Posts Tagged ‘understanding’

Bronx Tale, A (1993)

Monday, September 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Palminteri, Chazz | Brancato, Lillo | Capra, Francis | Hicks, Taral | Narducci, Kathrine | Caserta, Clem | Sauchelli Jr., Alfred | Pietrangolare, Frank | Pesci, Joe | D'Andrea, Robert | Montanaro, Eddie | Fischer, Fred | Salerno, Dave | D'Onofrio, Joe
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Gangster Sonny is the big man in Calogero’s Bronx neighborhood. A shooting witnessed by Calogero is the starting point of a lasting bond between the gangster and the small boy. Father (bus driver Lorenzo), however, disap- proves. Calogero grows up under the wings of both men, torn between his own natural honesty and his fascination with Sonny. C’s neighborhood cronies get involved in theft, use of guns, racial fights. When C meets girl, things don’t become easier. C’s leap to manhood is marked by tragedy, but also by his recognition of the many faces of love.

Iris (2001)

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Bonneville, Hugh | Dench, Judi | Broadbent, Jim | Bron, Eleanor | Morant, Angela | Wilton, Penelope | Hayes, Siobhan | Aubrey, Juliet | Bakewell, Joan | Carroll, Nancy | Marshall, Kris | Mannion, Tom | Hutchinson, Derek | West, Samuel
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).

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.

Angel Eyes (2001)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Caviezel, James | Sisto, Jeremy | Howard, Terrence | Braga, Sonia | Argo, Victor | Mazur, Monet | Knight, Shirley | Magder, Daniel | St-Onge, Guylaine | McAuley, Connor | Ratchford, Jeremy | MacNeill, Peter | Hyndman, Eldridge | Matchett, Kari
Directors: Mandoki, Luis
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While pursuing a suspect one night, Chicago Police officer Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) nearly becomes the victim of a fatal ambush until a mysterious stranger, Catch (Jim Caviezel) intervenes, disarms the assassin and saves Sharon’s life. Is it a stroke of luck? A twist of fate? Or just a concerned citizen who happened to pass by at the right time and wasn’t afraid to get involved? Maybe, But Sharon and Catch have met once before. As the two fall in love, they discover the truth about each other and are forced to deal with the secrets from their past.

Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Law, Jude | Blanchett, Cate | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Davenport, Jack | Rebhorn, James | Rubini, Sergio | Hall, Philip Baker | Weston, Celia | Fiorello | Rocca, Stefania | Marescotti, Ivano | Longhi, Anna | Fabrizi, Alessandro
Directors: Minghella, Anthony
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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie’s cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom’s talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf’s privileges his own.

Witches of Eastwick, The (1987)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Cher | Sarandon, Susan | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Cartwright, Veronica | Jenkins, Richard | Jochim, Keith | Struycken, Carel | Breed, Helen Lloyd | Struzik, Caroline | Sincavage, Michele | Sincavage, Nicol | Coleman, Heather | Ditmars, Carolyn | Ditmars, Cynthia
Directors: Miller, George
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Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England women left to live without their husbands. They innocently conjure up a mystery man, who could satisfy all their desires. A new man moves into town - and he fits the bill perfectly. Daryl Van Horne is filthy rich and wild eyed, and within days the three women have all discovered almighty power within themselves. Will good triumph over evil, or will Daryl continue to have his evil way with his witches?

Woodsman, The (2004)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Eve | Bacon, Kevin | Grier, David Alan | Sedgwick, Kyra | Bratt, Benjamin | Leon, Carlos | Shannon, Michael | Rice, Kevin | Def, Mos | Pilkes, Hannah | Nagle, Jessica | Daniels, Liam | Hazinsky, Joey | Daniels, Clara Infinity | Coombs, Ashley C.
Directors: Kassell, Nicole
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After twelve years in prison, Walter arrives in an unnamed city, moves into a small apartment across the street from an elementary school, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. A quiet, guarded man, Walter finds unexpected solace from Vickie, a tough-talking woman who promises not to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past. A convicted sex offender, Walter is warily eyed by his brother-in-law, shunned by his sister, lives in fear of being discovered at work, and is hounded by a suspicious local police officer, Detective Lucas. After befriending a young girl in a neighborhood park, Walter must also grapple with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.

Sixth Sense, The (1999)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Osment, Haley Joel | Collette, Toni | Williams, Olivia | Barton, Mischa | Wahlberg, Donnie | Tambakis, Peter Anthony | Zubernis, Jeffrey | Norris, Bruce | Fitzgerald, Glenn | Wood, Greg | Morgan, Trevor | Torn, Angelica | Summerour, Lisa | Bamji, Firdous
Directors: Shyamalan, M. Night
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Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. This boy “sees dead people”. Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole’s mom is at her wit’s end with what to do about her son’s increasing problems. Crowe is the boy’s only hope.