Posts Tagged ‘based-on-book’

The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Wag the Dog (1997)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Robert De Niro | Anne Heche | Denis Leary | Willie Nelson | Andrea Martin | Kirsten Dunst | William H. Macy | John Michael Higgins | Suzie Plakson | Woody Harrelson | Michael Belson | Suzanne Cryer | Jason Cottle | David Koechner
Directors: Barry Levinson
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After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisors (DeNiro) contacts a top Hollywood producer (Hoffman) in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.

I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kim Basinger | Vincent Perez | Liam Aiken | Garrett Strommen | Eva Marie Saint | Daniel Craig | Lance Reddick | Connie Chiume | James Ngobese | Joko Scott | Nick Boraine | Susan Danford | Ian Roberts | Susan Monteregge | Jessica Perritt
Directors: Hugh Hudson
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Kuki, a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after a serious car crash. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann, a man she doesn’t know well, and she moves to Kenya with him and her young son to start a cattle ranch. Challenges beset her, not the least of which is Paulo’s love of danger and his leaving for days on end to hunt and fish with pals. She must face fierce storms, roving lions, venomous snakes, and murderous poachers, and she must find accommodation with a neighboring tribe. Her mother entreats her to return home. Can Kuki live her dream, tame Paolo, guide her son safely past the perils and errors of youth, and serve Africa?

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kate Hudson | Matthew McConaughey | Kathryn Hahn | Annie Parisse | Adam Goldberg | Thomas Lennon | Michael Michele | Shalom Harlow | Robert Klein | Bebe Neuwirth | Samantha Quan | Justin Peroff | Celia Weston | James Murtaugh | Archie MacGregor
Directors: Donald Petrie
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Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive competing with two female co-workers for a major campaign for a diamond merchant. He cuts a deal with his competitors that the account is his if he can make a woman of their choice fall in love with him in 10 days. In comes Andie Anderson who, in turn, is writing a story on how to lose guy in 10 days as a bet with her boss to be allowed to write more substantial stories. With a hidden agenda in each camp, will either party be able to complete their mission?

The Polar Express (2004)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Leslie Harter Zemeckis | Eddie Deezen | Nona Gaye | Peter Scolari | Brendan King | Andy Pellick | Josh Eli | Mark Mendonca | Rolandas Hendricks | Mark Goodman | Jon Scott | Gregory Gast | Sean Scott | Gordon Hart | Michael Jeter
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara and Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa’s sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine’s roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor (voice of Tom Hanks) invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.

Dumbo (1941)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Herman Bing | Billy Bletcher | Edward Brophy | Jim Carmichael | Cliff Edwards | Eddie Holden | Sterling Holloway | Malcolm Hutton | Harold Manley | John McLeish | Tony Neil | Chuck Stubbs | Verna Felton
Directors: Ben Sharpsteen
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Mrs. Jumbo sadly looks on how babies are delivered by stork to colleague circus-animals but as even a baby elephant makes a most cumbersome package, so her so is just last to arrive, but soon becomes a laughing stock for the jealous herd because of his more then jumbo-size ears, so he gets nick-named Dumbo. When she can’t stomach the public making fun of her firstborn, she is locked up as mad elephant, and the taunted kid finds himself all alone; well, except for a self-appointed mentor-protector, Timothy Q. Mouse -subsize, yet ideal to scare the jealous herd- who keeps motivating Dumbo. Alas inspiring the circus director to make Dumbo the top (literally) of an elephant pyramid stunt literally brings the house down, so he’s demoted to clown. When everything seems lost, they accidentally discover how they ended up in a tree with a bunch of crows…

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | David Eigenberg | Bob Tracey | Ron Emanuel | Debra Messing | Tom Stoviak | Yvonne Erickson | Scott Nunnally | Harris Mackenzie | Will Patton | Lucinda Jenney | Laura Linney | Tom Tully | Zachary Mott | Ann McDonough
Directors: Mark Pellington
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John Klein, a Washington newspaper reporter leaves his job after his wife dies to investigate strange reports, including psychic visions (”prophecies”) and sightings of winged creatures (”mothmen”), in a small West Virginia town, that may be the signs of an alien invasion of Earth…

The Prince of Tides (1991)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nick Nolte | Blythe Danner | Kate Nelligan | Jeroen Krabbé | Melinda Dillon | George Carlin | Jason Gould | Brad Sullivan | Maggie Collier | Lindsay Wray | Brandlyn Whitaker | Justen Woods | Bobby Fain | Trey Yearwood
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When a Southern born New York writer tries to commit suicide, her “unemployed-football-coach” twin brother, Tom Wingo, comes to her aid. While tending to his sister Savannah’s care he meets her psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein. Dr. Lowenstein, desperate to unlock the door to her patient’s self-destructive pattern, relies on Tom to be his sister’s memory. What she doesn’t realize is that the last thing Tom wants to do is remember. Haunted by a painful childhood and a domineering mother, Tom discovers the only thing worse than not remembering is not telling.

Dangerous Beauty (1998)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Catherine McCormack | Rufus Sewell | Oliver Platt | Fred Ward | Naomi Watts | Moira Kelly | Jacqueline Bisset | Jeroen Krabbé | Joanna Cassidy | Melina Kanakaredes | Daniel Lapaine | Justine Miceli | Jake Weber | Simon Dutton | Grant Russell
Directors: Marshall Herskovitz
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In 16th century Venice, courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red, they read, compose poetry and music, and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart, and with beauty and intelligence becomes the best. She’s a heroine when she helps convince France to aid Venice in war with Turkey, but when plague descends, the Church charges her with witchcraft. At her inquisition, she must match wits with an old rival, speak for all women, and call courage from Venier.

Cry Freedom (1987)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK
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Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.