Posts Tagged ‘family’

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Georgeson, Tom | Maloney, Michael | Scanlan, Joanna | Parkes, Shaun | Kennedy, Emma | Kumar, Syreeta | Simpson, Andrew | Davis, Philip | Nottingham, Wendy | Empson, Tameka | Skinner, Leon | Nighy, Bill | Temple, Juno
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Joe Dirt (2001)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Spade, David | Daniel, Brittany | Miller, Dennis | Beach, Adam | Walken, Christopher | Pressly, Jaime | Kid Rock | Sullivan, Erik Per | Harvey, Megan Taylor | Aaron, Caroline | Ward, Fred | Farley, John | Zany, Bob | Miller, Bean | Walker, Lee
Directors: Gordon, Dennie
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David Spade plays Joe, whose search for his family has him hittin’ the road and keepin’ it real with every lowlife he meets, including a sweet hottie (Brittany Daniel), a janitor (Christopher Walken), and a pychotic cannibal (Brian Thompson) with whom he has a brief interlude. Through it all, Joe keeps on truckin’ . . . all the way to L.A., where a shock jock DJ (Dennis Miller) targets Joe as the butt of his show. But Joe’s plucky spirit encourages listeners to cheer him on and help him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted. Rock on!

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Duvall, Robert | Keaton, Diane | De Niro, Robert | Cazale, John | Shire, Talia | Strasberg, Lee | Gazzo, Michael V. | Spradlin, G.D. | Bright, Richard | Moschin, Gastone | Rosqui, Tom | Kirby, Bruno | Sivero, Frank | De Sapio, Francesca
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Sandlot, The (1993)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Guiry, Tom | Vitar, Mike | Renna, Patrick | Leopardi, Chauncey | York, Marty | Adams, Brandon Quintin | Gelt, Grant | Obedzinski, Shane | DiMattia, Victor | Leary, Denis | Allen, Karen | Jones, James Earl | Shelton, Marley | Muller, Herb | Zacapa, Daniel
Directors: Evans, David M.
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Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing, and soon he’s part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him.

Grudge, The (2004)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Behr, Jason | Mapother, William | DuVall, Clea | Strickland, KaDee | Zabriskie, Grace | Pullman, Bill | Blasi, Rosa | Raimi, Ted | Ishibashi, Ryo | Maki, Yoko | Ozeki, Yuya | Fuji, Takako | Matsuyama, Takashi | Matsunaga, Hiroshi
Directors: Takashi Shimizu
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Karen Davis is a woman residing in Japan with her boyfriend, who is studying there. Temporarily assigned to be caretaker for a woman with severe sleeping disorder, Karen goes to the patient’s house. What she finds is something she would never expect. The house is plagued by the presence of murderous ghosts, the result of a curse. The curse is born from someone dying in a powerful rage. Now, Karen finds herself being tormented by that curse, as it eventually starts claiming it’s victims.

Testament (1983)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander, Jane | Devane, William | Harris, Rossie | Zal, Roxana | Haas, Lukas | Anglim, Philip | Skala, Lilia | Ames, Leon | Tuttle, Lurene | De Mornay, Rebecca | Costner, Kevin | Mako | Olmos, Mico | Murillo, Gerry | Smith, J. Brennan
Directors: Littman, Lynne
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Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.

Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Berry, Halle | Del Toro, Benicio | Duchovny, David | Llewellyn, Alexis | Berry, Micah | Lynch, John Carroll | Lohman, Alison | Weigert, Robin | Miller, Omar Benson | Newsome, Paula | Dubrovsky, Sarah | Thomas, Maureen | Harras, Patricia | Foster, V.J. | Field, Caroline
Directors: Bier, Susanne
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A recent widow invites her husband’s troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

Scream (1996)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, David | Campbell, Neve | Cox, Courteney | Ulrich, Skeet | McGowan, Rose | Lillard, Matthew | Kennedy, Jamie | Brown, W. Earl | Barrymore, Drew | Whipp, Joseph | Hecht, Lawrence | Jackson, Roger | Booth, David | Schreiber, Liev | Walls, Kevin Patrick
Directors: Craven, Wes
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A teenage girl (Neve Campbell) becomes the target of a killer who has stalked and killed one of her classmates. A tabloid news reporter (Courtney Cox) is determined to uncover the truth, insisting that the man who raped and killed Campbell’s mother one year earlier is the same man who is terrorizing her now. Campbell’s boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) becomes the prime suspect.

Monster-in-Law (2005)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Fonda, Jane | Vartan, Michael | Sykes, Wanda | Scott, Adam | Mazur, Monet | Parisse, Annie | Arnett, Will | Stritch, Elaine | Dunham, Stephen | Heller, Randee | Moses, Mark | Fraser, Tomiko | Flexer, Rochelle | Nickel, Wayne
Directors: Luketic, Robert
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After years of looking for Mr. Right, Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Cantilini finally finds the man of her dreams, Kevin Fields, only to discover that his mother, Viola, is the woman of her nightmares. A recently fired news anchor who is afraid she will lose her son the way she has just lost her career, Viola determines to scare off her son’s new fiancĂ© by becoming the world’s worst mother-in-law. While Viola’s long-time assistant Ruby does her best to help Viola execute her crazy schemes, Charlie decides to fight back and the gloves come off as the two women battle it out to see just who is the alpha-female.

Stuck on You (2003)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Kinnear, Greg | Mendes, Eva | Shih, Wen Yann | Crawford Brown, Pat | Valliere, Ray 'Rocket' | Songin, Tommy | Hines, Terence Bernie | Cher | Flynn, Jackie | Cassel, Seymour | Dunne, Griffin | Tobin, Bridget | Murphy, Danny | Chace Jr., Malcolm G.
Directors: Farrelly, Bobby
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Stuck On You is a Farrelly’s Brothers comedy about a pair Siamese twins who have their own everything but are joined at the hip because they share a liver. They use their unique gift in a means to gain acceptance and live as normally as possible within everyday life. Everything is going great until Walt (Greg Kinnear) follows his dreams of making it as a Hollywood actor, and persuades his hesitant brother Bob (Matt Damon) to go along for the ride. Hollywood may never be the same as Bob and Walt find fame, love and a new outlook on their unusual but inseparable bond.