Posts Tagged ‘soul-mates’

Happy Feet (2006)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Alazraqui, Carlos | Boyar, Lombardo | Garcia, Jeffrey | Sanchez, Johnny A. | Williams, Robin | Wood, Elijah | Murphy, Brittany | Jackman, Hugh | Kidman, Nicole | Weaving, Hugo | Daily, Elizabeth | Szubanski, Magda | Margolyes, Miriam | Joe, Fat | Shafer, Alyssa
Directors: Coleman, Warren
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Set deep inside the icy land of Antarctica, two emperor penguins have a baby named Mumble. Hatched upon his feet, he has an amazing skill for tap-dancing. However, penguins are not supposed to tap dance. Even worse, he cannot sing. All emperor penguins are supposed to have a heart song, and he has a try at it - with awful results. Torn apart from his mom, dad, and best friend, Gloria, as a teenager who still has his adolescent feathers, his ventures off into the icy landscape. He is rescued from a leopard seal from a group of Adelie penguins, whom which the leader is Ramon. They take Mumble to their home and discover that all of their fish is being taken from an unknown ‘alien’ source. They ask Lovelace, an unwise and cocky leader of the Adelies, to help them. Unfortunately, he proves no help. Leading on an incredible adventure, they try to discover the threat of their food source and survival. Using courage and bravery, Mumble begins to teach everyone begins to learn that uniqueness isn’t a burden, but is a gift to be treasured.

Titanic (1997)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Winslet, Kate | Zane, Billy | Bates, Kathy | Fisher, Frances | Stuart, Gloria | Paxton, Bill | Hill, Bernard | Warner, David | Garber, Victor | Hyde, Jonathan | Amis, Suzy | Abernathy, Lewis | Cascone, Nicholas | Sagalevitch, Dr. Anatoly M.
Directors: Cameron, James
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Titanic, the ship of dreams. Is also known as Unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukator fall in love, until one night, their fairytale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancée Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the Iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her grand daughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the 6 saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia Immigration Officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukator, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he doesn’t see her, and they never ended up together, her mom, Cal, and friends of the family has know choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 20’s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is 100 years old and tells her grand daughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage, and then to Rose all Titanic and the real love of her life Jack Dawson is all an existence inside of her memory, and Titanic is to rest in peace at the bottom of the North Atlantic from 1912 until the end of time.

Living and the Dead, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Bill, Leo | Conrich, Neil
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Edmond (2005)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Bay, Frances | Pidgeon, Rebecca | Mantegna, Joe | Richards, Denise | Thompson, Wendy | Guastaferro, Vincent | Bai, Ling | Landers, Matt | Hill, Dulé | Hornsby, Russell | Hodge, Aldis | Mazar, Debi | Suvari, Mena | Combs, Jeffrey
Directors: Gordon, Stuart
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller’s for a Tarot reading: “You are not where you belong,” she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman’s club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he’s found them. Where does he belong?

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.

Next Best Thing, The (2000)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Everett, Rupert | Bratt, Benjamin | Douglas, Illeana | Vartan, Michael | Sommer, Josef | Stumpf, Malcolm | Redgrave, Lynn | Harris, Neil Patrick | Valley, Mark | Krull, Suzanne | Edwards, Stacy | Lynch, John Carroll | Bennett, Fran | Lopez, Ricki
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Something’s Gotta Give (2003)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Keaton, Diane | Reeves, Keanu | McDormand, Frances | Peet, Amanda | Favreau, Jon | Glaser, Paul Michael | Ticotin, Rachel | Butcher, Paige | Sweet, Tanya | Szabo, Kristine | Van Graas, Daniella | Spoelder, Tamara | Francis, Sonja | Hayden, Vanessa
Directors: Meyers, Nancy
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Harry Langer (Nicholson) is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin (Peet), his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin’s mother Erica (Keaton). Left in the care of Erica and his doctor (Reeves), a love triangle starts to take shape.

What Dreams May Come (1998)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Sciorra, Annabella | von Sydow, Max | Grant, Jessica Brooks | Paddock, Josh | Chao, Rosalind | Jenney, Lucinda | McCarthy, Maggie | Bonet, Wilma | Salinger, Matt | Sprague, Carin | Lomena, June | Card IV, Paul P. | Herzog, Werner
Directors: Ward, Vincent
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Soul mates Chris (’Robin Williams (I)’ (qv)) and Annie (’Annabella Sciorra’ (qv)) couldn’t be happier, having married each other and had two wonderful children. Unforutnately, tragedy strikes when they lose them both in a car accident, and then again for Annie many years later when Chris is killed in another accident. What Chris finds is a Paradise unlike anything he ever imagined, where he is guided by Albert (’Cuba Gooding Jr.’ (qv)), the first doctor he interned under and is helped to see his children once again. Unfortunately, when Annie takes her life in despair, she does not venture to the same plane of existence. Taking it upon himself to rescue her, Chris ventures into the pit of Hell with Albert and a Tracker (’Max von Sydow’ (qv)) to save his wife from the damnation she doesn’t even know she is forcing on herself. This is a beautiful story that reminds us that love is stronger than death.