Posts Tagged ‘fourth-of-july’

Tommyknockers, The (1993)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Smits, Jimmy | Helgenberger, Marg | Ashton, John | Beasley, Allyce | Carradine, Robert | Cassidy, Joanna | Corley, Annie | De Young, Cliff | Lords, Traci | Marshall, E.G. | Henry, Chuck | Woods, Leon | McIver, Paul | Lawley, Yvonne | Johnson, Bill
Directors: Power, John
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The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can unfathom the secret of the tommyknockers.

Cape Fear (1991)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Nolte, Nick | Lange, Jessica | Lewis, Juliette | Baker, Joe Don | Mitchum, Robert | Peck, Gregory | Balsam, Martin | Douglas, Illeana | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Montero, Zully | Henne, Craig | Burton, Forest | Poe IV, Edgar Allan | Ball, Rod
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/”Leave It to Beaver”-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Southland Tales (2006)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Amezcua, Carlos | Armstrong, Curtis | Benz, Robert | Berger, Todd | Campana, Joe | Ciulla, Chris Andrew | Del Rio, Rebekah | Dillar, Aaron | Dunn, Nora | Dunn, Shari | Durrett, Michele | Falcone, Jon | Feinstein, Leila | Gardiner, Jaret | Garofalo, Janeane
Directors: Kelly, Richard
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Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who’s stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Jaws (1975)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Shaw, Robert | Dreyfuss, Richard | Gary, Lorraine | Hamilton, Murray | Gottlieb, Carl | Kramer, Jeffrey | Backlinie, Susan | Filley, Jonathan | Rebello, Chris | Mello, Jay | Fierro, Lee | Voorhees, Jeffrey | Kingsbury, Craig | Nevin, Dr. Robert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Martin Brody is the new police chief of Amity, an island resort town somewhere in New England. He has a wife named Ellen, and two sons named Michael and Sean. On a Summer morning, Brody is called to the beach, where the mangled body of Summer vacationer Chrissie Watkins has washed ashore. The medical examiner tells Brody that it could have been a shark that killed Watkins. Mayor Larry Vaughn, who is desperate to not lose the money that will be brought in by 4th of July tourists, wants Brody to say Watkins’s death was caused by a motorboat propeller instead of a shark, because the thought of a shark in Amity’s waters would drive tourists away from Amity. It looks like Vaughn is a mayor who puts money ahead of people’s lives. Shark expert Matt Hooper believes Watkins was killed by a shark. Hooper is proven right a few days later, when Alex Kintner is killed by the shark that killed Watkins. Looking for the quickest solution, Vaughn tells all of the local fishermen to let him know if they see the shark. A shark hunter named Quint offers to find the shark and kill it, but Vaughn thinks Quint’s price of $10,000 is too high. When a tiger shark is killed and hauled in by a couple of boaters, Vaughn hastily says that the shark crisis is over, but Hooper says the shark that’s been killing people a huge great white shark is still in Amity’s waters, but Vaughn leaves the beaches opened because all he cares about is the 4th of July tourist money. On the 4th of July, Vaughn encourages people to swim at the beach, and Hooper is proven right again when the shark kills a man, biting the man’s leg off. Michael, who was in the water at the time of the attack, is taken to the hospital, where he’s treated for shock after watching the shark kill the guy. Brody asks Vaughn to hire Quint to find the shark. Because his own kids were at that beach too, Vaughn agrees to hire Quint to find the shark. Quint, Hooper, and Brody are sent out to sea in Quint’s boat, the Orca, ready to do whatever it takes to find the shark.

