Synopsis Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette), a freckled faced and overweight geek, lives in the Gold Coast town of “Porpoise Spit” with her father (Bill Hunter), a politician who blames his “useless” family for ruining his chance at higher office. While Muriel’s brothers and sisters do little but smoke and watch TV all day, Muriel [...]

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  Synopsis “I can’t help feeling that if I’d been raised by at least one of my real parents, I wouldn’t be such a nervous person,” admits Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) as he pictures random people on the street being his biological parents. A data analyst named Tina Kalb (Téa Leoni) notifies Mel that his [...]

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Synopsis Investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) – who arrives at work in a building named after his father – is wished happy birthday by his new secretary. “I don’t like her,” Van Orton confides to his loyal assistant Maria (Elizabeth Dennehy). She notifies her boss that he received a prank call from a [...]

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