Posts Tagged ‘dead-mother’

Kill Me Later (2001)

Friday, September 5th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Selma Blair | Max Beesley | O'Neal Compton | Lochlyn Munro | D.W. Moffett | Brendan Fehr | Tom Heaton | David Adams | Alex Zahara | Keegan Connor Tracy | Pam Hyatt | Stacy Fair | Marcel Maillard | Keith Gordey
Directors: Dana Lustig
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Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she’s taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a million in cash and plan to escape to Venezuela. Shawn agrees to cooperate if Charlie promises to kill her once he’s in the clear. Parts of the plan go awry, so Charlie has time to try to pierce her bleak manner and self pity, and she has time for reflection. As night falls, their interlude ends: they’re each alone, Charlie facing prison as the police close in, and Shawn staring down at a river from atop a high bridge.

Romper Stomper (1992)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: Australia
Actors: Russell Crowe | Daniel Pollock | Jacqueline McKenzie | Alex Scott | Jeffrey Wright
Directors:
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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins’ merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?

Sydney White (2007)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Amanda Bynes | Sara Paxton | Matt Long | Jack Carpenter | Jeremy Howard | Crystal Hunt | Adam Hendershott | Danny Strong | Samm Levine | Libby Mintz | John Schneider | Arnie Pantoja | Donté Bonner | Brian Patrick Clarke | Lauren Leech
Directors: Joe Nussbaum
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This modern retelling of the classic fairytale follows a beautiful college freshman as she pledges her late mother’s once dignified sorority. But after discovering that today’s sisterhood is not what it used to be, Sydney finds her new home away from home with seven outcasts. With the help of her socially challenged new friends, Sydney will take on the reigning campus queen to attempt to transform the school’s misguided social hierarchy.

Walk to Remember, A (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Daryl Hannah | Shane West | Mandy Moore | Peter Coyote | Jonathan Parks Jordan | Lauren German
Directors: Adam Shankman
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Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn’t care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club’s spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.

Tideland (2005)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Jodelle Ferland | Janet McTeer | Brendan Fletcher | Jennifer Tilly | Jeff Bridges | Dylan Taylor | Wendy Anderson | Sally Crooks | Alden Adair | Harry Gilliam | Kent Wolkowski
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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After her mother dies from a methadone overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose’s attempts to deal with what’s happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper’s veil.

Babel (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Cate Blanchett | Mohamed Akhzam | Peter Wight | Harriet Walter | Trevor Martin | Matyelok Gibbs | Georges Bousquet | Claudine Acs | André Oumansky | Michael Maloney | Dermot Crowley | Wendy Nottingham | Henry Maratray | Linda Broughton
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.

Tarzan (1999)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Tony Goldwyn | Minnie Driver | Glenn Close | Brian Blessed | Nigel Hawthorne | Lance Henriksen | Wayne Knight | Alex D. Linz | Rosie O'Donnell | Taylor Dempsey | Jason Marsden | Jack Angel | Joseph Ashton | Bob Bergen | Rodger Bumpass
Directors: Chris Buck
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The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he’s human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to…

Save the Last Dance 2 (2006)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Izabella Miko | Columbus Short | Jacqueline Bisset | Aubrey Dollar | Ian Brennan | Maria Brooks | Matthew Watling | Roshan Amendra | Ray J | Ne-Yo | Ashley Evelyn Bell | Ashleigh Rains
Directors: David Petrarca
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Continuing the story of the original film, Sara (Izabella Miko) follows her dream and becomes a student at Juilliard. As she is excels and becomes a star pupil, Sara becomes torn between her love for traditional ballet and her passion for the urban street rhythms of hip-hop, complicated further by her new love, hip-hop musician Miles (Columbus Short). When pushed to make a choice, will she follow the path of the tried and true or will she take a risk and dance into uncharted territory?

Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Sigourney Weaver | Sam Neill | Monica Keena | Viola Davis | Gil Bellows | Brian Glover | David Conrad | Anthony Brophy | Frances Cuka | Chris Bauer | John Edward Allen | Miroslav Táborský | Andrew Tiernan | Bryan Pringle | Dale Wyatt
Directors: Michael Cohn
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Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers’ story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners (and they aren’t dwarfs or cute). It takes place at the time of the Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant classes toward one another.