Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novel’

War of the Worlds (2005)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Fanning, Dakota | Chatwin, Justin | Otto, Miranda | Robbins, Tim | Gonzalez, Rick | Vazquez, Yul | Venito, Lenny | Walter, Lisa Ann | Robinson, Ann | Barry, Gene | Basche, David Alan | Abrams, Roz | Brownlee, Michael | Sanes, Camillia
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Ray Ferrier is a dock worker who is finishing a night of work in the morning, because he works the night shift. But when he gets home his young daughter Rachel and teenage son Robbie are staying with him at his house in Bayonne, New Jersey, while his pregnant ex-wife Mary Anne and her new husband Tim visit her parents in Boston for the weekend. But then the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense! Witnessing, and barely escaping the horror, first-hand, it’s up to Ray to protect his two kids from terrorist and races up to Boston before one of them gets murdered by a large tripod machine in its path!

Vampires (1998)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Woods, James | Guinee, Tim | Lee, Sheryl | Schell, Maximilian | Baldwin, Daniel | Thomas Ian Griffith | Sierra, Gregory | Mark Boone Jr.
Directors: Carpenter, John
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The church has long known that vampires exist. However, it is discovered that a group of vampires are searching for a powerful doom for mankind. The Vatican then secretly enlists a team of vampire-hunters, led by Jack Crow, to hunt down and destroy the vampires before they find the crucifix.

Patriot, The (1998)

Friday, April 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Seagal, Steven | Sartain, Gailard | Jones, L. Q. | Mitchell, Silas Weir | Belle, Camilla | Beene, Dan | Damon Collazo | Whitney Yellow Robe | Leland, Brad | Molly McClure | Winchester, Philip | Sebern, Douglas | Loney, Ross | O'Connor, Bernard | Mountain Chief, Leonard
Directors: Dean Semler
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Doctor Wesley McClaren is an immunologist in Ennis, Montana, and he has turned down an offer to join his friend Richard Bach, who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the head of a unit called the Biological Response Team (BRT). Wesley and his daughter Holly live on a farm in Ennis, and a farmhand named Frank lives with them. Just over the hill from the farm, a 52 day standoff against militia leader Floyd Chisolm has ended. Floyd has decided to be his own attorney in court. Everyone is shocked when Floyd spits on Judge Tomkins. After the hearing, Tomkins starts feeling sick. Holly, like she always does, stops at Wesley’s office after school so she can go home with Wesley. On their way home, Wesley gets a call on his mobile phone. Wesley rushes to the hospital with Holly and tells her to wait in the doctors’ lounge, then Wesley is taken to see Tomkins, who looks awful. Wesley is told that Tomkins collapsed in his chambers at the court building. Wesley sees a cop collapse, while Tomkins has a seizure. Wesley calls Richard and tells him to send the BRT. Army medical units are sent in, and Ennis is sealed off. Wesley tells Frank to stay in town instead of going to the farm, then Wesley tells Holly to stay where she is, because the town is dealing with an outbreak. Richard arrives in town and talks to Wesley, who knows that some kind of toxin has been released. Wesley asks Richard about an anti-toxin, then they go to Tomkins’s room, where Tomkins has died. Richard tells Wesley that the toxin is a warfare product called NAM37, which is ten times more potent than anthrax. Richard also tells Wesley that a technician working for NAM37’s developers stole a big sample of the NAM37 and was detained by security in Billings, Montana, one day after the NAM37 was sold to Floyd, but the technician killed himself before anyone could ask him any questions. After buying the NAM37, Floyd infected himself and started the outbreak by spitting on Tomkins. So far, 94 people have been infected, and the NAM37 has killed 5 people. Wesley takes a sample of Holly’s blood, and Floyd is visited in jail by his right hand man and medical expert Nate Pogue, who has also been infected. and the anti-toxin Floyd bought along with the NAM37 only slows the NAM37 down instead of being a cure. Floyd’s plan was to start the outbreak, then use the anti-toxin on himself. Floyd tells Pogue to get him out so they can get the anti-toxin that the army has brought into town. Later, a group of men led by Pogue return to the jail, where they kill all of the guards and get Floyd out. Floyd and Pogue go to the hospital with their men, and they take the hospital hostage in hopes of getting the anti-toxin, only to discover that the army’s anti-toxin is the same anti-toxin Floyd bought. Richard explains that there have been times when NAM37 has mutated, and when it does, the anti-toxin doesn’t work. Pogue sees Holly’s blood sample and the sample shows that Holly has been infected, but somehow, she’s okay and her body is fighting it off. Floyd wants Holly found. When one of Floyd’s men finds Holly in the lounge and tries to grab her, Wesley beats the man up and goes to the farm with Holly and Frank. Floyd’s men head to Wesley’s farm, where Frank ambushes them and kills all of them except for one man, who kills Frank. Wesley and Holly take off with Frank’s body, and ride their horses to a farm where Holly’s Grandpa lives, and they give Frank a proper burial. Wesley takes a blood sample from his friend Ann (Whitney Yellow Robe), and just like Holly, Ann’s body is fighting off the NAM37. Leaving Holly at her Grandpa’s house, Wesley and Ann go to an underground lab that Wesley used to work in, where they plan to come up with a cure. Pogue, who is still at the hospital with Floyd, thinks he has found a cure, but he needs Holly’s blood to isolate it. After Wesley finds the reason why Ann and Holly are not being affected by the virus, Wesley and Holly go home…where Holly is kidnapped by Floyd’s men. Now Wesley must go to Floyd’s headquarters and rescue Holly.

