Posts Tagged ‘betrayal’

The Truman Show (1998)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Laura Linney | Noah Emmerich | Natascha McElhone | Holland Taylor | Brian Delate | Blair Slater | Peter Krause | Heidi Schanz | Ron Taylor | Don Taylor | Ted Raymond | Judy Clayton
Directors: Peter Weir
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Hanson Bradford | Wayne Brady | Michael J. Fox | Tom Kenny | Nathan Lane | Hugh Laurie | Peter MacNicol | Corey Padnos | Rino Romano | Geena Davis | Virginia Madsen | Sophia Paden | Kath Soucie | Tara Strong
Directors: Audu Paden
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Stuart Little’s back in an all-new, adventure! School’s out for the summer and the Little Family is spending their big vacation at a beautiful lakeside cabin near Lake Garland. But meanwhile, there is something lurking in the forest who could spoil all the fun: the Beast; a mean and isolated forest terror who rules the local animals with an iron paw. When Snowbell is taken prisoner, a Little bravery goes a long way as Stuart, along with his new skunk friend, named, Reeko, who heroically rescues Snowbell, frees the other woodland creatures and outwits the wily Beast.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Sean Penn | Penelope Ann Miller | John Leguizamo | Ingrid Rogers | Luis Guzmán | James Rebhorn | Joseph Siravo | Viggo Mortensen | Richard Foronjy | Jorge Porcel | Frank Minucci | Adrian Pasdar | John Ortiz | Ángel Salazar
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

10,000 BC (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Steven Strait | Camilla Belle | Cliff Curtis | Joel Virgel | Affif Ben Badra | Mo Zinal | Nathanael Baring | Mona Hammond | Marco Khan | Reece Ritchie | Joel Fry | Omar Sharif | Kristian Beazley | Junior Oliphant | Louise Tu'u
Directors: Roland Emmerich
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A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D’Leh’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart’s desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant.

MirrorMask (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jason Barry | Rob Brydon | Stephen Fry | Andy Hamilton | Simon Harvey | Lenny Henry | Robert Llewellyn | Nik Robson | Rick Allen | Simon Schofield | Mark Tate | Richard Thompson | Robin Thompson | Iain Ballamy | Chris Batchelor
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

21 (Twenty One, The Movie) (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Sturgess | Kevin Spacey | Aaron Yoo | Jacob Pitts | Laurence Fishburne | Jack McGee | Josh Gad | Sam Golzari | Jack Gilpin | Butch Williams | Jeffrey Ma | Frank Patton | Steven Richard Vezina | Chaska T. Werner | Kyle Morris
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Broken Arrow (1996)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Christian Slater | Samantha Mathis | Delroy Lindo | Bob Gunton | Frank Whaley | Howie Long | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Jack Thompson | Vyto Ruginis | Ousaun Elam | Shaun Toub | Casey Biggs | Jeffrey J. Stephen | Joey Box
Directors: John Woo
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Major Deakins is a tough U.S. Air Force pilot who is assigned to a flight mission with ‘nice-guy’ Captain Hale. They are to fly the B3 Stealth Bomber on wargame maneuvers over Utah loaded with two live nuclear weapons. Deakins, having been continually passed over for promotion, sells out his country and arranges to use the thermonuclear warheads under his command to blackmail the U.S. government. The only thing standing in his way is his old buddy, Captain Hale….

Antitrust (2001)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Rachael Leigh Cook | Claire Forlani | Tim Robbins | Douglas McFerran | Richard Roundtree | Tygh Runyan | Yee Jee Tso | Nate Dushku | Ned Bellamy | Tyler Labine | Scott Bellis | David Lovgren | Zahf Paroo | Jonathon Young
Directors: Peter Howitt
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This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication’s system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems.

Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Anne Heche | David Schwimmer | Jacqueline Obradors | Temuera Morrison | Allison Janney | Douglas Weston | Cliff Curtis | Danny Trejo | Ben Bode | Derek Basco | Amy Sedaris | Long Nguyen | Jake Feagai | John Koyama
Directors: Ivan Reitman
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Taking a romantic tropical island week off with her boyfriend, an ambitious, decisive New York girl agrees to help her magazine out by covering a story on a neighbouring island. The only plane available is piloted by a laid-back heavy drinker with whom she shares a mutual dislike. But she has no choice and he can’t refuse the money. When the plane crash-lands on an uninhabited island with little chance of rescue they both wish they had made other arrangements - at least to start with.

Real Genius (1985)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Val Kilmer | Gabriel Jarret | Michelle Meyrink | William Atherton | Jon Gries | Patti D'Arbanville | Stacy Peralta | Daniel Ades | Andres Aybar | Louis Giambalvo | Ed Lauter | Charles Shull | Beau Billingslea | Charles Parks | Sean Frye
Directors: Martha Coolidge
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Two brilliant teenagers head a team of young geniuses developing a laser for what they believe is a class project. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the government for use as a weapon, they decide to ruin his plans.