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Surviving Christmas (2004)

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gandolfini, James | Macy, Bill | Affleck, Ben | Applegate, Christina | | Zuckerman, Josh
Directors: Mike Mitchell
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Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old childhood home and possibly relive some old holiday memories. But when he arrives, he finds that the house he was raised in is no longer the home he grew up in. Inhabited by another family, Drew offers a nice financial reward that has the family ringing. But is Drew’s generous cash offer only the beginning of an annoying visitor whose a little too overeager to celebrate Christmas?

Mary Poppins (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrews, Julie | Van Dyke, Dick | Tomlinson, David | Johns, Glynis | Baddeley, Hermione | Shaw, Reta | Dotrice, Karen | Garber, Matthew | Lanchester, Elsa | Treacher, Arthur | Owen, Reginald | Wynn, Ed | Darwell, Jane | Malet, Arthur | Banas, Robert
Directors: Stevenson, Robert
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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.