Posts Tagged ‘loss-of-son’

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lucy Liu | Josh Hartnett | Bruce Willis | Morgan Freeman | Ben Kingsley | Mykelti Williamson
Directors: Paul McGuigan
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After landing in the wrong place at the wrong time, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) must kill The Rabbi’s (Ben Kingsley) to scratch a $96,000 debt to The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and pay off $33,000 to The Rabbi. He can’t go to the police and he can’t leave the city. On top of all this, behind the scene’s Mr. Smith aka Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) is secretly plotting to kill Slevin.

Damien: Omen II (1978)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Holden | Lee Grant | Lew Eуres | Sylvia Sidney | Jonathan Scott-Taylor | Robert Foxworth
Directors: Don Taylor
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Seven years later, 13-year-old Damien is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do. Now living with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Damien is anxious to inherit everything. Can Richard Thorn finish the job that Damien’s father (Ambassador Thorn) started?

Speed Racer (2008)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Emile Hirsch | Nicholas Elia | Christina Ricci | John Goodman | Melissa Holroyd | Susan Sarandon | Matthew Fox | Ariel Winter | Scott Porter | Benno Fürmann | Gian Ganziano | Peter Fernandez | Harvey Friedman | Richard Roundtree | Sadao Ueda
Directors: Andy Wachowski
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Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer, the designer of Speed’s thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company’s maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won’t drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family’s business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother’s life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.

Adrift in Manhattan (2007)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Heather Graham | Victor Rasuk | Dominic Chianese | William Baldwin | Elizabeth Peña | Erika Michels | Marlene Forte | Richard Petrocelli | Jesse Green | Sam O'Brien | Frank Picarazzi | James P. Stephens | Adrianna Bremont | Stefanie Field | Nicole Kohnen
Directors: Alfredo De Villa
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A meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city - the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound encounters with strangers they meet on their daily routes. Rose, an optometrist paralyzed by crushing grief after the death of her infant, has built a wall around herself, unable to relate to her estranged husband or anyone else. When an elderly patient, a painter losing his eyesight, begins to visit her office unannounced, Rose registers how alone he is, urging him to reach out and ask for help—something neither does easily. Meanwhile Simon, a late-blooming teenager with an overbearing mother, photographs people at a distance with a borrowed long lens. One day, Rose, beautiful and melancholy in a vibrant scarf, comes into focus in his camera sight. The pictures he shoots become a conduit for each of them to touch something deep within and expand their confining existence. - Caroline Libresco

Lawman (1971)

Friday, July 4th, 2008
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Burt Lancaster | Robert Ryan | Lee J. Cobb | Robert Duvall | Joseph Wiseman | J.D. Cannon | Albert Salmi | Richard Jordan | John McGiver | Ralph Waite | John Beck | William Watson | Walter Brooke | Robert Emhardt | Charles Tyner
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While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken, trail-weary cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident. Maddox, however, will not compromise even though small ranchers like Vern Adams are not in a position to desert their responsibilities for a long and protracted trial. Sabbath’s marshal, Cotton Ryan, is an aging lawman whose tough reputation rests on a single incident that occurred years before. Ryan admits to being only a shadow of what he once was and no threat to stop Maddox. Maddox confides to Ryan that Bannock’s judicial system is weak and corrupt, and while he’s doubtful that anyone he brings back will suffer more than the price of a bribe, he will not be deterred in his unrelenting pursuit of his duty. Initially Bronson appears willing to make concessions, but when his oldest friend Harvey Stenbaugh is killed after deliberately picking a fight with Maddox, Bronson digs in his heels with the rest of the town to resist the relentless lawman.

The Living and the Dead (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Roger Lloyd-Pack | Leo Bill | Neil Conrich
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Stop-Loss (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Rob Brown | Channing Tatum | Victor Rasuk | Terry Quay | Matthew Scott Wilcox | Connett Brewer | Timothy Olyphant | Josef Sommer | Ciarán Hinds | Alex Frost | Isreal Saldivar | David Kroll | Ricky Calmbach
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Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon’s will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor.

Apocalypto (2006)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Rudy Youngblood | Dalia Hernández | Jonathan Brewer | Morris Birdyellowhead | Carlos Emilio Báez | Amilcar Ramírez | Israel Contreras | Israel Ríos | María Isabel Díaz | Espiridion Acosta Cache | Mayra Serbulo | Iazua Larios | Lorena Hernández | Itandehui Gutierrez | Sayuri Gutierrez
Directors: Mel Gibson
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Apocalypto ! Apocalypto! Apocalypto!

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man’s idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

Death Sentence (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Bacon | Garrett Hedlund | Kelly Preston | Jordan Garrett | Stuart Lafferty | Aisha Tyler | John Goodman | Matt O'Leary | Edi Gathegi | Hector Atreyu Ruiz | Kanin J. Howell | Dennis Keiffer | Freddy Bouciegues | Leigh Whannell | Casey Pieretti
Directors: James Wan
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When a family falls victim to a vicious attack perpetrated as a gang initiation ritual, the vengeful father vows to track down each person involved in the crime in Saw director James Wan and screenwriter Ian Jeffers feature adaptation of author Brian Garfield’s original novel. Aisha Tyler co-stars as the sympathetic homicide detective who questions her pledge to assist Bacon’s character after suspecting that he may have turned to murder as a means of exacting his revenge.

Fearless (1993)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Bridges | Isabella Rossellini | Rosie Perez | Tom Hulce | John Turturro | Benicio Del Toro | Deirdre O'Connell | John de Lancie | Spencer Vrooman | Daniel Cerny | Eve Roberts | Robin Pearson Rose | Debra Monk | Cynthia Mace | Randle Mell
Directors: Peter Weir
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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.