break down as she says to Landon "I do not need a reason to be angry with God," and she flees.

Landon goes to his doctor father's house and asks him to help Jamie. His father hesitates a bit and says that he needs to examine Jamie and know her medical history before he could do anything. Landon responds by leaving in a huff.

Landon and Jamie make up the next day, by hugging and he tells her that he will be there for her always. Soon, word gets out about Jamie's illness. Eric, Landon's best friend comes and tells him how sorry he is and that he didn't understand. Later, Dean and Belinda both come and apologize.

Jamie's cancer gets worse and she collapses in her father's arms. He rushes her to the hospital where he meets Landon. Landon doesn't leave Jamie's side until her father practically has to pry him away. Jamie's father sits with Jamie and tells her that "If I've kept you too close, it's because I wanted to keep you longer." Jamie tells her father that she loves him so much and he eventually breaks down into tears.

The next day, Landon comes to the hospital and sees Jamie being wheeled out of the ward. He asks Jamie what's going on and she replies by asking him to thank his father for the help. Landon asks Jamie's father what she means. He tells him that his father is going to pay for private homecare for Jamie. Landon is stunned, so later in that night, he knocks on his father's front door. His father answers. Landon whispers "thank you" and his father hugs him. With all the exhaustion and fear billowing over, Landon breaks down in tears in his dad's arms.

Landon continues to fulfill various wishes on Jamie's list, such as building her a telescope so she can see a comet. Her father who at first didn't approve of him helps out. After Jamie sees the comet through the telescope, Landon proposes marriage with Jamie accepting. Through this process, Landon and Jamie learn more about the nature of love. The movie ends with Jamie's death, but only after the couple are married in the same chapel as was Jamie's deceased mother, the event that topped Jamie's wish list. Landon himself becomes a better person through Jamie's memory, achieving the goals that he set out to do, like she did.

Four years later, Landon visits Jamie's father. It is obvious that Jamie helped him to focus and become a better person. For example, he reveals he has finished college and been accepted into medical school; prior to meeting her he had no plans for life after high school. He tells Jamie's father that he is sorry he could not grant Jamie's wish to witness "a miracle" before she died. Her father replies by saying, "She did. It was you."

While there are many similarities to the novel by Nicholas Sparks, many changes were made. On his personal website, Sparks explains the decisions behind the differences. For example, he and the producer decided to update the setting from the 1950s to the 1990s, worrying that a movie set in the 50s would fail to draw teens. "To interest them," he writes, "we had to make the story more contemporary." To make the update believable, Landon's pranks and behavior are worse than they are in the novel; as Sparks notes, "the things that teen boys did in the 1950s to be considered a little 'rough' are different than what teen boys in the 1990s do to be considered 'rough.'"

Sparks and the producer also changed the play in which Landon and Jamie appear. In the novel, Hegbert wrote a Christmas play that illustrated how he once struggled as a father. However, due to time constraints, the sub-plot showing how he overcame his struggles could not be included in the movie. Sparks was concerned that "people who hadn't read the book would question whether Hegbert was a good father", adding that "because he is a good father and we didn't want that question to linger, we changed the play."

A significant difference is that at the end of the novel, unlike the movie, it is ambiguous whether Jamie died even though during the 1950s cancer meant death. Sparks says that he had written the book knowing she would die, yet had "grown to love Jamie Sullivan", and so opted for "the solution that best described the exact feeling I had with regard to my sister at that point: namely, that I hoped she would live." In the novel, Landon's father is a congressman, but in the film he is a cardiologist who helps Jamie with her illness. Due to his career, he had enough money to pay Jamie's home medical attention.

Smaller differences also exist, such as when Jamie gives Landon her mother's book in the movie, she says "Don't worry, it's not a Bible". In the novel Jamie does give him her mother's Bible with her favorite passages underlined. In the novel Landon joins the school play after he is asked by Jamie to do so; in the movie he is forced to be in the school play.

Shark Tale

Shark Tale is a 2004 CGI comedy produced by DreamWorks Animation. In the story, a young fish (voiced by Will Smith) falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss to win favor with the mob boss' enemies and advance his own community standing. The movie additionally features the voices of Jack Black, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese, and Robert De Niro. Its original title was Sharkslayer, but the producers thought that this might provoke a degree of misunderstanding among the target audience of the film, children and families. Shark Tale is also one of the first three feature-length films to be made into a Game Boy Advance Video. It was released into theaters on October 1, 2004. Although the film was a commercial success it was a critical flop, especially when compared to the critically acclaimed Finding Nemo, a film with a similar theme, which also completely outshone Shark Tale commercially.

