Posts Tagged ‘santa-claus’

Ref, The (1994)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leary, Denis | Davis, Judy | Spacey, Kevin | Steinmiller Jr., Robert J. | Johns, Glynis | Barry, Raymond J. | Bright, Richard | Baranski, Christine | LeFevre, Adam | Nicoll, Phillip | Raab, Ellie | Raymond, Bill | Scurti, John | Turner, Jim | Ade, Herbie
Directors: Demme, Ted
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Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist, and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he took more than he bargained for when the couple’s blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they’re driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences, before he can be nabbed by the police.

Fred Claus (2007)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Vaughn, Vince | Giamatti, Paul | Higgins, John Michael | Richardson, Miranda | Weisz, Rachel | Bates, Kathy | Peacock, Trevor | Ludacris | Banks, Elizabeth | Hansen, Christian | Swift, Jeremy | Berrington, Elizabeth | Spacey, Kevin | Hackford, Rio | James, Liam
Directors: Dobkin, David
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Fred Claus, Santa’s bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Henley, Georgie | Keynes, Skandar | Moseley, William | Popplewell, Anna | Swinton, Tilda | McAvoy, James | Broadbent, Jim | Shah, Kiran | Cosmo, James | McIntosh, Judy | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Kake, Patrick | Rangi, Shane | Cook, Brandon | Cook, Cassie
Directors: Adamson, Andrew
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Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.

Black Christmas (2006)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

Apartment, The (1960)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lemmon, Jack | MacLaine, Shirley | MacMurray, Fred | Walston, Ray | Kruschen, Jack | Lewis, David | Holiday, Hope | Shawlee, Joan | Stevens, Naomi | Seven, Johnny | Jameson, Joyce | Waterman, Willard | White, David | Adams, Edie | Burt, Benny
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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On 1st November 1959, in New York, C.C. “Bud” Baxter is a popular clerk of “Consolidate Life”, an insurance company with 31,259 employees. The secret of his success is a well located apartment where he lives that he sublets for his superiors, making him climb to the executive position of 2nd Administrative Assistant very early. He likes the elevator girl Fran Kubelik, a reserved woman considered a “jackpot” among the executives. Fran is the secret lover of the director Jeff D. Sheldrake, a married man that seduced her convincing that he will divorce his wife to stay with her. When Fran tries to commit suicide in Baxter’s apartment after a meeting with Jeff, she stays with Baxter while recovering, and he falls in love for her. Later he has to come up to a decision between his excellent position in the company and his love.

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Ives, Burl | Richards, Billie Mae | Soles, Paul | Mann, Larry D. | Francis, Stan | Kligman, Paul | Orenstein, Janet | Scopp, Alfie | Banas, Carl | Conley, Corinne | Dixon, Peg
Directors: Nagashima, Kizo
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Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa’s sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea…

Trading Places (1983)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Denholm | Aykroyd, Dan | Woods, Maurice | Fisher Jr., Richard D. | Gallagher, Jim | DiSabatino, Anthony | Behrend, Bonnie | Merrill, Sunnie | Newell, James | St. John, Mary | Tremena, Bonnie | Schwartz, David | Bellamy, Ralph | Ameche, Don | Degidon, Tom
Directors: Landis, John
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

Home Alone (1990)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Culkin, Macaulay | Pesci, Joe | Stern, Daniel | Heard, John | Blossom, Roberts | O'Hara, Catherine | Goethals, Angela | Ratray, Devin | Bamman, Gerry | Snell, Terrie | Wolf, Hillary | Hankin, Larry | Maronna, Michael C. | Minter, Kristin | Campeanu, Daiana
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Kevin McAllister, 8 years old is accidentally left behind while his family rushes to the Airport to go to France for their Christmas vacation. Kevin learns that he made his family is gone. He spends his first day having fun in his house. Kevin learns that Mav and Harry (The Wet Bandits), two crooks are trying to rob his house. Kevin fends for himself and protects his house from the thieves, by setting traps everywhere. Meanwhile, Kevin’s mother discovers that they left Kevin in Chicago and tries to go back to Chicago while the other members of the family stay in Fance.

Prancer (1989)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Sam | Leachman, Cloris | Alda, Rutanya | Vigoda, Abe | Constantine, Michael | Harrell, Rebecca | Duda, John | Richards, Ariana | Rolston, Mark | Galecki, Johnny | Charles, Walter | Truro, Victor | Porter, Marcia | Janes, Loren | Starnes, Shirley
Directors: Hancock, John D.
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Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer an decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.

Elf (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Caan, James | Newhart, Bob | Asner, Edward | Steenburgen, Mary | Deschanel, Zooey | Tay, Daniel | Love, Faizon | Dinklage, Peter | Sedaris, Amy | Lerner, Michael | Richter, Andy | Gass, Kyle | Lange, Artie | Lautier, Claire
Directors: Favreau, Jon
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Buddy (Will Ferrell) was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa’s sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan). Hobbs, on Santa’s naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter’s relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities.