Posts Tagged ‘fairy-tale’

American Pie (1999)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Biggs, Jason | Klein, Chris | Nicholas, Thomas Ian | Hannigan, Alyson | Elizabeth, Shannon | Reid, Tara | Thomas, Eddie Kaye | Scott, Seann William | Lyonne, Natasha | Levy, Eugene | Suvari, Mena | Owen, Chris | Coolidge, Jennifer | Cheek, Molly | Pressman, Lawrence
Directors: Weitz, Chris | Weitz, Paul
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At a high-school party, four friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz) find that losing their collective virginity isn’t as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to try to be the first to “score.” And of course, the senior prom is their last best chance. As the fateful date draws near, the boys wonder who among them will get lucky. More importantly, do they really want to do it at all?

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.

Hannibal (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Moore, Julianne | Oldman, Gary | Giannini, Giancarlo | Liotta, Ray | Faison, Frankie | Neri, Francesca | Ivanek, Zeljko | Goodman, Hazelle | Andrews, David | Guinan, Francis | Opher, James | Lo Verso, Enrico | Marescotti, Ivano | Gifuni, Fabrizio
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Part four in the Hannibal Lecter Quadrilogy. Having escaped the asylum in “Silence of the Lambs,” Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor’s, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling.

Shrek (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Murphy, Eddie | Diaz, Cameron | Lithgow, John | Cassel, Vincent | Dennis, Peter | Pearse, Clive | Cummings, Jim | Block, Bobby | Miller, Chris | Cameron, Cody | Freeman, Kathleen | Galasso, Michael | Knights, Christopher | Smith, Simon J.
Directors: Adamson, Andrew | Jenson, Vicky
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Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared from all the people in the land of Duloc. When Lord Farquaad, the ruler of Duloc, exiles all the fairy-tale beings in the woods, Shrek looses his peaceful life and his home becomes a refugees camp. So, he sets to find Lord Farquaad and convince him to take the fairy-tale beings back where they belong, and leave him alone. Lord Farquaad accepts, under one condition. Shrek must first go and find the beautiful young princess Fiona, who will become Farquaad’s bride. So, the big Ogre begins his quest, along with his newfound donkey friend…

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Ryder, Winona | Wiest, Dianne | Hall, Anthony Michael | Baker, Kathy | Oliveri, Robert | Ferrell, Conchata | Aaron, Caroline | Williams, Dick Anthony | Jones, O-Lan | Price, Vincent | Arkin, Alan | Blommaert, Susan | Perri, Linda | Davidson, John
Directors: Burton, Tim
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A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors where he should have hands. One day when the local “Avon” representative calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and environment that he isn’t used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair and hedges, and wins every body’s heart. But life isn’t always so sweet…

Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Newman, Paul | Durning, Charles | Mahoney, John | True-Frost, Jim | Cobbs, Bill | Campbell, Bruce | Bugin, Harry | Seitz, John | Grifasi, Joe | Brocksmith, Roy | Wylie, John | Hobson, I.M. | Allen, Gary
Directors: Coen, Joel | Coen, Ethan
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Wallace-Stone, Dee | MacNaughton, Robert | Barrymore, Drew | Coyote, Peter | Martel, K.C. | Frye, Sean | Howell, C. Thomas | O'Dell, David M. | Swingler, Richard | Toth, Frank | Barton, Robert | Darrell, Michael | Berkson, David | Carlberg, David
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family’s garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot’s brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth’s first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there’s no alien spaceship in sight.

Hoodwinked! (2005)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Close, Glenn | Hathaway, Anne | Belushi, James | Warburton, Patrick | Anderson, Anthony | Stiers, David Ogden | Xzibit | Palminteri, Chazz | Dick, Andy | Edwards, Cory | Edwards, Todd | Edwards, Tye | Gaither, Benjy | Greene, Joshua J. | Marino, Ken
Directors: Leech, Tony
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The “Little Red Hiding Hood” fairytale gets an imaginative update. After The Wolf (Patrick Warburton) is found at Granny’s charged with an intent to eat an investigation starts up by Nick Fippers (David Odgen Stiers). Red (Anne Hathaway), The Wolf (Warburton), The Woodsman (Jim Beluchi) and Granny (Glenn Close) give their stories, Flippers and Cheif Grizzly (Xzibit) and the rest of the police try to find out who is the Goodie Bandit. Bill: Anthony Anderson, Twitchy: Cory Edwards, Boingo: Andy Dick.

Big Fish (2003)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Finney, Albert | Crudup, Billy | Lange, Jessica | Bonham Carter, Helena | Lohman, Alison | Guillaume, Robert | Cotillard, Marion | McGrory, Matthew | Denman, David | Pyle, Missi | Wainwright III, Loudon | Tai, Ada | Tai, Arlene | Buscemi, Steve
Directors: Burton, Tim
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The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father’s elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father’s great feats and his great failings.

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”.