Posts Tagged ‘embarrassment’

Calendar Girls (2003)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Mirren, Helen | Walters, Julie | Alderton, John | Bassett, Linda | Crosbie, Annette | Glenister, Philip | Hinds, Ciarán | Imrie, Celia | James, Geraldine | Wilton, Penelope | Costigan, George | Crowden, Graham | Fortune, John | Glen, Georgie | Curran, Angela
Directors: Cole, Nigel
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In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women’s Institute, where he said that “the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire”, and “the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious”, her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives.

Anger Management (2003)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Nicholson, Jack | Tomei, Marisa | Guzmán, Luis | Loughran, Jonathan | Fuller, Kurt | Allen, Krista | Jones, January | Turturro, John | Thigpen, Lynne | Walls, Nancy | Nealon, Kevin | Harrelson, Woody | Covert, Allen | Ricard, Adrian
Directors: Segal, Peter
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After a misunderstanding aboard an airplane that escalates out of control, the mild-mannered Dave Buznik is ordered by Judge Daniels to attend anger management sessions run by Doctor Buddy Rydell, which are filled with highly eccentric and volatile men and women. Buddy’s unorthodox approach to therapy is confrontational and abrasive and Dave is bewildered by it. Then, after yet another mishap, Judge Daniels orders Dave to step up his therapy or wind up in jail. So, Buddy moves in with Dave to help him battle his inner demons. Buddy himself has no inner demons since he acts out at every opportunity and that includes making lewd comments about Dave’s girlfriend Linda and goading Dave into confronting every slight, past or present, head-on. But Buddy finally goes too far and Dave must decide whether to crawl back into his shell or stand up for himself. Could it be that Buddy’s confounding and contradictory treatment is just what the doctor ordered?

HouseSitter (1992)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Hawn, Goldie | Delany, Dana | Harris, Julie | Moffat, Donald | MacNicol, Peter | Shull, Richard B. | Cronin, Laurel | Cooper, Roy | Durang, Christopher | Broun, Heywood Hale | Jones, Cherry | Simek, Vasek | Whang, Suzanne | Klug, Mary
Directors: Oz, Frank
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When his longtime girlfriend Becky says no to marriage and the house he has built, architect Newton Davis takes it badly. Three months later a one night liaison with livewire waitress Gwen gets rather out of control when she tracks down the dream house, moves in, and lets it be known locally that she and Newton are married. Everyone in the small town take to her, including his parents, while Becky shows renewed interest. When Newton realises the situation he suggests to Gwen that continuing the deception might have advantages for both of them.

American Pie 2 (2001)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Biggs, Jason | Elizabeth, Shannon | Hannigan, Alyson | Klein, Chris | Nicholas, Thomas Ian | Lyonne, Natasha | Reid, Tara | Scott, Seann William | Suvari, Mena | Thomas, Eddie Kaye | Owen, Chris | Levy, Eugene | Cheek, Molly | Faye, Denise | Arturo, Lisa
Directors: Rogers, James B.
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After their first year at college, the guys reunite for another summer of fun. Jim continues his quest for sexual independence by seeking the help of his old prom date, Michele, after an unexpected call from Nadia who plans to visit Jim. Meanwhile, Kev and Vicky find themselves in an awkward situation after having broken up for a year. Oz must deal with a long distance relationship when Heather heads off to France to study abroad. Old feuds die hard as the ever-so-horny Stifler harbors his hatred toward Finch, who is practicing the Hindu practice of Tantra.

Prime (2005)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Thurman, Uma | Greenberg, Bryan | Abrahams, Jon | Biasi, Adriana | Younger, David | Brown, Palmer | Orth, Zak | Parisse, Annie | Dollar, Aubrey | Adler, Jerry | Belack, Doris | Essandoh, Ato | Anzuelo, David | Aborn, Naomi
Directors: Younger, Ben
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Prime is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi, a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan and what happens when Dave, a talented 23-year-old painter from the upper West Side of Manhattan falls in love with her. The film looks at love from everyone’s point-of-view friends, relatives and in this case, Rafi’s therapist Lisa, and follows all who comes apart and some who pull it together, when two people fall in love.

Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Witherspoon, Reese | Lucas, Josh | Dempsey, Patrick | Bergen, Candice | Place, Mary Kay | Ward, Fred | Smart, Jean | Embry, Ethan | Lynskey, Melanie | Gains, Courtney | Rajskub, Mary Lynn | Mitra, Rhona | Graham, Nathan Lee | Bridgers, Sean | Cooper, Fleet
Directors: Tennant, Andy
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Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon), an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like husband of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn’t forget about her family back down South - and, more importantly, her husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce paper for almost 5 years. To settle matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. But when things don’t turn out the way she planned them out, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in new york city.

Next Best Thing, The (2000)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Everett, Rupert | Bratt, Benjamin | Douglas, Illeana | Vartan, Michael | Sommer, Josef | Stumpf, Malcolm | Redgrave, Lynn | Harris, Neil Patrick | Valley, Mark | Krull, Suzanne | Edwards, Stacy | Lynch, John Carroll | Bennett, Fran | Lopez, Ricki
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

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.