Posts Tagged ‘businessman’

Seabiscuit (2003)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: McCullough, David | Bridges, Jeff | O'Connor, Paul Vincent | Cooper, Chris | Ensign, Michael | Keane, James | Mahaffey, Valerie | Doty, David | Craig, Carl M. | O'Neill, Michael | Corley, Annie | Angarano, Michael | Bowen, Cameron | Luke, Noah | Bess, Mariah
Directors: Ross, Gary
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters’fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit “fixed us, every one of us.”

Being There (1979)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sellers, Peter | MacLaine, Shirley | Douglas, Melvyn | Warden, Jack | Dysart, Richard | Basehart, Richard | Attaway, Ruth | Clennon, David | Brill, Fran | DuBarry, Denise | Burbridge, Oteil | Keller III, Ravenell | Corrigan, Brian | Brown, Alfredine P. | Jacob, Donald
Directors: Ashby, Hal
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Russo, Rene | Leary, Denis | Gazzara, Ben | Faison, Frankie | Weaver, Fritz | Keating, Charles | Margolis, Mark | Dunaway, Faye | Lombard, Michael | Ambrozy, Bill | Bahr, Michael | Novak, Robert D. | Lamb, Joe H. | Saito, James
Directors: McTiernan, John
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Self-made billionaire Thomas Crown is bored of being able to buy everything he desires. Being irresistible to women, he also does not feel any challenge in that area. But there are a few things even he can’t get, therefore Thomas Crown has a seldom hobby: He steals priceless masterpieces of Art. After the theft of a famous painting from Claude Monet, the only person suspecting Thomas Crown is Catherine Banning. Her job is to get the picture back, no matter how she accomplishes her mission. Unfortunately, Catherine gets involved too deeply with Thomas to keep a professional distance to the case. Fortunately, Thomas seems to fall for her, too.

Sabrina (1954)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Audrey | Holden, William | Hampden, Walter | Williams, John | Hyer, Martha | Vohs, Joan | Dalio, Marcel | Hillaire, Marcel | Walker, Nella | Bushman, Francis X. | Corby, Ellen | Ahdar, David | Bailey, Raymond | Brooks, Ralph
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her — “doesn’t even know I exist” — until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David’s attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.

Casanova (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ledger, Heath | Miller, Sienna | Irons, Jeremy | Platt, Oliver | Olin, Lena | Djalili, Omid | Greif, Stephen | Stott, Ken | McCrory, Helen | Lawson, Leigh | McInnerny, Tim | Cox, Charlie | Dormer, Natalie | Davis, Philip | Ward, Paddy
Directors: Hallström, Lasse
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Casanova is love with Francesca, who thinks he is a friend of himself even though he is engaged Victoria, who is the love of Giovanni, Francessca’s brother. Francessca is betrothed to Paprizzio who thinks Casanova is the feminist writer Guardi, who is really Francessca’s nomme de plume. Amidst all these secret identities and misunderstandings, the Catholic Church sends Pucci to bring Casanova and Guardi to trial for heresy.

Single White Female (1992)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fonda, Bridget | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Weber, Steven | Friedman, Peter | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Bay, Frances | Farr, Michele | Karsian, Tara | Capetillo, Christiana | Lundy, Jessica | Estevez, Renée | Mataras, Tiffany | Mataras, Krystle | Campbell, Amelia | Tobey, Kenneth
Directors: Schroeder, Barbet
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When a ‘Single White Female’ places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she’s just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.

Match Point (2005)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Luxembourg | UK
Actors: Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan | Armstrong, Alexander | Kaye, Paul | Goode, Matthew | Cox, Brian | Wilton, Penelope | Mortimer, Emily | Kelly, Janis | Oke, Alan | Gatiss, Mark | Johansson, Scarlett | Kunz, Simon | Streatfield, Geoffrey | Hegarty, Mary | Fortune, John
Directors: Allen, Woody
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Chris Wilton is a former tennis pro, looking to find work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy. Tom’s sister Chloe falls in love with Chris but Chris has his eyes on Tom’s fiancée, the luscious Nola. Both Chris and Nola know it’s wrong but what could be more right than love? Chris tries to juggle both women but at some point, he must choose between them…

She Hate Me (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Mackie, Anthony | Washington, Kerry | Barkin, Ellen | Bellucci, Monica | Brown, Jim | Davis, Ossie | Debbouze, Jamel | Dennehy, Brian | Harrelson, Woody | Bai, Ling | McKee, Lonette | Parker, Paula Jai | Q-Tip | Ramirez, Dania | Turturro, John
Directors: Lee, Spike
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Harvard-educated biotech executive John Henry Jack Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses, launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima, a high powered businesswoman–and now a lesbian–offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex, Jack is persuaded by the chance to make easy money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a try. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for security fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated.

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Schwartzman, Jason | Huppert, Isabelle | Hoffman, Dustin | Tomlin, Lily | Law, Jude | Wahlberg, Mark | Watts, Naomi | Grillo, Angela | Duany, Ger | Hunt, Darlene | Dunn, Kevin | Hernandez, Benny | Appel, Richard | Nurick, Benjamin | Muxworthy, Jake
Directors: Russell, David O.
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Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.

Matador, The (2005)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Ireland | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Kinnear, Greg | Miller, Arlin | Davis, Hope | Hall, Philip Baker | Scott, Adam | Baker, Dylan | Alvarez, Ramon | Horwitz, Carolyn | Robles, Jorge | Sáenz, Hanny | Goldsmith, Gabriela | Lobo, Claudia | Alvarado, Bernice | Dávila, Adriana
Directors: Shepard, Richard
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A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both forever.