Posts Tagged ‘los-angeles-california’

America’s Sweethearts (2001)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Billy Crystal | Catherine Zeta-Jones | John Cusack | Hank Azaria | Stanley Tucci | Christopher Walken | Alan Arkin | Seth Green | Scot Zeller | Larry King | Steve Pink | Rainn Wilson | Eric Balfour | Marty Belafsky
Directors: Joe Roth
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Gwen and Eddie were at one time Hollywood’s premier couple on and off the screen. But during the filming of their latest movie, Gwen took up with a Latin guy she met on the set. She and Eddie have since split up. Now their movie is ready to be shown but the director will only first show it at the press junket. But the studio boss, concerned of what the movie will be, instructs Lee his P.R. man to handle to junket and to try and distract the press from asking about the movie by making them think that Gwen and Eddie are back together. Only problem is that he just fired Lee, but after giving in to Lee’s demands he agrees. Lee enlists the aid of Gwen’s assistant, Kiki, who is her sister to help. When they get to the junket, things are still tense between them. And Kiki is trying hard to keep in check her feelings for Eddie.

Annie Hall (1977)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diane Keaton | Tony Roberts | Carol Kane | Paul Simon | Shelley Duvall | Janet Margolin | Colleen Dewhurst | Christopher Walken | Donald Symington | Helen Ludlam | Mordecai Lawner | Joan Neuman | Jonathan Munk | Ruth Volner
Directors: Woody Allen
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

Spanglish (2004)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Téa Leoni | Paz Vega | Cloris Leachman | Shelbie Bruce | Sarah Steele | Ian Hyland | Victoria Luna | Cecilia Suárez | Ricardo Molina | Brenda Canela | Eddy Martin | Nicole Nieth | Jamie Kaler | James Lancaster
Directors: James L. Brooks
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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter’s soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous!

Escape from L.A. (1996)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | A.J. Langer | Steve Buscemi | Georges Corraface | Stacy Keach | Michelle Forbes | Pam Grier | Jeff Imada | Cliff Robertson | Valeria Golino | Peter Fonda | Ina Romeo | Peter Jason | Jordan Baker | Caroleen Feeney
Directors: John Carpenter
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Sequel to “Escape From New York”. In 2000, a huge earthquake hits Los Angeles which causes the whole city to be now situated on an island. In that year the new life-term US President, an out-spoken moralist declares that all people not conforming to the high morals he sets for the country will be deported to the Los Angeles island. Like New York, a wall is built, guards posted to stop any escapes and if sent there - you can’t return to the US. In 2013, Cuervo Jones, a terrorist invades the dreams of the President’s daughter, Utopia, and brainwashes her into stealing a device from a weapons establishment and runs with Cuervo to the island. Snake Plissken, hero of Escape From New York, is forced again to go to the island to get the device by the President (who doesn’t care if Utopia returns or not.) and he is poisoned to ensure his co-operation. Like New York, Los Angeles is now a decaying city, a hot-bed of scum and weirdos and Snake has 9 hours to find the device and Utopia, and get out before the poison kicks in.

Team America: World Police (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Matt Stone
Directors: Trey Parker
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Team America follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il (Parker) is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston (Parker) to go undercover. With the help of Team America (Stone, Miller, Masasa, Parker, and Norris), Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer’s hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world?

Thirteen (2003)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Evan Rachel Wood | Nikki Reed | Vanessa Anne Hudgens | Holly Hunter | Brady Corbet | Ulysses Estrada | Sarah Blakely-Cartwright | Jenicka Carey | Sarah Clarke | Jasmine Di Angelo | Tessa Ludwick | Kip Pardue | CeCe Tsou | Jeremy Sisto | Jamison Yang
Directors: Catherine Hardwicke
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Tracy is a more unpopular girl who desperately wants to befriend the most popular girl in school Evie. When Evie finally becomes her friend she leads Tracy into a world of drugs, sex, violence, and theft in which her mother can not save her.

Rush Hour (1998)

Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Rolston | Elizabeth Peña | Ken Leung | Jackie Chan | Tom Wilkinson | Tzi Ma | Robert Littman | Michael Chow | Julia Hsu | Chris Tucker | Chris Penn | Kai Lennox | Larry Sullivan | Yang Lin | Roger Fan | George Cheung | Lucy Lin
Directors: Brett Ratner
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Realizing that the FBI and their by the book tactics may be unsuccessful, the Chinese consul recruits the aid of a loyal Hong Kong inspector to help rescue his kidnapped daughter. Outlawed by the FBI, the inspector must form an unlikely partnership with a cocky, street smart LAPD officer who prefers doing things his own way.

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.

Don’t Answer the Phone! (1980)

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Westmoreland | Ben Frank | Flo Gerrish | Nicholas Worth | Denise Galik | Stan Haze | Gary Allen | Michael D. Castle | Pamela Jean Bryant | Ted Chapman | Chris Wallace | Dale Kalberg | Deborah Leah Land | Tom Lasswell | Mike Levine
Directors: Robert Hammer
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A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.

Always Outnumbered (1998)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Laurence Fishburne | Daniel Williams | Bill Cobbs | Natalie Cole | Laurie Metcalf | Alan Wilder | Cicely Tyson | Bridgid Coulter | Bill Nunn | Isaiah Washington | Bill Duke | Kevin Carroll | Jamaal Carter | John Toles-Bey | Brooke Marie Bridges
Directors: Michael Apted
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An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.