Posts Tagged ‘stranded’

Three (2005)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Luxembourg | UK | USA
Actors: Zane, Billy | Brook, Kelly | Di Pace, Juan Pablo | Collins, Todd | Di Pace, Victoria | Jourdan, Gabrielle | Brockette, Gary | Constantini, Isabelle | Rivera, Roy | Di Pace, Maria Victoria | Davis, Summer | Davis, Keera Ann | Rolle, Kennedy | Pinder, Myesha | Burrows, Lashandra
Directors: Raffill, Stewart
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Jack & Jennifer take a private cruise with friends, such as Captain Richards and his wife Maggie. Manuel is a staff member who catches Jen’s eye. Thanks to chain of events sparked off between a dispute concerning Jack and Manuel, a fire breaks out and the ship blows up and sinks. Jen and Mannuel seem to be the only survivors to wash up on an island…but before long Jack shows lying in a rock pool…and here’s where the tale turns nasty

English Patient, The (1996)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Fiennes, Ralph | Binoche, Juliette | Dafoe, Willem | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Andrews, Naveen | Firth, Colin | Wadham, Julian | Prochnow, Jürgen | Whately, Kevin | Merrison, Clive | Castelnuovo, Nino | Rostom, Hichem | Rühring, Peter | Johnson, Geordie | Higginson, Torri
Directors: Minghella, Anthony
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Beginning in the 1930’s, “The English Patient” tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bobo, Jonah | Hutcherson, Josh | Shepard, Dax | Stewart, Kristen | Robbins, Tim | Oz, Frank | Alexander, John | Mears, Derek | Tait, Douglas | Bucaro III, Joe | Wolfe, Jeff
Directors: Favreau, Jon
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Danny and Walter are two brothers who barely get along even while driving their parents to distraction as their older sister tries to ignore them. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they find that the game has apparently flung them, their sister and their entire house into outer space. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game. However with almost every move, new dangers arise as the siblings find themselves learning to cooperate in ways they never expected as they realize what they mean to each other.

Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Gibson, Tyrese | Ribisi, Giovanni | Otto, Miranda | Curran, Tony | Fingaz, Sticky | Vargas, Jacob | Laurie, Hugh | Campbell, Scott Michael | Malikyan, Kevork | Padalecki, Jared | Ditchfield, Paul | Hindy, Martin | Brown, Bob | Wong, Anthony
Directors: Moore, John
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A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible… building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one.

Identity (2003)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Liotta, Ray | Peet, Amanda | Hawkes, John | Molina, Alfred | DuVall, Clea | McGinley, John C. | Scott, William Lee | Busey, Jake | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | De Mornay, Rebecca | Argenziano, Carmen | Bell, Marshall | Kenzle, Leila | Letscher, Matt
Directors: Mangold, James
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Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they’re there. Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Wallace-Stone, Dee | MacNaughton, Robert | Barrymore, Drew | Coyote, Peter | Martel, K.C. | Frye, Sean | Howell, C. Thomas | O'Dell, David M. | Swingler, Richard | Toth, Frank | Barton, Robert | Darrell, Michael | Berkson, David | Carlberg, David
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family’s garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot’s brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth’s first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there’s no alien spaceship in sight.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Rush, Geoffrey | Bloom, Orlando | Knightley, Keira | Davenport, Jack | Pryce, Jonathan | Arenberg, Lee | Crook, Mackenzie | O'Hare, Damian | New, Giles | Barnett, Angus | Bailie, David | Berry Jr., Michael | Singleton Jr., Isaac C. | McNally, Kevin
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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This swash-buckling tale follows the quest of Captain Jack Sparrow, a savvy pirate, and Will Turner, a resourceful blacksmith, as they search for Elizabeth Swann. Elizabeth, the daughter of the governor and the love of Will’s life, has been kidnapped by the feared Captain Barbossa. Little do they know, but the fierce and clever Barbossa has been cursed. He, along with his large crew, are under an ancient curse, doomed for eternity to neither live, nor die. That is, unless a blood sacrifice is made. Full of edge-of-the-seat action and swashbuckling adventures, this is a movie you won’t want to miss!