Posts Tagged ‘renovation’

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Reed, Donna | Barrymore, Lionel | Mitchell, Thomas | Travers, Henry | Bondi, Beulah | Faylen, Frank | Bond, Ward | Grahame, Gloria | Warner, H.B. | Albertson, Frank | Karns, Todd | Hinds, Samuel S. | Treen, Mary | Patton, Virginia
Directors: Capra, Frank
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On Christmas eve, all of the citizens of the small town of Bedford Falls pray to the heavens to help George Bailey. It’s then decided that Clarence, an angel who hasn’t earned his wings, is to help George. Before he does, he should know who George Bailey was. George Bailey grew up in Bedford Falls, a small town where he dreams of leaving it and making his mark on the world. His family’s business is the only thing stands between the good citizens and Mr. Potter, a rich miser who takes sick pleasure in taking from everybody, without even caring how it affects them. George was all set to leave when his father died and had to take care of the business. George would forever be hindered by his plans to leave and thinks that he is nothing but a failure, he decides to kill himself. That’s when Clarence comes in and tries to convince him that he has made something with his life, and that he had a “Wonderful Life”.

Accepted (2006)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Long, Justin | Hill, Jonah | Herschman, Adam | Short, Columbus | Thayer, Maria | Black, Lewis | Lively, Blake | Derwin, Mark | Cusack, Ann | Marks, Hannah | Taylor, Robin | Baird, Diora | Hursley, Joe | Howard, Jeremy | Heald, Anthony
Directors: Pink, Steve
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Bartleby (B.) Gaines is a fun loving slacker who, unfortunately, gets turned down for every college he applied for, much to the charign of his overly expectant parents. So, with a little cutting and pasting, he creates the South Harmon Institute of Technology, and lo and behold, he is accepted (along with his friends Rory, Hands, and Glen, whose college plans were also all but dashed). However, his parents want to see the website, the campus, and the dean. So now he has his other friend Sherman (who has been accepted to the prestigious Harmon College) build a web page, they lease out an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and they hire Sherman’s uncle Ben (played to perfection by comedian Lewis Black) to be the dean. Problem solved? Not quite. The web page was done so well, that hundreds of students show up at the front door, all of which were turned down by other colleges. Faced with no choice, Bartleby decides to proceed with turning South Harmon into a real college, and sets about figuring out what to teach and how to teach it. Meanwhile at Harmon, dean Van Horne meets with Hoyt Ambrose, a rich law student and head of the KBE fraternity (which Sherman is trying to become a member of), to discuss building a gateway for Harmon using land presently being used by South Harmon. He tries finding the leaseholder of the land, to no avail. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Monica, catches him cheating on her, and a big party at South Harmon lures a chunk of Harmon’s students away, including Monica into the arms of Bartleby. Now Hoyt uses Sherman, knowing he has been bouncing between the two schools, in an attempt to bring South Harmon down for good. However, Bartleby has an accreditation appointment with the state Board of Education to prove South Harmon’s worthiness. Can he legally bring the South Harmon Institute of Technology to life and win the love of Monica?

Baby Mama (2008)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Poehler, Amy | Tina Fey | Kinnear, Greg | Shepard, Dax | Malco, Romany | Weaver, Sigourney | Martin, Steve | Tierney, Maura | Mailer, Stephen | Taylor, Holland | Rebhorn, James | O'Hare, Denis | Collins, Kevin | Forte, Will | Armisen, Fred
Directors: McCullers, Michael
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Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she’s finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough … After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive’s well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby’s arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they’ll discover two kinds of family: the one you’re born to and the one you make.

Are We Done Yet? (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Cube, Ice | Long, Nia | McGinley, John C. | Aleisha Allen | Bolden, Philip Daniel | Katz, Jonathan | Kash, Linda | Kalugin, Alexander | Joffre, Dan | Arce, Pedro Miguel | Mowry, Tahj | Vargas, Jacob | Prieur, Brenda | MacArthur, Hayes | Strange, Colin
Directors: Carr, Steve
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Newlyweds Nick (Ice Cube) and Suzanne (Long) decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor (McGinley) with a bizarre approach to business.

