Posts Tagged ‘drunk’

Black Christmas (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Katie Cassidy | Michelle Trachtenberg | Lacey Chabert | Kristen Cloke | Andrea Martin | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Crystal Lowe | Oliver Hudson | Jessica Harmon | Leela Savasta | Kathleen Kole | Karin Konoval | Robert Mann | Dean Friss | Cainan Wiebe
Directors: Glen Morgan
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

Infamous (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sigourney Weaver | Toby Jones | Gwyneth Paltrow | Mark Rubin | Steve Schwelling | Glover Johns Gill | Rey Arteaga | Justin Sherburn | Andrew Halbreich | Juliet Stevenson | Michael Panes | Hope Davis | Frank G. Curcio | Sandra Bullock | Isabella Rossellini
Directors: Douglas McGrath
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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Julianne Moore | Woody Harrelson | Laura Dern | Trevor Morgan | Ellary Porterfield | Simon Reynolds | Monté Gagné | Robert Clark | Michael Seater | Erik Knudsen | Jake Scott | Jordan Todosey | Ryan Price | Shae Norris | Abigail Falle
Directors: Jane Anderson
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances.

The Legend of Zorro (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Alberto Reyes | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Gustavo Sanchez-Parra | Adrian Alonso | Nick Chinlund | Giovanna Zacarías | Carlos Cobos | Antonio Banderas | Michael Emerson | Shuler Hensley | Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | Mary Crosby | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Mauricio Bonet | Fernando Becerril
Directors: Martin Campbell
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The Legendary Zorro goes off on another adventure to protect the future of California and its citizens. This time, he fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe that there’s more to Armand than meets the eye, and our hero is intent on finding out what that is. Little does he know, there are others working to uncover certain truths as well.

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.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Henry Thomas | Dee Wallace-Stone | Robert MacNaughton | Drew Barrymore | Peter Coyote | K.C. Martel | Sean Frye | C. Thomas Howell | David M. O'Dell | Richard Swingler | Frank Toth | Robert Barton | Michael Darrell | David Berkson | David Carlberg
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family’s garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot’s brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth’s first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there’s no alien spaceship in sight.

The Hard Word (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Guy Pearce | Rachel Griffiths | Robert Taylor | Joel Edgerton | Damien Richardson | Rhondda Findleton | Kate Atkinson | Vince Colosimo | Paul Sonkkila | Kym Gyngell | Dorian Nkono | Stephen Whittaker | Torquil Neilson | Don Bridges | Doug Bowles
Directors: Scott Roberts
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Casablanca (1942)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Ingrid Bergman | Paul Henreid | Claude Rains | Conrad Veidt | Sydney Greenstreet | Peter Lorre | S.Z. Sakall | Madeleine LeBeau | Dooley Wilson | Joy Page | John Qualen | Leonid Kinskey | Curt Bois
Directors: Michael Curtiz
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During World War II, Europeans who were fleeing from the Germans, sought refuge in America. But to get there they would first have to go Casablanca and once they get there, they have to obtain exit visas which are not very easy to come by. Now the hottest spot in all of Casablanca is Rick’s Cafe which is operated by Rick Blaine, an American expatriate, who for some reason can’t return there, and he is also extremely cynical. Now it seems that two German couriers were killed and the documents they were carrying were taken. Now one of Rick’s regulars, Ugarte entrusts to him some letters of transit, which he intends to sell but before he does he is arrested for killing the couriers. Captain Renault, the Chief of Police, who is neutral in his political views, informs Rick that Victor Laszlo, the European Resistance leader, is in Casablanca and will do anything to get an exit visa but Renault has been “told” by Major Strasser of the SS, to keep Laszlo in Casablanca. Laszlo goes to Rick’s to meet Ugarte, because he was the one Ugarte was going to sell the letters to. But since Ugarte was arrested he has to find another way. Accompanying him is Ilsa Lund, who knew Rick when he was in Paris, and when they meet some of Rick’s old wounds reopen. It is obvious that Rick’s stone heart was because of her leaving him. And when they learn that Rick has the letters, he refuses to give them to him, because “he doesn’t stick his neck out for anyone”.

Caligula (1979)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | Teresa Ann Savoy | Helen Mirren | Peter O'Toole | John Steiner | Guido Mannari | Paolo Bonacelli | Leopoldo Trieste | Giancarlo Badessi | Mirella D'Angelo | Anneka Di Lorenzo | Lori Wagner | Adriana Asti | John Gielgud | Bruno Brive
Directors: Tinto Brass | Bob Guccione
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The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK
Actors: John Cleese | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Kathy Bates | Jackie Chan | Steve Coogan | Robert Fyfe | Jim Broadbent | Ian McNeice | David Ryall | Roger Hammond | Adam Godley | Karen Mok | Howard Cooper | Daniel Hinchcliffe | Wolfram Teufel | Tom Strauss | Kit West | Ewen Bremner
Directors: Frank Coraci
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This version of the classic novel set in 1872 focuses on Passepartout (Chan), a Chinese thief who steals a valuable jade Buddha and then seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of an eccentric London inventor and adventurer, Phileas Fogg (Coogan), who has taken on a bet with members of his gentlemens’ club that he can make it around the world in a mere 80 days, using a variety of means of transportation, like boats, trains, balloons, elephants, etc. Along the way, Passepartout uses his amazing martial arts abilities to defend Fogg from the many dangers they face.. One major threat to their adventure is a detective that’s following them. Why? Just as Fogg and Passeportout left London, a major bank was robbed, with Fogg suspected of using the “around the world” trip as an excuse to escape.. Their path from London and back includes stops in Paris, Turkey, India, China and USA…