Posts Tagged ‘husband-wife-relationship’

The Crucible (1996)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Winona Ryder | Paul Scofield | Joan Allen | Bruce Davison | Rob Campbell | Jeffrey Jones | Peter Vaughan | Karron Graves | Charlayne Woodard | Frances Conroy | Elizabeth Lawrence | George Gaynes | Mary Pat Gleason | Robert Breuler
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America.

Indecent Proposal (1993)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Redford | Demi Moore | Woody Harrelson | Seymour Cassel | Oliver Platt | Billy Bob Thornton | Rip Taylor | Billy Connolly | Joel Brooks | Pierre Epstein | Danny Zorn | Kevin West | Pamela Holt | Tommy Bush | Mariclare Costello
Directors: Adrian Lyne
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A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship.

Sweet Land (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elizabeth Reaser | Lois Smith | Patrick Heusinger | Stephen Pelinski | Tim Guinee | Robert Hogan | Alan Cumming | Paul Sand | Jodie Markell | Sage Kermes | Kirsten Frantzich | Stephen Yoakam | Karen Landry | James Cada | Debbie DeLisi
Directors: Ali Selim
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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf’s postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry…

The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jon Finch | Francesca Annis | Martin Shaw | Terence Bayler | John Stride | Nicholas Selby | Stephan Chase | Paul Shelley | Maisie MacFarquhar | Elsie Taylor | Noelle Rimmington | Noel Davis | Sydney Bromley | Richard Pearson | Patricia Mason
Directors: Roman Polanski
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Roman Polanski’s version of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king’s son conspires to attack MacBeth and expose him for the murderer he is.

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers | Barry Nelson | Philip Stone | Joe Turkel | Anne Jackson | Tony Burton | Lia Beldam | Billie Gibson | Barry Dennen | David Baxt | Manning Redwood | Lisa Burns
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

The Ice Storm (1997)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Kline | Joan Allen | Sigourney Weaver | Henry Czerny | Tobey Maguire | Christina Ricci | Elijah Wood | Adam Hann-Byrd | David Krumholtz | Jamey Sheridan | Kate Burton | William Cain | Michael Cumpsty | Maia Danziger | Katie Holmes
Directors: Ang Lee
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In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband’s lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends’ parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad…

Center Stage (2000)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Amanda Schull | Zoe Saldana | Susan May Pratt | Peter Gallagher | Donna Murphy | Debra Monk | Ethan Stiefel | Sascha Radetsky | Julie Kent | Ilia Kulik | Eion Bailey | Shakiem Evans | Elizabeth Hubbard | Victor Anthony | Christine Dunham
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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After auditions, 12 young dancers make it to the American Ballet Academy. They’ll prepare for the student showcase to determine who will be asked to join the American Ballet Company. Tensions mount between Jonathan, the company’s aging choreographer, and Cooper, his best dancer, who also wants to choreograph. The brilliant Maureen seems poised for success, but she discovers that life is passing her by. Jody, whose body may be the wrong type and whose technique is ragged, elicits Cooper’s interest. The edgy, smart-mouthed Eva loves to dance but seems destined to be stuck in the back of the chorus. The showcase will decide their fates.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Jon Voight | Ellen Burstyn | Jeff Daniels | Dagmara Dominczyk | Steven Grayhm | Michael Imperioli | Callum Keith Rennie | Rebecca Jenkins | Callahan Brebner | Nicaela Weigel | Shelbie Weigel | Darcy Cadman | Tim O'Halloran | Zak Santiago | Emy Aneke
Directors: Lloyd Kramer
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Eddie is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man explains him that he will have a journey meeting five people in their heavens that will show the importance of his life before he goes to the next level.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

Fireproof (2008)

Monday, April 20th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kirk Cameron | Erin Bethea | Ken Bevel | Anthony Brown | Walter Burnett | Bailey Cave | Stephen Dervan | Taylor Glow | Harris Malcom | Jim McBride | Tommy McBride | Jason McLeod | Perry Revell | Bill Stafford
Directors: Alex Kendrick
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In an attempt to save his marriage, A firefighter uses a 40-day experiment known as “The Love Dare”.