Posts Tagged ‘birthday’

American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Boyd Banks | Mila Kunis | William Shatner | Geraint Wyn Davies | Robin Dunne | Lindy Booth | Charles Officer | Jenna Perry | Michael Kremko | Kate Kelton | Quancetia Hamilton | John Healy | Andrew Scorer | Kim Poirier | Kim Schraner | Shoshana Sperling
Directors: Morgan J. Freeman
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Rachael Newman has developed an interest for murders after she met psycho Patrick Bateman. To further study the subject, she enrolls at the university department for Behavioural and Social Sciences, under the expert leadership of ex-FBI man Robert Starkman. Very certain about herself, Rachael has one single goal: to become class assistant. It’s a prestigious job as having that position will almost guarantee employment at the FBI. But becoming class assistant is no easy task to accomplish, as the first trouble arises when secretary Gerty Fleck decides she is too young for it. And Gerty Fleck won’t be the only obstacle.

Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France
Actors: Freddie Highmore | Mia Farrow | Penny Balfour | Doug Rand | Adam LeFevre | Jean Bejote Njamba | Serge Blumental | Madonna | Jimmy Fallon | Robert De Niro | Harvey Keitel | Lee de Jong | Chazz Palminteri | Rhoff | Emilio Estevez
Directors: Luc Besson
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Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur’s grandfather returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks.

Uptown Girls (2003)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brittany Murphy | Donald Faison | Austin Pendleton | Dakota Fanning | Marley Shelton | Heather Locklear
Directors: Boaz Yakin
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Molly Gunn (Murphy), the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray (Fanning), the oft ignored daughter of a music executive (Locklear) she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

Phenomenon (1996)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Kyra Sedgwick | Forest Whitaker | Robert Duvall | Jeffrey DeMunn | Richard Kiley | Brent Spiner | Vyto Ruginis | Bruce A. Young | Michael Milhoan | Sean O'Bryan | David Gallagher | Ashley Buccille | Tony Genaro | Troy Evans
Directors: Jon Turteltaub
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The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses.

The Tailor of Panama (2001)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Geoffrey Rush | Brendan Gleeson | Jamie Lee Curtis | Catherine McCormack |
Directors: John Boorman
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John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.

Rescue Dawn (2006)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Bale | Marshall Bell | François Chau | Jeremy Davies | Craig Gellis | GQ | Zach Grenier | Pat Healy | Toby Huss | Bonnie Z. Hutchinson | Evan Jones | Abhijati 'Meuk' Jusakul | Mr. Tony B. King | Mr. Richard Manning | Mr. Garrett D. Melich
Directors: Werner Herzog
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This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin.

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Anne Hathaway | Emily Blunt | Stanley Tucci | Simon Baker | Adrian Grenier | Tracie Thoms | Rich Sommer | Daniel Sunjata | David Marshall Grant | James Naughton | Tibor Feldman | Rebecca Mader | Jimena Hoyos | Gisele Bündchen
Directors: David Frankel
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Miranda Priestley, of “Runway” magazine tears up the landscape as a demanding fashion editor. She is a terror to everyone who is around her as is quickly depicted in the opening scenes of the movie. Her first assistant strives to please her and tries to emulate her, but one can sense that she is not quite as hard as she tries to put on. Into this mix comes a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, has never read the magazine, and doesn’t know who Miranda Priestley is. She only sees this as a stepping stone to another journalism position. Showing no fashion sense and immediately scorned by everyone, Miranda nonetheless hires her as the second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, you can sense that she is trying to force her to quit, but it makes the young woman dig in to please her boss. With the help of one of the magazine’s fashion editors, she gets a complete makeover and a new security. However, with her new appearance and the demands placed on her, she starts to lose her friends, family and her live-in boy friend. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamor that could be hers, including a flashy if not artificial freelance journalist, she is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.

John Tucker Must Die (2006)

Monday, September 10th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jesse Metcalfe | Brittany Snow | Ashanti | Sophia Bush | Arielle Kebbel | Penn Badgley | Jenny McCarthy | Fatso-Fasano | Kevin McNulty | Patricia Drake | Jeffrey Ballard | Taylor Kitsch | Steve Bacic | Dean Wray | Jon Cuthbert
Directors: Betty Thomas
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Three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater (Metcalfe) set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Jack Albertson | Peter Ostrum | Roy Kinnear | Julie Dawn Cole | Leonard Stone | Denise Nickerson | Nora Denney | Paris Themmen | Ursula Reit | Michael Bollner | Diana Sowle | Aubrey Woods | David Battley | Günter Meisner
Directors: Mel Stuart
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Anton Yelchin | Hope Davis | Mika Boorem | David Morse | Alan Tudyk | Tom Bower | Celia Weston | Adam LeFevre | Will Rothhaar | Timothy Reifsnyder | Deirdre O'Connell | Terry Beaver | Joe T. Blankenship | Brett Fleisher
Directors: Scott Hicks
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This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man (David Morse), who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Anton Yelchin as Bobby, Mika Boorem as Carol, and Will Rothaar as Sully) share their lives. Carol & Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss “by which all others will be measured”. Bobby lives with his mother (Hope Davis), a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder (Anthony Hopkins), who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the “lowmen”, who were seeking him. The two share a summer’s adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully (Timothy Reifsnyder) also changes everyone.