PUSH

GENRE:  Action/ Sci-Fi/ Thriller
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Djimon Hounsou
DIRECTOR:  Paul McGuigan
WRITER:  David Bourla

PLOT:  Cassie and Nick have special abilities and finds that they must locate a girl named Kira before Division does.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  X-Men, X2, I Am Number Four

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WAR OF THE WORLDS

GENRE:  Sci-fi/ Action/ Adventure/ Drama
MADE:  2005
CAST:  Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins
DIRECTOR:  Steven Spielberg
WRITER:  Josh Friedman, David Koepp, H.G. Wells

PLOT:  Ray is divorced and it's his weekend to take the kids, unfortunately he has his work cut out for him as he tries to get his kids to their mother during a machine-alien invasion.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Jurassic Park, Aliens, The Abyss, Independence Day

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CORALINE

GENRE:  Animation/ Adventure/ Family
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman
DIRECTOR:  Henry Selick
WRITER:  Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman

PLOT:  Coraline and her parents have just moved and as Coraline ventures out to look around her new home and town she comes upon a new world that mimics her own.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Nine, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas

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MAN ON FIRE

GENRE:  Action/ Crime/ Drama
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning
DIRECTOR:  Tony Scott
WRITER:  A.J. Quinnell, Brian Helgeland

PLOT:  Creasy, an ex-assassin is hired to protect a family, when things go awry and little Pita is kidnapped Creasy seeks vengeance.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Sleepers, Training Day, Taken

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THE RUNAWAYS

GENRE:  Biographical/ Drama/ Music
MADE:  2010
CAST:  Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon
DIRECTOR:  Floria Sigismondi
WRITER:  Floria Sigismondi, Cherie Currie

PLOT:  A look into the lives of Joan Jett & Cherie Currie in the 1970's from how the band The Runaways began to how it all ended.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Factory Girl, Gia, The Doors, I'm Not There

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NOTE:  I guess I didn't feel the need to watch "The Runaways" in theaters and so waited until it came out on Instant Watch on my Netflix.  I watched it the other night and was surprised to see that it only got 2.5 starts out of 5, I think I would have at least given it a 3.  Rising stars such as Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart are always fun to watch and though the acting wasn't supreme on their part it was still entertaining as was learning of the history of The Runaways and the music?.... Not too bad.  The movie is far from being the film biographical of the Doors, "Doors" but it was still entertaining enough that I can say "it was okay and I enjoyed it".