Posts Tagged ‘laughter’

Iris (2001)

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Bonneville, Hugh | Dench, Judi | Broadbent, Jim | Bron, Eleanor | Morant, Angela | Wilton, Penelope | Hayes, Siobhan | Aubrey, Juliet | Bakewell, Joan | Carroll, Nancy | Marshall, Kris | Mannion, Tom | Hutchinson, Derek | West, Samuel
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).

Sleeping Dictionary, The (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Alba, Jessica | Blethyn, Brenda | Dancy, Hugh | Hoskins, Bob | Ian, Christopher Ling Lee | Inocian, Junix | Jessing Langgi, Michael | Maniam, Mano | Moggie, K.K. | Mortimer, Emily | Richard, Cicilia Anak | Rogers, Malcolm | Salleh, Eugene | Taylor, Noah | White, Kate Helen
Directors: Jenkin, Guy
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his “sleeping dictionary”, to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.

Home of the Brave (2006)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Morocco | USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Biel, Jessica | Presley, Brian | Ricci, Christina | 50 Cent | Murray, Chad Michael | Cameron, Joyce M. | Rowell, Victoria | Deitrick, Wes | Nordling, Jeffrey | Goodwin, Jhon | Ruginis, Vyto | Jones III, Sam | Imoru, Nike | MacDonald, James
Directors: Winkler, Irwin
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The day after they get the word they’ll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who’s a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman. Each of the four has come home changed, each feels dislocation. Group therapy, V.A. services, halting gestures from family and colleagues, and regular flashbacks keep the war front and center in their minds. They’re angry, touchy, and explosive: can a warrior find peace back home?

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Roth, Tim | Bonham Carter, Helena | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Giamatti, Paul | Warren, Estella | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Warner, David | Kristofferson, Kris | Avari, Erick | Elliott, Lucas | Parke, Evan | Shadix, Glenn | Shen, Freda Foh | Ellis, Chris
Directors: Burton, Tim
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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a “routine” reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet’s Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind’s past - and the key to its future.

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Goodman, John | Crystal, Billy | Gibbs, Mary | Buscemi, Steve | Coburn, James | Tilly, Jennifer | Peterson, Bob | Ratzenberger, John | Oz, Frank | Gerson, Dan | Susskind, Steve | Hunt, Bonnie | Pidgeon, Jeff | Black, Samuel Lord | Angel, Jack
Directors: Docter, Peter | Silverman, David | Unkrich, Lee
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James P. Sullivan (AKA “Sulley”) and Mike Wazowski pick up their paychecks at Monsters Inc., the utility company that generates energy from the goose bumps of children. Sulley, the No. 1 scream-generator at the plant accidentally lets in a little girl into the monster world. Since monsters are actually terrified of children it’s a major cause for alarm and a major headache for Sulley and Mike.