Posts Tagged ‘mother’

The Fantastic Planet (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Jennifer Drake | Eric Baugin | Jean Topart | Jean Valmont | Sylvie Lenoir | Michèle Chahan | Yves Barsacq | Hubert de Lapparent | Gérard Hernandez | Claude Joseph | Philippe Ogouz | Jacques Ruisseau | Barry Bostwick | Mark Gruner | Marvin Miller
Directors: René Laloux
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

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.

Five Children and It (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Tara Fitzgerald | Freddie Highmore | Alex Jennings | Jonathan Bailey | Jessica Claridge | Poppy Rogers | Alec Muggleton | Zak Muggleton | Zoë Wanamaker | Kenneth Branagh | Alexander Pownall | Eddie Izzard | Georgio Serafini | John Sessions | Kim Fenton
Directors: John Stephenson
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‘It’ is a Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), an ancient, ugly and irritable sand fairy the children find one day on a secret beach at their uncle’s mansion. It grants them one wish per day, lasting until sunset. But they soon learn it is very hard to think of really sensible wishes, and each one gets them into unexpected difficulties. Magic, the children find, can be as awkward as it is enticing.

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Anne Hathaway | Emily Blunt | Stanley Tucci | Simon Baker | Adrian Grenier | Tracie Thoms | Rich Sommer | Daniel Sunjata | David Marshall Grant | James Naughton | Tibor Feldman | Rebecca Mader | Jimena Hoyos | Gisele Bündchen
Directors: David Frankel
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Miranda Priestley, of “Runway” magazine tears up the landscape as a demanding fashion editor. She is a terror to everyone who is around her as is quickly depicted in the opening scenes of the movie. Her first assistant strives to please her and tries to emulate her, but one can sense that she is not quite as hard as she tries to put on. Into this mix comes a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, has never read the magazine, and doesn’t know who Miranda Priestley is. She only sees this as a stepping stone to another journalism position. Showing no fashion sense and immediately scorned by everyone, Miranda nonetheless hires her as the second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, you can sense that she is trying to force her to quit, but it makes the young woman dig in to please her boss. With the help of one of the magazine’s fashion editors, she gets a complete makeover and a new security. However, with her new appearance and the demands placed on her, she starts to lose her friends, family and her live-in boy friend. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamor that could be hers, including a flashy if not artificial freelance journalist, she is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: James Fleet | Tom Wilkinson | Harriet Walter | Kate Winslet | Emma Thompson | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Emilie François | Elizabeth Spriggs | Robert Hardy | Ian Brimble | Isabelle Amyes | Alan Rickman | Greg Wise | Alexander John
Directors: Ang Lee
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When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. But this is a romance, and through the hardships and heartbreak, true love and a happy ending will find their way for both the sister who is all sense and the one who is all sensibility.

The Cat in the Hat (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Alec Baldwin | Kelly Preston | Dakota Fanning | Spencer Breslin | Amy Hill | Sean Hayes | Danielle Chuchran | Taylor Rice | Brittany Oaks | Talia-Lynn Prairie | Dan Castellaneta | Victor Brandt | Daran Norris | Bugsy
Directors: Bo Welch
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Conrad and Sally Walden (’Spencer Breslin’ (qv) and ‘Dakota Fanning’ (qv)) are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat (’Mike Myers’ (qv)) walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it’s all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back.

Rumor Has It… (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Aniston | Kevin Costner | Shirley MacLaine | Mark Ruffalo | Richard Jenkins | Christopher McDonald | Steve Sandvoss | Mena Suvari | Mike Vogel | Robert Lanza | Lisa Vachon | Trevor Stock | Jennifer Bini Taylor | Marcia Ann Burrs | Lynn Wanlass
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Sarah Huttington, recently engaged, goes home to Pasadena with fiancé Jeff for a family wedding. She hears a rumor that “The Graduate” (book and movie) are based on her family. Did her grandmother and her mom have flings with the same man just before her parents married? Is she a strange man’s child; does this explain why she doesn’t fit in? Was her mother happy? Is she too facing a loveless marriage? Where can she seek answers: her mother’s dead, her father’s a pleasant naïf. Ask her salty grandma? Better to ask the man in the triangle, the real Benjamin Braddock. With Jeff’s blessing, Sarah heads for San Francisco, looking for the key to her past and to her future.

Tarzan (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Tony Goldwyn | Minnie Driver | Glenn Close | Brian Blessed | Nigel Hawthorne | Lance Henriksen | Wayne Knight | Alex D. Linz | Rosie O'Donnell | Taylor Dempsey | Jason Marsden | Jack Angel | Joseph Ashton | Bob Bergen | Rodger Bumpass
Directors: Chris Buck
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The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he’s human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to…

Silent Hill (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: France | Japan | USA
Actors: Radha Mitchell | Sean Bean | Laurie Holden | Deborah Kara Unger | Kim Coates | Tanya Allen | Alice Krige | Jodelle Ferland | Colleen Williams | Ron Gabriel | Eve Crawford | Derek Ritschel | Amanda Hiebert | Maxine Dumont | Christopher Britton
Directors: Christophe Gans
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After the continuous sleep walking episodes of Sharon, the young daughter of Rose Da Silva, the decision is made to take Sharon to the place only mentioned in her restless dreams- Silent Hill. However, the road to Silent Hill is anything but easy to access, and Rose creates a high speed chase between herself and a police officer only to end in a crash for them both. When she wakes up, Sharon has disappeared and Rose is at the entrance to the deserted, dream-like town of Silent Hill. As Rose begins the search for her daughter, she does not realize the terror and mystery surrounding her. Rose is led on a blind search for her beloved daughter, finding herself getting more and more entwined into disturbing past of Silent Hill.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Winona Ryder | Dianne Wiest | Anthony Michael Hall | Kathy Baker | Robert Oliveri | Conchata Ferrell | Caroline Aaron | Dick Anthony Williams | O-Lan Jones | Vincent Price | Alan Arkin | Susan Blommaert | Linda Perri | John Davidson
Directors: Tim Burton
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A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors where he should have hands. One day when the local “Avon” representative calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and environment that he isn’t used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair and hedges, and wins every body’s heart. But life isn’t always so sweet…