Posts Tagged ‘culture-clash’

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!

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 . . .

Passage to India, A (1984)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Judy Davis | Victor Banerjee | Peggy Ashcroft | James Fox | Alec Guinness | Nigel Havers | Richard Wilson | Antonia Pemberton | Michael Culver | Art Malik | Saeed Jaffrey | Clive Swift | Ann Firbank | Roshan Seth | Sandra Hotz
Directors: David Lean
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Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fianc?, a British magistrate posted in a small town; her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. They want to see something of the country and to meet everyday Indians, but are frustrated by the British community’s insistence that relations with the locals are best experienced from a distance. Finally, a friend introduces them to a Muslim doctor whom Mrs. Moore had seen briefly on her visit to a mosque. He takes them on an outing to the nearby caverns (a local attraction), but what happens there threatens to destroy any civility between the British and Indian societies.

Bad Company (2002)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Chris Rock | Peter Stormare | Gabriel Macht | Kerry Washington | Adoni Maropis | Garcelle Beauvais | Matthew Marsh | Dragan Micanovic | John Slattery | Brooke Smith | Daniel Sunjata | DeVone Lawson Jr. | Wills Robbins | Marek Vasut
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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When a CIA agent is killed during a nuclear arms purchase, his partner Oakes, recruits his twin brother, Jake Hayes. Jake had no idea he had a twin brother, let alone that he worked for the CIA. Jake, a.k.a. Michael Turner, has nine days to fill his brother’s place. However, the enemy terrorists learn of his secret identity and kidnap his girlfriend/fiancee. He has to rescue them and save New York city from an imminent nuclear terrorist act.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Kim Cattrall | Dennis Dun | James Hong | Victor Wong | Kate Burton | Donald Li | Carter Wong | Peter Kwong | James Pax | Suzee Pai | Chao Li Chi | Jeff Imada | Rummel Mor | Craig Ng
Directors: John Carpenter
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Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all of his opponents, his friend Wang bets him a game of “double or nothing” to try and regain his cash and loses. Jack wants his well earned money, but Wang explains he doesn’t have the cash on him and that’ll he pay later because he’s due to pick up a long, lost girlfriend from the airport. Convinced Wang’s pulling something sly, Jack insists he drive Wang to the airport so they can stick together. However, at the airport Wang’s girlfriend is captured by the Lords of Death, a streetwise Chinatown gang. She is essential for an upcoming plan to revive a thousand year old Chinese sorcerer and bring him back to the world as a mortal again. So begins a daring adventure to rescue Wang’s girl and stop the ruthless operation that’s going on down in Little China. Teaming up with a cast of very different individuals, Jack and Wang delve deep into an uncovering conspiracy in which everything’s not exactly as it seems. Here comes big trouble…

Mr. Baseball (1992)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sport
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Tom Selleck | Ken Takakura | Aya Takanashi | Dennis Haysbert | Toshi Shioya | Kosuke Toyohara | Toshizo Fujiwara | Mak Takano | Kenji Morinaga | Joh Nishimura | Norihide Goto | Kensuke Toita | Naoki Fuji | Takanobu Hozumi | Leon Lee
Directors: Fred Schepisi
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A Major Leaguer down on his percentages gets traded to the Chuunichi Dragons , and has trouble adjusting to Japanese customs. He resists what he considers ridiculous and arbitrary rules of the club and belittles the etiquette expected of him as a representative of his team. When he starts seeing the interactions of his coach with the owners of the team, and falls in love with his trainer’s daughter, he begins to rethink his attitude.

Lost in Translation (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Scarlett Johansson | Bill Murray | Akiko Takeshita | Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe | Kazuko Shibata | Take | Ryuichiro Baba | Akira Yamaguchi | Catherine Lambert | Fran?ois du Bois | Tim Leffman | Gregory Pekar | Richard Allen | Giovanni Ribisi | Diamond Yukai
Directors: Sofia Coppola
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Bob Harris is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte, the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Charlotte is looking for “her place in life,” and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they?

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Mary McDonnell | Graham Greene | Rodney A. Grant | Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman | Tantoo Cardinal | Robert Pastorelli | Charles Rocket | Maury Chaykin | Jimmy Herman | Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse | Michael Spears | Jason R. Lone Hill | Tony Pierce | Doris Leader Charge
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Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs “Two-socks” and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man’s ways.

Dead Man (1995)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Iggy Pop | Johnny Depp | Crispin Glover | Gibby Haynes | Richard Boes | George Duckworth | John Hurt | John North | Robert Mitchum | Mili Avital | Peter Schrum | Gabriel Byrne | Gary Farmer | Lance Henriksen | Michael Wincott | Eugene Byrd
Directors: Jim Jarmusch
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Dead Man is the story of a young man’s journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named “Nobody,” who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody’s help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.