Posts Tagged ‘redemption’

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | DiCaprio, Leonardo | Lewis, Juliette | Steenburgen, Mary | Cates, Darlene | Harrington, Laura | Schellhardt, Mary Kate | Tighe, Kevin | Reilly, John C. | Glover, Crispin | Branning, Penelope | Green, Tim | Loughran, Susan | Hedges, Robert B. | Jordan, Mark
Directors: Hallström, Lasse
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What’s Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie’s severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert (Johnny Depp) has to constantly, while working for the town’s slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother, played to such depth and conviction by a very young Leonardo DiCaprio. Gilbert’s life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky (Juliette Lewis) arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realisation unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Henley, Georgie | Keynes, Skandar | Moseley, William | Popplewell, Anna | Swinton, Tilda | McAvoy, James | Broadbent, Jim | Shah, Kiran | Cosmo, James | McIntosh, Judy | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Kake, Patrick | Rangi, Shane | Cook, Brandon | Cook, Cassie
Directors: Adamson, Andrew
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Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.

Dogma (1999)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rock, Chris | Hayek, Salma | Rickman, Alan | Morissette, Alanis | Cort, Bud | Hackney, Barret | Pfennigwerth, Jared | Sakurai, Kitao | Carlin, George | Aberlin, Betty | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Etheridge, Dan | Fiorentino, Linda | Milosavljevic, Derek | Braden, Lesley | O'Halloran, Brian | O'Brien, Marie Elena | Garofalo, Janeane
Directors: Smith, Kevin
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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.

Edmond (2005)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Bay, Frances | Pidgeon, Rebecca | Mantegna, Joe | Richards, Denise | Thompson, Wendy | Guastaferro, Vincent | Bai, Ling | Landers, Matt | Hill, Dulé | Hornsby, Russell | Hodge, Aldis | Mazar, Debi | Suvari, Mena | Combs, Jeffrey
Directors: Gordon, Stuart
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller’s for a Tarot reading: “You are not where you belong,” she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman’s club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he’s found them. Where does he belong?

Strange Wilderness (2007)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Abel, Jake | Alejandro, Kevin | Baker, Joe Don | Beasor, Terrence | Borgnine, Ernest | Clark, Blake | Covert, Allen | Dante, Peter | Deutsch, Will | Farley, John | Jeff Garlin | Hamlin, Harry | Heffernan, Kevin | Hill, Jonah | Hippler, Tom
Directors: Wolf, Fred
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With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Monday, May 12th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Allen, Tim | Cusack, Joan | Grammer, Kelsey | Rickles, Don | Varney, Jim | Shawn, Wallace | Ratzenberger, John | Potts, Annie | Knight, Wayne | Morris, John | Metcalf, Laurie | Harris, Estelle | Benson, Jodi | Ranft, Joe
Directors: Lasseter, John | Unkrich, Lee | Brannon, Ash
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While Andy is away at summer camp Woody has been toynapped by Al McWiggin, a greedy collector and proprietor of “Al’s Toy Barn”! In this all-out rescue mission, Buzz and his friends Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm springs into action to rescue Woody from winding up as a museum piece. They must find a way to save him before he gets sold in Japan forever and they’ll never see him again!

Without a Paddle (2004)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Price, Matthew | Hampton, Andrew | Rumbold, Jarred | Snell, Carl | Starr, Antony | Shepard, Dax | Lillard, Matthew | Green, Seth | Bernecker, Nadine | Cormack, Danielle | Stott, David | Somerville, Bonnie | Adsit, Scott | Fairhead, Morgan Reese | Holloway, Liddy
Directors: Brill, Steven
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The legendary high jacker is actually Dan Cooper. DB Cooper is the name of the man arrested shortly after the real high jacker jumped from the plane but was quickly cleared by the authorities. Unfortunately, the newspapers picked up DB Cooper’s name instead of Dan Cooper and the name stuck.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Monday, May 5th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Musical | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Bonham Carter, Helena | Rickman, Alan | Spall, Timothy | Baron Cohen, Sacha | Wisener, Jayne | Campbell Bower, Jamie | Kelly, Laura Michelle | Sanders, Ed | Head, Anthony | Bowles, Peter | Burford, Ian | Harbour, Michael N.
Directors: Burton, Tim
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Based on the 19th century legend of Sweeney Todd and the hit Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd a.k.a Benjamin Barker returns to London after being sent away by Judge Turpin with the help of a sailor, Anthony Hope. He opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s Meat Pie Shop were she sells “the worst pies in London.” With the help of Mrs. Lovett, Todd tries to rid of all the people who have ever done him wrong and hopes to be reunited with his daughter, Joanna, who is now Judge Turpin’s ward.

Saving Sarah Cain (2007)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Pepper, Lisa | Mason, Abigail | Fulton, Soren | Gould, Elliott | Chuchran, Danielle | Maguire, Tanner | Harper, Tess | Madison, Bailee | Tate, Tom | O'Dell, Jennifer | Abrams, Phil | Clennon, David | Huntington, Tod | Meyer, Caitlin E.J. | Anderson, Steve
Directors: Landon Jr., Michael
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When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.

Bee Movie (2007)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Seinfeld, Jerry | Zellweger, Renée | Broderick, Matthew | Warburton, Patrick | Goodman, John | Rock, Chris | Bates, Kathy | Levinson, Barry | King, Larry | Liotta, Ray | Sting | Winfrey, Oprah | Miller, Larry | Mullally, Megan | Torn, Rip
Directors: Hickner, Steve
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Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry’s life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.