Posts Tagged ‘brat’

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Jack Albertson | Peter Ostrum | Roy Kinnear | Julie Dawn Cole | Leonard Stone | Denise Nickerson | Nora Denney | Paris Themmen | Ursula Reit | Michael Bollner | Diana Sowle | Aubrey Woods | David Battley | Günter Meisner
Directors: Mel Stuart
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

Uptown Girls (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brittany Murphy | Donald Faison | Austin Pendleton | Dakota Fanning | Marley Shelton | Heather Locklear
Directors: Boaz Yakin
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Molly Gunn (Murphy), the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray (Fanning), the oft ignored daughter of a music executive (Locklear) she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

Dogville (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | Finland | France | Germany | Netherlands | Norway | Sweden | UK | USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Harriet Andersson | Lauren Bacall | Jean-Marc Barr | Paul Bettany | Blair Brown | James Caan | Patricia Clarkson | Jeremy Davies | Ben Gazzara | Philip Baker Hall | Thom Hoffman | Siobhan Fallon | John Hurt | Zeljko Ivanek
Directors: Lars von Trier
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The beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth…

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Kevin Costner | Courteney Cox | Christian Slater | Kevin Pollak | David Arquette | Jon Lovitz | Howie Long | Thomas Haden Church | Bokeem Woodbine | Ice-T | David Kaye | Louis Lombardi | Shawn Michael Howard | Michael Kopsa
Directors: Demian Lichtenstein
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It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino’s count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, and single mom Cybil Waingrow and her son Jesse constantly confounding things, Michael must track down Murphy.