Posts Tagged ‘prison-escape’

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.

Gothika (2003)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dutton, Charles S. | Berry, Halle | Downey Jr., Robert | Lynch, John Carroll | Hill, Bernard | Cruz, Penélope | Harewood, Dorian | Mantel, Bronwen | Mackey, Kathleen | Taylor, Matthew G. | Perron, Michel | Sheldon, Andrea | Rydvald, Anana | Mitchell, Laura | Sloan, Amy
Directors: Kassovitz, Mathieu | Oliphant, Thom
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A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she’s accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Knowles, Beyoncé | Green, Seth | York, Michael | Wagner, Robert | Sterling, Mindy | Troyer, Verne | Caine, Michael | Savage, Fred | Mizota, Diane | Inaba, Carrie Ann | Matsuhisa, Nobu | Himelstein, Aaron | Zuckerman, Josh | Adams, Eddie
Directors: Roach, Jay
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He’s found his mojo, baby, and now Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is back again in this shagadelic comedy-adventure! The “sshhh!” hits the fan when Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin’s father, master spy Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), in a dastardly time-travel scheme to take over the world. Before you can say “Shake Your Booty,” Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with sexy Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles) to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem. With Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Mindy Sterling and Verne J. Troyer.

Idiocracy (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Luke | Rudolph, Maya | Shepard, Dax | Campos, Anthony 'Citric' | Herman, David | Castillo, Sonny | McAfee, Kevin | Musgrave, Robert | Melton, Ryan | Long, Justin | Jones, Heath | Muñoz, Eli | Fischler, Patrick | Hunt, Darlene | Ransdell, Ryan
Directors: Judge, Mike
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The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the “Human Hibernation Project,” is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they’re needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bauers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they’ve got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and “due to a lot of top-secret red tape… and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about.

Bandits (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Thornton, Billy Bob | Blanchett, Cate | Garity, Troy | O'Byrne, Brian F. | Travis, Stacey | Slayton, Bobby | Jones, January | Skye, Azura | Miley, Peggy | Converse-Roberts, William | Riehle, Richard | Mercurio, Micole | Burkholder, Scott | Burch, Anthony
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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A charismatic convict (Bruce Willis) and a hypochondriac inmate (Billy Bob Thornton) break out of prison in a cement truck and immediately start a bank robbing spree. Becoming known as the “Sleepover Bandits”, the two kidnap bank managers the night before their robbery, spend the night with their families, and then all go to the bank in the morning to get the dough. Using a dim-witted stunt man (Troy Garrity) as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs that gets them recognition on a tv show about America’s criminals. When a bored housewife (Cate Blanchett) with a failing marriage decides to runaway, she ends up in the hands of the criminals. Initially attracted to Willis, she nonetheless also ends up in bed with Thornton and a confused romantic relationship begins. Continuing along with their spree, the bandits hit the wall when the bank managers realize that they are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees. This leads to one more big score at the Alamo Bank, where in the very opening scenes, things appear to go awry.

Sugarland Express, The (1974)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hawn, Goldie | Johnson, Ben | Sacks, Michael | Atherton, William | Walcott, Gregory | Kanaly, Steve | Latham, Louise | Zanuck, Harrison | Camp, A.L. | Fulton, Jessie Lee | Smith, Dean | Grossman, Ted | Thurman, Bill | Hudgins, Kenneth | Danials, Buster
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Lou-Jean, a blonde woman, tells her husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their own child, who was placed with foster parents. The escape is partly successful, they take a hostage, who is a policeman and are pursued through to Texas…

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Radcliffe, Daniel | Griffiths, Richard | Ferris, Pam | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Rawlins, Adrian | Somerville, Geraldine | Ingleby, Lee | Henry, Lenny | Gardner, Jimmy | Oldman, Gary | Tavaré, Jim | Hardy, Robert | Ford, Abby | Grint, Rupert
Directors: Columbus, Chris | Cuarón, Alfonso
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It’s Harry’s 3rd Year at Hogwarts, not only does he have a new “Defense against the Dark-Arts” teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards Prison, is coming after Harry.

Chronicles of Riddick, The (2004)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Diesel, Vin | Feore, Colm | Newton, Thandie | Dench, Judi | Urban, Karl | Davalos, Alexa | Roache, Linus | Wageningen, Yorick van | Chinlund, Nick | David, Keith | Gibbon, Mark | Cross, Roger R. | Chen, Terry | Cox, Christina | Vonas, Nigel
Directors: Twohy, David
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Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. ‘Colm Feore’ (qv) plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. ‘Judi Dench’ (qv) is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins.

Take the Money and Run (1969)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Margolin, Janet | Hillaire, Marcel | Hyde, Jacquelyn | Chapman, Lonny | Merlin, Jan | Anderson, James | Beck, Jackson | Storm, Howard | Gordon, Mark | Murphy, Micil | Moskowitz, Minnow | Jacobson, Nate | Bauer, Grace | Leff, Henry
Directors: Allen, Woody
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This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell, played by Woody Allen. It describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical career, and his obsession with bank robberies. The film uses a voice over narrative and interviews with his family, friends and acquaintances.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hamill, Mark | Ford, Harrison | Fisher, Carrie | Cushing, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Daniels, Anthony | Baker, Kenny | Mayhew, Peter | Prowse, David | Jones, James Earl | Brown, Phil | Fraser, Shelagh | Purvis, Jack | McCrindle, Alex | Byrne, Eddie
Directors: Lucas, George
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In a distant galaxy eons before the creation of the mythical planet known as Earth, vast civilizations have evolved, and ruling the galaxy is an interstellar Empire created from the ruins of an Old Republic that held sway for generations. It is a time of civil war, as solar systems have broken away from the Empire and are waging a war of rebellion. During a recent battle techical schematics for a gigantic space station, code named The Death Star, have been unearthed by Rebel spies, and a young woman who is a dissident member of the Imperial Senate, under the cover of a diplomatic mission to the planet Alderaan, is trying to smuggle these plans to the Rebellion. But her spacecraft is attacked by a vast warship of the Empire and seized. The dissident Senator is captured, but the plans for the Death Star are nowhere to be found. While soldiers of the Empire search the nearby planet Tatooine, a series of incidents sweeps up a young desert farmer with dreams of being a fighter pilot in the Rebellion, as he winds up with the Death Star plans and also the assistance of an elderly hermit who once served as a warrior of an ancient order whose chosen weapons were powerful energy swords known as light sabers. The pair recruit a cynical interstellar smuggler and his outsized alien copilot with an ancient freighter heavily modified for combat to help them reach Alderaan - but the planet is obliterated and now the foursome must rescue the young woman held prisoner by the Empire and lead an attack by the Rebellion against the Death Star before it can annihilate all hope of restoring freedom to the galaxy.