Posts Tagged ‘fantastic’

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Winslet, Kate | Byrne, Gerry Robert | Wood, Elijah | Ryan, Thomas Jay | Ruffalo, Mark | Adams, Jane | Cross, David | Dunst, Kirsten | Wilkinson, Tom | Whitney, Ryan | Ayer, Debbon | Said, Amir Ali | Price, Brian | Litowsky, Paul
Directors: Gondry, Michel
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A man, Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend Clementine underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realizes that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Jackman, Hugh | Schreiber, Liev | Meyer, Breckin | Lyonne, Natasha | Whitford, Bradley | Whitehead, Paxton | Gray, Spalding | Josh Stamberg | Sussman, Matthew | Ayanna, Charlotte | Bosco, Philip | Jack, Andrew | Tracy, Stan | Schaal, Kristen
Directors: Mangold, James
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Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870’s, was puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

Family Man, The (2000)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cheadle, Don | Cage, Nicolas | Piven, Jeremy | Leoni, Téa | Sommer, Josef | Rubinek, Saul
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn’t leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He’s married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He’s president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed’s. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn’t wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he’s more confident in his new life and starts to see what he’s been missing. Turns out money’s good to have but that’s not everything.

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Hopkins, Anthony | Forlani, Claire | Weber, Jake | Harden, Marcia Gay | Tambor, Jeffrey | Howard, David S. | Kelly-Miller, Lois | St. John, Jahnni | Clarke, Richard | Burke, Marylouise | Kagan, Diane | Squibb, June | Canfield, Gene | Hevner, Suzanne
Directors: Brest, Martin
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Bill Parrish, media tycoon, loving father and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the Inevitable - by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death itself enters his home and his life, personified in a man’s body: Joe Black has arrived. His intention was to take Bill with him, but accidentally, Joe’s former host and Bills beautiful daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on earth as well as in Susan, who has no clue who she’s flirting with.

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Yelchin, Anton | Davis, Hope | Boorem, Mika | Morse, David | Tudyk, Alan | Bower, Tom | Weston, Celia | LeFevre, Adam | Rothhaar, Will | Reifsnyder, Timothy | O'Connell, Deirdre | Beaver, Terry | Blankenship, Joe T. | Fleisher, Brett
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man (David Morse), who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Anton Yelchin as Bobby, Mika Boorem as Carol, and Will Rothaar as Sully) share their lives. Carol & Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss “by which all others will be measured”. Bobby lives with his mother (Hope Davis), a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder (Anthony Hopkins), who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the “lowmen”, who were seeking him. The two share a summer’s adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully (Timothy Reifsnyder) also changes everyone.

Groundhog Day (1993)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | MacDowell, Andie | Elliott, Chris | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Doyle-Murray, Brian | Geraghty, Marita | Paton, Angela | Ducommun, Rick | Overton, Rick | Duke, Robin | Bivins, Carol | Garson, Willie | Campbell, Ken Hudson | Podewell, Les | Sell, Rod
Directors: Ramis, Harold
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A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the ‘following’ day he discovers that it’s Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Radcliffe, Daniel | Griffiths, Richard | Ferris, Pam | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Rawlins, Adrian | Somerville, Geraldine | Ingleby, Lee | Henry, Lenny | Gardner, Jimmy | Oldman, Gary | Tavaré, Jim | Hardy, Robert | Ford, Abby | Grint, Rupert
Directors: Columbus, Chris | Cuarón, Alfonso
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It’s Harry’s 3rd Year at Hogwarts, not only does he have a new “Defense against the Dark-Arts” teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards Prison, is coming after Harry.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Isaacs, Jason | Margolyes, Miriam | Branagh, Kenneth | Alfie Enoch | Harris, Richard | Coltrane, Robbie | Bradley, David | Sean Biggerstaff | Radcliffe, Daniel | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Griffiths, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Jones, Toby | Norton, Jim | Clifford, Veronica | Phelps, James | Phelps, Oliver | Walters, Julie | Wright, Bonnie | Williams, Mark | Rankin, Chris
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts. Harry ignores his warning, and returns. He is still famous, although still disliked by Snape, Malfoy, and the rest of the Slytherins. But then, strange things start to happen. People are becoming petrified, and no-one knows what is doing it. Harry keeps hearing a voice.. a voice which seems to be coming from within the walls. They are told the story of the Chamber of Secrets. It is said that only Salazar Slytherin’s true descendent will be able to open it. Harry, it turns out, is a Parsel-tongue. This means that he is able to speak/understand snakes. Everyone thinks that it’s him that has opened the Chamber of Secrets because that is what Slytherin was famous for.

What Women Want (2000)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Hunt, Helen | Tomei, Marisa | Alda, Alan | Johnson, Ashley | Feuerstein, Mark | Holly, Lauren | Burke, Delta | Perrine, Valerie | Greer, Judy | Paulson, Sarah | Gasteyer, Ana | Edelstein, Lisa | Devine, Loretta | Riva, Diana-Maria
Directors: Meyers, Nancy
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Nick, a somewhat chauvanistic advertising exec hot shot, has his life turned haywire when a fluke accident enables him to hear what women think. At first all he wants to do is rid himself of this curse, until a wacky psycologist (played to perfection by Bette Midler) shows him that this could be used to his advantage! His first target is Darcy McGuire, the very woman that got the promotion he wanted. But just as his plan is beginning to work, love gets in the way…

Haunted Mansion, The (2003)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Stamp, Terence | Parker, Nathaniel | Thomason, Marsha | Tilly, Jennifer | Shawn, Wallace | Spybey, Dina | Jefferies, Marc John | Davis, Aree | Doughan, Jim | Harris, Rachael | Hytner, Steve | Juergensen, Heather | Howard, Jeremy | Roy, Deep
Directors: Minkoff, Rob
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On the day of their anniversary, workaholic and real estate agent Jim Evers and his wife Sara receive a strange phone call from a man called Ramsley. He requests that Sara come to the mysterious Gracey Manor. Jim decides to turn it into an opportunity to check out a possible gold-mine in real estate, but to please Sara, he claims it is a “family trip”, bringing the kids along. Once there, Ramsley the butler insists that they stay, for a big storm is on the way. The Evers are introduced to Master Gracey, who seems strangely obsessed with Sara. Jim goes off to talk to Gracey about selling, but ends up in a secret passage instead. The kids follow a floating ball to the attic, where they see a painting of a woman who looks just like Sara! Jim and the kids eventually discover the mansion’s dark secret from Madame Leota, a talking head in a crystal ball. She tells them that Sara is in danger and to save her, they must “lead the ghosts to the light.” After some spooky adventures and surprises, the family manages to save the manor and Sara, all while learning a valuable lesson about togetherness.