Posts Tagged ‘friendship’

Shrek the Halls (2007)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | Antonio Banderas | Cody Cameron | Susan Fitzer | Christopher Knights | Conrad Vernon | Aron Warner | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Miles Christopher Bakshi | Nina Zoe Bakshi | Dante James Hauser
Directors: Gary Trousdale
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This half-hour animated TV special features the Shrek characters putting their own spin on holiday traditions.

King Arthur (2004)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Clive Owen | Ioan Gruffudd | Mads Mikkelsen | Joel Edgerton | Hugh Dancy | Ray Winstone | Ray Stevenson | Keira Knightley | Stephen Dillane | Stellan Skarsgård | Til Schweiger | Sean Gilder | Pat Kinevane | Ivano Marescotti | Ken Stott
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
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The Roman Empire is stretched across many nations, including Britain. In their conquest for more land, the Romans went into Sarmatia where they fought the very brave Sarmatian cavalery. The Romans, impressed by the Sarmatian’s weaponery and fighting skills, included them into their army as knights. After 15 years of serving and fighting for the Roman Empire the Sarmatian Knights, lead by Arthur/Artorious Castus, are about to receive their freedom as the Romans are leaving Britain. But the Knights must carry out one final order before they are free. A Roman priest and his family, especially his son Alecto, must be rescued from the invading Saxons. But there is another danger lurking on the road to freedom - the Woads, British rebels who hate the Romans.

Babe (1995)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Christine Cavanaugh | Miriam Margolyes | Danny Mann | Hugo Weaving | Miriam Flynn | Russi Taylor | Evelyn Krape | Michael Edward-Stevens | Charles Bartlett | Paul Livingston | Roscoe Lee Browne | James Cromwell | Magda Szubanski | Zoe Burton | Paul Goddard
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly’s help, and Farmer Hoggett’s intuition, Babe embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Michael Caine | Christopher Plummer | Saeed Jaffrey | Doghmi Larbi | Jack May | Karroom Ben Bouih | Mohammad Shamsi | Albert Moses | Paul Antrim | Graham Acres | The Blue Dancers of Goulamine | Shakira Caine | Gurmuks Singh | Kimat Singh
Directors: John Huston
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” The Man Who Would Be King” is about two ambitious ex-soldiers stationed in India who set out to become the rulers of an entire country. After finishing their tour of duty in India, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan have decided that India is “too small for the likes of them,” so they decide to bribe a local ruler and extort money from him, in order to buy twenty Martini rifles, which they will use to take over villages in Kafristan. They face many challenges and perils along the way, including difficult terrain, hostile natives, freezing temperatures, and an avalanche high in the mountains. They eventually come to a small village, Urheb, where they meet Ootah and Billy Fish, an Indian who speaks English; he then becomes their translator. They then train the natives of this village to use the rifles, and soon conquer village after village. During a battle, Daniel is struck by an arrow that seemingly sticks out of his chest. The ignorant natives believe that he must be a God for not having died, and fall down and begin worshiping him. Daniel and Peachy decide that it would be easier for a “God ” to take over the country, so they pretend that Daniel is a god, the son of Alexander the Great who has returned after 2200 years to again rule Kafristan. The entire country celebrated the return of their new ruler, the Son of Segunda (”Alexander”). As a token of their admiration, the holiest of holy men gives Daniel all of the gold and riches left by Alexander in 328 B.C. It is enough to make them the richest men in the world . . . All goes well until Daniel’s ego and greed gets the best of him. He asks Peachy to bow when he walks in front of him. He later tells Peachy that he has decided to stay, and now believes that he is the son of Alexander ( ‘in spirit, anyways”), and that to fulfill his destiny, he will marry Roxanne, like his “father” Alexander did before him. The Kafiri’s believe that a mortal cannot marry a God, but Daniel goes ahead anyway. Peachy was set to leave with his share of the treasure, but Daniel convinced him to stay ” for old time’s sake” for the wedding. At the ceremony, Roxanne, believing that she would soon die, bites Daniel, drawing blood. The entire crowd realizes that since Danny is bleeding, that he is a man, not a God, and that he has been deceiving them the entire time. Peachy grabs Daniel and they run off with their twenty soldiers, shooting at the crowd of monks who set out to kill them. They are eventually captured, and Daniel is forced to walk out on a rope bridge. The monks cut the ropes, and Daniel bravely falls to his death. Peachy is later crucified; when they come to see him the next day, he is still alive, and they say that it is a miracle that he lived and they cut him down. He eventually climbs down into the valley and retrieves Danny’s head, still wearing the crown. He brings it back to Rudyard Kipling, a writer for the Northern Star, as proof that Daniel accomplished his goal, and became the King of Kafristan. Themes developed in the story: 1. ambition 2. friendship 3. taking risks 4. perseverance (not giving up) 5. power 6. honor and dignity

Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Debra Winger | David Keith | Robert Loggia | Lisa Blount | Lisa Eilbacher | Louis Gossett Jr. | Tony Plana | Harold Sylvester | David Caruso | Victor French | Grace Zabriskie | Tommy Petersen | Mara Scott-Wood | David Greenfield
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family and must decide what it is he wants to do with his life.

