Posts Tagged ‘narrative’

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Broderick, Matthew | Ruck, Alan | Sara, Mia | Jones, Jeffrey | Grey, Jennifer | Pickett, Cindy | Ward, Lyman | McClurg, Edie | Sheen, Charlie | Stein, Ben | Close, Del | Capers, Virginia | Edson, Richard | Jenkins, Larry Flash | Swanson, Kristy
Directors: Hughes, John
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Ferris Bueller has played hooky numbers of times, and this time he’s got the entire school and more believing he is on the verge of death. On this special day off, Ferris invites his friend Cameron Fry and girlfriend Sloane Peterson to his day of fun, while taking Cameron’s father’s precious Ferrari for transportation. All the while, the principal Ed Rooney is determined to prove Ferris is faking his illness and Ferris’s agitated sister Jeanie also has a goal to catch Ferris off guard. Ferris enjoys his day with his friends, until the mileage of the Ferrari reads one too many miles driven and Cameron has a blow out.

Titanic (1997)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Winslet, Kate | Zane, Billy | Bates, Kathy | Fisher, Frances | Stuart, Gloria | Paxton, Bill | Hill, Bernard | Warner, David | Garber, Victor | Hyde, Jonathan | Amis, Suzy | Abernathy, Lewis | Cascone, Nicholas | Sagalevitch, Dr. Anatoly M.
Directors: Cameron, James
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancĂ©e Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn’t see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20’s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

Bubba Ho-tep (2002)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Davis, Ossie | Joyce, Ella | Marnhout, Heidi | Ivy, Bob | Jefferson, Edith | Pennell, Larry | Bannister, Reggie | Roebuck, Daniel | Schweiger, Daniel | Young, Harrison | Flammer, Linda | Okada, Cean | Morand, Solange | Placencia, Karen
Directors: Coscarelli, Don
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Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.

Sandlot, The (1993)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Guiry, Tom | Vitar, Mike | Renna, Patrick | Leopardi, Chauncey | York, Marty | Adams, Brandon Quintin | Gelt, Grant | Obedzinski, Shane | DiMattia, Victor | Leary, Denis | Allen, Karen | Jones, James Earl | Shelton, Marley | Muller, Herb | Zacapa, Daniel
Directors: Evans, David M.
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Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing, and soon he’s part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him.

Stand by Me (1986)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wheaton, Wil | River Phoenix | Feldman, Corey | O'Connell, Jerry | Sutherland, Kiefer | Siemaszko, Casey | Riley, Gary | Gregg, Bradley | Oliver, Jason | Bell, Marshall | McCain, Frances Lee | Kirby, Bruce | Bronder, William | Beach, Scott | Dreyfuss, Richard
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Unable to grasp the fact of his brother’s death, Gordie Lachance feels compelled to travel with three friends to see a dead body that has been found near the railroad tracks.

Rules of Attraction, The (2002)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Sossamon, Shannyn | James Van Der Beek | Ian Somerhalder | Bosworth, Kate | Biel, Jessica | Pardue, Kip
Directors: Avary, Roger
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Camden College. Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is the younger brother of depraved Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman. He’s also a drug dealer who owes a lot of money to “fellow” dealer Rupert Guest (Clifton Collins, Jr.), as well as a well-known womanizer, for he sleeps with nearly half of the female population on campus. Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon) is, technically, a virgin. She’s saving herself for her shallow boyfriend, Victor Johnson (Kip Pardue), who’s left the States to backpack across Europe. Her slutty roommate, Lara (Jessica Biel), has the hots for Victor as well. Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder), who used to date Lauren, is openly bisexual and attracted to Mitchell Allen (Thomas Ian Nicholas), who’s dating Candice (Clare Kramer) to prove to Paul that he’s not gay. Sean loves Lauren. Paul loves Sean. And Lauren may love Sean.

Queen of the Damned (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Music
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Aaliyah | Townsend, Stuart | Moreau, Marguerite | Perez, Vincent | McGann, Paul | Olin, Lena | Manon, Christian | Black, Claudia | Spence, Bruce | Newton, Matthew | Mora, Tiriel | Dorman, Megan | Devoy, Johnathan | Farnham, Robert | Standish, Conrad
Directors: Rymer, Michael
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After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king…

Man Without a Face, The (1993)

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Stahl, Nick | Whitton, Margaret | Masterson, Fay | Hoffmann, Gaby | Lewis, Geoffrey | Masur, Richard | DeLuise, Michael | Phillips, Ethan | De Baer, Jean | De Mave, Jack | Viva | Kanew, Justin | Kellman, Sean | Lineburg, Chris
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The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was incinerated and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He is also suspected of being a pedophile. He is befriended by Chuck, causing the town’s suspicion and hostility to be ignited. McLeod inculcates in his protege a love of justice and freedom from prejudice which sustains him beyond the end of the film.