Posts Tagged ‘family-relationships’

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Abigail Breslin | Greg Kinnear | Paul Dano | Alan Arkin | Toni Collette | Steve Carell | Marc Turtletaub | Jill Talley | Brenda Canela | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Chuck Loring | Justin Shilton | Gordon Thomson | Steven Christopher Parker | Bryan Cranston
Directors: Jonathan Dayton
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word “dysfunctional”. The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?

The Puffy Chair (2005)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Duplass | Kathryn Aselton | Rhett Wilkins | Julie Fischer | Larry Duplass | Bari Hyman | Gerald Finnegan | Henry Barendse | Cindy Duplass | David Parsons | Jose Manuel Alvarado | Daniel Gonzalez | Ora Aselton | Bill Leighton | Jim Whalen
Directors: Jay Duplass
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Josh Sagers drives cross-country on a mission to deliver his father’s birthday gift - a giant purple LazyBoy.

Factotum (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: France | Germany | Norway | Sweden | USA
Actors: Matt Dillon | Lili Taylor | Marisa Tomei | Fisher Stevens | Didier Flamand | Adrienne Shelly | Karen Young | Thomas Lyons | Dean Brewington | James Cada | James Michael Detmar | Kurt Schweickhardt | Dee Noah | James Noah | Michael Egan
Directors: Bent Hamer
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

The Family Man (2000)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Don Cheadle | Nicolas Cage | Jeremy Piven | Téa Leoni | Josef Sommer | Saul Rubinek
Directors: Brett Ratner
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A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn’t leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He’s married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He’s president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed’s. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn’t wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he’s more confident in his new life and starts to see what he’s been missing. Turns out money’s good to have but that’s not everything.

The Notebook (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Ivey | Gena Rowlands | Starletta DuPois | James Garner | Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas | Ed Grady | Renée Amber | Jennifer Echols | Geoffrey Knight | Kevin Connolly | Ryan Gosling | Heather Wahlquist | Rachel McAdams | Andrew Schaff | Matt Shelly
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
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An old man in a nursing home reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Allie’s parents separate Noah and Allie. They disapprove of Noah’s lack of wealth, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. In a local newspaper, Noah’s picture catches Allie’s eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year old home. The article is filled with praise for his accomplishments. Allie’s heart nearly bursts. The last time she saw this house it was a rotted decaying shamble. She stood enfolded in Noah’s arms in the great entryway and listened to his plans to buy and restore this house. Just the way she wanted it. With her love for Noah still alive, the picture pulls at her heart. She has to go back, see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage. They both think the echo deep in their hearts, the one that has lasted all these years, is not shared by the other. The cry they could not stifle. It wasn’t over for me.

The Tailor of Panama (2001)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Geoffrey Rush | Brendan Gleeson | Jamie Lee Curtis | Catherine McCormack |
Directors: John Boorman
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John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.

Infamous (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sigourney Weaver | Toby Jones | Gwyneth Paltrow | Mark Rubin | Steve Schwelling | Glover Johns Gill | Rey Arteaga | Justin Sherburn | Andrew Halbreich | Juliet Stevenson | Michael Panes | Hope Davis | Frank G. Curcio | Sandra Bullock | Isabella Rossellini
Directors: Douglas McGrath
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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

The Lost City (2005)

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Inés Sastre | Tomas Milian | Richard Bradford | Nestor Carbonell | Enrique Murciano | Dominik García-Lorido | Dustin Hoffman | Bill Murray | Lorena Feijóo | Steven Bauer | Juan Fernández | Jsu Garcia | William Marquez | Julio Oscar Mechoso
Directors: Andy Garcia
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In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950’s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro’s regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York.

Blast from the Past (1999)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brendan Fraser | Alicia Silverstone | Christopher Walken | Sissy Spacek | Dave Foley | Joey Slotnick | Dale Raoul | Hayden Tank | Douglas Smith | Ryan Sparks | Don Yesso | Scott Thomson | Ted Kairys | Rex Linn | Cynthia Mace
Directors: Hugh Wilson
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Brandon Fraser is Adam Weber, the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers in their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam Weber must venture out into Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself. He meets Eve (Alicia Silverstone), who reluctantly agrees to help him out.

World Trade Center (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Maria Bello | Connor Paolo | Anthony Piccininni | Alexa Gerasimovich | Morgan Flynn | Michael Pena | Armando Riesco | Jay Hernandez | Joe Starr | Jon Bernthal | William Jimeno | Nick Damici | Jude Ciccolella | Martin Pfefferkorn
Directors: Oliver Stone
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On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the wreckage while the rescue teams fight to save them.