Posts Tagged ‘author’

Angel

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Actors: Garai, Romola | Rampling, Charlotte | Russell, Lucy | Fassbender, Michael | Neill, Sam | Tong, Jacqueline | Duvitski, Janine | Benjamin, Christopher | Powell, Jemma | Woods, Simon | Pargeter, Alison | Matthews, Seymour | Georgeson, Tom | Stubbs, Una | Lavelle, Rosanna
Directors: Ozon, François
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Based on the book by Elizabeth Taylor, “Angel”, this is the story of a young woman with incredible imagination who refuses to accept the world around her, and creates her own realities.

Lady in the Water

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Giamatti, Paul | Howard, Bryce Dallas | Wright, Jeffrey | Balaban, Bob | Choudhury, Sarita | Cheung, Cindy | RodrĂ­guez, Freddy | Irwin, Bill | Hurt, Mary Beth | Gray-Cabey, Noah | Reitman, Joseph D. | Harris, Jared | Monohon, Grant | Boyd, John
Directors: Shyamalan, M. Night
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The super Cleveland Heep finds a woman swimming in the swimming pool of the condominium during the night; he slips, hits his head on the floor and faints in the water, and she rescues him. He discloses that she is a “Narf” called Story, a character of bedtime stories, that is chased by a “Scrunt” and she needs to return to her Blue World with an eagle. Cleveland convinces the tenants to help and protect Story.

Number 23, The

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Madsen, Virginia | Lerman, Logan | Huston, Danny | Lynn Collins | Mitra, Rhona | Arthur, Michelle | Pellegrino, Mark | Butcher, Paul | Stifel, David | Stoll, Corey | Lauter, Ed | Kotsur, Troy | Soo Hoo, Walter | Belcher, Patricia
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She’s browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by “23,” he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.

Jewel of the Nile, The

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Turner, Kathleen | DeVito, Danny | Focás, Spiros | Eisenberg, Avner | Magid, Paul David | Patterson, Howard Jay | Nelson, Randall Edwin | Williams, Samuel Ross | Furst, Timothy Daniel | Fillali, Hamid | Taylor, Holland | Cuevas, Guy | DePalma, Peter | Richards, Mark Daly
Directors: Teague, Lewis
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This is the sequel to “Romancing the Stone” where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the “jewel”. Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another… What is the story of this “jewel”?

Friends with Money

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Keener, Catherine | Isaacs, Jason | Sharp, Timm | Cusack, Joan | Germann, Greg | Johnson, Hailey Noelle | McBurney, Simon | McDormand, Frances | Cherry, Jake | Aniston, Jennifer | Stephenson, Bob | Hinkle, Marin | Caan, Scott | Ruptash, Troy | Keener, Elizabeth
Directors: Holofcener, Nicole
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A drama about three married women, their husbands, and their lone single friend.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Actors: Cleese, John | Isaacs, Jason | Margolyes, Miriam | Branagh, Kenneth | Alfie Enoch | Harris, Richard | Coltrane, Robbie | Bradley, David | Sean Biggerstaff | Radcliffe, Daniel | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Griffiths, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Jones, Toby | Norton, Jim | Clifford, Veronica | Phelps, James | Phelps, Oliver | Walters, Julie | Wright, Bonnie | Williams, Mark | Rankin, Chris
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts. Harry ignores his warning, and returns. He is still famous, although still disliked by Snape, Malfoy, and the rest of the Slytherins. But then, strange things start to happen. People are becoming petrified, and no-one knows what is doing it. Harry keeps hearing a voice.. a voice which seems to be coming from within the walls. They are told the story of the Chamber of Secrets. It is said that only Salazar Slytherin’s true descendent will be able to open it. Harry, it turns out, is a Parsel-tongue. This means that he is able to speak/understand snakes. Everyone thinks that it’s him that has opened the Chamber of Secrets because that is what Slytherin was famous for.

Sylvia

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Actors: Paltrow, Gwyneth | Craig, Daniel | Harris, Jared | Danner, Blythe | Gambon, Michael | Casar, Amira | Havill, Andrew | Davenport, Lucy | Holloway, Liddy | Birkin, David | Bruce, Alison | Firth, Julian | Fowlds, Jeremy | Mears, Michael | Strachan, Anthony
Directors: Jeffs, Christine
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Talented but plagued by her owns demons Sylvia Plath’s early relationship with husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, is dominated by Ted’s ambition and success. In the early years of their marriage Sylvia lacks inspiration and increasingly senses Ted’s infidelity. The unspoken question is whether Ted’s extra-marital affairs are the result of Sylvia’s own insecurities or whether Sylvia’s deepening depression is exacerbated by her husbands philandering. It is only towards the end, when they are separated, that Sylvia is able to truly explore the dark depths of her soul and write the searingly brilliant poetry that earned her fame.

Secret Window

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Turturro, John | Bello, Maria | Hutton, Timothy | Dutton, Charles S. | Cariou, Len | Heney, Joan | Dunn-Hill, John | Vrana, Vlasta | Holland, Matt | Ferrabee, Gillian | Mantel, Bronwen | Marleau, Elizabeth | Allatt, Kyle | Jutras, Richard
Directors: Koepp, David
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Mort Rainey (Depp), a writer just coming off of a troublesome divorce with his ex-wife, Amy (Bello), finds himself stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger (Turturro) who claims Mort stole his best story idea (changing just the ending)… (Hutton plays Bello’s new boyfriend; Dutton plays a private investigator hired to make Turturro’s character leave Mort alone.)