Posts Tagged ‘childhood-friend’

Perfect Stranger (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Berry, Halle | Willis, Bruce | Ribisi, Giovanni | Portnow, Richard | Dourdan, Gary | Lozano, Florencia | Aycox, Nicki Lynn | Chalfant, Kathleen | MacDonald, Gordon | Van Graas, Daniella | Miranda, Paula | D'Arbanville, Patti | Lewis, Clea | Feldman, Tamara | Becker, Gerry
Directors: Foley, James
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Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he’s Rowena’s prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she’s soon the object of Hill’s attentions. She’s helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out?

Home at the End of the World, A (2004)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Chalmers, Andrew | Donowho, Ryan | Vieira, Asia | Hamilton, Quancetia | Authors, Jeff J.J. | Merchant, Lisa | Lea, Ron | Smith, Erik | Allan, Harris | Frewer, Matt | Spacek, Sissy | Farrell, Colin | Roberts, Dallas | Wright Penn, Robin | Roberts, Shawn
Directors: Mayer, Michael
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Two childhood friends face their past relationships, including their own, alongside a new friend in the 1980’s in New York City. Their friendship becomes a love triangle as they struggle with a father’s death and an unexpected pregnancy. Together, the shall face each other as they realize that everything they have may not be what they expected.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Hartnett, Josh | Beckinsale, Kate | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Voight, Jon | Baldwin, Alec | Sizemore, Tom | Scott, William Lee | Zola, Greg | Bremner, Ewen | King, Jaime | Kellner, Catherine | Garner, Jennifer | Rue, Sara | Shannon, Michael
Directors: Bay, Michael
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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.

Batman Begins (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Neeson, Liam | Holmes, Katie | Oldman, Gary | Murphy, Cillian | Wilkinson, Tom | Hauer, Rutger | Watanabe, Ken | Boone Junior, Mark | Roache, Linus | Freeman, Morgan | Holden, Larry | Murphy, Gerard | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

Jumanji (1995)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: | Williams, Robin | Hyde, Jonathan | Dunst, Kirsten | Pierce, Bradley | Hunt, Bonnie | Neuwirth, Bebe | Grier, David Alan | Clarkson, Patricia | Hann-Byrd, Adam | Bundy, Laura Bell | Handy, James | Barber, Gillian | Obray, Brandon | Thiedeke, Cyrus | Thorup, Gary Joseph
Directors: Johnston, Joe
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After being trapped in a jungle board game for 26 years, a Man- Child (Robin Williams) wins his release from the game. But, no sooner has he arrived that he is forced to play again, and this time sets the creatures of the jungle loose on the city. Now it is up to him to stop them.

Braveheart (1995)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Robinson, James | Nelson, Sandy | Cosmo, James | Lawlor, Sean | Tall, Alan | Weir, Andrew | Stevenson, Gerda | Riach, Ralph | Calvey, Mhairi | Cox, Brian | McGoohan, Patrick | Hanly, Peter | Marceau, Sophie
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The movie begins in the small town of Elerslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William’s father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and his father then go to a battle between the British and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a British guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city’s and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Sterling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realises that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace’s death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland’s freedom.

Mystic River (2003)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Robbins, Tim | Bacon, Kevin | Fishburne, Laurence | Harden, Marcia Gay | Linney, Laura | Chapman, Kevin | Guiry, Tom | Rossum, Emmy | Clark, Spencer Treat | Mackin, Andrew | Nelson, Adam | Wahlberg, Robert | O'Hara, Jenny | Doman, John
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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Childhood friends Jimmy Markum (Penn), Sean Devine (Bacon) and Dave Boyle (Robbins) reunite following the death of Jimmy’s oldest daughter, Katie (Rossum). Sean’s a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he’s also tasked with handling Jimmy’s rage and need for retribution.