Posts Tagged ‘marriage’

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Theron, Charlize | Patric, Jason | Sarandon, Susan | Franco, James | Corbin, Barry | Brolin, Josh | Fisher, Frances | Chatham, Wes | McLaughlin, Jake | Brooks, Mehcad | Tucker, Jonathan | Duvall, Wayne | Wolf, Victor | Briscoe, Brent
Directors: Haggis, Paul
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose

21 Grams (2003)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Watts, Naomi | Huston, Danny | Nahon, Carly | Pakis, Claire | Del Toro, Benicio | Nichols, Nick | Gainsbourg, Charlotte | Rubinstein, John | Marsan, Eddie | Salter, Loyd Keith | Harris, Antef A. | Leo, Melissa | Musso, Marc | Delgado, Teresa
Directors: González Iñárritu, Alejandro
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This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

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).

Postal (2007)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Germany | USA
Actors: Ward, Zack | Foley, Dave | Coppola, Chris | Tohn, Jackie | J.K. Simmons | Moeller, Ralf | Troyer, Verne | Spencer, Chris | Thomas, Larry | Paré, Michael | Avari, Erick | Hollister, Lindsay | Mendenhall, Brent | Hoffman, Rick | Benyaer, Michael
Directors: Boll, Uwe
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The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but political figures as well.

2010 (1984)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Lithgow, John | Mirren, Helen | Balaban, Bob | Dullea, Keir | Rain, Douglas | Osborne, Madolyn Smith | Elcar, Dana | Jaffe, Taliesin | McEachin, James | Deschanel, Mary Jo | Baskin, Elya | Kramarov, Saveli | Rudnik, Oleg | Shneider, Natasha
Directors: Hyams, Peter
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery’s failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman’s last transmission… “My God, it’s full of stars…”

Shortbus (2006)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Dawson, Paul | DeBoy, PJ | Barker, Raphael | Stickles, Peter | Brannan, Jay | Mandell, Alan | Hardman, Adam | Rivas, Ray | Hagan, Justin | Hilmer, Jan | Jusick, Stephen Kent | Jackson, Derek | Stovall, Paul Oakley | Bond, Justin | Pittu, David
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Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (Pronounced like Seth) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal.

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Hayek, Salma | Maestro, Mía | Zapata, Amelia | Usigli, Alejandro | Luna, Diego | Molina, Alfred | Bravo, Lucia | Golino, Valeria | Reyes Spíndola, Patricia | Navarro, Loló | Rees, Roger | Martínez, Fermín | Medina, Roberto | Judd, Ashley | Banderas, Antonio
Directors: Taymor, Julie
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Boiler Room (2000)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ribisi, Giovanni | Diesel, Vin | Katt, Nicky | Caan, Scott | Rifkin, Ron | Kennedy, Jamie | Nichols, Taylor | Sage, Bill | Scott, Tom Everett | Affleck, Ben | Griesemer, John | Younger, David | Harper, Russel | Webber, Mark | Fitzgerald, Christopher
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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who’s harsh with his son. At his father’s insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he’ll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He’s terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Gorney, Karen Lynn | Miller, Barry | Cali, Joseph | Pape, Paul | Pescow, Donna | Ornstein, Bruce | Bovasso, Julie | Shakar, Martin | Coppola, Sam | Hansen, Nina | Peluso, Lisa | Dillon, Denny | Michaels, Bert | Costanzo, Robert
Directors: Badham, John
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Tony is an uneducated Brooklyn teenager. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dancefloor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony’s attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things; she is moving across the river to Manhattan. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the life he is leading and he and Stephanie decide to help one another to start afresh.

College Road Trip (2008)

Friday, July 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | LeFevre, Adam | Jones III, Eugene | Grabeel, Lucas | Schlein, Matthew | Draper, Eshaya | Sasso, Will | Meyers, Josh | Ross, Lonny | Osmond, Donny | Kordula, Kristian | Mele, Nicholas Leiter | Kolotouros, Jason | Gannascoli, Joseph R. | Hessler, Chad
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When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.