Posts Tagged ‘vandalism’

New Kids, The (1985)

Monday, March 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Presby, Shannon | Loughlin, Lori | Spader, James | Philbin, John | MacDonald, David H. | Grant, Vince | Montgomery, Theron | Jones, Eddie | Martin, Lucy | Stoltz, Eric | Price, Paige Lyn | Miller, Court | Atkins, Tom | De Baer, Jean | Carricart, Robertson
Directors: Cunningham, Sean S.
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Abby McWilliams (Loughlin) and her brother Loren (Presby) are particularly normal teenagers. Their parents Mac (Atkins) and Mary Beth (DeBaer) are killed in an accident. It’s decided that Abby and Loren live in Glenby, Florida with their Aunt Fay (Martin) and Uncle Charlie (Jones) who own a gas station and an amusement park. Loren and Abby don’t have much trouble making friends at their new high school. Loren starts dating Karen (Price), the local sherriff’s daughter while Abby starts dating Mark (Stoltz). Loren feels uncomfortable when he sees a blond-haired guy harassing Abby in the lunchroom. Mark tells Loren and Abby that the blond-haired guy is Eddie Dutra (Spader), a teenage drug addict who is the leader of a gang of redneck thugs. Loren helps Abby keep Dutra at a distance. Dutra’s retaliations keep getting more vicious until Dutra forces a showdown at the amusement park by kidnapping Abby.

Strangers, The (2008)

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fisher, Alex | Clayton-Luce, Peter | Speedman, Scott | Tyler, Liv | Ward, Gemma | Weeks, Kip | Margolis, Laura | Howerton, Glenn
Directors: Bertino, Bryan
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After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.

Good Son, The (1993)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Culkin, Macaulay | Wood, Elijah | Crewson, Wendy | Morse, David | Kelly, Daniel Hugh | Brookes, Jacqueline | Culkin, Quinn | Crow, Ashley | Strauss, Guy | Brava, Keith | Goodwin, Jerem | Hall, Andria | Huber, Bobby | Stefanich, Mark | Hopper, Susan
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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While 12-year-old Mark Evans is at his mother’s side as she’s dying of cancer at a hospital in Arizona, she makes him promise her that she won’t die. When she does die, Mark is consumed with grief, and is also guilt-ridden because he couldn’t keep his promise to her. Shortly after, Mark’s father Jack is assigned to take a two week business trip to Tokyo, Japan. Thinking that the blustery Maine environment will do Mark some good, Jack leaves Mark with Jack’s brother Wallace Evans in Maine while Jack is on his trip. Wallace and his wife Susan have a son Mark’s age named Henry and an 8-year-old daughter named Connie. Wallace and Susan’s 3-year-old son Richard died by drowning in the bathtub a few months ago. At first, Mark and Henry get along great, but Mark begins to notice that Henry’s ideas of fun differ significantly from his own. Henry threatens to topple Mark from a 15 meter high tree house, and Henry shows Mark his dummy, named “Mr. Highway”, which Henry drops from an overpass onto a highway, causing a 10-car pileup. Later, Henry uses his homemade crossbow to kill the neighbor’s dog. Henry also insinuates that Richard’s drowning was not an accident. But Henry’s perfect son facade is so convincing that no one believes Mark. Everyone is convinced that Mark is just acting out the trauma of his mother’s death. Mark knows that Henry drowned Richard in a fit of jealousy because it seemed to Henry that Susan and Wallace were giving Richard the most attention. Also, Mark believes that his mother has been reincarnated in Susan, and he makes the mistake of telling Henry about it. Fueled by more jealousy than ever before, Henry’s reign of terror escalates, and he hints to Mark that he plans to kill Connie for the same reason why he killed Richard. But even after Connie survives a suspicious ice skating accident, Mark’s fears are still dismissed. And then Susan discovers Henry’s secret playhouse, and she finds the rubber duckie that was missing from Richard’s bath on the day of the drowning. Now that Susan knows the truth, will she save her nephew or her own son?

Coach Carter (2005)

Friday, February 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Brown, Rob | Ri'chard, Robert | Gonzalez, Rick | Gbewonyo, Nana | Tanner, Antwon | Tatum, Channing | Ashanti | Battle, Texas | Dowse, Denise | Morgan, Debbi | Winkler, Mel | Laresca, Vincent | Faison, Sidney | Spencer, Octavia
Directors: Carter, Thomas
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In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. The initial resistance from the boys is soon dispelled as the team under Carter’s tutelage becomes a undefeated competitor in the games. However, when the overconfident team’s behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that too many players are doing poorly in class, he takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need to rely on more than sports for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected.

Day of the Locust, The (1975)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sutherland, Donald | Black, Karen | Burgess Meredith | Atherton, William | Page, Geraldine | Dysart, Richard | Hopkins, Bo | Serna, Pepe | Goldoni, Lelia | Barty, Billy | Haley, Jackie Earle | LeRoy, Gloria | Hoffman, Jane | Leavitt, Norman | Kennedy, Madge
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930’s Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love.

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A (2006)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wiest, Dianne | Downey Jr., Robert | LaBeouf, Shia | Diaz, Melonie | Garro, Julia | Hendricks, Eleonore | Scarimbolo, Adam | Tambakis, Peter Anthony | Tatum, Channing | Tirado, Anthony | Rosado, Erick | Payne, Steve | Palminteri, Chazz | Feldman, Tibor | Compston, Martin
Directors: Montiel, Dito
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Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father’s ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?

Chinatown (1974)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Dunaway, Faye | Huston, John | Lopez, Perry | Hillerman, John | Zwerling, Darrell | Ladd, Diane | Jenson, Roy | Bakalyan, Richard | Mantell, Joe | Glover, Bruce | Hinds, Nandu | O'Rear, James | Hong, James
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn’t drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering on water management, state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate, and involving at least one murder.

Dazed and Confused (1993)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: London, Jason | Cochrane, Rory | Wiley Wiggins | Jenson, Sasha | Burke, Michelle | Goldberg, Adam | Rapp, Anthony | McConaughey, Matthew | Ribisi, Marissa | Andrews, Shawn | Hauser, Cole | Jovovich, Milla | Adams, Joey Lauren | Hinojosa, Christin | Affleck, Ben
Directors: Linklater, Richard
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In a small Texas enclave, highlights the rites of passage on the last day of school in 1976 for the new, incoming freshmen at the hands of the class of ‘77 at Robert E. Lee High School. Freshman boys are physically punished, while the girls largely face the brunt of verbal abuse and humiliation. Two main figures emerge. Incoming freshman Mitch Kramer comes to a new realization in his role as a major target of senior hazing. And, among the seniors is Randall “Pink” Floyd, the school’s star quarterback, who moves with facile grace among groups of greasers, nerds, stoners, and athletes alike.

Thin Line Between Love and Hate, A (1996)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Whitfield, Lynn | King, Regina | Brown, Bobby | Reese, Della | Williams, Malinda | Mitchell, Daryl | Mosley, Roger E. | Khali, Simbi | Ambrose, Tangie | Robinson, Wendy Raquel | Johnson, Stacii Jae | Núñez Jr., Miguel A. | Love, Faizon | Bell, Michael
Directors: Lawrence, Martin
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An observable, fast-talking party man Darnell Wright, gets his punishment when one of his conquests takes it personally and comes back for revenge in this ‘Fatal Attraction’-esque comic thriller.