Posts Tagged ‘retardation’

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.

Tideland (2005)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Ferland, Jodelle | McTeer, Janet | Fletcher, Brendan | Tilly, Jennifer | Bridges, Jeff | Taylor, Dylan | Anderson, Wendy | Crooks, Sally | Adair, Alden | Gilliam, Harry | Wolkowski, Kent
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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After her mother dies from a methadone overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose’s attempts to deal with what’s happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper’s veil.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Baron Cohen, Sacha | Davitian, Ken | Luenell | Barr, Bob | Ciorobea, Spirea | Keyes, Alan | Psenicksa, Michael | Rowe, Bobby | Sell, Jim | Walker, Larry | Äliyev, Ilham | Anderson, Pamela | Behar, Mariam | Stein, Linda
Directors: Charles, Larry
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Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the “greatest country in the world.” With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his assignment.

Village, The (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Howard, Bryce Dallas | Phoenix, Joaquin | Brody, Adrien | Hurt, William | Weaver, Sigourney | Gleeson, Brendan | Jones, Cherry | Weston, Celia | Jones, John Christopher | Collison, Frank | Atkinson, Jayne | Greer, Judy | Kranz, Fran | Pitt, Michael | Eisenberg, Jesse
Directors: Shyamalan, M. Night
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In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods: the townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays true for many years, but when Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from the towns beyond the wood, the pact is challenged. Animal carcasses, devoid of fur, begin to appear around the village, causing the council of elders to fear for the safety of the village, the pact, and so much more.