Posts Tagged ‘materialism’

Blank Check (1994)

Monday, June 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Brian Bonsall | Karen Duffy | James Rebhorn | Jayne Atkinson | Michael Faustino | Chris Demetral | Miguel Ferrer | Michael Lerner | Tone Loc | Rick Ducommun | Alex Zuckerman | Alex Morris | Debbie Allen | Michael Polk | Lu Leonard
Directors: Rupert Wainwright
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Preston Waters is a 12 year old boy who is sick of his parents always teaching him the value of money. Little does he know, he is about to learn it. When a smart crook, Carl Quigley, nearly kills Preston by running over his bike, he mistakenly fills out a blank cheque, which Preston prints out for $1 Million. Preston convinces the bank manager to cash the cheque, and when Quigley’s employee returns to collect the money for Quigley and finds that the bank manager has given it to a kid, Quigley sets out to track the kid down and get his money. Preston creates the pseudonym of ‘Macintosh’ to handle his finance, and the police get suspicious. Preston begins his spending, but later becomes aware that he must avoid Quigley who is on his back, and the police seperately attempt to work out the mystery behind ‘Macintosh’. Will Preston be convinced that money is’nt everything.

Material Girls (2006)

Friday, March 6th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hilary Duff | Haylie Duff | Maria Conchita Alonso | Anjelica Huston | Brent Spiner | Lukas Haas | Marcus Coloma | Ty Hodges | Reagan Dale Neis | Obba Babatundé | Henry Cho | Misti Traya | Christina R. Copeland | Brandon Beemer | Colleen Camp
Directors: Martha Coolidge
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Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family’s cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Dorothy Comingore | Agnes Moorehead | Ruth Warrick | Ray Collins | Erskine Sanford | Everett Sloane | William Alland | Paul Stewart | George Coulouris | Fortunio Bonanova | Gus Schilling | Philip Van Zandt | Georgia Backus | Harry Shannon
Directors: Orson Welles
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Boris Karloff | Thurl Ravenscroft | June Foray
Directors: Chuck Jones
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Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. The village is sure to have a sad Christmas this year.

American Beauty (1999)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Spacey | Annette Bening | Thora Birch | Wes Bentley | Mena Suvari | Chris Cooper | Peter Gallagher | Allison Janney | Scott Bakula | Sam Robards | Barry Del Sherman | Ara Celi | John Cho | Fort Atkinson | Sue Casey
Directors: Sam Mendes
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Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.

Blow (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Penélope Cruz | Franka Potente | Rachel Griffiths | Paul Reubens | Jordi Moll? | Cliff Curtis | Miguel Sandoval | Ethan Suplee | Ray Liotta | Kevin Gage | Max Perlich | Jesse James | Miguel P?rez | Dan Ferro
Directors: Ted Demme
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970’s. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.

American Psycho (2000)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Christian Bale | Justin Theroux | Josh Lucas | Bill Sage | Chloë Sevigny | Reese Witherspoon | Samantha Mathis | Matt Ross | Jared Leto | Willem Dafoe | Cara Seymour | Guinevere Turner | Stephen Bogaert | Monika Meier | Reg E. Cathey
Directors: Mary Harron
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Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Taylor Momsen | Jeffrey Tambor | Christine Baranski | Bill Irwin | Molly Shannon | Clint Howard | Josh Ryan Evans | Mindy Sterling | Rachel Winfree | Rance Howard | Jeremy Howard | T.J. Thyne | Lacey Kohl | Nadja Pionilla
Directors: Ron Howard
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Based on the book by the famous Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Who’s, an almost mutated sort of munchkinlike people. All the Who’s love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos which he equally abhors. Yet a small child, Cindy Lou Who, decides to try befriend the Grinch.