Posts Tagged ‘adoption’

Eastern Promises (2007)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Altin, Josef | Mina, Mina E. | Mikic, Aleksandar | Labrosse, Sarah-Jeanne | Ahmed, Lalita | Uzzaman, Badi | Watts, Naomi | Croll, Doña | Jaffrey, Raza | Cusack, Sinéad | Skolimowski, Jerzy | Maslany, Tatiana | Mortensen, Viggo | Cassel, Vincent | Mueller-Stahl, Armin
Directors: Cronenberg, David
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The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London’s most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Headed by Semyon, whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold and brutal core, the family’s fortunes are tested by Semyon’s volatile son and enforcer, Kirill, who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father. But Nikolai’s carefully maintained existence is jarred once he crosses paths at Christmastime with Anna Khitrova, a midwife at a North London hospital. Anna is deeply affected by the desperate situation of a young teenager who dies while giving birth to a baby. Anna resolves to try to trace the baby’s lineage and relatives. The girl’s personal diary also survives her; it is written in Russian, and Anna seeks answers in it. Anna’s mother Helen does not discourage her, but Anna’s irascible Russian-born uncle Stepan urges caution. He is right to do so; by delving into the diary, Anna has accidentally unleashed the full fury of the Vory. With Semyon and Kirill closing ranks and Anna pressing her inquiries, Nikolai unexpectedly finds his loyalties divided. The family tightens its grip on him; who can, or should, he trust? Several lives - including his own - hang in the balance as a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution reverberates through the darkest corners of both the family and London itself.

Meet the Robinsons (2007)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Angela Bassett | Hansen, Daniel | Fry, Jordan | Josten, Matthew | Ford, John H. H. | McGarry, Dara | Kenny, Tom | Metcalf, Laurie | Hall, Don | Butcher, Paul | Miller-Zarneke, Tracey | Singerman, Wesley | Flower, Jessie | Sandler, Ethan
Directors: Anderson, Stephen J.
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Meet the Robinsons is filled with extraordinarily inappropriate and insensitive messages about adoption that will be disturbing to many children. The basic story is about an adorable baby whose birthmother leaves him on the doorstep of an orphanage. Portrayed as loving, sweet, extremely smart and overly appealing, he spends the next 12 years of his life wanting a family and being turned down by one family after another - in all, 114 couples refuse to adopt him. One disturbing scene shows a prospective dad losing interest in adopting the child because the youngster is more interested in science than sports. When he accidentally splatters them with food from his science project, both prospective parents walk out in a huff , leaving one very sad and disappointed little boy. Since no one else wants him, the child invents a time machine that will take him back in time to find his birth mother. The “bad guy” in his time travel journey turns out to be his best childhood buddy who was once his orphanage roommate. Now an emotional wreck resulting from being left behind when the orphanage was closed and shut down, the once-cute orphan is now mean and devious. The story continues with numerous monsters attacking the child as he continues to search for his birth mother.

Martian Child (2007)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Coleman, Bobby | Peet, Amanda | Okonedo, Sophie | Cusack, Joan | Platt, Oliver | Bud | Schiff, Richard | Calicetto, Taya | Kaye, David | Bonneville, Braxton | Charles, Samuel | Ludwig, Zak | Chu, Samuel Patrick | Morrissette, Ryan
Directors: Meyjes, Menno
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A science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy who says he’s really from Mars.

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Knowles, Beyoncé | Green, Seth | York, Michael | Wagner, Robert | Sterling, Mindy | Troyer, Verne | Caine, Michael | Savage, Fred | Mizota, Diane | Inaba, Carrie Ann | Matsuhisa, Nobu | Himelstein, Aaron | Zuckerman, Josh | Adams, Eddie
Directors: Roach, Jay
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He’s found his mojo, baby, and now Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is back again in this shagadelic comedy-adventure! The “sshhh!” hits the fan when Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin’s father, master spy Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), in a dastardly time-travel scheme to take over the world. Before you can say “Shake Your Booty,” Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with sexy Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles) to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem. With Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Mindy Sterling and Verne J. Troyer.

Running with Scissors (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bening, Annette | Cox, Brian | Fiennes, Joseph | Wood, Evan Rachel | Baldwin, Alec | Cross, Joseph | Clayburgh, Jill | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Union, Gabrielle | Wilson, Patrick | Chenoweth, Kristin | Dominczyk, Dagmara | Camp, Colleen | Kaeding, Jack | Guedj, Gabriel
Directors: Murphy, Ryan
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The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he’ll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs (1965- ) divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother’s mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch’s younger daughter, and he’s the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?

Tarzan (1999)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Goldwyn, Tony | Driver, Minnie | Close, Glenn | Blessed, Brian | Hawthorne, Nigel | Henriksen, Lance | Knight, Wayne | Linz, Alex D. | O'Donnell, Rosie | Dempsey, Taylor | Marsden, Jason | Angel, Jack | Ashton, Joseph | Bergen, Bob | Bumpass, Rodger
Directors: Buck, Chris
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The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he’s human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to…

Northfork (2003)

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Woods, James | Nolte, Nick | Sebern, Douglas | Forlani, Claire | Farnes, Duel | Hannah, Daryl | Beckel, Graham | Barker, Josh | Coyote, Peter | Gries, Jon | Overton, Rick | Sachs, Robin | Foster, Ben | Edwards, Anthony
Directors: Polish, Michael
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In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork’s years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin’s imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation.

Big Daddy (1999)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Adams, Joey Lauren | Stewart, Jon | Sprouse, Cole | Sprouse, Dylan | Mostel, Josh | Mann, Leslie | Covert, Allen | Schneider, Rob | Swanson, Kristy | Bologna, Joseph | Dante, Peter | Loughran, Jonathan | Buscemi, Steve | Herlihy, Tim
Directors: Dugan, Dennis
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Sonny Koufax is 32 years old. He’s a law school graduate. He’s got a nice apartment in Manhattan. There’s just one problem. He does nothing, except sit on his butt and live off an investment that was the result of a meager lawsuit he won a year ago. But after his fed up girlfriend leaves him, he comes up with the ingenious idea to adopt a five year old boy to showcase his newfound maturity. But things don’t go as planned, and Sonny finds himself the unlikely foster father that will change his perspective on just looking out for himself.

Nanny McPhee (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Thompson, Emma | Firth, Colin | Macdonald, Kelly | Imrie, Celia | Jacobi, Derek | Barlow, Patrick | Staunton, Imelda | Sangster, Thomas | Lansbury, Angela
Directors: Jones, Kirk
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Mr. Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) has just lost his wife and is now left with his seven children who misbehave so much that all the nannies have run away. Now he is told by a mysterious voice that he should get Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) who is a magical woman with special powers.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Portman, Natalie | Christensen, Hayden | McDiarmid, Ian | Jackson, Samuel L. | Smits, Jimmy | Oz, Frank | Daniels, Anthony | Lee, Christopher | Castle-Hughes, Keisha | Carson, Silas | Laga'aia, Jay | Spence, Bruce | Pygram, Wayne | Morrison, Temuera
Directors: Lucas, George
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A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrilling climax. The story here logically sets up the events of Episode IV, the original 1977 Star Wars movie in which Darth Vader goes to war against his own children, Luke and Leia.