Posts Tagged ‘library’

The Pagemaster (1994)

Monday, June 29th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Macaulay Culkin | Canan J. Howell | Alexis Kirschner | Jessica Kirschner | Guy Mansker | Brandon S. McKay | Stephen Sheehan | Ed Begley Jr. | Mel Harris | Christopher Lloyd | Patrick Stewart | Whoopi Goldberg | Frank Welker
Directors: Pixote Hunt
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A cowardly boy who buries himself in accident statistics (Maculay Kulkin) enters a library to escape a storm only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster (Christopher Lloyd), & work through obstacles from classic books to return to real life.

Marathon Man (1976)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Laurence Olivier | Roy Scheider | William Devane | Marthe Keller | Fritz Weaver | Richard Bright | Marc Lawrence | Allen Joseph | Tito Goya | Ben Dova | Lou Gilbert | Jacques Marin | James Wing Woo | Nicole Deslauriers
Directors: John Schlesinger
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Babe’s brother appears out of the blue. He does this from time to time because his family never knows where he is, working as a government spy. One of his charges is a nazi war criminal who he has just told is no longer welcome in the United States. The doctor has a fortune hidden in a safety deposit box and is convinced that Babe knows whether or not it is safe to go to pick it up and will stop at nothing to find out.

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.

13 Going on 30 (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Garner | Mark Ruffalo | Judy Greer | Andy Serkis | Kathy Baker | Phil Reeves | Samuel Ball | Marcia DeBonis | Christa B. Allen | Sean Marquette | Kiersten Warren | Joe Grifasi | Mary Pat Gleason | Susan Egan | Lynn Collins
Directors: Gary Winick
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It’s 1987, and geeky Jenna wants to be popular. After her 13th birthday party goes awry, Jenna wishes she could just be 30 instead - only to wake up and discover that she’s flash-forwarded 17 years. Now a sexy, successful magazine editor, Jena finds out that being an adult isn’t necessarily all it’s cracked up to be.

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…

Where the Heart Is (2000)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Natalie Portman | Ashley Judd | Stockard Channing | Joan Cusack | James Frain | Dylan Bruno | Keith David | Ray Prewitt | Laura House | Karey Green | Mary Ashleigh Green | Kinna McInroe | Laura Auldridge | Alicia Godwin | Dennis Letts
Directors: Matt Williams
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Novalee Nation, 17 and very pregnant, has never been part of a real home. The closest thing to family for the hard-luck teen is her selfish, would-be musician boyfriend, Willy Jack, with whom she’s traveling from Tennessee to California in a rust bucket that used to be a Plymouth. A bathroom stop en route, at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart, changes Novalee’s life forever. For when she leaves the store, she discovers that Willy Jack and the Plymouth are gone. Only her Polaroid camera remains in the parking space. Alone and broke, Novalee surreptitiously moves into the vast store, borrowing food and supplies from its shelves. When she gives birth on the floor - and her hideaway is revealed - Novalee and her “Wal-Mart Baby” become instant celebrities. More importantly, over the next few years, Novalee finally becomes part of an unconventional, makeshift family comprised of her wonderfully eccentric new friends. Now, with the family she always wanted, Novalee is transformed from a homeless teen to a successful and strong woman. She has finally found a home in this small town where fate has dropped her.

Inferno (1980)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Music | Mystery
Countries: Italy
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Pat Morita | Danny Trejo | Gabrielle Fitzpatrick | Larry Drake | Vincent Schiavelli | David 'Shark' Fralick | Silas Weir Mitchell | Jonathan Avildsen | Jaime Pressly | Bill Erwin | Ford Rainey | Kevin West | Priscilla Pointer | Robert Symonds
Directors: John G. Avildsen
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Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark’s friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister’s murder.

The Truman Show (1998)

Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Laura Linney | Noah Emmerich | Natascha McElhone | Holland Taylor | Brian Delate | Blair Slater | Peter Krause | Heidi Schanz | Ron Taylor | Don Taylor | Ted Raymond | Judy Clayton
Directors: Peter Weir
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Audrey Hepburn | George Peppard | Patricia Neal | Buddy Ebsen | Martin Balsam | José Luis de Villalonga | John McGiver | Alan Reed | Dorothy Whitney | Beverly Powers | Stanley Adams | Claude Stroud | Elvia Allman | Orangey | Mickey Rooney
Directors: Blake Edwards
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Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly’s lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they’re alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.

The Time Machine (1960)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Alan Young | Yvette Mimieux | Sebastian Cabot | Tom Helmore | Whit Bissell | Doris Lloyd | Bob Barran | Paul Frees | James Skelly | Josephine Powell
Directors: George Pal
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.