Posts Tagged ‘letter’

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Turn the River (2007)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dornan, Jaymie | Torn, Rip | Ross, Matt | Kinney, Terry | Juback, John | Robles, Tony | Bridges, Jordan | D'Asaro, Santo | Siravo, Joseph | Brown, Brennan | Lage, Jordan | Macnamara, Pete | Leyva, Henry | Haas, Greg | Thode, Paul
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In New York City, Gulley, who’s in middle school, lives with his father and step-mother; his paternal grandmother dominates the family’s life. In secret, he’s recently been in touch with his mother, Kailey, a pool hustler, who wants to win big and take Gulley to Canada. With the help of Teddy Quinette, who runs Quinn’s Pool Hall, Kailey may get her shot at big money. Can she win the match, keep her son’s confidence, and, using fake documents she gets from Markus, a friend of hers, make it to Canada to start a new life?

Neverwas (2005)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Eckhart, Aaron | McKellen, Ian | Nolte, Nick | Hurt, William | Bellamy, Bill | Cumming, Alan | Moriarty, Michael | Roberts, Ken | Henry, Tim | Macaluso, Joe | Airlie, Andrew | Drescher, Ryan | Eckhart, Jim | Hendery, Richard | Tisdale, Mark
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story.

Waitress (2007)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Keri | Fillion, Nathan | Hines, Cheryl | Sisto, Jeremy | Griffith, Andy | Jemison, Eddie | Temple, Lew | Stanchfield, Darby | Sulzman, Heidi | Johnson, Lauri | Hunley, Sarah | Drummond, Cindy | Dean, Nathan | Fogarty, Caroline
Directors: Shelly, Adrienne
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Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she’ll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe’s diner, listens to old Joe’s wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have?

Black Christmas (2006)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

Different Loyalty, A (2004)

Friday, May 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Stone, Sharon | Everett, Rupert | Wadham, Julian | Cochrane, Michael | Lambton, Anne | Piddock, Jim | McMillan, Richard | Mimi Kuzyk | VanCamp, Emily | Hope, Tamara | Rendall, Mark | Andrei, Damir | Bourgeois, John | Sonja Smits | Hibbert, Edward
Directors: Kanievska, Marek
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Set in 1963, a spirited woman turns her world upside down search for her husband who disappeared from his Beirut home. But when she discovers he’s a Russian spy, her love will be put to tests no one should have to face.

Shine (1996)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: Australia
Actors: Rush, Geoffrey | Braine, Justin | Todd, Sonia | Haywood, Chris | Rafalowicz, Alex | Poole, Gordon | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Bell, Nicholas | Cox, Danielle | Gooden, Rebecca | Kaczmarek, Marta | Cousins, John | Taylor, Noah | Linkson, Paul | Berger, Randall
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall.

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bratt, Benjamin | Forbes, Gina Bernard | Mezzogiorno, Giovanna | Bardem, Javier | Mar, Marcela | Ángel, Juan | Gonzalez, Liliana | Botero, Catalina | Galindo, Miguel Angel Pazos | Herrera, Maria Cecilia | Hoyos, Luis Fernando | Duplat, Carlos | Linero, Francisco Raul | Ugalde, Unax | Schreiber, Liev
Directors: Newell, Mike
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Florentino (Bardem), rejected by the beautiful Fermina (Mezzogiorno) at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

King and I, The (1956)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kerr, Deborah | Brynner, Yul | Moreno, Rita | Benson, Martin | Saunders, Terry | Thompson, Rex | Rivas, Carlos | Adiarte, Patrick | Mowbray, Alan | Toone, Geoffrey | Banas, Robert | Bonilla, Dennis | Bonilla, Thomas | Fuentes, Reuben | Irwin, Charles
Directors: Lang, Walter
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After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better.

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?