Posts Tagged ‘alcoholic’

D-Tox (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kris Kristofferson | Tom Berenger | Dina Meyer | Sylvester Stallone | Charles S. Dutton | Jeffrey Wright | Polly Walker
Directors: Jim Gillespie
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Stallone plays a cop who comes undone after witnessing a brutal scene on the job. He checks into a rehab clinic that specializes in treating law enforcement officials. Soon, he finds that his fellow patients are being murdered one by one.

Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Saxon | Ronee Blakley | Heather Langenkamp | Amanda Wyss | Jsu Garcia | Johnny Depp | Charles Fleischer | Joseph Whipp | Robert Englund | Lin Shaye | Joe Unger | Mimi Craven | Jack Shea | Ed Call | Sandy Lipton
Directors: Wes Craven
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On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends including Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?

48 Hrs. (1982)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nick Nolte | Eddie Murphy | Annette O'Toole | Frank McRae | James Remar | David Patrick Kelly | Sonny Landham | Brion James | Kerry Sherman | Jonathan Banks | James Keane | Tara King | Greta Blackburn | Margot Rose | Denise Crosby
Directors: Walter Hill
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Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.

Where the Heart Is (2000)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Natalie Portman | Ashley Judd | Stockard Channing | Joan Cusack | James Frain | Dylan Bruno | Keith David | Ray Prewitt | Laura House | Karey Green | Mary Ashleigh Green | Kinna McInroe | Laura Auldridge | Alicia Godwin | Dennis Letts
Directors: Matt Williams
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Novalee Nation, 17 and very pregnant, has never been part of a real home. The closest thing to family for the hard-luck teen is her selfish, would-be musician boyfriend, Willy Jack, with whom she’s traveling from Tennessee to California in a rust bucket that used to be a Plymouth. A bathroom stop en route, at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart, changes Novalee’s life forever. For when she leaves the store, she discovers that Willy Jack and the Plymouth are gone. Only her Polaroid camera remains in the parking space. Alone and broke, Novalee surreptitiously moves into the vast store, borrowing food and supplies from its shelves. When she gives birth on the floor - and her hideaway is revealed - Novalee and her “Wal-Mart Baby” become instant celebrities. More importantly, over the next few years, Novalee finally becomes part of an unconventional, makeshift family comprised of her wonderfully eccentric new friends. Now, with the family she always wanted, Novalee is transformed from a homeless teen to a successful and strong woman. She has finally found a home in this small town where fate has dropped her.

When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Andy Garcia | Meg Ryan | Ellen Burstyn | Tina Majorino | Mae Whitman | Lauren Tom | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Eugene Roche | Gail Strickland | Steven Brill | Susanna Thompson | Erinn Canavan | LaTanya Richardson | Bari K. Willerford | James Jude Courtney
Directors: Luis Mandoki
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An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter’s safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Elisabeth Shue | Julian Sands | Richard Lewis | Steven Weber | Kim Adams | Emily Procter | Stuart Regen | Valeria Golino | Graham Beckel | Al Henderson | Shashi Bhatia | Carey Lowell | Anne Lange | Thomas Kopache
Directors: Mike Figgis
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Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Katie Cassidy | Michelle Trachtenberg | Lacey Chabert | Kristen Cloke | Andrea Martin | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Crystal Lowe | Oliver Hudson | Jessica Harmon | Leela Savasta | Kathleen Kole | Karin Konoval | Robert Mann | Dean Friss | Cainan Wiebe
Directors: Glen Morgan
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Marsha Mason | Everett McGill | Moses Gunn | Eileen Heckart | Bo Svenson | Boyd Gaines | Mario Van Peebles | Arlen Dean Snyder | Vincent Irizarry | Ramón Franco | Tom Villard | Mike Gomez | Rodney Hill | Peter Koch
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway has been in the Corps since the Korean War and would like to see some action and a victory before he retires. He requests to be transfered to the unit that he was once busted out of. Upon arriving the commanding officer knows of Highway’s reputation, especially of his lack of respect for his superiors, warns him that he is going to keep an eye on him. Highway’s assigned to train a recon unit which consists mostly of deadbeats. But Highway’s determined to turn them into true marines and they are not exactly pleased with him, at first. And he is also trying to reconnect with his ex-wife.

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)

Monday, January 26th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Music | Romance
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lindsay Lohan | Adam Garcia | Glenne Headly | Alison Pill | Eli Marienthal | Carol Kane | Megan Fox | Sheila McCarthy | Tom McCamus | Richard Fitzpatrick | Sheila Sealy-Smith | Ashley Leggat | Barbara Mamabolo | Maggie Oskam | Rachael Oskam
Directors: Sara Sugarman
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When the teenager Mary Elizabeth Cep, a.k.a. Lola, moves with her mother and two younger twin sisters from New York to the suburb of Dellwood, New Jersey, she has the feeling that her cultural and entertaining world ended. While in school, the displaced Lola becomes close friend of the unpopular Ella, who is also a great fan of the her favorite rock band Sidarthur. However, the most popular girl in the school, Carla Santini, disputes the lead role in an adaptation of Pygmalion with Lola and also the leadership of their mates. When the last concert of Sidarthur is sold-out, Lola plans with Ella to travel to New York and buy the tickets from scalpers. However, the girls get into trouble while helping the lead singer and Lola’s idol Stu Wolf, changing their lives forever.

Straw Dogs (1971)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Susan George | Peter Vaughan | T.P. McKenna | Del Henney | Jim Norton | Donald Webster | Ken Hutchison | Len Jones | Sally Thomsett | Robert Keegan | Peter Arne | Cherina Schaer | Colin Welland | Michael Mundell
Directors: Sam Peckinpah
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Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.