Posts Tagged ‘eviction’

Grandma’s Boy (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Linda Cardellini | Allen Covert | Peter Dante | Shirley Jones | Shirley Knight | Joel Moore | Kevin Nealon | Doris Roberts | Nick Swardson | Jonah Hill | Kelvin Yu | Chuck Church | Scott Halberstadt | Heidi Hawking | Shana Hiatt
Directors: Nicholaus Goossen
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When his roommate spends the rent money on Filipino hookers. Alex, a 35 year video game tester has to find a new place to live. After a “encounter” with his friends mom, Alex is forced to move in with his grandmother. Trying to save face with his younger co-workers, Alex says that he is living “with three hot babes” (meaning his grandmother and her two roommates).

Being There (1979)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Sellers | Shirley MacLaine | Melvyn Douglas | Jack Warden | Richard Dysart | Richard Basehart | Ruth Attaway | David Clennon | Fran Brill | Denise DuBarry | Oteil Burbridge | Ravenell Keller III | Brian Corrigan | Alfredine P. Brown | Donald Jacob
Directors: Hal Ashby
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

Roger & Me (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: James Blanchard | James Bond | Pat Boone | Bob Eubanks | Ben Hamper | Timothy Jackson | Tom Kay | Ted Koppel | Correy Lennox | Brian MacDonald | Dan Rather | Ronald Reagan | Fred Ross | Richard Earl Sawdon
Directors: Michael Moore
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Canada
Actors: Robb Wells | John Paul Tremblay | Mike Smith | Lucy Decoutere | Lydia Lawson-Baird | Cory Bowles | Michael Jackson | Gord Downie | Alex Lifeson | Gerry Dee | Glen Michael Grant | Eugene Clark | Barrie Dunn | John Dunsworth | Patrick Roach
Directors: Mike Clattenburg
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Set in a separate storyline not related to the “Trailer Park Boys” Television show, but with the same lovable characters. The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off “The Big Dirty” which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Jaden Smith | Thandie Newton | Brian Howe | James Karen | Dan Castellaneta | Kurt Fuller | Takayo Fischer | Kevin West | George Cheung | David Michael Silverman | Domenic Bove | Geoff Callan | Joyful Raven | Scott Klace
Directors: Gabriele Muccino
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Chris Gardner has big dreams for him and his family but it doesn’t seem to come together for him. Chris has an opportunity to be a stock broker but first he has to go through a grueling internship which means no pay. Chris decides to do it but when his wife leaves and he is evicted, he has to take care of his son on his own. So they find themselves sometimes living on the street and struggling to get by. But Chris is determined to make it.

The Opportunists (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Christopher Walken | Peter MacDonald | Anne Pitoniak | Kate Burton | Jim Mayzik | Vera Farmiga | Donal Logue | Cyndi Lauper | Paul D'Amato | Wally Dunn | Olek Krupa | Chuck Cooper | John Ortiz | José Zúñiga | Brandon Vega
Directors: Myles Connell
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Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she’s saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.

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.

Rent (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Rapp | Adam Pascal | Rosario Dawson | Jesse L. Martin | Wilson Jermaine Heredia | Idina Menzel | Tracie Thoms | Taye Diggs | Julia Roth | Porscha Radcliffe | Stephen Payne | Darryl Chan | Ken Clark | Julia Ormond | David Fine
Directors: Chris Columbus
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This film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms, and Taye Diggs also star.

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Connelly | Ben Kingsley | Ron Eldard | Frances Fisher | Kim Dickens | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Jonathan Ahdout | Navi Rawat | Carlos Gómez | Kia Jam | Jaleh Modjallal | Samira Damavandi | Matthew Simonian | Namrata Singh Gujral | Al Faris
Directors: Vadim Perelman
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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.

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.