Posts Tagged ‘author’

Field of Dreams (1989)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Amy Madigan | Gaby Hoffmann | Ray Liotta | Timothy Busfield | James Earl Jones | Burt Lancaster | Frank Whaley | Dwier Brown | James Andelin | Mary Anne Kean | Fern Persons | Kelly Coffield | Michael Milhoan | Steve Eastin
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.

Her Alibi (1989)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Selleck | Paulina Porizkova | William Daniels | James Farentino | Hurd Hatfield | Ronald Guttman | Victor Argo | Patrick Wayne | Tess Harper | Bill Smitrovich | Bobo Lewis | Jane Welch | Austin Hay | W. Benson Terry | Joan Copeland
Directors: Bruce Beresford
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A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers’ block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment. He is still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there are more close calls with death on his part.

Adaptation. (2002)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Meryl Streep | Chris Cooper | Cara Seymour | Tilda Swinton | Bill Livingston | Brian Cox | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Judy Greer | Jim Beaver | Litefoot | Jim Tavaré | Doug Jones | Stephen Tobolowsky | Roger Willie
Directors: Spike Jonze
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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.

Neverwas (2005)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Eckhart | Ian McKellen | Nick Nolte | William Hurt | Bill Bellamy | Alan Cumming | Michael Moriarty | Ken Roberts | Tim Henry | Joe Macaluso | Andrew Airlie | Ryan Drescher | Jim Eckhart | Richard Hendery | Mark Tisdale
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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: Gerard Butler | Michael Carman | Mark Brady | Anthony Simcoe | Christopher Baker | Maddison Joyce | Peter Callan | Russell Butler | Colin Gibson | Bryan Probets | Andrew Nason | Tony Bellette | Jeff Dornan | Jay Laga'aia | John Walton
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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.

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Diane Lane | Sandra Oh | Lindsay Duncan | Raoul Bova | Vincent Riotta | Mario Monicelli | Roberto Nobile | Anita Zagaria | Evelina Gori | Giulia Steigerwalt | Pawel Szajda | Valentine Pelka | Sasa Vulicevic | Massimo Sarchielli | Claudia Gerini
Directors: Audrey Wells
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Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

Sideways (2004)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Giamatti | Thomas Haden Church | Virginia Madsen | Sandra Oh | Marylouise Burke | Jessica Hecht | Missy Doty | M.C. Gainey | Alysia Reiner | Shake Tukhmanyan | Shaun Duke | Robert Covarrubias | Patrick Gallagher | Stephanie Faracy | Joe Marinelli
Directors: Alexander Payne
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Miles Raymond, a failed writer and divorcé who teaches junior high school English takes his best friend, former hot actor Jack, on a weeklong drive up to California’s wine country. There they explore the nature of their failures and question their relationships. Jack, about to get married, has an affair with a woman and wonders whether he should call off his wedding. Miles questions whether or not he made the right choice while trying to form a relationship with the woman’s best friend, a fellow oenophile who is a waitress at a restaurant that he frequents often when visiting that part of the country.

Dedication (2007)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bob Balaban | Peter Bogdanovich | Bobby Cannavale | Billy Crudup | Martin Freeman | Jason Evans Lee | Christopher Grey Misa | Antonio Parisi | Jeremy Shamos | Steven Wargo | Tom Wilkinson | Charlene Biton | Cassidy Hinkle | Mandy Moore | Jicky Schnee
Directors: Justin Theroux
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The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children’s book author (Crudup) who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator (Moore) instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend (Wilkinson). Balaban is the book’s publisher.

Miss Potter (2006)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Renée Zellweger | Ewan McGregor | Emily Watson | Barbara Flynn | Bill Paterson | Matyelok Gibbs | Lloyd Owen | Anton Lesser | David Bamber | Patricia Kerrigan | Judith Barker | Chris Middleton | Lucy Boynton | Oliver Jenkins | Richard Mulholland
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne’s first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents’ way of life and London.

Stand by Me (1986)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wil Wheaton | River Phoenix | Corey Feldman | Jerry O'Connell | Kiefer Sutherland | Casey Siemaszko | Gary Riley | Bradley Gregg | Jason Oliver | Marshall Bell | Frances Lee McCain | Bruce Kirby | William Bronder | Scott Beach | Richard Dreyfuss
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Unable to grasp the fact of his brother’s death, Gordie Lachance feels compelled to travel with three friends to see a dead body that has been found near the railroad tracks.