Posts Tagged ‘kidnapping’

Field of Dreams (1989)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Amy Madigan | Gaby Hoffmann | Ray Liotta | Timothy Busfield | James Earl Jones | Burt Lancaster | Frank Whaley | Dwier Brown | James Andelin | Mary Anne Kean | Fern Persons | Kelly Coffield | Michael Milhoan | Steve Eastin
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.

Redacted (2007)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Sahar Alloul | Happy Anderson | Francois Caillaud | Patrick Carroll | Andrew Cullen | Rob Devaney | Izzy Diaz | Mike Figueroa | Qazi Freihat | Paul Hijazin | Suhail Abdel Hussein | Ty Jones | Dhiaa Kahlil | Yanal Kassay | Ohad Knoller
Directors: Brian De Palma
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A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.

Miami Vice (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Colin Farrell | Jamie Foxx | Li Gong | Naomie Harris | Ciarán Hinds | Justin Theroux | Barry Shabaka Henley | Luis Tosar | John Ortiz | Elizabeth Rodriguez | Domenick Lombardozzi | Eddie Marsan | Isaach De Bankolé | John Hawkes | Tom Towles
Directors: Michael Mann
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Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

Blood Work (2002)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Daniels | Anjelica Huston | Wanda De Jesus | Tina Lifford | Paul Rodriguez | Dylan Walsh | Mason Lucero | Gerry Becker | Rick Hoffman | Alix Koromzay | Igor Jijikine | Dina Eastwood | Beverly Leech | June Kyoto Lu
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb (Eastwood), who has recently had a heart transplant, is hired by Graciela Rivers (De Jesus), to investigate the death of her sister, Gloria, who happens to have given McCaleb his heart. On the case, he soon deducts that the killer, who staged the murder to look like a random robbery, may actually be a serial killer Terry was trailing for years in the FBI. Can the elderly and feeble McCaleb, who had intended to spend his retirement living on his boat in the Los Angeles harbor, and who can’t drive, and has to nap regularly, muster up the endurance to find the killer?

The Clearing (2004)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Robert Redford | Helen Mirren | Willem Dafoe | Alessandro Nivola | Matt Craven | Melissa Sagemiller | Wendy Crewson | Larry Pine | Diana Scarwid | Elizabeth Ruscio | Gwen McGee | Sarah Koskoff | Graciela Marin | Mike Pniewski | Geoff McKnight
Directors: Pieter Jan Brugge
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they’ve raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple’s world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hit The Ice (1943)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Ginny Simms | Patric Knowles | Elyse Knox | Joe Sawyer | Marc Lawrence | Sheldon Leonard | Johnny Long and His Orchestra | Bobby Barber | Hank Bell | Wade Boteler | Ken Christy | Joseph Crehan | Eddie Dunn
Directors: Erle C. Kenton
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Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Himself) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.

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…

Willow (1988)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Patricia Hayes | Warwick Davis | Val Kilmer | Joanne Whaley | Jean Marsh | Billy Barty
Directors: Ron Howard
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Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen.

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Helen Mirren | Katie Holmes | Jeffrey Tambor | Barry Watson | Marisa Coughlan | Liz Stauber | Michael McKean | Molly Ringwald | Vivica A. Fox | John Patrick White | Robert Gant | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Cameron Glenar | Alan Heitz | Brian Klugman
Directors: Kevin Williamson
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Leigh Ann Watson is a teenage student at Grandsboro High. An “A” in history would make her valedictorian and get her a scholarship to Harvard. When she turns in her history project, a 365 day diary of a girl accused in the Salem witch trials, a 6 month effort, she receives a “C” from history teacher Mrs. Tingle, the meanest teacher at Grandsboro High. This gives an opportunity for Marybeth Carter, a rival student, to achieve an “A” and become valedictorian. As Leigh Ann tries to catch up doing extra credit by setting up graduation seating with her best friend, Jo Lynn, history class failure Luke Churner, enters with Mrs. Tingle’s final exam cheat sheet. Leigh Ann is caught with it and Mrs. Tingle threatens to tell the Principal about it. The result would have been expulsion, so the trio of teenagers attempt to regain Leigh Ann’s innocence by reasoning with Mrs. Tingle. When their attempt fails, they attack Mrs. Tingle and tie her to her bed. Is there a possible way to prove Leigh Ann innocent?

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Stanford | Kathleen Quinlan | Vinessa Shaw | Emilie de Ravin | Dan Byrd | Tom Bower | Billy Drago | Robert Joy | Ted Levine | Desmond Askew | Ezra Buzzington | Michael Bailey Smith | Laura Ortiz | Gregory Nicotero | Maisie Camilleri Preziosi
Directors: Alexandre Aja
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter’s car breaks down at the old site, they’re stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren’t pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.