Posts Tagged ‘radio’

Proof of Life (2000)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Crowe, Russell | Morse, David | Reed, Pamela | Caruso, David | Heald, Anthony | Anderson, Stanley | John, Gottfried | Armstrong, Alun | Kitchen, Michael | Martindale, Margo | Sánchez, Mario Ernesto | Sibille, Pietro | Hernández, Vicky | Martínez, Norma
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company’s subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman’s wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter’s sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne’s strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them?

Fan, The (1996)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sport | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Snipes, Wesley | Barkin, Ellen | Leguizamo, John | Del Toro, Benicio | D'Arbanville, Patti | Mulkey, Chris | Ferchland, Andrew J. | Hammond, Brandon | Hallahan, Charles | Butler, Dan | Fuller, Kurt | Jace, Michael | Medrano, Frank | Davis, Don S.
Directors: Scott, Tony
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Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.

Windtalkers (2002)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Beach, Adam | Stormare, Peter | Emmerich, Noah | Ruffalo, Mark | Van Holt, Brian | Henderson, Martin | Willie, Roger | O'Connor, Frances | Slater, Christian | Isaacs, Jason | Morts, Billy | Thor, Cameron | Cooney, Kevin | Osborne, Holmes
Directors: Woo, John
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WWII. Joe Enders, a decorated Marine who is by-the-book to a fault, is just coming back on duty (by cheating on his medical tests). “Ox” Anderson, much greener, is also getting the same new task: Protect the Navajo codetalkers (Ben Yahzee and Charles Whitehorse, respectively). While Enders is initially frustrated with his assignment, his respect grows as the codetalkers prove their worth in the brutal battle to take Saipan.

Prairie Home Companion, A (2006)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrelson, Woody | Jones, Tommy Lee | Kline, Kevin | Lohan, Lindsay | Madsen, Virginia | Streep, Meryl
Directors: Altman, Robert
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The movie is a celebrity version of Garrison Keillor’s radio show of the same name. The movie takes place during the last live performance of the show as the new radio network owners have sent an axeman (Tommy Lee Jones)to close the show. Another fantasy element is thrown in as an angel (Virginia Madsen) stalks the theater to take one of the performers. Keillor essentially plays himself, even using his own name for the character. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play the singing Johnson Sisters, with Lindsay Lohan as a suicide-obsessed daughter of Streep. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are hilarious as the slightly off-color singing cowboy duo, Dusty & Lefty. Kevin Kline is a security guard who act as the narrator. Maya Rudolph also appears as a pregnant stage coordinator. Contains some mild sexually-oriented jokes.

King of Marvin Gardens, The (1972)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Dern, Bruce | Burstyn, Ellen | Robinson, Julia Anne | Crothers, Scatman | LaVine, Charles | Williams, Arnold | Ryan, John P. | Boyar, Sully | Mostel, Josh | Pabst, William | Goodrow, Garry | Bliss, Imogene | Thomas, Ann | Overton, Tom
Directors: Rafelson, Bob
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‘It’s Monopoly out there’. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.

Contact (1997)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Malone, Jena | Morse, David | Foster, Jodie | Blake, Geoffrey | Fichtner, William | Chester, Sami | McNeil, Timothy | Surillo, Laura Elena | McConaughey, Matthew | Skerritt, Tom | Strozier, Henry | Chaban, Michael | Martini, Max | King, Larry | Garner, Thomas
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a free thinking radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists are able to decipher the Message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious Machine. Will the Machine spell the end of our world, or the end of our superstitions? Will we take our place among the races of the Galaxy, or are we just an upstart species with a long way to go?