Posts Tagged ‘1960s’

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Grey, Jennifer | Swayze, Patrick | Orbach, Jerry | Rhodes, Cynthia | Weston, Jack | Brucker, Jane | Bishop, Kelly | Price, Lonny | Cantor, Max | Coles, Charles 'Honi' | Jones, Neal | Morrow, 'Cousin Brucie' | Knight, Wayne | Trueman, Paula | Myerovich, Alvin
Directors: Ardolino, Emile
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Set in the 1960s, Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes to a very respectable summer camp in the Catskills. Baby has grown up in privileged surrounds with her doctor father and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny, a man whose background is vastly different to her own. Attempting to impress him, Baby borrows money from her father to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny’s dance partner and it is during the rigorous training that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny’s friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby is forced to seek her father’s medical assistance. Her father then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with “those people”. In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny - ostensibly to apologize for her father’s rudeness - and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny’s bungalow the next morning and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft that last evening, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts. Attempting to defend her lover, Baby confesses that they were together that night - all night. This revelation causes a huge rift in the family and Baby makes an impassioned speech to her angry and bereft father. At the closing night performances, and although he has been fired and banned from attending - Johnny returns and takes the stage to tell everyone about the woman who stole his heart and changed his life before they have one, final dance together.

Blow (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Cruz, Penélope | Potente, Franka | Griffiths, Rachel | Reubens, Paul | Mollà, Jordi | Curtis, Cliff | Sandoval, Miguel | Suplee, Ethan | Liotta, Ray | Gage, Kevin | Perlich, Max | James, Jesse | Pérez, Miguel | Ferro, Dan
Directors: Demme, Ted
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970’s. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.

Blast from the Past (1999)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Fraser, Brendan | Silverstone, Alicia | Walken, Christopher | Spacek, Sissy | Foley, Dave | Slotnick, Joey | Raoul, Dale | Tank, Hayden | Smith, Douglas | Sparks, Ryan | Yesso, Don | Thomson, Scott | Kairys, Ted | Linn, Rex | Mace, Cynthia
Directors: Wilson, Hugh
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Brandon Fraser is Adam Weber, the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers in their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam Weber must venture out into Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself. He meets Eve (Alicia Silverstone), who reluctantly agrees to help him out.

Frequency (2000)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Caviezel, James | Doyle, Shawn | Mitchell, Elizabeth | Braugher, Andre | Emmerich, Noah | Melissa Errico | Henson, Daniel | Jordan Bridges | Joffe, Stephen | McCormack, Jack | MacNeill, Peter | Cera, Michael | Hinkle, Marin | Sali, Richard
Directors: Hoblit, Gregory
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A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history—again.

Platoon (1986)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Berenger, Tom | Dafoe, Willem | Sheen, Charlie | Whitaker, Forest | Quinn, Francesco | McGinley, John C. | Edson, Richard | Dillon, Kevin | Johnson, Reggie | David, Keith | Depp, Johnny | Neidorf, David | Moses, Mark | Pedersen, Chris | Todd, Tony
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two commanding officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes (Tom Berenger) and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin (Willem Dafoe). A line is drawn between the two officers and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Hanks, Tom | Walken, Christopher | Sheen, Martin | Baye, Nathalie | Adams, Amy | Brolin, James | Howe, Brian | Hughes, Frank John | Eastin, Steve | Ellis, Chris | Finn, John | Garner, Jennifer | Lenehan, Nancy | Pompeo, Ellen
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.

Chocolat (2000)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Binoche, Juliette | Molina, Alfred | Depp, Johnny | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Dench, Judi | Parent Koenig, Aurelien | Gil-Martinez, Antonio | Cardona, Hélène | Pratt, Harrison | Connell, Gaelan | Commelin, Elisabeth | Cook, Ron | Tardieu, Guillaume | O'Conor, Hugh | Wood, John | Olin, Lena | Stormare, Peter | Caron, Leslie
Directors: Hallström, Lasse
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1960, small town France. Vianne Rocher and her pre-teen daughter move into town and open a chocolate shop just as lent is beginning. The town’s small-minded mayor can’t accept this and does his best to shut her down, but her warm personality and incredible chocolates manage to win over many townsfolk. Things get shaken up even more when a group of river drifters, led by Roux, stop into town (to the even greater distress of the mayor) and Vianne takes up with him. Meanwhile, she’s been helping Josephine out of her abusive marriage and her equally freethinking landlord, Amande Voisin, get together with her grandson, Luc, whose mother doesn’t approve of Amande’s ways.

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Yelchin, Anton | Davis, Hope | Boorem, Mika | Morse, David | Tudyk, Alan | Bower, Tom | Weston, Celia | LeFevre, Adam | Rothhaar, Will | Reifsnyder, Timothy | O'Connell, Deirdre | Beaver, Terry | Blankenship, Joe T. | Fleisher, Brett
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man (David Morse), who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Anton Yelchin as Bobby, Mika Boorem as Carol, and Will Rothaar as Sully) share their lives. Carol & Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss “by which all others will be measured”. Bobby lives with his mother (Hope Davis), a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder (Anthony Hopkins), who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the “lowmen”, who were seeking him. The two share a summer’s adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully (Timothy Reifsnyder) also changes everyone.

Auto Focus (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kinnear, Greg | Dafoe, Willem | Wilson, Rita | Bello, Maria | Leibman, Ron | Solomon, Bruce | Rodgers, Michael E. | Fuller, Kurt | Neiman, Christopher | Kanouse, Lyle | Recco, Donnamarie | Begley Jr., Ed | McKean, Michael | Bowers, Cheryl Lynn | McManus, Don
Directors: Schrader, Paul
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Capitalizing on his fame as the star of “Hogan’s Heroes,” Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978, which remains officially unsolved to this day.

Unbreakable (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Jackson, Samuel L. | Wright Penn, Robin | Clark, Spencer Treat | Woodard, Charlayne | Walker, Eamonn | Stefanson, Leslie | Jamison, Johnny Hiram | Carroll, Michaelia | Christopher, Bostin | Lawrence, Elizabeth | Duffield, David | Regan, Laura | Kelly, Chance | Kelly, Michael
Directors: Shyamalan, M. Night
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This suspense thriller unfolds as the audience is introduced to David Dunn, played by Willis. Not only is he the sole survivor of a horrific train-crash that killed 131 people he doesn’t have a scratch on him. Samuel L Jackson plays an obscure character who approaches Dunn with a seemingly far fetched theory behind it all rocketing off an enticing thriller with a sci fi twist