Posts Tagged ‘money’

Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Jay Mohr | Billy Burke | Christina Applegate | Pamela Gidley | Olympia Dukakis | Lloyd Bridges | Jason Fuchs | Joe Viterelli | Tony Lo Bianco | Blake Hammond | Philip Suriano | Vincent Pastore | Marisol Nichols | Carol Ann Susi | Gregory Sierra
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see. In a donkey’s, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?

City by the Sea (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Frances McDormand | James Franco | Eliza Dushku | William Forsythe | Patti LuPone | Anson Mount | John Doman | Brian Tarantina | Drena De Niro | Michael P. Moran | Nestor Serrano | Matthew Cowles | Linda Emond | Cyrus Farmer
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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New York City homicide detective Vincent LaMarca has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement, making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. But on his latest case, the stakes are higher for Vincent—the suspect he’s investigating is his own son. He and Joey have been painfully estranged ever since Vincent divorced his wife and left the decaying boardwalks of Long Beach, Long Island for the anonymity of Manhattan and a successful career with the NYPD. He lives his life in solitude, keeping his girlfriend at arm’s length; the closest relationship he maintains is with his partner, Reg—and Vincent makes sure that stops at the precinct door. As long as Vincent lives in the protection of the present, he doesn’t have to deal with the pain of his past—or his sorrow over his broken relationship with Joey. But this murder investigation is drawing Vincent home to Long Beach, the self-proclaimed City by the Sea, where the past has been waiting for him to return. The agonizing memory that has tortured him all his life—the death of his father, a convicted murderer who was executed when Vincent was just a boy—still plagues him. In the course of the investigation, he discovers that his own unresolved pain and failures as a father have deeply influenced Joey’s life, and now his 18-month-old grandson may be fated to follow their self-destructive paths.

Robin Hood (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Brian Bedford | Peter Ustinov | Phil Harris | Terry-Thomas | Monica Evans | Carole Shelley | Andy Devine | Roger Miller | Pat Buttram | George Lindsey | Ken Curtis | Billy Whitaker | Dana Laurita | Dora Whitaker | Richie Sanders
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman
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Retelling of the Robin Hood legend with animals for the characters. Robin Hood is an outlaw who starts to form a gang in Sherwood Forest to fight the injustices of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who levies unpayable taxes upon the people.

Millions (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Alexander Nathan Etel | Leslie Phillips | Lewis Owen McGibbon | James Nesbitt | Daisy Donovan | Christopher Fulford | Pearce Quigley | Jane Hogarth | Alun Armstrong | Enzo Cilenti | Nasser Memarzia | Kathryn Pogson | Harry Kirkham | Cornelius Macarthy | Kolade Agboke
Directors: Danny Boyle
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The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob the poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But, during the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian’s playhouse, a 5-year old given to talking to saints. The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. Ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront in this film.

Party Monster (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: Netherlands | USA
Actors: Seth Green | Macaulay Culkin | Diana Scarwid | Chloë Sevigny | Dillon Woolley | Marilyn Manson | Dylan McDermott | Mia Kirshner | Wilmer Valderrama | Elliot Kriss | Natasha Lyonne | Daniel Franzese | Janis Dardaris | Wilson Cruz | Manny Perez
Directors: Fenton Bailey | Randy Barbato
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Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980’s thru the 1990’s, a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter ‘Michael Alig’ (qv), a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana, Alig moved to New York, and came to be an underground legend, known for his excessive drug use and outrageous behavior in the club world. At his peak, he had his own record label, and magazine, and hosted Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the ’90s. He was doing a lot of drugs, and as his addiction got worse, his party themes became darker and more twisted. Alig’s saga reached its tragic crescendo when he viciously murdered his drug dealer, Angel, by injecting him with Drano and throwing him in the East River. The power he wielded on the club scene made him feel untouchable, so he didn’t hestitate to boast of the murder. The press thought it was a publicity stunt—until Angel’s body washed ashore.

Brother (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Takeshi Kitano | Omar Epps | Kuroudo Maki | Masaya Kato | Susumu Terajima | Royale Watkins | Lombardo Boyar | Ren Osugi | Ryo Ishibashi | James Shigeta | Tatyana Ali | Makoto Otake | Kouen Okumura | Naomasa Musaka | Rino Katase
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A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade.

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.

Pretty Woman (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Julia Roberts | Ralph Bellamy | Jason Alexander | Laura San Giacomo | Alex Hyde-White | Amy Yasbeck | Elinor Donahue | Hector Elizondo | Judith Baldwin | Jason Randal | Bill Applebaum | Tracy Bjork | Gary Greene | Billy Gallo
Directors: Garry Marshall
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Vivian Ward has found a way of living by working as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard. When she runs into the prince of her dreams, who comes along on his wild horse, she first does not recognize him as her saviour. The prince, a ruthless and wealthy businessman by the name of Edward Lewis, does not know that she could be more than just a girl from the sidewalk, but he changes his decision after the first night with the beautiful stranger. Her being the first person in a long time who could surprise him, Edward can slowly feel the light at the end of the tunnel. He is on his way to become a better person, whereas Vivian has got a new chance to start over again.

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Jon Tenney | Joey Travolta | Eugene Collier | Jimmy Ortega | Ousaun Elam | Ray Lykins | Tim Gilbert | Rick Avery | Gilbert R. Hill | Dick Purtan | Fred Asparagus | Louis Lombardi | Lindsey Ginter | Timothy Carhart
Directors: John Landis
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Axle Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.

Unstoppable (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wesley Snipes | Jacqueline Obradors | Stuart Wilson | Kim Coates | Mark Sheppard | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Vincent Riotta | David Schofield | Nicholas Aaron | Kim Thomson | Jo Stone-Fewings | Cristian Solimeno | Gary Oliver | Raicho Vasilev | David Fleeshman
Directors: David Carson
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The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes) is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott’s sister, Detective Amy knight (Jacqueline Obradors), in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan (Stuart Wilson). He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean’s life.