based-on-play movies

Hair (1979)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Savage, John | Williams, Treat | D'Angelo, Beverly | Golden, Annie | Wright, Dorsey | Dacus, Don | Barnes, Cheryl | Bright, Richard | Nicholas, Ray | Rae, Charlotte | Chapin, Miles | Tailer, Fern | Denny, Charles | Meckler, Herman | Breen, Agness
Directors: Forman, Milos
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This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.

Off the Map (2003)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brenneman, Amy | de Angelis, Valentina | Allen, Joan | Elliott, Sam | Simmons, J.K. | Southern, Boots | Garfield, J.D. | True-Frost, Jim | Montoya, Matthew E. | Griego, Kathy | McNicholas, William Hart | Martinez, Timothy | Hawkins, J.D. | Skousen, Kevin
Directors: Scott, Campbell
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An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Cumming, Alan | Ventresca, Vincent | Theroux, Justin | Vargas, Jacob | Dickson, Neil | Callahan, E.J. | Phifer, Zack | Goldin, Ricky Paull | Skyler, Robb | D, Deezer | Rogers, Kivi | McGregor, Brian | Wilson, Victor | Keeley, Paul | Pasqualone, Rick
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Romy and Michele are two former schoolmates who have also been roommates for ten years after the time they graduated, and their lives are far from successful, they can’t even get a date. As the 10-year class reunion approaches they try to do something to make an impression on other former schoolmates and finally decide to act as though they are very rich business women who invented Post-Its.

Chicago (2002)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Musical
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Diggs, Taye | Saunders, Cliff | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Zellweger, Ren?e | West, Dominic | Gere, Richard | Eastwood, Jayne | Beaton, Bruce | Baranski, Christine | Podhora, Roman | Reilly, John C. | Feore, Colm | Smith, Rob | Wayne Doyle, Shawn | Behal, Steve | Rox, Robbie | Rivera, Chita
Directors: Marshall, Rob
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Fame hungry Roxie Hart dreams of a life on the Vaudville stage, and spends her nights jazzing it up in the bright lights of Chicago, continually hoping that she’ll find her lucky break, and be shot into 1920’s stardom, so able to flee her boring husband Amos. In awe of seductive club singer Velma Kelly (who is subsequantly arrested for the murder of her husband and sister - after discovering their affair), Roxie meets Fred Cassely a man who convinces her he can ‘make her showbiz career take off’. However after Roxie has undergone the ‘casting couch’ treatment, and Fred has had his wicked way with her, he reveals that he has no more connections in showbusiness than she does. This is the final straw for Roxie, and her constant anger at rejection explodes. She shoots Fred Cassely and kills him. Upon discovering her infidelity, Roxie’s husband Amos refuses to take the blame for the murder and Roxie is sent to jail, pending hanging. In jail she finally meets tabloid darling Velma Kelly, currently receiving huge media attention for the double murder she committed earlier in the tale. Sharing the clink with Velma, are a collection of other sly females, all awaiting trial for the murders of their own partners. Velma is aloof to Roxie, however the prison Warden Mrs Morton offers Roxie the opportunity of representation by slick Chicago lawyer Billy Flynn. Billy is more a showbiz P. R agent than a legal lawyer and minipulates the tabloids into thinking Roxie is no more than an innocent ‘good time girl’ who took the wrong path, than a scheming murderess. The tabloids go crazy for the new girl on the cell block, and Roxie finally becomes a star. However due to Roxie’s new found fame, Velma is forgotten about. She is forced to approach Roxie with an offer of a part in her Vaudville act (filling the gap left by her murdered sister), but Roxie turns down her offer flat, thinking she needs no support in topping the bill. However, just as Velma’s star fell, so does Roxie’s, when Go-to-hell Kitty arrives at the jail on a multiple murder charge, the press forget Roxie and now she and Velma are in the same boat. With one more trick up her sleave Roxie manages to bring the media attention back onto her, and her day in court arrives. Billy is now ready to play the ultimate showman!

Finding Neverland (2004)

Friday, December 4th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Winslet, Kate | Christie, Julie | Mitchell, Radha | Hoffman, Dustin | Highmore, Freddie | Prospero, Joe | Roud, Nick | Spill, Luke | Macdonald, Kelly | Crook, Mackenzie | Essell, Eileen | Gardner, Jimmy | Fox, Oliver
Directors: Forster, Marc
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

Lion in Winter, The (1968)

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Hepburn, Katharine | Hopkins, Anthony | Castle, John | Terry, Nigel | Dalton, Timothy | Merrow, Jane | Stock, Nigel | Ives, Kenneth | Whitehead, O.Z. | Stafford, Fran | More, Ella | Griffith, Kenneth | Woolf, Henry | Hagar, Karol
Directors: Harvey, Anthony
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In 1183 Henry II summonses his sons Richard, John, and Geoffrey to join him and his prison-bound wife Eleanor at Chinon for a family Christmas, along with King Philip II of France and his sister Alais, Henry’s mistress. Philip is insisting Alais now marries John as agreed years before else he wants her dowry, the lands of the Vexen, back. As Eleanor has already given the province of Aquitaine to Richard, the outcome of this may decide the very future of England. Everyone present except perhaps Alais are masters of double-dealing and deceipt, so it could be a lively Yuletide.

Crucible, The (1996)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel | Ryder, Winona | Scofield, Paul | Allen, Joan | Davison, Bruce | Campbell, Rob | Jones, Jeffrey | Vaughan, Peter | Graves, Karron | Woodard, Charlayne | Conroy, Frances | Lawrence, Elizabeth | Gaynes, George | Gleason, Mary Pat | Breuler, Robert
Directors: Hytner, Nicholas
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America.

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pidgeon, Walter | Francis, Anne | Nielsen, Leslie | Stevens, Warren | Kelly, Jack | Anderson, Richard | Holliman, Earl | Robot, Robby the | Wallace, George | Dix, Robert | Thompson, Jimmy | Drury, James | Harvey Jr., Harry | McGee, Roger | Miller, Peter
Directors: Wilcox, Fred M.
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An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. What they discover is how and why an alien race of geniuses destroyed itself overnight while leaving their technology intact at some point in the distant, distant past.

Tragedy of Macbeth, The (1971)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Finch, Jon | Annis, Francesca | Shaw, Martin | Bayler, Terence | Stride, John | Selby, Nicholas | Chase, Stephan | Shelley, Paul | MacFarquhar, Maisie | Taylor, Elsie | Rimmington, Noelle | Davis, Noel | Bromley, Sydney | Pearson, Richard | Mason, Patricia
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Roman Polanski’s version of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king’s son conspires to attack MacBeth and expose him for the murderer he is.

About Last Night… (1986)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lowe, Rob | Moore, Demi | Belushi, James | Perkins, Elizabeth | DiCenzo, George | Alldredge, Michael | Thomas, Robin | Gibbons, Donna | Mullally, Megan | Duff, Patricia | DeSoto, Rosanna | Parker, Sachi | Neches, Robert | Greco, Joe | Maris, Ada
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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Danny and Bernie are two single men living their lives on the wild side. But when Danny meets Debbie at a bar and the two start a relationship with a one night stand, Danny’s life takes a different turn. How does this passionate night become a full affair and what effect will this relationship have on both people and their friendship with their best mates ?