Posts Tagged ‘sister’

Life or Something Like It (2002)

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jolie, Angelina | Burns, Edward | Shalhoub, Tony | Kane, Christian | Gammon, James | Melissa Errico | Channing, Stockard | Thornhill, Lisa | Itzin, Gregory | Baker, Max | Dunker, Andromeda | Rutherford, Jesse James | Sood, Veena | Snellman, Eric | Zahn, Theron
Directors: Herek, Stephen
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A reporter, Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie), interviews a psychic homeless man (Shalhoub) for a fluff piece about a football game’s score. Instead, he tells her that her life has no meaning, and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life…

Haunting of M., The (1981)

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Gilbey, Sheelagh | Pitt, Nini | Garratt, Evie | Hay, Alan | Matthews, Jo Scott | Bryan, William | Austin, Peter | Bale, Ernest | Cazelet, Isolde | Pepper, Varvara | Stenson, Peter | Greenaway, Jenny | Williams, Gwen | Melvin, Ruby | Payne, Willie
Directors: Thomas, Anna
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This ghost story, set at the turn of the century, centers on the plight of elderly dowager Marianna (Sheelagh Gilbey), who is tormented by the alleged specter of a young man roaming the corridors of her mansion. After spotting a face in an old photograph that seems to match the old woman’s description of the “visitor”, Marianna’s sister (Nina Pitt) decides to check things out and see if any of this is for real.

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Garson, Greer | Olivier, Laurence | Boland, Mary | Oliver, Edna May | O'Sullivan, Maureen | Rutherford, Ann | Inescort, Frieda | Gwenn, Edmund | Morley, Karen | Angel, Heather | Hunt, Marsha | Lester, Bruce | Ashley, Edward | Cooper, Melville | Lamont, Marten
Directors: Leonard, Robert Z.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

Blood Work (2002)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniels, Jeff | Huston, Anjelica | De Jesus, Wanda | Lifford, Tina | Rodriguez, Paul | Walsh, Dylan | Lucero, Mason | Becker, Gerry | Hoffman, Rick | Koromzay, Alix | Jijikine, Igor | Eastwood, Dina | Leech, Beverly | Lu, June Kyoto
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb (Eastwood), who has recently had a heart transplant, is hired by Graciela Rivers (De Jesus), to investigate the death of her sister, Gloria, who happens to have given McCaleb his heart. On the case, he soon deducts that the killer, who staged the murder to look like a random robbery, may actually be a serial killer Terry was trailing for years in the FBI. Can the elderly and feeble McCaleb, who had intended to spend his retirement living on his boat in the Los Angeles harbor, and who can’t drive, and has to nap regularly, muster up the endurance to find the killer?

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Hayek, Salma | Maestro, Mía | Zapata, Amelia | Usigli, Alejandro | Luna, Diego | Molina, Alfred | Bravo, Lucia | Golino, Valeria | Reyes Spíndola, Patricia | Navarro, Loló | Rees, Roger | Martínez, Fermín | Medina, Roberto | Judd, Ashley | Banderas, Antonio
Directors: Taymor, Julie
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Miss Potter (2006)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Zellweger, Renée | McGregor, Ewan | Watson, Emily | Flynn, Barbara | Paterson, Bill | Gibbs, Matyelok | Owen, Lloyd | Lesser, Anton | Bamber, David | Kerrigan, Patricia | Barker, Judith | Middleton, Chris | Boynton, Lucy | Jenkins, Oliver | Mulholland, Richard
Directors: Noonan, Chris
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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne’s first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents’ way of life and London.

Home Alone 4 (2002)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, French | Beghe, Jason | Mike Weinberg | Joanna Going | Clare Carey | Avari, Erick
Directors: Rod Daniel
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Kevin McCallister’s parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father’s rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the villains from the first two movies, partners up with a new criminal named Vera to hit Natalie’s mansion.

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Grey, Jennifer | Swayze, Patrick | Orbach, Jerry | Rhodes, Cynthia | Weston, Jack | Brucker, Jane | Bishop, Kelly | Price, Lonny | Cantor, Max | Coles, Charles 'Honi' | Jones, Neal | Morrow, 'Cousin Brucie' | Knight, Wayne | Trueman, Paula | Myerovich, Alvin
Directors: Ardolino, Emile
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Set in the 1960s, Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes to a very respectable summer camp in the Catskills. Baby has grown up in privileged surrounds with her doctor father and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny, a man whose background is vastly different to her own. Attempting to impress him, Baby borrows money from her father to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny’s dance partner and it is during the rigorous training that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny’s friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby is forced to seek her father’s medical assistance. Her father then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with “those people”. In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny - ostensibly to apologize for her father’s rudeness - and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny’s bungalow the next morning and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft that last evening, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts. Attempting to defend her lover, Baby confesses that they were together that night - all night. This revelation causes a huge rift in the family and Baby makes an impassioned speech to her angry and bereft father. At the closing night performances, and although he has been fired and banned from attending - Johnny returns and takes the stage to tell everyone about the woman who stole his heart and changed his life before they have one, final dance together.

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Friday, September 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Fleet, James | Wilkinson, Tom | Walter, Harriet | Winslet, Kate | Thompson, Emma | Jones, Gemma | Grant, Hugh | François, Emilie | Spriggs, Elizabeth | Hardy, Robert | Brimble, Ian | Amyes, Isabelle | Rickman, Alan | Wise, Greg | John, Alexander
Directors: Ang Lee
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When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. But this is a romance, and through the hardships and heartbreak, true love and a happy ending will find their way for both the sister who is all sense and the one who is all sensibility.

Hocus Pocus (1993)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Midler, Bette | Parker, Sarah Jessica | Najimy, Kathy | Katz, Omri | Birch, Thora | Shaw, Vinessa | Shepherd, Amanda | Bagby, Larry | Jelinek, Tobias | Faracy, Stephanie | Rocket, Charles | Jones, Doug | Malchus, Karyn | Murray, Sean | Voboril, Steve
Directors: Ortega, Kenny
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More than 300 years ago, 3 witches were sentenced to die in Salem, Massachusetts and a boy was turned into a cat (a black cat, naturally). Now it’s Halloween, and the witches (who fly on [I kid you not] vacuum cleaners) are back. This time, they’ve got their eyes on immortal life and have turned their wrath on trick-or-treaters and it’s up to the 300-year-old cat to save the day.