• Will Smith as Oscar, the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse. The film's protagonist, Oscar is an underachieving worker in the Whalewash of Reef City. He wants to be rich, but his schemes always fail and he owes five thousand clams to Sykes. When he can't pay that off, he is taken to the Wastelands, and is present when Frankie gets killed by an anchor. He then takes the credit for killing the shark and gets the title of "SharkSlayer". At first he is unaware that Frankie is the son of Don Lino.
• Jack Black as Lenny. A great white shark, Lenny isn't a meat-eater - he's a vegetarian, but he's scared of admitting this to his father, Don Lino. Lenny becomes frightened and depressed when his brother Frankie is killed by an accident, partly blaming himself for the accident. He runs away from home, and gets Oscar to hide him. Later on he disguises himself as a dolphin, befriends Oscar and Angie, and starts working at the Whale Wash. Lenny is the young (possibly teenage) son of Lino.
• Robert De Niro as Don Lino. Father of Frankie and Lenny, and the leader of a mob of criminally-inclined sharks, Lino is the main antagonist of the film. He wants Lenny and Frankie to take over the 'business' and run it together. When Frankie is killed and Lenny runs away he sends squads out to find Lenny. His home is a sunken luxury ship (Possibly Titanic). When Oscar pretends to defeat Lenny, he decides to make Oscar the "Catch-Of-The-Day". When he finds out Lenny is a vegetarian and dresses as a dolphin, he is furious and blames Oscar. He is a parody of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather - who was also once portrayed by Robert De Niro.
• Renée Zellweger as Angie. A marine angelfish and Oscar's best friend and coworker, Angie harbors a secret love for him and in order to pay off his debt to Sykes, she gives him her grandmother's Pink Pearl. Soon, when Oscar owns the title "Sharkslayer", Angie learns that Oscar lied in order to receive his fame.
• Angelina Jolie as Lola. A seductive gold-digger lion fish whom Oscar develops a love interest for, although it is soon obvious that Lola is only interested in Oscar for his fame and fortune. When he dumps her for Angie, she betrays them to the mob.
• Martin Scorsese as Sykes. Sykes is a porcupinefish, and also a loan shark whom Oscar owes five thousand clams to. He once worked for Don Lino but was thrown out and called in his debts to pay off the gangster. When Oscar loses the money in a bet, he orders Ernie and Bernie to send Oscar to the Wastelands. When Oscar owns the title of "Sharkslayer", he becomes his agent, with no idea that the whole thing was an accident.
• Ziggy Marley and Doug E. Doug as Ernie and Bernie. Two jellyfish and Oscar's co-workers, Ernie and Bernie are the two Jamaican bodyguards and henchmen of Sykes. Ernie and Bernie are obsessed at playing video games and enjoy jabbing Oscar with their vicious stingers. Ernie and Bernie have problems with answering the calls during the time at the Whalewash when Angie had been captured, as they kept messing up the business' motto. Once Oscar becomes famous, they learn to respect him and become his loyal friends. Even after he comes clean, they remain pals.
• Michael Imperioli as Frankie. The forty year old savage son of Lino, Frankie is Lenny's brother and a normal killer shark. Frankie was supposed to turn Lenny into a killer, and they stumble upon Oscar in the Wastelands. Frankie tells Lenny to attack him but when Lenny fakes the attack, Frankie becomes angry with him and after a brief chase, he prepares to eat Oscar, but is killed when an anchor falls on him. Oscar takes the credit for this accident.
• Vincent Pastore as Luca. Lino's "left-hand, right-hand man" thug, Luca is an octopus with a tendency to state the obvious. He is named after the character in The Godfather, Luca Brasi.
• Peter Falk as Don Feinberg. An elderly leopard shark who is a friend to Don Lino.
• David P. Smith as Crazy Joe. A deranged hermit crab who is Oscar's other friend and having a "crazy attitude", he normally lives in a dumpster near the Whalewash.
• Katie Current, the local reporter was voiced in different regions by different real-life news presenters. At the time, Katie Couric hosted the Today Show in America, and her name was parodied in the film to which she lent her voice. In the Australian release, then local Today Show co-host Tracy Grimshaw dubbed the lines, as did Fiona Phillips of the UK's GMTV for the UK release of the film. Cristina Parodi of Italy's Verissimo provided the Italian version of the character.

I Am Sam

Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a mentally challenged man with the mental equivalency of a 7-year-old, is living in Los Angeles and is single-handedly raising his daughter Lucy (Hannah Dakota Fanning), whom he fathered from his homeless ex-wife who wanted nothing to do with Lucy and left him the day of her birth. Although Sam provides a loving and caring environment for the 7-year-old Lucy, she soon surpasses her father's mental capacity. Questions arise about Sam’s ability to care for Lucy and a custody case is brought to court.

Sam is a man with a mental age of seven who is well adjusted and has a great support system consisting of four similarly developmentally disabled men. His neighbor Annie (Dianne Wiest), a piano-player and agoraphobe, befriends Sam and takes care of Lucy when Sam cannot.

Sam works at Starbucks bussing tables. Sam is popular with the customers, whom he addresses by name and favorite coffee. His job gets difficult when Lucy starts grabbing objects, making a woman spill iced coffee down her shirt. In a humorous, but innocent exchange, Sam tries to remove an ice cube from the startled woman's cleavage. Sam then brings Lucy to his neighbor and baby Lucy croons, "Annie!" Sam says, "Her first word was Annie." Flustered but flattered, she retorts, "And people worry you aren't smart," and agrees to function as Lucy's babysitter.

Lucy is as precocious as Sam is backwards. Sam loves reading Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss to her, but when she starts reading "real hard" books like Stellaluna, she balks at reading the word "different" because she doesn't want to be smarter than her dad. She knows he is "not like other dads", but that's all right with her because he is loving, taking her to the park and to International House of Pancakes (every Wednesday, because "Wednesday is IHOP night").

When they decide to go to Big Boy for a change, Sam causes a disturbance because he cannot get the kind of French pancakes he is accustomed to. At the school Halloween party, he dresses as Paul McCartney but embarrasses his daughter by drawing undue attention. Other kids tease her, calling her dad a "retard". She tells one boy that she is adopted. This causes a crisis at her birthday party, which results in an unexpected visit from a social worker who takes Lucy away. A judge allows him only two supervised, two-hour visits per week.

