Posts Tagged ‘fairy-tale’

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.

The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Ava Gardner | Edmond O'Brien | Marius Goring | Valentina Cortese | Rossano Brazzi | Elizabeth Sellars | Warren Stevens | Franco Interlenghi | Mari Aldon | Bessie Love | Diana Decker | Bill Fraser | Alberto Rabagliati | Enzo Staiola
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella’s castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.

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.

Mr. Deeds (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Winona Ryder | John Turturro | Allen Covert | Peter Gallagher | Jared Harris | Erick Avari | Peter Dante | Conchata Ferrell | Harve Presnell | Steve Buscemi | Blake Clark | John McEnroe | J.B. Smoove | Tom McNulty
Directors: Steven Brill
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When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds’ sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn’t necessarily need to change him.

Pretty Woman (1990)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Julia Roberts | Ralph Bellamy | Jason Alexander | Laura San Giacomo | Alex Hyde-White | Amy Yasbeck | Elinor Donahue | Hector Elizondo | Judith Baldwin | Jason Randal | Bill Applebaum | Tracy Bjork | Gary Greene | Billy Gallo
Directors: Garry Marshall
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Vivian Ward has found a way of living by working as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard. When she runs into the prince of her dreams, who comes along on his wild horse, she first does not recognize him as her saviour. The prince, a ruthless and wealthy businessman by the name of Edward Lewis, does not know that she could be more than just a girl from the sidewalk, but he changes his decision after the first night with the beautiful stranger. Her being the first person in a long time who could surprise him, Edward can slowly feel the light at the end of the tunnel. He is on his way to become a better person, whereas Vivian has got a new chance to start over again.

Hannibal (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Julianne Moore | Gary Oldman | Giancarlo Giannini | Ray Liotta | Frankie Faison | Francesca Neri | Zeljko Ivanek | Hazelle Goodman | David Andrews | Francis Guinan | James Opher | Enrico Lo Verso | Ivano Marescotti | Fabrizio Gifuni
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Part four in the Hannibal Lecter Quadrilogy. Having escaped the asylum in “Silence of the Lambs,” Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor’s, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling.