Posts Tagged ‘mother-son-relationship’

Happy Feet (2006)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Alazraqui, Carlos | Boyar, Lombardo | Garcia, Jeffrey | Sanchez, Johnny A. | Williams, Robin | Wood, Elijah | Murphy, Brittany | Jackman, Hugh | Kidman, Nicole | Weaving, Hugo | Daily, Elizabeth | Szubanski, Magda | Margolyes, Miriam | Joe, Fat | Shafer, Alyssa
Directors: Coleman, Warren
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Set deep inside the icy land of Antarctica, two emperor penguins have a baby named Mumble. Hatched upon his feet, he has an amazing skill for tap-dancing. However, penguins are not supposed to tap dance. Even worse, he cannot sing. All emperor penguins are supposed to have a heart song, and he has a try at it - with awful results. Torn apart from his mom, dad, and best friend, Gloria, as a teenager who still has his adolescent feathers, his ventures off into the icy landscape. He is rescued from a leopard seal from a group of Adelie penguins, whom which the leader is Ramon. They take Mumble to their home and discover that all of their fish is being taken from an unknown ‘alien’ source. They ask Lovelace, an unwise and cocky leader of the Adelies, to help them. Unfortunately, he proves no help. Leading on an incredible adventure, they try to discover the threat of their food source and survival. Using courage and bravery, Mumble begins to teach everyone begins to learn that uniqueness isn’t a burden, but is a gift to be treasured.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Breslin, Abigail | Kinnear, Greg | Dano, Paul | Arkin, Alan | Collette, Toni | Carell, Steve | Turtletaub, Marc | Talley, Jill | Canela, Brenda | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Loring, Chuck | Shilton, Justin | Thomson, Gordon | Parker, Steven Christopher | Cranston, Bryan
Directors: Dayton, Jonathan
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word “dysfunctional”. The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?

Finding Neverland (2004)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Winslet, Kate | Christie, Julie | Mitchell, Radha | Hoffman, Dustin | Highmore, Freddie | Prospero, Joe | Roud, Nick | Spill, Luke | Macdonald, Kelly | Crook, Mackenzie | Essell, Eileen | Gardner, Jimmy | Fox, Oliver
Directors: Forster, Marc
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gertz, Jami | Hannah, Daryl | Marshall, Garry | Piven, Jeremy | Roberts, Doris | Sabara, Daryl | Miller, Larry | Hines, Cheryl | Benjamin, Richard | Jefferies, Marc John | Hines, Tom | Jenkins, Carter | Taylor, Sandra | Cosgrove, Miranda | Robertson, Brittany
Directors: Marshall, Scott
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In toney Brentwood, Benjamin Fiedler prepares for his bar mitzvah; trouble is, he understands neither its meaning nor the Hebrew, and his parents (particularly his successful-agent father) are planning the most lavish party possible. Benjamin wants his dad to give him some space, so he gets an idea: to invite his grandfather, who left the family years ago and for whom Benjamin’s dad has an intense dislike, to come two weeks early. Thanks in part to grandpa - and to the immediate family’s love - Benjamin may have a shot at figuring out what it means to be a man.

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Barrymore, Drew | Zahn, Steve | Garcia, Adam | Murphy, Brittany | Woods, James | Bracco, Lorraine
Directors: Penny Marshall
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Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter’s problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she’s pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult than informing her parents, and at 16, Beverly is a wife and mother. Against the odds, Beverly is determined to still finish high school and go on to college, but that goal becomes more difficult with time, especially after Beverly’s marriage begins to fall apart. Ray tries to do the right thing but has trouble holding a job, and becomes addicted to heroin.

11:14 (Eleven Fourteen, The Movie) (2003)

Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Heron, Blake | Hershey, Barbara | Gregg, Clark | Swank, Hilary | Hatosy, Shawn | Sands, Stark | Hanks, Colin | Foster, Ben | Swayze, Patrick | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Segel, Jason | Gomez, Rick
Directors: Marcks, Greg
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In Middletown, at 11:14 PM, two cars accidents happen at the same time, affecting the lives of five different groups of people. A drunken driver hits a man in a lonely road near a bridge; three young men hits a woman with a van, one of the passenger has a severed penis while another man on the road shoots them; a young man robs a convenience store, with the support of the clerk; a man finds a body in a cemetery and gets rid off it; and a young woman pretending to be pregnant tries to raise money for an abortion. All of these characters and their fates are very connected.

Little Manhattan (2005)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutcherson, Josh | Ray, Charlie | Whitford, Bradley | Nixon, Cynthia | Garson, Willie | Patano, Tonye | Manzay, J. Kyle | Pais, Josh | Dossett, John | Balsam, Talia | Meyerson, Jonah | Bush, Michael | Aguiar, Brian W. | Cubbler, Nick | Laflamme, Anthony
Directors: Levin, Mark
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Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan, untill Rosemary Telesco walked into his life actually into his karate class. But, before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not being going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life,love and girls.

Watchers (1988)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada
Actors: Ironside, Michael | Cary, Christopher | Campbell, Graeme | O'Dowd, Dan | Sloatman, Lala | Haim, Corey | Wilson, Dale | Mankuma, Blu | Winton, Colleen | Fraser, Duncan | Williams, Barbara | Bollo, Lou | Priestley, Jason | Hill, Matt | Morkey, Andrew
Directors: Hess, Jon
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Based on a novel by Dean Koontz. A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.

Omen, The (1976)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Leo McKern | Peck, Gregory | Remick, Lee | Warner, David | Whitelaw, Billy | Stevens, Harvey | Troughton, Patrick | Benson, Martin | Rietty, Robert | Duggan, Tommy | Stride, John | Nicholls, Anthony | Palance, Holly | Boyd, Roy | Dowie, Freda | Raynor, Sheila
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.

Rohtenburg (2006)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany
Actors: Russell, Keri | Kretschmann, Thomas | Huber, Thomas | Meissner, Rainier | Bartsch, Angelika | Martschewski, Alexander | Dommning, Nils | Lucas, Marcus | Andres, Pascal | Gebelhoff, Stefan | Gruber, Jonas | Heyn, Bojan | Kinski, Nikolai | Reimers, Jörg | Reissig, André
Directors: Weisz, Martin
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In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen’s and the thousands of people like him.