Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novel’

Alive (1993)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ethan Hawke | Vincent Spano | Josh Hamilton | Bruce Ramsay | John Newton | David Kriegel | Kevin Breznahan | Sam Behrens | Illeana Douglas | Jack Noseworthy | Christian J. Meoli | Jake Carpenter | Michael DeLorenzo | José Zúñiga | Danny Nucci
Directors: Frank Marshall
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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team’s plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God.

Bad Girls from Valley High (2005)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Benz | Monica Keena | Nicole Bilderback | Chris D'Elia | Aaron Paul | Suzanna Urszuly | Jonathan Brandis | Janet Leigh | Christopher Lloyd | Terrance Morris | Tanja Reichert | Jennifer Carmichael | Patricia Idlette | Frederick Pleasure II | Bobby Jo Moore
Directors: John T. Kretchmer
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Danielle (Julie Benz) is the leader of a clique of arrogant, mean high school girls; she and her rich friends Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) and Brooke (Monica Keena) care only about their pampered selves (although Brooke has periodic misgivings). No one really hangs out with them except a dumb jock named Gavin, and the class nerd Jonathan, and poor Danielle is getting nowhere with the popular guy Drew (Jonathon Brandis), even after she and friends accidentally killed his last girlfriend. It’s been a year, and Drew still ignores her - but he doesn’t ignore the new foreign exchange student Katarina (Suzanna Urszuly). Since Katarina can’t take a hint, Danielle begins plotting her downfall. But there’s a slight problem: Danielle and her friends begin experiencing a level of high weirdness in which all three of them rapidly age. This serves to make Danielle more desperate than ever. She’ll sacrifice anything, even Drew, to get her youth and looks back.

Little Big Man (1970)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Faye Dunaway | Chief Dan George | Martin Balsam | Richard Mulligan | Jeff Corey | Aimée Eccles | Kelly Jean Peters | Carole Androsky | Robert Little Star | Cal Bellini | Ruben Moreno | Steve Shemayne | William Hickey | James Anderson
Directors: Arthur Penn
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Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn.

All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Henry Thomas | Penélope Cruz | J.D. Young | Laura Poe | Sam Shepard | Robert Patrick | Lucas Black | Yvette Diaz | Imelda Colindres | Augustin Solis | Rubén Blades | Elizabeth Ibarra | Miriam Colon | Lonnie Rodriguez
Directors: Billy Bob Thornton
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Two young Texas cowboys on the cusp of manhood ride into 1940’s Mexico in search of experience. What they find is a country as chaotic as it is beautiful, as cruel and unfeeling as it is mysterious, where death is a constant, capricious companion.

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | George Kennedy | J.D. Cannon | Lou Antonio | Robert Drivas | Strother Martin | Clifton James | Morgan Woodward | Luke Askew | Marc Cavell | Richard Davalos | Robert Donner | Warren Finnerty | Dennis Hopper | John McLiam
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Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn’t work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ?

The Untouchables (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Sean Connery | Charles Martin Smith | Andy Garcia | Robert De Niro | Richard Bradford | Jack Kehoe | Brad Sullivan | Billy Drago | Patricia Clarkson | Vito D'Ambrosio | Steven Goldstein | Peter Aylward | Don Harvey | Robert Swan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

Watchers (1988)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada
Actors: Michael Ironside | Christopher Cary | Graeme Campbell | Dan O'Dowd | Lala Sloatman | Corey Haim | Dale Wilson | Blu Mankuma | Colleen Winton | Duncan Fraser | Barbara Williams | Lou Bollo | Jason Priestley | Matt Hill | Andrew Morkey
Directors: Jon Hess
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Based on a novel by Dean Koontz. A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.

Snow Angels (2007)

Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Angarano | Peter Blais | Scott Clackum | Brian Downey | Chase Duffy | Griffin Dunne | Brian Heighton | Nicky Katt | Slavko Negulic | Tom Noonan | Connor Paolo | David Pezzaniti | Sam Rockwell | Hugh Thompson | Deborah Allen
Directors: David Gordon Green
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A drama that interweaves the life of a teenager, with his old baby sitter, her estranged husband, and their daughter.

Trapeze (1956)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Burt Lancaster | Tony Curtis | Gina Lollobrigida | Katy Jurado | Thomas Gomez | Johnny Puleo | Minor Watson | Gérard Landry | Jean-Pierre Kérien | Sid James | Gimma Boys | Los Arriolas | Gamil Ratib | Pierre Tabard | Edward Hagopian
Directors: Carol Reed
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Tino Orsini has learned the trapeze from his father but he travels to Europe to seek out Mike Ribble, one of the few men who has managed to complete a triple somersault. Ribble no longer works the trapeze and now walks with a cane after a nasty fall left him a cripple. Orsini convinces him to act as his catcher and all is well until the gold digging Lola, who’ll do just about anything to become part of a major circus act, arrives on the scene. Her presence creates friction between the two men and puts in doubt whether Tino will ever accomplish the elusive triple.

The 13th Warrior (1999)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Diane Venora | Antonio Banderas | Vladimir Kulich | Dennis Storhoi | Daniel Southern | Neil Maffin | John DeSantis | Clive Russell | Mischa Hausserman | Oliver Sveinall | Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis | Richard Bremmer | Tony Curran | Albie Woodington | Omar Sharif | Erick Avari
Directors: John McTiernan | Michael Crichton
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In AD 922, an important emissary who is banished from his homeland. The nomadic outcast comes across a band of Norse warriors who coerce him into joining them when they are summoned to fight mysterious creatures legendary for consuming every living thing in their path. Eventually surrounded by the frightening and ferocious foe, Ibn must conquer his personal fears and help battle the illusive invaders—who emerge out of the shroud of fog in the black of the night.