Posts Tagged ‘color-remake-of-b&w-film’

Mr. Deeds (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Ryder, Winona | Turturro, John | Covert, Allen | Gallagher, Peter | Harris, Jared | Avari, Erick | Dante, Peter | Ferrell, Conchata | Presnell, Harve | Buscemi, Steve | Clark, Blake | McEnroe, John | Smoove, J.B. | McNulty, Tom
Directors: Brill, Steven
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When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds’ sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn’t necessarily need to change him.

King Kong (2005)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Black, Jack | Brody, Adrien | Kretschmann, Thomas | Hanks, Colin | Serkis, Andy | Parke, Evan | Bell, Jamie | Chan, Lobo | Sumner, John | Hall, Craig | Chandler, Kyle | Hadlow, Mark | Brophy, Geraldine | Denis, David
Directors: Singer, Bryan | Jackson, Peter
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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.

Night and the City (1992)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Lange, Jessica | Gorman, Cliff | King, Alan | Warden, Jack | Wallach, Eli | Primus, Barry | Kirkwood, Gene | Spalla, Ignazio | Butler, David W. | Murphy, Gerard | Caserta, Clem | Canarozzi, Anthony | Utley, Byron | Winkler, Margo
Directors: Winkler, Irwin
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Robert DeNiro and Jessica Lange are the most impossible couple. He’s a failed lawyer. She’s a common waitress. Together they get in a downward spiral, as they can’t seem to deal with there problems. The lawyer just failed winning a case in court against a famous boxing organiser and he wants revenge by catching the organizer on his own territory: boxing. Although he knows nothing about boxing, with his fine talk he finds the help of a couple of people like the brother of his new enemy. But the relationship with his waitress doesn’t make things double as hard.

You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Ryan, Meg | Kinnear, Greg | Posey, Parker | Stapleton, Jean | Zahn, Steve | Burns, Heather | Chappelle, Dave | Coleman, Dabney | Randolph, John | Rush, Deborah | Hirsh, Hallee | Scaperrotta, Jeffrey | Seymour, Cara | Finneran, Katie
Directors: Ephron, Nora
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Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) is the big superstore Foxbooks owner. He opens up his store near many small book shops and runs them all out of business - including The Shop Around The Corner owned by Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan). Little do each Kathleen and Joe know that: even though they hate each other in person - through the Internet they are in love.