Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novel’

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Isla Fisher | Hugh Dancy | Krysten Ritter | Joan Cusack | John Goodman | Mike Agresta | Michael Bennett | Robert Bizik | Anthony Bradford | Chris aka Trash Bright | Anthony C. Brown | Lee Burkett | Kevin Cannon | Nick Cornish | Anthony Correa
Directors: P.J. Hogan
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A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur.

Angels & Demons (2009)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Ayelet Zurer | Ewan McGregor | Stellan Skarsgård | David Pasquesi | Cosimo Fusco | Calvin Dean | Victor Alfieri | Michael Arturo | John Bailey | Nathan Barilka | Elya Baskin | Jeffrey Boehm | Anthony Bonaventura | Michael Patrick Breen
Directors: Ron Howard
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When a murder of a physicist, Leonardo Vetra, finds a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and Mr. Vetra’s daughter, Vittoria, on an adventure for a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four alters of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An Assassin working for the Illuminati, have captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Omid Abtahi | Seth Adams | Jack Baun | Aaron Bernard | Nicholas Brady | Justin Delasko | Bill Ehrin | Jarid Faubel | Jon Foster | Jeremy Gladen | Keith Gregory | Jeff Hochendoner | Patrick Jordan | William Kania | Shaz Khan
Directors: Rawson Marshall Thurber
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Based on Michael Chabon’s novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Cera | Kat Dennings | Aaron Yoo | Rafi Gavron | Ari Graynor | Alexis Dziena | Jonathan B. Wright | Zachary Booth | Jay Baruchel | Justin Rice | Christian Rudder | Giorgio Angelini | Darbie Nowatka | Cully Symington | Jeremy Haines
Directors: Peter Sollett
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It’s been three weeks, two days, and 23 hours since Tris broke up with Nick. And now here she is at his gig, with a new guy. How could she have moved on so fast? This begins the night of Nick, Norah and Manhattan. The night of stripping nuns, hotel ice rooms, Russian food, psychotic ex-boyfriends and lovingly trashy ex-girlfriends. It’s the night of Julio and Salvatore. The night of holding hands and writing songs and singing in the rain. It’s a night they’ll never forget.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

Get Carter (2000)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Miranda Richardson | Rachael Leigh Cook | Rhona Mitra | Johnny Strong | John C. McGinley | Alan Cumming | Michael Caine | John Cassini | Mickey Rourke | Mark Boone Junior | Garwin Sanford | Darryl Scheelar | Crystal Lowe | Lauren Lee Smith
Directors: Stephen T. Kay
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Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother’s funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.

Hotel for Dogs (2009)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries:
Actors: Jake T. Austin | Lance Bruyette | Don Cheadle | Georgie Del Junco | Kevin Dillon | Eric Edelstein | Troy Gentile | Thomas Kijas | Ajay Naidu | Johnny Simmons | Arne Starr | Omi Vaidya | Kenny Vibert | Andre Ware | Brendan Wayne
Directors: Thor Freudenthal
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Two kids secretly take in nine stray dogs at a vacant house.

Cry of the Owl (2009)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | France | Germany | UK
Actors: Paddy Considine | Julia Stiles | Caroline Dhavernas | Gord Rand | James Gilbert | Arnold Pinnock | R.D. Reid | Bruce McFee | Jennifer Kydd | Peter MacNeill | Krista Bridges | Jonah Allison | Karl Pruner | Brian Bisson | James Byron
Directors: Jamie Thraves
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A troubled young man, Robert, leaves the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He finds respite from his problems by secretly watching the normal domestic life of a woman he doesn’t know through her kitchen window. But when Jenny catches Robert in the act she doesn’t call the police. Instead she starts an affair with him, which has dire consequences when her boyfriend Greg finds out. Immediately suspicious of Robert, Greg makes it his mission to destroy him. But when a fight leaves Greg unconscious and missing, Robert discovers he is the number one suspect in a murder case that is slowly beginning to look like the ultimate set-up.

Watchmen (2009)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Danny Woodburn | Apollonia Vanova | Nhi Do | Tony Ali | Jay Brazeau | Chris Burns | Billy Crudup | Matt Drake | Ron Fassler | Matt Frewer | L. Harvey Gold | Matthew Goode
Directors: Zack Snyder
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A crime/conspiracy story based on the influential comic by Alan Moore. Watchmen focuses on the every day life of out of work superheroes. Costumed superheroism has been outlawed, and most groups have been abandoned. But as a new threat presents itself, the paranoid masked detective/vigilante Rorschach uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all masked heroes.

Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Len Anderson IV | Faouzi Brahimi | Shane Brewer | Bob Clendenin | Jeff Corbin | Hugh Daly | Paul Darnell | Christopher Dobler | Omar J. Dorsey | Jack Eastland | Dave Engfer | Chaz Fatur | Victor Harris | Dennis Hayden | Arlo Hemphill
Directors: Andy Fickman
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A Las Vegas cabbie enlists the help of a UFO expert to protect two siblings with paranormal powers from the clutches of an organization that wants to use the kids for their nefarious plans.