Posts Tagged ‘hotel-room’

Transamerica (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrea James | Felicity Huffman | Danny Burstein | Maurice Orozco | Elizabeth Peña | Craig Bockhorn | Paul Borghese | Kevin Zegers | Jon Budinoff | Venida Evans | Raynor Scheine | Kate Bayley | Stella Maeve | Teala Dunn | Jim Frangione
Directors: Duncan Tucker
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One week before her sex-change operation, Bree receives a call from a 17-year-old identifying himself as her son from a college liaison. Bree’s psychiatrist won’t approve the surgery until Bree deals with this relationship, so Bree flies to New York City, bails the youth out of juvenile detention, and offers him a ride back to Los Angeles without disclosing that she is his father. Both her plans and his go awry, and as secrets will out, what might become a friendship (or more) founders. The lad’s step-father, a sex-change support group, a peyote eater, a Navajo wrangler, and Bree’s family all play their parts in this exploration of family, gender, and expectations.

5×2 (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France
Actors: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stéphane Freiss | Françoise Fabian | Michael Lonsdale | Géraldine Pailhas | Antoine Chappey | Marc Ruchmann | Jason Tavassoli | Jean-Pol Brissart | Eliane Kherris | Yannis Belkacem | Sylvie Debrun | Jean Neisser | Ninon Brétécher | Marie-Madeleine Fouquet
Directors: François Ozon
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Marion (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and Gilles (Stéphane Freiss) are living their last minutes as a married couple. After having formalized their divorce, they will make love for the last time in a hotel, but the experience is rather traumatic for Marion, contributing to increase the crisis between them. From this point, the story, broken down in 5 episodes, will run backwards, telling us the couple’s married life, showing us their devoted love to their little son, but also how Gilles hurt Marion in several ways. Then, we see Marion’s labour at the hospital, with an indifference attitude from Gilles about the matter. The two last episodes, tell how was the wedding, the party and the wedding night, and finally, how Marion and Gilles met each other during a trip in the Italian coast.

Bordertown (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jennifer Lopez | Antonio Banderas | Kate del Castillo | John Norman | Irineo Alvarez | Richard Barela | Randall Batinkoff | Juan Diego Botto | Julio Cedillo | Dave Colon | Peter Gonzales Falcon | Juanes | Rene Rivera | Martin Sheen | Chris Talley
Directors: Gregory Nava
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Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.

Single White Female (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bridget Fonda | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Steven Weber | Peter Friedman | Stephen Tobolowsky | Frances Bay | Michele Farr | Tara Karsian | Christiana Capetillo | Jessica Lundy | Renée Estevez | Tiffany Mataras | Krystle Mataras | Amelia Campbell | Kenneth Tobey
Directors: Barbet Schroeder
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When a ‘Single White Female’ places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she’s just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.

The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Iain Rea | Tessa Mitchell | Aaron Murphy | Tim Shadbolt | Annie Whittle | Greg Johnson | Antony Starr | Kate Sullivan | Craig Hall | Jim Bowman | Alison Bruce | Phoebe Falconer | Charles Pierard | Barry Ryan
Directors: Roger Donaldson
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In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a world land spend record, not once, but again and again.

Layer Cake (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Daniel Craig | Tom Hardy | Jamie Foreman | Sally Hawkins | Burn Gorman | George Harris | Tamer Hassan | Colm Meaney | Marcel Iures | Francis Magee | Dimitri Andreas | Kenneth Cranham | Garry Tubbs | Nathalie Lunghi | Marvin Benoit
Directors: Matthew Vaughn
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A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England’s Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy’s old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds’ worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title “LAYER CAKE” refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no ‘codes’, or ‘families’ and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his ’savvy’, ‘telling’ and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the ‘cake mix’. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..

Derailed (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Vincent Cassel | Clive Owen | Jennifer Aniston | Addison Timlin | Melissa George | Sandra Bee | RZA | William Armstrong | Tom Conti | Rachel Blake | Richard Leaf | Xzibit | Catherine McCord | Denis O'Hare | Georgina Chapman
Directors: Mikael Håfström
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Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands their daughter’s illness, and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to an adulterous rendezvous in an hotel. But no sooner have they torn each others’ clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda.Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles is reluctant to go to the Police and soon finds himself powerless to resist the every demand of the thief.

