Posts Tagged ‘child’

Finding Neverland (2004)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Kate Winslet | Julie Christie | Radha Mitchell | Dustin Hoffman | Freddie Highmore | Joe Prospero | Nick Roud | Luke Spill | Kelly Macdonald | Mackenzie Crook | Eileen Essell | Jimmy Gardner | Oliver Fox
Directors: Marc Forster
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

Michael (1996)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Andie MacDowell | William Hurt | Bob Hoskins | Robert Pastorelli | Jean Stapleton | Teri Garr | Wallace Langham | Joey Lauren Adams | Carla Gugino | Tom Hodges | Catherine Lloyd Burns | Richard Schiff | Calvin Trillin | Donald J. Lee Jr.
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an ‘angel expert’, are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true - but Michael is not what they expected: he smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don’t realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever.

Antz (1998)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Woody Allen | Dan Aykroyd | Anne Bancroft | Jane Curtin | Danny Glover | Gene Hackman | Jennifer Lopez | John Mahoney | Paul Mazursky | Grant Shaud | Sylvester Stallone | Sharon Stone | Christopher Walken | Jim Cummings | April Winchell
Directors: Eric Darnell
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Z is just another ant in a colony of millions, striving for individuality. He falls in love with Princess Bala, and convinces his Warrior ant friend Weaver to switch places with him for a day, so that he can see Princess Bala once again. The outcome of this throws Z into a bigger adventure than he ever dreamed possible…

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Ben Barnes | Georgie Henley | Skandar Keynes | William Moseley | Anna Popplewell | Sergio Castellitto | Peter Dinklage | Warwick Davis | Vincent Grass | Pierfrancesco Favino | Cornell John | Damián Alcázar | Alicia Borrachero | Simón Andreu | Predrag Bjelac
Directors: Andrew Adamson
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A year after their first adventure in Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are pulled back in by Susan’s magic horn. They find that hundreds of years have passed, and Narnia is now ruled by the bloodthirsty General Miraz, uncle to the true heir, Prince Caspian, now in exile. Now the children must find Caspian and help him depose Miraz…but how will they get home after it’s done?

The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Australia | China | Germany
Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Radha Mitchell | Yun-Fat Chow | Michelle Yeoh | Guang Li | Lin Ji | Matt Walker | Anastasia Kolpakova | Ping Su | Imai Hideaki | Sciichiro Hashimoto | Shinichi Takashima | Xing Mang | Ruixiang Zhu | Yuelong Fang
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
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Inspired by true events, THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI is a portrayal both sweeping and intimate of people who, thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation, discover their capacity for love and responsibility. It tells how a young Englishman, George Hogg came to lead sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And of how, in doing so, he came to understand the true meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian adventurer whom war has turned into an unsentimental nurse on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across awesome (and rarely filmed) mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.

Little Manhattan (2005)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Josh Hutcherson | Charlie Ray | Bradley Whitford | Cynthia Nixon | Willie Garson | Tonye Patano | J. Kyle Manzay | Josh Pais | John Dossett | Talia Balsam | Jonah Meyerson | Michael Bush | Brian W. Aguiar | Nick Cubbler | Anthony Laflamme
Directors: Mark Levin
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Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan, untill Rosemary Telesco walked into his life actually into his karate class. But, before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not being going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life,love and girls.

Son of Rambow (2007)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | Germany | UK
Actors: Neil Dudgeon | Bill Milner | Will Poulter | Paul Ritter | Taylor Richardson | Peter Robinson | Charlie Thrift | Jules Sitruk | Sam Kubrick-Finney | James Clarke | Eric Sykes | Ed Westwick | Lee Long | Adam Paul Harvey | Atila Emirali
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SON OF RAMBOW is the name of the home movie made by two little boys with a big video camera and even bigger ambitions. Set on a long English summer in the early 80’s, SON OF RAMBOW is a comedy about friendship, faith and the tough business of growing up. We see the story through the eyes of Will, the eldest son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family. The Brethren regard themselves as God’s ‘chosen ones’ and their strict moral code means that Will has never been allowed to mix with the other ‘worldlies,’ listen to music or watch TV, until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirate copy of Rambo: First Blood and from that moment Will’s mind is blown wide open and he’s easily convinced to be the stuntman in Lee Carters’ diabolical home movie. Will’s imaginative little brain is not only given chance to flourish in the world of film making, but is also very handy when it comes to dreaming up elaborate schemes to keep his partnership with Lee Carter a secret from the Brethren community. Will and Carter’s complete disregard for consequences and innocent ambition means that the process of making their film is a glorious rollercoaster that eventually leads to true friendship. They start to make a name for themselves at school as movie makers but when popularity descends on them in the form of the Pied Piper-esque French exchange student, Didier Revol, their unique friendship and their precious film are pushed, quite literally, to breaking point.

Everyone’s Hero (2006)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: William H. Macy | Rob Reiner | Brian Dennehy | Robert Wagner | Richard Kind | Jason Harris | Jake T. Austin | Joe Torre | Mandy Patinkin | Forest Whitaker | Ritchie Allen | Jesse Bronstein | Ralph Coppola | Ed Helms | Ray Iannicelli
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“Everyone’s Hero” is a heartwarming comedy-adventure, telling the story of a young boy’s thousand-mile journey to help Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the World Series. The project’s theme of perseverance against all odds was inspired by the film’s originating director and executive producer, Christopher Reeve.

Sleepwalking (2008)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Nick Stahl | Dennis Hopper | Woody Harrelson | Simon Chin | Mike Ennis | Callum Keith Rennie | Peter Scoular | Troy Skog
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The drama follows an 11-year-old girl’s struggle to come to terms with her mother’s abandonment.

Nim’s Island (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Gerard Butler | Michael Carman | Mark Brady | Anthony Simcoe | Christopher Baker | Maddison Joyce | Peter Callan | Russell Butler | Colin Gibson | Bryan Probets | Andrew Nason | Tony Bellette | Jeff Dornan | Jay Laga'aia | John Walton
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A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she’s reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world’s greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim’s father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim’s Island.