Posts Tagged ‘rival’

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilder, Gene | Albertson, Jack | Ostrum, Peter | Kinnear, Roy | Cole, Julie Dawn | Stone, Leonard | Nickerson, Denise | Denney, Nora | Themmen, Paris | Reit, Ursula | Bollner, Michael | Sowle, Diana | Woods, Aubrey | Battley, David | Meisner, Günter
Directors: Stuart, Mel
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

Fan, The (1996)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sport | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Snipes, Wesley | Barkin, Ellen | Leguizamo, John | Del Toro, Benicio | D'Arbanville, Patti | Mulkey, Chris | Ferchland, Andrew J. | Hammond, Brandon | Hallahan, Charles | Butler, Dan | Fuller, Kurt | Jace, Michael | Medrano, Frank | Davis, Don S.
Directors: Scott, Tony
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Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.

Great Race, The (1965)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Lemmon, Jack | Curtis, Tony | Wood, Natalie | Falk, Peter | Wynn, Keenan | O'Connell, Arthur | Vance, Vivian | Provine, Dorothy | Storch, Larry | Martin, Ross | Macready, George | Kaplan, Marvin | Smith, Hal | Pyle, Denver | Bryant, William
Directors: Edwards, Blake
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Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie’s arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate’s own invention. The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning of the film. Edwards’ tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight.

Assassins (1995)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Banderas, Antonio | Moore, Julianne | Davydov, Anatoli | Watson, Muse | Kahan, Steve | Rowan, Kelly | Diamond, Reed | Wulff, Kai | Skalsky, Kerry | Haskins, James Douglas | Liska, Stephen | Harms, John | Rosen, Edward J. | Orchid, Christina
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) is a seasoned hitman who just wants out of the business with no back talk. But, as things go, it ain’t so easy. A younger, peppier assassin named Bain (Antonio Banderas) is having a field day trying to kill said older assassin. Rath teams up with a computer hacker named Electra (Julianne Moore) to defeat the obsessed Bain.