Posts Tagged ‘parenthood’

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?

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.

RV (2006)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Hines, Cheryl | Levesque, Joanna 'JoJo' | Hutcherson, Josh | Daniels, Jeff | Chenoweth, Kristin | Parrish, Hunter | Sonnenfeld, Chloe | Ferris, Alex | Arnett, Will | Hale, Tony | Howe, Brian | Cox, Richard Ian | Gair, Erika-Shaye | Sztopa, Veronika
Directors: Sonnenfeld, Barry
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Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob’s job is in danger if he doesn’t go to a very important meeting. Before you can say “COME BACK! COME BACK!,” things go gloriously, hilariously, Munro-annoyingly wrong due to the lack of brakes, Bob’s job, toilet waste not cleared out from the last rental and more hilarious stuff.

Raising Arizona (1987)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Hunter, Holly | Wilson, Trey | Goodman, John | Forsythe, William | McMurray, Sam | McDormand, Frances | Cobb, Randall 'Tex' | Kuhn, T.J. | Kitei, Lynne Dumin | Benedek, Peter | Smith, Charles 'Lew' | Keith, Warren | Kendrick, Henry | Dawson, Sidney
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she’s barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi’s convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.

Forgotten, The (2004)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Kovaleski, Christopher | Pleszewicz, Matthew | Edwards, Anthony | Hecht, Jessica | Roache, Linus | Sinise, Gary | West, Dominic | Cooper, Katie | Nicholson, Scott | Morrison, P.J. | Wisdom, Robert | Kang, Tim | Faughnan, Kathryn | Woodard, Alfre
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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A grieving mother, Telly Paretta, is struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her husband tell her that she has created eight years of memories of a son she never had. But when she meets the father of one of her son’s friend who is having the same experience, Telly embarks on a mission to prove her son’s existence and her sanity.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Furlong, Edward | Patrick, Robert | Boen, Earl | Morton, Joe | Merkerson, S. Epatha | Guerra, Castulo | Cooksey, Danny | Goldstein, Jenette | Berkeley, Xander | Hamilton, Linda | Gibbel, Ken | Winley, Robert | Schrum, Peter
Directors: Cameron, James
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Little Children (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Wilson, Patrick | Connelly, Jennifer | Edelman, Gregg | Goldstein, Sadie | Simpkins, Ty | Emmerich, Noah | Haley, Jackie Earle | Somerville, Phyllis | Carey, Helen | Wolf, Catherine | McCann, Mary B. | Trini Alvarado | Dietlein, Marsha | Adams, Jane
Directors: Field, Todd
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Echoes of “Madame Bovary” in the American suburbs. Sarah’s in a loveless marriage, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie’s mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?

Look Who’s Talking (1989)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Alley, Kirstie | Dukakis, Olympia | Segal, George | Vigoda, Abe | Willis, Bruce | Caplan, Twink | Schaller, Jason | Waterhouse, Jaryd | Haines, Jacob | Aydon, Christopher | Boushel, Joy | Davis, Don S. | Heckerling, Louis | Crichlow, Brenda
Directors: Heckerling, Amy
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Mollie is a single mum who’s on the lookout for a reliable and normal boyfriend. Her son Mikey, (unbeknownst to her) seems to have a better idea of which of the men she dates would make a good father figure! If only she could understand him…

Daddy Day Care (2003)

Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Jeff Garlin | Zahn, Steve | King, Regina | Nealon, Kevin | Katz, Jonathan | Fallon, Siobhan | Edelstein, Lisa | Chabert, Lacey | Kightlinger, Laura | Arcieri, Leila | Huston, Anjelica | Griffin, Khamani | Burkholder, Max | Young, Arthur
Directors: Carr, Steve
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In the hilarious comedy Daddy Day Care, two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads open their own day care facility, “Daddy Day Care”, and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As “Daddy Day Care” starts to catch on, it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy’s tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) …who has driven all previous competitors out of business.

Deep End of the Ocean, The (1999)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Pfeiffer, Michelle | Williams, Treat | Goldberg, Whoopi | Jackson, Jonathan | Buck, Cory | Merriman, Ryan | Vega, Alexa | McGrady, Michael | Strong, Brenda | McElroy, Michael | Musante, Tony | Gregorio, Rose | Kapelos, John | Jenney, Lucinda | Roselius, John
Directors: Grosbard, Ulu
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The Deep End of The Ocean is a film about a family’s reaction when Ben, the youngest son is kidnapped and then found ten years later, living in the same town.