Posts Tagged ‘class-differences’

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.

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Reinhold, Judge | Ashton, John | Eilbacher, Lisa | Cox, Ronny | Berkoff, Steven | Russo, James | Banks, Jonathan | Elliott, Stephen | Hill, Gilbert R. | Kimbro, Art | Bailey, Joel | Pinchot, Bronson | Reiser, Paul | Champion, Michael
Directors: Brest, Martin
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Detroit cop Axel Foley is delighted when he receives a surprise visit from his best friend Mikey Tandino, who lives in California. Not long after Mikey arrives in Detroit, Mikey is killed, right in front of Axel, by a man named Zack. Axel follows Zack to Beverly Hills, California, where Beverly Hills police department Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Detective Billy Rosewood and Rosewood’s partner, Sergeant John Taggart, to keep an eye on Axel. Axel visits his friend Jenny Summers, who works in an art gallery. With Jenny’s help, Axel discovers that Zack works for Jenny’s boss, Victor Maitland, the man who owns the art gallery. Maitland is a drug kingpin who is using the gallery as a front, and Maitland had Zack kill Mikey after Maitland accused Mikey of stealing some of Maitland’s bonds. With the help of Jenny, Billy, and Taggart, Axel does what he can to make sure Maitland and Zack won’t kill any more people.

Bringing Down the House (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Latifah, Queen | Levy, Eugene | Plowright, Joan | Smart, Jean | Brown, Kimberly J. | Jones, Angus T. | Pyle, Missi | Rosenbaum, Michael | White, Betty | Harris, Steve | Haynie, Jim | James, Aengus | Burks, Jernard | Miller, Bronzell
Directors: Shankman, Adam
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Peter Sanderson is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife and can’t figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter’s trying to move on, and he’s smitten with a brainy, bombshell barrister he’s been chatting with online. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn’t refined, isn’t Ivy League, and isn’t even a lawyer. Instead, it’s Charlene, a prison escapee who’s proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help her clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter’s perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardizing his effort to get back with his wife and woo a billion dollar client.

Total Recall (1990)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Ticotin, Rachel | Stone, Sharon | Cox, Ronny | Ironside, Michael | Bell, Marshall | Johnson Jr., Mel | Champion, Michael | Brocksmith, Roy | Baker, Ray | Dunsmore, Rosemary | Knell, David | Robinson, Alexia | Norris, Dean | Carlton, Mark
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it’s a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie.

Gosford Park (2001)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Germany | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Smith, Maggie | Gambon, Michael | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Rutherford, Camilla | Dance, Charles | Somerville, Geraldine | Hollander, Tom | Wightman, Natasha | Northam, Jeremy | Balaban, Bob | Wilby, James | Blakley, Claudie | Fox, Laurence | Ford, Trent | Phillippe, Ryan
Directors: Altman, Robert
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Set in the 1930’s the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. The story centers around the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on and secrets are revealed, it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it…?

Overboard (1987)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hawn, Goldie | Russell, Kurt | Herrmann, Edward | Helmond, Katherine | Hagerty, Michael G. | McDowall, Roddy | Rushton, Jared | Wiseman, Jeffrey | Price, Brian | Wild, Jamie | Campanella, Frank | Miller, Henry Alan | Buxton, Frank | Williard, Carol | Hess, Doris
Directors: Marshall, Garry
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Rich bitch Joanna hires country carpenter Dean to build a closet on her yacht. When the two don’t see eye-to-eye, Dean is left unpaid while Joanna sets sail. The following day, Joanna is fished out of the sea, after falling overboard, suffering from amnesia. Dean sees a neat way to regain the money she owes him… he tells her she’s his wife; that way Dean gets a free housekeeper and mother for his four kids.

Armageddon (1998)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Thornton, Billy Bob | Affleck, Ben | Tyler, Liv | Patton, Will | Buscemi, Steve | Fichtner, William | Wilson, Owen | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Stormare, Peter | Campbell, Ken Hudson | Steen, Jessica | David, Keith | Ellis, Chris | Isaacs, Jason
Directors: Bay, Michael
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Due to a shuttle’s unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA’s under-funded yet resourceful team train the world’s best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, the drilling team all faces deep personal issues which may jeopardize humanity’s last chance…

One Hour Photo (2002)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Nielsen, Connie | Vartan, Michael | Smith, Dylan | Daniels, Erin | Kim, Paul H. | Garlington, Lee | Cole, Gary | Calvert, Marion | Moreland, David
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Seymour ‘SY’ Parrish has been doing photo development for 20 years. He has a vast knowledge of modern photography and develops photos at a local department store for a living. But SY lives a sad and lonely life and begins spying on the Yorkin family, his biggest customers who seem to have everything in the world. SY begins to feel that he wants to be in the Yorkin’s life, but when he discovers that the Yorkins are not as perfect as they seem, he becomes a man on a mission to expose the imperfections of the Yorkin family that could tear them apart.

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Malkovich, John | Richardson, Miranda | Havers, Nigel | Pantoliano, Joe | Phillips, Leslie | Ibu, Masatô | Richard, Emily | Frazer, Rupert | Gale, Peter | Kataoka, Takatoro | Stiller, Ben | Neidorf, David | Seymour, Ralph | Stephens, Robert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.

Two Weeks Notice (2002)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | Grant, Hugh | Witt, Alicia | Ivey, Dana | Klein, Robert | Burns, Heather | Haig, David | Missick, Dorian | Badalucco Jr., Joseph | Dokuchitz, Jonathan | Cox, Veanne | LaManna, Janine | Polanco, Iraida | Maier, Charlotte | Winnick, Katheryn
Directors: Lawrence, Marc
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Explores the question of whether it’s ever too late to say ‘I love you’. The story revolves around Lucy Kelson (Bullock), a brilliant but neurotic attorney, and her client (Grant), who is “charming, irresponsible and fabulously wealthy.” Witt plays a young Harvard graduate who also represents Grant’s character.