Posts Tagged ‘babysitter’

When a Stranger Calls

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Actors: Belle, Camilla | Flanagan, Tommy | Cassidy, Katie | Thompson, Tessa | Geraghty, Brian | Gregg, Clark | Lint, Derek de | Grant, Kate Jennings | Denman, David | Young, Arthur | Carroll, Madeline | Eastin, Steve | Bobek, John | Surosky, Brad | Logue, Karina
Directors: West, Simon
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A young high school student babysits for a very rich family. She begins to receive strange phone calls threatening the children. When she finally realizes that it’s not a joke, she calls the police, only to find that the call is coming from inside the house

Death Proof (from Grindhouse)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: Andrews, Naveen | Arnett, Will | Bacall, Lauren | Biehn, Michael | Brolin, Josh | Cage, Nicolas | Castanon, Leroy | Doom, Omar | Douglas, Jason | Fahey, Jeff | Gallardo, Carlos | Hernandez, Jay | Ingram, Doran | Isaacs, Jason | Katt, Nicky
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin
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From cult movie directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes a unique film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers’ favorite exploitation films. “Grindhouse” (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for “grinding out” non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies) is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantino’s film, “Death Proof,” is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez’s film “Planet Terror” shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak. The films are joined together by clever faux trailers that recall the ’50s exploitation drive-in classics.

Monster House

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Actors: Newman, Ryan | Buscemi, Steve | Musso, Mitchel | O'Hara, Catherine | Willard, Fred | Lerner, Sam | Schultz, Woody | McConnel, Ian | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Lee, Jason | Locke, Spencer | James, Kevin | Cannon, Nick | Heder, Jon | Turner, Kathleen
Directors: Kenan, Gil
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The teenage DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of their street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his lawn. When DJ’s parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive nanny Zee stays with him, he calls his clumsy best friend Chowder to play basketball. But when the ball falls in Nebbercracker’s lawn, the old man has a siege, and sooner they find that the house is a monster. Later the boys rescue the smart Jenny from the house and the trio unsuccessfully tries to convince the babysitter, her boyfriend Bones and two police officers that the haunted house is a monster, but nobody believes on them. The teenagers ask their video-game addicted acquaintance Skull how to destroy the house, and they disclose its secret on the Halloween night.

Daddy Day Care

Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Jeff Garlin | Zahn, Steve | King, Regina | Nealon, Kevin | Katz, Jonathan | Fallon, Siobhan | Edelstein, Lisa | Chabert, Lacey | Kightlinger, Laura | Arcieri, Leila | Huston, Anjelica | Griffin, Khamani | Burkholder, Max | Young, Arthur
Directors: Carr, Steve
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In the hilarious comedy Daddy Day Care, two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads open their own day care facility, “Daddy Day Care”, and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As “Daddy Day Care” starts to catch on, it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy’s tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) …who has driven all previous competitors out of business.

Erin Brockovich

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Brisbin, David | Didawick, Dawn | Finney, Albert | Rodriguez, Valente | Ferrell, Conchata | Sullivan, George Rocky | Skipper, Pat | Gill, Jack | López, Irene Olga | Marks, Emily | Marks, Julie | Leavenworth, Scotty | de la Peña, Gemmenne | Brockovich-Ellis, Erin
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
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Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her lawfirm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.

Life of David Gale, The

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Winslet, Kate | King, Cleo | Jones, Constance | Spacey, Kevin | Linney, Laura | Ritchey, Lee | Mann, Gabriel | Craven, Matt | Little, Brandy | Waite, Cindy | Beaver, Jim | Rippy, Leon | De Luna, Jesse | Grote, Vernon | Mitra, Rhona
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.

Are We There Yet?

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Actors: Cube, Ice | Long, Nia | Mohr, Jay | Aleisha Allen | Philip Bolden | Gainey, M.C. | Nichelle Nichols
Directors: Levant, Brian
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The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Year’s Eve. When Suzanne’s work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to the city from Portland, Oregon. The kids, who have never liked any of the men their mom has dated, are determined to turn the trip into a nightmare for Nick.

Goodfellas

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Liotta, Ray | Pesci, Joe | Bracco, Lorraine | Sorvino, Paul | Low, Chuck | DiLeo, Frank | Sivero, Frank | Darrow, Tony | Starr, Mike | Vincent, Frank | Adonis, Frank | Scorsese, Catherine | Mastrogiacomo, Gina | Shepherd, Suzanne
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960’s and 70’s New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry’s best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.

Ring, The

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Henderson, Martin | Dorfman, David | Cox, Brian | Alexander, Jane | Frost, Lindsay | Tamblyn, Amber | Bella, Rachael | Chase, Daveigh | Cochran, Shannon | Thigpen, Sandra | Lineback, Richard | Barrese, Sasha | Hall, Tess | Brody, Adam
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son’s and her own life.

Home Alone 3

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Family
Actors: Linz, Alex D. | Krupa, Olek | Kihlstedt, Rya | von Dohlen, Lenny | Thornton, David | Morris, Haviland | Kilner, Kevin | Seldes, Marian | Smith, Seth | Johansson, Scarlett | Curry, Christopher | Harris, Baxter | Saito, James | Gudahl, Kevin | Hamilton, Richard
Directors: Gosnell, Raja
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Four high-tech industrial spies, Beaupre, Alice, Jernigan and Unger, steal a top-secret microchip, and, to fool customs, hide it in a remote-control toy car. Through a baggage mix-up at the airport, grumpy old Mrs.Hess gets the toy and gives it to her neighbor, 8-year-old Alex. Spies want to get the toy back before their clients get angry and decide to burglarize every house at Alex’s street to find the chip. But Alex is prepared for their visit…