Posts Tagged ‘best-friend’

Indian in the Cupboard, The

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Actors: Scardino, Hal | Litefoot | Crouse, Lindsay | Jenkins, Richard | Bhat, Rishi | Coogan, Steve | Keith, David | Jaffrey, Sakina | Kartheiser, Vincent | Serrano, Nestor | Olson, Ryan | Tejwani, Leon | Tejwani, Lucas | Conte, Christopher | Brown, Cassandra
Directors: Oz, Frank
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On his ninth birthday a boy receives many presents. Two of them first seem to be less important: an old cupboard from his brother and a little Indian figure made of plastic from his best friend. But these two presents turn out to be much more magic than the rest…

Perfect Stranger

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Berry, Halle | Willis, Bruce | Ribisi, Giovanni | Portnow, Richard | Dourdan, Gary | Lozano, Florencia | Aycox, Nicki Lynn | Chalfant, Kathleen | MacDonald, Gordon | Van Graas, Daniella | Miranda, Paula | D'Arbanville, Patti | Lewis, Clea | Feldman, Tamara | Becker, Gerry
Directors: Foley, James
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Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he’s Rowena’s prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she’s soon the object of Hill’s attentions. She’s helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out?

Troy

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Actors: Glover, Julian | Cox, Brian | Jones, Nathan | Maropis, Adoni | Smith, Jacob | Pitt, Brad | Shrapnel, John | Gleeson, Brendan | Kruger, Diane | Bana, Eric | Bloom, Orlando | Svegler, Siri | Barat, Lucie | Bones, Ken | Cauchi, Manuel
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”

Dracula

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
Actors: Oldman, Gary | Ryder, Winona | Hopkins, Anthony | Reeves, Keanu | Grant, Richard E. | Elwes, Cary | Campbell, Bill | Frost, Sadie | Waits, Tom | Bellucci, Monica | Bercu, Michaela | Kendrick, Florina | Robinson, Jay | Hobson, I.M. | Franks, Laurie
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker’s classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker’s betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina’s closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy’s friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away.

All or Nothing

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Actors: Spall, Timothy | Manville, Lesley | Garland, Alison | Corden, James | Sheen, Ruth | Bailey, Marion | Jesson, Paul | Kelly, Sam | Hunter, Kathryn | Hawkins, Sally | Coker, Helen | Daniel Mays | Crompton, Ben | Wilfort, Robert | McDonald, Gary
Directors: Leigh, Mike
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Penny’s love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil’s and Penny’s life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny’s neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family’s lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey.

Last Orders

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Caine, Michael | Courtenay, Tom | Hemmings, David | Hoskins, Bob | Mirren, Helen | Winstone, Ray | Feild, JJ | Fitch, Cameron | Hemmings, Nolan | Yusef, Anatol | Reilly, Kelly | McCole, Stephen | Innes, George | Morelli, Laura | Hurst, Sally
Directors: Schepisi, Fred
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Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, ‘Last Orders’, that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy

Shrek 2

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Music
Actors: Myers, Mike | Murphy, Eddie | Diaz, Cameron | Andrews, Julie | Banderas, Antonio | Cleese, John | Everett, Rupert | Saunders, Jennifer | Warner, Aron | Cameron, Cody | Knights, Christopher | Smith, David P. | Moseley, Mark
Directors: Adamson, Andrew | Asbury, Kelly | Vernon, Conrad
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The film picks up right where the first movie ended… Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon to find a letter from Fiona’s parents inviting the newlyweds over for dinner. The only problem is that they have no idea that their daughter is now an ogre.

Spider-Man 2

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: Maguire, Tobey | Dunst, Kirsten | Franco, James | Molina, Alfred | Harris, Rosemary | J.K. Simmons | Murphy, Donna | Gillies, Daniel | Baker, Dylan | Nunn, Bill | Ferlito, Vanessa | Mandvi, Aasif | Dafoe, Willem | Robertson, Cliff | Raimi, Ted
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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Peter Parker (Tobey McGuire) can’t seem to catch any kind of break. Being Spiderman has brought him nothing but problems as far as his personal life is concerned. Not only that, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is engaged to astronaut John Jameson, and Peter may lose her forever. Things are so bad for him that he is pushed past his breaking point, so he decides that he doesn’t want to be Spiderman anymore, until a freak accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villian with four metal tentacles coming out of him. Peter realizes that only Spiderman can stop him, but of course, problems arise. Mary Jane gets caught in the middle, and Harry Osborn, who still blames Spiderman for the death of his father, Norman Osborn, also the Green Goblin, wants him dead. Spiderman will have to push himself past his limits if he’s going to survive.

Princess Diaries, The

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Actors: Andrews, Julie | Hathaway, Anne | Elizondo, Hector | Matarazzo, Heather | Moore, Mandy | Goodall, Caroline | Schwartzman, Robert | von Detten, Erik | Flueger, Patrick | O'Bryan, Sean | Oh, Sandra | Marshall, Kathleen | Burbano, Mindy | Smith, Kimleigh | Garrison, Beth Anne
Directors: Marshall, Garry
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A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne. While Mia makes up her mind, she’s pressed into taking princess lessons from her grandmother.

Hurlyburly

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Penn, Sean | Spacey, Kevin | Wright Penn, Robin | Palminteri, Chazz | Shandling, Garry | Paquin, Anna | Ryan, Meg | Ranaudo, Gianna | Fabrizio, David | Vance, Kenny | Babich, Michaline | Corral Kendall, Elaine | Tay, Sharon | Somerville, Frank | Jimenez, Bob
Directors: Drazan, Anthony
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Hurly-burly is an adaptation of David Rabe’s well known play about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes who’s personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything they’re peddling to the studios.