Posts Tagged ‘age-difference’

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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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.

About a Boy (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hugh Grant | Nicholas Hoult | Toni Collette | Rachel Weisz | Sharon Small | Madison Cook | Jordan Cook | Nicholas Hutchison | Ryan Speechley | Joseph Speechley | Natalia Tena | Laura Kennington | Tanika Swaby | Peter McNicholl | Christopher Webster
Directors: Chris Weitz | Paul Weitz
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Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will’s hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.

First Knight (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Richard Gere | Julia Ormond | Ben Cross | Liam Cunningham | Christopher Villiers | Valentine Pelka | Colin McCormack | Ralph Ineson | John Gielgud | Stuart Bunce | Jane Robbins | Jean Marie Coffey | Paul Kynman | Tom Lucy
Directors: Jerry Zucker
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Lancelot lives by the sword. In fact, they’re next door neighbours, so teaming up to fight for money comes pretty naturally. Lady Guinevere, on her way to marry King Arthur is ambushed by the evil Sir Malagant. Fortunately Lancelot is lurking nearby and he rescues his future queen. They fall in love, but Guinevere still fancies the idea of wearing a crown, so she honours her promise to Arthur. Can Lady Guinevere remain faithful, or will this Pretty Woman become a lady of the knight?

Shopgirl (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Martin | Claire Danes | Jason Schwartzman | Bridgette Wilson | Sam Bottoms | Frances Conroy | Rebecca Pidgeon | Samantha Shelton | Gina Doctor | Clyde Kusatsu | Romy Rosemont | Joshua Snyder | Rachel Nichols | Shane Edelman
Directors: Anand Tucker
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The story follows Mirabelle, a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcee Ray Porter (Steve Martin) and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.

The Human Stain (2003)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Nicole Kidman | Ed Harris | Gary Sinise | Wentworth Miller | Jacinda Barrett | Harry J. Lennix | Clark Gregg | Anna Deavere Smith | Lizan Mitchell | Kerry Washington | Phyllis Newman | Margo Martindale | Ron Canada | Mili Avital
Directors: Robert Benton
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.

The Misfits (1961)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Clark Gable | Marilyn Monroe | Montgomery Clift | Thelma Ritter | Eli Wallach | James Barton | Kevin McCarthy | Estelle Winwood
Directors: John Huston
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Roslyn divorces Ray in Reno and then meets widower Guido. He likes her but introduces her to cowboy Gay, and those two fall in love. When she learns that Gay, Guido and Perce are going to turn wild horses (”misfits”) into dog food, she protests.

Something’s Gotta Give (2003)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Diane Keaton | Keanu Reeves | Frances McDormand | Amanda Peet | Jon Favreau | Paul Michael Glaser | Rachel Ticotin | Paige Butcher | Tanya Sweet | Kristine Szabo | Daniella Van Graas | Tamara Spoelder | Sonja Francis | Vanessa Hayden
Directors: Nancy Meyers
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Harry Langer (Nicholson) is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin (Peet), his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin’s mother Erica (Keaton). Left in the care of Erica and his doctor (Reeves), a love triangle starts to take shape.