Posts Tagged ‘tense’

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.

Exorcism of Emily Rose, The

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Linney, Laura | Wilkinson, Tom | Scott, Campbell | Carpenter, Jennifer | Feore, Colm | Close, Joshua | Welsh, Kenneth | Fraser, Duncan | Bourne, JR | Hurt, Mary Beth | Czerny, Henry | Aghdashloo, Shohreh | Archer, Steve | Belcastro, Arlene | Berner, David
Directors: Derrickson, Scott
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The nineteen years old Catholic college girl Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) dies a couple of days after being submitted to an exorcism carried out by her parish priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson). Emily believed she was possessed by six demons, and although authorized by Emily and he parents, Father Moore is accused of negligent homicide, since he had suggested Emily to interrupt the use of medications for epilepsy. In order to avoid a scandal, the Archdiocese hires the successful, ambitious and agnostic lawyer Erin Bruner (Laura Linney), and the prosecution assigns the religious prosecutor Ethan Thomas (Campbell Scott). Along the days, there is a battle between science and religion in the court.

Four Brothers

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Gibson, Tyrese | Benjamin, André | Hedlund, Garrett | Howard, Terrence | Charles, Josh | Vergara, Sofía | Flanagan, Fionnula | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Henson, Taraji P. | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Burks, Jernard | Welsh, Kenneth | Nappo, Tony | Singleton, Shawn
Directors: Singleton, John
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.

Riding the Bullet

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Actors: Jackson, Jonathan | Arquette, David | Robertson, Cliff | Hershey, Barbara | Christensen, Erika | Levy, Barry W. | Warris, Jackson | Ballard, Jeffrey | LaCroix, Peter | Gauthier, Chris | Nielsen, Robin | Frewer, Matt | Webb, Simon | Dallas, Keith | Dunn-Morris, Danielle
Directors: Mick Garris
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A young man hitchhiking back home to visit his mother is picked up by a mysterious stranger. As the ride goes on, the young man uncovers a terrible secret about the stranger, and is given a choice by the stranger. A choice that can mean life or death.

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.

Number 23, The

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Madsen, Virginia | Lerman, Logan | Huston, Danny | Lynn Collins | Mitra, Rhona | Arthur, Michelle | Pellegrino, Mark | Butcher, Paul | Stifel, David | Stoll, Corey | Lauter, Ed | Kotsur, Troy | Soo Hoo, Walter | Belcher, Patricia
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She’s browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by “23,” he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.

Perfect Stranger

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Berry, Halle | Willis, Bruce | Ribisi, Giovanni | Portnow, Richard | Dourdan, Gary | Lozano, Florencia | Aycox, Nicki Lynn | Chalfant, Kathleen | MacDonald, Gordon | Van Graas, Daniella | Miranda, Paula | D'Arbanville, Patti | Lewis, Clea | Feldman, Tamara | Becker, Gerry
Directors: Foley, James
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Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he’s Rowena’s prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she’s soon the object of Hill’s attentions. She’s helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out?

Hide and Seek

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Fanning, Dakota | Janssen, Famke | Shue, Elisabeth | Irving, Amy | Baker, Dylan | Leo, Melissa | Burke, Robert John | Grant Kallins, Molly | Chandler, David | Summers, Stewart | Baumer, Jake Dylan | Flitter, Josh | Sexton III, Brendan | Lovell, Jacqueline
Directors: Polson, John
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Hide and Seek revolves around a widower (Robert DeNiro) and his daughter (Dakota Fanning). They move to upstate and Emily (Fanning) soon creates an imaginary friend named Charlie…but this act takes an unexpected and terrifying turn, where her father and doctor (Famke Janssen) start to worry about Emily’s gruesome habits.

Rear Window

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Stewart, James | Kelly, Grace | Corey, Wendell | Ritter, Thelma | Burr, Raymond | Evelyn, Judith | Bagdasarian, Ross | Darcy, Georgine | Berner, Sara | Cady, Frank | Fax, Jesslyn | Harper, Rand | Winston, Irene | Davenport, Havis | English, Marla
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his “rear window” and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is “Miss Lonelyhearts,” so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. …And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife’s sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What’s in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What’s he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?

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.