Posts Tagged ‘high-school’

Notes on a Scandal

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Actors: Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Georgeson, Tom | Maloney, Michael | Scanlan, Joanna | Parkes, Shaun | Kennedy, Emma | Kumar, Syreeta | Simpson, Andrew | Davis, Philip | Nottingham, Wendy | Empson, Tameka | Skinner, Leon | Nighy, Bill | Temple, Juno
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

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

Invisible, The

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Chatwin, Justin | Levieva, Margarita | Harden, Marcia Gay | Marquette, Chris | O'Loughlin, Alex | Rennie, Callum Keith | Harrison, Michelle | Kennedy, Ryan | Francis, Andrew | Johnson, P. Lynn | Houde, Serge | Zurowski, Desiree | Houghton, Mark | Ferris, Alex | Saulnier, Tania
Directors: Goyer, David S.
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Two young teens’ real selves are invisible to others, one due to his untimely death and the other due to the neglect she’s endured since the death of her mother.

Sky High

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Thriller
Actors: Angarano, Michael | Russell, Kurt | Preston, Kelly | Panabaker, Danielle | Wynne, Christopher | Heffernan, Kevin | Daniels, Dee Jay | Vitz, Kelly | Berman, Loren | Braun, Nicholas | Malika | Khadijah | Sandvig, Jake | Harris, Will | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth
Directors: Mitchell, Mike
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It all begins at a secret school in the clouds like none on earth: Sky High, the first and only high school for kids with super-human powers going through crime-fighting puberty. At Sky High, the student body throw flames with their footballs, study Villainy with their Chemistry and are divided into Heroes and Sidekicks instead of jocks and geeks. It’s an out-of-this-world yet completely recognizable place where cool gadgetry, rampant bravery and awe-inspiring magical skills mix it up with parental battles, peer pressure and dating trouble—with explosively fun results. This year’s class features some of the best, brightest and most powerfully gifted super-teens ever assembled. And then there’s Will Stronghold. When you’re the son of the world’s most legendary super heroes, The Commander and Jetstream, people expect you to live up to the family name The problem is that Will is starting with no superpowers of his own and, worst of all, instead of joining the ranks of the Hero class, he finds himself relegated to being a Sidekick. Now he must somehow survive his freshman year while dealing with an overbearing gym coach, a bully with super speed and a dangerous rebel with a grudge (and the ability to shoot fire from his hands)—not to mention the usual angst, parental expectations and girl problems that accompany teenage life. But when an evil villain threatens his family, friends and the very sanctity of Sky High, Will must use his newfound superpowers to save the day and prove himself a Hero worthy of the family tradition.

North Country

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Theron, Charlize | Peterson, Elle | Curtis, Thomas | McDormand, Frances | Bean, Sean | Harrelson, Woody | Renner, Jeremy | Jenkins, Richard | Spacek, Sissy | Cada, James | Schwimmer, Rusty | Emond, Linda | Monaghan, Michelle | Henke, Brad William | Armenante, Jillian
Directors: Caro, Niki
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A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.

Scary Movie

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Actors: Oteri, Cheri | Wayans, Shawn | Munro, Lochlyn | Fuller, Kurt | Electra, Carmen | Sheridan, Dave | Moore, Frank B. | Baessato, Giacomo | Graham, Kyle | Santos, Leanne | McConchie, Mark | Kruper, Karen | Faris, Anna | Abrahams, Jon | Ducommun, Rick | Hall, Regina | Wayans, Marlon | Elizabeth, Shannon | Berry, Lloyd
Directors: Wayans, Keenen Ivory
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A parody of modern horror films about a group of teenagers who are being terrorised by a serial killer. Some of the send-ups include: “Scream”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, “The Blair Witch Project”, “The Sixth Sense” and “The Matrix”.

Cry-Baby

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Amy Locane | Tyrrell, Susan | Bergen, Polly | Pop, Iggy | Lake, Ricki | Lords, Traci | McGuire, Kim | Burrows, Darren E. | Mailer, Stephen | Webb, Kim | Wendl, Alan J. | Donahue, Troy | Stole, Mink | Dallesandro, Joe
Directors: Waters, John
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Allison is a “square” good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or “Drape” in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the ’50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Actors: Thurman, Uma | Wilson, Luke | Faris, Anna | Wilson, Rainn | Izzard, Eddie | Savante, Stelio | Iorio, Mike | Consuelos, Mark | Sykes, Wanda | Florence, Margaret Anne | Veronika, Eva | Feeney, Lawrence | Bonacki, Lou | Norris, Jeff | Northrop, Greg
Directors: Reitman, Ivan
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Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) thought his luck had just changed when he start dating Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman). But what he doesn’t know is he is going out with New York super-hero G-Girl. When he breaks it of with her for his work partner Hannah (Anna Faris) G-Girl makes his life hell.

Brick

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Actors: Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | Zehetner, Nora | Haas, Lukas | Fleiss, Noah | O'Leary, Matt | de Ravin, Emilie | Segan, Noah | Roundtree, Richard | Good, Meagan | White, Brian J. | Cauff, Jonathan | Gibbs, Reedy | Babin, Lucas | Wilcoxen, Tracy | Welkom, Ari
Directors: Johnson, Rian
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In a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school, student Brendan Frye’s piercing intelligence spares no one. He’s not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. His feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, he enlists the aid of his only true peer, the Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan’s single-minded unearthing of students’ secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura, intimidating Tugger, substance-abusing Dode, seductive Kara, jock Brad and - most ominously - non-student the Pin. Only by gaining acceptance into the Pin’s closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to.

New Guy, The

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Qualls, DJ | Dushku, Eliza | Deschanel, Zooey | Mixon, Jerod | Shen, Parry | Lovett, Lyle | Griffin, Eddie | Mabrey, Sunny | Patterson, Ross | Gogin, Matt | Sanz, Horatio | Hawk, Tony | Lewis, Geoffrey | O'Connell, Charlie | Simmons, Gene
Directors: Ed Decter
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Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek going through a hellish senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the technics of being cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris, to make new friends where he soon gains respect from the jocks and geeks alike. Dizzy then gets noticed by the head cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football team gain self-respect to win games. But things unknowingly begin to turn sour when Danielle’s disgruntled boyfriend begins investigating into “Gil Harris’” past to uncover any dirt on him.