Posts Tagged ‘mental-breakdown’

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Modine, Matthew | Baldwin, Adam | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Ermey, R. Lee | Harewood, Dorian | Howard, Kevyn Major | Howard, Arliss | O'Ross, Ed | Terry, John | Jecchinis, Kieron | Taylor, Kirk | Colceri, Tim | Stafford, Jon | Boa, Bruce | Tyler, Ian
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle’s torment and Joker’s unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker’s psyche and the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondant is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Roberts, Julia | Westley, Jennifer Rae | Clark, Dick | Rockwell, Sam | Sweeney, Michelle | Barrymore, Drew | Ceci, Chelsea | Pitt, Brad | Damon, Matt | Cera, Michael | Rose Ambroziak, Aimee | Blais, Isabelle | Carter, Melissa | Hall, Jennifer | Elkin, Ilona | Tucker, Sean | Morgan, Jaye P. | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hirsh, David Julian
Directors: Clooney, George
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Brazil (1985)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Pryce, Jonathan | De Niro, Robert | Helmond, Katherine | Holm, Ian | Hoskins, Bob | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ian | Vaughan, Peter | Greist, Kim | Broadbent, Jim | Hicks, Barbara | McKeown, Charles | O'Connor, Derrick | Pogson, Kathryn | Pringle, Bryan
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill’s lives are put in danger.

Sleeping Murder (1987)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Alexander, Geraldine | Moulder-Brown, John | Treves, Frederick | Anderson, Jean | Hardiman, Terrence | Bennett, John | Newman, Geraldine | Watson, Jack | Scott, Joan | Heywood, Jean | Anderson, Georgine | Jewesbury, Edward | McAllister, David | Boxer, Amanda
Directors: Davies, John
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BBC TV adaption of the Agatha Christie’s novel. A young recently married woman, Gwenda Reed, comes back to England after living most of her life in New Zealand. While her husband, Giles, is out of the country she buys a house for them and starts recalling memories which make her start to think that perhaps she had lived in the house before. It’s only then, while dining out with friends, that a chance remark triggered off a frightening memory, as a little girl, looking down at a woman’s body and the murderer with “monkey paws” hands. Gwenda is determined to find out the sources of this memory. The killer, thought that he/she was safe after eighteen years and is prepared to kill to cover up the past. But Gwenda has help as one of her dining friends is Raymond West, who has a very special Aunt who is willing to help Gwenda - Miss Jane Marple…

African Queen, The (1951)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Katharine | Morley, Robert | Bull, Peter | Bikel, Theodore | Gotell, Walter | Swanwick, Peter | Marner, Richard | John, Errol | Onn, Gerald | von Kotze, John
Directors: Huston, John
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers’ sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.

Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Watts, Naomi | Cheadle, Don | Thompson, Jack | Henke, Brad William | Searcy, Nick | Wincott, Michael | Williamson, Mykelti | Grace, April | Knight, Lily | Dorrance, Jared | Milton, Jenna | Massa, Mariah | Ryan, Eileen | Greene, Derek
Directors: Mueller, Niels
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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother’s old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon’s broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.

Devil’s Advocate, The (1997)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Pacino, Al | Theron, Charlize | Jones, Jeffrey | Ivey, Judith | Nielsen, Connie | Nelson, Craig T. | Tunie, Tamara | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Monk, Debra | Ruginis, Vyto | Harrington, Laura | Gray, Pamela | Matarazzo, Heather | Wyner, George
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.

Secret Window (2004)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Turturro, John | Bello, Maria | Hutton, Timothy | Dutton, Charles S. | Cariou, Len | Heney, Joan | Dunn-Hill, John | Vrana, Vlasta | Holland, Matt | Ferrabee, Gillian | Mantel, Bronwen | Marleau, Elizabeth | Allatt, Kyle | Jutras, Richard
Directors: Koepp, David
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Mort Rainey (Depp), a writer just coming off of a troublesome divorce with his ex-wife, Amy (Bello), finds himself stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger (Turturro) who claims Mort stole his best story idea (changing just the ending)… (Hutton plays Bello’s new boyfriend; Dutton plays a private investigator hired to make Turturro’s character leave Mort alone.)

What Dreams May Come (1998)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Sciorra, Annabella | von Sydow, Max | Grant, Jessica Brooks | Paddock, Josh | Chao, Rosalind | Jenney, Lucinda | McCarthy, Maggie | Bonet, Wilma | Salinger, Matt | Sprague, Carin | Lomena, June | Card IV, Paul P. | Herzog, Werner
Directors: Ward, Vincent
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Soul mates Chris (’Robin Williams (I)’ (qv)) and Annie (’Annabella Sciorra’ (qv)) couldn’t be happier, having married each other and had two wonderful children. Unforutnately, tragedy strikes when they lose them both in a car accident, and then again for Annie many years later when Chris is killed in another accident. What Chris finds is a Paradise unlike anything he ever imagined, where he is guided by Albert (’Cuba Gooding Jr.’ (qv)), the first doctor he interned under and is helped to see his children once again. Unfortunately, when Annie takes her life in despair, she does not venture to the same plane of existence. Taking it upon himself to rescue her, Chris ventures into the pit of Hell with Albert and a Tracker (’Max von Sydow’ (qv)) to save his wife from the damnation she doesn’t even know she is forcing on herself. This is a beautiful story that reminds us that love is stronger than death.