Posts Tagged ‘novelist’

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.

Duplex

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Barrymore, Drew | Essell, Eileen | Fierstein, Harvey | Theroux, Justin | Remar, James | Wisdom, Robert | Kurtz, Swoosie | Shawn, Wallace | Rudolph, Maya | Valletta, Amber | Klein, Cheryl | Maculan, Tim | Titone, Jackie | Lazarev, Yevgeni
Directors: DeVito, Danny
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Alex Rose (Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Barrymore) are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they finally find the perfect Brooklyn brownstone they are giddy with anticipation. The duplex is a dream come true, complete with multiple fireplaces, except for one thing: Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel), the cranky old lady who lives on the rent-controlled top floor. Assuming she is elderly and ill, they take the apartment but their hopes are quickly dashed when they realize that Mrs. Connelly is an energetic senior who enjoys watching her television at top volume day in and day out and rehearsing in a brass band. A writer, Alex is attempting to finish his novel against a looming deadline. However, each day as he begins to write, he is interrupted by Mrs. Connelly’s numerous demands and requests and what begins as a nuisance quickly escalates into an all-out war. When Nancy loses her job and the pair are trapped at home together with Mrs. Connelly, their rage turns to homicidal fantasy as they plot ways to get rid of their no-good neighbour…

Jewel of the Nile, The

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Turner, Kathleen | DeVito, Danny | Focás, Spiros | Eisenberg, Avner | Magid, Paul David | Patterson, Howard Jay | Nelson, Randall Edwin | Williams, Samuel Ross | Furst, Timothy Daniel | Fillali, Hamid | Taylor, Holland | Cuevas, Guy | DePalma, Peter | Richards, Mark Daly
Directors: Teague, Lewis
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This is the sequel to “Romancing the Stone” where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the “jewel”. Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another… What is the story of this “jewel”?

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.

Human Stain, The

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Kidman, Nicole | Harris, Ed | Sinise, Gary | Miller, Wentworth | Barrett, Jacinda | Lennix, Harry J. | Gregg, Clark | Smith, Anna Deavere | Mitchell, Lizan | Washington, Kerry | Newman, Phyllis | Martindale, Margo | Canada, Ron | Avital, Mili
Directors: Benton, Robert
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.