Sometimes, things ain't working the way you want

Jenna: Thirty, flirty and thriving.

Plots:

Jenna Rink was celebrating her 13th birthday on May 26, 1987, wishes to be 30 in hopes that it would help her overcome her unpopularity at school. Jenna especially wants to join the "Six Chicks", a school clique led by Lucy "Tom-Tom" Wyman, who takes advantage of Jenna's desire to fit in by manipulating her. Jenna's best friend, Matt Flamhaff, gives her a doll dream house he built for her and a packet of "magic wishing dust" for her birthday, which is sprinkled on the roof of the house.

Tom-Tom dashes Jenna's hopes of joining the Six Chicks by pulling a cruel practical joke on her during a game of "Seven Minutes in Heaven". Jenna, mistakenly thinking Matt was responsible, yells at him and barricades herself in the closet where she put the Dream House. She cries and rocks backs and forth, bumping into the wall, wishing to be "30, flirty, and thriving". The wishing dust from the dollhouse sprinkles on her, and seconds later, Jenna awakens as a 30-year-old woman, living in a Fifth Avenue apartment, without her friends or family. It is now 2004, but Jenna has no memory of the 17 years that have passed since her 13th birthday.

30-year-old Jenna's best friend, Lucy (no longer nicknamed Tom-Tom), drives her to her work office. Soon, Jenna discovers she works for Poise, her favorite fashion magazine when she was a teenager. Missing her best friend from 1987, Jenna asks her assistant to track down Matt. To her dismay, Jenna learns she and "Matty" have been estranged since high school when Jenna fell in with the in-crowd, and that Matt is now engaged.

This is complicated by the fact that Jenna has become a shadow of her former self. She has lost almost all contact with her parents, and she is having an affair with the husband of a colleague. Not only is she generally hated by her co-workers and anyone else she has worked with, she is suspected of giving her magazine's ideas to a rival publication, Sparkle. Jenna slowly realizes that the person she has become is neither trustworthy nor likable, and unknowingly begins to reverse the situation by distancing herself from her new, shallow boyfriend, acting more kindly and honestly towards her co-workers and friends, and trying to restore her relationship with Matt.

After Jenna overhears Lucy badmouthing her to a co-worker, she sadly realizes that what she thought she wanted wasn't important after all. She heads back to her hometown in New Jersey to reunite with her parents and reminisce by looking through school yearbooks and other items from her school days and catch-up on the 17 years she doesn't remember. These inspire her on her return to Manhattan. Over several outings and working together on a magazine project, Jenna becomes friends with Matt again. Although Matt is engaged and Jenna has a boyfriend, they kiss during a nighttime walk. Dazed, Matt realizes he loves Jenna, but cannot change the past.

After arranging a magazine photo shoot with Matt, then making a successful presentation for a planned revamp for Poise, Jenna prepares for the revamp when she gets bad news from the publisher: Poise is shutting down because the work she put into the relaunch ended up in Sparkle. Jenna learns she was responsible for sabotaging Poise from within by sending their material to Sparkle for months. When Lucy learns this, she cons Matt into signing over the photo rights from the relaunch shoot to her. She accepts the position of Sparkle editor-in-chief, using Jenna's work as her own, similar to what she did when the girls were in middle school.

When an already-distraught Jenna discovers Matt is getting married that day, she rushes to his house and begs him to call off the wedding. Matt cannot say yes, although he tells Jenna he loves her. From his closet, he pulls the "dream house" he made 17 years before and gives it back to her. Jenna leaves in tears, crying over the dream house and wishing she could return to 1987.

Unbeknownst to Jenna, specks of wishing dust remain on the dream house, and she wishes she was 13 again. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself back in the closet of the basement at her parents' house, 13 years old again. She runs to Matt and kisses him. Being now true to herself, 17 years later, Jenna and Matt are married and live in a house which resembles the dollhouse.

