Posts Tagged ‘friendship’

Away from Her (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada
Actors: Julie Christie | Gordon Pinsent | Olympia Dukakis | Kristen Thomson | Michael Murphy | Wendy Crewson | Alberta Watson | Grace Lynn Kung | Stacey LaBerge | Lili Francks | Andrew Moodie | Deanna Dezmari | Judy Sinclair | Tom Harvey | Carolyn Heatherington
Directors: Sarah Polley
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Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona’s “forgetfulness” actually is Alzheimer’s Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a “no-vistors” policy for the first 30 days of a patient’s stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated to find out that not only can has she seemingly forgotten him, Fiona has transferred her affections to another man. The other man is Aubrey, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home. As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness.

Of Mice and Men (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Malkovich | Ray Walston | Casey Siemaszko | Sherilyn Fenn | John Terry | Richard Riehle | Alexis Arquette | Joe Morton | Noble Willingham | Joe D'Angerio | Tuck Milligan | David Steen | Moira Harris | Mark Boone Junior
Directors: Gary Sinise
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Based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. The film follows Steinbeck’s novel closely, exploring questions of strength, weakness, usefulness, reality and utopia, bringing Steinbeck’s California vividly to life.

Deep Rising (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Treat Williams | Famke Janssen | Anthony Heald | Kevin J. O'Connor | Wes Studi | Derrick O'Connor | Jason Flemyng | Cliff Curtis | Clifton Powell | Trevor Goddard | Djimon Hounsou | Una Damon | Clint Curtis | Warren Takeuchi | Linden Banks
Directors: Stephen Sommers
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A gang of jewel thieves board an empty luxury liner in the South Seas to find that the crew and passengers have been killed by a monster that kills its victims and sucks the water from their bodies that looks like a mix of a giant squid and the monster from “Aliens”.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Reign Over Me (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Don Cheadle | Jada Pinkett Smith | Liv Tyler | Saffron Burrows | Donald Sutherland | Robert Klein | Melinda Dillon | Jonathan Banks | Rae Allen | Paula Newsome | John de Lancie | Paul Butler | Camille LaChe Smith
Directors: Mike Binder
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Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other hand, doesn’t have a job or a family. He used to have both until he lost his family on the fateful day of 9/11, and the grief he felt caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. They soon feel that their friendship is the one thing that allows them to forget about their problems.

Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Josh Hutcherson | AnnaSophia Robb | Zooey Deschanel | Robert Patrick | Bailee Madison | Kate Butler | Devon Wood | Emma Fenton | Grace Brannigan | Latham Gaines | Judy McIntosh | Patricia Aldersley | Lauren Clinton | Isabelle Rose Kircher | Cameron Wakefield
Directors: Gabor Csupo
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Fifth grader Jesse Aaron’s hopes of becoming the fastest runner in his class are dashed when new girl Leslie Burke outruns everybody, including him. However, Jess and Leslie soon begin a friendship, and create a magical kingdom in the forest, where the two of them reign together as king and queen.

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?

Failure to Launch (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew McConaughey | Sarah Jessica Parker | Zooey Deschanel | Justin Bartha | Bradley Cooper | Terry Bradshaw | Kathy Bates | Tyrel Jackson Williams | Katheryn Winnick | Rob Corddry | Patton Oswalt | Stephen Tobolowsky | Kate McGregor-Stewart | Adam Alexi-Malle | Gretchen Cleevely
Directors: Tom Dey
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Tripp is a thirty-five years old bachelor man that still lives with his parents, Al and Sue. Al and Sue hire the manipulative interventionist Paula to play Tripp’s girlfriend and seduce him, convincing Tripp to move out of their home. Paula and Tripp fall in love for each other, but Tripp’s best friends Ace and Demo accidentally find the truth about Paula and Demo discloses to Tripp, spoiling the plan and their relationship. When Tripp and Paula miss each other, their friends plot a scheme trying to arrange an encounter to fix the situation.

In the Land of Women (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elena Anaya | Adam Brody | Kelsey Keel | Danielle Savre | Gina Mantegna | Rob Reinis | JoBeth Williams | Makenzie Vega | Kristen Stewart | Meg Ryan | Olympia Dukakis | Dustin Milligan | Graham Wardle | Elise Gatien | Christine Danielle
Directors: Jon Kasdan
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His world in complete disorder after his break-up with a famous actress, Carter, a young soft-core porn writer, goes to suburban Detroit to care for his sickly Grandmother and heal his broken heart. Along the way he forms a special bond with the family that lives across from his Grandma, and changes the life of each woman. In the course of this, as is required in every film—and thus the world, he changes his own life as well.

Oliver Twist (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Barney Clark | Jeremy Swift | Ian McNeice | Richard Durden | Timothy Bateson | Andy de la Tour | Filip Hess | Andreas Papadopoulos | Laurie Athey | Joseph Tremain | Peter Copley | Andy Linden | John Nettleton | Tony Noble | Michael Heath
Directors: Roman Polanski
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Oliver Twist (Clark) is an orphan, who is soon kicked out of the orphanage and thrown into a terrible home. The bad treatment Oliver receives, forces him to run off to London. Here, he is soon picked up by the Artful Dodger (Eden) and taken to Fagin (Kingsley). Fagin treats Oliver well, but is it the life Oliver really wants?