Posts Tagged ‘grandmother-grandson-relationship’

In the Land of Women

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Anaya, Elena | Brody, Adam | Keel, Kelsey | Savre, Danielle | Mantegna, Gina | Reinis, Rob | Williams, JoBeth | Vega, Makenzie | Stewart, Kristen | Ryan, Meg | Dukakis, Olympia | Milligan, Dustin | Wardle, Graham | Gatien, Elise | Danielle, Christine
Directors: Kasdan, Jon
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His world in complete disorder after his break-up with a famous actress, Carter, a young soft-core porn writer, goes to suburban Detroit to care for his sickly Grandmother and heal his broken heart. Along the way he forms a special bond with the family that lives across from his Grandma, and changes the life of each woman. In the course of this, as is required in every film—and thus the world, he changes his own life as well.

Dante’s Peak

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Hamilton, Linda | Hallahan, Charles | Smith, Jamie Renée | Foley, Jeremy | Hoffman, Elizabeth | Heslov, Grant | Trutner, Kirk | Field, Arabella | Ma, Tzi | Reddy, Brian | Garlington, Lee | Bolender, Bill | Androsky, Carole | Jason, Peter
Directors: Donaldson, Roger
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Volcanologist Harry Dalton and mayor Rachel Wando of Dante’s Peak try to convince the city council and the other volcanologists that the volcano right above Dante’s peak is indeed dangerous. People’s safety is being set against economical interests.

Next Best Thing, The

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Madonna | Everett, Rupert | Bratt, Benjamin | Douglas, Illeana | Vartan, Michael | Sommer, Josef | Stumpf, Malcolm | Redgrave, Lynn | Harris, Neil Patrick | Valley, Mark | Krull, Suzanne | Edwards, Stacy | Lynch, John Carroll | Bennett, Fran | Lopez, Ricki
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Ken Park

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Chubbuck, Adam | Bullard, James | Gray, Seth | Daniels, Eddie | McDowell, Zara | Quinlan, Maeve | Jasso, Stephen | Williams, Wade | Limos, Tiffany | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Ransone, James | Place, Patricia | Plummer, Amanda | Apaletegui, Mike | Young, Harrison
Directors: Clark, Larry | Lachman, Edward
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Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They’re all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another’s family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager’s inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments.

Laramie Project, The

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Actors: Ricci, Christina | Buscemi, Steve | Linney, Laura | Phoenix, Summer
Directors: Kaufman, Moisés
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‘Moisés Kaufman’ (qv) and members of New York’s Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of ‘Matthew Shepard (I)’ (qv). This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd’s visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of “Angels in America” a year after Shephard’s death.