Belly of the Beast (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action
Countries: Canada | Hong Kong | UK
Actors: Steven Seagal | Byron Mann | Monica Lo | Tom Wu | Sarah Malukul Lane | Patrick Robinson | Vincent Riotta | Norman Veeratum | Elidh MacQueen | Chau Siu Tung | Kevork Malikyan | Pongpat Wachirabunjong | Alastair Vardy | Andy Adam | Shahkrit Yamnarm
Directors: Siu-Tung Ching
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Ten years ago, Jake Hopper was a CIA agent who was stationed in Thailand. Then one day, things went sour, and his partner, Sunti barely escaped with his life…after accidentally killing a woman. Jake called it quits and returned to the United States when his wife died, and Sunti became a Buddhist monk to atone for his sins. For the past 10 years, Jake has run a successful private security business, and has been raising his daughter Jessica, who is now an adult. While hiking in Thailand, Jessica and her friend Sarah Winthorpe are kidnapped. A group of Islamic fundamentalists known as the Abu Karaf claims responsibility. Sarah is the daughter of United States senator John Winthorpe. For ransom, the Abu Karaf demand the release of 20 prisoners from American custody. The US Secretary of State urges restraint — he won’t negotiate. Tom Collins, an ex-colleague of Jake’s, recognizes Jessica on the ransom tape and tips Jake off. Jake knows that he must rescue the girls himself. An old CIA buddy puts Jake in contact with Leon Washington, an active CIA agent who is working in Thailand. Jake goes to Bangkok, and escapes an assassination attempt. Leon arranges a meeting for himself with with Soku — the internal security chief for General Jantapan. Jantapan is a rebel military general who is making a play to be one of the most powerful men in Thailand. Secretly, Jantapan is messing with some dangerous spiritual forces. Soku provides Jake with a cover story, but the CIA wants Jake out of it — they are planning to take out the Abu Karaf with the aid of the Thai army, and they don’t want a civilian in the middle. Jake is a spiritual man, so he contacts his spiritual master Paijan Paitoon. As Jake is in trouble, Paitoon offers to arrange a divination from the oracle of the order. Jake enlists the help of Sunti. Jake gets Lulu, the girlfriend of arms dealer Fitch McQuoid, to steal information leading to the Abu Karaf. Jake and Sunti follow the leads to a warehouse where they discover evidence of highly sophisticated weaponry. With their enemies now after Lulu, Jake takes Lulu under his wing. Jake shares some of his info with Leon. Can he trust Leon? Another attempt is made on Jake’s life — and this time, Jake is sure that Leon was involved. Finally, the Abu Karaf contact Jake to arrange a meeting — the pieces are coming together, and Jake figures out that it was not the Abu Karaf who kidnapped Jessica and Sarah. Jantapan tries to send the spirit of an ancient warrior demon to kill Jake, but the ceremony goes wrong and the spirit enters Jantapan himself, giving Jantapan amazing physical and spiritual powers. Jake and Sunti go to meet Mongkol, the leader of the Abu Karaf. Mongkol confirms that ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jantapan has worked to corner the narcotics and arms markets. It was Jantapan who kidnapped the girls, blaming the Abu Karaf so the army would wipe out his competition. Mongkol knows where the girls are, and he gives Jake plans and intelligence. They both need the girls alive. Jake must engage in a battle that will put both his physical and spiritual powers to the ultimate test.

American Splendor (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris Ambrose | Joey Krajcar | Josh Hutcherson | Cameron Carter | Daniel Tay | Mary Faktor | Paul Giamatti | Harvey Pekar | Larry John Meyers | Vivienne Benesch | Barbara Brown | Earl Billings | Danny Hoch | James Urbaniak
Directors: Shari Springer Berman | Robert Pulcini
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.

Blind Horizon (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Val Kilmer | Neve Campbell | Sam Shepard | Noble Willingham | Amy Smart | Gil Bellows | Giancarlo Esposito | Charles Ortiz | Leo Fitzpatrick | Trajan Cuevas | Jesus Mayorga | Cole S. McKay | Guadalupe A. Garcia | Faye Dunaway | Ellen Blake
Directors: Michael Haussman
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In this thriller, Val Kilmer plays Frank, a man who loses his memory after being shot in small desert town in New Mexico. As he tries to retrace his steps and figure out his true identity, Frank believes he may be part of a plot to assassinate the president. Sam Sheperd plays the town’s shifty-eyed sheriff and Neve Campbell plays a woman claiming to be Frank’s fiancee.