Posts Tagged ‘friendship’

The Truman Show (1998)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Laura Linney | Noah Emmerich | Natascha McElhone | Holland Taylor | Brian Delate | Blair Slater | Peter Krause | Heidi Schanz | Ron Taylor | Don Taylor | Ted Raymond | Judy Clayton
Directors: Peter Weir
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

The Time Machine (1960)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Alan Young | Yvette Mimieux | Sebastian Cabot | Tom Helmore | Whit Bissell | Doris Lloyd | Bob Barran | Paul Frees | James Skelly | Josephine Powell
Directors: George Pal
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Hair (1979)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: John Savage | Treat Williams | Beverly D'Angelo | Annie Golden | Dorsey Wright | Don Dacus | Cheryl Barnes | Richard Bright | Ray Nicholas | Charlotte Rae | Miles Chapin | Fern Tailer | Charles Denny | Herman Meckler | Agness Breen
Directors: Milos Forman
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This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.

Deliverance (1972)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jon Voight | Burt Reynolds | Ned Beatty | Ronny Cox | Ed Ramey | Billy Redden | Seamon Glass | Randall Deal | Bill McKinney | Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward | Lewis Crone | Ken Keener | Johnny Popwell | John Fowler | Kathy Rickman
Directors: John Boorman
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful.

Tremors (1990)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Bacon | Fred Ward | Finn Carter | Michael Gross | Reba McEntire | Robert Jayne | Charlotte Stewart | Tony Genaro | Ariana Richards | Richard Marcus | Victor Wong | Sunshine Parker | Michael Dan Wagner | Conrad Bachmann | Bibi Besch
Directors: Ron Underwood
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Val (’Kevin Bacon’ (qv)) and Earl (’Fred Ward (I)’ (qv)) plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dust bowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground. Soon the whole town is camped out on their roofs as Val and Earl lead them to safety.

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Alan Cumming | Vincent Ventresca | Justin Theroux | Jacob Vargas | Neil Dickson | E.J. Callahan | Zack Phifer | Ricky Paull Goldin | Robb Skyler | Deezer D | Kivi Rogers | Brian McGregor | Victor Wilson | Paul Keeley | Rick Pasqualone
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Romy and Michele are two former schoolmates who have also been roommates for ten years after the time they graduated, and their lives are far from successful, they can’t even get a date. As the 10-year class reunion approaches they try to do something to make an impression on other former schoolmates and finally decide to act as though they are very rich business women who invented Post-Its.

21 (Twenty One, The Movie) (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Sturgess | Kevin Spacey | Aaron Yoo | Jacob Pitts | Laurence Fishburne | Jack McGee | Josh Gad | Sam Golzari | Jack Gilpin | Butch Williams | Jeffrey Ma | Frank Patton | Steven Richard Vezina | Chaska T. Werner | Kyle Morris
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Sideways (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Giamatti | Thomas Haden Church | Virginia Madsen | Sandra Oh | Marylouise Burke | Jessica Hecht | Missy Doty | M.C. Gainey | Alysia Reiner | Shake Tukhmanyan | Shaun Duke | Robert Covarrubias | Patrick Gallagher | Stephanie Faracy | Joe Marinelli
Directors: Alexander Payne
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Miles Raymond, a failed writer and divorcĂ© who teaches junior high school English takes his best friend, former hot actor Jack, on a weeklong drive up to California’s wine country. There they explore the nature of their failures and question their relationships. Jack, about to get married, has an affair with a woman and wonders whether he should call off his wedding. Miles questions whether or not he made the right choice while trying to form a relationship with the woman’s best friend, a fellow oenophile who is a waitress at a restaurant that he frequents often when visiting that part of the country.

Open Season (2006)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin Lawrence | Ashton Kutcher | Gary Sinise | Debra Messing | Billy Connolly | Georgia Engel | Jon Favreau | Jane Krakowski | Gordon Tootoosis | Patrick Warburton | Cody Cameron | Nika Futterman | Danny Mann | Jack McGee | Michelle Murdocca
Directors: Roger Allers
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A grizzly bear named Boog, domesticated by a park ranger, Beth, helps deer friend Elliot escape from the mullet-sporting hunter, Shaw. When the Elliot decides to return the favor to help Boog escape from Beth he finds that Boog is very happy with his domesticated home. After a misunderstanding, Beth is convinced that Boog is reverting to his wild nature and releases him in the woods just as hunting season begins. Boog has no idea how to survive outside of his garage home with his beloved Beth. Elliott and Boog develop a strong bond not only between themselves but also with the wild animals and attempt to drive the hunters out of the forest.