Sam's friends recommend that he hire Rita (Michelle Pfeiffer), a lawyer. He shows up at her office and starts spelling out his situation while she juggles coffee orders to her assistant, Patricia. Socially, Sam is rather high-functioning and more together in many ways than his high-class, respected lawyer whose marriage is falling apart and whose son hates her.

Sam surprises Rita at a party. Stunned, she announces that she's taking his case pro bono, because others see her as cold and heartless.

Rita begrudgingly works with Sam to help him keep his parental rights, but chaos arises when Lucy convinces Sam to help her run away from the foster home she is being kept in during the trial. Over the course of the trial, Sam gets a new job at Pizza Hut and Annie leaves her apartment for the first time in years. Sam also helps Rita with her family problems, and helps her to realize how much her son really means to her. Sam also convinces her to leave her husband, because Rita told him that he cheated on her.

During the trial, however, Sam breaks down, after being convinced that he is not capable of taking care of Lucy.

Meanwhile, Lucy is placed with a foster family who plan to adopt her. Lucy often runs away from her foster parents in the middle of the night to go see Sam, who moved into a larger apartment closer to her, but each time Sam brings her back.

In the end, the foster family who planned on adopting Lucy lets Sam have custody of her. Sam says that Lucy still needs a mother and asks if the foster mother would like to help raise Lucy. The movie ends with Lucy's soccer game where Sam is the referee. In attendance are Lucy's former foster family, the newly divorced Rita and her son, with whom she has renewed her relationship, along with Annie and Sam's other friends.

Casper

Carrigan Crittenden (Cathy Moriarty), a selfish and cruel woman, is furious to learn from her late father's lawyer Mr. Rugg (Ben Stein) that she has only inherited an old house, Whipstaff Manor, in her father's will. Infuriated, she tosses the will and deed to Whipstaff into a fireplace but it is rescued by her attorney and close associate Dibs (Eric Idle). Dibs discovers one of the will's pages has an inscription on it describing treasure hidden in the manor. Carrigan and Dibs visit the old manor, but find it is haunted by four ghosts, Casper (voice of Malachi Pearson), a friendly but lonely young ghost and his three obnoxious uncles, the Ghostly Trio: Stretch (voice of Joe Nipote), Stinke (voice of Joe Alaskey) & Fatso (voice of Brad Garrett). The two try to remove the ghosts through three various ways:

• First, Carrigan and Dibs try using Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello) to attempt an exorcism. It doesn't go well as he leaves the house with his head on backwards.
• Then, they call in Ghostbuster Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) to bust them. They end up scaring him away as he quotes to Carrigan and Dibs "Who You Gonna Call? Someone Else" upon his departure.
• They also try to have a demolition crew destroy the building. The Ghostly Trio drives them away.

Casper, who longs for a friend, watches a news report about a therapist to the dead, Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman). His daughter, Kat (Christina Ricci), is seen on television and Casper instantly falls in love with her. Casper manages to play the news report to Carrigan who decides to contact Dr. Harvey.

Dr. Harvey and Kat travel to Friendship, Maine where the manor is located. Kat and her father have been travelling around the country for years, Dr. Harvey in search for his his deceased wife Amelia as a ghost. Carrigan and Dibs meet them at the manor, Carrigan asking Dr. Harvey to remove the ghosts as quickly as possible. However, things are complicated when Kat and her father meet the ghosts face-to-face; Casper attempts to befriend them while the Ghostly Trio cause mayhem for Dr. Harvey, causing them to confront him to break out.

The next day, Casper and Kat become friends properly. Kat goes to her high school for her first day, meeting Vic DePhillippi and his pompous girlfriend Amber Whitmire, one of the self-proclaimed coolest girls in the school, and the most boring in her class. When Kat reveals to her new classmates that she lives in Whipstaff, her classmates, who have all heard of it, decide to have their upcoming Halloween dance there. Back at the manor, Dr. Harvey reveals his goals to the Ghostly Trio who take a liking to him.

Kat finds Casper's old toy room in the attic and Casper remembers his past life in Belle Époque, including how he died from a fatal illness. His father attempted to revive him by building a machine called Lazarus. Casper remembers its location and takes Kat to it via a secret passage leading to an underground laboratory. Carrigan and Dibs follow, learning that a special formula, with which there is only enough for one person, is used by the machine. They steal it and realize they could use it to rob banks, the process involving them dying, stealing the money as ghosts and then returning to life using Lazarus. The two try to kill each other but it ends with Carrigan falling down a cliff and shes dies and she returns as a ghost. Carrigan steals the treasure chest from the manor's vault and orders Dibs to revive her, but he refuses and she throws him out of the window. Casper and Kathleen trick Carrigan into claiming she has no unfinished business, causing her to pass onto the afterlife against her will. With Carrigan and Dibs now gone, Casper reveals that his treasure wouldn't have been valuable to Carrigan anyway, because it turns out to be a baseball autographed by Casper's favorite Brooklyn Dodgers player, Duke Snider.

