"Inside Man" [2006], starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster.
If you haven't seen it and are in the market for a taut totally mesmerizing and ultimately satisfying movie experience, do zero research on it---just find a copy, sit back and enjoy. [Does contain profanity and violence.]
No way can you predict the ending!
No spoilers or hints of same, please.
I'm sure there are more examples out there.

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28 Days Later is another example. Who would have thought a Brit indie would have such success in the US and revive an entire genre?

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Watched it [Inside Man] sometime ago. Yeah, absolutely fabulous. :-)

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28 Days is one most people haven't seen.

I've seen Inside Man - great flick, and Denzel has been getting better, lately...

Also liked him in Deja Vu, a sci-fi flick, and very well done one at that.

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Not so much a sleeper as a foreign film, but one I think more people ought to see is Cave of the Yellow Dog. It's a very cute Mongolian film that I got from my local library. It's about a little Mongolian girl and her dog--and her family's struggle to keep their traditional way of life in a rapidly-changing world. But mostly the girl and the dog.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I'm definitely going to check out Cave of the Yellow Dog because I've seen (and own the DVD of) the movie The Weeping Camel by the same director. Thanks for the tip.

The Weeping Camel is also a wonderful movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373861/

ETA: Just ordered Cave of the Yellow Dog from amazon. Thanks again for the tip.

Hey, no sweat. I'll probably get to The Weeping Camel, but, you know, it'll take me a while!

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070707/

This is a great sleeper movie!!!

the '97 (or '98- whatever) remake of Godzilla made me fall asleep in the theater.
does that count as a "sleeper movie"?

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The best, most effective sleeper film I ever saw was Moment by Moment with Lily Tomlin and John Travolta. It put me under after about five minutes, despite my wife trying to wake me up every now and then.

I was awake when she muttered "You know, these two people can't act."

This incredible waste of film (right up there with Mattelfield Earth, uh, sorry, Battlefield Earth) is given its due in this review. CAUTION: SOME ADULT LANGUAGE.

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And directed by Spike Lee. According to IMDb, it was made for $45M, and grossed twice that in three months.

Fight Club [1999] has just as surprising an ending (although, post 9/11, disturbing), was made for $63M, after three months was just past half that. It stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, and Meat Loaf. By the director of Se7en, which was much more successful and even more disturbing.

Where do I go to school to learn "adult language"? This elusive tongue has eluded me for my thirty six summers. Is it similar to modern American English with different idioms?

LOL Fight Club did WTC. Why wasn't Fight Club disturbing in light of the Oklahoma City bombing which was perpetrated by home-grown terrorists? How quickly one forgets, must be those goldfish stem-cells released in the water supply by the Department of Homeland Securty.

Also Fight Club and Project Mayhem went out of their way to ensure no one was physically harmed or killed by their actions.

In the movie version, anyway. The book the movie is based on, Tyler and Project Mayhem had very little remorse for innocents caught in the way.

Thanks, missed that---now I'm doubly impressed, having seen some of Lee's 'other stuff'.

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I meant the final sequence images, not the movie

Here's another one--my daughter just said it was my favorite so I had to look it up--True Romance [1993] Are those numbers actual? $12.5M budget, $12.3M gross?

Anyway, directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Man on Fire) and starring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Val Kilmer (as Elvis), Bronson Pinchot, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L. Jackson, James Gandolfini, Christopher Walken, Tom Sizemore, Gary Oldman, and in a small but important roll, Brad Pitt (and, apparently, in one of the deleted scenes, Jack Black). And written by Quentin Tarantino, just after Reservoir Dogs, just before Pulp Fiction.

Very similar. Very colorful. And very non-compliant with #3 of the BAUT rules.

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I really liked Frailty. Bill Paxton has a vision that he an his sons are supposed to go out and slay "demons". Paxton directed it and it had some nice moments in it.

Another great one was the French-Canadian film (in the English subtitled version) Brotherhood of the Wolf. We had to see it because of the review. "Part Matrix, part Jaws, part Crouching Tiger, with a style all it's own." Turns out, it was. This remains the best action/martial arts/monster/suspense/love story/mystery I've ever seen.

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A Geek with think he can use that to pick up a girl in a bar.
A Dork knows he can't pick up the girl with it, but will hang around for hours anyway, just in case she asks.
She might. You never know.

The Time Machine based loosely on a book by HG Wells with a similar name. I loved the movie, but I still prefer the book.

Which movie version? There have been two.

Thanks Tog_ it's in the mail on its way to me now

I think I'm going to put in for The Constant Gardener, and Total Eclipse. It looks like they need the money. And Disturbia, with the kid with that name.