Jackie Brown (1997)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Crosby, Denise | Grier, Pam | Jackson, Samuel L. | Forster, Robert | Fonda, Bridget | Keaton, Michael | De Niro, Robert | Bowen, Michael | Tucker, Chris | Hamilton, Lisa Gay | Lister Jr., Tom 'Tiny' | Winston, Hattie | Haig, David | Graham, Aimee | Williams, Ellis | Ambrose, Tangie
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin
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Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss’ gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don’t even know. Here’s when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you’re talking about him, you’re dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That’s when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max’s help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff…

Firm, The (1993)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Tripplehorn, Jeanne | Hackman, Gene | Holbrook, Hal | Kinney, Terry | Brimley, Wilford | Harris, Ed | Hunter, Holly | Strathairn, David | Busey, Gary | Hill, Steven | Bell, Tobin | Garrick, Barbara | Hardin, Jerry | Calderon, Paul
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by ‘The Firm’ and made an offer he doesn’t refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan…

Jaws (1975)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Shaw, Robert | Dreyfuss, Richard | Gary, Lorraine | Hamilton, Murray | Gottlieb, Carl | Kramer, Jeffrey | Backlinie, Susan | Filley, Jonathan | Rebello, Chris | Mello, Jay | Fierro, Lee | Voorhees, Jeffrey | Kingsbury, Craig | Nevin, Dr. Robert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Martin Brody is the new police chief of Amity, an island resort town somewhere in New England. He has a wife named Ellen, and two sons named Michael and Sean. On a Summer morning, Brody is called to the beach, where the mangled body of Summer vacationer Chrissie Watkins has washed ashore. The medical examiner tells Brody that it could have been a shark that killed Watkins. Mayor Larry Vaughn, who is desperate to not lose the money that will be brought in by 4th of July tourists, wants Brody to say Watkins’s death was caused by a motorboat propeller instead of a shark, because the thought of a shark in Amity’s waters would drive tourists away from Amity. It looks like Vaughn is a mayor who puts money ahead of people’s lives. Shark expert Matt Hooper believes Watkins was killed by a shark. Hooper is proven right a few days later, when Alex Kintner is killed by the shark that killed Watkins. Looking for the quickest solution, Vaughn tells all of the local fishermen to let him know if they see the shark. A shark hunter named Quint offers to find the shark and kill it, but Vaughn thinks Quint’s price of $10,000 is too high. When a tiger shark is killed and hauled in by a couple of boaters, Vaughn hastily says that the shark crisis is over, but Hooper says the shark that’s been killing people a huge great white shark is still in Amity’s waters, but Vaughn leaves the beaches opened because all he cares about is the 4th of July tourist money. On the 4th of July, Vaughn encourages people to swim at the beach, and Hooper is proven right again when the shark kills a man, biting the man’s leg off. Michael, who was in the water at the time of the attack, is taken to the hospital, where he’s treated for shock after watching the shark kill the guy. Brody asks Vaughn to hire Quint to find the shark. Because his own kids were at that beach too, Vaughn agrees to hire Quint to find the shark. Quint, Hooper, and Brody are sent out to sea in Quint’s boat, the Orca, ready to do whatever it takes to find the shark.

Walk to Remember, A (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hannah, Daryl | West, Shane | Moore, Mandy | Coyote, Peter | Jonathan Parks Jordan | German, Lauren
Directors: Shankman, Adam
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Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn’t care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club’s spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.

Secretary (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Davies, Jeremy | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Spader, James | Warren, Lesley Ann | Bauchau, Patrick
Directors: Steven Shainberg
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Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.

Green Mile, The (1999)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Morse, David | Hunt, Bonnie | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Cromwell, James | Jeter, Michael | Greene, Graham | Hutchison, Doug | Rockwell, Sam | Pepper, Barry | De Munn, Jeffrey | Clarkson, Patricia | Stanton, Harry Dean | Greer, Dabbs | Brent, Eve
Directors: Darabont, Frank
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Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930’s, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

Rules of Attraction, The (2002)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Sossamon, Shannyn | James Van Der Beek | Ian Somerhalder | Bosworth, Kate | Biel, Jessica | Pardue, Kip
Directors: Avary, Roger
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Camden College. Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is the younger brother of depraved Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman. He’s also a drug dealer who owes a lot of money to “fellow” dealer Rupert Guest (Clifton Collins, Jr.), as well as a well-known womanizer, for he sleeps with nearly half of the female population on campus. Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon) is, technically, a virgin. She’s saving herself for her shallow boyfriend, Victor Johnson (Kip Pardue), who’s left the States to backpack across Europe. Her slutty roommate, Lara (Jessica Biel), has the hots for Victor as well. Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder), who used to date Lauren, is openly bisexual and attracted to Mitchell Allen (Thomas Ian Nicholas), who’s dating Candice (Clare Kramer) to prove to Paul that he’s not gay. Sean loves Lauren. Paul loves Sean. And Lauren may love Sean.