Posts Tagged ‘leukemia’

Basketball Diaries, The (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Bracco, Lorraine | Sokol, Marilyn | Madio, James | McGaw, Patrick | Wahlberg, Mark | Cooper, Roy | Kirby, Bruno | Papiris, Jimmy | Gaetani, Nick | Chaplin, Alexander | Jorgensen, Ben | Mostel, Josh | Lewis, Juliette | Imperioli, Michael
Directors: Kalvert, Scott
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (”Swifty”) who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim’s dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s mounting concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.

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, CiarĂ¡n | 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.

Walk to Remember, A (2002)

Friday, February 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hannah, Daryl | West, Shane | Moore, Mandy | Coyote, Peter | Jonathan Parks Jordan | German, Lauren
Directors: Shankman, Adam
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Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn’t care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club’s spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.

Life of David Gale, The (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | King, Cleo | Jones, Constance | Spacey, Kevin | Linney, Laura | Ritchey, Lee | Mann, Gabriel | Craven, Matt | Little, Brandy | Waite, Cindy | Beaver, Jim | Rippy, Leon | De Luna, Jesse | Grote, Vernon | Mitra, Rhona
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.

Dreamcatcher (2003)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Jane, Thomas | Lee, Jason | Lewis, Damian | Olyphant, Timothy | Sizemore, Tom | Wahlberg, Donnie | Holekamp, Mikey | Thompson, Reece | Baessato, Giacomo | Palmer, Joel | Robb, Andrew | Keenleyside, Eric | Dunsmore, Rosemary
Directors: Kasdan, Lawrence
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Four friends sruggling with life meet in the Maine woods for their annual hunting trip. When a stranger stumbles in to their camp disoriented mumbling things about lights in the sky the four friends put in a struggle with a psychotic army colonel and a being that has taken control of one of their minds.