Oscar-winners Sandra Bullock and Jesse James and Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.

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Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe were only 23 and 24, respectively, when they tied the knot in June 1999.

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Last year alone saw the breakups of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, and Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.

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Bob Balaban plays a Hollywood producer of Charlie Chan mysteries, and Ryan Phillippe is his valet, a cherub-faced erotic toy that anyone can play with.

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June 13, 2011: Michelle Obama attends fundraiser in Westwood California, featuring actors Ryan Phillippe, and actresses Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Drew Barrymore and Vanessa Williams.

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In "Breach, " with officials suspecting something wrong with Hanssen (Chris Cooper), Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) -- a young agent -- is assigned to spy on the older man.

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Obsessed with their dead friends, these ordinary guys John Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford), and Ira Hayes (Adam Beach) faced their public role with varying degrees of pride, nausea, and guilt.

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Issues of dueling star power are also swirling around the ongoing divorce of Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon and her husband of seven years Ryan Phillippe, The pair, who met and married in 1999 before either was an A-list star, apparently never signed a prenup.

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Don Cheadle, as a withdrawn, melancholy police detective, is the star, and the other players include Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton as an upper-class African-American couple, Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock as an L.A. district attorney and his bitchy wife, Chris (Ludacris) Bridges and Larenz Tate as carjackers, Matt Dillon and Ryan Phillippe as cops, and Shaun Toub as an Iranian shopkeeper who thinks everyone is out to cheat him.

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