Posts Tagged ‘recovering-alcoholic’

21 Grams (2003)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Watts, Naomi | Huston, Danny | Nahon, Carly | Pakis, Claire | Del Toro, Benicio | Nichols, Nick | Gainsbourg, Charlotte | Rubinstein, John | Marsan, Eddie | Salter, Loyd Keith | Harris, Antef A. | Leo, Melissa | Musso, Marc | Delgado, Teresa
Directors: González Iñárritu, Alejandro
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This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

Transamerica (2005)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: James, Andrea | Huffman, Felicity | Burstein, Danny | Orozco, Maurice | Peña, Elizabeth | Bockhorn, Craig | Borghese, Paul | Zegers, Kevin | Budinoff, Jon | Evans, Venida | Scheine, Raynor | Bayley, Kate | Maeve, Stella | Dunn, Teala | Frangione, Jim
Directors: Tucker, Duncan
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One week before her sex-change operation, Bree receives a call from a 17-year-old identifying himself as her son from a college liaison. Bree’s psychiatrist won’t approve the surgery until Bree deals with this relationship, so Bree flies to New York City, bails the youth out of juvenile detention, and offers him a ride back to Los Angeles without disclosing that she is his father. Both her plans and his go awry, and as secrets will out, what might become a friendship (or more) founders. The lad’s step-father, a sex-change support group, a peyote eater, a Navajo wrangler, and Bree’s family all play their parts in this exploration of family, gender, and expectations.

Uptown Girls (2003)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Brittany | Faison, Donald | Pendleton, Austin | Fanning, Dakota | Shelton, Marley | Locklear, Heather
Directors: Boaz Yakin
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Molly Gunn (Murphy), the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray (Fanning), the oft ignored daughter of a music executive (Locklear) she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

Changing Lanes (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Jackson, Samuel L. | Staunton, Kim | Collette, Toni | Pollack, Sydney | Sloan, Tina | Jenkins, Richard | Walker, Akil | Hawkins, Cole | Getz, Ileen | Dundas, Jennifer | Malloy, Matt | Peet, Amanda | Taylor, Myra Lucretia | Altman, Bruce
Directors: | Michell, Roger
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An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties’ part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity.

Final Analysis (1992)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Basinger, Kim | Thurman, Uma | Roberts, Eric | Guilfoyle, Paul | David, Keith | Harper, Robert | Rodriguez, Agustin | Zohar, Rita | Murdock, George | Prestia, Shirley | Genaro, Tony | Cortez, Katherine | Moy, Wood | Fischer, Corey
Directors: Joanou, Phil
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Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She’s beautiful and married (to a gangster). She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him. To avoid spoilers, someone dies, but who did what and why ?