Released Date:  April 23, 2004

Genre:  Comedy, Romance, Life

Casts:

Jennifer Garner as Jenna Rink

Mark Ruffalo as Matt Flamhaff

Judy Greer as Lucy "Tom-Tom" Wyman

Andy Serkis as Richard Kneeland

Kathy Baker as Beverly Rink

Phil Reeves as Wayne Rink

Lynn Collins as Wendy

Samuel Ball as Alex Carlson

Marcia DeBonis as Arlene

Kiersten Warren-Acevedo as Trish Sackett

Christa B. Allen as Young Jenna

Sean Marquette as Young Matt

Alexandra Kyle as Young Lucy

Ashley Benson as Six chick

Brittany Curran as Six Chick

Renee Olstead as Becky

Kayla Hickson as Mindy

Quotes:

Matt: You can't just turn back time.
Jenna: Why not? 

Jenna: Wait, listen to me. I'm 13!
Lucy: Jenna, if you're gonna start lying about your age, I'd go with 27. 

Lucy: Can you get in the car?
Jenna: I can't get in the car, I don't get in the car with strangers.
Lucy: Please get in the car, we're gonna be late.
Jenna: I can't get in the car, I don't know you.
Lucy: Just get in the car.
Jenna: I don't get in the car with strangers!
Lucy: You're being a little paranoid. 

Jenna: You want to know a secret$3F
Matt: Yeah.
Jenna: You're the sweetest guy I've ever met.

Jenna: Becky, can I ask you something?
Becky: Yeah, sure.
Jenna: Can you tell I'm wearing underwear, cos I totally am.
Becky: I think that's kinda the point! 

Young Jenna Rink: I don't want to be beautiful in my own way. I want to look like these people.
Beverly Rink: Oh those aren't people honey, those are models. 

Young Matt: I can't believe you invited those clones.
Young Jenna: They're my friends.
Young Matt: The Six Chicks are not your friends, okay?
Young Jenna: Almost. And someday I'm gonna BE a Sixth Chick.
Young Matt: There are six of them, Jenna, that's the whole point. There can't be a seventh Sixth Chick. It's just mathematically impossible. Besides you're way cooler than they are, they're totally unoriginal.
Young Jenna: I don't want to be original, Matty, I want to be cool. 

Jenna: I love you, Matt. You're my best friend.
Matt: ...Jenna, I've always loved you. ‘

Jenna: Who are these women? Does anyone know? I don't recognize any of them. I want to see my best friend's big sister, the girls from the soccer team, my next door neighbor, real women who are smart and pretty and happy to be who they are. These are the women to look up to. Let's put life back into the magazine. And fun and laughter and silliness. I think we all - I think all of us - want to feel something that we've forgotten or turned our backs on because maybe we didn't realize how much we were leaving behind. We need to remember what used to be good. If we don't, we won't recognize it even if it hits us between the eyes. 

Young Matt: Arrivederci.
Young Jenna: Au revoir. 

Jenna: Matty.
Matt: Yeah?
Jenna: Arrivederci.
Matt: I'll see you.
Jenna: Matt!
Matt: Yeah?
[she gives him a look]
Matt: Au revoir. 

Matt: Jenna, what are you... Why are you here?
Jenna: Matty, I told you - something really weird is happening. Yesterday was my 13th birthday and then, and then today I woke up and I'm this, and you, I mean - you're that! You get it?
Matt: [long pause] Are you high? You been smoking pot? Doing X? Fallen into a K-Hole? You doing drugs? 

Jenna: What happened?
Matt: I don't know. I can pretty much peg it to your 13th birthday party, when you were in the closet playing that game. Spin the Rapist?
Jenna: Seven Minutes in Heaven. 

Jenna: Matt, stop being so nice to me. I don't deserve it. Do you know what kind of person I am now, I mean - do you know who I am right now? I don't have any real friends. I did something bad with a married guy. I don't talk to my mom and dad. I'm not a nice person. And the thing is - I'm not 13 anymore. 

Jenna: You are rude, and mean, and sloppy, and frizzy - and I don't like you at all. 

