Posts Tagged ‘paralysis’

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Mathieu Amalric | Emmanuelle Seigner | Marie-Josée Croze | Anne Consigny | Patrick Chesnais | Niels Arestrup | Olatz López Garmendia | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Marina Hands | Max von Sydow | Isaach De Bankolé | Emma de Caunes | Jean-Philippe Écoffey | Gérard Watkins | Nicolas Le Riche
Directors: Julian Schnabel
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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.

He Was a Quiet Man (2007)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Slater | John Gulager | Jamison Jones | Michael DeLuise | K.C. Ramsey | David Wells | Randolph Mantooth | Sewell Whitney | William H. Macy | Greg Baker | Brian Lohmann | Paul D. Roberts | Bobby Hardy | Bill Rothbard | Stanley C. Hall
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Alan Rickman | Rupert Grint | Emma Watson | Daniel Radcliffe | Maggie Smith | Robbie Coltrane | Saunders Triplets | Richard Harris | Fiona Shaw | Harry Melling | Richard Griffiths | Derek Deadman | Ian Hart | Ben Borowiecki | Warwick Davis | Verne Troyer | John Hurt | Richard Bremmer
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Iron Man (2008)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Downey Jr. | Terrence Howard | Jeff Bridges | Gwyneth Paltrow | Leslie Bibb | Shaun Toub | Faran Tahir | Sayed Badreya | Bill Smitrovich | Clark Gregg | Tim Guinee | Will Lyman | Marco Khan | Kevin Foster | Garret Noel
Directors: Jon Favreau
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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he’s captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.

The Ruins (2008)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Jonathan Tucker | Shawn Ashmore | Joe Anderson | Sergio Calderón | Jesse Ramirez | Balder Moreno | Dimitri Baveas | Patricio Almeida Rodriguez | Mario Jurado | Luis Antonio Ramos | Walter Quispe | Nathan Vega | Tanisha Marquez-Munduate | Chris Argirousis | Alexander Gregory
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A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

The Secret Garden (1993)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Kate Maberly | Heydon Prowse | Andrew Knott | Maggie Smith | Laura Crossley | John Lynch | Walter Sparrow | Irène Jacob | Frank Baker | Valerie Hill | Andrea Pickering | Peter Moreton | Arthur Spreckley | Colin Bruce | Parsan Singh
Directors: Agnieszka Holland
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a ’secret garden’ that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little ‘magic’, can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Morris Chestnut | Johnny Messner | KaDee Strickland | Matthew Marsden | Nicholas Gonzalez | Eugene Byrd | Karl Yune | Salli Richardson | Andy Anderson | Nicholas Hope | Peter Curtin | Denis Arndt | Khoa Do | Aireti | Andre Tandjung
Directors: Dwight H. Little
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In New York, the ambitious Dr. Jack Byron and his associate Gordon Mitchell present the research of his assistant Sam Rogers to the CEO and board of directors of a corporation to sponsor a scientific expedition to Borneo. The objective is to find a flower, Blood Orchid, that flourishes for a couple of weeks every seven years and could be a fountain of youth, prolonging the expectation of life of human beings. They are succeeded and once in Borneo, they realize that it is the raining season and there is no boat available to navigate on the river. They pay US$ 50,000.00 to convince Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran to sail to the location. After an accident in a waterfall, the survivors realize that a pack of anacondas have gathered for mating and their nest is nearby the plantation of Blood Orchid, which made them bigger and bigger.

The Skeleton Key (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kate Hudson | Gena Rowlands | John Hurt | Peter Sarsgaard | Joy Bryant | Maxine Barnett | Fahnlohnee R. Harris | Marion Zinser | Deneen Tyler | Ann Dalrymple | Trula M. Marcus | Tonya Staten | Thomas Uskali | Jen Apgar | Forrest Landis
Directors: Iain Softley
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A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Hoodoo (Not Voodoo, it’s different. Hoodoo is an old African American magic that only works if you believe in it.) practitioners.

The Bone Collector (1999)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Angelina Jolie | Queen Latifah | Michael Rooker | Mike McGlone | Luis Guzmán | Leland Orser | John Benjamin Hickey | Bobby Cannavale | Ed O'Neill | Richard Zeman | Olivia Birkelund | Gary Swanson | James Bulleit | Frank Fontaine
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father’s suicide and thinking she’s next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Martin | Michael Caine | Glenne Headly | Anton Rodgers | Barbara Harris | Ian McDiarmid | Dana Ivey | Meagen Fay | Frances Conroy | Nicole Calfan | Aïna Walle | Cheryl Pay | Nathalie Auffret | Lolly Susi | Rupert Holliday-Evans
Directors: Frank Oz
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Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big enough for the two of them. They agree to a “loser leaves” bet. The bet brings out the best/worse in the two. Interesting twist at the end.