Posts Tagged ‘psychiatrist’

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.

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?

Dark City (1998)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Rufus Sewell | William Hurt | Kiefer Sutherland | Jennifer Connelly | Richard O'Brien | Ian Richardson | Bruce Spence | Colin Friels | John Bluthal | Mitchell Butel | Melissa George | Frank Gallacher | Ritchie Singer | Justin Monjo | Nicholas Bell
Directors: Alex Proyas
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

Neverwas (2005)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Eckhart | Ian McKellen | Nick Nolte | William Hurt | Bill Bellamy | Alan Cumming | Michael Moriarty | Ken Roberts | Tim Henry | Joe Macaluso | Andrew Airlie | Ryan Drescher | Jim Eckhart | Richard Hendery | Mark Tisdale
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A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children’s book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book’s secrets and his place in the story.

Charlie Bartlett (2007)

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Anton Yelchin | Robert Downey Jr. | Tyler Hilton | Mark Rendall | Dylan Taylor | Jake Epstein | Jonathan Malen | Derek McGrath | Stephen Young | Ishan Davé | David Brown | Eric Fink | Noam Jenkins | Aubrey Graham | Michael D'Ascenzo
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Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie’s honest charm and likability positions him as the resident “psychiatrist” dishing out advice, and the occasional prescription with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, to other students in need. Along the way, he decides to take some of his own advice, find romance, and learn to accept who he is, thus wielding a witty dark comedy about the angst-filled years before college.

They Do It with Mirrors (1991)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Joan Hickson | Jean Simmons | Joss Ackland | Faith Brook | Gillian Barge | Neal Swettenham | David Horovitch | Ian Brimble | Christopher Villiers | Jay Villiers | Holly Aird | Todd Boyce | Saul Reichlin | Matthew Cottle | John Bott
Directors: Norman Stone
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Miss Marple is invited to London to see her old friend Ruth. Miss Marple was a sort of traveling companion to Ruth and her sister, Carrie Louise. Ruth is worried about Carrie Louise. She doesn’t know why, though. Ruth asks Miss Marple to come with her to her sister’s estate, Stonygates. Stonygates is a huge manor house, and some of the buildings and the grounds are used by Carrie Louises’ current husband, Lewis, as a reformatory for juvenile criminals. Miss Marple meets the people who live there - Carrie Louise’s grand-daughter Gina and her malcontent American husband Walter; Stephen and Alex Restarick, Carrie Louise’s stepsons by her first marriage; Edgar Lawson, Lewis’ mentally unstable secretary; and Carrie Louise’s daughter, Mildred, who is jealous of Gina. Soon, Carrie Louise’s stepson by her second marriage shows up. He is Christian Guldbrandsen, and he runs the trust which contributes a fraction of the funds used to run Stonygates. He and Lewis talk in private. Later that night, Edgar begins waving a gun around and ranting that Lewis is his father. Lewis takes him to his office where the argument becomes even more heated. After a few minutes, two shots are heard, and then hysterical crying. The door opens to reveal Lewis, unhurt. Edgar missed him. However, the body of Christian Guldbrandsen is discovered, shot. Miss Marple sets out to find the murderer before it is too late for her good friend Carrie Louise.

Garden State (2004)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kenneth Graymez | George C. Wolfe | Austin Lysy | Gary Gilbert | Jill Flint | Ian Holm | Peter Sarsgaard | Alex Burns | Jackie Hoffman | Michael Weston | Christopher Carley | Armando Riesco | Amy Ferguson | Trisha LaFache
Directors: Zach Braff
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Andrew Largeman shuffled through life in a lithium-induced coma until his mother’s death inspired a vacation from the pills to see what might happen. A moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles, “Large” hasn’t been home to the Garden State in nine years. But even with 3,000 miles between them, he’s been unable to escape his domineering father Gideon and the silencing effect he’s had on his son from afar. Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Large finds old acquaintances around every corner living quite unique lives as gravediggers, fast food knights and the panderers of pyramid schemes. Meanwhile, at home, he does his best to avoid a long-simmering but inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate, Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything he isn’t. A blast of color, hope and quirks, Sam becomes a sidekick who refuses to ride in his sidecar. Her warmth and fearlessness give Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of the infinite abyss that is life.

Gothika (2003)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Charles S. Dutton | Halle Berry | Robert Downey Jr. | John Carroll Lynch | Bernard Hill | Penélope Cruz | Dorian Harewood | Bronwen Mantel | Kathleen Mackey | Matthew G. Taylor | Michel Perron | Andrea Sheldon | Anana Rydvald | Laura Mitchell | Amy Sloan
Directors: Mathieu Kassovitz | Thom Oliphant
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A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she’s accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Meg Ryan | Hugh Jackman | Liev Schreiber | Breckin Meyer | Natasha Lyonne | Bradley Whitford | Paxton Whitehead | Spalding Gray | Josh Stamberg | Matthew Sussman | Charlotte Ayanna | Philip Bosco | Andrew Jack | Stan Tracy | Kristen Schaal
Directors: James Mangold
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Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870’s, was puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

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.