Jenna: Hey! You got arm hair!
Matt: Never got quite that reaction before. 

Lucy: OK, you can wipe the doe-eyed-Bambi-watching-her-mother-get-shot-and-strapped-to-the-back-of-a-van look from your face. 

Lucy: Okay, Jenna, repeat after me: I am Jenna Rink, big time magazine editor.
Jenna: I am?
Lucy: Say it.
Jenna: I am Jenna Rink big time magazine editor.
Lucy: I'm a tough bitch.
[Jenna looks away, embarrassed tn say it]
Lucy: Say it!
Jenna: I am a tough
[whispers]
Jenna: bitch.
Lucy: I'm gonna walk into this office and not let anyone know I'm hung over.
Jenna: But that's just it. I'm not hung over-
[Lucy gives her pointed look]
Jenna: [sighs] I'm gonna walk into this office and not let anyone know I'm hung over. 

Jenna: [in the elevator] I'm Jenna, by the way.
Becky: [disdainfully] Yeah, I know. I'm Becky.
Jenna: How*old are you, anyway?
Becky: 13.
Jenna: Me too!
Becky: [gives Jenna a strange look]
Jenna: Used to be, anyway. 

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The Very First Movie Which Taught Me About Life

 [based on on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom]

Forrest Gump: My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Plots:

     The movie starts with Forrest Gump telling his life story to strangers at a bus stop. He starts with telling about the braces he wore on his legs as a child, which caused other children to bully him. At school, Forrest met Jenny, an abused girl who became his life-long friend. Her advice to Forrest was to "run" whenever he got into trouble. Forrest ran constantly, eventually allowing him to discard his leg braces and "run like the wind blows."

     Despite having below average intelligence, Forrest earned a scholarship to the University of Alabama after Bear Bryant spotted Forrest running away from bullies. While in college, he witnessed George Wallace's famous Stand in the Schoolhouse Door and received an award for athletic achievement from President John F. Kennedy.

     After graduating, Forrest enlisted in the Army and was sent to Vietnam, where he became friends with Bubba, a man whose life-long dream was to buy a shrimping boat. When the platoon was ambushed, Forrest's "running" saves many of the men in his unit as Forrest ran repeatedly into the firefight and carried them to safety. Bubba died, while the platoon's commanding officer, Lt. Dan Taylor, loses both legs. Forrest himself is injured and awarded the Medal of Honor by President Lyndon B. Johnson. In Washington, Forrest wandered into an anti-war rally led by Abbie Hoffman at the National Mall, where he again met Jenny, who had become a hippie.

     While recovering from his injuries, Forrest discovered an aptitude for ping pong. He began playing for the U.S. Army team, eventually competing against Chinese teams on a goodwill tour. He went to the White House for a third time to meet President Richard Nixon who provided him a room at the Watergate hotel, where Forrest, reporting what he thought was a power outage, inadvertently exposed the Watergate scandal.

     Because of his many accomplishments, Forrest was invited to appear on the Dick Cavett Show. While in New York for the filming, he again met Lt. Dan, now an embittered drunk living on welfare. Lt. Dan was scornful of Forrest's plans to enter the shrimping business and jokingly promised to be Forrest's first mate if he ever succeeded.

     Using money from his ping-pong career, Forrest bought a shrimping boat, fulfilling his wartime promise to Bubba. Lt. Dan kept his earlier promise and joined him as first mate. They initially had little luck, but after Hurricane Carmen swept away the rest of their competition, the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company became a huge success. At the same time, Forrest had to return home to care for his dying mother. Forrest left the company in the hands of Lt. Dan, who invested their wealth in shares from Apple. The two men became extremely wealthy.

     Jenny returned to visit Forrest at his old home. They slept together, but she again left the following morning. Distraught, Forrest elected to go for a run and simply decided not to stop. Over the next three years, he ran coast to coast several times, gathering a group of followers. In the end, as suddenly as he had begun, he ran home to Alabama to find a letter from Jenny.

