Posts Tagged ‘small-town-life’

Open Season (2006)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | Kutcher, Ashton | Sinise, Gary | Messing, Debra | Connolly, Billy | Engel, Georgia | Favreau, Jon | Krakowski, Jane | Tootoosis, Gordon | Warburton, Patrick | Cameron, Cody | Futterman, Nika | Mann, Danny | McGee, Jack | Murdocca, Michelle
Directors: Allers, Roger
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A grizzly bear named Boog, domesticated by a park ranger, Beth, helps deer friend Elliot escape from the mullet-sporting hunter, Shaw. When the Elliot decides to return the favor to help Boog escape from Beth he finds that Boog is very happy with his domesticated home. After a misunderstanding, Beth is convinced that Boog is reverting to his wild nature and releases him in the woods just as hunting season begins. Boog has no idea how to survive outside of his garage home with his beloved Beth. Elliott and Boog develop a strong bond not only between themselves but also with the wild animals and attempt to drive the hunters out of the forest.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | DiCaprio, Leonardo | Lewis, Juliette | Steenburgen, Mary | Cates, Darlene | Harrington, Laura | Schellhardt, Mary Kate | Tighe, Kevin | Reilly, John C. | Glover, Crispin | Branning, Penelope | Green, Tim | Loughran, Susan | Hedges, Robert B. | Jordan, Mark
Directors: Hallström, Lasse
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What’s Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie’s severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert (Johnny Depp) has to constantly, while working for the town’s slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother, played to such depth and conviction by a very young Leonardo DiCaprio. Gilbert’s life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky (Juliette Lewis) arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realisation unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape.

Final Season, The (2007)

Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Astin, Sean | Boothe, Powers | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Angarano, Michael | Allen, Matthew W. | Arnold, Tom | Mackenzie Astin | Becker, Chris Jay | Bell, Marshall | Brockhohn, Jim | Brockhohn, Jimmy | Callie, Dayton | Claywell, Brett | Cornelison, Michael | Davis, David
Directors: Evans, David M.
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Tradition in Norway, Iowa, can be summed up in one word, baseball. In the small Midwestern town, population 586, baseball is a legacy passed father to son, generation to generation. The Norway high school team is no stranger to overcoming the odds, to playing “David” to the State’s much larger schools’ “Goliath.” When the 1990 team, lead by Coach Jim Van Scoyoc, wins its 19th State Championship in 23 years, it is almost expected. The unexpected comes when bureaucracy intervenes to merge Norway into a larger school, and petty jealousies conspire to rob Norway of its heritage and a 20th State Championship. The legendary coach is fired and replaced with his 24-year-old, one-season assistant coach, Kent Stock — a move designed to insure the team’s failure. “THE FINAL SEASON” tells the true story of an underdog coach and team who despite tradition have been written off not only by their rivals but also by those closest to them, the town. Can they find the faith in themselves, and the faith in each other, to make it to one final championship game — and the chance for redemption?

Charlotte’s Web (2006)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Buscemi, Steve | Cleese, John | Winfrey, Oprah | Cedric the Entertainer | Bates, Kathy | McEntire, Reba | Redford, Robert | Church, Thomas Haden | Benjamin, André | Kay, Dominic Scott | Shepard, Sam | Benrubi, Abraham | Fanning, Dakota | Anderson, Kevin
Directors: Winick, Gary
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Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

HouseSitter (1992)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Hawn, Goldie | Delany, Dana | Harris, Julie | Moffat, Donald | MacNicol, Peter | Shull, Richard B. | Cronin, Laurel | Cooper, Roy | Durang, Christopher | Broun, Heywood Hale | Jones, Cherry | Simek, Vasek | Whang, Suzanne | Klug, Mary
Directors: Oz, Frank
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When his longtime girlfriend Becky says no to marriage and the house he has built, architect Newton Davis takes it badly. Three months later a one night liaison with livewire waitress Gwen gets rather out of control when she tracks down the dream house, moves in, and lets it be known locally that she and Newton are married. Everyone in the small town take to her, including his parents, while Becky shows renewed interest. When Newton realises the situation he suggests to Gwen that continuing the deception might have advantages for both of them.

Slither (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Fillion, Nathan | Banks, Elizabeth | Henry, Gregg | Rooker, Michael | Thompson, Don | Saulnier, Tania | Radley, Xantha | Milligan, Dustin | Sutherland, Haig | Copping, Jennifer | Ludwig, Zak | Kirkpatrick, Kathryn | James, Brenda | Gale, Lorena | Anderson, Bart
Directors: Gunn, James
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In this blend of the B movie classic The Blob (1958) and some Romero’s zombies film, a meteorite collides in a small town. Grant finds it, and is infected by a parasite worm, which installs in his brain and causes him a creepy transformation into a monster. Starla, his wife, and Bill, a policeman, will try to stop him and the plague of worms generated by the creature.

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Bell, Kristen | Campbell, Christian | Campbell, Neve | Cumming, Alan | Gasteyer, Ana | Kassir, John | Spanger, Amy | Torti, Robert | Weber, Steven | McNulty, Kevin | Sisk, Stephen J.M. | Miller, Stephen E. | Clarke, Robert | Nichol, Ruth | Boyd, Lynda
Directors: Fickman, Andy
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This film tells the tale of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.

Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The (2005)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Harrelson, Woody | Dern, Laura | Morgan, Trevor | Porterfield, Ellary | Reynolds, Simon | Gagné, Monté | Clark, Robert | Seater, Michael | Knudsen, Erik | Scott, Jake | Todosey, Jordan | Price, Ryan | Norris, Shae | Falle, Abigail
Directors: Anderson, Jane
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances.

Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Witherspoon, Reese | Lucas, Josh | Dempsey, Patrick | Bergen, Candice | Place, Mary Kay | Ward, Fred | Smart, Jean | Embry, Ethan | Lynskey, Melanie | Gains, Courtney | Rajskub, Mary Lynn | Mitra, Rhona | Graham, Nathan Lee | Bridgers, Sean | Cooper, Fleet
Directors: Tennant, Andy
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Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon), an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like husband of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn’t forget about her family back down South - and, more importantly, her husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce paper for almost 5 years. To settle matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. But when things don’t turn out the way she planned them out, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in new york city.

Groundhog Day (1993)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | MacDowell, Andie | Elliott, Chris | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Doyle-Murray, Brian | Geraghty, Marita | Paton, Angela | Ducommun, Rick | Overton, Rick | Duke, Robin | Bivins, Carol | Garson, Willie | Campbell, Ken Hudson | Podewell, Les | Sell, Rod
Directors: Ramis, Harold
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A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the ‘following’ day he discovers that it’s Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.