Posts Tagged ‘child-abuse’

Cell, The (2000)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Vaughn, Vince | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Weber, Jake | Baker, Dylan | Jean-Baptiste, Marianne | Bauchau, Patrick | Becker, Gerry | Subkoff, Tara | Sutherland, Catherine | Thomas, Jake | James, Colton | Norris, Dean | Cothran Jr., John | Conley, Jack
Directors: Singh, Tarsem
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Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept for about 40 hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now, Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher’s damaged personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her.

Leon (Professional, The) (1994)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Reno, Jean | Oldman, Gary | Portman, Natalie | Aiello, Danny | Appel, Peter | Blood, Willi One | Creech, Don | Glascoe, Keith A. | Scott, Alan Randolph | Badalucco, Michael | Greene, Ellen | Regen, Elizabeth | Matusovich, Carl J. | Senger, Frank | Cherokee, Lucius Wyatt
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon’s apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour’s unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Hartnett, Josh | Beckinsale, Kate | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Voight, Jon | Baldwin, Alec | Sizemore, Tom | Scott, William Lee | Zola, Greg | Bremner, Ewen | King, Jaime | Kellner, Catherine | Garner, Jennifer | Rue, Sara | Shannon, Michael
Directors: Bay, Michael
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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.

Magnolia (1999)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Healy, Pat | Zweig, Genevieve | Moore, Julianne | Macy, William H. | Flannagan, Mark | Flynn, Neil | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | McLachlan, Rod | Walters, Melora | Graf, Allan | Hall, Philip Baker | Oswalt, Patton | Blackman, Jeremy | Gonzales, Raymond 'Big Guy'
Directors: Anderson, Paul Thomas
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Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show “What Do Kids Know?”(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced “WDKK” when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl’s trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her… The host of “WDKK”, Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia’s house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away… Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on “WDKK”, who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He’s been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness…

Bad Santa (2003)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Thornton, Billy Bob | Cox, Tony | Kelly, Brett | Graham, Lauren | Tom, Lauren | Mac, Bernie | Ritter, John | Naidu, Ajay | Scott, Lorna | Bieker, Harrison | Borstein, Alex | Charles, Dylan | Gardell, Billy | Ross, Lisa | Callen, Bryan
Directors: Zwigoff, Terry
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“Bad Santa” is the story of two conmen who go on a road trip to malls dressed as Santa and his elf. Rather than spreading good cheer, the duo’s motive is to rob each establishment, a strategy that becomes complicated when they encounter an 8-year-old who teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.

Danny the Dog (2005)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Freeman, Morgan | Hoskins, Bob | Condon, Kerry | Regan, Vincent | Brown, Dylan | Hassan, Tamer | Jenn, Michael | Law, Phyllida | Wilson, Carole Ann | Lambert, Michael Ian | Tze Wey, Jaclyn | Chou, Puthirith | Theng, Tony | Lay, Owen
Directors: Leterrier, Louis
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A man treated like a dog and raised as a fighting machine his entire life, ends up in a coma and is taken in the care of good people, but his sinister owner is looking to retrieve his most prized possession: a non stop human weapon triggered by the collar leashed on his neck.

Butterfly Effect, The (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kutcher, Ashton | Walters, Melora | Smart, Amy | Henson, Elden | Scott, William Lee | Amedori, John Patrick | Gorovaia, Irene | Schmidt, Kevin | James, Jesse | Lerman, Logan | Widdows, Sarah | Kaese, Jake | Bright, Cameron
Directors: Bress, Eric | Gruber, J. Mackye
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Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single working mom and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evans’ friends and mom hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble, something bad always seems to happen during these blackouts. As Evan grows up he has less of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Aiken, Liam | Browning, Emily | Hoffman, Kara | Hoffman, Shelby | Law, Jude | Spall, Timothy | | Connolly, Billy | Streep, Meryl | Guzmán, Luis | Harris, Jamie | Ferguson, Craig | Coolidge, Jennifer | Adams, Jane
Directors: Silberling, Brad
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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sizemore, Tom | Jones, Tommy Lee | Harrelson, Woody | Lewis, Juliette | Quinton, Everett | Dangerfield, Rodney | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | McClurg, Edie | Means, Russell | Jones, O-Lan | Flaherty, Lanny | Lineback, Richard | Downey Jr., Robert | White, Ed | Baltz, Kirk | Terrylene | Pitillo, Maria
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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The misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers, and serial killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks. Glorified by the media, the pair become legendary folk heroes; their story told by the single person they leave alive at the scene of each of their slaughters.

Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Gleeson, Brendan | Osment, Haley Joel | O'Connor, Frances | Robards, Sam | Thomas, Jake | Law, Jude | Hurt, William | Leung, Ken | Gregg, Clark | Sussman, Kevin | Gallop, Tom | Osment, Eugene | Grace, April | Winston, Matt | Grdevich, Sabrina | Greenly, Theo
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching to the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve him. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his “mother”, Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically. A futuristic adaptation of the tale of Pinocchio, with David being the “fake” boy who desperately wants to become “real”.