Posts Tagged ‘1950s’

Chicken Run (2000)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: UK
Actors: Phil Daniels | Lynn Ferguson | Mel Gibson | Tony Haygarth | Jane Horrocks | Miranda Richardson | Julia Sawalha | Timothy Spall | Imelda Staunton | Benjamin Whitrow | John Sharian | Jo Allen | Lisa Kay | Laura Strachan
Directors: Peter Lord
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Ginger is one of the chicken at the Tweety Egg Farm, who is capable of escaping (and desperately wants to) but is constantly being held back by her incompetent partners. One night, feeling failed and depressed after a chicken is axed, she wanders out to the gate, where she sees a rooster triumphantly flying through the air. After crashing and injuring his wing, Ginger takes him in and learns he’s Rocky Rhodes, a cocky American who enjoys freedom - in fact, he escaped from a circus when she found him. In exchange for protecting him when the circus arrives asking for him, Ginger makes a deal with Rocky that he will teach them to fly so they can escape. Taking advantage of the situation, Rocky woos the chicken, irritating Ginger “Doll-Face” and organizer Officer Fowler, formerly of the Royal Air Force, in the process. Meanwhile, the Tweetys have purchased a machine to make chicken pies out of, intending to cook every last one of them.

Hounddog (2007)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Oliver Clayton-Luce | Cody Hanford | David Morse | Afemo Omilami | Ryan Pelton | Ron Prather | Christoph Sanders | Frank Hoyt Taylor | Jody Thompson | Sean Andrew Wallace | William Smith Yelton | Dakota Fanning | Isabelle Fuhrman | Piper Laurie | Chandler McIntyre
Directors: Deborah Kampmeier
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A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

Clue (1985)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eileen Brennan | Tim Curry | Madeline Kahn | Christopher Lloyd | Michael McKean | Martin Mull | Lesley Ann Warren | Colleen Camp | Lee Ving | Bill Henderson | Jane Wiedlin | Jeffrey Kramer | Kellye Nakahara | Will Nye | Rick Goldman
Directors: Jonathan Lynn
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Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play. You’ll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Features three surprise endings!!

The Way We Were (1973)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
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Katie and Hubbell are students in the same college but with very different lives. She is a communist compromised against the civil war in Spain and the rise of Hitler in Europe, and has to work to pay her studies. He is more interested in sports a and sceptic about politics. However, Katie is impressed by his charm and she still is when they meet some years after.

Revolutionary Road (2008)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: John Behlmann | David Campbell | Evan Covey | Sean Cullen | Leonardo DiCaprio | Jason Etter | Jay Ferraro | Les Gardonyi | Gregory Guy Gorden | David Harbour | Rob L. Hubbard | Sean Marrinan | Dylan Clark Marshall | Timothy McCartney | Brennan McKay
Directors: Sam Mendes
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A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Jon Voight | Ellen Burstyn | Jeff Daniels | Dagmara Dominczyk | Steven Grayhm | Michael Imperioli | Callum Keith Rennie | Rebecca Jenkins | Callahan Brebner | Nicaela Weigel | Shelbie Weigel | Darcy Cadman | Tim O'Halloran | Zak Santiago | Emy Aneke
Directors: Lloyd Kramer
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Eddie is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man explains him that he will have a journey meeting five people in their heavens that will show the importance of his life before he goes to the next level.

Capote (2005)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Allie Mickelson | Kelci Stephenson | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Craig Archibald | Bronwen Coleman | Kate Shindle | David Wilson Barnes | Michael J. Burg | Catherine Keener | Kwesi Ameyaw | Andrew Farago | Ken Krotowich | Chris Cooper | R.D. Reid | Rob McLaughlin
Directors: Bennett Miller
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On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of “no witness”, the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.

Beaches (1988)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Bette Midler | Barbara Hershey | John Heard | Spalding Gray | Lainie Kazan | James Read | Grace Johnston | Mayim Bialik | Marcie Leeds | Carol Williard | Allan Kent | Phil Leeds | Lynda Goodfriend | Nikki Plant | Michael French
Directors: Garry Marshall
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When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the same man.

The Incredibles Movie (2004)

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thandie Newton | Craig T. Nelson | Holly Hunter | Samuel L. Jackson | Jason Lee | Dominique R. Louis | Teddy Newton | Jean Sincere | Eli Fucile | Maeve Andrews | Wallace Shawn | Spencer Fox | Lou Romano | Wayne Canney | Sarah Vowell | Michael Bird
Directors: Brad Bird
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Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. bobble Parr), plus his spouse Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world’s peak famous felony -war superheroes into Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. Excluding fifteen living later, they have been forced to adopt inhabitant identities and retreat toward the environs where they have refusal choice except to retire of organism a superhero and strength to breathe a “routine life” with their three children indigo, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were clandestinely born by superpowers). Longing to acquire back into action, dip gets his chance when a inexplicable communication command him to a apart island for a crest secret task. He soon discovers that it motivation take a super kin effort to rescue the world from total damage.

Cry Danger (1951)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Dick Powell | Rhonda Fleming | Richard Erdman | William Conrad | Regis Toomey | Jean Porter | Jay Adler | Joan Banks | Gloria Saunders | Hy Averback | Renny McEvoy | Lou Lubin | Benny Burt | Robert Bice | Ralph Brooks
Directors: Robert Parrish
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“Rocky” Mulloy is framed for a murder and a holdup he didn’t commit and pulls a five year stretch in prison. He is finally pardoned when a friend returns from overseas to corroborate his testimony in court. “Rocky” then goes hunting for the real culprits so this his prison buddy, believed to be innocent, can also be pardoned. Nancy Morgan, wife of his friend, falls in love with him along the way, and he also has a few bullets fired at him by an oily character. “Rocky” finds the guilty party in a place he didn’t think about looking.