Posts Tagged ‘heroin-addict’

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Drew Barrymore | Steve Zahn | Adam Garcia | Brittany Murphy | James Woods | Lorraine Bracco
Directors: Penny Marshall
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Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter’s problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she’s pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult than informing her parents, and at 16, Beverly is a wife and mother. Against the odds, Beverly is determined to still finish high school and go on to college, but that goal becomes more difficult with time, especially after Beverly’s marriage begins to fall apart. Ray tries to do the right thing but has trouble holding a job, and becomes addicted to heroin.

The Dead Pool (1988)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Liam Neeson | Evan C. Kim | David Hunt | Michael Currie | Michael Goodwin | Darwin Gillett | Anthony Charnota | Christopher P. Beale | John Allen Vick | Jeff Richmond | Patrick Van Horn | Jim Carrey | Nicholas Love | John X. Heart
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After Harry’s arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry’s car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan’s crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn’t long before other people on the list turn up dead…and someone starts making attempts on Harry’s life…

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”) (1993)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Damian Chapa | Jesse Borrego | Benjamin Bratt | Enrique Castillo | Victor Rivers | Delroy Lindo | Tom Towles | Carlos Carrasco | Teddy Wilson | Raymond Cruz | Valente Rodriguez | Lanny Flaherty | Billy Bob Thornton | Geoffrey Rivas | Karmin Murcelo
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the “Vatos Locos”, and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a “home” for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his “carnal”, Miklo.

Tideland (2005)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Jodelle Ferland | Janet McTeer | Brendan Fletcher | Jennifer Tilly | Jeff Bridges | Dylan Taylor | Wendy Anderson | Sally Crooks | Alden Adair | Harry Gilliam | Kent Wolkowski
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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After her mother dies from a methadone overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose’s attempts to deal with what’s happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper’s veil.

Little Fish (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Sam Neill | Hugo Weaving | Martin Henderson | Noni Hazlehurst | Joel Tobeck | Lisa McCune | Susie Porter | Nina Liu | Linda Cropper | Daniella Farinacci | Ferdinand Hoang | Anh Do | Jason Chong | Anthony Wong
Directors: Rowan Woods
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In Sidney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop ex-addicted in heroin and clean for four years. She is trying to raise forty thousand dollars to buy a shop for computer games on the next door of the rental and become partner of her boss, but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boy-friend Jonny returns from Vancouver, Tracey’s mother Janelle fears a fall of Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray lost one leg. When Ray and Jonny associate to Moss, the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley ‘The Jockey’ Thompson, in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business along the weekend.

Wonderland (2003)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Val Kilmer | Kate Bosworth | Lisa Kudrow | Josh Lucas | Tim Blake Nelson | Dylan McDermott | Christina Applegate | Eric Bogosian | Carrie Fisher | Franky G | M.C. Gainey | Janeane Garofalo | Ted Levine | Faizon Love | Natasha Gregson Wagner
Directors: James Cox
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John Holmes (Val Kilmer) was a legend of the porn industry and revered in circles as a stud. But in 1981, years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. He’s estranged from his wife (Lisa Kudrow), holding onto a relationship with his teenage mistress (Kate Bosworth), and living as a junkie in search of his next fix. But one fateful night left four people dead and John as a key suspect in one of the most grisly murders in Los Angeles. Was he partly responsible for what happened at Wonderland Avenue?

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Roth | Amanda Plummer | John Travolta | Samuel L. Jackson | Phil LaMarr | Bruce Willis | Ving Rhames | Maria de Medeiros | Rosanna Arquette | Duane Whitaker | Peter Greene | Eric Stoltz | Paul Calderon | Uma Thurman | Frank Whaley
Directors: Quentin Tarantino
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Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.

007 Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Jonathan Pryce | Michelle Yeoh | Teri Hatcher | Ricky Acker | Götz Otto | Joe Don Baker | Vincent Schiavelli | Judi Dench | Desmond Llewelyn | Samantha Bond | Colin Salmon | Geoffrey Palmer | Julian Fellowes | Terence Rigby
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
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Elloit Carver is an egotistical media baron. Carver has the power to reach every person on the planet through his Carver Media Group Network- except for the People’s Republic of Chinese who refuse his presence in their country. When he is tied to the disappearance of a British battleship in the South China Sea, James Bond is sent to investigate. It is in Hong Kong where Bond meets Wai Lin, a member of the People’s External Security Force of China. With and without Wai Lin’s help, Bond soon starts to uncover a plot that goes all the way back to a mission on the Russian-Kazakh Boarder, and will start a war only to feed the fire that is Carver’s ego.