Just as Casper is about to use the machine to revive himself, Dr. Harvey shows up as a ghost, having died during a "happy hour" with the Ghostly Trio. Realizing that Kat needs her father alive, Casper uses the Lazarus machine to revive him, giving up his own chance of returning to life. The Halloween party begins and Kat ends up being the only person without a partner. A boy (played by Devon Sawa) appears before her and they dance. He reveals himself to be Casper, having been visited by the angel of Amelia Harvey (Amy Brenneman) and revived temporarily as a reward for saving her husband's life. Casper and Kat kiss just as Casper turns back into a ghost at the final stroke of 10, scaring all the Halloween Party guests away. However, he doesn't mind, and neither does Kathleen. The Ghostly Trio then start playing a rock and roll version of Casper the Friendly Ghost and Kat, Casper and Dr. Harvey dance around the hall.

• A scene was filmed with Zelda Rubinstein reprising her role from Poltergeist (1982) (shooting out of a chimney and shouting "Go toward the light!") but was not included in the final cut.
• Items from the set are on display at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.
• This was the first film with a computer-animated title character.
• The last name of the Christina Ricci's and Bill Pullman's characters is "Harvey". Harvey Comics is the long time publisher of Casper the Friendly Ghost.
• In the breakfast scene, Casper's uncles enter the kitchen twirling like helicopters while Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" plays in the background, and Stretch later says "I love the smell of fleshies in the morning!" All this is a direct reference to Apocalypse Now (1979).
• A musical scene, deemed too expensive by the film's producers, was scripted and filmed, entitled "Lucky Enough to Be A Ghost" in which the three ghosts sing about their many mental problems during a session with Dr. Harvey, but the animation would have cost a few million dollars.
• The scene in which Casper is watching television, Fred Rogers of PBS series Mister Roger's Neighborhood had a small cameo. Casper then turns to a channel showing an actual clip of a 1950s Casper cartoon, "Once Upon a Rhyme". The clip shows the Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe screaming "g-g-g-ghost!" with chattering false teeth. An angry Casper immediately changes to another channel.
• Casper also starred in a Pepsi commercial that can be seen on the original VHS release. In this commercial, Casper attempts to take a can of Pepsi through the side of a refrigerator. He then looks inside the refrigerator and realizes that the can could not go through the fridge like he can prompting him to say "Aw, man" in a depressed tone of voice. The Pepsi red and blue logo fades in above a slogan stating "Nothing Else Is A Pepsi".
• In the scene where Dr. Harvey washes his face, his face changes into four different people who make uncredited cameos. First, he becomes Clint Eastwood, then into Rodney Dangerfield, next into Mel Gibson, and finally into the Crypt Keeper.
• The first song played in the party at Kathleen's house is "Same Song" by Digital Underground. That song was featured on the soundtrack to the 1991 movie Nothing But Trouble. Dan Aykroyd who made a cameo appearance earlier in the film, starred in the movie, along with writing and directing.
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The Sound of Music

In Salzburg, Austria, Maria, played by Julie Andrews, is studying to become a nun. Maria is a free spirit and Reverend Mother (Peggy Wood) is not sure if convent life is right for her. So the Reverend Mother sends her temporarily to be the governess to seven children of a widower naval commander, Captain Georg Ritter von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). Maria and the Captain immediately disagree on the way the children are treated. The Captain, still stricken with the grief of his deceased wife and not wanting to be reminded of the joy they once had (music is expressly forbidden), has been raising them according to the principles of military/navy discipline. He shows this because he is very controlling and stern to the children. He blows whistles at the children when he gives them orders and makes them wear uniforms. Maria, on the other hand, wants them to enjoy life as children while they can. The children are: Liesl (16) (Charmian Carr), who originally thinks she doesn't need a governess; Friedrich (14) (Nicholas Hammond), Louisa (13) (Heather Menzies), Kurt (11) (Duane Chase), Brigitta (10) (Angela Cartwright), Marta (7) (Debbie Turner), who likes the color pink (Maria does too) and Gretl (5) (Kym Karath).

The children, mischievous and initially hostile to Maria, eventually come to love her when she introduces them to the pleasures of music and singing. After a confrontation between Maria and the Captain, at the end of which he orders her to return to the abbey, he unexpectedly hears the children singing. He softens, tells Maria that she was right, and asks her to stay. One of the Captain's friends, Max Dettweiler (Richard Haydn), tries to persuade the Captain to let the children perform in his concert. Maria finds herself falling in love with the captain, who seems likely to marry the wealthy Baroness Elsa Schraeder (Eleanor Parker). The Baroness becomes jealous of Maria's talents and the effect she has on the Captain. She convinces her to leave during a grand party at the house by exploiting Maria's inner conflict about becoming a nun and her discomfort at the Captain's obvious affection towards her. Shortly thereafter, the Captain announces his intention to marry the Baroness Elsa. However, she doesn't have good rapport with the children.

Maria talks with the Reverend Mother, who convinces Maria she must "climb every mountain" to find God's will for her life and how God "wants her to spend her love." Maria decides to return to the von Trapp family to explore where these feelings will grow. Before, Maria felt that her attraction to the Captain was improper, given her assignment and her role at the convent. Upon Maria's return, the Captain confesses to the Baroness that he is in love with Maria and the Baroness decides to leave for Vienna after realizing marriage between them would not work. Afterwards, the Captain and Maria reveal their feelings for each other in Something Good and finally wed.

In a subplot, Liesl, the oldest of the children, falls for a messenger named Rolfe (Daniel Truhitte). At first he encourages Liesl to sneak out and meet him whenever he delivers a telegram to her father, such as in one memorable episode where they are dancing in the rain. The two become estranged after he joins the Nazi Party, as he realizes that her father has no regard for him and does not support Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Rolfe subtly warns the von Trapps about the danger they face for not obeying the summons of the Reich.

