Posts Tagged ‘apology’

East of Eden (1955)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Harris, Julie | Dean, James | Massey, Raymond | Ives, Burl | Davalos, Richard | Van Fleet, Jo | Dekker, Albert | Smith, Lois | Gordon, Harold | Dennis, Nick | Abbas, Abdullah | Arias, José | Brooks, Joe | Carey, Timothy | Carr, Jack
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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Cal Trask is a particularly unhappy young man. He sees himself as the black sheep of the family and is always competing with his brother Aron, who seems to be perfect in almost every way. Aron is also their father’s favorite and Cal desperately wants his father’s love and affection. It’s the period leading up to America’s entry into World War I and these are tumultuous times. After his father loses most of his fortune trying to ship refrigerated lettuce to New York, Cal decides to speculate on a crop of beans and makes a small fortune but he soon realizes that he can’t buy his father’s loves either. Cal’s discovery that his mother is alive - he and Aron were told that she had died - and that she is a madam leads to a final, tragic result for all three of the Trask men.

Passage to India, A (1984)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Davis, Judy | Banerjee, Victor | Ashcroft, Peggy | Fox, James | Guinness, Alec | Havers, Nigel | Wilson, Richard | Pemberton, Antonia | Culver, Michael | Malik, Art | Jaffrey, Saeed | Swift, Clive | Firbank, Ann | Seth, Roshan | Hotz, Sandra
Directors: Lean, David
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Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fiancé, a British magistrate posted in a small town; her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. They want to see something of the country and to meet everyday Indians, but are frustrated by the British community’s insistence that relations with the locals are best experienced from a distance. Finally, a friend introduces them to a Muslim doctor whom Mrs. Moore had seen briefly on her visit to a mosque. He takes them on an outing to the nearby caverns (a local attraction), but what happens there threatens to destroy any civility between the British and Indian societies.

Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Caine, Michael | Plummer, Christopher | Jaffrey, Saeed | Larbi, Doghmi | May, Jack | Bouih, Karroom Ben | Shamsi, Mohammad | Moses, Albert | Antrim, Paul | Acres, Graham | Blue Dancers of Goulamine, The | Caine, Shakira | Singh, Gurmuks | Singh, Kimat
Directors: Huston, John
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” The Man Who Would Be King” is about two ambitious ex-soldiers stationed in India who set out to become the rulers of an entire country. After finishing their tour of duty in India, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan have decided that India is “too small for the likes of them,” so they decide to bribe a local ruler and extort money from him, in order to buy twenty Martini rifles, which they will use to take over villages in Kafristan. They face many challenges and perils along the way, including difficult terrain, hostile natives, freezing temperatures, and an avalanche high in the mountains. They eventually come to a small village, Urheb, where they meet Ootah and Billy Fish, an Indian who speaks English; he then becomes their translator. They then train the natives of this village to use the rifles, and soon conquer village after village. During a battle, Daniel is struck by an arrow that seemingly sticks out of his chest. The ignorant natives believe that he must be a God for not having died, and fall down and begin worshiping him. Daniel and Peachy decide that it would be easier for a “God ” to take over the country, so they pretend that Daniel is a god, the son of Alexander the Great who has returned after 2200 years to again rule Kafristan. The entire country celebrated the return of their new ruler, the Son of Segunda (”Alexander”). As a token of their admiration, the holiest of holy men gives Daniel all of the gold and riches left by Alexander in 328 B.C. It is enough to make them the richest men in the world . . . All goes well until Daniel’s ego and greed gets the best of him. He asks Peachy to bow when he walks in front of him. He later tells Peachy that he has decided to stay, and now believes that he is the son of Alexander ( ‘in spirit, anyways”), and that to fulfill his destiny, he will marry Roxanne, like his “father” Alexander did before him. The Kafiri’s believe that a mortal cannot marry a God, but Daniel goes ahead anyway. Peachy was set to leave with his share of the treasure, but Daniel convinced him to stay ” for old time’s sake” for the wedding. At the ceremony, Roxanne, believing that she would soon die, bites Daniel, drawing blood. The entire crowd realizes that since Danny is bleeding, that he is a man, not a God, and that he has been deceiving them the entire time. Peachy grabs Daniel and they run off with their twenty soldiers, shooting at the crowd of monks who set out to kill them. They are eventually captured, and Daniel is forced to walk out on a rope bridge. The monks cut the ropes, and Daniel bravely falls to his death. Peachy is later crucified; when they come to see him the next day, he is still alive, and they say that it is a miracle that he lived and they cut him down. He eventually climbs down into the valley and retrieves Danny’s head, still wearing the crown. He brings it back to Rudyard Kipling, a writer for the Northern Star, as proof that Daniel accomplished his goal, and became the King of Kafristan. Themes developed in the story: 1. ambition 2. friendship 3. taking risks 4. perseverance (not giving up) 5. power 6. honor and dignity

Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Amalric, Mathieu | Seigner, Emmanuelle | Croze, Marie-Josée | Consigny, Anne | Chesnais, Patrick | Arestrup, Niels | López Garmendia, Olatz | Cassel, Jean-Pierre | Hands, Marina | von Sydow, Max | De Bankolé, Isaach | Caunes, Emma de | Écoffey, Jean-Philippe | Watkins, Gérard | Le Riche, Nicolas
Directors: Schnabel, Julian
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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.

Puffy Chair, The (2005)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Duplass, Mark | Aselton, Kathryn | Wilkins, Rhett | Fischer, Julie | Duplass, Larry | Hyman, Bari | Finnegan, Gerald | Barendse, Henry | Duplass, Cindy | Parsons, David | Alvarado, Jose Manuel | Gonzalez, Daniel | Aselton, Ora | Leighton, Bill | Whalen, Jim
Directors: Duplass, Jay
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Josh Sagers drives cross-country on a mission to deliver his father’s birthday gift - a giant purple LazyBoy.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Breslin, Abigail | Kinnear, Greg | Dano, Paul | Arkin, Alan | Collette, Toni | Carell, Steve | Turtletaub, Marc | Talley, Jill | Canela, Brenda | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Loring, Chuck | Shilton, Justin | Thomson, Gordon | Parker, Steven Christopher | Cranston, Bryan
Directors: Dayton, Jonathan
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word “dysfunctional”. The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?

Mr. Baseball (1992)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sport
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Selleck, Tom | Takakura, Ken | Takanashi, Aya | Haysbert, Dennis | Shioya, Toshi | Toyohara, Kosuke | Fujiwara, Toshizo | Takano, Mak | Morinaga, Kenji | Nishimura, Joh | Goto, Norihide | Toita, Kensuke | Fuji, Naoki | Hozumi, Takanobu | Lee, Leon
Directors: Schepisi, Fred
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A Major Leaguer down on his percentages gets traded to the Chuunichi Dragons , and has trouble adjusting to Japanese customs. He resists what he considers ridiculous and arbitrary rules of the club and belittles the etiquette expected of him as a representative of his team. When he starts seeing the interactions of his coach with the owners of the team, and falls in love with his trainer’s daughter, he begins to rethink his attitude.

Little Manhattan (2005)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutcherson, Josh | Ray, Charlie | Whitford, Bradley | Nixon, Cynthia | Garson, Willie | Patano, Tonye | Manzay, J. Kyle | Pais, Josh | Dossett, John | Balsam, Talia | Meyerson, Jonah | Bush, Michael | Aguiar, Brian W. | Cubbler, Nick | Laflamme, Anthony
Directors: Levin, Mark
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Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan, untill Rosemary Telesco walked into his life actually into his karate class. But, before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not being going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life,love and girls.

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Theron, Charlize | Patric, Jason | Sarandon, Susan | Franco, James | Corbin, Barry | Brolin, Josh | Fisher, Frances | Chatham, Wes | McLaughlin, Jake | Brooks, Mehcad | Tucker, Jonathan | Duvall, Wayne | Wolf, Victor | Briscoe, Brent
Directors: Haggis, Paul
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Segel, Jason | Brand, Russell | Hader, Bill | McBrayer, Jack | Wily, Taylor | McDonald, Davon | Landesberg, Steve | Hill, Jonah | Rudd, Paul | Alexander, Kala | Robb, Kalani | Richmond, Branscombe | Bush, Billy Green | Baldwin, William | Bateman, Jason
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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex … and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend.