Posts Tagged ‘road-accident’

Romancing the Stone (1984)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Turner, Kathleen | DeVito, Danny | Norman, Zack | Arau, Alfonso | Ojeda, Manuel | Taylor, Holland | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Smith, Eve | Nesnow, Joe | Chávez, José | Muñoz 'Chachita', Evita | García, Camillo | Puebla, Rodrigo | Morayta, Paco
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Joan Wilder is a mousey writer of romance novels. She finds a package from her sister mailed from Colombia in her mailbox. A call from her sister tells her that she has been kidnapped and that bringing the package to Colombia is necessary for her safety and release. Being fairly clueless, she leaves for Colombia to rescue her sister. She is lost within hours of her arrival. She is nearly murdered by one of the men searching for the package when Jack Colton, a fairly low life American rescues her. They begin a journey through the jungle with bullets flying nearby. Is Joan up to all of this? What a way to find out.

Gothika (2003)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dutton, Charles S. | Berry, Halle | Downey Jr., Robert | Lynch, John Carroll | Hill, Bernard | Cruz, Penélope | Harewood, Dorian | Mantel, Bronwen | Mackey, Kathleen | Taylor, Matthew G. | Perron, Michel | Sheldon, Andrea | Rydvald, Anana | Mitchell, Laura | Sloan, Amy
Directors: Kassovitz, Mathieu | Oliphant, Thom
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A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she’s accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Cooler, The (2003)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Baldwin, Alec | Bello, Maria | Hatosy, Shawn | Livingston, Ron | Sorvino, Paul | Warren, Estella | Nascarella, Arthur J. | Fatone, Joey | Gainey, M.C. | Greene, Ellen | Scribner, Don | Longo, Tony | Israel, Richard | Landfield, Timothy
Directors: Kramer, Wayne
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

Turistas (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Duhamel, Josh | George, Melissa | Wilde, Olivia | Askew, Desmond | Garrett, Beau | Brown, Max | Steib, Agles | Lunardi, Miguel | Só, Jorge | Aparecida, Cristiani | Ramos, Lucy | Leal, Andréa | Santiago, Diego | Marcao | Acosta, Miguelito
Directors: Stockwell, John
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While traveling on vacation through the country of Northeastern of Brazil by bus, the American Alex Trubituan, his sister Bea Tribituan and their friend Amy Harrington meet the also foreigners Pru Stagler, Finn Davies and Liam Kuller after an accident with their bus. They follow a track through the woods and find a hidden paradisiacal beach. They decide to stay in the place drinking beer and dancing funk and parting with the locals and they meet the amicable Brazilian teenager Kiko. They are drugged with “Bom Dia, Cinderela” (translation: Good Morning, Cinderella - a trick used by smalltime crooks to steal naive people) and when they wake up, they are practically naked, with all their belongings, clothes, money, jewels, passports, backpacks etc. stolen. They walk to a small village trying to find a police station, they get into trouble with the dwellers and they are helped by their acquaintance Kiko, who leads them to his uncle’s isolated well-equipped cabin in the woods to wait for the next bus two days later. Along the night, Kiko’s “uncle” arrives with his friends and the group discloses the sinister intentions of the newcomers.

I, Robot (2004)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | Moynahan, Bridget | Tudyk, Alan | Cromwell, James | Greenwood, Bruce | Ricard, Adrian | McBride, Chi | Wasserman, Jerry | Hogan, Fiona | Shinkoda, Peter | Chen, Terry | Haysom, David | Heindl, Scott | Wilkins, Sharon | March, Craig
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of “robotophobic” Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner’s (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there’s nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe… they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots.

Just Like Heaven (2005)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Witherspoon, Reese | Ruffalo, Mark | Logue, Donal | Spybey, Dina | Shenkman, Ben | Heder, Jon | Milicevic, Ivana | Chao, Rosalind | Pflueger, Chris | Dorsey, Kerris | Shafer, Alyssa | Canada, Ron | Aaron, Caroline | Made, Gabrielle | Cowen, Shulie
Directors: Waters, Mark
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Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon), a dedicated Doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and gets in a coma. Meanwhile, an artist named David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) moves into San Francisco and coincidentally, into Elizabeth’s apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth’s spirit haunts him. She doesn’t remember who she is, who her family is, and what she did - All that she remembered was her apartment and where everything was. To settle the arguments, Dacid agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. When they get close to figuring out who she is, they eventually find love in each other and as they finally know who she really is, they learn that fate really has put them both together.

Love & Sex (2000)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Janssen, Famke | Favreau, Jon | Emmerich, Noah | Magnuson, Ann | Oteri, Cheri | Hopkins, Josh | Knepper, Robert | Ventresca, Vincent | Zang, Kristen | Steinberg, David | Nelson, Elimu | Brunner, Don | Zima, Yvonne | Fitzgerald, Melissa | Swanson, Rob
Directors: Breiman, Valerie
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When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.

Rain Man (1988)

Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Dustin | Cruise, Tom | Golino, Valeria | Molen, Gerald R. | Murdock, Jack | Roberts, Michael D. | Seymour, Ralph | Jenney, Lucinda | Hunt, Bonnie | Robillard, Kim | Grant, Beth | Dougherty, Dolan | Dougherty, Marshall | Dougherty, Patrick | Dougherty, John-Michael
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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Charley is a hustler. He’s been on his own long enough to know how to work people and situations. He finds that the father who threw him out as a teen ager has died. He’s left him a now antique convertible and something more important, a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is Autistic, but is able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy. Their father has left his fortune to Raymond who doesn’t even understand what money is for. Charley is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond’s existence from him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The two begin a long road trip that will lead them to an understanding of each other.

Exit Wounds (2001)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: DMX | Seagal, Steven | Washington, Isaiah | Anderson, Anthony | White, Michael Jai | Duke, Bill | Hennessy, Jill | Arnold, Tom | McGill, Bruce | Vadim, David | Mendes, Eva | Taylor, Matthew G. | Mastropietro, Paolo | Daly, Shane | Drag-On
Directors: Bartkowiak, Andrzej
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Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn’t follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it’s very difficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust.

Sixth Sense, The (1999)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Osment, Haley Joel | Collette, Toni | Williams, Olivia | Barton, Mischa | Wahlberg, Donnie | Tambakis, Peter Anthony | Zubernis, Jeffrey | Norris, Bruce | Fitzgerald, Glenn | Wood, Greg | Morgan, Trevor | Torn, Angelica | Summerour, Lisa | Bamji, Firdous
Directors: Shyamalan, M. Night
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Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. This boy “sees dead people”. Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole’s mom is at her wit’s end with what to do about her son’s increasing problems. Crowe is the boy’s only hope.