Posts Tagged ‘single-father’

East of Eden (1955)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Harris, Julie | Dean, James | Massey, Raymond | Ives, Burl | Davalos, Richard | Van Fleet, Jo | Dekker, Albert | Smith, Lois | Gordon, Harold | Dennis, Nick | Abbas, Abdullah | Arias, José | Brooks, Joe | Carey, Timothy | Carr, Jack
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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Cal Trask is a particularly unhappy young man. He sees himself as the black sheep of the family and is always competing with his brother Aron, who seems to be perfect in almost every way. Aron is also their father’s favorite and Cal desperately wants his father’s love and affection. It’s the period leading up to America’s entry into World War I and these are tumultuous times. After his father loses most of his fortune trying to ship refrigerated lettuce to New York, Cal decides to speculate on a crop of beans and makes a small fortune but he soon realizes that he can’t buy his father’s loves either. Cal’s discovery that his mother is alive - he and Aron were told that she had died - and that she is a madam leads to a final, tragic result for all three of the Trask men.

Daddy’s Little Girls (2007)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Union, Gabrielle | Elba, Idris | Louis Gossett Jr. | Smith, Tasha | Ross, Tracee Ellis | Williams, Malinda | Vaughn, Terri J. | Sturgis, Gary Anthony | Davis, Cassi | McClain, Sierra Aylina | McClain, China Anne | McClain, Lauryn Alisa | Jennings, Juanita | Howell, Maria | Dewberry, Rochelle
Directors: Perry, Tyler
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A reverse-Cinderella tale centers on a successful attorney (Union) who falls in love with a financially challenged mechanic (Elba) who is a single father of three children. The relationship hits a snag when the mechanics ex-wife comes back into his life and threatens to take away their kids.

Passage to India, A (1984)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Davis, Judy | Banerjee, Victor | Ashcroft, Peggy | Fox, James | Guinness, Alec | Havers, Nigel | Wilson, Richard | Pemberton, Antonia | Culver, Michael | Malik, Art | Jaffrey, Saeed | Swift, Clive | Firbank, Ann | Seth, Roshan | Hotz, Sandra
Directors: Lean, David
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Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fiancĂ©, a British magistrate posted in a small town; her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. They want to see something of the country and to meet everyday Indians, but are frustrated by the British community’s insistence that relations with the locals are best experienced from a distance. Finally, a friend introduces them to a Muslim doctor whom Mrs. Moore had seen briefly on her visit to a mosque. He takes them on an outing to the nearby caverns (a local attraction), but what happens there threatens to destroy any civility between the British and Indian societies.

Chicken Little (2005)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Braff, Zach | Marshall, Garry | Knotts, Don | Stewart, Patrick | Sedaris, Amy | Zahn, Steve | Cusack, Joan | Shawn, Wallace | Shearer, Harry | Willard, Fred | O'Hara, Catherine | Warburton, Patrick | West, Adam | Walton, Mark | Dindal, Mark
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After Chicken Little causes widespread panic—when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky—the young chicken is determined to restore his reputation. But just as things are starting to go his way, a real piece of the sky lands on his head. Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends, Abby Mallard (aka Ugly Duckling), Runt of the Litter and Fish Out of Water, attempt to save the world without sending the town into a whole new panic.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Megna, John | Overton, Frank | Murphy, Rosemary | White, Ruth | Peters, Brock | Evans, Estelle | Fix, Paul | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Anderson, James | Ghostley, Alice | Duvall, Robert | Windom, William | Denton, Crahan | Hale, Richard
Directors: Mulligan, Robert
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In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against intolerance.

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Dustin | Streep, Meryl | Alexander, Jane | Henry, Justin | Duff, Howard | Coe, George | Williams, JoBeth | Moor, Bill | Chamberlain, Howland | Ramage, Jack | Osuna, Jess | Hormann, Nicholas | Parker, Ellen | Brammer, Shelby | Nadell, Carol
Directors: Benton, Robert
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Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted however refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son.

Definitely, Maybe (2008)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Reynolds, Ryan | Wiltfong, Bob | Chasin, Ryder | Benitez, Blake | Greenstein, Ashtyn | Hartigan, Dylan | Mott, Paul | Pickett, Alexander | Rodriguez, Marquis | Biberi, James | Patterson, Keith | Gold, Daniel Eric | Ferrara, Adam | Luke, Derek | Serrano, Nestor
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Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will’s story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will’s best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a “PG” version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will’s college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, he apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad’s romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it’s definitely never too late to go back…and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.

Jersey Girl (2004)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Biggs, Jason | | | Root, Stephen | | | | | Carlin, George | Smith, Will | Tyler, Liv | Affleck, Ben | Lopez, Jennifer | Starr, Mike
Directors: Smith, Kevin
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Ollie Trinkie is a publicist, who has a great girlfriend, Gertrude, whom he marries and they are expecting a baby but while he is looking forward to being a father, he doesn’t lighten his workload. Gertrude gives birth but dies in the process. Ollie doesn’t live up to his responsibilities as a father. Eventually the strain and pressure of losing his wife and being a father gets to him and he has breakdown, which leads to his termination. So with nothing much to do he tries to be good father to his daughter, Gertie. He also meets a young woman name Maya, who likes him but he is still not over his wife.

Commando (1985)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Chong, Rae Dawn | Hedaya, Dan | Wells, Vernon | Olson, James | Kelly, David Patrick | Milano, Alyssa | Duke, Bill | Snyder, Drew | Wyatt, Sharon | Delano, Michael | Minor, Bob | Adams, Michael | Cervantes, Gary | Juliano, Lenny
Directors: Lester, Mark L.
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A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix’ friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix’ unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.

Must Love Dogs (2005)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Cusack, John | Perkins, Elizabeth | Plummer, Christopher | Mulroney, Dermot | Channing, Stockard | Hillis, Ali | Henke, Brad William | Gonzalo, Julie | Howerton, Glenn | Shenkman, Ben | Spiro, Jordana | Trutner, Kirk | Webster, Victor | Spound, Michael
Directors: Goldberg, Gary David
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The preschool teacher Sarah (Diane Lane) divorced from her beloved husband eight moths ago, but she is still very vulnerable and alone. Her family presses her to find a new Mr. Right, and her sister Carol (Elizabeth Perkins) puts her profile on the site PerfectMatch.com. She has blind dates with odd guys, but she particularly likes Jake (John Cusack), who divorced three months ago and still misses his former wife. Jake likes her too, but Sarah has one night stand with Bob (Dermot Mulroney), the father of one of her students, and Jake gives-up on her. Later Sarah finds that Jake is her perfect match.