Posts Tagged ‘competition’

Babe (1995)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Christine Cavanaugh | Miriam Margolyes | Danny Mann | Hugo Weaving | Miriam Flynn | Russi Taylor | Evelyn Krape | Michael Edward-Stevens | Charles Bartlett | Paul Livingston | Roscoe Lee Browne | James Cromwell | Magda Szubanski | Zoe Burton | Paul Goddard
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly’s help, and Farmer Hoggett’s intuition, Babe embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

Speechless (1994)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Keaton | Christopher Reeve | Ernie Hudson | Charles Martin Smith | Gailard Sartain | Ray Baker | Mitch Ryan | Willie Garson | Paul Lazar | Richard Poe | Harry Shearer | Steven Wright | Steve Gonzales | David Cromwell | Marques Johnson
Directors:
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Two political speechwriters fall in love before they find out they are working for candidates on opposite sides.

Over the Top (1987)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Robert Loggia | Susan Blakely | Rick Zumwalt | David Mendenhall | Chris McCarty | Terry Funk | Bob Beattie | Allan Graf | Magic Schwarz | Bruce Way | Jimmy Keegan | John Braden | Tony Munafo | Randy Raney
Directors: Menahem Golan
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Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who’s trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his ex-wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son doesn’t think too highly of him until he enters the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas.

Peaceful Warrior (2006)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Scott Mechlowicz | Nick Nolte | Amy Smart | Tim DeKay | Ashton Holmes | Paul Wesley | B.J. Britt | Agnes Bruckner | Tom Tarantini | Beatrice Rosen | Ray Wise | Scott Caudill | Matthew Prater | Bart Conner | Jimmy Bradley
Directors: Victor Salva
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A moving tale about the power of the human spirit, Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman’s perennially best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. In the film, Scott Mechlowicz plays Dan, a talented-yet-arrogant college gymnast with Olympic dreams and a golden future. The athlete thinks he has it all: bookcases of trophies, endless friends, fast rides and disposable relationships. But all that is about to change. One day, Dan’s world is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger he comes to know as Socrates (Nick Nolte)-a man who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. After he suffers a debilitating injury, with the mystical help of Socrates and an elusive young woman named Joy (Amy Smart), Dan will grow to realize that strength of spirit is what leads a man to his true greatness. From a screenplay by Kevin Bernhardt, Peaceful Warrior is directed by Victor Salva and produced by Mark Amin, Cami Winikoff, Robin Schorr and David Welch.

Bloodsport (1988)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Donald Gibb | Leah Ayres | Norman Burton | Forest Whitaker | Roy Chiao | Philip Chan | Pierre Rafini | Bolo Yeung | Ken Siu | Kimo Lai Kwok Ki | Bernard Mariano | Bill Yuen Ping Kuen | Lily Leung | Joshua Schroder
Directors: Newt Arnold
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As a child, a miscreant Frank Dux was taken in and trained by a champion martial artist, who went so far as to adopt Frank into his family after the premature death of his own son. Now, decades later, Frank is a skilled martial artist himself and a solider in the U.S. Military. Upon the death of his surrogate father and sensai, Frank is informed of a mysterious, no-holds barred, highly illegal martial arts tournament in Hong Kong known only as the “kumeti.” At the bidding of his sensai and against direct orders from his military superiors Frank travels to Hong Kong to participate and uphold his master’s honor. In order to succeed not only will he have to win the tournament; he must also evade capture by two military police sent to arrest him and the prying questions of a nosy reporter eager for a story.

Billy Madison (1995)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Darren McGavin | Bridgette Wilson | Bradley Whitford | Josh Mostel | Norm MacDonald | Mark Beltzman | Larry Hankin | Theresa Merritt | Dina Platias | Hrant Alianak | Vincent Marino | Jack Mather | Christopher Kelk | Marc Donato
Directors: Tamra Davis
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Billy Madison is a non-working, non-educated slacker who lives entirely off his dad. He spends his day drinking beer, reading girly magazines, and hanging out by the pool. When his father realizes that Billy is unfit to run the family business, Billy decides that he must go back to school and earn a real education. He figures it will be no problem going back to high school and learning over again, until he learns that his father bought Billy’s passing grades all the way back in elementary school. Thus, Billy must return to elementary school and pass each grade one at a time in a short time, or else he loses his place as heir to the company. In addition, Billy tries to win the hand of Veronica, a sexy school teacher who thinks her students are more mature than Billy.

Blades of Glory (2007)

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Ferrell | Jon Heder | Will Arnett | Amy Poehler | Jenna Fischer | William Fichtner | Craig T. Nelson | Romany Malco | Nick Swardson | Scott Hamilton | Andy Richter | Greg Lindsay | Rob Corddry | Nick Jameson | Tom Virtue
Directors: Josh Gordon
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When rivalry between the world’s best men’s figure skaters - sex addicted, improvisational Chazz Michael Michaels and germophobic, precise Jimmy MacElroy - breaks into a fight on the awards platform, they’re banned from the event for life. Three years later, desire for a gold medal and a careful reading of the rules lead them to compete as skating’s first male-male pair. Can they overcome mutual dislike, limited time to prepare, their coach’s secret past, and the dirty tricks of their main opponents, the Van Waldenberg siblings? The key to victory or defeat may lie in the attraction of the virginal Jimmy toward Katie, the Van Waldenbergs’ little sister.

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Jaime Pressly | Holly Valance | Sarah Carter | Devon Aoki | Natassia Malthe | Eric Roberts | Matthew Marsden | Brian J. White | Collin Chou | Kane Kosugi | Derek Boyer | Martin Crewes | Steve Howey | Song Lin | Fang Liu
Directors: Corey Yuen
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A number of fighters are invited to DOA, an invitational martial arts contest. They travel to the tournament island by plane, until they have to jump out mid-flight with parachutes, and then have until sundown to reach the main island to be entered into the tournament. Fighters are then pooled against one another in a knock-out style tournament, with the loser of a battle sent home, and the winner progressing to the subsequent round. The plot revolves around four female fighters who begin as rivals, but subsequently find themselves teaming up against another force.

House of 9 (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Romania | UK
Actors: Dennis Hopper | Kelly Brook | Hippolyte Girardot | Susie Amy | Morven Christie | Peter Capaldi | Ashley Walters | Raffaello Degruttola | Julienne Davis | Jim Carter | Gabriel Spahiu
Directors: Steven R. Monroe
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Nine strangers - a priest; a dancer; a designer; an aspirant rapper; a former tennis pro; a woman on probation; an unsuccessful composer and his wife; and a detective - are randomly abducted, drugged and locked in a house by a wealthy maniac. They are informed through a public address system that there are seventy-five cameras following them, and only one will survive and win US$ 5,000,000.00 to keep quiet. The psychological game begins, with fear and greed affecting the participants.

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sallis | Ralph Fiennes | Helena Bonham Carter | Peter Kay | Nicholas Smith | Liz Smith | John Thomson | Mark Gatiss | Vincent Ebrahim | Geraldine McEwan | Edward Kelsey | Dicken Ashworth | Robert Horvath | Pete Atkin | Noni Lewis
Directors: Steve Box | Nick Park
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It’s ‘vege-mania’ in Wallace and Gromit’s neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, “Anti-Pesto.” With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a “humane” pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging “beast” begins attacking the town’s sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington’s snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who’d rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon’s hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor’s real intent could have dire consequences for her …and our two heroes.