Posts Tagged ‘vacation’

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Stanford | Kathleen Quinlan | Vinessa Shaw | Emilie de Ravin | Dan Byrd | Tom Bower | Billy Drago | Robert Joy | Ted Levine | Desmond Askew | Ezra Buzzington | Michael Bailey Smith | Laura Ortiz | Gregory Nicotero | Maisie Camilleri Preziosi
Directors: Alexandre Aja
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty…or so they thought? When the Carter’s car breaks down at the old site, they’re stranded…or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren’t pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.

RV (2006)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Cheryl Hines | Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque | Josh Hutcherson | Jeff Daniels | Kristin Chenoweth | Hunter Parrish | Chloe Sonnenfeld | Alex Ferris | Will Arnett | Tony Hale | Brian Howe | Richard Ian Cox | Erika-Shaye Gair | Veronika Sztopa
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob’s job is in danger if he doesn’t go to a very important meeting. Before you can say “COME BACK! COME BACK!,” things go gloriously, hilariously, Munro-annoyingly wrong due to the lack of brakes, Bob’s job, toilet waste not cleared out from the last rental and more hilarious stuff.

Stealing Beauty (1996)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Carlo Cecchi | Sinéad Cusack | Joseph Fiennes | Jason Flemyng | Anna-Maria Gherardi | Jeremy Irons | Jean Marais | Donal McCann | D.W. Moffett | Ignazio Oliva | Stefania Sandrelli | Francesco Siciliano | Mary Jo Sorgani | Leonardo Treviglio | Liv Tyler
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris).

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 Witches (1990)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Anjelica Huston | Mai Zetterling | Jasen Fisher | Jane Horrocks | Anne Lambton | Rowan Atkinson | Bill Paterson | Brenda Blethyn | Charlie Potter | Sukie Smith | Rose English | Jenny Runacre | Annabel Brooks | Emma Relph | Nora Connolly
Directors: Nicolas Roeg
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A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.

The Cook (2007)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Hengst | Makinna Ridgway | Kit Paquin | Penny Drake | Nina Fehren | Noelle Kenney | Brooke Lenzi | Justine Marino | Stefanie Solano | Allen Yates | Jackson Sowell | Dan Butler | Denny Kaltreider | Roy Oraschin | Daniela Romay
Directors: Gregg Simon
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Over a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting girls are left behind to enjoy the quiet sanctuary. The normal house staff has taken off for the weekend, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Thankfully someone was kind enough to send them a temporary replacement chef to cook their meals. However, when the girls start disappearing one-by-one, they begin to suspect something may not be quite right with… THE COOK!

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Diane Lane | Sandra Oh | Lindsay Duncan | Raoul Bova | Vincent Riotta | Mario Monicelli | Roberto Nobile | Anita Zagaria | Evelina Gori | Giulia Steigerwalt | Pawel Szajda | Valentine Pelka | Sasa Vulicevic | Massimo Sarchielli | Claudia Gerini
Directors: Audrey Wells
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Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

Carry on Camping (1969)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Sid James | Charles Hawtrey | Joan Sims | Kenneth Williams | Terry Scott | Barbara Windsor | Hattie Jacques | Bernard Bresslaw | Julian Holloway | Dilys Laye | Peter Butterworth | Betty Marsden | Trisha Noble | Brian Oulton | Amelia Bayntun
Directors: Gerald Thomas
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Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. Of course they end up in the wrong place, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine! Coach loads of sex-starved schoolgirls and bands of hippies all add to the laughs.

Home Alone (1990)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Macaulay Culkin | Joe Pesci | Daniel Stern | John Heard | Roberts Blossom | Catherine O'Hara | Angela Goethals | Devin Ratray | Gerry Bamman | Terrie Snell | Hillary Wolf | Larry Hankin | Michael C. Maronna | Kristin Minter | Daiana Campeanu
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Kevin McAllister, 8 years old is accidentally left behind while his family rushes to the Airport to go to France for their Christmas vacation. Kevin learns that he made his family is gone. He spends his first day having fun in his house. Kevin learns that Mav and Harry (The Wet Bandits), two crooks are trying to rob his house. Kevin fends for himself and protects his house from the thieves, by setting traps everywhere. Meanwhile, Kevin’s mother discovers that they left Kevin in Chicago and tries to go back to Chicago while the other members of the family stay in Fance.

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Grey | Patrick Swayze | Jerry Orbach | Cynthia Rhodes | Jack Weston | Jane Brucker | Kelly Bishop | Lonny Price | Max Cantor | Charles 'Honi' Coles | Neal Jones | 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow | Wayne Knight | Paula Trueman | Alvin Myerovich
Directors: Emile Ardolino
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Set in the 1960s, Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes to a very respectable summer camp in the Catskills. Baby has grown up in privileged surrounds with her doctor father and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny, a man whose background is vastly different to her own. Attempting to impress him, Baby borrows money from her father to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny’s dance partner and it is during the rigorous training that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny’s friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby is forced to seek her father’s medical assistance. Her father then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with “those people”. In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny - ostensibly to apologize for her father’s rudeness - and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny’s bungalow the next morning and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft that last evening, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts. Attempting to defend her lover, Baby confesses that they were together that night - all night. This revelation causes a huge rift in the family and Baby makes an impassioned speech to her angry and bereft father. At the closing night performances, and although he has been fired and banned from attending - Johnny returns and takes the stage to tell everyone about the woman who stole his heart and changed his life before they have one, final dance together.