The Third Reich takes power in Austria as part of the Anschluss and tries to force Captain von Trapp back into military service. The Captain, unwilling to serve the Reich, delays the matter by insisting to Zeller (Ben Wright), the Gauleiter, or party leader for the district, that he is part of the von Trapp Family Singers and must appear with them during a performance at the Salzburg Music Festival, in a guarded theater. After they fail to appear for their curtain call, a search party is formed to track the family fugitives. Rolfe alone discovers the von Trapps hiding in a cemetery at Maria's old convent, and after a brief confrontation with the Captain, alerts his fellow soldiers to their presence. The soldiers give chase as the family flees, but they are unable to catch up with the von Trapps: their vehicles have been sabotaged by the nuns at Maria's former abbey. The von Trapps are free. The film ends with the von Trapps hiking over the Alps to Switzerland.

Several key members of the cast had their singing voices dubbed by others: Peggy Wood, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Mother Abbess, was dubbed by Margery McKay after Wood discovered she could not handle the high registers of "Climb Ev'ry Mountain." Anna Lee, who played Sister Margaretta, was dubbed by Marie Greene.

Originally Plummer was slated to do his own singing and trained during the film and pre-recorded his singing vocals. However, Robert Wise and the creative team felt his singing voice, while good, was overshadowed by the excellent singing voice of Julie Andrews.Plummer agreed with the assessment, so they enlisted Bill Lee to "ghost" Plummer's singing.

There were once rumors that some or all of the children's voices were dubbed. Wise insists that none of their voices were dubbed, though at times other children's voices were added to theirs for a stronger effect; the extra singers included Randy Perkins, Diane Burt, Sue McBain, and Darlene Farnon, sister of Charmian Carr (Liesl). Farnon sang the high note for Duane Chase, who played Kurt, in the song, "So Long, Farewell," because it was well beyond Chase's vocal range.

The movie features a rare onscreen performance by Marni Nixon, who plays Sister Sophia. Nixon dubbed the singing voices for many famous movie stars, including Natalie Wood in West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. Because Julie Andrews, who originally played Eliza in the stage version of My Fair Lady, was not selected to reprise her role in that film and Marni Nixon had ultimately dubbed Audrey Hepburn's singing voice, the cast and crew were concerned how Andrews would react when they met for the first time.

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… [E]verybody was sort of worried that Julie would be upset that I was hired, because they imagined that she'd have this great envy of me because I had done the dubbing on a part that she should have done in My Fair Lady. And when they said, "Julie, this is Marni Nixon," everybody was kind of 'how is she going to react?' And she stood up, strolled across the room, and extended her hand … [and said,] "Marni, I'm such a fan of yours." Everybody went 'ahh'; you know, it was going to be all right.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. Based on the 1964 Roald Dahl children's novel of the same name, the film also stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and is the second film adaptation of the book. It is also the second film based on a Roald Dahl novel worked on by Tim Burton after producing James and the Giant Peach. It became a box office success and received positive critical reaction, receiving an Academy Award nomination at the 78th Academy Awards for Best Costume Design. The film was released in North America on July 15, 2005 by Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures.

In a chocolate factory, a purple-gloved hand (Willy Wonka's) places five Golden Tickets randomly among hundreds of thousands of Wonka Bars on a conveyor belt, which are then boxed and shipped across the world. Near the factory, Charlie Bucket lives in a small, dilapidated house with his parents and four grandparents. Mr. Bucket provides the only family income by screwing caps on toothpaste tubes at a nearby plant, and family meals consist only of watered-down cabbage soup.

Charlie has long been enthralled with Wonka and his chocolate, so much that he has built a scale replica of his factory entirely out of defective toothpaste caps sneaked home by Mr. Bucket. Grandpa Joe tells Charlie about the time he worked for Wonka, and how Wonka was commissioned by an Indian prince named Prince Pondicherry to build a palace entirely out of chocolate, which promptly melted in the boiling sun after he ignored Wonka's advice to eat it. Plans to rebuild it were curtailed, however, due to problems concerning spies amid Wonka's staff, who stole his secret recipes and sold them to rival candymakers. As a result, Wonka fires all of his workers and shuts down the factory, which later inexplicably reopens despite no new employees being hired.

The next day, Charlie hears about a contest on television: five Golden Tickets have been placed in five random Wonka Bars worldwide, and the winners will be given a full tour of the factory as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate, while one ticketholder will be given a special prize at the end of the tour. Wonka's sales subsequently skyrocket, which causes a rise in cavities and boosts toothpaste sales. With the upswing in profits, the toothpaste factory decides to automate and replaces its workers (including Mr. Bucket) with faster-working machines.

The first four tickets are found fairly quickly. The recipients are Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous German boy; Veruca Salt, a very spoiled English girl; Violet Beauregarde, a competitive gum chewer, and Mike Teavee, an arrogant television and video game addict. The bar Charlie gets for his birthday does not contain a ticket, and Grandpa Joe secretly gives Charlie a silver dollar for a second bar, which also comes up empty. After overhearing that the final ticket was found in Russia, Charlie finds a ten-dollar note half-buried in the snow while on his way home, and he purchases a Wonka Bar at a newsstand. At the exact moment it was revealed that the Russian ticket was forged, Charlie discovers the real fifth ticket inside the wrapper. After the euphoria dies down, he tells his family that he had received an offer of $500 for the ticket and that the money was more important. Grandpa George rebuffs Charlie by telling him that money is commonplace but there are only five Golden Tickets in the world.

