Posts Tagged ‘chicago-illinois’

The Relic (1997)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Penelope Ann Miller | Tom Sizemore | Linda Hunt | James Whitmore | Clayton Rohner | Chi Moui Lo | Thomas Ryan | Robert Lesser | Diane Robin | Lewis Van Bergen | Constance Towers | Francis X. McCarthy | Audra Lindley | John Kapelos | Tico Wells
Directors: Peter Hyams
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A researcher at Chicago’s Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt. Vincent D’Agosta who enlists the help of Dr. Margo Green at the museum - she has taken an interest in the contents of her colleague’s crates. Unknown to both there is a large creature roaming the museum which is gearing itself up for a benefit reception which the city’s mayor is to attend.

Bullitt (1968)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Robert Vaughn | Jacqueline Bisset | Don Gordon | Robert Duvall | Simon Oakland | Norman Fell | Georg Stanford Brown | Justin Tarr | Carl Reindel | Felice Orlandi | Vic Tayback | Robert Lipton | Ed Peck | Pat Renella
Directors: Peter Yates
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Johnny Ross works for Chicago mobster Peter Ross, his brother. In April 1968 Johnny Ross escapes two attempts on his life and flees to San Francisco, where he is placed in protective custody by politician Walter Chalmers, who hopes to use Ross to further his own national aspirations. To protect Ross, Chalmers asks the SFPD to assign Detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt and his partners, Sergeants Don Delgetti and Carl Stanton, to guard him at a flophouse near an overhead freeway. It looks like a simple assignment, but at 1 AM the next day it all goes awry in a blast of a shotgun, leaving Stanton and Ross fighting for life at San Francisco General. Bullitt gets what information he can, but breathing down his neck is the angered Chalmers who vows to ruin Bullitt’s career should Ross die. Bullitt gets a break when the gunman appears at the hospital to finish off Ross, and Bullitt gets a good look at him; now Bullitt must smoke out the gunman and his backup man before Chalmers carries out his threat, leading to a high-speed pursuit, a fiery crash at a gas station, and a fingerprint check that leads to a stunning discovery about Ross, and about a couple staying at a swanky hotel in San Mateo.

About Last Night… (1986)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rob Lowe | Demi Moore | James Belushi | Elizabeth Perkins | George DiCenzo | Michael Alldredge | Robin Thomas | Donna Gibbons | Megan Mullally | Patricia Duff | Rosanna DeSoto | Sachi Parker | Robert Neches | Joe Greco | Ada Maris
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Danny and Bernie are two single men living their lives on the wild side. But when Danny meets Debbie at a bar and the two start a relationship with a one night stand, Danny’s life takes a different turn. How does this passionate night become a full affair and what effect will this relationship have on both people and their friendship with their best mates ?

The Sting (1973)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | Robert Redford | Robert Shaw | Charles Durning | Ray Walston | Eileen Brennan | Harold Gould | John Heffernan | Dana Elcar | Jack Kehoe | Dimitra Arliss | Robert Earl Jones | James Sloyan | Charles Dierkop | Lee Paul
Directors: George Roy Hill
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don’t know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it an attack on him and orders all the people involved terminated. Hooker is shaken down by a crooked cop, Snyder, who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him, he then tries to warn Luther but is too late. He then goes to see Henry Gondorf, a friend of Luther’s and a one time great con-man, who has had a bit of bad luck. After hearing what happened to Luther and seeing how hungry Hooker is for payback, he assembles a gang and decides to con Lonigan. While everything seems to be going ok, there is just the problem of the hit on Hooker and Snyder, whom Hooker paid off with counterfeit money.

Judgment Night (1993)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Emilio Estevez | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Denis Leary | Stephen Dorff | Jeremy Piven | Peter Greene | Erik Schrody | Michael Wiseman | Michael DeLorenzo | Relioues Webb | Will Zahrn | Eugene Williams | Christine Harnos | Galyn Görg | Angela Alvarado
Directors: Stephen Hopkins
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Four pals are on their way to a boxing match, but gets stuck in heavy traffic. To get to the boxing match in time they take the first exit they find to find another way to the venue. As they are driving around lost in gang-land they get stuck and witness a brutal murder. The killer wants no witnesses and tries to kill them too. The four pals get away the first time, but the killer is soon back on their tail again while they are trying to find help in the middle of nowhere.

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.

Deliver Us from Eva (2003)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: LL Cool J | Gabrielle Union | Duane Martin | Essence Atkins | Robinne Lee | Meagan Good | Mel Jackson | Dartanyan Edmonds | Kym Whitley | Royale Watkins | Matt Winston | Ruben Paul | Dorian Gregory | Kenya Moore | Yuri Brown
Directors: Gary Hardwick
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Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They end up paying Ray, the local “playboy,” $5,000 to date her. The plan goes by smoothly, but troubles comes when Ray actually falls in love with Eva.

Buddy Movie (1997)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Rene Russo | Robbie Coltrane | Alan Cumming | Irma P. Hall | Peter Elliott | Mak Wilson | Lynn Robertson Bruce | Mark Sealey | Robert Tygner | Michelan Sisti | Peter Hurst | Leif Tilden | Star Townsend | Paul Reubens | John Aylward
Directors: Caroline Thompson
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This is a fact based story about an English socialite (Rene Russo) and her husband (Robbie Coltrane) who live in a mansion with a brood of animals including chimpanzees who are raised as her children. When she discovers an ailing baby gorilla, she decides to care for it as well. Years later, the gorilla is fully grown and its strength is sometimes out of control. However, the gorilla shows love for his mistress and obeys her commands. That all changes when she is invited to display the gorilla and chimps at the Chicago World’s Fair. Accidentally freed by one of the chimps, the gorilla terrorizes the Fair. From that point on, he becomes moody and more uncontrollable until he attacks his mistress in a bestial rage.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Dorothy Comingore | Agnes Moorehead | Ruth Warrick | Ray Collins | Erskine Sanford | Everett Sloane | William Alland | Paul Stewart | George Coulouris | Fortunio Bonanova | Gus Schilling | Philip Van Zandt | Georgia Backus | Harry Shannon
Directors: Orson Welles
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Raging Bull (1980)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Cathy Moriarty | Joe Pesci | Frank Vincent | Nicholas Colasanto | Theresa Saldana | Mario Gallo | Frank Adonis | Joseph Bono | Frank Topham | Lori Anne Flax | Charles Scorsese | Don Dunphy | Bill Hanrahan | Rita Bennett
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he’s a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he’s a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family’s love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it’s his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.