Posts Tagged ‘railroad-crossing’

Cars (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Owen | Newman, Paul | Hunt, Bonnie | The Cable Guy, Larry | Marin, Cheech | Shalhoub, Tony | Quaroni, Guido | Lewis, Jenifer | Dooley, Paul | Wallis, Michael | Carlin, George | Helmond, Katherine | Ratzenberger, John | Ranft, Joe | Keaton, Michael
Directors: Lasseter, John
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Lightning McQueen is a cocky, rookie race car. Speeding on his way to a big race, he crashes into Radiator Springs, destroying lots of the inhabitants belongings. In order to make up for what he did, the cocky roadster is sentenced to community service. Though he will do anything to get away from the work, McQueen must learn to respect and bond with the Radiator Springs inhabitants in order to get out of the town and back on the racetracks.

Duel (1971)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Dennis | Scott, Jacqueline | Firestone, Eddie | Frizzell, Lou | Dynarski, Gene | Benson, Lucille | Herbert, Tim | Seel, Charles | O'Hara, Shirley | Lockwood, Alexander | Douglass, Amy | Whittington, Dick | Loftin, Carey | Van Sickel, Dale
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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David Mann (’Dennis Weaver (I)’ (qv)) is just a regular family man on a business trip. Unfortunately, things go from bad to worse when a huge gasoline truck in front of him forces him to drive slower than he wants. As the drive continues, Mann realizes that he’s not dealing with just another road hog. Though he can never see the trucker’s face, the driver proves to be psychopathic, starting to run Mann off the road and trick or force him into a number of deadly situations. As the horrific trip continues, Mann tries to lose the truck, but each time he thinks he’s finally in the clear, the truck returns to terrify him more. Finally, the horrific conflict builds to a point where he realizes that running won’t save him, and that he must take a stand and fight back against the insane trucker.

Rain Man (1988)

Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Dustin | Cruise, Tom | Golino, Valeria | Molen, Gerald R. | Murdock, Jack | Roberts, Michael D. | Seymour, Ralph | Jenney, Lucinda | Hunt, Bonnie | Robillard, Kim | Grant, Beth | Dougherty, Dolan | Dougherty, Marshall | Dougherty, Patrick | Dougherty, John-Michael
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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Charley is a hustler. He’s been on his own long enough to know how to work people and situations. He finds that the father who threw him out as a teen ager has died. He’s left him a now antique convertible and something more important, a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is Autistic, but is able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy. Their father has left his fortune to Raymond who doesn’t even understand what money is for. Charley is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond’s existence from him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The two begin a long road trip that will lead them to an understanding of each other.

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Aiken, Liam | Browning, Emily | Hoffman, Kara | Hoffman, Shelby | Law, Jude | Spall, Timothy | | Connolly, Billy | Streep, Meryl | Guzmán, Luis | Harris, Jamie | Ferguson, Craig | Coolidge, Jennifer | Adams, Jane
Directors: Silberling, Brad
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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dreyfuss, Richard | Truffaut, François | Garr, Teri | Dillon, Melinda | Balaban, Bob | McNamara, J. Patrick | Kemmerling, Warren J. | Blossom, Roberts | Dodds, Philip | Guffey, Cary | Bishop, Shawn | Campbell, Adrienne | Dreyfuss, Justin | Henriksen, Lance | Connally, Merrill
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Cableman Roy Neary is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountainlike image in his head and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, putting severe strain on his marriage. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have a close encounter of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of otherworldly visitors in the form of military vehicles that went missing decades ago suddenly appearing in the middle of nowhere. Roy and the agents both follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind: contact.