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Top Films of 2004
The year 2004 was a special year for the leading ladies of Hollywood. Reason was Simple, there were too many good movies revolving around female characters. Whats New in that? You can easily count me years that had many good female character films but 2004 was special in a way that not only those female characters won hearts of critics and fans but also won many prestigious awards. This is a Rare Combination. Its not very often that you see too many great performances in a single year that its get harder for you to choose the best.
The first female character that won audience heart was Hilary Swank’s Margaret “Maggie” Fitzgerald in Clint Eastwood directorial ‘Best Picture’ winning film ‘Million Dollar Baby’. Whenever i say of great female performances i often compare them with the acting level of Kathy Bates’ obsessed fan in ‘Misery’ or Lousie fletcher as Nurse Ratched in ‘One Flew Over Cuckoo’s nest’, Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen ripley in Alien franchise and Frances McDormand’s Marge Gunderson in Fargo and now Hilary Swank’s Maggie in Million Dollar Baby. Rachael Mcadams, Imelda Stauton and Uma thurman too gave great performances in films released in 2004.
Here is the list of best movies released in the year 2004:
50. Team America: World Police
Director – Trey Parker
Cast – Kristen Miller, Masasa Moyo, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Phil Hendrie, Chelsea Marguerite
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 77%
Release Date – 11 October 2004
Box Office – $51 million
Genre – Action, Comedy
Awards – None
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49. Layer Cake
Director -Matthew Vaughn
Cast – Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Colm Meaney, Jamie Foreman, George Harris
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 80%
Release Date – 10 June 2005
Box Office – $11.9 million
Genre – Action, Crime, Drama
Awards – None
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48. Napolean Dynamite
Director – Jared Hess
Cast – Efren Ramirez, Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Tina Majorino, Haylie Duff
IMDB Rating – 6.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 11 June 2004
Box Office – $46.1 million
Genre – Comedy
Awards – None
Plot –
47. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Director – Brad Silberling
Cast – Liam Aiken, Jim Carrey, Timothy Spall, Emily Browning, Billy Connolly, Catherine O’Hara
IMDB Rating – 6.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 72%
Release Date – 17 December 2004
Box Office – $209.1 million
Genre – Adventure,Family,Comedy,
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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46. Euro Trip
Director – Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, David Mandel
Cast – Scott Mechlowicz, Travis Wester, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jacob Pitts
IMDB Rating – 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 47%
Release Date – 20 February 2004
Box Office – $20.8 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy
Awards – None
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45. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Director – Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast – Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn, Ben Stiller, Justin Long, Alan Tudyk
IMDB Rating – 6.7%
Rotten Tomatoes – 70%
Release Date – 18 June 2004
Box Office – $167.7 million
Genre – Comedy, Sport
Awards – None
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44. The Girl Next Door
Director – Luke Greenfield
Cast – David T. Wagner, Stuart Blumberg, Brent Goldberg, Luke Greenfield, Chris McKenna
IMDB Rating – 4 March 2004
Rotten Tomatoes – 6.7
Release Date – 56%
Box Office – $30.4 million
Genre – Comedy,Romance Drama,
Awards – None
Plot –
43. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Director – Danny Leiner
Cast – Kal Penn, John Cho, Paula Garcés, Anthony Anderson, Patrick Harris
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 74%
Release Date – 20 May 2004
Box Office – $23.9 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy
Awards – None
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42. The Butterfly Effect
Director – Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
Cast – Melora Walters, Ashton Kutcher, Elden Henson, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, William, Lee Scott
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 33%
Release Date – 23 April 2004
Box Office – $96.1 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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41. The Village
Director – M. Night Shyamalan
Cast – Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Bryce Dallas Howard, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver,
IMDB Rating – 6.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 44%
Release Date – 26 July 2004
Box Office – $256.7 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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