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Barry, Raymond J. | Kava, Caroline | Evans, Josh | Talisman, Jamie | Bobby, Anne | Larkin, Samantha | Berenger, Tom | Whaley, Frank | Levine, Jerry | Panebianco, Richard | Camilletti, Rob | Baldwin, Stephen | McTighe, Michael | Haus, Richard
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure (2001)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Wolf, Scott | Milano, Alyssa | Palminteri, Chazz | Bennett, Jeff | Benson, Jodi | Fagerbakke, Bill | Rooney, Mickey | Pinchot, Bronson | Moriarty, Cathy | Bergman, Mary Kay | Derryberry, Debi | Goodson, Barbara | Jameson, Nick | Tress MacNeille | McDonough, Andrew
Directors: Darrell Rooney
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Stepford Wives, The (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Broderick, Matthew | Midler, Bette | Close, Glenn | Walken, Christopher | Bart, Roger | Grant, David Marshall | Lovitz, Jon | Hartigan, Dylan | Brooking, Fallon | Hill, Faith | Malloy, Matt | Shindle, Kate | Farrell, Tom Riis | Bagley, Lorri
Directors: Oz, Frank
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Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful TV producer on the verge of yet another Emmy-winning streak of TV shows when she is fired from her job at a prestigious network. She then has a mental breakdown and her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) and their two children (Dylan Hartigan, Fallon Brooking) move to Stepford, Conneticut, the most perfectly perfect little town there ever was. The women of Stepfrod spend all day knitting, gardening, exercising in beautiful dresses, and are the most splendid of all women on Earth. Soon, Joanna along with her best-selling author buddy, Bobbie (Bette Midler) and Democratic, flamboyant fairy friend Roger (Roger Bart) realize that something isn’t right in Stepford. All is not as perfect as it seems…especially after Roger and Bobbie are turned into perfect portraits of Stepford. Why are the women of Stepfrod so perfect? What do the Stepford Husabnds have to do with the scheme? Will Joanna ultimately uncover the truth? Or are the Stepford coming for her to make her a blonde, bubbly piece of perfection?

Blown Away (1994)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bridges, Jeff | Jones, Tommy Lee | Amis, Suzy | Bridges, Lloyd | Whitaker, Forest | Lineburg, Stephi | Finn, John | Clarke, Caitlin | de Oni, Christofer | Catlett, Loyd | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Weist, Lucinda | Burns, Brendan | Heine, Patricia A. | McLaglen, Josh
Directors: Hopkins, Stephen
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There’s a serial bomber loose in Boston, and he has killed Blanket, a member of Boston’s bomb squad and the best friend of explosives expert Jimmy Dove. Dove has just retired from the bomb squad to marry a violinist named Kate, who has an 11-year-old daughter named Elizabeth. Haunted by grisly flashbacks, Dove soon figures out the identity of the bomber — Irish explosives expert Ryan Gaerity, a man who is so radical in his views that even the IRA wants nothing to do with him. Gaerity has escaped from the maximum security Castle Gleigh prison in Ireland, using a bomb made from ingredients that include blood, wool, and a porcelain toilet. Gaerity has fled to Boston, where he saw Dove, who had just disarmed a bomb planted in the Harvard computer lab, painted as a reluctant hero on TV. Gaerity was furious: it’s because of Dove that he’s spent years in prison. Dove was born Liam McGivney, and he used to be a naive Irish patriot. Gaerity recruited him and taught him to build bombs, and Gaerity conceived a terrorist plan that went terribly wrong. Liam helped Gaerity build a bomb, then he realized that Gaerity intended to detonate it on a crowded street. Liam tried to stop Gaerity from detonating the bomb, but bomb device went off, killing a lot of people, including Gaerity’s sister. Liam escaped from Ireland and made his way to America, where he changed his name to Jimmy Dove. Gaerity was arrested, tried, and imprisoned until his escape. Gaerity, who has now taken up residence in an abandoned gambling ship called the Dolphin, has decided to get revenge on Dove, and Gaerity started terrorizing the bomb squad by killing Blanket. Now, Dove is the only one who can stop Gaerity.

Independence Day (1996)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pullman, Bill | McDonnell, Mary | Goldblum, Jeff | Hirsch, Judd | Colin, Margaret | Smith, Will | Fox, Vivica A. | Quaid, Randy | Loggia, Robert | Rebhorn, James | Fierstein, Harvey | Baldwin, Adam | Spiner, Brent | Duval, James | Jakub, Lisa
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day…

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.