Posts Tagged ‘death-of-father’

Legend of Bagger Vance, The (2000)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Damon, Matt | Theron, Charlize | McGill, Bruce | Gretsch, Joel | Moncrief, J. Michael | Smith, Lane | Gerety, Peter | O'Neill, Michael | Ryan, Thomas Jay | Hamilton, Trip | Crowley, Dermot | Presnell, Harve | Nelson, Danny | Penny, Bob
Directors: Redford, Robert
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He’s living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who’s the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn’t return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele’s father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father’s. She’s able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having “one of their own” compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs’s caddy and help him regain his “authentic swing”. He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match.

Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The (2005)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Harrelson, Woody | Dern, Laura | Morgan, Trevor | Porterfield, Ellary | Reynolds, Simon | Gagné, Monté | Clark, Robert | Seater, Michael | Knudsen, Erik | Scott, Jake | Todosey, Jordan | Price, Ryan | Norris, Shae | Falle, Abigail
Directors: Anderson, Jane
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances.

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…

Pacifier, The (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Family | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Diesel, Vin | Graham, Lauren | Ford, Faith | Snow, Brittany | Thieriot, Max | Potter, Chris | Kane, Carol | Garrett, Brad | York, Morgan | Hoover, Kegan | Hoover, Logan | Vink, Bo | Vink, Luke | Donovan, Tate | Thompson, Scott
Directors: Shankman, Adam
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The film is the story of an undercover agent who, after failing to protect an important government scientist, learns the man’s family is in danger. In an effort to redeem himself, he agrees to take care of the man’s children only to discover that child care is his toughest mission yet.

Cold Creek Manor (2003)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Stone, Sharon | Dorff, Stephen | Lewis, Juliette | Stewart, Kristen | Wilson, Ryan | Eskelson, Dana | Plummer, Christopher | Reynolds, Simon | Duborg, Kathleen | Brancati, Paula | Devine, Aidan | Robson, Wayne | Pettle, Jordan | Paisley, Ray
Directors: Figgis, Mike
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Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate’s dark and lurid past…

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Mortensen, Viggo | McKellen, Ian | Wood, Elijah | Appleby, Noel | Astin, Alexandra | Astin, Sean | Aston, David | Bach, John | Bean, Sean | Blanchett, Cate | Bloom, Orlando | Boyd, Billy | Brophy, Sadwyn | Browning, Alistair | Csokas, Marton | Edge, Richard | Fitch, Jason | Hill, Bernard
Directors: Jackson, Peter
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While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.

Big Fish (2003)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Finney, Albert | Crudup, Billy | Lange, Jessica | Bonham Carter, Helena | Lohman, Alison | Guillaume, Robert | Cotillard, Marion | McGrory, Matthew | Denman, David | Pyle, Missi | Wainwright III, Loudon | Tai, Ada | Tai, Arlene | Buscemi, Steve
Directors: Burton, Tim
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The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father’s elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father’s great feats and his great failings.

Daredevil (2003)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Garner, Jennifer | Farrell, Colin | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Favreau, Jon | Terra, Scott | Pompeo, Ellen | Pantoliano, Joe | Orser, Leland | Loftin, Lennie | Avari, Erick
Directors: Johnson, Mark Steven
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened “radar sense” that allows him to “see” far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he’s done his “day job” Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom.

Last Samurai, The (2003)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Shin Koyamada | Watanabe, Ken | Cruise, Tom | Atherton, William | Lindberg, Chad | Godshall Sr., Ray | Connolly, Billy | Goldwyn, Tony | Harada, Masato | Odate, Masashi | Koyama, John | Spall, Timothy | Nakamura, Shichinosuke | Igawa, Togo | Nikaido, Satoshi | Wada, Shintaro
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…