Charlie and the other ticket holders are greeted by an automated puppet show that sings "The Wonka Welcome Song" and presents an unoccupied throne; fireworks then set the puppets alight and cause them to melt and break down. Wonka first appears as having mingled into the group to watch the show as well. During the tour, each of the bad children disobey Wonka's orders after being tempted by something related to their individual character flaws, and suffer various consequences: Augustus is sucked up a chocolate extraction pipe after falling into a chocolate river from which he was drinking, Violet is turned into an oversized blueberry after chewing unstable three-course-meal gum, Veruca is pushed into a garbage chute by worker squirrels after she tries to take one as a pet, and Mike is shrunk with a teleporter that he uses on himself. The Oompa-Loompas sing a song of morality after each elimination. The children leave the factory with an exaggerated characteristic or deformity related to their demise.

Wonka then invites Charlie to come live and work in the factory with him, and reveals that the purpose of the Golden Tickets and the tour was to make the "least rotten" child the heir of his factory. The only catch is that Charlie must leave his family behind, because Wonka believes family is a hindrance while a chocolatier needed creative freedom. A subplot told in flashbacks involves Wonka's dentist father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka, denying his son candy because of the potential risk to his teeth. After sneaking a leftover piece of chocolate from the fireplace (which Dr. Wonka had previously used to burn all his Halloween candy), he is instantly hooked. He ran away from home to follow his dreams of becoming a chocolatier.

As his family is the most important thing in his life, Charlie refuses Wonka's offer. His family is living contently a while later, as his father gets a new job at the factory maintaining the machine that had originally replaced him. However, Wonka is too depressed to make candy the way he used to, and turns to Charlie for advice. Charlie decides to help Wonka confront and reconcile with his estranged father; Wonka finally realizes the value of family, while his father learns to accept his son for who he is, and not what he does. In the end, Charlie has the chocolate factory, and Wonka has patched up with his family.

• Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, the highly imaginative but disturbing and antisocial chocolatier who invites five children to a tour of his factory. Throughout the film, he has flashbacks recalling his damaged relationship with his dentist father. During these flashbacks, he is played by Blair Dunlop.
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• Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket, a soft-spoken and optimistic child who lives in poverty with his parents and two sets of grandparents, who share the same bed. He idolizes Willy Wonka and his factory enough to create an elaborate model of both made entirely out of deformed toothpaste caps. Despite Wonka's offer to have Charlie abandon his family in favor of becoming Wonka's heir, Charlie declines out of his love for his own family, but later accepts when Wonka changes the offer in allowing them to come.
• David Kelly as Grandpa Joe, Charlie's lively grandfather. He once worked for Wonka in his small corner store, and now accompanies Charlie in his tour of the factory.
• Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Bucket, the mother of Charlie Bucket. Because of the Buckets' financial situation, she can only afford to use cabbage to make all of her family's meals.

• Noah Taylor as Mr. Bucket, the father of Charlie Bucket. He works for the Smilex Toothpaste factory until he is laid off to make way for a new machine.
• Missi Pyle as Mrs. Scarlett Beauregarde, the mother of Violet and her chaperone during the tour of the factory.
• James Fox as Mr. Salt, Veruca's father and chaperone during the tour of the factory who runs a profitable nut business.
• Deep Roy as the Oompa-Loompas, a cocoa bean-loving people from Loompaland who agree to work in Wonka's factory in exchange for all the cocoa beans they could ever want. All the Oompa Loompas except one (see Geoffrey Holder) were voiced by film composer Danny Elfman.
• Christopher Lee as Dr. Wilbur Wonka, Willy's dentist father, who forbids his son from consuming candy.
• Adam Godley as Mr. Teavee, Mike's father and chaperone during the tour of the factory. He is also a high-school geography teacher, which is annouced in a scene of the film.
• Franziska Troegner as Mrs. Gloop, Augustus' mother and chaperone during the tour of the factory.
• AnnaSophia Robb as Violet Beauregarde, a competitive girl who has an obsession with bubble gum.
• Julia Winter as Veruca Salt, a child who is spoiled by her rich parents.
• Jordan Fry as Mike Teavee, a brash and hyperactive, but gifted, child who is addicted to television and video games, but who hates chocolate. He used a very complex mathematical formula which resulted in his being required to buy only one Wonka bar to win his Golden Ticket.
• Philip Wiegratz as Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous German child who is always seen eating something.
• Liz Smith as Grandma Georgina, a senile grandparent of Charlie.
• Eileen Essell as Grandma Josephine, another of Charlie's grandparents.
• David Morris as Grandpa George, a pessimistic grandparent of Charlie who doesn't believe Charlie will go to the factory.
• Geoffrey Holder as the Narrator, who is revealed to be an Oompa-Loompa at the end of the film.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The Order of the Phoenix attempts to bring Harry Potter to The Burrow just prior to his seventeenth birthday but are ambushed by Death Eaters. Harry's wand, seemingly of its own accord, countercurses Voldemort and Harry escapes. Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour gives Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger bequests from Albus Dumbledore's will: the Deluminator for Ron, a first edition of a children's book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, for Hermione, and a Snitch, bearing the mysterious phrase "I open at the close", for Harry. The Ministry refuses to give Harry Godric Gryffindor's Sword, which Dumbledore also left to him.

At Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding reception, a Patronus arrives, announcing that Scrimgeour is dead, that the Ministry of Magic has fallen under Voldemort's control, and that Death Eaters are on their way to the reception. Harry, Ron, and Hermione take refuge in 12 Grimmauld Place, which Sirius Black had left to Harry. Harry realizes that Sirius's brother Regulus was the "R.A.B" who took the Locket Horcrux.^[HP6] Hermione recalls seeing such a locket in the house.^[HP5] The house-elf Kreacher had kept the locket, but Mundungus Fletcher had stolen it from Kreacher and given it to Dolores Umbridge. Using Polyjuice Potion, the trio infiltrate the Ministry of Magic and steal the locket, but they are forced to flee to the countryside with no means to destroy it. Harry and Hermione deduce that Gryffindor's sword can destroy Horcruxes, which is why Dumbledore attempted to leave it to Harry, and learn that the one kept by the Ministry is a fake. Ron, however, abandons the mission and goes home.

Harry and Hermione look for the sword in Godric's Hollow, Harry's birthplace as well as Gryffindor and Dumbledore's hometown. While there, they find a grave for Ignotus Peverell with a mysterious symbol on it. They are then ambushed by Nagini and Voldemort but escape due to Hermione's quick Blasting Curse, which also damages Harry's wand and knocks him unconscious. When he awakens, he and Hermione are in a forest. At night, Harry follows a silver doe-shaped Patronus to a pond containing the real Sword of Gryffindor. As Harry tries to retrieve it, the Locket Horcrux (which he is wearing) strangles him. Just then, Ron returns (using a secret power of the Deluminator) and rescues him and the sword. Harry directs Ron to destroy the Horcrux with it, and he does. Ron informs him that Voldemort's name is now Tabooed: speaking it summons the Death Eaters. Additionally, Ron supplies Harry with a Hawthorn wand that he managed to procure from a group of Snatchers. Harry, Ron and Hermione visit Xenophilius Lovegood, whom they had seen wearing the mysterious symbol briefly discussed at the wedding earlier, in order to learn its meaning. Lovegood explains that it represents the three legendary Deathly Hallows -- the Elder Wand (the most powerful wand in the world), the Resurrection Stone (which can bring back the dead), and the Invisibility Cloak (a true invisibility cloak that never wears out) -- discussed in a story in The Tales of Beedle the Bard that uses the symbol. According to the story, three brothers took these as "gifts" from Death. Lovegood tells them that "believers" in the Hallows think that the three brothers were the three Peverell brothers. Harry realizes that Luna is suspiciously absent, and Lovegood admits that Death Eaters abducted his daughter and are coming for Harry and his friends now, desperately hoping against hope that by doing so, Luna will be returned to him unscathed. The trio barely escapes.

The mysterious recurring symbol is revealed to represent the legendary Deathly Hallows.

Despite Ron and Hermione's skepticism, Harry believes that Dumbledore's gifts indicate that the Deathly Hallows are real and that Dumbledore had all three (although, amazingly, by his own knowing actions, not at the same time- therefore he is not considered to be a Master of Death). They include Harry's Invisibility Cloak and the ring Dumbledore was wearing (the Resurrection Stone),^[HP6] which is probably inside the Snitch. He concludes Voldemort is pursuing the Elder Wand, which was buried with Dumbledore at Hogwarts. Harry then accidentally speaks Voldemort's name, and the trio are captured and taken to the cellar of Malfoy Manor, with Harry disguised. Finding Gryffindor's Sword, Bellatrix Lestrange fears the trio has broken into her Gringotts vault and indicates that something else of Voldemort's is there. She tortures Hermione for information. Harry calls for help using a two-way mirror piece, in which he sees an eye. Dobby then apparates into the cellar and rescues the other prisoners, which include Luna, the goblin Griphook and wand-maker Ollivander. Lucius Malfoy sends Wormtail to the cellar to check on the noise. Harry reminds Wormtail of his life debt.^[HP3] Wormtail hesitates and is then fatally strangled by his own silver hand^[HP4] (which forced Wormtail's allegiance to Lord Voldemort or else kill him at the slightest sign of betrayal)^[45]. Harry and Ron rescue Hermione; Ron disarms Bellatrix and Harry disarms Draco Malfoy. Dobby reappears and disapparates with them, but he is struck by Bellatrix's knife during the escape and dies.

Harry now has to decide whether to chase Horcruxes (battle Voldemort, and follow Dumbledore's instructions) or Hallows (and battle Death as he learns more about Dumbledore's past). He chooses to seek the Horcruxes and discusses breaking into Gringotts with Griphook. Ollivander confirms that the Elder Wand exists and that a wand will transfer its allegiance if its owner is defeated or disarmed. Aided by Griphook, Harry, Ron and Hermione penetrate Gringotts and retrieve Hufflepuff's Cup from the Lestrange vault, although they lose Gryffindor's sword to Griphook in the process and are thus unable to destroy the Horcrux. Voldemort takes the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb. Through his mental connection to Harry, he inadvertently reveals that a Horcrux is hidden at Hogwarts. Harry, Ron and Hermione head to Hogsmeade to find a way in. The bartender at the Hog's Head Inn turns out to be Aberforth Dumbledore. He tells Harry the story of his family, including his brother and Gellert Grindelwald's role in his sister Ariana's accidental death. Harry realizes that Albus Dumbledore had been begging to die in his sister's place during his delirium while attempting to retrieve the Locket Horcrux.^[HP6] Aberforth smuggles the trio into Hogwarts with the help of Neville Longbottom, who has assumed the leadership of Dumbledore's Army at Hogwarts, and other members of the Order and Dumbledore's Army begin showing up. Luna suggests that the fifth Horcrux could be Ravenclaw's lost diadem. Hermione destroys the Cup Horcrux with basilisk venom (procuring a fang from the Chamber of Secrets- Ron duplicating the sounds he heard Harry make in order to open it). Harry recalls seeing the diadem in the Room of Requirement when he hid his Potions book the previous year.^[HP6] Harry, Ron and Hermione enter, but Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle ambush them there. Crabbe mishandles the powerful Fiendfyre spell, killing himself and destroying the Diadem Horcrux. Harry saves Draco's life in their escape.