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Oh, Sandra | Duncan, Lindsay | Bova, Raoul | Riotta, Vincent | Monicelli, Mario | Nobile, Roberto | Zagaria, Anita | Gori, Evelina | Steigerwalt, Giulia | Szajda, Pawel | Pelka, Valentine | Vulicevic, Sasa | Sarchielli, Massimo | Gerini, Claudia
Directors: Wells, Audrey
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Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

Money Pit, The (1986)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Long, Shelley | Godunov, Alexander | Stapleton, Maureen | Mantegna, Joe | Bosco, Philip | Mostel, Josh | Smirnoff, Yakov | Caridi, Carmine | Backer, Brian | Lombardo, Billy | Dillon, Mia | Van Dreelen, John | Watson, Douglass | Dobrin, Lucille
Directors: Benjamin, Richard
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A young couple sinks their life savings into a house that was trashed by a rock group to the extent that it no longer has a main stairway or water. This creates strains on their relationship. Every home owner will recognize some of the situations they encounter.

Igby Goes Down (2002)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Culkin, Kieran | Danes, Claire | Goldblum, Jeff | Harris, Jared | Peet, Amanda | Phillippe, Ryan | Pullman, Bill | Sarandon, Susan | Culkin, Rory | Tambakis, Peter Anthony | Irwin, Bill | Gati, Kathleen | Forrester, Gannon | Weston, Celia | Jagger, Elizabeth
Directors: Burr Steers
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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast “old money” family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip—shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather’s trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel—veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby’s ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from “going down.”

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Connelly, Jennifer | Kingsley, Ben | Eldard, Ron | Fisher, Frances | Dickens, Kim | Aghdashloo, Shohreh | Ahdout, Jonathan | Rawat, Navi | Gómez, Carlos | Jam, Kia | Modjallal, Jaleh | Damavandi, Samira | Simonian, Matthew | Gujral, Namrata Singh | Faris, Al
Directors: Vadim Perelman
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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.

Home Alone 3 (1997)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Linz, Alex D. | Krupa, Olek | Kihlstedt, Rya | von Dohlen, Lenny | Thornton, David | Morris, Haviland | Kilner, Kevin | Seldes, Marian | Smith, Seth | Johansson, Scarlett | Curry, Christopher | Harris, Baxter | Saito, James | Gudahl, Kevin | Hamilton, Richard
Directors: Gosnell, Raja
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Four high-tech industrial spies, Beaupre, Alice, Jernigan and Unger, steal a top-secret microchip, and, to fool customs, hide it in a remote-control toy car. Through a baggage mix-up at the airport, grumpy old Mrs.Hess gets the toy and gives it to her neighbor, 8-year-old Alex. Spies want to get the toy back before their clients get angry and decide to burglarize every house at Alex’s street to find the chip. But Alex is prepared for their visit…

Terminal, The (2004)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Tucci, Stanley | McBride, Chi | Luna, Diego | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Pallana, Kumar | Saldana, Zoe | Jones, Eddie | Ciccolella, Jude | Reynolds, Corey | Díaz, Guillermo | Bell, Rini | Mendel, Stephen | Nikolayev, Valeri
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Viktor Navorski, a man from an Eastern European country arrives in New York but after he left his country; war broke out and because of that Navorski is a man without a country that the U.S. cannot recognize, thus he is denied entrance to the U.S. However, he also can’t be deported so he is told by the Security Manager that he has to remain in the airport until his status can be fixed. And also Navorski doesn’t speak English well, so no one can talk to him and he can’t talk to anyone. But he somehow adapts and sets up residence in the airport, which makes the man who placed him there unhappy cause, it seems he is line for a promotion but Navroski’s presence might complicate that. So he tries to get Navorski to leave but Navorski remains where he is. Navorski makes friends with some of the people who work in the airport and is attracted to a flight attendant he runs into whenever she comes in.