Posts Tagged ‘childhood-friend’

Neverwas (2005)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Eckhart | Ian McKellen | Nick Nolte | William Hurt | Bill Bellamy | Alan Cumming | Michael Moriarty | Ken Roberts | Tim Henry | Joe Macaluso | Andrew Airlie | Ryan Drescher | Jim Eckhart | Richard Hendery | Mark Tisdale
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story.

Without a Paddle (2004)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Price | Andrew Hampton | Jarred Rumbold | Carl Snell | Antony Starr | Dax Shepard | Matthew Lillard | Seth Green | Nadine Bernecker | Danielle Cormack | David Stott | Bonnie Somerville | Scott Adsit | Morgan Reese Fairhead | Liddy Holloway
Directors: Steven Brill
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The legendary high jacker is actually Dan Cooper. DB Cooper is the name of the man arrested shortly after the real high jacker jumped from the plane but was quickly cleared by the authorities. Unfortunately, the newspapers picked up DB Cooper’s name instead of Dan Cooper and the name stuck.

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Michelle Pfeiffer | Joseph Fiennes | Dennis Haysbert | Timothy West | Adriano Giannini | Raman Hui | Chung Chan | Jim Cummings | Conrad Vernon | Andrew Birch | Chris Miller
Directors: Patrick Gilmore
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Sinbad, the most daring and notorious rogue ever to sail the seven seas, has spent his life asking for trouble, and trouble has finally answered in a big way. Framed for stealing one of the world’s most priceless and powerful treasures—the Book of Peace—Sinbad has one chance to find and return the precious book, or his best friend Proteus will die. Sinbad decides not to take that chance and instead sets a course for the fun and sun of the Fiji Islands. However, Proteus’ beautiful betrothed, Marina, has stowed away on Sinbad’s ship, determined to make sure that Sinbad fulfills his mission and saves Proteus’ life. Now the man who put the “bad” in Sinbad is about to find out how bad bad can be.

Stand by Me (1986)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wil Wheaton | River Phoenix | Corey Feldman | Jerry O'Connell | Kiefer Sutherland | Casey Siemaszko | Gary Riley | Bradley Gregg | Jason Oliver | Marshall Bell | Frances Lee McCain | Bruce Kirby | William Bronder | Scott Beach | Richard Dreyfuss
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Unable to grasp the fact of his brother’s death, Gordie Lachance feels compelled to travel with three friends to see a dead body that has been found near the railroad tracks.

Glory (1989)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman | Jihmi Kennedy | Andre Braugher | John Finn | Donovan Leitch | JD Cullum | Alan North | Bob Gunton | Cliff De Young | Christian Baskous | RonReaco Lee | Jay O. Sanders
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.

The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Timothy Hutton | Sean Penn | Pat Hingle | Joyce Van Patten | Rob Reed | Rob Newell | Karen West | Art Camacho | Annie Kozuch | Richard Dysart | Priscilla Pointer | Chris Makepeace | Dorian Harewood | Mady Kaplan | Macon McCalman
Directors: John Schlesinger
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The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton (Penn); it can’t last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.

Unknown (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Caviezel | Greg Kinnear | Bridget Moynahan | Joe Pantoliano | Barry Pepper | Jeremy Sisto | Peter Stormare | Chris Mulkey | Clayne Crawford | Kevin Chapman | Mark Boone Junior | Wilmer Calderon | David Selby | Adam Rodriguez | Jeffrey Daniel Phillips
Directors: Simon Brand
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Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.

Perfect Stranger (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Halle Berry | Bruce Willis | Giovanni Ribisi | Richard Portnow | Gary Dourdan | Florencia Lozano | Nicki Lynn Aycox | Kathleen Chalfant | Gordon MacDonald | Daniella Van Graas | Paula Miranda | Patti D'Arbanville | Clea Lewis | Tamara Feldman | Gerry Becker
Directors: James Foley
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Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he’s Rowena’s prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she’s soon the object of Hill’s attentions. She’s helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out?

Home at the End of the World, A (2004)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrew Chalmers | Ryan Donowho | Asia Vieira | Quancetia Hamilton | Jeff J.J. Authors | Lisa Merchant | Ron Lea | Erik Smith | Harris Allan | Matt Frewer | Sissy Spacek | Colin Farrell | Dallas Roberts | Robin Wright Penn | Shawn Roberts
Directors: Michael Mayer
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Two childhood friends face their past relationships, including their own, alongside a new friend in the 1980’s in New York City. Their friendship becomes a love triangle as they struggle with a father’s death and an unexpected pregnancy. Together, the shall face each other as they realize that everything they have may not be what they expected.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Josh Hartnett | Kate Beckinsale | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jon Voight | Alec Baldwin | Tom Sizemore | William Lee Scott | Greg Zola | Ewen Bremner | Jaime King | Catherine Kellner | Jennifer Garner | Sara Rue | Michael Shannon
Directors: Michael Bay
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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.