The Battle of Hogwarts commences between the Order of the Phoenix and most of the Hogwarts faculty and student body on one side and the Death Eaters, the Ministry of Magic, the Slytherins and the giants on the other. Fred Weasley, Remus Lupin and Tonks are among the dead. Harry follows Voldemort to the Shrieking Shack, where Voldemort deliberately kills Snape to become the Elder Wand's master. Harry captures the dying Snape's last memories and takes them to Dumbledore's Pensieve. He learns that Snape had loved Harry's mother Lily since they were children, and the silver doe was Snape's Patronus as a result. Snape had turned double agent for Dumbledore to save Lily's life and had remained loyal even after her death. When he acquired the Resurrection Stone, Dumbledore was cursed by the Ring Horcrux, causing his dead hand, but Snape had saved his life by containing the curse.^[HP6] Dumbledore then ordered Snape to kill him if needed, in order to spare Draco. Snape's last memory is Dumbledore's conclusion that Harry himself is a Horcrux, which had created the connection between Harry and Voldemort. Harry must die to finally kill Voldemort.

Harry asks Neville Longbottom to kill Nagini if he gets the chance and then heads for Voldemort's camp in the Forbidden Forest. On the way, Harry realizes the meaning of the clue on the Snitch, says, "I am about to die", and retrieves the Resurrection Stone, which he uses to summon the spirits of his parents, Sirius, and Lupin to accompany him. Voldemort casts the "Avada Kedavra" curse at Harry, and Harry dies (along with his Horcrux). He awakens in an ethereal place that looks like (to him) King's Cross station, unsure whether he is alive or dead. Dumbledore appears and congratulates Harry on choosing to destroy Horcruxes instead of chasing the Hallows, as Dumbledore had done in his quest to revive Ariana. He explains that, just as Voldemort cannot die while his soul fragments remain alive, Voldemort cannot kill Harry because he used Harry's blood in his resurrection.^[HP4] Harry then is presented with the choice of easily succumbing to Death (passing on) or to return to the world of the living in order to continue to struggle against Voldemort.

Harry revives but feigns death. Voldemort orders Narcissa Malfoy to check Harry. She realises that Harry is alive, asks him very quietly about Draco (the only person for whom she now cares), then, once Harry (barely whispering back) informs her that he is, tells Voldemort that Harry is dead. Harry's still body is carried to Hogwarts by the weeping Hagrid as Voldemort's trophy. Voldemort resumes his assault on Hogwarts. When Neville defies the Death Eaters, the Sorting Hat is summoned by Voldemort. He puts it on Neville's head and sets it on fire. Neville draws Gryffindor's Sword out of it and decapitates Nagini, destroying the final Horcrux. Harry quickly hides under his Invisibility Cloak as reinforcements arrive for his side in the form of the centaurs and the house-elves, led by Kreacher.

Voldemort uses the Elder Wand to blast multiple opponents off their feet. Harry then takes off the Invisibility Cloak and confronts Voldemort, informing him that Draco (not Snape) had become the Elder Wand's master by disarming Dumbledore.^[HP6] This allegiance was transferred to Harry when he won Draco's wand, and so Harry (not Voldemort) is the master of the true Elder Wand. The two circle each other and Harry offers, despite all the strife and sorrow he has caused, Voldemort a final chance at redemption. Voldemort, playing to character, vehemently declines and they both become (further) prepared to act at a split moment's notice. As in their first duel,^[HP4] Harry then casts Expelliarmus, while Voldemort casts the killing curse Avada Kedavra. The Elder Wand's allegiance prevents the spell from harming Harry, and the Killing Curse rebounds off Harry's disarming spell, thereby killing Voldemort. After the climatic battle, Harry decides that the Elder Wand will be returned to Dumbledore's tomb, that the Resurrection Stone will be left in the Forbidden Forest, and that the Invisibility Cloak will continue to be a family heirloom, as Harry is the last descendant of Ignotus Peverell. Before returning the Elder Wand, Harry uses its power to repair his own wand. By giving up the Hallows, Harry, the first person to have possessed all three (and therefore the first, and only, Master of Death), shows that he has come to terms with the notion of life ending for everyone, is not afraid of death, and demonstrates a strength beyond that of any other character in the series (including Dumbledore, Voldemort, and Snape).

Nineteen years later, Harry and Ginny Weasley are married and have three children; Ron and Hermione are married and have two children; Draco Malfoy is married with one child. The families meet to send their children on the Hogwarts Express for the school year. The Lupins' son, Teddy, also is mentioned to be for all intents and purposes part of the family and seems to be having a romantic relationship with Bill and Fleur's daughter. It is shown that Harry has come to the realization that both Dumbledore and Snape are heroes (having named one of his sons after the two) and has come to accept the Slytherin house. The book ends with these final words: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."