Posts Tagged ‘inheritance’

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…

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Peter Boyle | Marty Feldman | Cloris Leachman | Teri Garr | Kenneth Mars | Richard Haydn | Liam Dunn | Danny Goldman | Oscar Beregi Jr. | Arthur Malet | Anne Beesley | Monte Landis | Rusty Blitz | John Madison
Directors: Mel Brooks
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When the will of Victor Frankenstein, the famous scientist who attempted to reanimate dead bodies, is opened, his grandson, Frederick, who’s become a skilled neurosurgeon and teacher and has cut most ties with his family name due to his grandfather’s experiments, is given the castle where all the experiments were made. Upon his arrival, Frederick finds and reads through his grandfather’s book about his theories and experiments and discovers that they might in fact work. Assisted by Igor, the grandson of the Igor who assisted Victor Frankenstein, and Inga, an attractive lab assistant, he successfully reanimates a body which soon escapes and creates havoc…

Of Human Bondage (1934)

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Leslie Howard | Bette Davis | Frances Dee | Kay Johnson | Reginald Denny | Alan Hale | Reginald Sheffield | Reginald Owen | Desmond Roberts | Harry Allen | Ray Atchley | Frank Baker | Douglas Gordon | Frankie Grandetta | Tommy Hughes
Directors: John Cromwell
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Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with illiterate waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant. Philip gets her an apartment and they become engaged. Mildred runs off with another medical student. Philip takes her back again when she returns with her baby. She wrecks his apartment and burns the securities he needs to pay tuition. He gets a job as a salesman, has surgery on his foot, receives an inheritance, and returns to school where he learns Mildred is dying.

Hold That Ghost (1941)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Richard Carlson | Joan Davis | Mischa Auer | Evelyn Ankers | Marc Lawrence | Shemp Howard | Russell Hicks | William B. Davidson | Ted Lewis | Ted Lewis' Orchestra | Laverne Andrews | Maxene Andrews | Patty Andrews
Directors: Arthur Lubin
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Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster’s will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Thir13en Ghosts Movie (2001)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Tony Shalhoub | Embeth Davidtz | Matthew Lillard | Shannon Elizabeth | Alec Roberts | JR Bourne | Rah Digga | F. Murray Abraham | Matthew Harrison | Jacob Rupp | Mike Crestejo | Aubrey Culp | Charles Andre | Mikhael Speidel | Daniel Wesley
Directors: Steve Beck
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Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus’s estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby’s Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine “designed by the devil and powered by the dead” to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Greer Garson | Laurence Olivier | Mary Boland | Edna May Oliver | Maureen O'Sullivan | Ann Rutherford | Frieda Inescort | Edmund Gwenn | Karen Morley | Heather Angel | Marsha Hunt | Bruce Lester | Edward Ashley | Melville Cooper | Marten Lamont
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

Easy Money (1983)

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Rodney Dangerfield | Joe Pesci | Geraldine Fitzgerald | Candice Azzara | Val Avery | Tom Noonan | Taylor Negron | Lili Haydn | Jeffrey Jones | Tom Ewell | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Jeff Altman | David Vasquez | Kimberly McArthur | Frank Simpson
Directors: James Signorelli
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Monty Capuletti could receive 10 million dollars as an inheritance from his late mother-in-law’s estate. Her will states he must first curb his vices for a year, which include smoking, drinking and gambling to name a few.

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.

Mr. Deeds (2002)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Winona Ryder | John Turturro | Allen Covert | Peter Gallagher | Jared Harris | Erick Avari | Peter Dante | Conchata Ferrell | Harve Presnell | Steve Buscemi | Blake Clark | John McEnroe | J.B. Smoove | Tom McNulty
Directors: Steven Brill
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When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an expos? on Deeds. Of course, Deeds’ sincere naivet? has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn’t necessarily need to change him.

The Addams Family (1991)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Anjelica Huston | Raul Julia | Christopher Lloyd | Elizabeth Wilson | Christina Ricci | Judith Malina | Dan Hedaya | Carel Struycken | Paul Benedict | Christopher Hart | Dana Ivey | Jimmy Workman | John Franklin | Tony Azito | Douglas Brian Martin
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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The Addams step out of Charles Addams’ cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark’s son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?