Posts Tagged ‘affair’

Fracture

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Gosling, Ryan | Strathairn, David | Pike, Rosamund | Davidtz, Embeth | Burke, Billy | Curtis, Cliff | Shaw, Fiona | Gunton, Bob | Josh Stamberg | Berkeley, Xander | Kazan, Zoe | Scott, Judith | Cervantes, Gary | Burchard, Petrea
Directors: Hoblit, Gregory
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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who’s soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it’s an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum’s weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy’s a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.

Barefoot Contessa, The

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Gardner, Ava | O'Brien, Edmond | Goring, Marius | Cortese, Valentina | Brazzi, Rossano | Sellars, Elizabeth | Stevens, Warren | Interlenghi, Franco | Aldon, Mari | Love, Bessie | Decker, Diana | Fraser, Bill | Rabagliati, Alberto | Staiola, Enzo
Directors: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella’s castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.

Sidewalks of New York

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Actors: Balfour, Penny | Burns, Edward | Campbell, Michael Leydon | Dajani, Nadia | Dawson, Rosario | Doyle, Kathleen | Farina, Dennis | Graham, Heather | Gray, Leah | Jerome, Timothy | Krumholtz, David | Langdon, Libby | Meer, Alicia | Murphy, Brittany | Neustadt, Ted
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Six New Yorkers have an interrelated series of relationships. TV producer Tommy, who’s just broken up with his girlfriend, has a short relationship with commitment-phobe Maria, who he meets in a video store, and also hooks up with married real-estate agent Annie, who he meets while apartment hunting. Annie is open to a relationship because her husband, Griffin, is cheating on her, which she slowly comes to realize through talking to her friend/co-worker who’s gone through the same thing. Griffin, a 39-year-old dentist, is cheating with 19-year-old waitress Ashley, who he picked up in a park; she realizes she can do better when Ben, a hotel doorman and aspiring musician, tries to pick her up, in a belated attempt to recover from his divorce a year ago from schoolteacher Maria (the same Maria from the video store). Most of these relationships seem driven more by a desperate need to be in a relationship than actual love.

Rumor Has It…

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Aniston, Jennifer | Costner, Kevin | MacLaine, Shirley | Ruffalo, Mark | Jenkins, Richard | McDonald, Christopher | Sandvoss, Steve | Suvari, Mena | Vogel, Mike | Lanza, Robert | Vachon, Lisa | Stock, Trevor | Taylor, Jennifer Bini | Burrs, Marcia Ann | Wanlass, Lynn
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Sarah Huttington, recently engaged, goes home to Pasadena with fiancé Jeff for a family wedding. She hears a rumor that “The Graduate” (book and movie) are based on her family. Did her grandmother and her mom have flings with the same man just before her parents married? Is she a strange man’s child; does this explain why she doesn’t fit in? Was her mother happy? Is she too facing a loveless marriage? Where can she seek answers: her mother’s dead, her father’s a pleasant naïf. Ask her salty grandma? Better to ask the man in the triangle, the real Benjamin Braddock. With Jeff’s blessing, Sarah heads for San Francisco, looking for the key to her past and to her future.

French Kiss

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Kline, Kevin | Hutton, Timothy | Reno, Jean | Cluzet, François | Anbeh, Susan | Humphrey, Renée | Riley, Michael | Spielvogel, Laurent | Garrivier, Victor | Commelin, Elisabeth | Leibowitch, Julie | Brown, Miquel | Deschamps, Louise | Curdy, Olivier
Directors: Kasdan, Lawrence
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Kate (Meg Ryan) and Charlie (Timothy Hutton) have a perfect life planned out before them: buying a house, marriage, kids, the whole works. Kate’s fear of flying keeps her in Canada while Charlie goes to Paris for a medical convention. While there Charlie is smitten by the lovely Juliette (Susan Anbeh). He calls off the wedding with Kate and she nervously boards a plane to get him back. She ends up sitting next to the petty French thief Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kline). He hides a stolen necklace and smuggled grape vine in her bag to get it through customs. Her bag is stolen, the necklace apparently lost, and Kate and Luc head to Cannes — Luc to find the necklace and Kate get Charlie back. Along the way, Kate and Luc begin having feelings for each other — which change the course of their lives.

