Posts Tagged ‘bartender’

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Reed, Donna | Barrymore, Lionel | Mitchell, Thomas | Travers, Henry | Bondi, Beulah | Faylen, Frank | Bond, Ward | Grahame, Gloria | Warner, H.B. | Albertson, Frank | Karns, Todd | Hinds, Samuel S. | Treen, Mary | Patton, Virginia
Directors: Capra, Frank
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On Christmas eve, all of the citizens of the small town of Bedford Falls pray to the heavens to help George Bailey. It’s then decided that Clarence, an angel who hasn’t earned his wings, is to help George. Before he does, he should know who George Bailey was. George Bailey grew up in Bedford Falls, a small town where he dreams of leaving it and making his mark on the world. His family’s business is the only thing stands between the good citizens and Mr. Potter, a rich miser who takes sick pleasure in taking from everybody, without even caring how it affects them. George was all set to leave when his father died and had to take care of the business. George would forever be hindered by his plans to leave and thinks that he is nothing but a failure, he decides to kill himself. That’s when Clarence comes in and tries to convince him that he has made something with his life, and that he had a “Wonderful Life”.

What Happens in Vegas (2008)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Kutcher, Ashton | Corddry, Rob | Bell, Lake | Sudeikis, Jason | Williams, Treat | O'Connell, Deirdre | Krusiec, Michelle | Farina, Dennis | Galifianakis, Zach | Latifah, Queen | Ritter, Krysten | Garcia, Ricky | Daly, Andrew | Robledo, Benita
Directors: Vaughan, Tom
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The clumsy and reckless Jack Fuller is fired by his boss and father and together with his friend and unsuccessful lawyer Hater, they decide to go to Las Vegas to have a good time. Meanwhile the fiancé of the workaholic stock broker Joy McNally breaks up their engagement because of her lack of attitude. Her friend and bartender Tipper convinces Joy to spend a couple of days also in Las Vegas. Due to a hotel management mistake, they are lodged in the same room and later they hang around together. During the night, they get completely wasted and on the next morning, Jack and Joy find that they got married. While discussing to briefly end their wedding, Jack borrows a coin from Joy to gamble in the jackpot machine and wins three million dollars. They question in court the ownership of the money and the conservative Judge R. D. Whopper freezes the money and sentence them to live together with Joy moving to Jack’s house for six months and attending regular counseling sessions. Each one decides to make the life of the other hell on Earth to force to get out of the marriage.

Desert Saints (2000)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Mr. Destiny (1990)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Belushi, James | Hamilton, Linda | Caine, Michael | Lovitz, Jon | Bochner, Hart | McCutcheon, Bill | Russo, Rene | Sanders, Jay O. | Chaykin, Maury | Corley, Pat | Seale, Douglas | Cox, Courteney | Barron, Doug | Weiss, Jeff | Longo, Tony
Directors: Orr, James
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Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks..

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.

Romper Stomper (1992)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: Australia
Actors: Crowe, Russell | Daniel Pollock | McKenzie, Jacqueline | Alex Scott | Wright, Jeffrey
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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins’ merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?

Factotum (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | Germany | Norway | Sweden | USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Taylor, Lili | Tomei, Marisa | Stevens, Fisher | Flamand, Didier | Shelly, Adrienne | Young, Karen | Lyons, Thomas | Brewington, Dean | Cada, James | Detmar, James Michael | Schweickhardt, Kurt | Noah, Dee | Noah, James | Egan, Michael
Directors: Hamer, Bent
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

Near Dark (1987)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Pasdar, Adrian | Wright, Jenny | Henriksen, Lance | Paxton, Bill | Goldstein, Jenette | Thomerson, Tim | Miller, Joshua John | Leeds, Marcie | Call, Kenny | Corbett, Ed | Evans, Troy | Cross, Bill | Brown, Roger Aaron | Wagner, Thomas | Winley, Robert
Directors: Bigelow, Kathryn
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A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.

Machinist, The (2004)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Spain
Actors: Bale, Christian | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Sánchez-Gijón, Aitana | Sharian, John | Ironside, Michael | Gilliard Jr., Larry | Cathey, Reg E. | Massey, Anna | Romero Moore, Matthew | Long, Robert | Stinton, Colin | Stevenson, Craig | Lahoz, Ferran | Xidu, Jeremy | Bell, Norman
Directors: Anderson, Brad
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“The Machinist” is a film about a man who hasn’t slept in a year, and he starts thinking that he’s losing his mind, when he starts seeing hallucinations, and his perception of reality becomes twisted. He’s haunted by a co-worker that no one else can see, and keeps finding post-it notes with secret messages on his fridge…

Keeping the Faith (2000)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Elfman, Jenna | Bancroft, Anne | Wallach, Eli | Rifkin, Ron | Forman, Milos | Taylor, Holland | Edelstein, Lisa | Sofer, Rena | Leung, Ken | George, Brian | Burns, Catherine Lloyd | Essman, Susie | Blumberg, Stuart
Directors: Norton, Edward
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A love triangle between three friends. Rabbi Jake Schram and Father Brian Finn, two friends, are out to update their religions and draw in more worshipers. With the arrival of Anna Reilly, an old childhood friend of the two, the men’s lives are thrown a curve ball. Anna has become a stunning beauty with a lot of spunk and ambition, and both of them want her. A major road block to Anna for both men is their religion. Jake is up for a head position at his synagogue and taking on a non-Jewish partner is frowned upon, besides the fact that his mother disowned his brother for marrying a non-Jewish woman. Brian has given a vow of celibacy to become a priest.