Night Shift (1982)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Henry Winkler | Michael Keaton | Shelley Long | Gina Hecht | Pat Corley | Bobby Di Cicco | Nita Talbot | Basil Hoffman | Tim Rossovich | Clint Howard | Joe Spinell | Cheryl Carter | Becky Gonzalez | Corki Corman | Jaid Barrymore
Directors: Ron Howard
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A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the “one great idea” for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night as their brothel. Against his better judgement, he gets talked into the idea, only to find that it’s more than his boss that has objections to this bit of entrepreneurship.

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Karen Black | Billy Green Bush | Fannie Flagg | Sally Struthers | Marlena MacGuire | Richard Stahl | Lois Smith | Helena Kallianiotes | Toni Basil | Lorna Thayer | Susan Anspach | Ralph Waite | William Challee | John P. Ryan
Directors: Bob Rafelson
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Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) comes from a well-bred family of musicians, and once showed great promise as a concert pianist. By nature a restless, angry individual, Bobby left his family and his music when he could no longer endure the dull, cloistered routine of daily practice. He took to the road, wanting to “see the world,” and hopefully find something or someone to quell his inner turmoil. He has settled in a small town as an oil rigger, where his life consists of going to work, arguing with his dimwitted but loving girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black), and bowling every night with his friend Elton (Billy “Green” Bush). Not surprisingly, this routine begins to disgust Bobby and, fed up, he decides to travel to Puget Sound, Washington to pay his family a visit. Leaving Rayette at a nearby motel, Bobby goes home and is reunited with his family.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Kim Cattrall | Dennis Dun | James Hong | Victor Wong | Kate Burton | Donald Li | Carter Wong | Peter Kwong | James Pax | Suzee Pai | Chao Li Chi | Jeff Imada | Rummel Mor | Craig Ng
Directors: John Carpenter
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Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all of his opponents, his friend Wang bets him a game of “double or nothing” to try and regain his cash and loses. Jack wants his well earned money, but Wang explains he doesn’t have the cash on him and that’ll he pay later because he’s due to pick up a long, lost girlfriend from the airport. Convinced Wang’s pulling something sly, Jack insists he drive Wang to the airport so they can stick together. However, at the airport Wang’s girlfriend is captured by the Lords of Death, a streetwise Chinatown gang. She is essential for an upcoming plan to revive a thousand year old Chinese sorcerer and bring him back to the world as a mortal again. So begins a daring adventure to rescue Wang’s girl and stop the ruthless operation that’s going on down in Little China. Teaming up with a cast of very different individuals, Jack and Wang delve deep into an uncovering conspiracy in which everything’s not exactly as it seems. Here comes big trouble…

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexis Bledel | America Ferrera | Blake Lively | Amber Tamblyn | Jesse Williams | Jay Ferraro | Ernie Lively | Kyle MacLachlan | Michael Rady | Victor Slezak | Conor Timmis | Tom Wisdom | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Rebekah Aramini | Blythe Danner
Directors: Sanaa Hamri
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In “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2,” based on Ann Brashares’ best-selling series of novels, four young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other as they always have-with honesty and humor. Discovering their individual strengths, fears, talents and capacity for love through the choices they make, they come to value more than ever the bond they share and the immeasurable power of their friendship.

Half a Person (2007)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Canada
Actors: Nigel Smith | Michael Majeski | Taylor Trowbridge | Joanna Haughton | Andrew Udell | Emilio DelSordo | Andrea Lacey | Brian Santangelo | Geneviève Cholette | Doug Massey | Joseph Santangelo | Vijay Gill | Adrienne Santangelo
Directors: Adam Santangelo
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On a road trip from their small hometown to Toronto, two best friends begin to learn the truth about one another, and finally prepare to enter adulthood. Alex (Nigel Smith) is a straight, quiet young man in search of love, while Mark (Michael Majeski) is gay, charismatic, and struggling in his committed partnership. Together, the pair travels across Canada, exploring the countryside and mapping out their future.