Posts Tagged ‘jewish’

Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Jackie Sandler | Austin Stout | Kevin Nealon | Rob Schneider | Norm Crosby | Jon Lovitz | Tyra Banks | Blake Clark | Peter Dante | Ellen Albertini Dow | Kevin P. Farley | Lari Friedman | Tom Kenny | Cole Sprouse
Directors: Seth Kearsley
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Adam Sandler stars in this comedic animated musical as Davey Stone, a 33 year old drunk who was perfect 20 years ago. After cheating the Chinese waiter (Schneider) for not paying for his 4 Scorpion bowls, he gets one more chance or he goes to the state prison for 10 years. For his sentence, he is to be a referee-in-training for the Junior Basketball League. While learning to be nicer from Whitey Duvall (Sandler), an ederly basketball referee, Davey falls in love again with his childhood girfriend Jennifer Freedman (Titone) who already has a son Benjamin (Stout).

Arranged (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Zoe Lister Jones | Francis Benhamou | John Rothman | Mimi Lieber | Laith Nakli | Doris Belack | Marcia Jean Kurtz | Trevor Braun | Daniel London | Arian Moayed | Peggy Gormley | Jake Robards | Alysia Reiner | David Castro | Peter Appel
Directors: Diane Crespo
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ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.

The Good German (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Thompson | John Roeder | George Clooney | Tobey Maguire | Cate Blanchett | Dominic Comperatore | Dave Power | Tony Curran | Ravil Isyanov | J. Paul Boehmer | Igor Korosec | Boris Kievsky | Vladimir Kulikov | Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy | Aleksandr Sountsov
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain’s uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who’s now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he’s assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena’s keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Sacha Baron Cohen | Ken Davitian | Luenell | Bob Barr | Spirea Ciorobea | Alan Keyes | Michael Psenicksa | Bobby Rowe | Jim Sell | Larry Walker | Ilham Äliyev | Pamela Anderson | Mariam Behar | Linda Stein
Directors: Larry Charles
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Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the “greatest country in the world.” With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his assignment.

Alpha Dog (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Matthew Barry | Emile Hirsch | Fernando Vargas | Vincent Kartheiser | Justin Timberlake | Shawn Hatosy | Heather Wahlquist | Alex Solowitz | Alec Vigil | Harry Dean Stanton | Frank Cassavetes | Nicole Dubos | Regina Rice | Laura Nativo
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
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In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake’s fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy.

Bee Season (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Juliette Binoche | Flora Cross | Max Minghella | Kate Bosworth | Corey Fischer | Sam Zuckerman | Joan Mankin | Piers Mackenzie | Lorri Holt | Brian Leonard | Kathy McGraw | John Evans | Alisha Mullally | Olivia Charles
Directors: Scott McGehee | David Siegel
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty…

Goodfellas (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Ray Liotta | Joe Pesci | Lorraine Bracco | Paul Sorvino | Chuck Low | Frank DiLeo | Frank Sivero | Tony Darrow | Mike Starr | Frank Vincent | Frank Adonis | Catherine Scorsese | Gina Mastrogiacomo | Suzanne Shepherd
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960’s and 70’s New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry’s best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Morgan Freeman | Jessica Tandy | Dan Aykroyd | Patti LuPone | Esther Rolle | Joann Havrilla | William Hall Jr. | Alvin M. Sugarman | Clarice F. Geigerman | Muriel Moore | Sylvia Kaler | Carolyn Gold | Crystal R. Fox | Bob Hannah | Ray McKinnon
Directors: Bruce Beresford
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An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair’s life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.

Munich (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eric Bana | Daniel Craig | Ciarán Hinds | Mathieu Kassovitz | Hanns Zischler | Ayelet Zorer | Geoffrey Rush | Gila Almagor | Michael Lonsdale | Mathieu Amalric | Moritz Bleibtreu | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Meret Becker | Marie-Josée Croze | Yvan Attal
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During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Meet the Fockers (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Ben Stiller | Dustin Hoffman | Barbra Streisand | Blythe Danner | Teri Polo | Owen Wilson | Spencer Pickren | Bradley Pickren | Alanna Ubach | Ray Santiago | Tim Blake Nelson | Shelley Berman | Kali Rocha | Dorie Barton
Directors: Jay Roach
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Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg’s parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gaylord M. Focker?