Posts Tagged ‘philadelphia-pennsylvania’

Trading Places (1983)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Denholm Elliott | Dan Aykroyd | Maurice Woods | Richard D. Fisher Jr. | Jim Gallagher | Anthony DiSabatino | Bonnie Behrend | Sunnie Merrill | James Newell | Mary St. John | Bonnie Tremena | David Schwartz | Ralph Bellamy | Don Ameche | Tom Degidon
Directors: John Landis
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

Rocky III (1982)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Talia Shire | Burt Young | Carl Weathers | Burgess Meredith | Tony Burton | Mr. T | Hulk Hogan | Ian Fried | Al Silvani | Wally Taylor | Jim Hill | Don Sherman | Dennis James | Jim Healy
Directors: Sylvester Stallone
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Rocky Balboa (Stallone) has finally beaten Apollo Creed (Weathers), and feels that he has nothing left to achieve. He plans to retire. Boxing brawler Clubber Lang (Mr. T) becomes the Number 1 Contender, and wants his match with Balboa. Rocky is reluctant at first, but finally agrees to take on Clubber Lang. But things go from bad to worse, where Rocky’s manager Micky (Meredith) unfortunately dies. Rocky must now train with his former opponent, Creed. Rocky now not just fighting for the title, but also for the confidence of everyone and especially of all, for Micky.

Fat Albert (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Kenan Thompson | Shedrack Anderson III | Jermaine Williams | Keith Robinson | Alphonso McAuley | Aaron Frazier | Marques Houston | Dania Ramirez | Omarion Grandberry | J. Mack Slaughter | Rick Overton | Kyla Pratt | Alice Greczyn | Farnsworth Bentley
Directors: Joel Zwick
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Fat Albert and the rest of the Cosby Kids are living happily in their animated world of Philadelphia when one day, a young teen cries on her remote control because she doesn’t have any friends. Fat Albert and his gang then magically come out of her TV and enter the real Philadelphia! They decide-being such good kids-to help the teen make friends. Albert then falls in love with the girl’s beautiful foster sister-but oh, no! If Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids stray from their TV world, they begin to fade away! Will Albert be able to return home after enlisting the help of Bill Cosby himself, or will he and his gang vanish forever? Go and see to find out!

History of Violence, A (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Maria Bello | Ed Harris | William Hurt | Ashton Holmes | Peter MacNeill | Stephen McHattie | Greg Bryk | Sumela Kay | Kyle Schmid | Deborah Drakeford | Gerry Quigley | Heidi Hayes | Aidan Devine | Bill MacDonald
Directors: David Cronenberg
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Tom Stall, a humble family man and owner of a popular neighborhood restaurant, lives a quiet but fulfilling existence in the Midwest. One night Tom foils a crime at his place of business and, to his chagrin, is plastered all over the news for his heroics. Following this, mysterious people follow the Stalls’ every move, concerning Tom more than anyone else. As this situation is confronted, more lurks out over where all these occurrences have stemmed from compromising his marriage, family relationship and the main characters’ former relations in the process.

Philadelphia (1993)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Denzel Washington | Roberta Maxwell | Buzz Kilman | Karen Finley | Daniel Chapman | Mark Sorensen Jr. | Jeffrey Williamson | Charles Glenn | Ron Vawter | Anna Deavere Smith | Stephanie Roth Haberle | Lisa Talerico | Joanne Woodward | Jason Robards
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Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer infected with AIDS, is fired from his conservative law firm in fear that they might contract AIDS from him. After Andrew is fired, in a last attempt for peace, he sues his former law firm with the help of a homophobic lawyer, Joe Miller. During the court battle, Miller sees that Beckett is no different than anyone else on the gritty streets of the city of brotherly love, sheds his homophobia and helps Beckett with his case before AIDS overcomes him.

National Treasure (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Diane Kruger | Justin Bartha | Sean Bean | Jon Voight | Harvey Keitel | Christopher Plummer | David Dayan Fisher | Stewart Finlay-McLennan | Oleg Taktarov | Stephen A. Pope | Annie Parisse | Mark Pellegrino | Armando Riesco | Erik King
Directors: Jon Turteltaub
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Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who’ve all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben’s close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Haley Joel Osment | Toni Collette | Olivia Williams | Mischa Barton | Donnie Wahlberg | Peter Anthony Tambakis | Jeffrey Zubernis | Bruce Norris | Glenn Fitzgerald | Greg Wood | Trevor Morgan | Angelica Torn | Lisa Summerour | Firdous Bamji
Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
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Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. This boy “sees dead people”. Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole’s mom is at her wit’s end with what to do about her son’s increasing problems. Crowe is the boy’s only hope.

Unbreakable (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Samuel L. Jackson | Robin Wright Penn | Spencer Treat Clark | Charlayne Woodard | Eamonn Walker | Leslie Stefanson | Johnny Hiram Jamison | Michaelia Carroll | Bostin Christopher | Elizabeth Lawrence | David Duffield | Laura Regan | Chance Kelly | Michael Kelly
Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
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This suspense thriller unfolds as the audience is introduced to David Dunn, played by Willis. Not only is he the sole survivor of a horrific train-crash that killed 131 people he doesn’t have a scratch on him. Samuel L Jackson plays an obscure character who approaches Dunn with a seemingly far fetched theory behind it all rocketing off an enticing thriller with a sci fi twist

Invincible (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Greg Kinnear | Elizabeth Banks | Kevin Conway | Michael Rispoli | Kirk Acevedo | Dov Davidoff | Michael Kelly | Sal Darigo | Nicoye Banks | Turron Kofi Alleyne | Cosmo DeMatteo | Stink Fisher | Michael Mulheren | Michael Nouri
Directors: Ericson Core
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From the producers of “The Rookie”, this inspiring sports movie will star Mark Wahlberg as a Philadelphia Eagles fan who has just lost his wife and his teaching job. He decides one day to show up for an open tryout for his favorite NFL team, only to see his wildest dreams come true.

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Melito | Bruce Willis | Jon Seda | Michael Chance | Vernon Campbell | H. Michael Walls | Bob Adrian | Simon Jones | Carol Florence | Bill Raymond | Ernest Abuba | Irma St. Paule | Madeleine Stowe | Joey Perillo | Bruce Kirkpatrick | Brad Pitt | Christopher Plummer
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.