Posts Tagged ‘recital’

Boiler Room (2000)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ribisi, Giovanni | Diesel, Vin | Katt, Nicky | Caan, Scott | Rifkin, Ron | Kennedy, Jamie | Nichols, Taylor | Sage, Bill | Scott, Tom Everett | Affleck, Ben | Griesemer, John | Younger, David | Harper, Russel | Webber, Mark | Fitzgerald, Christopher
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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who’s harsh with his son. At his father’s insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he’ll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He’s terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.

Ice Princess (2005)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Trachtenberg, Michelle | Cusack, Joan | Stewart, Amy | Ross, Steve | Panettiere, Hayden | Cattrall, Kim | Blumas, Trevor | Olson, Kirsten | Lai, Jocelyn | Ray, Connie | Lee, Paul Sun-Hyung | Bradshaw, Roy | Hird, Mark | Gilbank, Ben | Campbell, Cole
Directors: Fywell, Tim
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A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan in Walt Disney Pictures’ “ICE PRINCESS.” Brainy Casey Carlyle (’Michelle Trachtenberg’ (qv)) has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother (’Joan Cusack’ (qv)), who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen (’Hayden Panettiere’ (qv))—three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen’s mother (’Kim Cattrall’ (qv)), she must dash her own mother’s hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen’s teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver (’Trevor Blumas’ (qv)), Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real “ice princess.”

Billy Madison (1995)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | McGavin, Darren | Wilson, Bridgette | Whitford, Bradley | Mostel, Josh | MacDonald, Norm | Beltzman, Mark | Hankin, Larry | Merritt, Theresa | Platias, Dina | Alianak, Hrant | Marino, Vincent | Mather, Jack | Kelk, Christopher | Donato, Marc
Directors: Davis, Tamra
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Billy Madison is a non-working, non-educated slacker who lives entirely off his dad. He spends his day drinking beer, reading girly magazines, and hanging out by the pool. When his father realizes that Billy is unfit to run the family business, Billy decides that he must go back to school and earn a real education. He figures it will be no problem going back to high school and learning over again, until he learns that his father bought Billy’s passing grades all the way back in elementary school. Thus, Billy must return to elementary school and pass each grade one at a time in a short time, or else he loses his place as heir to the company. In addition, Billy tries to win the hand of Veronica, a sexy school teacher who thinks her students are more mature than Billy.

Gattaca (1997)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hawke, Ethan | Thurman, Uma | Gore Vidal | Berkeley, Xander | Brook, Jayne | Koteas, Elias | Rudolph, Maya | Damon, Una | Dennehy, Elizabeth | Underwood, Blair | Gamble, Mason | Nielson, Vincent | Christ, Chad | Scott, William Lee | Graham, Clarence
Directors: Niccol, Andrew
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Gattaca Corp. is an aerospace firm in the future. During this time society analyzes your DNA and determines where you belong in life. Ethan Hawke’s character was born with a congenital heart condition which would cast him out of getting a chance to travel in space. So in turn he assumes the identity of an athlete who has genes that would allow him to achieve his dream of space travel.

Swimfan (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bradford, Jesse | Christensen, Erika | Appleby, Shiri | Burton, Kate | Crawford, Clayne | Ritter, Jason | Goodwin, Kia | Hedaya, Dan | Higgins, Michael | Sandow, Nick | Isaacs, Pamela | DeBello, James | Somerville, Phyllis | Cappadona, Tom | Barrett, Malcolm
Directors: Polson, John
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Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he’s on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Not that it’s been easy - every day Ben juggles countless hours in the pool (training for a critical swim meet), with a job at the local hospital, and finding quality time with his high school sweetheart, Amy. Ben’s rock-solid, promising future and romance with Amy are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the “new girl in town,” quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more - much more. Seducing Ben is only beginning; she becomes his biggest “fan” and most unexpected nightmare, as her obsessions quickly spiral out of control into betrayal, madness and, ultimately, murder.

American Splendor (2003)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ambrose, Chris | Krajcar, Joey | Hutcherson, Josh | Carter, Cameron | Tay, Daniel | Faktor, Mary | Giamatti, Paul | Pekar, Harvey | Meyers, Larry John | Benesch, Vivienne | Brown, Barbara | Billings, Earl | Hoch, Danny | Urbaniak, James
Directors: Berman, Shari Springer | Pulcini, Robert
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.

Danny the Dog (2005)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Freeman, Morgan | Hoskins, Bob | Condon, Kerry | Regan, Vincent | Brown, Dylan | Hassan, Tamer | Jenn, Michael | Law, Phyllida | Wilson, Carole Ann | Lambert, Michael Ian | Tze Wey, Jaclyn | Chou, Puthirith | Theng, Tony | Lay, Owen
Directors: Leterrier, Louis
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A man treated like a dog and raised as a fighting machine his entire life, ends up in a coma and is taken in the care of good people, but his sinister owner is looking to retrieve his most prized possession: a non stop human weapon triggered by the collar leashed on his neck.