Posts Tagged ‘mother-son-relationship’

Happy Feet (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Carlos Alazraqui | Lombardo Boyar | Jeffrey Garcia | Johnny A. Sanchez | Robin Williams | Elijah Wood | Brittany Murphy | Hugh Jackman | Nicole Kidman | Hugo Weaving | Elizabeth Daily | Magda Szubanski | Miriam Margolyes | Fat Joe | Alyssa Shafer
Directors: Warren Coleman
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Set deep inside the icy land of Antarctica, two emperor penguins have a baby named Mumble. Hatched upon his feet, he has an amazing skill for tap-dancing. However, penguins are not supposed to tap dance. Even worse, he cannot sing. All emperor penguins are supposed to have a heart song, and he has a try at it - with awful results. Torn apart from his mom, dad, and best friend, Gloria, as a teenager who still has his adolescent feathers, his ventures off into the icy landscape. He is rescued from a leopard seal from a group of Adelie penguins, whom which the leader is Ramon. They take Mumble to their home and discover that all of their fish is being taken from an unknown ‘alien’ source. They ask Lovelace, an unwise and cocky leader of the Adelies, to help them. Unfortunately, he proves no help. Leading on an incredible adventure, they try to discover the threat of their food source and survival. Using courage and bravery, Mumble begins to teach everyone begins to learn that uniqueness isn’t a burden, but is a gift to be treasured.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Abigail Breslin | Greg Kinnear | Paul Dano | Alan Arkin | Toni Collette | Steve Carell | Marc Turtletaub | Jill Talley | Brenda Canela | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Chuck Loring | Justin Shilton | Gordon Thomson | Steven Christopher Parker | Bryan Cranston
Directors: Jonathan Dayton
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word “dysfunctional”. The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?

Finding Neverland (2004)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Kate Winslet | Julie Christie | Radha Mitchell | Dustin Hoffman | Freddie Highmore | Joe Prospero | Nick Roud | Luke Spill | Kelly Macdonald | Mackenzie Crook | Eileen Essell | Jimmy Gardner | Oliver Fox
Directors: Marc Forster
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

The Ref (1994)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
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Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist, and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he took more than he bargained for when the couple’s blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they’re driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences, before he can be nabbed by the police.

This Christmas (2007)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Delroy Lindo | Idris Elba | Loretta Devine | Chris Brown | Keith Robinson | Laz Alonso | Columbus Short | Sharon Leal | Lauren London | Lupe Ontiveros | Jessica Stroup | Mekhi Phifer | Regina King | David Banner | Ricky Harris
Directors: Preston A. Whitmore II
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A Christmastime drama centered around the Whitfield family’s first holiday together in four years.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: James Mason | Ava Gardner | Nigel Patrick | Sheila Sim | Harold Warrender | Mario Cabré | Marius Goring | John Laurie | Pamela Mason | Patricia Raine | Margarita D'Alvarez | La Pillina | Abraham Sofaer | Francisco Igual | Guillermo Beltrán
Directors: Albert Lewin
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In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he’s won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora’s friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate…

The Puffy Chair (2005)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Duplass | Kathryn Aselton | Rhett Wilkins | Julie Fischer | Larry Duplass | Bari Hyman | Gerald Finnegan | Henry Barendse | Cindy Duplass | David Parsons | Jose Manuel Alvarado | Daniel Gonzalez | Ora Aselton | Bill Leighton | Jim Whalen
Directors: Jay Duplass
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Josh Sagers drives cross-country on a mission to deliver his father’s birthday gift - a giant purple LazyBoy.

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.

Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jami Gertz | Daryl Hannah | Garry Marshall | Jeremy Piven | Doris Roberts | Daryl Sabara | Larry Miller | Cheryl Hines | Richard Benjamin | Marc John Jefferies | Tom Hines | Carter Jenkins | Sandra Taylor | Miranda Cosgrove | Brittany Robertson
Directors: Scott Marshall
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In toney Brentwood, Benjamin Fiedler prepares for his bar mitzvah; trouble is, he understands neither its meaning nor the Hebrew, and his parents (particularly his successful-agent father) are planning the most lavish party possible. Benjamin wants his dad to give him some space, so he gets an idea: to invite his grandfather, who left the family years ago and for whom Benjamin’s dad has an intense dislike, to come two weeks early. Thanks in part to grandpa - and to the immediate family’s love - Benjamin may have a shot at figuring out what it means to be a man.

11:14 (Eleven Fourteen, The Movie) (2003)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Henry Thomas | Blake Heron | Barbara Hershey | Clark Gregg | Hilary Swank | Shawn Hatosy | Stark Sands | Colin Hanks | Ben Foster | Patrick Swayze | Rachael Leigh Cook | Jason Segel | Rick Gomez
Directors: Greg Marcks
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In Middletown, at 11:14 PM, two cars accidents happen at the same time, affecting the lives of five different groups of people. A drunken driver hits a man in a lonely road near a bridge; three young men hits a woman with a van, one of the passenger has a severed penis while another man on the road shoots them; a young man robs a convenience store, with the support of the clerk; a man finds a body in a cemetery and gets rid off it; and a young woman pretending to be pregnant tries to raise money for an abortion. All of these characters and their fates are very connected.