     Forrest says that Jenny's letter invited him to come and see her, which is why he was waiting for the bus. An elderly woman who has been listening to his story tells him that Jenny's address is only a few blocks away, and he runs to meet her. Once they are reunited, he discovers they have a young son, also named Forrest. Jenny tells him that she is suffering from an unknown virus. She proposes to him and he accepts. They return to Alabama with their son, but Jenny dies soon after.

     On his son's first day of school, Forrest Sr. sits with his son at the bus stop. As the bus picks Fnrrest Jr. up and drives away, Forrest Sr. sits on the same tree stump where his own mother sat on Forrest's first day of school, the day he met Jenny.

Released Date: July 6, 1994

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Life

Casts:

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump.

Robin Wright as Jenny Curran: Gump's childhood friend.

Gary Sinise as Lieutenant Dan Taylor: Gump and Bubba's commanding officer during the Vietnam War.

Mykelti Williamson as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue: Gump's friend whom he meets upon joining the Army.

Sally Field as Mrs. Gump: Forrest's mother, who raises him after his father abandons them. Field reflected on the character, "She's a woman who loves her son unconditionally. ... A lot of her dialogue sounds like slogans, and that's just what she intends."

Haley Joel Osment as Forrest Gump, Jr.: Forrest and Jenny's son.

Peter Dobson as Elvis Presley: a house guest Forrest encounters.

Dick Cavett as himself.

Sam Anderson as Principal Hancock: Forrest's elementary school principal.

Richard D'Alessandro as Abbie Hoffman: A Yippie at a Vietnam War rally who gives Forrest a chance to speak about the war.

Geoffrey Blake as Wesley: A member of the SDS group and Jenny's abusive boyfriend.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Dorothy Harris: The school bus driver who drives both Forrest, and later his son, to school.

Sonny Shroyer as Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant: Forrest's football coach of the University of Alabama.

Grand L. Bush, Conor Kennelly, and Teddy Lane Jr. as the Black Panthers: Members of an organization that protests against the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and anti-black racism.

Quotes:

Mrs. Gump: Remember what I told you, Forrest. You're no different than anybody else is. Did you hear what I said, Forrest? You're the same as everybody else. You are no different.
Principal: Your boy's... different, Miz Gump. His IQ's 75.
Mrs. Gump: Well, we're all different, Mr. Hancock. There must be something that can be done?
Principal: Is there a Mr. Gump, Miz Gump?
Mrs. Gump: He's on vacation.

Young Forrest Gump: Mama. What's vacation?
Mrs. Gump: Vacation's when you go somewhere... and you never come back.

Jenny Curran: Run, Forrest! Run!

Forrest Gump: Will you marry me?
Forrest Gump: I'd make a good husband, Jenny.
Jenny Curran: You would, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: But you won't marry me.
Jenny Curran: You don't wanna marry me.
Forrest Gump: Why don't you love me, Jenny?
Forrest Gump: I'm not a smart man... but I know what love is.

Young Jenny Curran: [young Jenny's father is chasing her through the fields to beat her when she stops and hides] Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here.

Mrs. Gump: You have to do the best with what God gave you.

Forrest Gump: Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Forrest Gump: And cause I was a gazillionaire, and I liked doin it so much, I cut that grass for free.

Forrest Gump: Mama says they was magic shoes. They could take me anywhere.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?
Forrest Gump: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.

Jenny Curran: Do you think I could fly off this bridge, Forrest?
Forrest Gump: What do you mean, Jenny?
Jenny Curran: Nothing.

Jenny Curran: [hearing that Forrest is going to Vietnam] Listen, you promise me something, OK? Just if you're ever in trouble, don't be brave. You just run, OK? Just run away.

Forrest Gump: DONE, DRILL SERGEANT!
Drill Sergeant: GUUUUUUMP! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?
Forrest Gump: [confused] You told me to, Drill Sergeant?
Drill Sergeant: Jesus H. Christ!
[looks at stopwatch]
Drill Sergeant: This is a new company record! If it wouldn't be such a waste of a damn-fine enlisted man I'd recommend you for OCS! You are gonna be a general someday, Gump, now disassemble your weapon and continue!

