The document provides brief synopses for four films: The Hangover, American Pie, Anchorman, and Step Brothers. It summarizes the directors, years of production, and key plot points for each film in 1-2 sentences. Information includes that The Hangover is about friends on a bachelor party in Vegas who lose the groom, American Pie is about high school students trying to lose their virginity by graduation, Anchorman is set in the 1970s about a sexist male news team challenged by hiring a female anchor, and Step Brothers is about two immature men who live at home with their parents.

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2.  Director – Todd Phillips
 Year of Production – 2009
 Brief Synopsis – Four friends all go on a stag do to Las Vegas, two
days before the wedding. Their drinks end up getting spiked and
wake up in a trashed hotel room not remembering anything from
the night before. They then realise one of the group (the groom to
be) goes missing a day before the wedding. When they go out to
look for him they try and re trace their steps by looking through
possessions they have on them. They soon realised they caused a
lot more damage than they realised. They ended up stealing a cop
car, stole a tiger belonging to Mike Tyson and stole $80,000 worth
of casino chips. These casino chips are part of some dangerous
mafia who promise to hunt them down if they don’t return the
chips. With a day before the wedding they still can’t find the
groom and are really panicking. Eventually they find him on the
roof of the hotel and get him back to the wedding just in time.

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4.  Directors - Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz
 Year of Production – 1999
 Brief Synopsis – A group of average college students who aren’t very
lucky on the girl front all plan to lose their virginity by the time they
graduate and realise the night of the prom is probably the best way of
doing that. This causes the group to all find dates with some awkward
and hilarious experiences on the way that could damage their reputation
and therefore finding it difficult to find a girl to take to the prom.
However these experiences and being friendly with a popular guy in the
school that throws huge parties and is well known for being a party
animal and lucky with the girls help them all find a girl to take to the
prom. In the end they all succeed in their mission and all lose their
virginity on the night of the prom.

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6.  Director – Adam Mckay
 Year of Production – 2004
 Brief Synopsis – Set in the 1970’s, Ron Burgundy is a famous regional
anchorman along with his colleagues. Suddenly the news company hire a
female anchor which during the 1970’s was unheard of and all the news
anchors were outraged. Then the anchor woman (veronica) comes in on
the first day and all the team fancy her and try to seduce her and fail.
Eventually, after many attempts, she agrees to go on a date with Ron and
ends up sleeping with him. They agree to keep their relationship a secret
until Ron tells everyone in work and on air. One day when Ron doesn't
turn up for work, Veronica fills in for him and becomes a success and
starts to get more air time which Ron gets jealous over. Due to the
jealousy the relationship ends but now they are co-anchors. There is a lot
of tension between the two which causes Ron to say something he
shouldn’t live on air and he gets fired for it. Now Ron has become jobless
and an alcoholic whilst Veronica is a famous news anchor but all the men
at work hate her. A huge news story comes up which gets a lot of news
teams interested and the men get revenge on Veronica for getting Ron
fired. The manager can’t find Veronica and re calls Ron. Ron then saves
Veronica and covers the story and he and Veronica start a relationship
again and end up becoming world news anchors.

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8.  Reception theory is a theory introduced by Stuart Hall in
1973. He stated that people are part of certain social
groups due to things they see in the media.
 For example if there was a football match on tv the next
day there will be a group of people talking about the
events of the match and having their different opinions
about certain events in the match. In the same way if
there was a major event in a soap a different social group
will talk about that event.

9.  Star theory is theory that celebrities such as movie stars, singers
etc. purposely act and dress in a certain way to get an appeal from
a target audience in order to earn more money.
 For example Noel and Liam Gallagher act a bit arrogant and
cocky. They also have a bit of style about them that keeps them in
the news. This gives them a huge appeal and because of this they
become very successful and make a lot of money.
 In the same way Lady Gaga has a strange and outrageous fashion
sense that keeps her in the public eye a lot and is seen as unique.
A lot of people like that and in 2013 the Guinness Book of Records
named her the most famous person in the world therefore earning
a lot of money.