Posts Tagged ‘funeral’

Snow Cake (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Alan Rickman | Sigourney Weaver | Carrie-Anne Moss | David Fox | Jayne Eastwood | Emily Hampshire | James Allodi | Johnny Goltz | Robert Smith Jones | Mark McKinney | Callum Keith Rennie | Jackie Brown | Selina Cadell | Nia Rorts | Julie Stewart
Directors: Marc Evans
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Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manages to bum a ride with him. Just as he begins to warm to this eccentric girl, Alex’s vehicle is in a serious automobile accident that kills Vivienne. After his meeting with the police, Alex decides to speak with Vivienne’s mother. Upon arrival at her home, Alex discovers that the mother, Linda, is a barely functional autistic who convinces him to stay long to take out the garbage the day after the funeral he agrees to arrange. In those few days, Alex discovers new friends and learns more about the uniqueness of Linda even as he struggles to come to terms with his own grief.

Clerks. (1994)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Brian O'Halloran | Jeff Anderson | Marilyn Ghigliotti | Lisa Spoonhauer | Jason Mewes | Kevin Smith | Scott Mosier | Scott Schiaffo | Walter Flanagan | Al Berkowitz | David Klein | Ed Hapstak | Pattijean Csik | Ernest O'Donnell | Kimberly Loughran
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Dante Hicks is a clerk at a local convenience store in New Jersey. On one particular Saturday morning, he gets called in on his day off. Once there, he must deal with multiple problems. The shutters outside won’t open. His ex-girlfriend, whom he is still in love with, is getting married. His girlfriend, who bugs him about starting college, has revealed certain, uh…stuff about her past. His boss hasn’t come in to take his place. He has a hockey game at 2 o’clock. Another ex has died, and today’s the last day he can go to her wake. He must deal with customers that aren’t so intelligent. His friend, Randal, a clerk at the video store next door, is even less dedicated to his job than Dante, and is always bothering Dante’s customers. And the biggest problem of them all: HE’S NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TODAY!! Can Dante manage it all?

Random Hearts (1999)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Kristin Scott Thomas | Charles S. Dutton | Bonnie Hunt | Dennis Haysbert | Richard Jenkins | Paul Guilfoyle | Susanna Thompson | Peter Coyote | Dylan Baker | Lynne Thigpen | Susan Floyd | Bill Cobbs | Kate Mara
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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The wife of Police Sergeant Dutch Van Den Broek and the husband of politician Kay Chandler are killed in a plane crash. Now Dutch discovers some anomalies in what he told her before she left and discovers that she and Chandler’s husband were travelling together. Dutch then goes to Chandler and tells her that he suspects that they were having an affair. He tells her that he wants to know the truth; she tells him that she doesn’t but she later joins him and they grow close.

The Color Purple (1985)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny Glover | Whoopi Goldberg | Margaret Avery | Oprah Winfrey | Willard E. Pugh | Akosua Busia | Desreta Jackson | Adolph Caesar | Rae Dawn Chong | Dana Ivey | Leonard Jackson | Bennet Guillory | John Patton Jr. | Carl Anderson | Susan Beaubian
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900’s. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life…

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Omar Sharif | Julie Christie | Geraldine Chaplin | Rod Steiger | Alec Guinness | Tom Courtenay | Siobhan McKenna | Ralph Richardson | Rita Tushingham | Jeffrey Rockland | Tarek Sharif | Bernard Kay | Klaus Kinski | Gérard Tichy | Noel Willman
Directors: David Lean
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

Second name (2002)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Thriller
Countries: Spain
Actors: Erica Prior | Denis Rafter | Trae Houlihan | Craig Stevenson | John O'Toole | Frank O'Sullivan | Toby Harper | Miguel Monroy | Richard Collins-Moore | Birgit Bofarull | Ian Gibbs | Teresa Gimpera | Craig Hill | Saskia Giró | Alain Cipot
Directors: Paco Plaza
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After the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her “Josephine”. Daniella goes to the cemetery and finds that her father’s grave had been opened and his corpse was profaned. She decides to investigate, and receives a message of a diabetic priest, Father Elias, who tells her about an ancient fanatic religious sect of followers of Abraham that kills the first child. Later, she meets a weird man, Toby Harris, who claims to be his legitimate father. Daniella continues seeking the truth about her origins and discloses very dark secrets about her family and friends.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | Walter Koenig | George Takei | Nichelle Nichols | Bibi Besch | Merritt Butrick | Jeff McBride | Paul Winfield | Kirstie Alley | Ricardo Montalban | Ike Eisenmann | John Vargas
Directors: Nicholas Meyer
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It is the 23rd Century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may well be the last space mission of his career. But Khan is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan—brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth—has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk . . . with the threat of a universal Armageddon!

The Third Man (1949)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Alida Valli | Orson Welles | Trevor Howard | Bernard Lee | Paul Hörbiger | Ernst Deutsch | Siegfried Breuer | Erich Ponto | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Hedwig Bleibtreu | Harold Ayer | Harry Belcher | Leo Bieber | Paul Birch
Directors: Carol Reed
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An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend’s involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.

Premonition (2007)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sandra Bullock | Julian McMahon | Shyann McClure | Courtney Taylor Burness | Nia Long | Irene Ziegler | Kate Nelligan | Marc Macaulay | Amber Valletta | Peter Stormare | Jude Ciccolella | E.J. Stapleton | Mark Famiglietti | Laurel Whitsett | Kristin Ketterer
Directors: Mennan Yapo
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Depressed housewife learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the next day after to a world in which he is still dead.

BASEketball (1998)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Sport
Countries: USA
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Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer (Parker & Stone), invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire’s help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Coop & Remer’s team, the Milwaukee Beers is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of the Dallas Felons (Vaughn) wants to institute.