Posts Tagged ‘suburbia’

Fido

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Actors: Connolly, Billy | Skorzewski, Jan | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Baker, Dylan | Tyell, Kevin | Ray, K'Sun | Czerny, Henry | Nelson, Tim Blake | Bennett, Sonja | Clement, Jennifer | Kepinski, Raphael | Brown, Aaron | Olds, Brandon | Fast, Alexia | Cuffling, Bernard
Directors: Currie, Andrew
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Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, “FIDO” will rip your heart out.

Next Friday

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Cube, Ice | Jones, Tamala | Epps, Mike | Pierce, Justin | Curry, Don 'D.C.' | John Witherspoon | Lister, Tommy 'Tiny' | Whitley, Kym | Jones, Kirk | Vargas, Jacob | Hill, Amy | Rodríguez, Lisa | Fingaz, Sticky | Powell, Clifton | Sebastian, Lobo
Directors: Carr, Steve
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Debo has escaped from prison and is looking to get revenge on Craig. So Craig’s dad takes him to Rancho Cucamonga to hide out with his Uncle Elroy and cousin Day-Day, who moved to the suburbs after winning the lottery. But once he gets there, Craig and Day-Day have a set of suburban misadventures that make his South Central experiences look tame.

Disturbia

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Thriller
Actors: LaBeouf, Shia | Roemer, Sarah | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Morse, David | Yoo, Aaron | Cantillo, Jose Pablo | Craven, Matt | Davis, Viola | Caruso, Brandon | Rauso, Luciano | Caruso, Daniel | Quinn, Kevin | Mirto, Elyse | Rico, Suzanne | Shocknek, Kent
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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After his father’s death, Kale Brecht (LaBeouf) becomes sullen, withdrawn, and troubled — so much so that he finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie (Moss), works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with indifference and lethargy. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbors, one of which Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer. But, are his suspicions merely the product of cabin fever and his overactive imagination?

Little Children

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Wilson, Patrick | Connelly, Jennifer | Edelman, Gregg | Goldstein, Sadie | Simpkins, Ty | Emmerich, Noah | Haley, Jackie Earle | Somerville, Phyllis | Carey, Helen | Wolf, Catherine | McCann, Mary B. | Trini Alvarado | Dietlein, Marsha | Adams, Jane
Directors: Field, Todd
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Echoes of “Madame Bovary” in the American suburbs. Sarah’s in a loveless marriage, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie’s mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?

Desperate Hours

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Rourke, Mickey | Hopkins, Anthony | Rogers, Mimi | Crouse, Lindsay | Lynch, Kelly | Koteas, Elias | Morse, David | Smith, Shawnee | Gerard, Danny | Bamman, Gerry | McGrath, Matt | Jones, John Christopher | Norris, Dean | Finn, John | Curry, Christopher
Directors: Cimino, Michael
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Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their getaway, she’s left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells. Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated. And there’s an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth.

Boondock Saints, The

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Dafoe, Willem | Flanery, Sean Patrick | Reedus, Norman | Della Rocco, David | Connolly, Billy | Ferry, David | Mahoney, Brian | Marley, Bob | Fitzpatrick, Richard | Young, William | Pemberton, Robert | Craig, Bill | Jones, Dot | Griffith, Scott | Morrison, Layton
Directors: Duffy, Troy
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Two Irish brothers accidentally killed mafia thugs. They turned themselves in and were released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and started knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he was to catching the Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing.

Over the Hedge

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Shandling, Garry | Carell, Steve | Sykes, Wanda | Shatner, William | Nolte, Nick | Church, Thomas Haden | Janney, Allison | Levy, Eugene | O'Hara, Catherine | Lavigne, Avril | Djalili, Omid | Kirkpatrick, Sami | Baumel, Shane | Davenport, Madison
Directors: Johnson, Tim
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Traveling raccoon con artist, RJ (Willis), arrives in a woods outside a human city in the Midwest, excited about the wonders that living near humans can bring hungry animals. What he finds, however, is an Amish-like community that is deathly afraid of humans, after their leader, Vern the tortoise (Shandling), has an encounter with human boys that terrifies him. Encouraged by RJ, however, the animals slowly venture over the hedge that separates them from the brand new suburban development that appeared over the winter while they were sleeping, and what RJ shows them is a whole new world where humans leave tin cans full of fish and other food in big canisters, ripe for the taking. As they get closer and closer to humans, however, their comfortable lives in the woods appears to be threatened…

Beethoven

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Actors: Grodin, Charles | Hunt, Bonnie | Jones, Dean | Tom, Nicholle | Castile, Christopher | Karr, Sarah Rose | Platt, Oliver | Tucci, Stanley | Duchovny, David | Heaton, Patricia | Davidson, Robi | Cronin, Laurel | Jones, O-Lan | Fish, Nancy | Pinkard, Craig
Directors: Levant, Brian
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Barely escaping from nefarious dognappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family — and promptly grows up into 185 pounds of romping, drolling, disaster-prone St. Bernard! Unfortunately, even after proving his canine credentials to mom and the kids, the heroic hound gets nowhere with uptight dad, George (Charles Grodin). But when a beastly veterinarian (Dean Jones) makes Beethoven the target of an unspeakable animal experiment, George becomes the only hope for saving the Newton’s furriest family member.

Whole Nine Yards, The

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Perry, Matthew | Arquette, Rosanna | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Henstridge, Natasha | Peet, Amanda | Pollak, Kevin | Williams, Harland | Ferland, Carmen | Christianssens, Serge | Le Guerrier, Renee Madeline | Bouchard, Jean-Guy | Bilerman, Howard | Goar, Johnny | Clavet, Deano
Directors: Lynn, Jonathan
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Oz is a Montréal dentist, paying off debts so he can divorce his wife: the dislike is mutual. When she learns their new neighbor is hit man Jimmy the Tulip, with a price on his head, she sends Oz to Chicago to earn a finder’s fee telling Mob boss Yanni where to find Jimmy. To get his wife off his back, Oz goes, his assistant Jill urging him to get laid while there. One of Yanni’s men awaits Oz at the hotel; Oz’s now in too deep to avoid telling Yanni what he knows. Meanwhile, Oz’s wife rats on Oz to Jimmy, hoping Jimmy will kill Oz and she can cash in on life insurance. Oz meets Jimmy’s wife (Yanni’s captive), flips for her, and the double-crosses mount. Even Jill isn’t whom she seems.

Fun with Dick and Jane

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Leoni, Téa | Herman, David | White, Knox | Addison, Walter | Nader, Ralph | Henry, Dilva | Saguar, Luis | Rueda Sr., Rocael | Breitmayer, Peter | Gardner, Pete | Whitley, Kym | Grazer, Gavin | St. James, James | Gillis, Mary
Directors: Parisot, Dean
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The day before Globodyne’s stock tanks, a la Enron, and its pension fund evaporates, the corporation’s CEO and CFO set up middle manager Dick Harper to be the public face of the disaster. Jobless, and with no savings, pension, or home equity, Dick and his wife Jane sink slowly into poverty. He looks for work (as do all former Globodyne executives); he even tries day labor with the relatives of their Mexican nanny. A foreclosure notice sends Dick and Jane over the edge into a life of blue-collar crime. Then, as things finally look up, the report of an looming indictment pushes Dick and Jane toward a denouement with the real criminals, the white-collar guys.