Posts Tagged ‘hitchhiking’

Desert Saints (2000)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Creepshow 2 (1987)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: John, Domenick | Savini, Tom | Kennedy, George | Dore, Philip | Napoleon, Kaltey | Napoleon, Maltby | Tonto, Tyrone | Lamour, Dorothy | Salsedo, Frank | McCallany, Holt | Holbrook, David | Harvey, Don | Kamin, Dan | Smith, Dean | Sonderegger, Shirley
Directors: Gornick, Michael
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Three more stories told from a comic book are presented by the Creep. The first is about a dime-store Native American that seeks vengeance on those who killed the store’s owners. The second is about a carnivorous mass of pond scum that attacks four people on a raft. The final tale is about a rich woman who accidentally kills a hitchhiker while speeding home from an affair with a male prostitute.

Near Dark (1987)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Pasdar, Adrian | Wright, Jenny | Henriksen, Lance | Paxton, Bill | Goldstein, Jenette | Thomerson, Tim | Miller, Joshua John | Leeds, Marcie | Call, Kenny | Corbett, Ed | Evans, Troy | Cross, Bill | Brown, Roger Aaron | Wagner, Thomas | Winley, Robert
Directors: Bigelow, Kathryn
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A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.

Into the Wild (2007)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hirsch, Emile | Harden, Marcia Gay | Hurt, William | Malone, Jena | Dierker, Brian | Keener, Catherine | Vaughn, Vince | Stewart, Kristen | Holbrook, Hal | Bear, Bart the | Burch, Dan | Dustin, Joe | Galifianakis, Zach | Jabaley, John | Lindhardt, Thure
Directors: Penn, Sean
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INTO THE WILD is based on a true story and the bestselling book by Jon Krakauer. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Hirsch) abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

In Cold Blood (1967)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Blake, Robert | Wilson, Scott | Forsythe, John | Stewart, Paul | O'Loughlin, Gerald S. | Corey, Jeff | Gallaudet, John | Flavin, James | McGraw, Charles | Geer, Will | McLiam, John | Storey, Ruth | Currin, Brenda | Hough, Paul | Taylor, Vaughn
Directors: Brooks, Richard
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Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters’ capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society’s response might have been.

Georgia Rule (2007)

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Fonda, Jane | Lohan, Lindsay | Huffman, Felicity | Mulroney, Dermot | Elwes, Cary | Hedlund, Garrett | Elizondo, Hector | McLaughlin, Dylan | Gordon, Zachary | Metcalf, Laurie | Stanislav, Tereza | Applegate, Fred | Ferrer, Cynthia | Moore, Destiny | Betan, Adreana
Directors: Marshall, Garry
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Rachel comes to stay with her Grandmother Georgia for the summer leaving some obvious problems behind at home. Her alcoholic mother doesn’t even stay the night before rushing back out to California to be with her husband. Rachel shakes up the town, a beautiful girl in the boring Mormon country. Then she reveals her deepest secret to one of her new friends, and her mother comes rushing back to find out if its true. In the midst of this crisis the three woman become closer than ever and start to understand each other more.

Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: France | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Atkinson, Rowan | Baldry, Max | Campos, Steve | Dafoe, Willem | Debac, Stéphane | Dyer, Clint | Gaston-Dreyfus, Gilles | Rochefort, Jean | Roden, Karel | Varoclier, Pierre-Benoist | Caunes, Emma de | Hosmalin, Catherine
Directors: Bendelack, Steve
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Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation trip to France as well as a camcorder. After boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves a barrier for Bean, as he struggles to get across the city to catch a train to the south of France from the Gare de Lyon. Taking time to order a meal, he finds the consumption of a seafood platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Emil, a Russian film director on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival to use his camcorder to record his boarding, but accidentally causes Emil being left behind at the station. Bean attempts to cheer up the director’s son Stepan as the train continues south but matters are made more hectic by the fact that Emil has reported his son to have been kidnapped and Bean losing his wallet and essential travel documents at a pay phone where he and Stepan attempt to contact Emil. Heading in the direction of Cannes, Bean finds himself in the cast and disrupting the flow of a commercial being shot by the egotistical director Carson Clay. He and Stepan finally hitch a ride with the young and vivacious actress Sabine who is heading to Cannes to attend the premiere of Clay’s film, in which she appears. After Bean sneaks into the showing, his camcorder images are destined to enliven the proceedings.

Up in Smoke (1978)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Marin, Cheech | Chong, Tommy | Martin, Strother | Adams, Edie | Fong, Harold | Novo, Richard | Moder, Jane | Bille, Pam | Roberts, Arthur | Beeler, Marian | Hotton, Donald | Jacobs, John Ian | Joy, Christopher | Vitte, Ray | Caldwell, Michael
Directors: Adler, Lou
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Two directionless musicans, a Chicano guitarist (Cheech Marin) and a White drummer (Tommy Chong), meet up in a chance encounter and embark on a series of odd adventures, including being the unwitting partcipants of a bizarre marijuana smuggling plot.

Hitcher, The (2007)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Howell, C. Thomas | Hauer, Rutger | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | DeMunn, Jeffrey | Jackson, John M. | Bush, Billy Green | Thibeau, Jack | Shimerman, Armin | Davis, Gene | Van Ness, Jon | Darrow, Henry | Epper, Tony | Spratley, Tom | Campbell, Colin
Directors: Harmon, Robert
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A road trip takes a deadly turn when a young couple are tormented by a pyschotic hitchhiker who forces them to face their fears head-on.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Def, Mos | Bailey, Bill | Chancellor, Anna | Davis, Warwick | Deschanel, Zooey | Elliot, Su | Freeman, Martin | Fry, Stephen | Griffiths, Richard | Jackson, Dominique | Jones, Simon | Lennon, Thomas | Longhurst, Mark | Macdonald, Kelly | Malkovich, John
Directors: Jennings, Garth
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Arthur Dent is a British everyman. When he finally meets his perfect woman he balks at her request to go some place and she is then stolen away from him by a man claiming to have his own spaceship arrives at the party. Arthur next finds that his home is to be demolished for a bypass. He thinks it is only his house, but later realizes, with the help of Ford Prefect, that his galactic home, Earth, is going to be destroyed as well. Ford and Arthur then catch a ride on a spaceship and are Arthur finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime. He also finds the woman stolen away from him and the man who pilfered her. If Earth can be restored will Arthur want to ease back into his boring life?