Posts Tagged ‘college-professor’

Sydney White (2007)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bynes, Amanda | Paxton, Sara | Long, Matt | Carpenter, Jack | Howard, Jeremy | Hunt, Crystal | Hendershott, Adam | Strong, Danny | Levine, Samm | Mintz, Libby | Schneider, John | Pantoja, Arnie | Bonner, Donté | Clarke, Brian Patrick | Leech, Lauren
Directors: Nussbaum, Joe
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This modern retelling of the classic fairytale follows a beautiful college freshman as she pledges her late mother’s once dignified sorority. But after discovering that today’s sisterhood is not what it used to be, Sydney finds her new home away from home with seven outcasts. With the help of her socially challenged new friends, Sydney will take on the reigning campus queen to attempt to transform the school’s misguided social hierarchy.

Love Song for Bobby Long, A (2004)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Johansson, Scarlett | Macht, Gabriel | Unger, Deborah Kara | Rhodes, Dane | Jensen, David | Crawford, Clayne | Shroyer, Sonny | Breaux, Walter | Sutton, Carol | Kole, Warren | Johnson, Bernard | Bernal, Gina 'Ginger' | Griffin, Douglas M. | Maddox, Earl
Directors: Gabel, Shainee
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Upon hearing of her mother’s death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother’s house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother’s friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines. These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson’s faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long’s life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.

Reaping, The (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Swank, Hilary | Morrissey, David | Elba, Idris | Robb, AnnaSophia | Rea, Stephen | Ragsdale, William | McConnell, John | Jensen, David | Landry, Yvonne | Garland, Samuel | Cleveland, Myles | Frankle, Andrea | Lynch, Mark | Greer, Stuart | Grice, Lara
Directors: Hopkins, Stephen
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The death of a child in mysterious circumstances; sparks of a series of events that seem to represent biblical plagues, start occurring in of all places a town called *Haven* located deep in the bowels of bible belt country in the bayous of Louisiana. A former Christian missionary turned religious phenomena debunker and her top open minded student turned personnel assistant is sent to investigate.

Bee Season (2005)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Binoche, Juliette | Cross, Flora | Minghella, Max | Bosworth, Kate | Fischer, Corey | Zuckerman, Sam | Mankin, Joan | Mackenzie, Piers | Holt, Lorri | Leonard, Brian | McGraw, Kathy | Evans, John | Mullally, Alisha | Charles, Olivia
Directors: McGehee, Scott | Siegel, David
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty…

Life of David Gale, The (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | King, Cleo | Jones, Constance | Spacey, Kevin | Linney, Laura | Ritchey, Lee | Mann, Gabriel | Craven, Matt | Little, Brandy | Waite, Cindy | Beaver, Jim | Rippy, Leon | De Luna, Jesse | Grote, Vernon | Mitra, Rhona
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.

Red Letters (2000)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Coyote, Peter | Kinski, Nastassja | Balk, Fairuza | Piven, Jeremy | Hudson, Ernie | Gleason, Paul | Ehlers, Heather | Monroe, Steve | Kier, Udo | Roberts, Layla | Bush, Owen | Ryan, Kenneth | Leckner, Brian | Morgenstern, Susan | Valente, Antoinette
Directors: Battersby, Bradley
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After a sexual harassment incident, Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote), a Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar, goes to work at a California college. He begins correspondence with an imprisoned murderer, Lydia Davis (Nastassja Kinski). Burke is finding old habits hard to break, developing relationships with obsessive coeds. Meanwhile, Lydia escapes from prison. Dennis and his colleague Thurston, a computer scientist and hacker, find themselves caught in a web of intrigue.

Evolution (2001)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Duchovny, David | Moore, Julianne | Jones, Orlando | Scott, Seann William | Levine, Ted | Suplee, Ethan | Bower, Michael | Kilbane, Pat | Burrell, Ty | Aykroyd, Dan | Towne, Katharine | Itzin, Gregory | Clark, Ashley | Wolff, Michelle | Silverman, Sarah
Directors: Reitman, Ivan
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Glen Canyon, Arizona, the present day. Wayne, practising at night in the desert for his upcoming fireman’s exam, witnesses the impact of a meteorite. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College manage to get to the meteorite, which is stuck in the ground at the bottom of a cave. By taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid coming out of the meteorite. A little later, Ira Kane finds out that myriads of single-celled life-forms dwell in the fluid, evolve at an incredible rate, even while he’s watching. What first seems like a sure ticket to Sweden for the Nobel Prize soon develops into a nightmare: By evolving and adapting at that unbelievably fast rate, the Aliens start spreading out, and the Military comes in. Now it all comes down to what Darwin so rightfully stated: Survival of the fittest. And no good idea in sight…