Posts Tagged ‘manhattan’

Made of Honor (2008)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Dempsey, Patrick | McKidd, Kevin | Hardison, Kadeem | Messina, Chris | Arquette, Richmond | Pollack, Sydney | Sikking, James | Sussman, Kevin | Susser, Craig | Davis, Trip | McCarthy, Eoin | Russell, Clive | Agnew, Iain | Thomson, Grant | Ryan, Marty
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Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He’s a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn’t found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her “maid” of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.

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.

Keeping the Faith (2000)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Elfman, Jenna | Bancroft, Anne | Wallach, Eli | Rifkin, Ron | Forman, Milos | Taylor, Holland | Edelstein, Lisa | Sofer, Rena | Leung, Ken | George, Brian | Burns, Catherine Lloyd | Essman, Susie | Blumberg, Stuart
Directors: Norton, Edward
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A love triangle between three friends. Rabbi Jake Schram and Father Brian Finn, two friends, are out to update their religions and draw in more worshipers. With the arrival of Anna Reilly, an old childhood friend of the two, the men’s lives are thrown a curve ball. Anna has become a stunning beauty with a lot of spunk and ambition, and both of them want her. A major road block to Anna for both men is their religion. Jake is up for a head position at his synagogue and taking on a non-Jewish partner is frowned upon, besides the fact that his mother disowned his brother for marrying a non-Jewish woman. Brian has given a vow of celibacy to become a priest.

Enchanted (2007)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adams, Amy | Marsden, James | Menzel, Idina | Sarandon, Susan | Dempsey, Patrick | Spall, Timothy | Covey, Rachel | Ivers, Samantha | Servitto, Matt | Siravo, Joseph | Conlin, Michaela | Bennett, Jeff | Lima, Emma Rose | Dunn, Teala
Directors: Lima, Kevin
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In an animated fairy tale world, a young girl meets and falls in love with the handsome prince of her dreams. News of this romance upsets the prince’s mother, the evil queen, who uses her black magic to send the girl hurtling out of the animated world into the one place in the universe where there is no true love: modern day Manhattan. The now-real girl has to survive in New York City and find her way home again to her true love.

Infamous (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Jones, Toby | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Rubin, Mark | Schwelling, Steve | Gill, Glover Johns | Arteaga, Rey | Sherburn, Justin | Halbreich, Andrew | Stevenson, Juliet | Panes, Michael | Davis, Hope | Curcio, Frank G. | Bullock, Sandra | Rossellini, Isabella
Directors: McGrath, Douglas
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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

Panic Room (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Stewart, Kristen | Whitaker, Forest | Yoakam, Dwight | Leto, Jared | Bauchau, Patrick | Magnuson, Ann | Buchanan, Ian | Walker, Andrew Kevin | Schulze, Paul | Rodriguez, Mel | Conant, Richard | Simon, Paul | Thrash, Victor | Turner, Ken
Directors: Fincher, David
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After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a “panic room” which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room’s hotline to the police hasn’t been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn’t contain any sugar…

Duplex (2003)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Barrymore, Drew | Essell, Eileen | Fierstein, Harvey | Theroux, Justin | Remar, James | Wisdom, Robert | Kurtz, Swoosie | Shawn, Wallace | Rudolph, Maya | Valletta, Amber | Klein, Cheryl | Maculan, Tim | Titone, Jackie | Lazarev, Yevgeni
Directors: DeVito, Danny
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Alex Rose (Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Barrymore) are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they finally find the perfect Brooklyn brownstone they are giddy with anticipation. The duplex is a dream come true, complete with multiple fireplaces, except for one thing: Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel), the cranky old lady who lives on the rent-controlled top floor. Assuming she is elderly and ill, they take the apartment but their hopes are quickly dashed when they realize that Mrs. Connelly is an energetic senior who enjoys watching her television at top volume day in and day out and rehearsing in a brass band. A writer, Alex is attempting to finish his novel against a looming deadline. However, each day as he begins to write, he is interrupted by Mrs. Connelly’s numerous demands and requests and what begins as a nuisance quickly escalates into an all-out war. When Nancy loses her job and the pair are trapped at home together with Mrs. Connelly, their rage turns to homicidal fantasy as they plot ways to get rid of their no-good neighbour…

Sidewalks of New York (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Balfour, Penny | Burns, Edward | Campbell, Michael Leydon | Dajani, Nadia | Dawson, Rosario | Doyle, Kathleen | Farina, Dennis | Graham, Heather | Gray, Leah | Jerome, Timothy | Krumholtz, David | Langdon, Libby | Meer, Alicia | Murphy, Brittany | Neustadt, Ted
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Six New Yorkers have an interrelated series of relationships. TV producer Tommy, who’s just broken up with his girlfriend, has a short relationship with commitment-phobe Maria, who he meets in a video store, and also hooks up with married real-estate agent Annie, who he meets while apartment hunting. Annie is open to a relationship because her husband, Griffin, is cheating on her, which she slowly comes to realize through talking to her friend/co-worker who’s gone through the same thing. Griffin, a 39-year-old dentist, is cheating with 19-year-old waitress Ashley, who he picked up in a park; she realizes she can do better when Ben, a hotel doorman and aspiring musician, tries to pick her up, in a belated attempt to recover from his divorce a year ago from schoolteacher Maria (the same Maria from the video store). Most of these relationships seem driven more by a desperate need to be in a relationship than actual love.

Godzilla (1998)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Broderick, Matthew | Reno, Jean | Pitillo, Maria | Azaria, Hank | Dunn, Kevin | Lerner, Michael | Shearer, Harry | Field, Arabella | Lewis, Vicki | Savant, Doug | Danare, Malcolm | Goldman, Lorry | Aubert, Christian | Bergeron, Philippe | Bruynbroek, Frank
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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Following the French atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing eastward through the Panama Canal. Scientist Niko Tatopolous is called in to investigate the matter, and he quickly arrives at the conclusion that a giant, irradiated lizard has been created by the explosions. Godzilla then makes its way north, landing at Manhattan to begin wreaking havoc in the big city. Even with the combined forces of the U.S. military to fight the monster, will it be enough to save the people of New York?

Fantastic Four (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Gruffudd, Ioan | Alba, Jessica | Evans, Chris | Chiklis, Michael | McMahon, Julian | Linklater, Hamish | Washington, Kerry | Holden, Laurie | Parker, David | McNulty, Kevin | Menounos, Maria | Kopsa, Michael | Airlie, Andrew | Hutton, Pascale | Gray, G. Michael
Directors: Story, Tim
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When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards, inventor and leader of the group gains the ability to stretch his body, and takes the name, Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, calling herself the Invisible Woman. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame, becoming the Human Torch. Pilot Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong rock creature calling himself Thing. Together, they use their unique powers to explore the strange aspects of the world, and to foil the evil plans of Doctor Doom.