Posts Tagged ‘working-class’

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.

Spider

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Fiennes, Ralph | Richardson, Miranda | Byrne, Gabriel | Redgrave, Lynn | Neville, John | Hall, Bradley | Reineke, Gary | Craig, Philip | Saunders, Cliff | Ellis, Tara | Stockbridge, Sara | Whybrow, Arthur | Duffett, Nicola | Nightingale, Jake | Egan, Alison
Directors: Cronenberg, David
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Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed “Spider” by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.

All or Nothing

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Actors: Spall, Timothy | Manville, Lesley | Garland, Alison | Corden, James | Sheen, Ruth | Bailey, Marion | Jesson, Paul | Kelly, Sam | Hunter, Kathryn | Hawkins, Sally | Coker, Helen | Daniel Mays | Crompton, Ben | Wilfort, Robert | McDonald, Gary
Directors: Leigh, Mike
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Penny’s love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil’s and Penny’s life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny’s neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family’s lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey.