Posts Tagged ‘class-differences’

The Illusionist (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Edward Norton | Paul Giamatti | Jessica Biel | Rufus Sewell | Eddie Marsan | Jake Wood | Tom Fisher | Aaron Johnson | Eleanor Tomlinson | Karl Johnson | Vincent Franklin | Nicholas Blane | Philip McGough | Erich Redman | Michael Carter
Directors: Neil Burger
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A magician in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to the crown prince, the magician uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna.

Anna and the King (1999)

Monday, July 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
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This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.

Spanglish (2004)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Téa Leoni | Paz Vega | Cloris Leachman | Shelbie Bruce | Sarah Steele | Ian Hyland | Victoria Luna | Cecilia Suárez | Ricardo Molina | Brenda Canela | Eddy Martin | Nicole Nieth | Jamie Kaler | James Lancaster
Directors: James L. Brooks
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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter’s soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous!

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Matt Damon | Ben Affleck | Stellan Skarsgård | Minnie Driver | Casey Affleck | Cole Hauser | John Mighton | Rachel Majorowski | Colleen McCauley | Matt Mercier | Ralph St. George | Rob Lynds | Dan Washington | Alison Folland
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.

Persuasion (2007)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Rupert Penry-Jones | Sally Hawkins | Alice Krige | Anthony Head | Julia Davis | Michael Fenton Stevens | Mary Stockley | Peter Wight | Marion Bailey | Amanda Hale | Jennifer Higham | Rosamund Stephen | Stella Gonet | Sam Hazeldine | Louis Shergold
Directors: Adrian Shergold
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On the brink of financial ruin, the Elliot family is forced to vacate their ancestral home in order to recover their debts and avoid losing face amongst their parish. The task of organizing their effects falls to levelheaded Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing (but destitute) naval officer…

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Sidney Poitier | Katharine Hepburn | Katharine Houghton | Cecil Kellaway | Beah Richards | Roy Glenn | Isabel Sanford | Virginia Christine | Alexandra Hay | Barbara Randolph | D'Urville Martin | Tom Heaton | Grace Gaynor | Skip Martin
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

Who’s That Girl (1987)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Griffin Dunne | Haviland Morris | John McMartin | Bibi Besch | John Mills | Robert Swan | Drew Pillsbury | Coati Mundi | Dennis Burkley | James Dietz | Cecile Callan | Karen Elise Baldwin | Kimberlin Brown | Crystal Carson
Directors: James Foley
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His soon-to-be father in law has the dopey lawyer Louden to give the pretty and no less self conscious Nikki Finn a ride from the prison to the bus station to ensure that she leaves town immediately. However Nikki has different plans: after being in prison many years for a murder she didn’t commit, she wants to find out who really killed her friend Johnny. Unscrupulously she uses Louden for her objectives.

Here on Earth (2000)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris Klein | Leelee Sobieski | Josh Hartnett | Michael Rooker | Annie Corley | Bruce Greenwood | Annette O'Toole | Elaine Hendrix | Stuart Wilson | Ronni Saxon | Maureen O'Malley | Tac Fitzgerald | Jessica Stier | Erik Eidem | Zach Fehst
Directors: Mark Piznarski
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The lives of three young people - a rich student, a girl from the “wrong side of the tracks” and her boyfriend - unexpectedly intersect during one fateful summer in the romantic drama “Here on Earth.” Kelley Morse (Chris Klein), who is cocky and brash, normally would never have crossed paths with the residents of a small town near his posh private school. But when he takes his shiny new Mercedes out for a drive, he locks horns with some of the locals, including Jasper (Josh Hartnett). As Jasper’s willful girlfriend Samantha (Leelee Sobieski) looks on, Kelley and Jasper engage in a dangerous car race that turns disastrous, leaving a popular diner owned by Samantha’s mother in ruins. Kelley and Jasper are sentenced to a creatively ironic but fitting punishment: They must help rebuild the diner. Not only does this ruin Kelley’s summer plans, he also must board at the home of his rival, Jasper. Kelley begins to fulfill his “sentence,” but refuses to have anything to do with Jasper and his parents. When Kelley again encounters Samantha, the attraction is immediate and strong. First love blossoms in the Berkshire woods (”a little bit of heaven, here on earth,” Samantha calls the pastoral setting), angering Jasper, who has known Samantha practically his entire life. These new feelings and the romantic triangle that develops are only the beginning of a new journey for Kelley, Samantha and Jasper, as they ultimately make life-changing discoveries about themselves and each other.

Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

Monday, March 30th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Eric Stoltz | Mary Stuart Masterson | Lea Thompson | Craig Sheffer | John Ashton | Elias Koteas | Molly Hagan | Maddie Corman | Jane Elliot | Candace Cameron Bure | Chynna Phillips | Scott Coffey | Carmine Caridi | Lee Garlington | Laura Leigh Hughes
Directors: Howard Deutch
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A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl’s old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.

Always Outnumbered (1998)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Laurence Fishburne | Daniel Williams | Bill Cobbs | Natalie Cole | Laurie Metcalf | Alan Wilder | Cicely Tyson | Bridgid Coulter | Bill Nunn | Isaiah Washington | Bill Duke | Kevin Carroll | Jamaal Carter | John Toles-Bey | Brooke Marie Bridges
Directors: Michael Apted
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An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.