Posts Tagged ‘father-son-relationship’

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Melito, Joseph | Willis, Bruce | Seda, Jon | Chance, Michael | Campbell, Vernon | Walls, H. Michael | Adrian, Bob | Jones, Simon | Florence, Carol | Raymond, Bill | Abuba, Ernest | St. Paule, Irma | Stowe, Madeleine | Perillo, Joey | Kirkpatrick, Bruce | Pitt, Brad | Plummer, Christopher
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.

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.

Timeline (2003)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Walker, Paul | O'Connor, Frances | Butler, Gerard | Connolly, Billy | Thewlis, David | Friel, Anna | McDonough, Neal | Craven, Matt | Embry, Ethan | Sheen, Michael | Wilson, Lambert | Csokas, Marton | Sutherland, Rossif | Kahan, Steve | La Haye, David
Directors: Donner, Richard
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In the heart of the beautiful and historically rich Dordogne Valley of France, a team of archeology students and their professor diligently work to uncover the ruins of a 14th-century castle. For Professor Edward Johnston, the project is the culmination of a lifelong dream. Aided by assistant professor Andre Marek, his son Chris and students Kate, Stern and François, Johnston has made major strides in unearthing not only La Roque Castle but also a monastery and structures from the surrounding village of Castlegard. But things are about to go haywire… Suspicious of the dig’s benefactor, International Technology Corporation (ITC) and the man who runs it, Robert Doniger, Professor Johnston heads to ITC headquarters in New Mexico to get some answers, and while he’s away, his students discover a chamber that has been sealed for more than 600 years. Marek and Kate descend into the unstable room, and just before a near disastrous cave-in, they make two startling discoveries — a bifocal lens, which couldn’t have been invented before the chamber was sealed, and even more intriguing, a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357…from Professor Johnston! Determined to solve the mystery, the students head for ITC headquarters, where they are stunned to learn of Doniger’s new invention — a machine that can actually transmit three-dimensional objects through space. Although he meant for the device to revolutionize shipping, Doniger inadvertently opened a wormhole that leads directly to the 14th century, and Professor Johnston, who had insisted on experiencing the discovery himself, is now trapped in a vicious French vs. English feudal war! Can Johnston’s loyal students survive one of the most violent battles in world history… and make it back to the 21st century alive?

Syriana (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Novak, Kayvan | Clooney, George | Waked, Amr | Plummer, Christopher | Wright, Jeffrey | Cooper, Chris | Foxworth, Robert | Henson, Nicky | Art, Nicholas | Damon, Matt | Peet, Amanda | Hinkle, Steven | Tormé, Daisy | Gerety, Peter | Lintern, Richard
Directors: Gaghan, Stephen
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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

Troy (2004)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | UK | USA
Actors: Glover, Julian | Cox, Brian | Jones, Nathan | Maropis, Adoni | Smith, Jacob | Pitt, Brad | Shrapnel, John | Gleeson, Brendan | Kruger, Diane | Bana, Eric | Bloom, Orlando | Svegler, Siri | Barat, Lucie | Bones, Ken | Cauchi, Manuel
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer’s “The Iliad.”

New Guy, The (2002)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Qualls, DJ | Dushku, Eliza | Deschanel, Zooey | Mixon, Jerod | Shen, Parry | Lovett, Lyle | Griffin, Eddie | Mabrey, Sunny | Patterson, Ross | Gogin, Matt | Sanz, Horatio | Hawk, Tony | Lewis, Geoffrey | O'Connell, Charlie | Simmons, Gene
Directors: Ed Decter
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Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek going through a hellish senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the technics of being cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris, to make new friends where he soon gains respect from the jocks and geeks alike. Dizzy then gets noticed by the head cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football team gain self-respect to win games. But things unknowingly begin to turn sour when Danielle’s disgruntled boyfriend begins investigating into “Gil Harris’” past to uncover any dirt on him.

Spider (2002)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | UK
Actors: Fiennes, Ralph | Richardson, Miranda | Byrne, Gabriel | Redgrave, Lynn | Neville, John | Hall, Bradley | Reineke, Gary | Craig, Philip | Saunders, Cliff | Ellis, Tara | Stockbridge, Sara | Whybrow, Arthur | Duffett, Nicola | Nightingale, Jake | Egan, Alison
Directors: Cronenberg, David
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Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed “Spider” by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.

Daddy Day Care (2003)

Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Jeff Garlin | Zahn, Steve | King, Regina | Nealon, Kevin | Katz, Jonathan | Fallon, Siobhan | Edelstein, Lisa | Chabert, Lacey | Kightlinger, Laura | Arcieri, Leila | Huston, Anjelica | Griffin, Khamani | Burkholder, Max | Young, Arthur
Directors: Carr, Steve
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In the hilarious comedy Daddy Day Care, two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads open their own day care facility, “Daddy Day Care”, and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As “Daddy Day Care” starts to catch on, it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy’s tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) …who has driven all previous competitors out of business.

American Pie 2 (2001)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Biggs, Jason | Elizabeth, Shannon | Hannigan, Alyson | Klein, Chris | Nicholas, Thomas Ian | Lyonne, Natasha | Reid, Tara | Scott, Seann William | Suvari, Mena | Thomas, Eddie Kaye | Owen, Chris | Levy, Eugene | Cheek, Molly | Faye, Denise | Arturo, Lisa
Directors: Rogers, James B.
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After their first year at college, the guys reunite for another summer of fun. Jim continues his quest for sexual independence by seeking the help of his old prom date, Michele, after an unexpected call from Nadia who plans to visit Jim. Meanwhile, Kev and Vicky find themselves in an awkward situation after having broken up for a year. Oz must deal with a long distance relationship when Heather heads off to France to study abroad. Old feuds die hard as the ever-so-horny Stifler harbors his hatred toward Finch, who is practicing the Hindu practice of Tantra.

Son of the Mask (2005)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kennedy, Jamie | Cumming, Alan | Falconer, Liam | Falconer, Ryan | Traylor Howard | Wright, Steven | Penn, Kal | Stein, Ben | Pickup, Brett | Callan, Peter | Lyons, Ashley | McDaniel, Wayne | Winton, Sandy | Massey, Rebecca | Longmuir, Issac
Directors: Guterman, Lawrence
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A cartoonist named Tim Avery loves his dog, Otis, more than anything in the world. But when Tim and his wife have a baby, Otis starts to feel left out. But then Otis finds an enchanted mask and plots to be rid of the baby once and for all, but is unsuccessful. Meanwhile, up in Valhalla, Odin is infuriated at Loki for losing the mask and orders him to go get it…