Anna Paquin and Breckin Meyer will costar in Blue State, about a young Democrat who follows through on a promise to move to Canada if George W. Bush got reelected.... Aaron Eckhart is Bill, a distraught man who mentors an unruly teen.... Antonio Banderas will play Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés in the historical epic Conquistador.... Nicolas Cage and 50 Cent are ready for The Dance, based on the life of prison boxing coach Billy "The Kid" Roth.... Focus Features has grabbed the rights to Dean Koontz's upcoming novel The Husband, about a man whose love for his wife is put to a harrowing series of tests — an O.C. marathon not included.
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Question: Help me, FlickChick — what's the name of this movie? What I think I remember is from the trailer: Four guys from a small Texas town graduate and want to get out of their aforementioned dead-end burg. The old guys in town (probably sitting in front of the barbershop) are laughing and setting odds against them. At the time the lead actors were up-and-coming, but by now they could be stars or orthodontists.
Answer: That sounds to me like the awkwardly named Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998). Of the four up-and-comers — Ethan Embry, now 27; Breckin Meyer, 31; Peter Facinelli, 32; and Eddie Mills, 33 — the first three are working regularly on TV and in movies. Mills has done a little less well, but he's appeared on a bunch of television shows and to the best of my knowledge is not yet looking into dental school.
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