L.A. Confidential

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Spacey, Kevin | Crowe, Russell | Pearce, Guy | Cromwell, James | Basinger, Kim | DeVito, Danny | Strathairn, David | Rifkin, Adam | McCoy, Matt | Guilfoyle, Paul | Seganti, Paolo | Beckel, Graham | Taylor, Sandra | Rankin, Steve | Granli, Elisabeth
Directors: Hanson, Curtis
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1950’s Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

Hard Word, The

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Griffiths, Rachel | Taylor, Robert | Edgerton, Joel | Richardson, Damien | Findleton, Rhondda | Atkinson, Kate | Colosimo, Vince | Sonkkila, Paul | Gyngell, Kym | Nkono, Dorian | Whittaker, Stephen | Neilson, Torquil | Bridges, Don | Bowles, Doug
Directors: Roberts, Scott
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Hellraiser

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Actors: Robinson, Andrew | Higgins, Clare | Laurence, Ashley | Chapman, Sean | Smith, Oliver | Hines, Robert | Allen, Anthony | Davis, Leon | Cassidy, Michael | Baker, Frank | Nelson, Kenneth | Baynes, Gay | Buggy, Niall | Atkins, Dave | Parker, Oliver
Directors: Barker, Clive
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Clive Barker’s feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man’s half-brother, who is also the woman’s former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body… but the Cenobites won’t be happy about this.

True Lies

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Actors: Heston, Charlton | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Arnold, Tom | Paxton, Bill | Carrere, Tia | Malik, Art | Dushku, Eliza | Heslov, Grant | Manesh, Marshall | Rauter, Dieter | Morris, Jane | Chappell, Katsy | Wyler, Crystina | Samra, Ofer
Directors: Cameron, James | Allen, James
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Special agent Harry Tasker gets out of the water outside a heavily guarded mansion, takes off his wetsuit, and there is a dinner jacket underneath. Harry strolls into a swanky party. Harry meets with Juno Skinner, steals some computer files, and escapes in a blaze of gunfire. He’s picked up by his partner, Albert “Gib” Gibson, and they return to the United States. Harry goes home to his wife Helen. Helen doesn’t know what Harry does because he pretends to be a computer salesman. Their 14-year-old daughter Dana is a sullen teenager, and Helen is so bored by the routine of her life that she’s on the verge of having an affair with used-car salesman Simon, who claims to be a spy. Harry is hot on the trail of a group of terrorists led by Salim Abu Aziz. Aziz and his men are smuggling nuclear weapons into the USA in pieces of Persian art, and Aziz plans to hold the country hostage in the name of the Crimson Jihad. Harry’s also out to save his marriage when he discovers Helen with Simon, who still claims to be a spy. Harry uses the Agency’s resources to give Helen a taste of the real thing. Harry blackmails Helen into seducing an enemy agent — Harry himself — in a hotel room, but their tryst is interrupted by Aziz’s men, who kidnap them and take them to one of the Florida Keys, where they’re preparing to detonate their nuclear bomb. Harry escapes and rescues Helen, and then they discover that Aziz has gone to Miami and kidnapped Dana. Harry uses a harrier jet to get to Miami, where he sets out to rescue Dana.

Perfect Murder, A

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Thriller
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Mortensen, Viggo | Suchet, David | Choudhury, Sarita | Moran, Michael P. | Nelson, Novella | Towers, Constance | Lyman, Will | McGuire, Maeve | Singer, Stephen | Barrett, Laurinda | O'Kelly, Aideen | Birney, Reed | Smith, Vincent
Directors: Davis, Andrew
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Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory. Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain.