Posts Tagged ‘fame’

Purple Rain

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music
Actors: Prince | Kotero, Apollonia | Day, Morris | Karlatos, Olga | Williams III, Clarence | Benton, Jerome | Sparks, Billy | Jones, Jill | Huntsberry, Charles | Dickerson, Dez | Bennett, Brenda | Moonsie, Susan | Gershman, Sandra Claire | Upsher, Kim | Leeds, Alan
Directors: Magnoli, Albert
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A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn’t all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father’s self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.

Rocky III

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Sport
Actors: Shire, Talia | Young, Burt | Weathers, Carl | Burgess Meredith | Burton, Tony | Mr. T | Hogan, Hulk | Fried, Ian | Silvani, Al | Taylor, Wally | Hill, Jim | Sherman, Don | James, Dennis | Healy, Jim
Directors: Stallone, Sylvester
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After beating Apollo Creed and become World Heavyweight Champion, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is enjoying his boxing and top lifestyle, being everyone’s idol. After 10 successful title defenses under his name and even a charity fight draw with World Wrestling Champion, Thunderlips (Hulk Hogan), Rocky believes he has nothing more to prove and is ready to retire. But boxing brawler Clubber Lang (Mr. T) becomes the No. 1 contender and demands a match with Rocky for the Title. Rocky has too much pride to reject Lang, and trains with Manager Micky for his bout with Lang. But before the match, Rocky and Clubber get into a bust-up backstage and Micky is badly hurt. Rocky goes into his fight very worried about Micky who is being treated by a doctor as Rocky fights without a manager in his corner. Lang brutally beats Rocky, and after the fight, a battered Rocky falls into depression after the death of Manager Micky and does not have the confidence to challenge Lang to a re-match. But Former Champion Apollo Creed is the only man able to persuade Rocky to offer a rematch, and after Lang accepts the challenge, Creed trains Rocky. Rocky must now try to forget about his last brutal bout with Clubber, and try to regain the title and the confidence of everyone, and also try to get back the “eye of the tiger”. Can Balboa win his Title and dignity back?…

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.

Hollywoodland

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Brody, Adrien | Lane, Diane | Affleck, Ben | Hoskins, Bob | Tunney, Robin | Cedar, Larry | DeMunn, Jeffrey | Henke, Brad William | Mihok, Dash | Parker, Molly | Dhavernas, Caroline | Robertson, Kathleen | Spano, Joe | Williams, Gareth | Mills, Zach
Directors: Coulter, Allen
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An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood’s most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV’s Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon - and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo. Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix, the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, might hold the key to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one.

Flags of Our Fathers

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Actors: Phillippe, Ryan | Bradford, Jesse | Beach, Adam | Hickey, John Benjamin | Slattery, John | Pepper, Barry | Bell, Jamie | Walker, Paul | Patrick, Robert | McDonough, Neal | Lynskey, Melanie | McCarthy, Thomas | Bauer, Chris | Ivey, Judith | Turley, Myra
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph.

Party Monster

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Actors: Green, Seth | Culkin, Macaulay | Scarwid, Diana | Sevigny, Chloë | Woolley, Dillon | Manson, Marilyn | McDermott, Dylan | Kirshner, Mia | Valderrama, Wilmer | Kriss, Elliot | Lyonne, Natasha | Franzese, Daniel | Dardaris, Janis | Cruz, Wilson | Perez, Manny
Directors: Bailey, Fenton | Barbato, Randy
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Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980’s thru the 1990’s, a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter ‘Michael Alig’ (qv), a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana, Alig moved to New York, and came to be an underground legend, known for his excessive drug use and outrageous behavior in the club world. At his peak, he had his own record label, and magazine, and hosted Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the ’90s. He was doing a lot of drugs, and as his addiction got worse, his party themes became darker and more twisted. Alig’s saga reached its tragic crescendo when he viciously murdered his drug dealer, Angel, by injecting him with Drano and throwing him in the East River. The power he wielded on the club scene made him feel untouchable, so he didn’t hestitate to boast of the murder. The press thought it was a publicity stunt—until Angel’s body washed ashore.

Notting Hill

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Grant, Hugh | McCabe, Richard | Ifans, Rhys | Dreyfus, James | Moran, Dylan | Frost, Roger | Goodman, Henry | Rhind-Tutt, Julian | King, Lorelei | Shrapnel, John | Peters, Clarke | Venegas, Arturo | Vazquez, Yolanda | Barton, Mischa
Directors: Michell, Roger
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Every man’s dream comes true for William Thacker, a successless Notting Hill bookstore owner, when Anna Scott, the world’s most beautiful woman and best-liked actress, enters his shop. A little later, he still can’t believe it himself, William runs into her again - this time spilling orange juice over her. Anna accepts his offer to change in his nearby apartment, and thanks him with a kiss, which seems to surprise her even more than him. Eventually, Anna and William get to know each other better over the months, but being together with the world’s most wanted woman is not easy - neither around your closest friends, nor in front of the all-devouring press.