Posts Tagged ‘unhappy-marriage’

Adaptation. (2002)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Streep, Meryl | Cooper, Chris | Seymour, Cara | Swinton, Tilda | Livingston, Bill | Cox, Brian | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Greer, Judy | Beaver, Jim | Litefoot | Tavaré, Jim | Jones, Doug | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Willie, Roger
Directors: Jonze, Spike
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Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean’s “The Orchid Thief” into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

Foot Fist Way, The (2006)

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: McBride, Danny R. | Best, Ben | Bostic, Mary Jane | Aguilar, Ken | Baum, Tyler | Baxter, Sean | Cameron, Bruce | Guzman, Juan-Carlos | Hoffman, Jeff | Lopez, Carlos | Moreno, Spencer | Stanley, Nicholas | Walldorf, Chris | Fisher, Erin
Directors: Hill, Jody
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Small town Tae Kwon Do instructor Fred Simmons relishes the power that comes from being the king of a small kingdom. A former champion, Mr. Simmons fancies himself one in the same as his hero, Chuck “The Truck” Wallace, a B-movie Martial Arts film star. Mr. Simmons openly boasts about his self-proclaimed status as “king of the demo” [Tae Kwon Do demonstration], even though he can’t nail one to save his life. His only vulnerability lies in his adoration of his wife Suzie - a weakness that comes bubbling to the surface when Mr. Simmons discovers Suzie has cheated on him with her new boss. When Suzie leaves him, Mr. Simmons finds himself slipping into a crushing downward spiral. He struggles to keep “the power” by abusing anyone who challenges him. After losing students and making a fool out of himself, he finds allies in Julio Chavez, his nine-year-old apprentice, and Henry Harrison, one of his students with an “obvious confidence problem.” When his bizarre best friend Mike McAllister comes to visit, the four make a pilgrimage to meet the greatest Martial Artist of all time, “The Truck,” at a Tae Kwon Do convention. What starts as a crazy man’s expedition to escape turns into a trip of discovery, as Mr. Simmons and his crew party with “The Truck” and Mr. Simmons convinces him to perform a demo at his Tae Kwon Do school during the upcoming belt-qualifying testing. Inspired with renewed strength, Fred returns from the convention clear-headed and at the top of his game, until he is shocked by an unexpected turn of events when Suzie returns home, and the “The Truck” flies in from Hollywood to appear at his Tae Kwon Do school. In the end, Mr. Simmons faces the greatest test of his power and finds the strength he outwardly projects within his own spirit.

Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Gere, Richard | Meloni, Christopher | Davis, Viola | Baker, Becky Ann | Glenn, Scott | Molloy, Linda | Schreiber, Pablo | Whitman, Mae | Tahan, Charlie | McCormick, Carolyn | Manson, Ted | Essandoh, Ato | Johnson, Terri Denise | Lucas, Jessica
Directors: Wolfe, George C.
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Two unhappy people’s lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who’s trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to reconcile with his estranged son, checks into an inn in a North Carolina beach town where she is staying.

Anna Karenina (1948)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Marceau, Sophie | Bean, Sean | Molina, Alfred | Kirshner, Mia | Fox, James | Shaw, Fiona | Huston, Danny | Law, Phyllida | Schofield, David | Wickham, Saskia | Hall, Jennifer | Calder-Marshall, Anna | Shelokhonov, Petr | Braddell, Valerie | Buggy, Niall
Directors: Rose, Bernard
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Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna’s companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it’s love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.

Surviving Christmas (2004)

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gandolfini, James | Macy, Bill | Affleck, Ben | Applegate, Christina | | Zuckerman, Josh
Directors: Mike Mitchell
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Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old childhood home and possibly relive some old holiday memories. But when he arrives, he finds that the house he was raised in is no longer the home he grew up in. Inhabited by another family, Drew offers a nice financial reward that has the family ringing. But is Drew’s generous cash offer only the beginning of an annoying visitor whose a little too overeager to celebrate Christmas?

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Cazale, John | Durning, Charles | Sarandon, Chris | Boyar, Sully | Broderick, James | Marriott, John | Springer, Gary | Henriksen, Lance | Chianese, Dominic | Levine, Floyd | Foresta, Carmine | Bogert, William | Cummins, Ron | Gerber, Jay
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Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there’s actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city’s entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees’ safety.

Sleeping Dictionary, The (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Alba, Jessica | Blethyn, Brenda | Dancy, Hugh | Hoskins, Bob | Ian, Christopher Ling Lee | Inocian, Junix | Jessing Langgi, Michael | Maniam, Mano | Moggie, K.K. | Mortimer, Emily | Richard, Cicilia Anak | Rogers, Malcolm | Salleh, Eugene | Taylor, Noah | White, Kate Helen
Directors: Jenkin, Guy
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his “sleeping dictionary”, to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Verna Bloom | Hill, Marianna | Ryan, Mitch | Ging, Jack | Gierasch, Stefan | Hartley, Ted | Curtis, Billy | Lewis, Geoffrey | Walker, Scott | Barnes, Walter | Brinegar, Paul | Bull, Richard | Donner, Robert | Hillerman, John
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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A mysterious gunfighter without a name rides across the desert landscape and arrives in the mining town beside the sea “Lago” to stay for the night. After gunning down three desperado’s who tried to kill him, the town hires the gunfighter to help defend the town from three murderous outlaws, Stacey Bridges, Bill Borders and Cole Carlin who have been released from jail after they brutally whipped to death the town’s local lawman Marshal Jim Duncan who is in his grave with a unmarked gravestone, the three outlaws set out to return to “Lago” to get their vengeance. Can the mysterious gunfighter without a name stop the three outlaws?

Notebook, The (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ivey, Tim | Rowlands, Gena | DuPois, Starletta | Garner, James | Thomas, Anthony-Michael Q. | Grady, Ed | Amber, Renée | Echols, Jennifer | Knight, Geoffrey | Connolly, Kevin | Gosling, Ryan | Wahlquist, Heather | McAdams, Rachel | Schaff, Andrew | Shelly, Matt
Directors: Cassavetes, Nick
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The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie’s parents who dissaprove of Noah’s unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah’s 200-year-old home that he restored for her, “to see if he’s okay”. It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.

Running with Scissors (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bening, Annette | Cox, Brian | Fiennes, Joseph | Wood, Evan Rachel | Baldwin, Alec | Cross, Joseph | Clayburgh, Jill | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Union, Gabrielle | Wilson, Patrick | Chenoweth, Kristin | Dominczyk, Dagmara | Camp, Colleen | Kaeding, Jack | Guedj, Gabriel
Directors: Murphy, Ryan
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The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he’ll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs (1965- ) divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother’s mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch’s younger daughter, and he’s the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?