Posts Tagged ‘father-son-estrangement’

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gabriel Byrne | Angelica Mandy | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Ruth Sheen | Kate Fleetwood | Reese Witherspoon | Lillete Dubey | Romola Garai | Tony Maudsley | Deborah Findlay | John Franklyn-Robbins | Paul Bazely | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charlie Beall
Directors: Mira Nair
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

1776 (1972)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | History | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: William Daniels | Howard Da Silva | Ken Howard | Donald Madden | John Cullum | Roy Poole | David Ford | Ron Holgate | Ray Middleton | William Hansen | Blythe Danner | Virginia Vestoff | Emory Bass | Ralston Hill | Howard Caine
Directors: Peter H. Hunt
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The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single “nay” vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants.

Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

Friday, February 6th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Diane Lane | Richard Gere | Christopher Meloni | Viola Davis | Becky Ann Baker | Scott Glenn | Linda Molloy | Pablo Schreiber | Mae Whitman | Charlie Tahan | Carolyn McCormick | Ted Manson | Ato Essandoh | Terri Denise Johnson | Jessica Lucas
Directors: George C. Wolfe
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Two unhappy people’s lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who’s trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to reconcile with his estranged son, checks into an inn in a North Carolina beach town where she is staying.

The Last Starfighter (1984)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Lance Guest | Dan O'Herlihy | Catherine Mary Stewart | Barbara Bosson | Norman Snow | Robert Preston | Chris Hebert | John O'Leary | George McDaniel | Charlene Nelson | John Maio | Robert Starr | Al Berry | Scott Dunlop
Directors: Nick Castle
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This is the story of a videogaming boy, named Alex Rogan who lives in a remote trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a big extended family. Meanwhile, Alex becomes the top player of Starfighter, a stand-up arcade game where the player defends “the frontier” from “Xur and the Kodan armada” in a space battle. After achieving his best score, he is approached by the game’s inventor, Centauri. Stepping into Centauri’s vehicle, he is seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all in his life, he finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force when Centauri is a disguised alien who whisks him off to another planet.

Chicken Little (2005)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Zach Braff | Garry Marshall | Don Knotts | Patrick Stewart | Amy Sedaris | Steve Zahn | Joan Cusack | Wallace Shawn | Harry Shearer | Fred Willard | Catherine O'Hara | Patrick Warburton | Adam West | Mark Walton | Mark Dindal
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After Chicken Little causes widespread panic—when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky—the young chicken is determined to restore his reputation. But just as things are starting to go his way, a real piece of the sky lands on his head. Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends, Abby Mallard (aka Ugly Duckling), Runt of the Litter and Fish Out of Water, attempt to save the world without sending the town into a whole new panic.

Field of Dreams (1989)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Amy Madigan | Gaby Hoffmann | Ray Liotta | Timothy Busfield | James Earl Jones | Burt Lancaster | Frank Whaley | Dwier Brown | James Andelin | Mary Anne Kean | Fern Persons | Kelly Coffield | Michael Milhoan | Steve Eastin
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.

Rain Man (1988)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Tom Cruise | Valeria Golino | Gerald R. Molen | Jack Murdock | Michael D. Roberts | Ralph Seymour | Lucinda Jenney | Bonnie Hunt | Kim Robillard | Beth Grant | Dolan Dougherty | Marshall Dougherty | Patrick Dougherty | John-Michael Dougherty
Directors: Barry Levinson
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Charley is a hustler. He’s been on his own long enough to know how to work people and situations. He finds that the father who threw him out as a teen ager has died. He’s left him a now antique convertible and something more important, a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is Autistic, but is able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy. Their father has left his fortune to Raymond who doesn’t even understand what money is for. Charley is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond’s existence from him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The two begin a long road trip that will lead them to an understanding of each other.

Big Fish (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Albert Finney | Billy Crudup | Jessica Lange | Helena Bonham Carter | Alison Lohman | Robert Guillaume | Marion Cotillard | Matthew McGrory | David Denman | Missi Pyle | Loudon Wainwright III | Ada Tai | Arlene Tai | Steve Buscemi
Directors: Tim Burton
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The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father’s elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father’s great feats and his great failings.

A Walk to Remember Movie (2002)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Daryl Hannah | Shane West | Mandy Moore | Peter Coyote | Jonathan Parks Jordan | Lauren German
Directors: Adam Shankman
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Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn’t care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club’s spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.

Jumanji (1995)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: | Robin Williams | Jonathan Hyde | Kirsten Dunst | Bradley Pierce | Bonnie Hunt | Bebe Neuwirth | David Alan Grier | Patricia Clarkson | Adam Hann-Byrd | Laura Bell Bundy | James Handy | Gillian Barber | Brandon Obray | Cyrus Thiedeke | Gary Joseph Thorup
Directors: Joe Johnston
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After being trapped in a jungle board game for 26 years, a Man- Child (Robin Williams) wins his release from the game. But, no sooner has he arrived that he is forced to play again, and this time sets the creatures of the jungle loose on the city. Now it is up to him to stop them.