Posts Tagged ‘telephone-call’

Hands Across the Table (1935)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lombard, Carole | MacMurray, Fred | Bellamy, Ralph | Allwyn, Astrid | Prevost, Marie | Donnelly, Ruth | Tozer, Joseph R. | Demarest, William | Gargan, Edward | Munier, Ferdinand | Minjir, Harold | Corday, Marcelle | Conti, Albert | Bing, Herman | Allen, Peter
Directors: Leisen, Mitchell
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Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore ‘Ted’ Drew III. After a date with Ted, she lets him sleep on her couch when he’s too drunk to go further; but what is she to think when he wants to extend the arrangement?

Raging Bull (1980)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Moriarty, Cathy | Pesci, Joe | Vincent, Frank | Colasanto, Nicholas | Saldana, Theresa | Gallo, Mario | Adonis, Frank | Bono, Joseph | Topham, Frank | Flax, Lori Anne | Scorsese, Charles | Dunphy, Don | Hanrahan, Bill | Bennett, Rita
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he’s a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he’s a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family’s love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it’s his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.

Puffy Chair, The (2005)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Duplass, Mark | Aselton, Kathryn | Wilkins, Rhett | Fischer, Julie | Duplass, Larry | Hyman, Bari | Finnegan, Gerald | Barendse, Henry | Duplass, Cindy | Parsons, David | Alvarado, Jose Manuel | Gonzalez, Daniel | Aselton, Ora | Leighton, Bill | Whalen, Jim
Directors: Duplass, Jay
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Josh Sagers drives cross-country on a mission to deliver his father’s birthday gift - a giant purple LazyBoy.

For Love or Money (1993)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Finkel, Fyvush | Moyer, Mike | Guerra, Saverio | Hagen, Daniel | La Chanze | Laurence, Paula | Mitchell, Donna | Monk, Debra | Reaves-Phillips, Sandra | Fox, Michael J. | Anwar, Gabrielle | Higgins, Anthony | Tucker, Michael | Balaban, Bob | Mizrahi, Isaac
Directors: Sonnenfeld, Barry
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Doug Ireland is the concierge of a ritzy hotel in New York. He does what he has to to satisfy the hotel’s guests, by getting them what they need; like jewelry, candy mints, and theatre tickets. He also tries to keep the manager from terminating Milton, the bellhop, who was been working at the hotel for more than half a century, who likes to think that the spirit of the hotel’s founder is still around. Doug wants to open his own hotel on Roosevelt Island. Now he has saved every cent he could to get an option on an old hotel. Now he has a matter of weeks to develop the hotel or else he will lose it. But to do it he needs at least 3 million dollars and his best chance to get it is Christian Hanover. While Hanover considers Doug’s proposal, he asks him to “take care” of his girlfriend, Andy, a girl whom Doug has the hots for but is constantly turned down when he asks her out, cause she doesn’t want to be two timing her boyfriend, Hanover. Now Hanover is married but says that “he will divorce his wife and marry her”. Doug doesn’t exactly believe him but thinks that his hotel is more important and Andy can make her own decisions. But the more Doug spends with Andy, Doug is starting to wonder what is important.

Desert Saints (2000)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Breslin, Abigail | Kinnear, Greg | Dano, Paul | Arkin, Alan | Collette, Toni | Carell, Steve | Turtletaub, Marc | Talley, Jill | Canela, Brenda | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Loring, Chuck | Shilton, Justin | Thomson, Gordon | Parker, Steven Christopher | Cranston, Bryan
Directors: Dayton, Jonathan
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word “dysfunctional”. The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?

11:14 (Eleven Fourteen, The Movie) (2003)

Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Heron, Blake | Hershey, Barbara | Gregg, Clark | Swank, Hilary | Hatosy, Shawn | Sands, Stark | Hanks, Colin | Foster, Ben | Swayze, Patrick | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Segel, Jason | Gomez, Rick
Directors: Marcks, Greg
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In Middletown, at 11:14 PM, two cars accidents happen at the same time, affecting the lives of five different groups of people. A drunken driver hits a man in a lonely road near a bridge; three young men hits a woman with a van, one of the passenger has a severed penis while another man on the road shoots them; a young man robs a convenience store, with the support of the clerk; a man finds a body in a cemetery and gets rid off it; and a young woman pretending to be pregnant tries to raise money for an abortion. All of these characters and their fates are very connected.

Little Manhattan (2005)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutcherson, Josh | Ray, Charlie | Whitford, Bradley | Nixon, Cynthia | Garson, Willie | Patano, Tonye | Manzay, J. Kyle | Pais, Josh | Dossett, John | Balsam, Talia | Meyerson, Jonah | Bush, Michael | Aguiar, Brian W. | Cubbler, Nick | Laflamme, Anthony
Directors: Levin, Mark
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Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan, untill Rosemary Telesco walked into his life actually into his karate class. But, before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not being going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life,love and girls.

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Theron, Charlize | Patric, Jason | Sarandon, Susan | Franco, James | Corbin, Barry | Brolin, Josh | Fisher, Frances | Chatham, Wes | McLaughlin, Jake | Brooks, Mehcad | Tucker, Jonathan | Duvall, Wayne | Wolf, Victor | Briscoe, Brent
Directors: Haggis, Paul
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose

Neverwas (2005)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Eckhart, Aaron | McKellen, Ian | Nolte, Nick | Hurt, William | Bellamy, Bill | Cumming, Alan | Moriarty, Michael | Roberts, Ken | Henry, Tim | Macaluso, Joe | Airlie, Andrew | Drescher, Ryan | Eckhart, Jim | Hendery, Richard | Tisdale, Mark
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story.