Posts Tagged ‘fairy-tale’

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Harvey Keitel | Jason Salkey | Peter O'Toole | Lara Morgan | Adam Franks | Guy Witcher | Joseph May | John Bradley | Anna Chancellor | Florence Hoath | Phoebe Nicholls | Leonard Kavanagh | Elizabeth Earl | Paul McGann | Anton Lesser
Directors: Charles Sturridge
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Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings… which certainly causes quite a stir throughout England during the time of the first World War. Everyone, except the girls who think it’s quite normal, are excited about this “photographic proof” that fairies exist… even the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini pay the girls a visit.

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Modine | Vanessa Redgrave | Mia Sara | Daryl Hannah | Jon Voight | Richard Attenborough | Bill Barretta | Honor Blackman | Jim Carter | James Corden | JJ Feild | Jonathan Hyde | Anton Lesser
Directors: Brian Henson
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Jack Robinson (Matthew Modine) is a wealthy business man with no time for anything but work. However, a family curse is looming over him - no man in the Robinson line ever lives past the age of thirty. With his upcoming birthday appears the remains of literally giant skeleton and a mysterious woman (Mia Sara) who claims to have once known the gaint. Jack decides to go with her to another world where all is revealed to him along with the story of his ancestor, the orginal Jack and the Beanstalk. In order to save his own life and the world of the giants, Jack must right the wrongs of the past and return the magical harp and goose that lays the golden eggs to their rightful home.

Shrek the Third (2007)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | Antonio Banderas | Julie Andrews | John Cleese | Rupert Everett | Eric Idle | Justin Timberlake | Susan Blakeslee | Cody Cameron | Larry King | Christopher Knights | John Krasinski | Ian McShane
Directors: Raman Hui
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When Fiona’s father and King of Far Far Away passes away, the clumsy Shrek becomes the immediate successor of the throne. However, Shrek decides to find the legitimate heir Artie in a distant kingdom with his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to be able return to his beloved house in the swamp with the pregnant Fiona. Meanwhile, the envious and ambitious Prince Charming joins the villains of the fairytales plotting a coup d’état to become the new king.

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Lopez | Bob Hoskins | Stanley Tucci | Ralph Fiennes | Natasha Richardson
Directors: Wayne Wang
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Marisa Ventura (Lopez) is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City, who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall (Fiennes), a handsome heir to a political dynasty, who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa’s true identity is revealed, the two find that they are worlds apart, even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx.

Gnaw (2008)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: UK
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When the zombie apocalypse begins, three friends attempt to hide from the madness by locking themselves away in an abandoned school corridor…

The Princess Bride (1987)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cary Elwes | Mandy Patinkin | Chris Sarandon | Christopher Guest | Wallace Shawn | André the Giant | Fred Savage | Robin Wright Penn | Peter Falk | Peter Cook | Mel Smith | Carol Kane | Billy Crystal
Directors: Rob Reiner
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When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought a storybook; The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley, a love cruelly interrupted by Westley’s tragic apparent death at sea when seeking his fortune. Heartbroken, Buttercup has sworn never to love again, but accepts the marriage proposal of the rich and handsome Prince Humperdinck, heir to the throne of Florin; but death is no barrier to true love, and in a story filled with exotically-accented swordsmen, big-hearted giants, genius kidnappers, sadistic torturers, vile swamps, Rodents of Unusual Size, the Dread Pirate Roberts and a somewhat embittered miracle worker, the love between Westley and Buttercup twists and turns on a path filled with adventure. Will the True Love of Westley and Buttercup win the day? Will Inigo Montaya find the six-fingered man who murdered his father? Will Humperdinck’s evil plans come to fruition? And, more importantly, will Grandpa be able to tell the story without any of the yucky kissing?

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny Kaye | Farley Granger | Zizi Jeanmaire | Joseph Walsh | Philip Tonge | Erik Bruhn | Roland Petit | John Brown | John Qualen | Jeanne Lafayette | Robert Malcolm | George Chandler | Fred Kelsey | Gil Perkins | Peter J. Votrian
Directors: Charles Vidor
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A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of “The Little Mermaid”.

The 10th Kingdom (2000)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Kimberly Williams | Scott Cohen | John Larroquette | Dianne Wiest | Camryn Manheim | Ann-Margret | Ed O'Neill | Rutger Hauer | Dawnn Lewis | Hugh O'Gorman | Daniel Lapaine | Jeremiah Birkett | Warwick Davis | Kim Thomson | Lucy Whybrow
Directors: Herbert Wise | David Carson
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Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White’s grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself from prison, and turns the prince into a golden retriever. Wendel, by means of a magic mirror, escapes into a hitherto-unknown Tenth Kingdom (modern day New York City) and meets Virginia and her father Tony. Pursued by trolls, cops, and a wolf in man’s form, the three blunder back into the Nine Kingdoms and begin their adventures to restore Wendel to his human form and throne, and find the magic mirror that will take Tony and Virginia back home, all the while unknowing that Virginia already has a connection to the Nine Kingdoms that may prove deadly before we reach Happily Ever After.

Pinocchio (1940)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Blanc | Don Brodie | Walter Catlett | Frankie Darro | Cliff Edwards | Dickie Jones | Charles Judels | Jack Mercer | Christian Rub | Marion Darlington | Patricia Page | Evelyn Venable
Directors: Hamilton Luske
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Inventor Gepetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His wish that Pinocchio be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a fairy. The fairy assigns Jiminy Cricket to act as Pinocchio’s “conscience” and keep him out of trouble. Jiminy is not too successful in this endeavor and most of the film is spent with Pinocchio deep in trouble.

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Hale | Christopher Daniel Barnes | Russi Taylor | Rob Paulsen | Andre Stojka | Frank Welker | Susan Blakeslee | Tami Tappan Damiano | Tress MacNeille | Lesli Margherita | Tara Platt | Holland Taylor
Directors: Frank Nissen
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The evil stepmother conjures up a spell that reverses all of which the fairy godmother did. Everything that she had made (the dress, the horses and the carriage) which were the reasons why and how Cinderella went to “The Ball”. So when all the magic is gone will there be a happily ever after all? What will Cinderella do? Find out in Cinderella III.