Posts Tagged ‘reform’

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Clooney, George | Hunter, Holly | Turturro, John | Root, Stephen | Goodman, John | Durning, Charles
Directors: Coen, Joel
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Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.”

Scrooge (1951)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: UK
Actors: Sim, Alastair | Harrison, Kathleen | Johns, Mervyn | Baddeley, Hermione | Michael Hordern | Cole, George | Charlesworth, John | De Wolff, Francis | Anderson, Rona | Marsh, Carol | Worth, Brian | Malleson, Miles | Thesiger, Ernest | Dearman, Glyn | Dolan, Michael
Directors: Hurst, Brian Desmond
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Stingy old Ebenezer Scrooge is known as the meanest man in London. He overworks and underpays his humble clerk, Bob Cratchit, whose little son, Tiny Tim, is crippled and may soon die. He also has nothing to do with his nephew, Fred, because his birth cost the life of his beloved sister. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge has a haunting nightmare. He is visited by three ghosts and is given one last chance to change his ways and save himself from the grim fate that befell his business partner, Jacob Marley.

Black Snake Moan (2006)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Ricci, Christina | Timberlake, Justin | Merkerson, S. Epatha | Cothran Jr., John | Banner, David | Raymond-James, Michael | Lenox, Adriane | Richards, Kim | Williams, Neimus K. | Thomas, Leonard L. | Wilson, Ruby | Phillips, Claude | Lavere, Amy | Grant, Clare
Directors: Brewer, Craig
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A God-fearing bluesman (Jackson) takes to a wild young woman (Ricci) who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.