Bubba: Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.

Forrest Gump: Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running!

Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does.

Forrest Gump: You know it's funny what a young man recollects? 'Cause I don't remember bein' born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.

Forrest Gump: Sometimes, I guess there just aren't enough rocks.

Fat Man at Bench: It was a bullet, wasn't it?
Forrest Gump: A bullet?
Fat Man at Bench: That jumped up and bit you.
Forrest Gump: Oh, yes sir. Bit me right in the buttocks. They said it was a million dollar wound, but the army must keep that money 'cause I still haven't seen a nickel of that million dollars.

Bubba: My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me Bubba. Just like one of them ol' redneck boys. Can you believe that?
Forrest Gump: My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.

Jenny Curran: His name's Forrest.
Forrest Gump: Like me.
Jenny Curran: I named him after his daddy.
Forrest Gump: He got a daddy named Forrest, too?
Jenny Curran: You're his daddy, Forrest.

Forrest Gump: When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.
Elderly Southern Woman on Park Bench: And so, you just ran?
Forrest Gump: Yeah.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: That's what all these cripples down at the VA talk about: Jesus this and Jesus that, have I found Jesus yet? They even had a priest come and talk to me. He said God is listening and if I found Jesus, I'd get to walk beside him in the kingdom of Heaven. Did you hear what I said? WALK beside him in the kingdom of Heaven! Well kiss my crippled ass. God is listening? What a crock of shit.

Jenny Curran: Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?
Forrest Gump: [nervously] I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Where the Hell is this God of yours?
Forrest Gump: [narrating] It's funny Lieutenant Dan said that, 'cause right then, God showed up.

Forrest Gump: My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

[Forrest Gump referring to Apple Computer]
Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing.

Bumper Sticker Guy: [running after Forrest] Hey man! Hey listen, I was wondering if you might help me. 'Cause I'm in the bumper sticker business and I've been trying to think of a good slogan, and since you've been such a big inspiration to the people around here I thought you might be able to help me jump into - WOAH! Man, you just ran through a big pile of dog shit!
Forrest Gump: It happens.
Bumper Sticker guy: What, shit?
Forrest Gump: Sometimes.

Forrest Gump: [running] I had run for 3 years, 2 months, 14 d`ys, and 16 hours.
[he stops and turns around]
Young Man Running: Quiet, quiet! He's gonna say something!
Forrest Gump: [pause] I'm pretty tired... I think I'll go home now.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: I never thanked you for saving my life.

Mrs. Gump: What's normal anyways?

Forrest Gump: [narrating] If I'd a known that was the last time I was gonna talk to Bubba, I would of thought of something better to say.
Forrest Gump: Hi Bubba.
Bubba: Hey Forrest.

Forrest Gump: Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots.

Forrest Gump: Then, Bubba said something I won't ever forget.
Bubba: I wanna go home.
Forrest Gump: Bubba was my best good friend...

Forrest Gump: Mama always said, God is mysterious. He didn't turn Jenny into a bird that day. But instead - he had the po-lice say Jenny didn't have to stay in that house no more. She went to live with her grandma, just over on Creekmore Avenue. And that made me happy, because she was close. And some nights she'd sneak out and come on over to my house, because she said she was scared. It may have been because of her grandma's dog, or somethin'.

Jenny Curran: Were you scared in Vietnam?
Forrest Gump: Yes. Well, I-I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out... and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water... like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It's so beautiful.
Jenny Curran: I wish I could've been there with you.
Forrest Gump: You were.

Forrest Gump: Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

Forrest Gump: What's my destiny, Mama?
Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself.

Forrest Gump: That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on going.

Jenny Curran: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
Forrest Gump: Who I'm gonna be?
Jenny Curran: Yeah.
Forrest Gump: Aren't-aren't I going to be me?

Dorothy Harris: You understand this is the bus to the school, now, don'tcha?
Forrest Gump Jr.: Of course; you're Dorothy Harris, and I'm Forrest Gump.

