Crank (2006)
There are a thousand ways to raise your adrenaline. Today, Chev Chelios will need every single one.
Genre : Action, Thriller, Crime
Runtime : 1H 28M
Director : Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Writer : Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Synopsis
Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.
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Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.
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