Posts Tagged ‘loss-of-job’

Home of the Brave (2006)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Morocco | USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Jessica Biel | Brian Presley | Christina Ricci | 50 Cent | Chad Michael Murray | Joyce M. Cameron | Victoria Rowell | Wes Deitrick | Jeffrey Nordling | Jhon Goodwin | Vyto Ruginis | Sam Jones III | Nike Imoru | James MacDonald
Directors: Irwin Winkler
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The day after they get the word they’ll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who’s a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman. Each of the four has come home changed, each feels dislocation. Group therapy, V.A. services, halting gestures from family and colleagues, and regular flashbacks keep the war front and center in their minds. They’re angry, touchy, and explosive: can a warrior find peace back home?

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Ferrell | Christina Applegate | Paul Rudd | Steve Carell | David Koechner | Fred Willard | Chris Parnell | Kathryn Hahn | Fred Armisen | Seth Rogen | Paul F. Tompkins | Danny Trejo | Scot Robinson | Ian Roberts | Darcy Donavan
Directors: Adam McKay
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Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the ’70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other “female” interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it’s more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons… it’s war.

Secretary (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeremy Davies | Maggie Gyllenhaal | James Spader | Lesley Ann Warren | Patrick Bauchau
Directors: Steven Shainberg
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Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.

Blades of Glory (2007)

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Ferrell | Jon Heder | Will Arnett | Amy Poehler | Jenna Fischer | William Fichtner | Craig T. Nelson | Romany Malco | Nick Swardson | Scott Hamilton | Andy Richter | Greg Lindsay | Rob Corddry | Nick Jameson | Tom Virtue
Directors: Josh Gordon
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When rivalry between the world’s best men’s figure skaters - sex addicted, improvisational Chazz Michael Michaels and germophobic, precise Jimmy MacElroy - breaks into a fight on the awards platform, they’re banned from the event for life. Three years later, desire for a gold medal and a careful reading of the rules lead them to compete as skating’s first male-male pair. Can they overcome mutual dislike, limited time to prepare, their coach’s secret past, and the dirty tricks of their main opponents, the Van Waldenberg siblings? The key to victory or defeat may lie in the attraction of the virginal Jimmy toward Katie, the Van Waldenbergs’ little sister.

Two for the Money (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sport | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Matthew McConaughey | Rene Russo | Armand Assante | Jeremy Piven | Jaime King | Kevin Chapman | Ralph Garman | Gedde Watanabe | Carly Pope | Charles Carroll | Gerard Plunkett | Craig Veroni | James Kirk | Chrislyn Austin
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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Brandon Lang loves football: an injury keeps him from the pros, but his quarterback’s anticipation makes him a brilliant predictor of games’ outcomes. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams advising gamblers. Walter has a doting wife, a young daughter, and a thriving business, but he has problems: a bum heart, a belief he’s a master manipulator, and addictions barely kept in check. He remakes Brandon, and a father-son relationship grows. Then, things go awry. Walter may be running a con. The odds against Brandon mount.

Syriana (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kayvan Novak | George Clooney | Amr Waked | Christopher Plummer | Jeffrey Wright | Chris Cooper | Robert Foxworth | Nicky Henson | Nicholas Art | Matt Damon | Amanda Peet | Steven Hinkle | Daisy Tormé | Peter Gerety | Richard Lintern
Directors: Stephen Gaghan
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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

Daddy Day Care (2003)

Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Jeff Garlin | Steve Zahn | Regina King | Kevin Nealon | Jonathan Katz | Siobhan Fallon | Lisa Edelstein | Lacey Chabert | Laura Kightlinger | Leila Arcieri | Anjelica Huston | Khamani Griffin | Max Burkholder | Arthur Young
Directors: Steve Carr
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In the hilarious comedy Daddy Day Care, two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads open their own day care facility, “Daddy Day Care”, and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As “Daddy Day Care” starts to catch on, it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy’s tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) …who has driven all previous competitors out of business.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tobey Maguire | Kirsten Dunst | James Franco | Alfred Molina | Rosemary Harris | J.K. Simmons | Donna Murphy | Daniel Gillies | Dylan Baker | Bill Nunn | Vanessa Ferlito | Aasif Mandvi | Willem Dafoe | Cliff Robertson | Ted Raimi
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Peter Parker (Tobey McGuire) can’t seem to catch any kind of break. Being Spiderman has brought him nothing but problems as far as his personal life is concerned. Not only that, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is engaged to astronaut John Jameson, and Peter may lose her forever. Things are so bad for him that he is pushed past his breaking point, so he decides that he doesn’t want to be Spiderman anymore, until a freak accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villian with four metal tentacles coming out of him. Peter realizes that only Spiderman can stop him, but of course, problems arise. Mary Jane gets caught in the middle, and Harry Osborn, who still blames Spiderman for the death of his father, Norman Osborn, also the Green Goblin, wants him dead. Spiderman will have to push himself past his limits if he’s going to survive.

Wolf (1994)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Michelle Pfeiffer | James Spader | Kate Nelligan | Richard Jenkins | Eileen Atkins | Christopher Plummer | Ron Rifkin | David Hyde Pierce | Om Puri | Prunella Scales | Brian Markinson | Peter Gerety | Bradford English | Stewart J. Zully
Directors: Mike Nichols
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Worn down and out of luck, aging publisher Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches both his job and wife out from under his nose. But after being bit by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself energized, more competitive than ever, and possessed with amazingly heightened senses. Meanwhile, the beautiful daughter of his shrewd boss begins to fall for him - without realizing that the man she’s begun to love is gradually turning into the creature by which he was bit.

Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Téa Leoni | David Herman | Knox White | Walter Addison | Ralph Nader | Dilva Henry | Luis Saguar | Rocael Rueda Sr. | Peter Breitmayer | Pete Gardner | Kym Whitley | Gavin Grazer | James St. James | Mary Gillis
Directors: Dean Parisot
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The day before Globodyne’s stock tanks, a la Enron, and its pension fund evaporates, the corporation’s CEO and CFO set up middle manager Dick Harper to be the public face of the disaster. Jobless, and with no savings, pension, or home equity, Dick and his wife Jane sink slowly into poverty. He looks for work (as do all former Globodyne executives); he even tries day labor with the relatives of their Mexican nanny. A foreclosure notice sends Dick and Jane over the edge into a life of blue-collar crime. Then, as things finally look up, the report of an looming indictment pushes Dick and Jane toward a denouement with the real criminals, the white-collar guys.