[Forrest is waiting with Forrest Jr. for the school bus on little Forrest's first day of school in Greenbow. The bus arrives and little Forrest is about to board it]
Forrest Gump: Forrest, don't...
[pause, then]
Forrest Gump: I just wanted to tell you I love you.
Forrest Gump Jr.: [smiles] I love you too, Dad.

Forrest Gump: You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.

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Alexander the Great

It is not a remake of the 1956 film. Based in part on the book Alexander the Great, written in the 1970s by the Oxford University historian, Robin Lane Fox.

Alexander: Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you will conquer death.

Plots:

    The film is based on the life of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, who conquered Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia and part of Ancient India. It shows some of the key moments of Alexander's youth, his invasion of the mighty Persian Empire and his death. It also outlines his early life, including his difficult relationship with his father Philip II of Macedon, his strained feeling towards his mother Olympias, the unification of the Greek city-states and the two Greek Kingdoms (Macedon and Epirus) under the Hellenic League, and the conquest of the Persian Empire in 331 BC. It also details his plans to reform his empire and the attempts he made to reach the end of the then known world.

    The story begins 40 years after 323 BC, around 283 BC, with Ptolemy I Soter, who narrates throughout the film. We see Alexander's daily life and the strained relationship between his parents. Alexander grows up with his mother Olympias and his tutor Aristotle, where he finds interest in love, honor, music, exploration, poetry and military combat. His relationship with his father is destroyed when Philip marries Attalus's niece, Eurydice.

    After Philip is assassinated, Alexander becomes king of Macedonia and Greece. Having briefly mentioned his punitive razing of Thebes and burning of Persepolis, Ptolemy gives an overview of Alexander's west-Persian campaign, including his being declared as the son of Zeus by the Oracle of Amun at Siwa Oasis, his great battle against the Persian Emperor Darius III in the Battle of Gaugamela and his eight-year campaign across Asia.

    Also shown are Alexander's private relationships with his childhood friend Hephaestion and later his wife Roxana. Hephaestion compares Alexander to Achilles, to which Alexander replies that, if he is Achilles, Hephaestion must be his Patroclus (Achilles' best friend and, maybe, lover). When Hephaestion mentions that Patroclus died first, Alexander pledges that, if Hephaestion should die first, he will follow him into the afterlife. Hephaestion shows extensive jealousy when he sees Alexander with Roxana and deep sadness when he marries her, going so far as to attempt to keep her away from him after Alexander murders Cleitus the Black in India. After Hephaestion succumbs to an unknown illness either by chance or perhaps poison, speculated in the movie to be Typhus carried with him from India. Alexander distances himself from his wife, despite her pregnancy, believing that she has killed Hephaestion. He dies less than three months after Hephaestion, at the young age of 32, keeping his promise that he would follow him.

Released Date: 16 November 2004

Genres: Action, Romance, Biography, History, War

Casts:

Colin Farrell as Alexander The Great

Angelina Jolie as Queen Olympias , mother of Alexander

Val Kilmer as King Philip II , father of Alexander

Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy I Soter

Jared Leto as Hephaestion

Rosario Dawson as Roxana

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Cassander

Rory McCann as Craterus

Gary Stretch as Cleitus

Ian Beattie as Antigonus

Neil Jackson as Perdiccas

Raz Degan as Darius III of Persia

Christopher Plummer as Aristotle

John Kavanagh as Parmenion

Annelise Hesme as Stateira

Nick Dunning as Attalus

Denis Conway as Nearchus

Marie Meyer as Eurydice

Bin Bunluerit as Porus

Francisco Bosch as Bagoas

Joseph Morgan as Philotas

Toby Kebbell as Pausanias of Orestis

Erol Sander as Pharnakes

Elliot Cowan as Young Ptolemy I Soter

Connor Paolo as Young Alexander

Patrick Adolphe as Alexander's Servant Boy

Brian Blessed as Wrestling Trainer

Tim Pigott-Smith as Omen Reader

Oliver Stone as Macedonian Soldier at Zeus Statue

Quotes:

