Posts Tagged ‘manipulation’

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.

Fracture

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Gosling, Ryan | Strathairn, David | Pike, Rosamund | Davidtz, Embeth | Burke, Billy | Curtis, Cliff | Shaw, Fiona | Gunton, Bob | Josh Stamberg | Berkeley, Xander | Kazan, Zoe | Scott, Judith | Cervantes, Gary | Burchard, Petrea
Directors: Hoblit, Gregory
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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who’s soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it’s an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum’s weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy’s a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.

Heartbreakers

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Hewitt, Jennifer Love | Liotta, Ray | Lee, Jason | Bancroft, Anne | Jones, Jeffrey | Hackman, Gene | Dunn, Nora | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Jay, Ricky | Silverman, Sarah | Galifianakis, Zach | Hitchcock, Michael | Gonneau, Pierre | Colvin, Shawn
Directors: Mirkin, David
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Max (Weaver) and Page (Hewitt) are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it’s on to the next victim.

Basic Instinct

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Stone, Sharon | Dzundza, George | Tripplehorn, Jeanne | Arndt, Denis | Sarelle, Leilani | Young, Bruce A. | Ross, Chelcie | Malone, Dorothy | Knight, Wayne | von Bargen, Daniel | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Mouton, Benjamin | McGee, Jack | Cable, Bill
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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Former rock star and San Francisco nightclub owner Johnny Boz is found murdered in his bed. Detective Nick Curran is assigned to the case; he has a history of alcoholism and drug abuse although he is clean now. The prime suspect is Catherine Tramell, an attractive and manipulative novelist who had been seeing Boz for a while. Police psychiatrist Beth Gardner (who happens to be Nick’s ex-girlfriend) is brought in on the case when it is discovered that Boz’s murder was copied directly from one of Catherine’s novels. Nick starts to get too involved and everyone seems to be a suspect.

Cruel Intentions

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Actors: Snyder, Drew | Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Phillippe, Ryan | Witherspoon, Reese | Blair, Selma | Fletcher, Louise | Jackson, Joshua | Mabius, Eric | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Kurtz, Swoosie | Baranski, Christine | Hall, Alaina Reed | Offner, Deborah | Reid, Tara | Ware, Herta | Le, Hiep Thi
Directors: Kumble, Roger
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Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won’t be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until marriage) before the start of the school year. If he loses, Kathryn gets his Roadster, if he wins, he gets Kathryn

Terminal, The

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Tucci, Stanley | McBride, Chi | Luna, Diego | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Pallana, Kumar | Saldana, Zoe | Jones, Eddie | Ciccolella, Jude | Reynolds, Corey | Díaz, Guillermo | Bell, Rini | Mendel, Stephen | Nikolayev, Valeri
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Viktor Navorski, a man from an Eastern European country arrives in New York but after he left his country; war broke out and because of that Navorski is a man without a country that the U.S. cannot recognize, thus he is denied entrance to the U.S. However, he also can’t be deported so he is told by the Security Manager that he has to remain in the airport until his status can be fixed. And also Navorski doesn’t speak English well, so no one can talk to him and he can’t talk to anyone. But he somehow adapts and sets up residence in the airport, which makes the man who placed him there unhappy cause, it seems he is line for a promotion but Navroski’s presence might complicate that. So he tries to get Navorski to leave but Navorski remains where he is. Navorski makes friends with some of the people who work in the airport and is attracted to a flight attendant he runs into whenever she comes in.

Disclosure

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Actors: Baker, David | Douglas, Michael | Moore, Demi | Sutherland, Donald | Goodall, Caroline | Maffia, Roma | Baker, Dylan | Forsyth, Rosemary | Miller, Dennis | Plakson, Suzie | Sadler, Nicholas | Kim, Jacqueline | Urla, Joe | Chieffo, Michael | Attanasio, Joseph | Einhorn, Faryn
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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With his company about to merge, a happily married and successful computer expert is expecting a promotion. Instead the job goes to a woman from another plant with whom he had an affair in his bachelor days. His new boss, not only dangerously sexy but equally dangerously ambitious, tries to pick up where they left off but he just about manages to resist. As his position at work comes under increasing pressure he decides to file charges of sexual harassment. This is the last thing the company needs.

Game, The

Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Young, Harrison | James Brooks | Joe Frank | Kimberly Russell | Douglas, Michael | Penn, Sean | Unger, Deborah Kara | Rebhorn, James | Donat, Peter | Baker, Carroll | Katarina, Anna | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Martinet, Charles | McGuire, Scott Hunter | Mocanu, Florentine | Dennehy, Elizabeth | Barclay, Caroline | Schorr, Daniel | Aprea, John
Directors: Fincher, David
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Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.