Posts Tagged ‘child-custody’

Dark Water (2005)

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Connelly | John Reilly | Tim Roth | Dougray Scott | Pete Postlethwaite | Camryn Manheim | Ariel Gade | Perla Haney-Jardine | Debra Monk | Linda Emond | Bill Buell | J.R. Horne | Elina Löwensohn | Warren Belle | Alison Sealy-Smith
Directors: Walter Salles
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Dahlia Williams is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she’s determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment—dilapidated, cramped, and worn—seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games. As Dahlia frantically searches for the links between the riddles, the dark water seems to close around her. But one thing trumps all others in Dahlia’s world: no matter what it is that’s out there, she’ll stop at nothing to find it.

Changing Lanes (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Samuel L. Jackson | Kim Staunton | Toni Collette | Sydney Pollack | Tina Sloan | Richard Jenkins | Akil Walker | Cole Hawkins | Ileen Getz | Jennifer Dundas | Matt Malloy | Amanda Peet | Myra Lucretia Taylor | Bruce Altman
Directors: | Roger Michell
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An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties’ part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity.

Last Exit (2006)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: Canada
Actors: Kathleen Robertson | Andrea Roth | Linden Ashby | Rachael Crawford | Tim Post
Directors: John Fawcett
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Shattered windshields. Twisted wreckage. Last Exit is an action-suspense drama that tells the parallel stories of two ordinary women - one, a single mother barely supporting her handicapped son, and the other, a working mom precariously balancing her family with a high-pressure career - on one extraordinary day. Each woman’s life frays under the weight of her circumstances and spirals out of control. As police officers race to save them, pieces of a shattered puzzle fall into place - maybe this wasn’t just a tragic car accident after all. Both women fight for their lives, but ultimately, only one will survive

The Sugarland Express (1974)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Goldie Hawn | Ben Johnson | Michael Sacks | William Atherton | Gregory Walcott | Steve Kanaly | Louise Latham | Harrison Zanuck | A.L. Camp | Jessie Lee Fulton | Dean Smith | Ted Grossman | Bill Thurman | Kenneth Hudgins | Buster Danials
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Lou-Jean, a blonde woman, tells her husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their own child, who was placed with foster parents. The escape is partly successful, they take a hostage, who is a policeman and are pursued through to Texas…

The Next Best Thing (2000)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Rupert Everett | Benjamin Bratt | Illeana Douglas | Michael Vartan | Josef Sommer | Malcolm Stumpf | Lynn Redgrave | Neil Patrick Harris | Mark Valley | Suzanne Krull | Stacy Edwards | John Carroll Lynch | Fran Bennett | Ricki Lopez
Directors: John Schlesinger
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A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Striptease (1996)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Demi Moore | Burt Reynolds | Armand Assante | Ving Rhames | Robert Patrick | Paul Guilfoyle | Jerry Grayson | Rumer Willis | Robert Stanton | William Hill | Stuart Pankin | Dina Spybey | PaSean Wilson | Pandora Peaks | Barbara Alyn Woods
Directors: Andrew Bergman
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Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she’s divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though.

Swordfish (2001)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Hugh Jackman | Halle Berry | Don Cheadle | Sam Shepard | Vinnie Jones | Drea de Matteo | Rudolf Martin | Zach Grenier | Camryn Grimes | Angelo Pagan | Chic Daniel | Kirk B.R. Woller | Carmen Argenziano | Tim DeKay
Directors: Dominic Sena
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When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it’s all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can’t afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.