Posts Tagged ‘assumed-identity’

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!!

Taking Lives (2004)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia | Canada | USA
Actors: Angelina Jolie | Ethan Hawke | Kiefer Sutherland | Gena Rowlands | Olivier Martinez | Tchéky Karyo | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Paul Dano | Justin Chatwin | André Lacoste | Billy Two Rivers | Richard Lemire | Julien Poulin | Marie-Josée Croze | Christian Tessier
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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A successful FBI profiler, Illeana Scott (Jolie), is summoned to help out Canadian law enforcement in Montreal, to hunt down a serial killer who assumes the lives and identities (hence the title) of the people he kills as he travels across North America, which forces Illeana to adjust to working in a strange city with a police team with which she doesn’t really fit in.

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Patrick Bergin | Kevin Anderson | Elizabeth Lawrence | Kyle Secor | Claudette Nevins | Tony Abatemarco | Marita Geraghty | Harley Venton | Nancy Fish | Sandi Shackelford | Bonnie Johnson | Graham Harrington | John Ward | Sharon J. Robinson
Directors: Joseph Ruben
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Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Marilyn Monroe | Tony Curtis | Jack Lemmon | George Raft | Pat O'Brien | Joe E. Brown | Nehemiah Persoff | Joan Shawlee | Billy Gray | George E. Stone | Dave Barry | Mike Mazurki | Harry Wilson | Beverly Wills
Directors: Billy Wilder
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Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane’s dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn’t have. But he can use Osgood Fielding’s yacht if Jerry — as Daphne — will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

Irresistible (2006)

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Susan Sarandon | Sam Neill | Emily Blunt | Charles 'Bud' Tingwell | William McInnes | Georgie Parker | Terry Norris | Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik | Lauren Mikkor | Heather Mitchell | Jill Forster | Joelene Crnogorac | Geneviève Picot | Carolyn Bock | Alethea McGrath
Directors: Ann Turner
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Sophie Hartley (Susan Sarandon) is convinced that she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband’s (Sam Neill) beautiful co-worker, Mara (Emily Blunt), wants her children, her husband and her life. But no one believes Sophie. Forced to prove her sanity, Sophie grows increasingly paranoid - but is she imagining things? Sophie becomes completely caught up in her obsession, turning stalker herself - and makes a discovery more frightening than her worst fear.

The Parent Trap (1998)

Friday, January 30th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lindsay Lohan | Dennis Quaid | Natasha Richardson | Elaine Hendrix | Lisa Ann Walter | Simon Kunz | Polly Holliday | Maggie Wheeler | Ronnie Stevens | Erin Mackey | Joanna Barnes | Hallie Meyers-Shyer | Maggie Emma Thomas
Directors: Nancy Meyers
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What if you spent your whole life wishing for something you didn’t know you already had? Hallie Parker and Annie James are about to find out. Hallie is a cool girl from California. Annie is a fair rose from London. When the two accidentally meet at summer camp, they think they have nothing in common except…they’re identical twins! Now they’re up to their freckles in schemes and dreams to switch places, get their parents back together and have the family they’ve always wished for!

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Wayne Allwine | Tony Anselmo | Jeff Bennett | Corey Burton | Jim Cummings | Bill Farmer | Shaun Fleming | Kelsey Grammer | Andrew McDonough | Alan Young | Tress MacNeille | Diane Michelle | Russi Taylor | April Winchell
Directors: Jun Falkenstein
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A Christmas themed, three-part anthology-style video. The first part, “Donald Duck: Stuck on Christmas”, is essentially a retelling of _Groundhog Day (1993)_ (qv), with Huey, Dewey, and Louie reliving Christmas ad infinitum. Next is “A Very Goofy Christmas”, in which Goofy tries to overcome his son’s skepticism about Santa Claus. Finally, “Mickey & Minnie’s Gift Of The Magi” recreate the classic tale of ironic Christmas selflessness. The stories are linked together by narration by ‘Kelsey Grammer’ (qv).

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Boris Karloff | Thurl Ravenscroft | June Foray
Directors: Chuck Jones
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Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. The village is sure to have a sad Christmas this year.

You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Meg Ryan | Greg Kinnear | Parker Posey | Jean Stapleton | Steve Zahn | Heather Burns | Dave Chappelle | Dabney Coleman | John Randolph | Deborah Rush | Hallee Hirsh | Jeffrey Scaperrotta | Cara Seymour | Katie Finneran
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) is the big superstore Foxbooks owner. He opens up his store near many small book shops and runs them all out of business - including The Shop Around The Corner owned by Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan). Little do each Kathleen and Joe know that: even though they hate each other in person - through the Internet they are in love.

The Score (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Edward Norton | Marlon Brando | Angela Bassett | Gary Farmer | Jamie Harrold | Frank Oz
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Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. Soon Max, his good friend and financial partner in the illegal affairs, comes along with an offer Nick can’t refuse: A historical and priceless French sceptre has been discovered while being smuggled into the country. It is now under massive surveillance in the Montreal Customs House, and soon to be returned to France. Nick has to team up with Max’ man inside, the young, talented and aggressive thief Jackie Teller to get the precious item, and suffer no more financial problems ever. Only one question remains: Who will trick whom out of their share?