Posts Tagged ‘contract’

Coach Carter (2005)

Friday, February 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Rob Brown | Robert Ri'chard | Rick Gonzalez | Nana Gbewonyo | Antwon Tanner | Channing Tatum | Ashanti | Texas Battle | Denise Dowse | Debbi Morgan | Mel Winkler | Vincent Laresca | Sidney Faison | Octavia Spencer
Directors: Thomas Carter
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In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. The initial resistance from the boys is soon dispelled as the team under Carter’s tutelage becomes a undefeated competitor in the games. However, when the overconfident team’s behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that too many players are doing poorly in class, he takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need to rely on more than sports for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected.

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Musical
Countries:
Actors: Paul Sorvino | Paris Hilton | Bill Moseley | Anthony Head | Alexa Vega | Dean Armstrong | Tim Burd | Stephan Dubeau | Dani Jazzar | Dave Kiner | J. LaRose | Nivek Ogre | Jake Reardon | Martin Samuel
Directors: Darren Lynn Bousman
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In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family’s mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.

Torch Singer (1933)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Claudette Colbert | Ricardo Cortez | David Manners | Lyda Roberti | Baby LeRoy | Charley Grapewin | Sam Godfrey | Florence Roberts | Virginia Hammond | Mildred Washington | Cora Sue Collins | Helen Jerome Eddy | Albert Conti | Ethel Griffies | James Burke
Directors: Alexander Hall
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Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. The father, Michael Gardner, leaves for China not knowing about the baby, and she assumes he has abandoned her for life. She gets a job as a torch singer, changes her name to Mimi Benton, and becomes notorious for her drinking and philadering. Mimi fills in on a children’s radio program as the character “Aunt Jenny,” singing and telling bedtime stories, and eventually uses the airtime to find her long lost daughter, part with her wild lifestyle, and reunite with Michael.

Surviving Christmas (2004)

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: James Gandolfini | Bill Macy | Ben Affleck | Christina Applegate | | Josh Zuckerman
Directors: Mike Mitchell
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Drew Latham is a supervisory leading an empty, low life with only resources on his side. Opposite another alone Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old infancy home and possibly revive some older holiday reminiscences. But when he arrives, he finds that the domicile he was raised inside is refusal longer the home he grew up in. peopled by another family, Drew offers a nice economic reward that has the family buzzing. But is Drew’s bighearted cash tender only the beginning of a frustrating visitor who’s a little too overeager to celebrate Christmas?

Bedazzled (2000)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Brendan Fraser | Elizabeth Hurley | Frances O'Connor | Miriam Shor | Orlando Jones | Paul Adelstein | Toby Huss | Gabriel Casseus | Brian Doyle-Murray | Jeff Doucette | Aaron Lustig | Rudolf Martin | Julian Firth | Iain Rogerson | Biddy Hodson
Directors: Harold Ramis
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Elliot Richards, a socially incompetent technical advisor working at a call-center, has had a crush on Alison Gardner for nearly four years. One evening, which already started particularly bad for Elliot, she ditches him. Elliot wishes for her to be in his life with all his heart - and is heard. An incredibly beautiful young lady addresses Elliot, and after introducing herself as the Devil, Lucifer, the Princess of Darkness, she offers him a deal: Seven wishes for him, his Soul for her. Quickly, Elliot is convinced and accepts. But every wish he gets fulfilled has massive disadvantages as well, and soon Elliot wants to get out of the contract. The only thing that matters to him now is being able to take his chances by himself.

Speed Racer (2008)

Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Emile Hirsch | Nicholas Elia | Christina Ricci | John Goodman | Melissa Holroyd | Susan Sarandon | Matthew Fox | Ariel Winter | Scott Porter | Benno F?rmann | Gian Ganziano | Peter Fernandez | Harvey Friedman | Richard Roundtree | Sadao Ueda
Directors: Andy Wachowski
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Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer, the designer of Speed’s thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company’s maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won’t drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family’s business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother’s life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.

Ghost Rider (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Long | Raquel Alessi | Brett Cullen | Peter Fonda | Nicolas Cage | Donal Logue | Tony Ghosthawk | Hugh Sexton | Marcus Jones | Matt Norman | Lawrence Cameron Steele | Wes Bentley | Eddie Baroo | Jessica Napier | Laurence Breuls
Directors: Mark Steven Johnson
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In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny’s path crosses again with Roxanne, now a reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny’s soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent of vengeance and justice. Mephistopheles charges Johnny with defeating the despicable Blackheart, Mephistopheles’s nemesis and son, who plans to displace his father and create a new hell even more terrible than the old one.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Jack Albertson | Peter Ostrum | Roy Kinnear | Julie Dawn Cole | Leonard Stone | Denise Nickerson | Nora Denney | Paris Themmen | Ursula Reit | Michael Bollner | Diana Sowle | Aubrey Woods | David Battley | G?nter Meisner
Directors: Mel Stuart
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

Manderlay (2005)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Denmark | France | Germany | Netherlands | Sweden | UK
Actors: Bryce Dallas Howard | Isaach De Bankolé | Danny Glover | Willem Dafoe | Michaël Abiteboul | Lauren Bacall | Jean-Marc Barr | Geoffrey Bateman | Virgile Bramly | Ruben Brinkmann | Do?a Croll | Jeremy Davies | Llewella Gideon | Mona Hammond | Ginny Holder
Directors: Lars von Trier
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called “Mam’s Law”. Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay.