Posts Tagged ‘alcoholism’

Airplane! (1980)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Lloyd Bridges | Peter Graves | Julie Hagerty | Robert Hays | Leslie Nielsen | Lorna Patterson | Robert Stack | Stephen Stucker | Otto | Frank Ashmore | Jonathan Banks | Craig Berenson | Barbara Billingsley
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker’s aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now.

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Matt Damon | Charlize Theron | Bruce McGill | Joel Gretsch | J. Michael Moncrief | Lane Smith | Peter Gerety | Michael O'Neill | Thomas Jay Ryan | Trip Hamilton | Dermot Crowley | Harve Presnell | Danny Nelson | Bob Penny
Directors: Robert Redford
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He’s living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who’s the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn’t return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele’s father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father’s. She’s able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having “one of their own” compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs’s caddy and help him regain his “authentic swing”. He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match.

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Jesse Bradford | Adam Beach | John Benjamin Hickey | John Slattery | Barry Pepper | Jamie Bell | Paul Walker | Robert Patrick | Neal McDonough | Melanie Lynskey | Thomas McCarthy | Chris Bauer | Judith Ivey | Myra Turley
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph.

All or Nothing (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Timothy Spall | Lesley Manville | Alison Garland | James Corden | Ruth Sheen | Marion Bailey | Paul Jesson | Sam Kelly | Kathryn Hunter | Sally Hawkins | Helen Coker | Daniel Mays | Ben Crompton | Robert Wilfort | Gary McDonald
Directors: Mike Leigh
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Penny’s love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil’s and Penny’s life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny’s neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family’s lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey.

Sling Blade (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Dwight Yoakam | J. T. Walsh | John Ritter | Lucas Black | Natalie Canerday | James Hampton | Robert Duvall | Rick Dial | Brent Briscoe | Christy Ward | Sarah Boss | Kathy Sue Brown | Wendell Rafferty | Bruce Hampton
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A partially handicapped man named Karl is released from a mental hospital, several years after murdering his mother and another person. Karl is often questioned if he will ever kill again, and he shrugs in response saying there is no reason to. Now out of the mental institution, Karl settles in his old, small hometown, occupying himself by fixing motors. After meeting a young boy named Frank who befriends him, Karl is invited to stay at Frank’s house with his mother Linda- who views Karl as a strange but kind and generous man. However, Linda’s abusive boyfriend Doyle, sees things differently in the way rules ought to be run- normally insulting Linda’s homosexual friend Vaughan as well as Karl’s disabilities, and having wild parties with his friends. As Karl’s relation with Frank grows, he is ever so watchful of Doyle’s cruel actions.

Love Song for Bobby Long, A (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Scarlett Johansson | Gabriel Macht | Deborah Kara Unger | Dane Rhodes | David Jensen | Clayne Crawford | Sonny Shroyer | Walter Breaux | Carol Sutton | Warren Kole | Bernard Johnson | Gina 'Ginger' Bernal | Douglas M. Griffin | Earl Maddox
Directors: Shainee Gabel
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Upon hearing of her mother’s death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother’s house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother’s friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines. These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson’s faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long’s life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.

Bad Santa (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Tony Cox | Brett Kelly | Lauren Graham | Lauren Tom | Bernie Mac | John Ritter | Ajay Naidu | Lorna Scott | Harrison Bieker | Alex Borstein | Dylan Charles | Billy Gardell | Lisa Ross | Bryan Callen
Directors: Terry Zwigoff
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“Bad Santa” is the story of two conmen who go on a road trip to malls dressed as Santa and his elf. Rather than spreading good cheer, the duo’s motive is to rob each establishment, a strategy that becomes complicated when they encounter an 8-year-old who teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.

Syriana (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kayvan Novak | George Clooney | Amr Waked | Christopher Plummer | Jeffrey Wright | Chris Cooper | Robert Foxworth | Nicky Henson | Nicholas Art | Matt Damon | Amanda Peet | Steven Hinkle | Daisy Tormé | Peter Gerety | Richard Lintern
Directors: Stephen Gaghan
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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.

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Damon Wayans | Chelsea Field | Noble Willingham | Taylor Negron | Danielle Harris | Halle Berry | Bruce McGill | Badja Djola | Kim Coates | Chelcie Ross | Joe Santos | Clarence Felder | Tony Longo | Frank Collison
Directors: Tony Scott
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A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.

Goodbye Lover (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Patricia Arquette | Dermot Mulroney | Mary-Louise Parker | Ellen DeGeneres | Ray McKinnon | Alex Rocco | Don Johnson | Andre Gregory | John Neville | JoNell Kennedy | Akane Nelson | Kevin Cooney | Will Stewart
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Ben and Sandra are hot and provocative lovers, but Sandra is unfortunately married to Ben’s younger brother Jake, and soon Jake will find out about Ben.