Posts Tagged ‘fairy-tale’

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.

The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jessica Alba | Brenda Blethyn | Hugh Dancy | Bob Hoskins | Christopher Ling Lee Ian | Junix Inocian | Michael Jessing Langgi | Mano Maniam | K.K. Moggie | Emily Mortimer | Cicilia Anak Richard | Malcolm Rogers | Eugene Salleh | Noah Taylor | Kate Helen White
Directors: Guy Jenkin
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his “sleeping dictionary”, to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Burl Ives | Billie Mae Richards | Paul Soles | Larry D. Mann | Stan Francis | Paul Kligman | Janet Orenstein | Alfie Scopp | Carl Banas | Corinne Conley | Peg Dixon
Directors: Kizo Nagashima
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Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa’s sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea…

Sabrina (1954)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Audrey Hepburn | William Holden | Walter Hampden | John Williams | Martha Hyer | Joan Vohs | Marcel Dalio | Marcel Hillaire | Nella Walker | Francis X. Bushman | Ellen Corby | David Ahdar | Raymond Bailey | Ralph Brooks
Directors: Billy Wilder
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Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her — “doesn’t even know I exist” — until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David’s attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.

Beethoven (1992)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Charles Grodin | Bonnie Hunt | Dean Jones | Nicholle Tom | Christopher Castile | Sarah Rose Karr | Oliver Platt | Stanley Tucci | David Duchovny | Patricia Heaton | Robi Davidson | Laurel Cronin | O-Lan Jones | Nancy Fish | Craig Pinkard
Directors: Brian Levant
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Barely escaping from nefarious dognappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family — and promptly grows up into 185 pounds of romping, drolling, disaster-prone St. Bernard! Unfortunately, even after proving his canine credentials to mom and the kids, the heroic hound gets nowhere with uptight dad, George (Charles Grodin). But when a beastly veterinarian (Dean Jones) makes Beethoven the target of an unspeakable animal experiment, George becomes the only hope for saving the Newton’s furriest family member.

Cinderella (1950)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ilene Woods | Eleanor Audley | Verna Felton | Claire Du Brey | Rhoda Williams | James MacDonald | Helene Stanley | Luis Van Rooten | Don Barclay | Mike Douglas | John Fontaine | Earl Keen | Clint McCauley | William Phipps | John Woodbury
Directors: Clyde Geronimi
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In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella’s father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies, Cinderella’s wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and provide him with a required number of grandchildren. So the King invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where his son will be able to choose his bride. Cinderella has no suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, lead by Jaques and Gus, and the birds lend a hand in making her one, a dress the evil stepsisters immediately tear apart on the evening of the ball. At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother, the pumpkin carriage, the royal ball, the stroke of midnight, the glass slipper, and the rest, as they say, is fairy tale history.

Baby’s Day Out (1994)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Joe Mantegna | Lara Flynn Boyle | Joe Pantoliano | Brian Haley | Cynthia Nixon | Fred Dalton Thompson | John Neville | Matthew Glave | Adam Robert Worton | Jacob Joseph Worton | Brigid Duffy | Guy Hadley | Eddie Bracken | Kenneth L. Jordahl | Raymond Henders
Directors: Patrick Read Johnson
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Baby Bink couldn’t ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he’s just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink’s parents; especially the three enterprising kidnapers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnaping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Hale | Tress MacNeille | Rob Paulsen | Corey Burton | Holland Taylor | Susan Blakeslee | Frank Welker | Christopher Daniel Barnes | Andre Stojka | Carmen Carter | Gina La Piana | Russi Taylor | Susan Yezzi
Directors: John Kafka
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The movie explores Cinderella’s “happily ever after” life as a princess in 3 stories, with help from the Fairy Godmother. First, Cinderella’s awkward first days at the palace, when she tried so hard to fit in that she forgot to be herself. Second, how Jaq felt so left out that he wished to be a human. Third, how Cinderella taught one of her nasty step-sisters how to smile which leads to her own true love.

American Pie (1999)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Biggs | Chris Klein | Thomas Ian Nicholas | Alyson Hannigan | Shannon Elizabeth | Tara Reid | Eddie Kaye Thomas | Seann William Scott | Natasha Lyonne | Eugene Levy | Mena Suvari | Chris Owen | Jennifer Coolidge | Molly Cheek | Lawrence Pressman
Directors: Chris Weitz | Paul Weitz
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At a high-school party, four friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz) find that losing their collective virginity isn’t as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to try to be the first to “score.” And of course, the senior prom is their last best chance. As the fateful date draws near, the boys wonder who among them will get lucky. More importantly, do they really want to do it at all?

Legend (1985)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Tom Cruise | Mia Sara | Tim Curry | David Bennent | Alice Playten | Billy Barty | Cork Hubbert | Peter O'Farrell | Kiran Shah | Annabelle Lanyon | Robert Picardo | Tina Martin | Ian Longmur | Mike Crane | Liz Gilbert
Directors: Ridley Scott
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A magical adventure which features elves, demons and other mythical creatures. Darkness, the personification of evil, plans to disperse eternal night in the land where this story takes place, by killing every unicorn in the world. Although he looks unbeatable, Jack and his friends are disposed to do everything to save the world and princess Lili (who Darkness intends to make his wife) from the hands of this evil monster.