Posts Tagged ‘depression’

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Applegate, Christina | Rudd, Paul | Carell, Steve | Koechner, David | Willard, Fred | Parnell, Chris | Hahn, Kathryn | Armisen, Fred | Rogen, Seth | Tompkins, Paul F. | Trejo, Danny | Robinson, Scot | Roberts, Ian | Donavan, Darcy
Directors: McKay, Adam
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Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the ’70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other “female” interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it’s more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons… it’s war.

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Connelly, Jennifer | Kingsley, Ben | Eldard, Ron | Fisher, Frances | Dickens, Kim | Aghdashloo, Shohreh | Ahdout, Jonathan | Rawat, Navi | Gómez, Carlos | Jam, Kia | Modjallal, Jaleh | Damavandi, Samira | Simonian, Matthew | Gujral, Namrata Singh | Faris, Al
Directors: Vadim Perelman
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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.

Shopgirl (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Danes, Claire | Schwartzman, Jason | Wilson, Bridgette | Bottoms, Sam | Conroy, Frances | Pidgeon, Rebecca | Shelton, Samantha | Doctor, Gina | Kusatsu, Clyde | Rosemont, Romy | Snyder, Joshua | Nichols, Rachel | Edelman, Shane
Directors: Tucker, Anand
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The story follows Mirabelle, a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcee Ray Porter (Steve Martin) and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.

American Splendor (2003)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ambrose, Chris | Krajcar, Joey | Hutcherson, Josh | Carter, Cameron | Tay, Daniel | Faktor, Mary | Giamatti, Paul | Pekar, Harvey | Meyers, Larry John | Benesch, Vivienne | Brown, Barbara | Billings, Earl | Hoch, Danny | Urbaniak, James
Directors: Berman, Shari Springer | Pulcini, Robert
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandler, Adam | Watson, Emily | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Guzmán, Luis | Andrews, Jason | McManus, Don | Schrempf, David | Conway, Seann | Bueno, Rico | Mailloux, Hazel | Kilgariff, Karen | Hermelin, Julie | Curiel, Salvador | Barahona, Jorge | Quintero, Ernesto
Directors: Anderson, Paul Thomas
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Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is a small business owner with seven sisters whose abuse has kept him alone and unable to fall in love. When a harmonium and a mysterious woman (Emily Watson) enter his life, his romantic journey begins.

King of Marvin Gardens, The (1972)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Dern, Bruce | Burstyn, Ellen | Robinson, Julia Anne | Crothers, Scatman | LaVine, Charles | Williams, Arnold | Ryan, John P. | Boyar, Sully | Mostel, Josh | Pabst, William | Goodrow, Garry | Bliss, Imogene | Thomas, Ann | Overton, Tom
Directors: Rafelson, Bob
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‘It’s Monopoly out there’. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.

Forrest Gump (1994)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Wright Penn, Robin | Sinise, Gary | Williamson, Mykelti | Field, Sally | Williams, Rebecca | Humphreys, Michael Conner | Herthum, Harold G. | Kelly, George | Penny, Bob | Randall, John | Anderson, Sam | Moorer, Margo | Telech, Ione M. | Seabrook, Christine
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950’s through the 1970’s including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he’s too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.

American Beauty (1999)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Spacey, Kevin | Bening, Annette | Birch, Thora | Bentley, Wes | Suvari, Mena | Cooper, Chris | Gallagher, Peter | Janney, Allison | Bakula, Scott | Robards, Sam | Del Sherman, Barry | Celi, Ara | Cho, John | Atkinson, Fort | Casey, Sue
Directors: Mendes, Sam
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Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.