Posts Tagged ‘flower’

Pacific Heights (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Melanie Griffith | Matthew Modine | Michael Keaton | Mako | Nobu McCarthy | Laurie Metcalf | Carl Lumbly | Dorian Harewood | Luca Bercovici | Tippi Hedren | Sheila McCarthy | Guy Boyd | Jerry Hardin | Dan Hedaya | James Staley
Directors: John Schlesinger
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A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords.

Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France
Actors: Freddie Highmore | Mia Farrow | Penny Balfour | Doug Rand | Adam LeFevre | Jean Bejote Njamba | Serge Blumental | Madonna | Jimmy Fallon | Robert De Niro | Harvey Keitel | Lee de Jong | Chazz Palminteri | Rhoff | Emilio Estevez
Directors: Luc Besson
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Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur’s grandfather returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks.

The Fountain (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Rachel Weisz | Ellen Burstyn | Mark Margolis | Stephen McHattie | Fernando Hernandez | Cliff Curtis | Sean Patrick Thomas | Donna Murphy | Ethan Suplee | Richard McMillan | Lorne Brass | Abraham Aronofsky | Renee Asofsky | Anish Majumdar
Directors: Darren Aronofsky
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

The Queen (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Helen Mirren | James Cromwell | Alex Jennings | Roger Allam | Sylvia Syms | Tim McMullan | Robin Soans | Lola Peploe | Douglas Reith | Joyce Henderson | Pat Laffan | Amanda Hadingue | John McGlynn | Gray O'Brien | Dolina MacLennan
Directors: Stephen Frears
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The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public’s demand for an overt display of mourning.

FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Tim Curry | Samantha Mathis | Christian Slater | Jonathan Ward | Robin Williams | Grace Zabriskie | Geoffrey Blake | Robert Pastorelli | Cheech Marin | Tommy Chong | Tone Loc | Townsend Coleman | Brian Cummings | Kathleen Freeman | Janet Gilmore
Directors: Bill Kroyer
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The fairy people of FernGully have never seen humans before, but when Christa sees one, Zak, she accidentally shrinks him down to her size. But there is trouble in FernGully, for Zak is part of a logging team who is there to cut down the forest.

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.

Phenomenon (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Kyra Sedgwick | Forest Whitaker | Robert Duvall | Jeffrey DeMunn | Richard Kiley | Brent Spiner | Vyto Ruginis | Bruce A. Young | Michael Milhoan | Sean O'Bryan | David Gallagher | Ashley Buccille | Tony Genaro | Troy Evans
Directors: Jon Turteltaub
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The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses.

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.

Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Bob Hoskins | Will Young | Kelly Reilly | Thelma Barlow | Christopher Guest
Directors: Stephen Frears
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Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a bit of a loose end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it, despite the fact the two don’t seem to get on at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres copy it and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is likely to have something to say about this. Luckily Mrs Henderson is friends with him.

Bambi (1942)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
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Directors: David Hand
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The animated story of Bambi, a young deer hailed as the ‘Prince of the Forest’ at his birth. As Bambi grows, he makes friends with the other animals of the forest, learns the skills needed to survive, and even finds love. One day, however, the hunters come, and Bambi must learn to be as brave as his father if he is to lead the other deer to safety.