Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novel’

Spencer’s Mountain (1963)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Henry Fonda | Maureen O'Hara | James MacArthur | Donald Crisp | Wally Cox | Mimsy Farmer | Virginia Gregg | Lillian Bronson | Whit Bissell | Hayden Rorke | Kathy Bennett | Dub Taylor | Hope Summers | Ken Mayer | Bronwyn FitzSimons
Directors: Delmer Daves
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Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he and Clay get into a bit of trouble. If he has one dream in life it’s to build his wife Olivia a beautiful house on a piece of land he inherited on Spender’s mountain. When his eldest son, Clayboy, graduates at the top of his high school class and has the opportunity to go to college, Clay has only one option left to him.

Misérables, Les (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Geoffrey Rush | Uma Thurman | Claire Danes | Hans Matheson | Reine Brynolfsson | Peter Vaughan | Christopher Adamson | Tim Barlow | Timothy Bateson | David Birkin | Václav Chalupa | Ian Cregg | Ben Crompton | Zdenek David
Directors: Bille August
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

In Cold Blood (1967)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Blake | Scott Wilson | John Forsythe | Paul Stewart | Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Jeff Corey | John Gallaudet | James Flavin | Charles McGraw | Will Geer | John McLiam | Ruth Storey | Brenda Currin | Paul Hough | Vaughn Taylor
Directors: Richard Brooks
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Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters’ capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society’s response might have been.

In a Dark Place (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Luxembourg | UK
Actors: Leelee Sobieski | Tara Fitzgerald | Christian Olson | Gabrielle Adam | Graham Pountney | Jonathan Fox | Thomas Sanne | Cleo Rotunno | Jean Schimdt | Patrice Ristic | Paul Schroeder | Chris Bearne | Gintare Parulyte
Directors: Donato Rotunno
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She thought she was their Guardian Angel, but was she really their Nanny from Hell? A chilling modern ghost story, inspired by a classic of the genre, In A Dark Place is the suspenseful, erotic story of a young woman fighting to redeem the souls of two children seduced by dark influences beyond the grave. Anna Veigh, a recently qualified art therapist and teacher, is finding work at her inner city special school a tougher psychological challenge than she can cope with. The offer of a new post minding two wealthy young orphans whilst their wealthy uncle is away on business seems a perfect escape for her. It is a welcome escape. Her new workplace is Bly House, a remote country estate with beautiful grounds and a small resident staff. Miles and Flora, the children, seem sweet and charming, if a little strange, and Anna thinks that she has really “landed on her feet” after the rigors of her previous job. The only fly in the ointment is the frosty estate manager, Miss Grose, who seems remote and unfriendly to the new arrival. Very soon, moreover, Anna makes disquieting discoveries. Miles, the boy, has been expelled from his school, for a sin so dreadful the headmaster will not even discuss it. Anna then learns that her predecessor in the job, one Miss Jessel, died in suspicious circumstances. To add to her unease, she begins to catch glimpses of unknown sinister figures lurking in the grounds, but nobody else admits to seeing them. Anna confronts the Miss Grose with her suspicions about these intruders, but is surprised by the force of Miss Grose’s reaction. The figures Anna describes are unmistakably those of two ex-employees at the house. The only problem is that these employees are dead. Anna senses that the ghostly manifestations are malevolent in their intent. Not only is the psychological welfare of the children in very real jeopardy, but their lives and their souls are also at risk. But Anna is forced to confront dark secrets buried deep in her own psyche as she fights to cleanse the children’s souls of darkness, with terrifying consequences for all concerned.

The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sellers | Jean Seberg | William Hartnell | David Kossoff | Leo McKern | MacDonald Parke | Austin Willis | Timothy Bateson | Monte Landis | Alan Gifford | Colin Gordon | Harold Kasket | Wally Brown | Jacques Cey | Charles Clay
Directors: Jack Arnold
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The best laid plans of mice and men … A cold war satire emphasising the new emerged American Superpower’s use of foreign aid to buy friends and keep then away from the USSR’s influence. Peter Sellers, as the scheming Prime Minister of Grand Fenwick, plots with Peter Sellers, as the scheming Grand Duchess, to declare war on the USA, lose and get that foreign aid. Unfortunately, they forget to tell Peter Sellers, as Tully Bascombe, commander of their mediaeval army. This honourable man does his best for his country and through a series of unbelievable circumstances (well, this is a comedy) to win. Now, who has to give aid to whom?

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Casey Affleck | Michelle Monaghan | Morgan Freeman | Ed Harris | John Ashton | Amy Ryan | Amy Madigan | Titus Welliver | Michael K. Williams | Edi Gathegi | Mark Margolis | Madeline O'Brien | Slaine | Trudi Goodman | Matthew Maher
Directors: Ben Affleck
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Dorchester, one of the toughest neighborhoods in all of Boston, is no place for the weak or innocent. Its a territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets littered with broken families, hearts, dreams. When one of its own, a 4-year-old girl, goes missing, private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don’t want the case. But after pleas from the child’s aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything — their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives — to find a little girl-lost.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Mary-Louise Parker | Brooklynn Proulx | Dustin Bollinger | Casey Affleck | Sam Rockwell | Jeremy Renner | Sam Shepard | Garret Dillahunt | Paul Schneider | Joel McNichol | James Defelice | J.C. Roberts | Darrell Orydzuk | Jonathan Erich Drachenberg
Directors: Andrew Dominik
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Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

The Fantastic Planet (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Jennifer Drake | Eric Baugin | Jean Topart | Jean Valmont | Sylvie Lenoir | Michèle Chahan | Yves Barsacq | Hubert de Lapparent | Gérard Hernandez | Claude Joseph | Philippe Ogouz | Jacques Ruisseau | Barry Bostwick | Mark Gruner | Marvin Miller
Directors: René Laloux
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Maria Bello | Emily Blunt | Kathy Baker | Amy Brenneman | Maggie Grace | Jimmy Smits | Ed Brigadier | Kevin Zegers | Marc Blucas | Catherine Schreiber | Ned Hosford | Hugh Dancy | Messy Stench | Chris Burket | Parisa Fitz-Henley
Directors: Robin Swicord
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Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships — both old and new — begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels.

Peaceful Warrior (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Scott Mechlowicz | Nick Nolte | Amy Smart | Tim DeKay | Ashton Holmes | Paul Wesley | B.J. Britt | Agnes Bruckner | Tom Tarantini | Beatrice Rosen | Ray Wise | Scott Caudill | Matthew Prater | Bart Conner | Jimmy Bradley
Directors: Victor Salva
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A moving tale about the power of the human spirit, Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman’s perennially best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. In the film, Scott Mechlowicz plays Dan, a talented-yet-arrogant college gymnast with Olympic dreams and a golden future. The athlete thinks he has it all: bookcases of trophies, endless friends, fast rides and disposable relationships. But all that is about to change. One day, Dan’s world is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger he comes to know as Socrates (Nick Nolte)-a man who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. After he suffers a debilitating injury, with the mystical help of Socrates and an elusive young woman named Joy (Amy Smart), Dan will grow to realize that strength of spirit is what leads a man to his true greatness. From a screenplay by Kevin Bernhardt, Peaceful Warrior is directed by Victor Salva and produced by Mark Amin, Cami Winikoff, Robin Schorr and David Welch.