Posts Tagged ‘father-daughter-relationship’

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.

28 Days Later… (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Palmer, Alex | De Stoppani, Bindu | Hiltunen, Jukka | Schneider, David | Murphy, Cillian | Sedgwick, Toby | Harris, Naomie | Huntley, Noah | Dunne, Christopher | Hitching, Emma | Delamere, Alexander | McGarrity, Kim | Gleeson, Brendan | Burns, Megan | Hackney, Justin
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Reinhold, Judge | Ashton, John | Prochnow, Jürgen | Cox, Ronny | Nielsen, Brigitte | Garfield, Allen | Stockwell, Dean | Reiser, Paul | Hill, Gilbert R. | Guilfoyle, Paul | Ridgely, Robert | O'Connor, Brian | Adair, Alice | Butler, Eugene
Directors: Scott, Tony
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A series of strange robberies brings Axel Foley back to Beverly Hills to help his two fellow cops solve the case. All the familiar faces of the first film are back…

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.

Tailor of Panama, The (2001)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Rush, Geoffrey | Gleeson, Brendan | Curtis, Jamie Lee | McCormack, Catherine |
Directors: Boorman, John
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John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.

When a Stranger Calls (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Belle, Camilla | Flanagan, Tommy | Cassidy, Katie | Thompson, Tessa | Geraghty, Brian | Gregg, Clark | Lint, Derek de | Grant, Kate Jennings | Denman, David | Young, Arthur | Carroll, Madeline | Eastin, Steve | Bobek, John | Surosky, Brad | Logue, Karina
Directors: West, Simon
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A young high school student babysits for a very rich family. She begins to receive strange phone calls threatening the children. When she finally realizes that it’s not a joke, she calls the police, only to find that the call is coming from inside the house

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.

Don’t Say a Word (2001)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Bean, Sean | Murphy, Brittany | McCole Bartusiak, Skye | Torry, Guy | Esposito, Jennifer | Shawn Doyle | Argo, Victor | Goode, Conrad | Schulze, Paul | Reddick, Lance | Janssen, Famke | Platt, Oliver | Devine, Aidan | Campbell, Alex
Directors: Gary Fleder
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A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick (Sean Bean), and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy). Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan’s daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him.

Ballad of Jack and Rose, The (2005)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Belle, Camilla | Day-Lewis, Daniel | Keener, Catherine | McDonald, Ryan | Dano, Paul | Lee, Jason | Malone, Jena | Bridges, Beau | Thompson, Susanna
Directors: Miller, Rebecca
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Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside world, but now Rose’s emerging womanhood poses troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism and other altruistic causes, Jack now rages at those who do not share his concerns, like developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious. Rose acts out wildly, creating chaos. As everything flies out of control, Jack finds himself trapped in an impossible place and is forced to take action.

Shrek 2 (2004)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Murphy, Eddie | Diaz, Cameron | Andrews, Julie | Banderas, Antonio | Cleese, John | Everett, Rupert | Saunders, Jennifer | Warner, Aron | Cameron, Cody | Knights, Christopher | Smith, David P. | Moseley, Mark
Directors: Adamson, Andrew | Asbury, Kelly | Vernon, Conrad
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The film picks up right where the first movie ended… Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon to find a letter from Fiona’s parents inviting the newlyweds over for dinner. The only problem is that they have no idea that their daughter is now an ogre.