Posts Tagged ‘family-relationship’

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Pressly, Jaime | Cody McMains | Ron Lester | Jungmann, Eric | Richmond, Deon | Kirshner, Mia | Chyler Leigh | Evans, Chris | Olsen, Eric Christian | Huntington, Sam
Directors: Joel Gallen
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At John Hughes High School, the students are the same as just about every other teenager in a teen movie. The popular jock, Jake (Chris Evans), takes a bet from Austin, the cocky blonde guy (Eric Christian Olsen), that he can transform Janey, the pretty ugly girl (Chyler Leigh), into the prom queen before the prom. But two people are trying to stop Jake from succeeding: his evil sister, Catherine, the cruelest girl in school (Mia Kirshner), and Priscilla, the bitchy cheerleader (Jaime Pressly). And all of their friends are the same as any other teen movie: Areola, the naked foreign exchange student (Cerina Vincent), Les, the beautiful weirdo (Riley Smith), Malik, the token black guy (Deon Richmond), the desperate virgins (Cody McMains, Samm Levine, and Sam Huntington), Amanda Becker, the perfect girl (Lacey Chabert), Ricky, Janey’s obsessed best friend (Eric Jungmann), and Sadie, the VERY old undercover reporter (Beverly Polcyn).

Blow (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Cruz, Penélope | Potente, Franka | Griffiths, Rachel | Reubens, Paul | Mollà, Jordi | Curtis, Cliff | Sandoval, Miguel | Suplee, Ethan | Liotta, Ray | Gage, Kevin | Perlich, Max | James, Jesse | Pérez, Miguel | Ferro, Dan
Directors: Demme, Ted
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970’s. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Knightley, Keira | Riley, Talulah | Pike, Rosamund | Malone, Jena | Mulligan, Carey | Sutherland, Donald | Blethyn, Brenda | Blakley, Claudie | Morand, Sylvester | Woods, Simon | Reilly, Kelly | MacFadyen, Matthew | Torrens, Pip | Whiteside, Janet | Matthews, Sinead
Directors: Wright, Joe
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The story is based on Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.

NeverEnding Story, The (1984)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Oliver, Barret | McRaney, Gerald | Garrett, Drum | Cooksey, Darryl | Gilbert, Nicholas | Hill, Thomas | Roy, Deep | Prückner, Tilo | Gunn, Moses | Hathaway, Noah | Oppenheimer, Alan | Bromley, Sydney | Hayes, Patricia | Stronach, Tami
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it “borrowing” it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible “Nothing” Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the ChildLike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him.

Stuart Little (1999)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Davis, Geena | Laurie, Hugh | Lipnicki, Jonathan | Lane, Nathan | Zahn, Steve | Doughan, Jim | Grier, David Alan | Kirby, Bruno | Tilly, Jennifer | Freberg, Stan | Jones, Jeffrey | Ray, Connie | Beasley, Allyce
Directors: Minkoff, Rob
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The adventures of a heroic and debonair stalwart mouse named Stuart Little with human qualities, who faces some comic misadventures while searching for his lost bird friend and living with a human family as their child.

Story of Us, The (1999)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Rennison, Colleen | Sandvig, Jake | Boersma, Casey | Matheson, Tim | Hagerty, Julie | Wilson, Rita | Boersma, Dylan | Lerner, Ken | Raider-Wexler, Victor | Hague, Albert | Meadows, Jayne | Poston, Tom
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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Two jilted lovers spend fifteen years of marriage together, only to find that they might no longer love each other. In this time they have two children and go through the various (dramatic and comical) events that take place in an average marriage.

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.

Beautiful Mind, A (2001)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Crowe, Russell | Harris, Ed | Connelly, Jennifer | Plummer, Christopher | Bettany, Paul | Goldberg, Adam | Lucas, Josh | Rapp, Anthony | Gray-Stanford, Jason | Hirsch, Judd | Pendleton, Austin | Cardone, Vivien | Simon, Jill M. | Steinbach, Victor | Clarke, Tanya
Directors: Howard, Ron
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A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.