Posts Tagged ‘amnesia’

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jim Henson
Directors: Frank Oz
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The Muppets are back in a brand-new full-length musical comedy! After graduating college, the Muppets travel to Manhattan to have someone produce their musical “Manhattan Melodies”. When it doesn’t happen, the gang splits up. Kermit makes friends with Jenny (Juliana Donald) and Piggy is jealous, thinking that Kermit found a new girl. Now Rowlf is a vet secretary, Fozzie’s living in a cave, and Piggy is working at a hotel with her partner, but apparently they get fired and now Piggy lives next door to where Kermit works at Pete’s with Jenny. When Jenny and Kermit find producer-in-training Ronny Coleman (Lonny Price), he promises to produce their show. The gang returns to Manhattan, but after getting hit by a car in joy, Kermit gets amnesia and now finds work making ads with other frogs. When Kermit is found at Pete’s, they try to restore his memory.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Shatner | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | George Takei | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | Merritt Butrick | Phil Morris | Scott McGinnis | Robert Hooks | Robin Curtis | Carl Steven | Vadia Potenza
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Admiral Kirk’s defeat of Khan and the creation of the Genesis planet are empty victories. Spock is dead and McCoy is, seemingly inexplicably, being driven insane. Then an unexpected visit from Sarek, Spock’s father, provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock’s living essence. With one friend alive and one not, but both in pain, Kirk attempts to help his friends by stealing the Enterprise and defying Starfleet’s Genesis quarantine. But the Klingons have also learned of Genesis and race to meet Kirk in a deadly rendezvous.

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Albert | Ray Milland | Donald Pleasence | Kim Richards | Ike Eisenmann | Walter Barnes | Reta Shaw | Denver Pyle | Alfred Ryder | Lawrence Montaigne | Terry Wilson | George Chandler | Dermott Downs | Shepherd Sanders | Don Brodie
Directors: John Hough
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Tia (Kim Richards) and Tony (Ike Eisenmann) are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasence) poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian’s megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland), who wants to exploit them. Jason (Eddie Albert), a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony “escape to witch mountain,” while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

Possessed (1947)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Joan Crawford | Van Heflin | Raymond Massey | Geraldine Brooks | Stanley Ridges | John Ridgely | Moroni Olsen | Erskine Sanford | Peter Miles | Jakob Gimpel | Isabel Withers | Lisa Golm | Douglas Kennedy | Monte Blue | Don McGuire
Directors: Curtis Bernhardt
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A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she’s taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David as a result of borderline personality disorder which ultimately leads to murder.

The Bourne Identity (2002)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Franka Potente | Chris Cooper | Clive Owen | Brian Cox | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Gabriel Mann | Walton Goggins | Josh Hamilton | Julia Stiles | Orso Maria Guerrini | Tim Dutton | Denis Braccini | Nicky Naude | David Selburg
Directors: Doug Liman
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Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum’s novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fisherman who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted.

Paycheck (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Aaron Eckhart | Uma Thurman | Paul Giamatti | Colm Feore | Joe Morton | Michael C. Hall | Peter Friedman | Kathryn Morris | Ivana Milicevic | Christopher Kennedy | Fulvio Cecere | John Cassini | Callum Keith Rennie | Michelle Harrison
Directors: John Woo
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Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer and what he does is technical jobs for certain companies and as soon as he is done, his memory of the work he has done is wiped out. Now the longest he has been contracted is 2 months. But now billionaire, James Rethrick offers him a job that would last 2 years, maybe 3, and he promises that he will probably earn 8 figures. Michael agrees. Before beginning he turns in all of his personal effects. And when the job is done, his memory is erased and he learns he made over 90 million dollars over the three years. When he goes to claim it and his personal effects, he discovers that prior to the erasure of his memory he waived his rights to the money he earned and that the items that were given to him were not the ones he gave when he began. Later he is arrested by the FBI who say that he committed some act of treason and murder. It’s while he is in custody that he escapes using some the items that he was given. He later meets with a friend who gives him some information that helps him understand what is going on. And at the same time Rethrick for some reason wants him so he is being pursued by Rethrick’s people.

Angel Heart (1987)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Mickey Rourke | Robert De Niro | Lisa Bonet | Charlotte Rampling | Brownie McGhee | Stocker Fontelieu | John Michael Higgins | Elizabeth Whitcraft | Eliott Keener | Charles Gordone | Dann Florek | Kathleen Wilhoite | George Buck | Judith Drake | Gerald Orange
Directors: Alan Parker
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Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to deal with the devil himself.

The Addams Family (1991)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Anjelica Huston | Raul Julia | Christopher Lloyd | Elizabeth Wilson | Christina Ricci | Judith Malina | Dan Hedaya | Carel Struycken | Paul Benedict | Christopher Hart | Dana Ivey | Jimmy Workman | John Franklin | Tony Azito | Douglas Brian Martin
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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The Addams step out of Charles Addams’ cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark’s son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?

RoboCop (1987)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Weller | Nancy Allen | Dan O'Herlihy | Ronny Cox | Kurtwood Smith | Miguel Ferrer | Robert DoQui | Ray Wise | Felton Perry | Paul McCrane | Jesse D. Goins | Del Zamora | Calvin Jung | Rick Lieberman | Lee de Broux
Directors: Paul Verhoeven
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In a near future, the Motor City known as Detroit slowly becomes the spawn-ground for Crime as a gang of Cop Killers goes on the rise. Private organism, Omni Consomer Products (OCP) eventually seizes control of local law enforcement to ensure a secure an Urban pacification program. Just assigned to the Metro West Precint, Officer Alex Murphy is massacred to death by this gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes the chance when the ED-209 law enforcement Droid shows lack of perfection by killing a fellow executive to create the Perfect Cop. The near death Murphy is used as the subject. With his memories erased, he is resurrected as Robocop, the future of law enforcement. As he sweeps away with crime, case by case, he eventually becomes involved with the Cop Killing Gang, and Anne Lewis herself. All of this, triggering his dormant memories of his past life as he searches for who he really is, and uncover a conspiracy going deep in OCP with the Senior Vice President himself.

Men in Black II (2002)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones | Will Smith | Rip Torn | Lara Flynn Boyle | Johnny Knoxville | Rosario Dawson | Tony Shalhoub | Patrick Warburton | Jack Kehler | David Cross | Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine | Peter Spellos | Michael Rivkin | Michael Bailey Smith | Lenny Venito
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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It has been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Kay has since returned to the comforts of civilian life while Jay continues to work for the Men in Black, the highly funded yet unofficial government agency that regulates all things alien on earth. While investigating a seemingly routine crime, Jay uncovers a diabolical plot masterminded by Serleena, an evil Kylothian monster who disguises herself as a sexy lingerie model. It’s a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay—who not only has no memory of his time spent with the agency, but is also the only person alive who has the expertise to save the galaxy—to reunite with the MIB before Earth is destroyed completely.