Posts Tagged ‘writer’

Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A (2006)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wiest, Dianne | Downey Jr., Robert | LaBeouf, Shia | Diaz, Melonie | Garro, Julia | Hendricks, Eleonore | Scarimbolo, Adam | Tambakis, Peter Anthony | Tatum, Channing | Tirado, Anthony | Rosado, Erick | Payne, Steve | Palminteri, Chazz | Feldman, Tibor | Compston, Martin
Directors: Montiel, Dito
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Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father’s ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?

Misery (1990)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Caan, James | Bates, Kathy | Farnsworth, Richard | Sternhagen, Frances | Bacall, Lauren | Jarvis, Graham | Potter, Jerry | Brunelle, Thomas | Christopher, June | Payne, Julie | Hahn III, Archie | Snegoff, Gregory | Bowers, Wendy | Pig, Misery the
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the “number one fan” of Paul’s heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.

That Old Feeling (1997)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Midler, Bette | Farina, Dennis | Marshall, Paula | O'Grady, Gail | Rasche, David | Denton, James | Nucci, Danny | Mankuma, Blu | Eastwood, Jayne | Reynolds, Michael J. | Luchak, Joan | Wilmot, Mike | Franklin, Lula | Hevenor, George | Meadows, Arlene
Directors: Carl Reiner
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When Molly’s parents see each other for the first time in 14 years, Molly thought a shouting match at the reception was the worst thing that could happen. But as the spark of her parents love is rekindled in a car in the parking lot, things get much worse for the newlywed…

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Boulland, Clement | Bridges, Jeff | Huston, Danny | KB, Forbes | Knai, Thor | Lidkey, Allen | Meyer, Eliezer | Morris, Ben | Negrin, Christopher | Pegg, Simon | Sabel, Robert | Stone, Robert | Anderson, Gillian | Brown, Miquel | Denniston, Emily
Directors: Weide, Robert B.
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Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young’s disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney’s descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.

Finding Neverland (2004)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Winslet, Kate | Christie, Julie | Mitchell, Radha | Hoffman, Dustin | Highmore, Freddie | Prospero, Joe | Roud, Nick | Spill, Luke | Macdonald, Kelly | Crook, Mackenzie | Essell, Eileen | Gardner, Jimmy | Fox, Oliver
Directors: Forster, Marc
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

Adaptation. (2002)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Streep, Meryl | Cooper, Chris | Seymour, Cara | Swinton, Tilda | Livingston, Bill | Cox, Brian | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Greer, Judy | Beaver, Jim | Litefoot | Tavaré, Jim | Jones, Doug | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Willie, Roger
Directors: Jonze, Spike
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Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean’s “The Orchid Thief” into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

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).

Rogue (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Vartan, Michael | Worthington, Sam | Curry, Stephen | Jarratt, John | Morrell, Geoff | Richardson, Damien | Taylor, Robert | Otto, Barry
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An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another ‘city-slicker’ in search of a quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped in the lair of a ‘rogue’ crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bay and in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Their first attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea - they must trap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of the island whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, but without warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails to resurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifying struggle ensues with only one probable outcome death.

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.

Nim’s Island (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Carman, Michael | Brady, Mark | Simcoe, Anthony | Baker, Christopher | Joyce, Maddison | Callan, Peter | Butler, Russell | Gibson, Colin | Probets, Bryan | Nason, Andrew | Bellette, Tony | Dornan, Jeff | Laga'aia, Jay | Walton, John
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A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she’s reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world’s greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim’s father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim’s Island.