Posts Tagged ‘bittersweet’

As Good as It Gets

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Hunt, Helen | Kinnear, Greg | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Ulrich, Skeet | Knight, Shirley | Smith, Yeardley | Ontiveros, Lupe | Dog, Jill the | Dog, Timer the | Dog, Billy the | Osterwald, Bibi | Bleckner, Ross | Balagtas, Bernadette | Cohen, Jaffe
Directors: James L. Brooks
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New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.

Reign Over Me

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Cheadle, Don | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Tyler, Liv | Burrows, Saffron | Sutherland, Donald | Klein, Robert | Dillon, Melinda | Banks, Jonathan | Allen, Rae | Newsome, Paula | de Lancie, John | Butler, Paul | Smith, Camille LaChe
Directors: Binder, Mike
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Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other hand, doesn’t have a job or a family. He used to have both until he lost his family on the fateful day of 9/11, and the grief he felt caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. They soon feel that their friendship is the one thing that allows them to forget about their problems.

Oliver Twist

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Actors: Clark, Barney | Swift, Jeremy | McNeice, Ian | Durden, Richard | Bateson, Timothy | de la Tour, Andy | Hess, Filip | Papadopoulos, Andreas | Athey, Laurie | Tremain, Joseph | Copley, Peter | Linden, Andy | Nettleton, John | Noble, Tony | Heath, Michael
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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In the Nineteenth Century, the orphan Oliver Twist is sent to a workhouse, where the children are barely fed and mistreated. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is welcomed by a gang of pickpockets leaded by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow´s fancy house. Oliver is wounded, while Mr. Brownlow tries to save Oliver.

Walk the Line

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Actors: Phoenix, Joaquin | Witherspoon, Reese | Goodwin, Ginnifer | Patrick, Robert | Roberts, Dallas | Miller, Dan John | Bagby, Larry | Lynne, Shelby | Hilton, Tyler | Payne, Waylon | Jennings, Shooter | Lafferty, Sandra Ellis | Beene, Dan | Steakley, Clay | Rice, Johnathan
Directors: Mangold, James
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While growing up in the Great Depression era, Johnny Cash(Joaquin Phoenix) takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there, he buys his first guitar and writes his own music, and proposes to Vivian. When they got married, they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter, he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man who can pursue his dreams and ends up getting a record with the boys. Shortly after that, he was on a short tour, promoting his songs, and meets the already famous and beautiful June Carter(Reese Witherspoon). Then as they get on the long-term tours with June, the boys, and Jerry Lee Lewis, they have this unspoken relationship that grows. But when June leaves the tour because of his behavior, he was a drug addict. His marriage was also falling apart, and when he sees June years later at an awards show, he forces June to tour with them again, promising June to support her two kids and herself. While the tour goes on, the relationship between June and John grow more,and his marriage to his first wife ends. June finds out about the drugs, and help him overcome it. True love and care helped John eventually stop the drug usage, and finally proposes to her in front of an audience at a show.

Sabrina

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Audrey | Holden, William | Hampden, Walter | Williams, John | Hyer, Martha | Vohs, Joan | Dalio, Marcel | Hillaire, Marcel | Walker, Nella | Bushman, Francis X. | Corby, Ellen | Ahdar, David | Bailey, Raymond | Brooks, Ralph
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her — “doesn’t even know I exist” — until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David’s attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.

Deep End of the Ocean, The

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Pfeiffer, Michelle | Williams, Treat | Goldberg, Whoopi | Jackson, Jonathan | Buck, Cory | Merriman, Ryan | Vega, Alexa | McGrady, Michael | Strong, Brenda | McElroy, Michael | Musante, Tony | Gregorio, Rose | Kapelos, John | Jenney, Lucinda | Roselius, John
Directors: Grosbard, Ulu
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The Deep End of The Ocean is a film about a family’s reaction when Ben, the youngest son is kidnapped and then found ten years later, living in the same town.

Frequency

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Caviezel, James | Doyle, Shawn | Mitchell, Elizabeth | Braugher, Andre | Emmerich, Noah | Melissa Errico | Henson, Daniel | Jordan Bridges | Joffe, Stephen | McCormack, Jack | MacNeill, Peter | Cera, Michael | Hinkle, Marin | Sali, Richard
Directors: Hoblit, Gregory
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A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history—again.

Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Moore, Julianne | Harrelson, Woody | Dern, Laura | Morgan, Trevor | Porterfield, Ellary | Reynolds, Simon | Gagné, Monté | Clark, Robert | Seater, Michael | Knudsen, Erik | Scott, Jake | Todosey, Jordan | Price, Ryan | Norris, Shae | Falle, Abigail
Directors: Anderson, Jane
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances.

Hearts in Atlantis

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Yelchin, Anton | Davis, Hope | Boorem, Mika | Morse, David | Tudyk, Alan | Bower, Tom | Weston, Celia | LeFevre, Adam | Rothhaar, Will | Reifsnyder, Timothy | O'Connell, Deirdre | Beaver, Terry | Blankenship, Joe T. | Fleisher, Brett
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man (David Morse), who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Anton Yelchin as Bobby, Mika Boorem as Carol, and Will Rothaar as Sully) share their lives. Carol & Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss “by which all others will be measured”. Bobby lives with his mother (Hope Davis), a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder (Anthony Hopkins), who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the “lowmen”, who were seeking him. The two share a summer’s adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully (Timothy Reifsnyder) also changes everyone.

Mona Lisa Smile

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Dunst, Kirsten | Stiles, Julia | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Goodwin, Ginnifer | West, Dominic | Stevenson, Juliet | Harden, Marcia Gay | Slattery, John | Seldes, Marian | Mitchell, Donna | Rigby, Terence | Eisenhower, Jennie | Lyles, Leslie | Allen, Laura
Directors: Newell, Mike
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Set in 1953, Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.