Hephaistion: You know better than any great deeds are donned by men who took, and never regretted. You're Alexander! Pity and grief will only destroy you.  
Alexander: Have I become so arrogant that I am blind?  
Hephaistion: Sometimes to expect the best from everyone is arrogance.  
Alexander: Then it's true. I have become a tyrant!  
Hephaistion: No! But perhaps a stranger. We've come too far. They don't understand you anymore.  
Alexander: They speak of Phillip now as if I were a passing cloud, soon to be forgotten. I've failed. Utterly.  
Hephaistion: You're mortal. And they know it. And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves.

Olympias: My poor child. You're like Achilles; cursed by your greatness. You must never confuse your feelings with your duties, Alexander. A king must make public gestures for the common people. You will be nineteen this summer, and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephastion more. I understand, it's natural for a young man. But if you go to Asia without leaving a successor you risk all.
Alexander: Hephastion loves me. As I am. Not who.

Cassander: Alexander, if we must fight, do so with stealth. Use your numbers well; we should attack tonight when they least expect us.  
Alexander: I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory, Cassander.  
Cassander: No, you are too honorable for that, no doubt influenced from sleeping with tales of Troy under your pillow. But your father was no lover of Homer's.  
Parmenion: The lands west of the Euphrates, Alexander, and his daughter's hand in marriage! Since when has a Greek ever been given such honors?  
Alexander: These are not honors, Parmenion, they're bribes! Which the Greeks have accepted too long! You forget, Parmenion, that the man who murdered my father lies across the valley floor.  
Parmenion: Come, Alexander, we're not really sure if it was Persian gold behind the assassination. It is no matter! Your father taught you never to surrender your reason to your passion! I urge you, with all my experience, regroup! Fall back to the coast, raise a larger force!  
Alexander: I would, if I were Parmenion. But I am Alexander. And no more than earth has two suns will Asia bear two kings. These are my terms. And if Darius isn't a coward who hides behind his men then he'll come to me tomorrow. And *when* he bows down to Greece, Alexander will be merciful.

Hephaistion: [on his death bed] I'll feel better. Soon I'll be up.  
Alexander: We leave for Arabia in the spring, I can't leave without you!  
Hephaistion: Arabia... you used to dress me up like a sheik and wave your wooden scimitar...  
Alexander: You were the only one who'd never let me win. The only one who's ever been honest with me. You saved me from myself. Please don't leave me, Hephaistion.  
Hephaistion: ...I remember the young man who wanted to be Achilles, and then out did him.  
Alexander: And then what happens? That was a myth only young men believe!  
Hephaistion: But how beautiful a myth it was.  
Alexander: How we reach, we fall! Oh, Hephaistion.  
Hephaistion: I worry for you without me.  
Alexander: I am nothing without you!

Alexander: You'll never lose me, Hephaistion. I'll be with you always. 'Til the end.

Old Ptolemy: The surveyors told us we were now on the boarders of where Europe and Asia meet. In fact, we were totally lost.

Old Ptolemy: Within hours we were fighting like Jackals for his corpse. The wars of the world had begun. Forty years, off and on, they endured, until we divided his empire in four parts. I think Alexander would have been disappointed in us.

Alexander: I've come to believe the fear of death drives all men, Hephaistion. This we didn't learn as schoolboys.  
Hephaistion: I've always believed, Alexander. But this seems so much bigger than us.   
Alexander: Did Patroclus stare at Achilles when they stood side by side at the siege of troy?  
Hephaistion: Patroclus died first.  
Alexander: If you do... if you were to fall Hephaistion, I will avenge you, and follow you down to the house of death.  
Hephaistion: I would do the same.  
Alexander: On the eve of battle it's hardest to be alone.
Hephaistion: Then perhaps this is farewell, my Alexander.  
Alexander: Fear not, Hephaistion. We are at the beginning.